📜 This Day in History

September 1

• 1145The main altar of Lund Cathedral, then the Catholic cathedral of all the Nordic countries, was dedicated to Saint Lawrence and the Virgin Mary.
• 1804German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding discovered one of the largest main-belt asteroids, naming it Juno after the Roman goddess.
• 1902The first science fiction film, titled A Trip to the Moon and based on From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne, was released in France.
• 1937The first group of around 172,000 Koreans were deported by Soviet authorities from the Russian Far East to the Kazakh and Uzbek SSRs; around 10 to 25 percent died.
• 1967At an Arab League summit, eight nations issued the Khartoum Resolution, declaring that there would be "no peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, [and] no negotiations with it".
• 2000Speakers' Corner, a free speech area in Hong Lim Park in Singapore, was launched.

Born on this day

• 1875Edgar Rice Burroughs, American author (died 1950)
• 1940Annie Ernaux, French author, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1946Roh Moo-hyun, South Korean soldier and politician, 9th President of South Korea (died 2009)
• 1996Zendaya, American actress and singer