Today is Wednesday, September 1, the 244th day of 2010. There are 121 days left in the year.
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
1865 ― Joseph Lister performs first antiseptic surgery
1878 ― First female telephone operator starts work (Emma Nutt in Boston)
1890 ― First baseball tripleheader-Boston vs. Pittsburgh
1923 ― Earthquake strikes Tokyo and Yokohama, kills 106,000
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