TODAY IN HISTORY: German born Austrian race driver Jochen Rindt became the only driver to ever be posthumously awarded Formula One World Drivers' Championship. 9News
Iranian-American computer programmer Pierre Omidyar starts a personal website called AuctionWeb on September 4, 1995.
Her death, ironically enough, employed the very tactic she favoured when killing rivals – a motorcyclist with a gun. Brallier was paid $10 play for Latrobe Athletic Association in Pennsylvania against the Jeanette Athletic Association.Sweden switched driving on the left side of the road to driving on the right on September 3, 1967.When the switch took place, there were fewer car accidents than on any regular Monday.Eight American airmen are captured by Japanese soldiers, tortured and eaten after their planes were shot down in the Pacific on September 2, 1944.
Lieutenant George HW Bush, 20, drifted out to sea in an inflatable raft, to be later rescued by a US submarine.It was not until 2003 that the public became aware of the fate of the eight airmen in the "Chichijima incident".15 of 415German teenager Mathias Rust goes on trial on September 2, 1987, for a brazen stunt that deeply embarrassed the Soviet Union.
The Japanese Foreign Minister signed on behalf of the Emperor, while representatives from the Allied nations were present to sign.The Japanese delegation took issue with a mistake made by Canadian colonel Lawrence Moore Cosgrave, who signed under his line rather than above it.
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