On This Day: September 1 By The Associated Press On Sept. 1, 1939, World War II began as Nazi Germany invaded Poland. 1972 American Bobby Fischer won the international chess crown in Reykjavik, Iceland, defeating Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union. 1905 Alberta and Saskatchewan became the eighth and ninth provinces of Canada. 1907 Walter Reuther, the powerful president of the United Automobile Workers Union from 1946 to 1970, was born. 1942 A federal judge in Sacramento, Calif., upheld the wartime detention of Japanese-Americans as well as Japanese nationals. 1951 The United States, Australia and New Zealand signed a mutual defense pact, the ANZUS treaty. 1969 A coup in Libya brought Moammar Gadhafi to power. 1981 Albert Speer, a close associate of Adolf Hitler who ran the Nazi war machine, died at a London hospital at age 76. 1983 A Korean Air Lines Boeing 747 was shot down by a Soviet jet fighter after the airliner entered Soviet airspace; 269 people were killed. 2004 More than 1,100 people were taken hostage by heavily armed Chechen militants at a school in Beslan in southern Russia; more than 330 people, most of them children, were killed during the three-day ordeal. 2009 A law allowing gay marriage took effect in Vermont.
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