History for September 1

History for September 1 - On-This-Day.com:
Alfred Ely Beach 1826 - Designer of New York City's earliest subway, patented a typewriter for the blind, Edgar Rice Burroughs 1875 - Writer (Tarzan of the Apes), Yvonne De Carlo (Peggy Yvonne Middleton) 1922 - Actress (The Munsters, Salome, McLintock!)


Rocky Marciano (Rocco Marchegiano) 1923 - Boxer, the only heavyweight champion to have won every fight in professional career, Lily Tomlin 1939 - Actress, comedian,  Gloria Estefan (Gloria Maria Milagrosa Fajardo) 1957 - Singer (Miami Sound Machine)


1807 - Former U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr was found innocent of treason.


1878 - Emma M. Nutt became the first female telephone operator in the U.S. The company was the Telephone Dispatch Company of Boston.


1905 - Saskatchewan and Alberta became the ninth and tenth provinces of Canada.


1939 - World War II began when Germany invaded Poland.


1969 - Col. Moammar Gadhafi came into power in Libya after the government was overthrown.

1970 - The last episode of "I Dream of Jeannie" aired on NBC-TV. The show premiered was on September 18, 1965.


1972 - America’s Bobby Fischer beat Russia’s Boris Spassky to become world chess champion. The chess match took place in Reykjavik, Iceland.


1979 - The U.S. Pioneer 11 became the first spacecraft to visit Saturn.