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Post by MidnightSun on Aug 31, 2020 23:12:02 GMT -5
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Post by johnmori on Sept 1, 2020 3:37:30 GMT -5
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September 1, 1878
Emma Nutt becomes the world's first female telephone operator when she is recruited by Alexander Graham Bell to the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company.
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Post by BillG on Sept 1, 2020 5:44:37 GMT -5
Who knew??? On September 1, 1939, World War II began as Nazi Germany invaded Poland.
 
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Post by soutxed on Sept 1, 2020 8:49:35 GMT -5
On September 1, 1945, Americans received word of Japan’s formal surrender that ended World War II. (Because of the time difference, it was Sept. 2 in Tokyo Bay, where the ceremony took place.)
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Post by sandipaws on Sept 1, 2020 22:25:02 GMT -5
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Post by MidnightSun on Sept 1, 2020 23:49:19 GMT -5
Will have my first, please
In 1567, the man said to have the longest beard in the world died after he tripped over his beard running away from a fire.
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Post by johnmori on Sept 2, 2020 4:14:56 GMT -5
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September 2, 1789
The United States Department of the Treasury is founded.
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Post by BillG on Sept 2, 2020 6:50:00 GMT -5
Who knew??? On September 2, 1969: The first automatic teller machine in the United States is installed in Rockville Center, New York.
 
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Post by sandipaws on Sept 2, 2020 22:27:04 GMT -5
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Have a snack on National Welsh Rarebit Day on September 3rd. What is a rarebit?
It is actually a Welsh term for rabbit. Similar to mock turtle soup having no turtle in it,
Welsh rarebit does not contain rabbit. This dish is made with toast that has hot cheese poured over it.
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Post by MidnightSun on Sept 3, 2020 1:06:52 GMT -5
The Dance Fever of 1518 was a month-long plague of inexplicable dancing in Strasbourg, in which hundreds
of people danced for about a month for no apparent reason. Several of them danced themselves to death.
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Post by BillG on Sept 3, 2020 6:30:54 GMT -5
Who knew??? On September 3, 1976, America’s Viking 2 lander touched down on Mars to take the first close-up, color photographs of the red planet’s surface.
 
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Post by johnmori on Sept 3, 2020 9:04:23 GMT -5
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September 3, 1944
Holocaust: Diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from the Westerbork transit camp to the Auschwitz concentration camp, arriving three days later.
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Post by soutxed on Sept 3, 2020 15:04:36 GMT -5
September 3, 1995 Internet giant eBay is founded by Pierre Omidyar
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Post by sandipaws on Sept 3, 2020 20:38:50 GMT -5
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Post by MidnightSun on Sept 4, 2020 0:23:42 GMT -5
Vladimir Nabokov nearly invented the smiley.
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