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Today in History: Thursday, September\u00a0 01, 2016<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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AP Highlight in History:<\/span>
\nOn Sept. 1, 1939, World War II began as Nazi Germany invaded Poland.
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1905<\/td>\nAlberta and Saskatchewan became the eighth and ninth provinces of Canada.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1942<\/td>\nA federal judge in Sacramento, Calif., upheld the wartime detention of Japanese-Americans as well as Japanese nationals.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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1951<\/td>\nThe United States, Australia and New Zealand signed a mutual defense pact, the ANZUS treaty.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1969<\/td>\nA coup in Libya brought Moammar Gadhafi to power.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1972<\/td>\nAmerican Bobby Fischer won the international chess crown in Reykjavik, Iceland, defeating Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1981<\/td>\nAlbert Speer, a close associate of Adolf Hitler who ran the Nazi war machine, died at a London hospital at age 76.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1983<\/td>\nA Korean Air Lines Boeing 747 was shot down by a Soviet jet fighter after the airliner entered Soviet airspace; 269 people were killed.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2004<\/td>\nMore than 1,100 people were taken hostage by heavily armed Chechen militants at a school in Beslan in southern Russia; more than 330 people, most of them children, were killed during the three-day ordeal.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2009<\/td>\nA law allowing gay marriage took effect in Vermont.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Today’s Birthdays:<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Comedian-actress Lily Tomlin turns 77 years old today.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Barry Gibb<\/td>\nSinger (The Bee Gees)<\/td>\n70<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Gloria Estefan<\/td>\nSinger<\/td>\n59<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dee Dee Myers<\/td>\nFormer White House Press Secretary<\/td>\n55<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Scott Speedman<\/td>\nActor (“Felicity”)<\/td>\n41<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Joe Trohman<\/td>\nRock musician (Fall Out Boy)<\/td>\n32<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Talk show host Phil McGraw (“Dr. Phil”) turns 66 years old today.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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