1807
\nFormer U.S. vice president Aaron Burr was found innocent of treason.<\/p>\n
1923
\nA devastating earthquake struck the Japanese cities of Tokyo and Yokohama. Nearly 150,000 people were killed and more than two million left homeless.<\/p>\n
1939
\nWorld War II began when Nazi Germany invaded Poland.<\/p>\n
1969
\nA coup in Libya toppled the monarchy of King Idris and brought Muammar al-Qaddafi to power.<\/p>\n
1983
\nA Korean Air Lines Boeing 747 was shot down by a Soviet jet fighter, killing all 269 people aboard.<\/p>\n
1985
\nA joint U. S.-French expedition located the wreck of the Titanic 560 miles off the coast of Newfoundland.<\/p>\n
2004
\nChechen terrorists took about 1,200 schoolchildren and others hostage in Beslan, Russia. Commandos stormed the school on Sept. 3.<\/p>\n
Adolphe Appia
\n1862\u20131928, Swiss theorist of modern stage lighting and d\u00e9cor.<\/p>\n
Engelbert Humperdinck
\ncomposer (1854)<\/p>\n
Francis William Aston
\nphysicist and chemist (1877)<\/p>\n
Walter Philip Reuther
\nlabor leader (1907)<\/p>\n
Rocky Marciano
\nboxer (1923)<\/p>\n
Seiji Ozawa
\nconductor (1935)<\/p>\n
Gloria Estefan
\nmusician (1957)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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