The Columbus Dispatch

DAILY ALMANAC

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Today is Thursday, Sept. 1, the 244th day of 2022. There are 121 days left in the year. On this date in:

1715: Following a reign of 72 years, King Louis XIV of France died four days before his 77th birthday.

1897: The first section of Boston’s new subway system was opened.

1923: The Japanese cities of Tokyo and Yokohama were devastated by an earthquake that claimed some 140,000 lives.

1939: World War II began as Nazi Germany invaded Poland.

1942: U.S. District Judge Martin I. Welsh, ruling from Sacramento, California, on a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of Fred Korematsu, upheld the wartime detention of Japanese-americans as well as Japanese nationals.

1945: Americans received word of Japan’s

formal surrender that ended World War II. (Because of the time difference, it was Sept. 2 in Tokyo Bay, where the ceremony took place.)

1969: A coup in Libya brought Moammar Gadhafi to power.

1983: A Korean Air Lines Boeing 747 was shot down by a Soviet jet fighter after the airliner entered Soviet airspace, killing 269 people.

1985: A U.s.-french expedition located the wreckage of the Titanic on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean roughly 400 miles off Newfoundla­nd.

2005: New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin issued a “desperate SOS” as his city descended into anarchy amid the flooding left by Hurricane Katrina.

2009: Vermont’s law allowing samesex marriage went into effect.

2015: Invoking “God’s authority,” Rowan County, Kentucky, Clerk Kim Davis

denied marriage licenses to gay couples again in direct defiance of the federal courts, and vowed not to resign, even under the pressure of steep fines or jail. (Davis would spend five days in jail; she was released only after her staff issued the licenses on her behalf but removed her name from the form.)

2021: Relentless rain from the remnants of Hurricane Ida sent the New York City area into a state of emergency, as water poured into homes and subway stations and left vehicles nearly submerged on major roadways; the storm would leave nearly 50 people dead in six Eastern states. Three days after Ida battered Louisiana and parts of Mississipp­i as the fifth-most-powerful hurricane to strike the U.S., about a million homes and businesses still had no electricit­y, and hundreds of thousands of people lacked running water.

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