Gustave Flaubert, French novelist (Madame Bovary) born (1821)

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Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter and print maker (The Scream) born (1863)

• Artcyclopedia: The Fine Art Search Engine
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Jesse Owens, Black US track star who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Germany, born (1913)

• Ten Activities Celebrate Achievements of African Americans!
  With the assistance of the Web, you too can incorporate activities that reflect the positive impact black Americans have had on our nation's history.

Frank Sinatra, American singer and actor, born (1915)

Robert Browning, English poet (The Ring and the Book), died (1889)

• Volumes of Verse: Poetry Resources on the Internet
  You have probably heard the Web compared to a virtual library. In the case of poetry, that statement couldn't be more true. Poets from William Blake to Walt Whitman now have virtual homes in cyberspace.

Pennsylvania became the second state to ratify the U.S. Constitution (1787)

Washington DC was established as the capitol of the US (1800)

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Joseph Rainey of South Carolina became the first Black politician sworn into the U.S. House of Representatives (1870)

Joseph Heller, American author (Catch-22) died at age 76 (1999)

Italian scientist Guglielmo Marconi received the first long-distance radio transmission in Newfoundland from electrical engineer John Ambrose Fleming in England (1901)

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Officials in Florence, Italy, announced that the Mona Lisa, stolen from the Louvre Museum in Paris in 1911, had been recovered (1913)

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Father Edward Flanagan founded Boys Town orphanage outside Omaha, Nebraska (1917)

UN accepted 6 Manhattan blocks as a gift from John D Rockefeller Jr (1946)

United Mine Workers union withdrew from the AFL (1947)

• Great Sites For Teaching About...Labor Day and U.S. Labor History
  Some of the best web sites about the holiday and the story of labor behind it

Martin Luther King Jr and 700 civil rights demonstrators were arrested in Albany, GA (1961)

• Black History on the Internet
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• I Have A Dream
  Martin Luther King Jr.'s words -- spoken on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963 -- are brought to life in a new book from Scholastic Press.

UN Committee on Peaceful Use of Outer Space was established (1959)

US copyright law was amended to include computer programs (1980)

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