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Events on the 5th of September in history

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05 Sep 0917 Liu Yan declares himself emperor, establishing the Southern Han state in southern China, at his capital of Panyu.
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05 Sep 1198 Philips van Zwaben Hohenstaufen crowned King of Roman Catholic Germany
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05 Sep 1519 2nd Battle of Tehuacingo, Mexico: Hernan Cortes vs. Tlascala Aztecs
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05 Sep 1550 William Cecil appoints himself English Minister of Foreign Affairs
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05 Sep 1590 Alexander Farnese's army forces Henry IV of France to lift the siege of Paris.
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05 Sep 1596 Dutch fleet commander Cornelis de Houtman taken hostage in Java
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05 Sep 1622 Richelieu becomes Cardinal
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05 Sep 1644 Prince Frederik Henry conquerors Sas of Gent
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05 Sep 1661 French superintendant of Finance Nicolas Fouquet arrested
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05 Sep 1661 Fall of Nicolas Fouquet: Louis XIV Superintendent of Finances is arrested in Nantes by D'Artagnan, captain of the king's musketeers.
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05 Sep 1666 Great Fire of London ends: Ten thousand buildings including St Paul's Cathedral are destroyed, but only six people are known to have died.
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05 Sep 1697 War of the Grand Alliance : A French warship commanded by Captain Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville defeated an English squadron at the Battle of Hudson's Bay.
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05 Sep 1698 In an effort to Westernize his nobility, Tsar Peter I of Russia imposes a tax on beards for all men except the clergy and peasantry.
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05 Sep 1725 French King Louis XV marries Polish Princess Mary Lesczynski
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05 Sep 1725 Wedding of Louis XV and Maria Leszczyńska.
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05 Sep 1750 Decree issued in Paderborn Prussia allows for annual search of all Jewish homes for stolen or "doubtful" goods
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05 Sep 1774 First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia.
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05 Sep 1781 Battle of Virginia Capes, French defeat British, traps Cornwallis
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05 Sep 1781 Battle of the Chesapeake in the American Revolutionary War: The British Navy is repelled by the French Navy, contributing to the British surrender at Yorktown.
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05 Sep 1786 Montplaisir Ceramic factory opens in Schaarbeek Belgium
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05 Sep 1793 In the French Revolution, the "Reign of Terror" begins
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05 Sep 1793 French Revolution: The French National Convention initiates the Reign of Terror.
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05 Sep 1795 US-Algiers sign peace treaty
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05 Sep 1796 General Salicetti orders equal rights for Jews of Bologna Italy
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05 Sep 1798 New conscription law goes into effect in France
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05 Sep 1798 Conscription is made mandatory in France by the Jourdan law.
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05 Sep 1800 Malta surrenders to British after they blockade French troops
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05 Sep 1812 War of 1812: The Siege of Fort Wayne begins when Chief Winamac's forces attack two soldiers returning from the fort's outhouses.
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05 Sep 1816 Louis XVIII has to dissolve the Chambre introuvable ("Unobtainable Chamber").
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05 Sep 1836 Sam Houston is elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas.
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05 Sep 1838 Central Museum opens in Utrecht Netherlands
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05 Sep 1839 The United Kingdom declares war on the Qing dynasty of China.
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05 Sep 1840 Premiere of Giuseppe Verdi's Un giorno di regno at La Scala of Milan.
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05 Sep 1862 Lee crosses Potomac and enters Maryland
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05 Sep 1862 American Civil War: The Potomac River is crossed at White's Ford in the Maryland Campaign.
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05 Sep 1862 James Glaisher, pioneering meteorologist and Henry Tracey Coxwell break world record for altitude whilst collecting data in their balloon.
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05 Sep 1863 Bread revolt in Mobile Alabama
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05 Sep 1864 British, French and Dutch fleets attacked Japan in Shimonoseki Straits
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05 Sep 1864 François Achille Bazaine becomes Marshal of France.
