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Birthdays
1935 D. Wayne Lukas, American thoroughbred race horse trainer
1937 Peter Ueberroth, organized of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics and served as Commissioner of Baseball
1946 Billy Preston
1948 Nate Archibald
1948 Terry Bradshaw,
1952 Jimmy Connors
1960 Eric Dickerson
1964 Keanu Reeves
1965 Lennox Lewis
1966 Salma Hayek


Events
1666 Great Fire of London begins at 2am at a baker's shop in Pudding Lane, destroying 80% of London

1864 US Civil War: Union General William T. Sherman captures and occupies Atlanta, Georgia, ending the Atlanta Campaign in the US Civil War

1901 Theodore Roosevelt advises "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far" in an address to the Minnesota State Fair, entitled "National Duties"

1930 First non-stop airplane flight from Europe to the US (37 hours)

1944 Future US President George H. W. Bush bails out of a burning plane during a mission in the Pacific

1945 V-J Day, formal surrender of Japan signed aboard the USS Missouri, marks the end of World War II

1969 The first automated teller machine in the United States is installed in Rockville Centre, New York

1974 US President Gerald Ford signs Employee Retirement Income Security Act; sets minimum standards for pension plans

1986 Cathy Evelyn Smith is sentenced to three years for the drug related death of John Belushi

1987 Philips introduces Compact Disc Video (CDV) discs

2015 US President Barack Obama becomes the first president to visit the Arctic Circle at Kotzebue, Alaska

2015 Earth's trees number just over 3 trillion according to a study in "Nature" by Thomas Crowther of Yale
 University

2021 58 people die as the remnants of Hurricane Ida hit the US Northeast with record rains, tornadoes, and flooding; New York and New Jersey declare states of emergency

2024 Joey Chestnut sets a new world record by eating 83 hot dogs in Netflix's "Unfinished Beef" Labor Day Showdown

Weird

Birthdays
1918 Paul Harvey "Good Day"
1949 Tom Watson
1951 Martin Chambers, Drummer for the Pretenders
1981 Beyoncé

Events
476 Romulus Augustulus, the last Western Roman Emperor, abdicates after forces led by Odoacer invade Rome, the traditional date for the end of the Western Roman Empire

1781 Los Angeles is founded by 44 Spanish-speaking mestizos in the Bahía de las Fumas (Bay of Smokes)

1807 Robert Fulton begins operating scheduled passenger service on his steamboat between New York and Albany

1842 Work on Cologne Cathedral recommences after a 284-year hiatus. Unions getting pretty strong

1862 General Lee begins the Maryland Campaign, invading the North with 50,000 Confederate troops (U.S. Civil War)

1888 George Eastman patents the first roll-film camera and registers the brand name "Kodak"

1882 In its first large-scale test, Thomas Edison's light bulb is used to light New York's Pearl Street Station

1886 Apache Chief Geronimo surrenders, ending the last major US-Indian war

1911 French aviator Roland Garros sets a world altitude record of 13,944 ft

1916 Future Baseball Hall of Fame pitchers Christy Mathewson and Mordecai Brown face each other for the final time; after 25 contests, Mathewson takes a 13-12 advantage with the Reds as 10-8 winners over the Cubs

1920 Man o' War wins the 1 5/8-mile Lawrence Realization Stakes at Belmont Park by 100 lengths, the largest winning margin in modern thoroughbred racing history, with a world record time of 2:40.8

1933 First airplane to exceed 300 mph, J.R. Wendell, Glenview, IL

1945 American chess grandmaster Reuben Fine wins four simultaneous rapid (10 seconds per move) games blindfolded in New York City

1950 D. McI. Hodgson of St. Ann's Bay, Nova Scotia, catches a 977 lb (428.2 kg) tuna, the heaviest tuna ever taken on a rod and reel. He'd be rich today selling that in Japan (or anywhere else)

1950 "Beetle Bailey" comic strip debuts in 12 newspapers

1954 Peter B. Cortese of the US achieves a one-arm deadlift of 370 lbs, 22 lbs over triple his body weight, in York, Pennsylvania

1965 The Beatles' single "Help!" goes to #1 and stays #1 for three weeks

1972 "The Price is Right," the US's longest-running games show, debuts on CBS

1972 US 4 x 100 m medley relay team of Mike Stamm, Tom Bruce, Mark Spitz, and Jerry Heidenreich sets a world record of 3:48.16 to win gold at the Munich Olympics; Mark Spitz becomes the first athlete to win seven Olympic gold medals at a single Games

1988 American "Footloose" actor Kevin Bacon, 30 weds American actress Kyra Sedgwick, 23. According to Finding Your Roots they are 9th cousins once removed. Not sure how you sort that out

1993 Penn State University plays its first football game in the Big Ten, beating Minnesota 38-20; quarterback John Sacca throws four touchdown passes to Bobby Engram

1993 MLB New York Yankees one-handed pitcher Jim Abbott no-hits Cleveland Indians 4-0 at Yankee Stadium

1994 Tom Tupa scores the first two-point conversion in NFL history, running a fake extra point attempt for the Cleveland Browns in a 28-20 win at Cincinnati

1995 Chicago White Sox third baseman Robin Ventura hits grand slams in consecutive innings, the fourth and fifth, of a 14-3 rout of the Texas Rangers (prolly never been done before/since)

1998 Google is formally incorporated by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University

2018 FBI announces it has recovered a pair of Dorothy's ruby slippers from "The Wizard of Oz," stolen 13 years earlier.

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

Pro Football Hall of Fame Opens in Canton, Ohio (1963)
Although professional American football was played as early as 1895, it was not until 1920 that national organization began, with the formation of the American Professional Football Association in Canton, Ohio. In 1922, the association was renamed the National Football League (NFL). Originally the home of the former professional team known as the Canton Bulldogs, Canton was later selected as the home of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.