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This Day in History – September 5, 2011
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1666 Great Fire of London ends: 10,000 buildings including St. Paul’s Cathedral are destroyed, but only 16 people are known to have died. 1774 1st Continental Congress assembles, in Philadelphia 1836 Sam Houston is elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas. 1877 Southern blacks led by Pap Singleton settle in Kansas 1877 Indian Wars: Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse is bayoneted by a United States soldier after resisting confinement in a guardhouse at Fort Robinson in Nebraska. 1882 The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City. 1885 1st gasoline pump is delivered to a gasoline dealer (Ft Wayne, Ind) 1901 National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues formed 1905 Russo-Japanese War: In New Hampshire, USA, the Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by US President Theodore Roosevelt, ends the war. 1906 The first legal forward pass in American football is thrown by Bradbury Robinson of St. Louis University to teammate Jack Schneider in a 22–0 victory over Carroll College (Wisconsin). 1918 Due to WW I, 15th World Series begins a month early 1923 Flyweights Gene LaRue & Kid Pancho KO each other simultaneously 1927 The first Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon, Trolley Troubles, produced by Walt Disney, is released by Universal Pictures. 1945 Cold War: Igor Gouzenko, a Soviet Union embassy clerk, defects to Canada, exposing Soviet espionage in North America, signalling the beginning of the Cold War. 1945 Iva Toguri D’Aquino, a Japanese-American suspected of being wartime radio propagandist Tokyo Rose, is arrested in Yokohama. 1953 1st privately operated atomic reactor-Raleigh NC 1958 1st color video recording on magnetic tape presented, Charlotte NC 1960 The boxer Muhammad Ali (then Cassius Clay) is awarded the gold medal for his first place in the light heavyweight boxing competition at the Olympic Games in Rome. 1968 21 killed by hijackers aboard a Pan Am jet in Karachi Pakistan 1969 My Lai Massacre: U.S. Army Lt. William Calley is charged with six specifications of premeditated murder for the death of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai. 1972 Munich Massacre: A Palestinian terrorist group called “Black September” attack and take hostage 11 Israel athletes at the Munich Olympic Games. 2 die in the attack and 9 die the following day. 1975 Sacramento, California: Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford. 1977 Voyager program: Voyager 1 is launched after a brief delay. 1977 Cleveland Indians stage 1st “I hate the Yankee Hanky Night” 1977 Voyager 1 (US) launched toward fly-by of Jupiter, Saturn 1978 Sadat, Begin & Carter began peace conference at Camp David, Md 1983 Elmer Trettr sets record for highest terminal velocity at 201.34 mph end of a 440 yard motorcycle run from a standing start 1984 12th Space Shuttle Mission (41-D) -Discovery 1- lands at Edwards AFB 1986 Pan Am Flight 73 with 358 people on board is hijacked at Karachi International Airport. 1991 US trial of former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega begins 2005 Mandala Airlines Flight 091 crashes into a heavily populated residential of Sumatra, Indonesia, killing 104 people on board and at least 39 persons on ground. 2007 Three terrorists suspected to be a part of Al-Qaeda are arrested in Germany after allegedly planning attacks on both the Frankfurt International airport and US military installations.]]]]> ]]>
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