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05 Sep 1877 Southern blacks led by Pap Singleton settle in Kansas
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05 Sep 1877 American 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.
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05 Sep 1882 10,000 workers march in 1st Labor Day parade in New York City
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05 Sep 1882 The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City.
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05 Sep 1885 1st gasoline pump is delivered to a gasoline dealer (Ft Wayne, Ind)
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05 Sep 1887 Gas lamp at Theater Royal in Exeter catches fire killing about 200
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05 Sep 1887 A fire at Theatre Royal in Exeter, England kills 186.
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05 Sep 1895 George Washington Murray elected to Congress from South Carolina
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05 Sep 1900 France proclaims a protectorate over Chad
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05 Sep 1901 National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues forms
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05 Sep 1905 Treaty of Portsmouth USA, ends Russo-Japanese War
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05 Sep 1905 Russo-Japanese War: In New Hampshire, United States, the Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, ends the war.
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05 Sep 1906 1st legal forward pass (Brandbury Robinson to Jack Schneider)
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05 Sep 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).
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05 Sep 1908 Dodger Nap Rucker no-hits Boston Braves, 6-0
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05 Sep 1910 Jack Coombs begins a record streak of 53 shutout innings
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05 Sep 1913 Phillies and Braves tie record of only 1 run in a double header, Phillies win 1st game 1-0, then a scoreless tie into 10th
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05 Sep 1914 Battle of Marne (WWI) begins: Germans chase out Russians
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05 Sep 1914 French headquarters move to Chatillon-sur-Seine
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05 Sep 1914 Gr Britain / France / Belgium / Russia sign pact of London
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05 Sep 1914 Proclamation prohibits Canadian mint from issuing gold coins
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05 Sep 1914 World War I: First Battle of the Marne begins. Northeast of Paris, the French attack and defeat German forces who are advancing on the capital.
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05 Sep 1915 35th US Mens Tennis: William Johnston beats McLoughlin (16 60 75 108)
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05 Sep 1915 Anti-war conference in Zimmerwald, Switzerland
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05 Sep 1915 The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins.
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05 Sep 1916 36th US Mens Tennis: R N Williams III beats Johnston (46 64 06 62 64)
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05 Sep 1918 Due to WWI, 15th World Series begins a month early
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05 Sep 1918 The original publication of the Cheka decree, "On Red Terror".
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05 Sep 1920 Iron monument unveiled at Stone churches, Flanders
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05 Sep 1921 Walter Johnson sets strikeout mark at 2,287
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05 Sep 1921 Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle party in San Francisco ends with the death of the young actress Virginia Rappe: One of the first scandals of the Hollywood community.
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05 Sep 1922 17th Davis Cup: USA beats Australasia in New York (4-1)
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05 Sep 1922 Yankees final game at Polo Grounds (played there 7 years)
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05 Sep 1923 Flyweights Gene LaRue and Kid Pancho KO each other simultaneously
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05 Sep 1925 29th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Bobby Jones
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05 Sep 1927 Red Sox beat Yankees 12-11 in 18 innings
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05 Sep 1927 The first Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon, Trolley Troubles, produced by Walt Disney, is released by Universal Pictures.
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05 Sep 1929 French Premier A Briand requests a US of Europe
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05 Sep 1932 The French Upper Volta is broken apart between Ivory Coast, French Sudan, and Niger.
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05 Sep 1936 Red Sox turn a triple-play on Yankees
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05 Sep 1937 Spanish Civil War: Llanes falls to the Nationalists following a one-day siege.
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05 Sep 1938 Chile: A group of youths affiliated with the fascist National Socialist Movement of Chile are assassinated in the Seguro Obrero massacre.
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05 Sep 1939 34th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in Haverford (3-2)
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05 Sep 1939 FDR declares US neutrality at start of WWII in Europe
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05 Sep 1939 US declare itself neutral
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05 Sep 1941 Whole territory of Estonia is occupied by Nazi Germany.
