New Daily item......Today in History....

I will attempt to post a new daily segment, titled "Today in History", here's the first one:


On this day in …
* 1807, former Vice President Aaron Burr was found innocent of treason
* 1878, Emma M. Nutt became the first female telephone operator in the United States, for the Telephone Despatch Co. of Boston
* 1939, World War II began as Nazi Germany invaded Poland
* 1945, Americans received word of Japan's formal surrender that ended World War II. (Because of the time difference, it was September 2 in Tokyo Bay, where the ceremony took place.)
* 1951, the United States, Australia and New Zealand signed a mutual defense pact, the ANZUS treaty
* 1961, the Soviet Union ended a moratorium on atomic testing with an above-ground nuclear explosion in central Asia
* 2004, more than 1,000 people were taken hostage by heavily armed practitioners of that "religion of peace" at an elementary school in Beslan in southern Russia; more than 330, mostly children, were eventually killed in the three-day ordeal. According to The New York Times, when the terrorists took over the building, they shouted "Allahu akbar" ("Allah is the greatest").