MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2008

Today is Monday, September 1, the 245th day of 2008. There are 121 days left in the year.

312 B.C. _ Origin of Greek Era-Start of Indiction of Constantinople

69 _ Traditional date of the destruction of Jerusalem

1865 _ Joseph Lister performs first antiseptic surgery

1923 _ Earthquake strikes Tokyo and Yokohama, kills 106,000

1945 _ Japan surrenders ending WW II (U.S. date - Sept.2 in Japan)

1948 _ Communist form North China People's Republic

1948 _ U.N.'s World Health Organization forms

1962 _ U.N. announces Earth population has hit 3 billion

1969 _ Libyan revolution, Col. Moammar Gadhafi deposes King Idris

1983 _ Korean Boeing 747 strays into Siberia and is shot down by a Soviet jet