08-31-2013, 08:28 PM
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Location: Maryland
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September 1st
1653 ~ Birthday of Johann Pachelbel, Composer. Remember the theme music of “Ordinary People”? That’s “Pachelbel's Canon” (which is not really a Canon).
1875 ~ Birthday of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Writer, creator of Tarzan.
1914 ~ The last Passenger Pigeon died in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo.
1939 ~ Germany attacked Poland, beginning World War II.
1967 ~ Death of Siegfried Sassoon, English poet.
1972 ~ Bobby Fischer beat Boris Spassky to become the world chess champion.
1974 ~ The SR-71 Blackbird set (and still holds) the record for flying from New York to London in the time of 1 hour, 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds at a speed of 1,435 MPH.
1976 ~ Birthday of Jada Fire, Porn actress.
1983 ~ Korean Air Flight KAL-007 was shot down by a Soviet Union jet fighter when the commercial aircraft entered Soviet airspace.
1985 ~ A joint American-French expedition located the wreck of the RMS Titanic.
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