Historical Events on September 1 (Part 2)

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• 1975 KOL-AM in Seattle, Washington changes call letters to KMPS

• 1975 NYC transit fare rises from 35 cents to 50 cents
• 1975 US stripper well oil prices decontrolled
• 1976 American politician Wayne L Hays, (Rep-D-Oh), resigns amid scandal with Elizabeth Ray
• 1976 NASA launches space vehicle S-197
• 1976 The Meadowlands Race Track opens in East Rutherford, New Jersey
• 1977 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1978 #4655 Marjoriika, #4814 Casacci, #5344 Ryabov, #6262 Javid & #8064
• 1978 Baltimore Orioles pitcher Sammy Stewart fans 7 consecutive batters in his MLB debut, en route to 9-3 win v Chicago White Sox

• 1978 Jacqueline Smith of Great Britain scores 10 straight dead center strikes on a 4" disk in World Parachute Championships in Yugoslavia
• 1978 Last broadcast of "Columbo" starring Peter Falk on NBC
• 1979 Debbie Boone & Gabriel Ferrer wed in LA
• 1979 LA Court orders Clayton Moore to stop wearing Lone Ranger mask
• 1979 Pioneer 11 makes 1st fly-by of Saturn, discovers new moon, rings

• 1980 Dutch embassy in Israel moves from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv

• 1981 Fast bowler Terry Alderman takes his 42nd wicket of the series on the last day of the 5th cricket Test vs England at The Oval; haul remains record by an Australian bowler in England; England wins series 3-1
• 1981 Fiona Brothers sets women's propeller boat speed record (116.279 MPH)
• 1981 Mike Brearley's last day as England cricket captain in 6th Test draw v Australia at The Oval; maintains his unbeaten record at home as England's 3-1 series win confirmed
• 1981 Military coup under general Kolingba in Central African Republic, President Dacko flees
• 1981 Northern Ireland’s first religiously integrated secondary school opens
• 1981 RKO radio network premieres America Overnight talk show

• 1982 Caryl Churchill's "Top Girls" premieres in London
• 1982 Max speedometer reading mandated at 85 MPH
• 1982 Mexico President Lopez Portillo nationalizes banks
• 1982 Palestinian Liberation Organization leaves Lebanon
• 1982 The United States Air Force Space Command is founded.

• 1983 Korean Boeing 747, flight 007, strays into Siberia & is shot down by a Soviet jet
• 1983 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1983 WGH-AM in Newport News VA changes call letters to WNSY

• 1984 Middlesex beats Kent off the last ball of the Nat West Trophy cricket final in London; John Emburey hits Kent seamer Richard Ellison to square leg for 4 for the winning runs

• 1985 Dutch cyclist Joop Zoetemelk becomes the oldest road race elite world champion at 38 years, 8 months, 29 days; beats Greg Lamonde & Marino Argentin in Giavera del Montello
• 1985 US-French expedition locates wreckage of Titanic off Newfoundland
• 1986 Henri Debehogne discovers asteroid #8265 La Silla
• 1986 Jerry Lewis' 21st Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $34,096,733

• 1987 Smoking forbidden in public buildings in Belgium
• 1988 Timberlake Westenbaker's "Our Country's Good" premieres in London

• 1989 Princess Anne & Mark Phillips announce their separation
• 1990 Toronto Argonauts beat BC Lions 68-43 at the Skydome in Toronto for the highest combined score (111) in Canadian Football League history
• 1991 Japanese runner Hiromi Taniguchi wins the marathon in 2:14:57 at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan
• 1991 Richard J Kerr, serves as acting director of CIA
• 1992 American comic and folk singer Tommy Smothers undergoes arthroscopic surgery
• 1992 NYC police commissioner Brown resigns

