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Today in History: September 1

1807
Aaron Burr is arrested in Mississippi for complicity in a plot to establish a Southern empire in Louisiana and Mexico.

1821
William Becknell leads a group of traders from Independence, Mo., toward Santa Fe on what would become the Santa Fe Trail.

1864
Confederate forces under General John Bell Hood evacuate Atlanta in anticipation of the arrival of Union General William T. Sherman's troops.

1882
The first Labor Day is observed in New York City by the Carpenters and Joiners Union.

1894
By an act of Congress, Labor Day is declared a national holiday.

1904
Helen Keller graduates with honors from Radcliffe College.

1905
Alberta and Saskatchewan become Canadian provinces.

1923
An earthquake levels the Japanese cities of Tokyo and Yokohama, killing 300,000.

1939
Germany invades Poland, beginning World War II in Europe.

1942
A federal judge in Sacramento, Cal., upholds the government's detention of Japanese-Americans and Japanese nationals as a war measure.

1951
Australia, New Zealand and the United States sign the ANZUS Treaty, a mutual defense pact.

1972
America’s Bobby Fischer beats Russia’s Boris Spassky in Reykjavik, Iceland, to become world chess champion.

1985
The wreck of the Titanic found by Dr. Robert Ballard and Jean Louis Michel in a joint U.S. and French expedition.

2022
China locks down the economically important city of Chengdu with 21 million people, after 700 COVID-19 cases discovered in last few days

2022
US President Joe Biden warns of 'threats to democracy' from MAGA Republican extremism in prime-time address in front of Philadelphia’s Independence Hall

Today in History: Born on September 1

1875
Edgar Rice Burroughs, novelist who created Tarzan, the Ape Man.

1923
Rocky Marciano, world heavyweight boxing champion who retired undefeated.

1939
Lily Tomlin, multiple-award-winning actress, comedian, writer, producer (Laugh-In, Nashville, The Magic School Bus).

JOTD
A man accepts a job in a village with no women

Once there, he asks a local:

-There are really no women here?

-None.

-So... What do you guys do when you need to have sex?

-There is a donkey close to the river for that.

The man tries to ignore that and goes home, from where he can see the river and therefore, the donkey. After months in that village, every day the donkey seems a little more attractive, so one day when a few other men ask him if he'd like to go to the donkey with them, he accepts. When he is close to the donkey, the man pulls down his pants and one of the other locals yells:

-What are you doing!?

-Aren't we...you know? Going to do the donkey thing?

-We going to ride the donkey across the river so we can get to the other village where we can meet women.