WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

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

1772-Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa forms in California

1865-Joseph Lister performs first antiseptic surgery

1922 NYC law requires all "pool" rooms to change name to "billards"

1923-Earthquake strikes Tokyo & Yokohama, kills 106,000

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

1941-Yellow star becomes obligatory for Jews in the Reich to wear

1948-Communist form North China People's Republic

1948-UN's World Health Organization forms

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

1972-Bobby Fischer (U.S.) defeats Boris Spassky (USSR) for world chess title

1983-Korean Boeing 747 strays into Siberia & is shot down by a Soviet jet

1989-Princess Anne & Mark Phillips announce their seperation