September 1, 1939
Today in History
- Sugar Ray Leonard fights Roberto Duran for the third and final time
- Pearl Harbor bombed
- Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the Constitution
- Indonesia invades East Timor
- First execution by lethal injection
- FDR reacts to news of Pearl Harbor bombing
- Lewis and Clark temporarily settle in Fort Clatsop
- “Ocean’s Eleven” remake opens in theaters
- Earthquakes wreak havoc in Armenia
- Shooter opens fire on Long Island Railroad train