Today in History
September 5 - Today in History
By Staff
Sep 5, 2011 - 12:00:00 AM

1198 - Philips van Zwaben Hohenstaufen crowned king of Roman Catholic Germany
1519 - 2nd Battle of Tehuacingo, Mexico: Hernan Cortes vs Tlascala Aztecs
1548 - Catharine Parr, Queen of England/wife of King Henry VIII, dies at about 36
1698 - Russia's Peter the Great imposes a tax on beards
1774 - 1st Continental Congress assembles, in Philadelphia
1781 - Battle of Virginia Capes, French defeat British, traps Cornwallis
1793 - In the French Revolution, the "Reign of Terror" begins
1795 - US-Algiers sign peace treaty
1800 - Malta surrenders to British after they blockade French troops
1814 - -15] Battle at Masurische Meren: Germans chase Russ out of E Prussia
1836 - Sam Houston elected president of the Republic of Texas
1862 - Lee crosses the Potomac and enters Maryland
1863 - Bread revolt in Mobile Alabama
1864 - British, French & Dutch fleets attacked Japan in Shimonoseki Straits
1877 - Crazy Horse, [Tashunka Witko], last great Sioux war chief, dies at 27
1877 - Southern blacks led by Pap Singleton settle in Kansas
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)
1898 - Sarah Emma Evelyn Edmonds, who, disguised as a man, fought for union, dies
1900 - France proclaims a protectorate over Chad
1901 - National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues formed
1905 - Treaty of Portsmouth USA, ends Russo-Japanese War
1906 - 1st legal forward pass (Brandbury Robinson to Jack Schneider)
1908 - Dodger Nap Rucker no-hits Boston Braves, 6-0
1913 - Phillies & Braves tie record of only 1 run in a double header, Phillies win 1st game 1-0, then a scoreless tie into 10th
1914 - Proclamation prohibits Canadian mint from issuing gold coins
1914 - Battle of Marne (WW I) begins
1918 - Due to WW I, 15th World Series begins a month early
1922 - Yankees final game at the Polo Grounds, after 7 years
1923 - Flyweights Gene LaRue & Kid Pancho KO each other simultaneously
1925 - 112 degree F (44 degree C), Centerville, Alabama (state record)
1927 - Red Sox beat Yankees 12-11 in 18 innings
1936 - Red Sox turn a triple-play on the Yankees
1944 - Allies liberate Brussels
1944 - "Mad Tuesday" 65,000 Dutch nazi collaborators flee to Germany
1946 - Joe Garagiola plays his 1st major league baseball game
1953 - 1st privately operated atomic reactor-Raleigh NC
1956 - 20 die in a train crash in Springer NM
1958 - "Doctor Zhivago" by Boris Pasternak published in the US
1958 - 1st color video recording on magnetic tape presented, Charlotte NC
1959 - Washington Senator Jim Lemon is 7th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (3rd)
1960 - Cassius Clay captures the olympic light heavyweight gold medal
1967 - -23] Hurricane Beuleah, kills 54 in Caribbean, Mexico & Texas
1968 - 21 killed by hijackers aboard a Pan Am jet in Karachi Pakistan
1970 - Estimated 15 cm (6") of rainfall, Bug Point, Utah (state record)
1971 - NY Mets Don Hahn hits 1st inside the park homer at Phillies Vet
1972 - 11 Israeli athletes are slain at Munich Olympics
1972 - Chemical spill with fog sickens hundreds in Meuse Valley Belgium
1975 - Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme attempts to assassinate Ford in Sacramento
1975 - Wings release "Letting Go"
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
1979 - Earl of Mountbatten funeral held in Bruma
1980 - World's longest auto tunnel, St Gotthard in Swiss Alps, opens
1982 - Eddie Hill sets propeller-driven boat water speed record of 229 mph
1983 - 8th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 3-lands at Edwards AFB
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 - NASA awards study contracts to 5 aerospace firms
1986 - NASA launches DOD-1
1988 - Jerry Lewis' 23rd Labor Day telethon raises record $41,132,113
1988 - CFL's Earl Winfield (Ham) scores TDs on 101-yyard punt return, 100-yd kickoff return and 58-yard pass reception
1989 - Deborah Norville becomes news anchor of the Today Show
1990 - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein urges Arabs to rise against the West
1991 - Actor John Travolta weds Kelly Preston
1991 - US trial of former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega begins

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