1 September

 10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 1 September:

Helen Keller

1. This date in 1933 saw the birth of Harold Lloyd Jenkins, better known as country singer Conway Twitty. He built a country music entertainment complex called Twitty City.
2. During a US billiard championship on this date in 1865, a fly landed on the ball, causing Louis Fox to miss a crucial shot. Fox was so ashamed he went and drowned himself.
3. The youngest king of England, Henry VI, aged nine months, inherited the throne on the death of his father Henry V on this date in 1422.
4. In 1988, the New York Health Department announced that in the previous year they'd treated 8,064 people who'd been bitten by Dogs, 1,587 people who'd been bitten by human beings and one person who'd been bitten by a Penguin.
5. In 2010, archaeologists discovered 200 year old bottles of Beer in a shipwreck south of the Aland Islands in the Baltic Sea, believed to be the world's oldest beer.
6. In 2000 Australia's first female and oldest Olympic athlete, Edie Payne, aged 93, who'd competed in the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam, opened the Sydney Games village.
7. 1878 The first woman telephone operator, Miss Emma Nutt, began working for Edwin Holmes's Telephone Dispatch Co. exchange in Boston, Mass on this date in 1878. She remained in this job for 33 years. By the mid-1800's most exchanges employed only women. Boys were found to be too quarrelsome and rude.
8. In 1904, Helen Keller, deaf and blind from infancy, graduated from Radcliffe College with honours.
9. In 1939, Germany invaded Poland and bombed Warsaw at 6am with 1.8 million troops, beginning World War II. Two days after the invasion, England and France declared war on Germany. For the first time in history, the King went to Downing Street instead of the Prime Minister going to the Palace, as Neville Chamberlain needed to stay by his telephone.
10. In 1689, a tax on Beards was imposed in Russia.

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