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05 Sep 1942 Battle at Alam Halfa ends
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05 Sep 1942 British and US bomb Le Havre and Bremen
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05 Sep 1942 World War II: Japanese high command orders withdrawal at Milne Bay, the first major Japanese defeat in land warfare during the Pacific War.
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05 Sep 1943 57th US Womens Tennis: Pauline Betz beats A Louise Brough (63 57 63)
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05 Sep 1943 US airland at Nadzab, New-Guinea
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05 Sep 1943 World War II: The 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment lands and occupies Lae Nadzab Airport, near Lae in the Salamaua–Lae campaign.
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05 Sep 1944 "Mad Tuesday" 65,000 Dutch Nazi collaborators flee to Germany
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05 Sep 1944 5 resistance fighter executed in Terneuzen
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05 Sep 1944 Allies liberate Brussels
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05 Sep 1944 British Premier Churchill travels to Scotland
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05 Sep 1944 Dutch Armed Forces forms, under Prince Bernhard
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05 Sep 1944 Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg constitute Benelux.
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05 Sep 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.
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05 Sep 1945 Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese American suspected of being wartime radio propagandist Tokyo Rose, is arrested in Yokohama.
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05 Sep 1946 "Yours Is My Heart" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 36 performances
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05 Sep 1946 Joe Garagiola plays his 1st major league baseball game
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05 Sep 1948 In France, Robert Schuman becomes President of the Council while being Foreign minister, As such, he is the negotiator of the major treaties of the end of World War II.
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05 Sep 1949 63rd US Womens Tennis: M Osborne duPont beats Doris Hart (64 61)
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05 Sep 1949 69th US Mens Tennis: Pancho Gonzales beat Schroeder (1618 26 61 62 64)
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05 Sep 1950 64th US Womens Tennis: Margaret Osborne duPont beats D Hart (63 63)
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05 Sep 1950 70th US Mens Tennis: Art Larsen beats Herbert Flam (63 46 57 64 63)
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05 Sep 1950 98.3 cm rainfall at Yankeetown, Florida (state record)
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05 Sep 1951 65th US Womens Tennis: Mo Connolly beats Shirley J Fry (63 16 64)
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05 Sep 1951 71st US Mens Tennis: Frank A Sedgman beats Elias Seixas Jr (64 61 61)
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05 Sep 1953 1st privately operated atomic reactor - Raleigh, North Carolina
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05 Sep 1953 US give Persian Premier Zahedi $45 million aid
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05 Sep 1954 Dutch Super Constellation crashes at Shannon, 28 die
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05 Sep 1955 Fred Kaps becomes world champion magician
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05 Sep 1955 Phillies Don Newcombe hits NL pitcher record 7th HR of season
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05 Sep 1955 WKRG TV channel 5 in Mobile, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting
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05 Sep 1955 WTTW TV channel 11 in Chicago, IL (PBS) begins broadcasting
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05 Sep 1956 20 die in a train crash in Springer, New Mexico
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05 Sep 1957 Cuban Dictator Batista bombs Cienfuegos uprising
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05 Sep 1957 Cuban Revolution: Fulgencio Batista bombs the revolt in Cienfuegos.
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05 Sep 1958 "Doctor Zhivago" by Boris Pasternak published in US
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05 Sep 1958 1st color video recording on magnetic tape presented, Charlotte, North Carolina
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05 Sep 1958 WKPC TV channel 15 in Louisville, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
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05 Sep 1959 Washingston Senator Jim Lemon is 7th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (3rd)
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05 Sep 1960 Cassius Clay captures Olympic light heavyweight gold medal
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05 Sep 1960 President Kasavubu fires Premier Lumumba of Congo
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05 Sep 1960 Wilma Rudolph wins her 2nd gold medal
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05 Sep 1960 The poet Léopold Sédar Senghor is elected as the first President of Senegal.
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05 Sep 1960 Muhammad Ali (then Cassius Clay) wins the gold medal in the light heavyweight boxing competition at the Olympic Games in Rome.
