On this day in history - Today, September, 1

Today in History

• 2004 350 people and children are killed in a massacre in Beslan, North Ossetia

  Armed Chechen rebels took over 1000 people including school children at a school. The rebels demande

• 1985 The Wreck of the sunk ship Titanic is found in the North Atlantic Ocean

  A French-American expedition group found the wreck, which sunk on 14 April 1912 on her first voyage

• 1979 Pioneer 11 makes its closest approach to Saturn

  The NASA built space probe was the first probe to encounter Saturn - it flew by the planet at a dist

• 1952 Life magazine publishes parts of the Old Man And The Sea

  One of American author Ernest Hemingway’s best-known works, the novel tells the story of an old man

• 1914 Passenger Pigeons become extinct

  Martha, the last Passenger Pigeon known to man, died at the Cincinnati Zoo, Cincinnati, Ohio effecti