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Today in History ~ September 5
Today is Be Late for Something Day.
The day is sponsored by the Procrastinator's Club of America, which was formed in 1965.
This day is meant to give people relief from the stresses and strains of always having to be on time.
Events1519 - 2nd Battle of Tehuacingo, Mexico: Hernan Cortes vs Tlascala Aztecs
1550 - William Cecil appoints himself English minister of foreign affairs
1622 - Richelieu becomes Cardinal
1634 - -6] Battle at Nordlingen: King Ferdinand III & Catholic Spain beat Sweden & German protestants
1750 - Decree issued in Paderborn Prussia allows for annual search of all Jewish homes for stolen or "doubtful" goods
1774 - 1st Continental Congress assembles, in Philadelphia, in a secret session in Carpenter's Hall. [H]
1781 - Battle of Virginia Capes, French warships defeat British fleet, trapping Cornwallis in Yorktown
1793 - In the French Revolution, Terror is officially acknowledged by the National Convention. One delegate, claiming that the middle class Girondist (moderates) leaders be sentenced to death cried, "It is time for equality to wield its scythe over all the heads. Very well, Legislator, place Terror on the agenda!" The delegates agreed to arrest all suspects and dissenters, try them swiftly in the kangaroo courts known as the Revolutionary Tribunals, and sentence them uniformly to death.
1800 - Malta surrenders to British after they blockade French troops
1836 - Sam Houston, the hero of the Texas War for Independence, was elected the first President of the Republic of Texas. Houston, a former U.S. Congressman and governor of Tennessee, was succeeded by Mirabeau Lamar in 1838, but then elected again in 1841.
1844 - Iron ore discovered in Minnesota's Mesabi Range
1862 - Lee crosses Potomac & enters Maryland
1864 - British, French & Dutch fleets attacked Japan in Shimonoseki Straits
1877 - Sioux chief Crazy Horse was fatally bayoneted by a U.S. soldier after allegedly resisting confinement in a guardhouse at Fort Robinson, Neb. [H]
1882 - 10,000 workers march in 1st Labor Day parade in NYC
1885 - 1st gasoline pump is delivered to a gasoline dealer (Ft Wayne, Ind)
1887 - Gas lamp at Theater Royal in Exeter catches fire killing about 200
1905 - The Russo-Japanese War came to an end as representatives of the two nations signed the Treaty of Portsmouth in New Hampshire.
1914 - Battle of Marne (WW I) begins: Germans chase out Russians
1914 - George Herman "Babe" Ruth hit his first minor league home run at Hanlan's Point Stadium in Toronto. Throughout his career, Ruth hit a total of 714 home runs, a record that was not broken until 1974, 26 years after his death.
1923 - Flyweights Gene LaRue & Kid Pancho KO each other simultaneously.
1935 - Gene Autry starred in his first Western feature "Tumbling Tumbleweeds."
1936 - Red Sox turn a triple play on the Yankees
1939 - FDR declares US neutrality at start of WW II in Europe
1942 - British & US bomb Le Havre & Bremen
1944 - "Mad Tuesday" 65,000 Dutch nazi collaborators flee to Germany
1953 - 1st privately operated atomic reactor in Raleigh NC
1953 - US give Persian premier Zahedi $45 million aid
1957 - Cuban dictator Batista bombs Cienfuegos uprising
1958 - "Doctor Zhivago" by Boris Pasternak published in US
1958 - 1st color video recording on magnetic tape presented, Charlotte NC
1960 - Cassius Clay captures Olympic light heavyweight gold medal
1960 - President Kasavubu fires PremierLumumba of Congo
1961 - President Kennedy signs law against hijacking (death penalty)
1968 - 21 killed by hijackers aboard a Pan Am jet in Karachi Pakistan
1972 - Palestinian terrorists kill 11 Israelis at 1972 Munich Olympics [H]
1975 - Czech tennis ace Martina Navratilova asks for political asylum in NYC
1975 - In Sacramento, California, an assassination attempt against U.S. President Gerald R. Ford was foiled when a Secret Service agent wrested a pistol from Lynette A. "Squeaky" Fromme, a follower of the incarcerated cult leader Charles Manson.
1977 - Voyager 1 (US) launched toward fly-by of Jupiter, Saturn
1978 - Sadat, Begin & Carter began peace conference at Camp David, Md
1979 - Assasinated war hero Earl of Mountbatten funeral
1980 - World's longest auto tunnel, St Gotthard in Swiss Alps, opens
1983 - 8th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 3 returns to Earth
1984 - 12th Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 1 returns to Earth
1986 - Karachi Pakistan army storms hijacked US B-747, 19 killed
1990 - Iraqi Pres Saddam Hussein urges Arabs to rise against the West
1991 - Nelson Mandela chosen president of South African ANC
1991 - US trial of former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega begins. The US military had invaded Panama just to kidnap their longtime partner and ally whom they accused of laundering drug money.
1991 - In Moscow, Soviet lawmakers approved the creation of an interim government to usher in a new confederation.
1991 - Six BCCI officials and a Medellin drug cartel leader were charged with laundering cocaine profits through the bank from 1983 to 1989.
