Monday, September 1, 2008
Labor Day
[1859 - First Pullman sleeping car begins service]
[1875 - Edgar Rice Burroughs, writer, born in Chicago]
[1900 - Don Wilson, announcer, actor, born in Lincoln, Nebraska]
[1904 - Johnny Mack Brown, athlete, actor, born in Dothan, Alabama]
[1907 - Walter (Philip) Reuther, labor leader, born in Wheeling, West Virginia]
[1922 - Yvonne De Carlo (Peggy Yvonne Middleton), actress, born in Vancouver, British Columbia]
[1923 - Rocky Marciano (Rocco Marchegiano), Undefeated World Heavyweight Champion, born in Brockton, Massachusetts]
[1939 - Germany invades Poland (WW-II begins)]