The Tuesday, September 1, 2026 Edition
Bond Yields Hit Multi-Decade Highs, Messi Retires, and a Kakapo Baby Boom
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The number of kakapo chicks hatched in New Zealand's record breeding season, triggered by a mass fruiting of native trees. The baby boom pushed the critically endangered flightless parrot -- the world's heaviest -- to a total population of 325.
Source: The Guardian
Today: MrBeast and James Patterson's co-written thriller launches, testing whether the YouTube star's 400 million subscribers convert into book buyers after reports of weak preorders.
Monday, Sept. 7: Labor Day closes U.S. financial markets, banks, and government offices for the federal holiday that marks summer's unofficial end.
- 1897The Tremont Street subway opens in Boston, the first in North America
- 1914Martha, the world's last passenger pigeon, dies at the Cincinnati Zoo
- 1939Nazi Germany invades Poland, igniting World War II in Europe
- 1972Bobby Fischer defeats Boris Spassky in Reykjavik to become world chess champion
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