SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2012

Today is Saturday, September 1, the 245th day of 2012. There are 121 days left in the year.

69 ― Traditional date of the destruction of Jerusalem

312 B.C. ― Origin of Greek Era; start of Induction of Constantinople

1666 ― Great London Fire begins in Pudding Lane; 80 percent of London is destroyed

1918 ― Baseball season ends due to WW I

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

1939 ― WW II starts, Germany invades Poland, takes Danzig

1945 ― Japan surrenders ending WW II (U.S. date, 9/2 in Japan)

1948 ― Communist form North China People’s Republic

1948 ― U.N.’s World Health Organization forms

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