TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT Sept. 1, 1939

World War II began as Nazi Germany invaded Poland.

ON THIS DATE 1942

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

1972

American Bobby Fischer won the international chess crown in Reykjavik, Iceland, as Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union resigned before the resumption of Game 21.

1985

A U.S.-French expedition located the wreckage of the Titanic on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean roughly 400 miles off Newfoundland.

2009

Vermont’s law allowing same-sex marriage went into effect.