SEPTEMBER 1
1946:Patty Berg wins the first U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship in Spokane, Wash. Berg would be one of the founders of the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) in 1949.
1773: Phillis Wheatley is the first African American to publish a volume of poetry, when Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, is released in London. Wheatley, a West African sold into slavery and brought to Massachusetts as a child, is about 20 at the time of the book's publication.
1878: Emma M. Nutt becomes the first female telephone operator when she is hired by Alexander Graham Bell to work for the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company, a job she would hold for over 30 years. Nutt's soothing voice and patience with callers would pave the way for countless other women to become switchboard operators.
1995:Rock and Roll Hall of Fame opens in Cleveland, Ohio
1985:The wreckage of the RMS Titanic is found by an American/ French expedition
1928:Albania is declared a monarchy by Ahmet Zogu and he proclaims himself king
1772:Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa founded in San Luis Obispo, California
1897:The Boston subway opens as North America's first underground rapid transit system.
1902:Black and white silent film "A Trip to the Moon" is released in France.
1989:Baseball Commissioner Bart Giamatt, who 8 days earlier negotiated to ban Pete Rose from baseball, dies suddenly
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