1. Sen. Begich, others in Fairbanks for Veterans Summit. 
2. Northeastern Louisiana veterans could soon have new place. 
3. Mobile Office Offers Disabled Veterans' Services. 
4. More housing vouchers available for homeless veterans.
5. Military leaders wrap up conference on Syria crisis. 
6. The goal: Understanding how furry friends ease PTSD, TBI. 
7. Wave of retirements hitting federal workforce. 
8. Vet's denied claim granted 10 years later — for $500,000. 
9. VP Biden pledges continued support for veterans. 
10. VA Secretary Meets With Regional Office Employees.
11. VA Secretary Shinseki sticks to 2015 deadline for ending claims backlog. 
12. VA Secretary stops in Waco to address backlog problems
13. VA secretary says department waiting on courts or Congress before expanding benefits. 
14. VA secretary says law governing veterans benefits contained similar language to DOMA. 
15. VA bonuses not linked to performance.
16. Health-care costs for wounded vets to increase for decades to come.
17. U.S. Department Of Veterans Affairs Holds Mental Health Summit. 
18. Vietnam veterans get a warm welcome at the Minnesota State Fair.  
19. Ø  September 9, 2013.  HVAC will hold a full committee field hearing entitled “A Matter of Life and Death:  Examining Preventable Deaths, Patient-Safety Issues and Bonuses for VA Execs Who Oversaw Them”  9:00 A.M.; Allegheny County Courthouse, 436 Grant Street, Pittsburgh, PA.
    Ø  September 11, 2013 (T).  HVAC-DAMA subcommittee will hold a hearing on September 11, 2013 to discuss Fully Developed Claims (FDC’s).  3:00 P.M.; Cannon House Office Building
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20. 1. Today in History:
    • 1810 – Battle of Grand Port – the French accept the surrender of a British Navy fleet.
    • 1830 – The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's new Tom Thumb steam locomotive races a horse-drawn car, presaging steam's role in US railroading.
    • 1833 – The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 receives Royal Assent, abolishing slavery through most the British Empire.
    • 1849 – After a month-long siege, Venice, which had declared itself independent as the Republic of San Marco, surrenders to Austria.
    
    
    
    
    • 1859 – A geomagnetic storm causes the Aurora Borealis to shine so brightly that it is seen clearly over parts of USA, Europe, and even as far away as Japan.
    • 1862 – American Civil War: Second Battle of Bull Run, also known as the Battle of Second Manassas.
    • 1867 – The United States takes possession of the, at this point unoccupied, Midway Atoll.
    • 1879 – Cetshwayo, last king of the Zulus, is captured by the British.
    • 1898 – Caleb Bradham invents the carbonated soft drink that will later be called "Pepsi-Cola".
    • 1909 – A group of mid-level Greek Army officers launches the Goudi coup, seeking wide-ranging reforms.
    • 1913 – Queen Wilhelmina opens the Peace Palace in The Hague.
    • 1914 – World War I: the Royal Navy defeats the German fleet in the Battle of Heligoland Bight.
    • 1914 – World War I: German troops conquer Namur.
    • 1916 – World War I: Germany declares war on Romania.
    • 1916 – World War I: Italy declares war on Germany.
    • 1917 – Ten Suffragettes are arrested while picketing the White House.
    • 1924 – The Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.
    • 1931 – France and the Soviet Union sign a treaty of non-aggression.
    • 1937 – Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.
    • 1943 – World War II: in Denmark, a general strike against the Nazi occupation starts.
    • 1944 – World War II: Marseille and Toulon are liberated.
    • 1955 – Black teenager Emmett Till is brutally murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent American Civil Rights Movement.
    • 1957 – U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the Senate from voting on Civil Rights Act of 1957; he stopped speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later, the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single Senator.
    • 1963 – March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his I Have a Dream speech
    • 1963 – Emily Hoffert and Janice Wylie are murdered in their Manhattan flat, prompting the events that would lead to the passing of the Miranda Rights.
    • 1963 – The Evergreen Point Bridge, the longest floating bridge in the world, opens between Seattle and Medina, Washington, US.
    • 1964 – The Philadelphia race riot begins.
    • 1968 – Riots in Chicago, Illinois, during the Democratic National Convention.
    • 1979 – An IRA bomb explodes on the Grand Place in Brussels.
    • 1988 – Ramstein airshow disaster: three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collide and the wreckage falls into the crowd. 75 are killed and 346 seriously injured.
    • 1990 – Iraq declares Kuwait to be its newest province.
    • 1991 – Collapse of the Soviet Union – Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party.
    • 1996 – Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales divorce.
    • 1998 – Pakistan's National Assembly passes a constitutional amendment to make the "Qur'an and Sunnah" the "supreme law" but the bill is defeated in the Senate.
    • 1998 – Second Congo War: Loyalist troops backed by Angolan and Zimbabwean forces repulse the rebels' offensive on Kinshasa.
    • 2003 – An electricity blackout cuts off power to around 500,000 people living in south east England and brings 60% of London's underground rail network to a halt.
    • 2011 – Hurricane Irene strikes the United States east coast, killing 47 and causing an estimated $15.6 billion in damage.