• 1995 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum opens in Cleveland, Ohio
• 1995 State of New York reinstates the death penalty
• 1996 The Carolina Panthers outgun the Atlanta Falcons 29-6 in their first regular season NFL game at Ericsson Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina
• 1996 Vinny Testaverde completes 19 from 33 for 254 yards as the Baltimore Ravens beat Oakland Raiders, 17-14 in their NFL debut at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore
• 1997 "Doll's House" closes at Belasco Theater in New York
• 1997 Cartoon Channel premieres in Japan
• 1997 Jerry Lewis' 32nd Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $50,500,000
• 1998 American harness trainer and driver Dave Palone wins his 6,000th race, driving Oompa’s Terminator to victory at The Meadows Racetrack in Pennsylvania

• 2001 Australian Rugby Union team gives all-conquering captain John Eales perfect send off in his final international with a famous last minute, 29-26 win over New Zealand in Sydney; Wallabies retain Tri Nations Series

• 2001 Jockey Tim Moccasin caps a streak of 14 consecutive victories, a North American record, at Marquis Downs in Saskatoon, Canada aboard Intricate Stitch in the 5th race
• 2004 Beslan school hostage crisis begins as armed terrorists take hundreds of school children and adults hostage in the Russian town of Beslan in North Ossetia

• 2005 Seven members and former members of the AFL-CIO form a new trade union organization, the Change to Win Federation.
• 2006 Luxembourg becomes the 1st country to complete the move to all digital television broadcasting

• 2007 Clay Buchholz becomes first Boston Red Sox rookie to pitch a no-hitter. In just his second MLB appearance; beats Baltimore Orioles 10-0 at Fenway Park
• 2007 In one of the biggest upsets in college football history, 109,218 fans see Appalachian State's Corey Lynch block a Jason Gingell 37-yard field goal attempt with 6 seconds remaining to inspire an epic 34-32 win v Michigan at Ann Arbor
• 2007 Tyson Gay helps US win the men's 4 x 100m relay at the world track & field championships in Osaka, Japan to join Carl Lewis and Maurice Greene as the only men to win 3 gold medals at one world meet

• 2012 Grenade injures 41 festival celebrants in Paquibato, Philippines
• 2012 Islamist rebels seize Douentza, Mali
• 2012 Two suicide bombings kill 12 people and wound 50 in a NATO base in Afghanistan's Sayed Abad district
• 2012 US drone strike kills 5 people in North Waristan, Pakistan

• 2014 Nalanda University in eastern Indian begins its first academic year, on the site of the world's oldest university, a Buddhist monastic institution that operated 427 to 1197 CE
• 2015 EU Migrant Crisis: Hungary closes Keleti Railway Station in Budapest to try and stop migrants travelling
• 2015 Google changes its logo, biggest redesign since 1999
• 2015 India scores their first Test cricket series victory in Sri Lanka since 1993 winning 3rd Test in Colombo by 117 runs; Ravichandran Ashwin (4) & Ishant Sharma (3) combine for 7 Sri Lankan 2nd innings wickets

• 2019 German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier asks for Polish forgiveness for WWII at 80 year commemoration in Pilsudski Square, Warsaw
• 2019 Houston Astros starter Justin Verlander strikes out 14 as he throws his third career no-hitter in a 2-0 decision against the Toronto Blue Jays
• 2019 Hurricane Dorian makes landfall on Elbow Cay in the Abaco islands, northern Bahamas as a category five storm with winds of 180mph (285km/h)
• 2019 Saudi-led coalition air strikes on Yemen city of Dhamar kills more than 100 people according to the Red Cross

• 2020 Rare protests in Mongolia against moves to teach school subjects in Mandarin instead of Mongolian

• 2021 Powerful 400 yard wide EF-3 tornado travels 12.5 miles through Gloucester County, New Jersey, destroying 50 homes, several farm buildings, and killing 3 dairy cows
• 2021 Record rain recorded in Central Park, New York (7.13 inches) and Newark, New Jersey (8.41 inches) from remnants of Hurricane Ida
• 2021 South America's second-longest river, the Paraná, at its lowest levels for 77 years due to drought
• 2021 Texas law banning most abortion after six weeks comes into effect, now most restrictive in the country
• 2022 China locks down the economically important city of Chengdu with 21 million people, after 700 COVID-19 cases discovered in last few days [1]

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