TODAY IN HISTORY

Saturday, September  01, 2012 AP Highlight in History:  On Sept. 1, 1939, World War II began as Nazi Germany invaded Poland. READ THE ORIGINAL AP STORY Adolf Hitler   AP Photo
On this date in: 1905 Alberta and Saskatchewan became the eighth and ninth provinces of Canada. 1942 A federal judge in Sacramento, Calif., upheld the wartime detention of Japanese-Americans as well as Japanese nationals. AP Photo 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. 1972 American Bobby Fischer won the international chess crown in Reykjavik, Iceland, defeating Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union. 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.		Video HIGHLIGHTS OF THIS DAY IN HISTORY Today's Birthdays: Comedian-actress Lily Tomlin turns 73 years old today. AP Photo/Dan Steinberg Name Profession Age Barry Gibb Singer (The Bee Gees) 66 Gloria Estefan Singer 55 Dee Dee Myers Former White House Press Secretary 51 Scott Speedman Actor ("Felicity") 37 Joe Trohman Rock musician (Fall Out Boy) 28 Talk show host Phil McGraw ("Dr. Phil") turns 62 years old today. AP Photo/Evan Agostini