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05 Sep 1961 JFK begins underground nuclear testing
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05 Sep 1961 President Kennedy signs law against hijacking (death penalty)
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05 Sep 1961 The first conference of the Non Aligned Countries is held in Belgrade.
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05 Sep 1962 Atletico Madrid wins 2nd Europe Cup II
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05 Sep 1962 Cubs Ken Hubbs sets 2nd base record for consecutive errorless games at 78 and consecutive errorless chances (418), he errors in the 4th
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05 Sep 1966 WRLK TV channel 35 in Columbia, SC (PBS) begins broadcasting
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05 Sep 1967 KMEG TV channel 14 in Sioux City, IA (CBS) begins broadcasting
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05 Sep 1967 WEBA TV channel 14 in Allendale, SC (PBS) begins broadcasting
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05 Sep 1968 21 killed by hijackers aboard a Pan Am jet in Karachi Pakistan
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05 Sep 1968 82nd US Womens Tennis: Virginia Wade beats Billie Jean King (64 64)
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05 Sep 1968 88th US Mens Tennis: Arthur Ashe beats Tom Okker (1412 57 63 36 63)
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05 Sep 1969 Frente Obrero wins Dutch Antilles national elections
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05 Sep 1969 My Lai Massacre: U.S. Army Lieutenant William Calley is charged with six specifications of premeditated murder for the death of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai.
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05 Sep 1970 Estimated 15 cm (6") of rainfall, Bug Point, Utah (state record)
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05 Sep 1970 Vietnam War: Operation Jefferson Glenn begins: The United States 101st Airborne Division and the South Vietnamese 1st Infantry Division initiate a new operation in Thừa Thiên–Huế Province.
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05 Sep 1970 Jochen Rindt becomes the only driver to posthumously win the Formula One World Drivers' Championship (in 1970), after being killed in practice for the Italian Grand Prix.
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05 Sep 1971 Astros pitcher J R Richard debut, strikes out 15 Giants in a 5-3 win
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05 Sep 1971 New York Mets Don Hahn hits 1st inside the park homer at Phillies Vet
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05 Sep 1972 11 Israeli athletes are slain at Munich Olympics by Black Sept
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05 Sep 1972 Chemical spill with fog sickens hundreds in Meuse Valley Belgium
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05 Sep 1972 Palestinian terrorists kill 11 Israelis at 1972 Munich Olympics
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05 Sep 1972 Munich massacre: A Palestinian terrorist group called "Black September" attacks and takes hostage 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games. Two die in the attack and nine die the following day.
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05 Sep 1973 "Desert Song" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 15 performances
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05 Sep 1975 Czech tennis ace Martina Navratilova asks for political asylum in New York City
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05 Sep 1975 Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme attempts to assassinate Ford in Sacramento
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05 Sep 1975 Wings release "Letting Go"
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05 Sep 1975 Sacramento, California: Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford.
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05 Sep 1976 "Rex" closes at Lunt-Fontaine Theater NYC after 48 performances
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05 Sep 1976 "Very Good Eddie" closes at Booth Theater NYC after 307 performances
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05 Sep 1976 Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Golf Classic
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05 Sep 1977 Cleveland Indians stage 1st "I hate the Yankee Hanky Night"
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05 Sep 1977 RAF kidnap West German work Chairman Schleyer
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05 Sep 1977 Voyager 1 (US) launched toward fly-by of Jupiter, Saturn
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05 Sep 1977 Hanns Martin Schleyer is kidnapped in Cologne, West Germany by the Red Army Faction and is later murdered.
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05 Sep 1977 Voyager program: Voyager 1 is launched after a brief delay.
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05 Sep 1978 Sadat, Begin and Carter began peace conference at Camp David, Maryland
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05 Sep 1978 Camp David Accords: Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat begin peace discussions at Camp David, Maryland.