1992 - A Dallas judge sentenced the "Sweetheart Swindler" to 24 years in prison for stealing as much as $40,000 from women he claimed loved him
1993 - "Jelly's Last Jam" closes at Virginia Theater NYC after 569 performances
1993 - "Will Rogers Follies" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 983 performances
1995 - France conducted an underground nuclear test at the Mururoa Atoll in the South Pacific. It was the first of several all of which were met by protests worldwide.
1996 - Ramzi Ahmed Yousef and two others were convicted in New York of planning to blow up jetliners.
1996 - Moscow announced that Russian President Boris Yeltsin needed heart surgery.
1997 - Athens Greece selected for 2004 Olympics
1997 - In an unusual television speech, Queen Elizabeth acknowledged the public expression of grief over Diana's death and expressed her own admiration for her former daughter-in-law.
1997 - At least 172 people were slain in Algeria in at least three incidents believed linked to the country's upcoming election and to the long, though sporadically fought, civil war
2001 - Mexican President Vicente Fox came to Washington to ask the Bush Administration for a U.S. agreement to legalize the status of 3.5 million Mexicans who entered the country illegally.
2002 - An attempted assassination of Afghanistan President Harmid Karzai failed when a gunman missed him after opening fire on his car. The would-be assassin was slain by guards.
Birthdays Today
1187 - Louis VIII, [Coeur-de-Lion] king of France (1223-26)
1638 - Louis XIV ('The Sun King' [he chose the sun as his royal emblem]: King of France [1643-1715]; passed away Sep 1, 1715)
1735 - Johann Christian Bach, composer, son of JS Bach
1791 - Giacomo Meyerbeer, Vogelsdorf Germany, opera composer (Les Hugenots, Le Prophete)
1847 - Jesse Woodson James, Missouri, bank/train robber, son of a clergyman. Seen by some as a vicious murderer and by others as a gallant Robin Hood [H]
1892 - Joseph Szigeti, Budapest Hungary, violinist (Violinist Notebook 1933)
1897 - Arthur Charles Nielsen (market researcher: founder of A.C. Nielsen Co.: radio and TV audience surveys; passed away in 1980)
1897 - Frank Jewett, a pioneer in telephone, radar, recording, and other fields,
1902 - Darryl F. (Francis) Zanuck (producer: The Jazz Singer, The Grapes of Wrath, Forever Amber, The Snake Pit; cofounder of 20th Century Studios; passed away Dec 22, 1979)
1905 - Arthur Koestler (novelist: The Thirteenth Tribe, Scum of the Earth, Darkness at Noon; passed away Mar 3, 1983)
1912 - John Cage (composer: experimental music and performance with non-traditional instruments: Bacchanal, Anthems of the Sun, Living Room, Water Music, Third Construction, 4'53"; passed away Aug 12, 1992)
1921 - Jack Valenti (movie executive: president of Motion Picture Association of America)
1923 - Arthur C Nielsen, market researcher (TV's Nielsen's Ratings)
1929 - Bob Newhart (comedian: The Bob Newhart Show, Newhart; LP: The Button Down Mind of Bob Newhart)
1939 - Clay Regazzoni (auto racer: 5-time grand prix champ [for Ferrari]; broke his back in a crash at Long Beach CA [1980])
1939 - Susumu Tonegawa (Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist [1987]: discovered how the body can defend itself against millions of different diseases it has never before encountered)
1940 - Raquel Welch (Jo Raquel Tejada) (actress: Tainted Blood, The Four Musketeers, Woman of the Year, Bandolero!, Mother, Jugs and Speed, Myra Breckenridge, Fantastic Voyage, Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult)
1942 - Eduardo Mata, Mexico City Mexico, conductor (Improvisaciones)
1942 - Werner Herzog, director (Burden of Dreams, Stroszek, Woyzeck)1)
1946 - Freddie Mercury (Bulsara) (singer: I was Born to Love You; Queen: Another One Bites the Dust, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, We are the Champions; passed away Nov 24, 1991)
1946 - Loudon Wainwright III (songwriter, singer: Dead Skunk; actor: M*A*S*H, The Slugger's Wife, Jackknife)
1948 - Jim White (football: Minnesota Vikings defensive tackle: Super Bowl XI)
1950 - Cathy Lee Guisewite (cartoonist: Cathy)
1951 - James McAlister (football: UCLA Hall of Famer, All-American running back; New England Patriots)
1969 - Dweezil Zappa (musician: guitar: MTV; son of musician Frank Zappa, brother of singer Moon Unit Zappa)
Famous deaths
1235 - Henry I, duke of Brabant,
1548 - Catharine Parr, queen of England/wife of Henry VIII, dies at 36
1566 - Suleiman I, Great Law Giver, sultan of Turkey (1520-66), dies at 71
1569 - Pieter Bruegel, South Netherlands painter, dies at about 44
1803 - Francois Devienne, composer, dies at 44
1877 - Crazy Horse, [Tashunka Witko], last great Sioux war chief, murdered in a (US) Army jail at 27 [H]
1993 - Claude Renoir, French cinematographer (Spy Who Loved Me), dies at 78
1995 - James "Pigmeat" Jarrett, pianist, dies at 95
1997 - Georg Solti, conductor, dead, dies at 84
1997 - Mother Teresa, Nobel (1979), dies of cardiac arrest at 87
If you have other Birthdays or events to add for this day please E-mail me
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