Today is Tuesday, September 1, the 244th day of 2009. 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
1865 Joseph Lister performs 1st antiseptic surgery
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 _ U.N.'s World Health Organization forms
1951 _ U.S., Australia and New Zealand sign ANZUS treaty
1962 _ U.N. announces Earth population has hit 3 billion
1983 _ Korean Boeing 747 strays into Siberia and is shot down by a Soviet jet