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05 Sep 1979 Canada puts its 1st gold bullion coin on sale
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05 Sep 1979 Earl of Mountbatten funeral held in Burma
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05 Sep 1979 Iran army occupies Piranshahr
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05 Sep 1979 Roscoe Tanner fires 11 aces, breaks the net with his bullet serve and upsets top-seeded Bjorn Borg in US Tennis Open quarterfinals
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05 Sep 1980 Poland party leader Edward Gierek resigns
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05 Sep 1980 The Gotthard Road Tunnel opens in Switzerland as the world's longest highway tunnel at 10.14 miles (16.32 km) stretching from Göschenen to Airolo.
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05 Sep 1982 82nd US Golf Amateur Championship won by Jay Sigel
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05 Sep 1982 Eddie Hill sets propeller-driven boat water speed record of 229 mph
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05 Sep 1983 8th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 3-lands at Edwards AFB
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05 Sep 1983 Elmer Trettr sets record for highest terminal velocity at 201.34 mph
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05 Sep 1983 Lauri Peterson wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
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05 Sep 1984 12th Space Shuttle Mission (41-D) -Discovery 1- lands at Edwards AFB
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05 Sep 1984 STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery lands after its maiden voyage.
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05 Sep 1984 Western Australia becomes the last Australian state to abolish capital punishment.
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05 Sep 1986 3rd MTV Awards: Whitney Houston wins
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05 Sep 1986 Karachi Pakistan army storms hijacked US B-747, 19 killed
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05 Sep 1986 MTV Music Awards - Dire Straits "Money For Nothing" wins
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05 Sep 1986 NASA awards study contracts to 5 aerospace firms
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05 Sep 1986 NASA launches DOD-1
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05 Sep 1986 Pan Am Flight 73 with 358 people on board is hijacked at Karachi International Airport.
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05 Sep 1987 Carlton Fisk clubs his 300th career HR off Danny Jackson
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05 Sep 1987 John McEnroe is fined $17,500 for tirades at US Tennis Open
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05 Sep 1988 Betsy King wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
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05 Sep 1989 Chris Evert last US Open match, she is defeated by Zina Garrison
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05 Sep 1989 Deborah Norville becomes news anchor of Today Show
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05 Sep 1990 Iraqi President Saddam Hussein urges Arabs to rise against the West
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05 Sep 1990 Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Army soldiers slaughter 158 civilians.
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05 Sep 1991 8th MTV Awards: REM
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05 Sep 1991 Actor John Travolta weds Kelly Preston
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05 Sep 1991 Nelson Mandela chosen President of South African ANC
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05 Sep 1991 US trial of former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega begins
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05 Sep 1991 The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, comes into force.
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05 Sep 1992 Andrew "Dice" Clay marries his longtime live-in lover Trinie
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05 Sep 1993 "Fool Moon" closes at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC after 207 performances
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05 Sep 1993 "Will Rogers Follies" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 983 performances
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05 Sep 1993 F Murray Abraham released from hospital after car accident
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05 Sep 1993 Largest US Tennis Open 2 sessions (total) daily gate (43,502)
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05 Sep 1993 Noureddine Morceli runs world record mile (3:44, 39)
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05 Sep 1993 Robocop Richard Eden (36) weds actress Shannon Hile (30)
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05 Sep 1994 Barb Mucha wins LPGA State Farm Rail Golf Classic
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05 Sep 1996 "Summer & Smoke" opens at Criterion Theater, New York City
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05 Sep 1996 MTV Video Music Awards
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05 Sep 1996 Hurricane Fran makes landfall near Cape Fear, North Carolina as a Category 3 storm with 115 mph sustained winds. Fran caused over $3 billion in damage and killed 27 people.
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05 Sep 1997 Larry King weds Shawn Southwick
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05 Sep 1997 Orioles beat Yankes 13-9 in longest 9 inning game
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05 Sep 2012 A firecracker factory explodes near Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu, killing 40 and injuring 50 others.
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05 Sep 2012 An accidental explosion at a Turkish Army ammunition store in Afyon, western Turkey kills 25 soldiers and wounds four others.
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