September 5

September 5 is the 248th day of the year (249th in leap years). There are
117 days remaining.

Events:

   * 1698 - Tsar Peter the Great of Russia imposes a tax on beards
   * 1774 - First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia,
     Pennsylvania
   * 1836 - Sam Houston elected president of the Republic of Texas
   * 1862 - Robert E. Lee invades Maryland
   * 1905 - Treaty of Portsmouth signed, ending the Russo-Japanese War
   * 1914 - Battle of the Marne begins
   * 1939 - United States declares its neutrality in World War II
   * 1944 - Allies liberate Brussels
   * 1960 - Cassius Clay wins the gold medal in boxing at the Rome Olympic
     Games
   * 1972 - Palestinian terrorists attack Israeli athletes at the Munich
     Olympic Games (see Munich massacre)
   * 1977 - Voyager 1 launched
   * 2002 - The Sour Biscuit Fire in Oregon and northern California, which
     burned 499,570 acres, is finally contained.

Births:

   * 1638 - Louis XIV of France (+ 1715)
   * 1807 - Richard Chenevix Trench, clergyman, philologist (+ 1886)
   * 1827 - Goffredo Mameli, Italian poet and writer
   * 1847 - Jesse James, outlaw (+ 1882)
   * 1879 - Frank Jewett, inventor, president of Bell Labs
   * 1882 - The first Labor Day
   * 1902 - Darryl F. Zanuck, movie producer and executive (+ 1979)
   * 1905 - Arthur Koestler, Hungarian writer
   * 1912 - John Cage, American composer (+ 1992)
   * 1916 - Frank Yerby, novelist(+ 1991)
   * 1921 - Jack Valenti, political advisor, Chairman and Chief Executive
     Officer of the Motion Picture Association of America
   * 1924 - Paul Volcker, head of the Federal Reserve Board
   * 1929 - Bob Newhart, actor, comedian
   * 1929 - Andrian Nikolayev, cosmonaut
   * 1934 - Carol Lawrence, actress, singer
   * 1936 - Bill Mazeroski, baseball star
   * 1939 - George Lazenby, actor
   * 1939 - Princess Irene of the Netherlands
   * 1939 - William Devane, actor
   * 1939 - Susumu Tonegawa, Nobel Prize winning molecular biologist
   * 1940 - Raquel Welch, actress
   * 1942 - Werner Herzog, film director
   * 1946 - Freddie Mercury, British pop singer (+ 1991)
   * 1946 - Loudon Wainwright III, singer, composer
   * 1946 - Buddy Miles, musician
   * 1950 - Cathy Guisewite, cartoonist
   * 1965 - Chris Morris, British satirist
   * 1976 - Tatyana Gutsu, Ukrainian gymnast

Deaths:

   * 1235 - Henry I, Duke of Brabant
   * 1877 - Crazy Horse, Sioux military leader
   * 1902 - Rudolf Virchow, German doctor, pathologist, biologist, and
     politician
   * 1906 - Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian phsyicist
   * 1910 - Julian Edwards, composer
   * 1912 - Arthur MacArthur, soldier
   * 1930 - Robert Means Thompson, American naval officer
   * 1970 - Jochen Rindt, Austrian racing driver
   * 1988 - Gert Fršbe, actor
   * 1992 - Fritz Leiber, science fiction and fantasy author
   * 1995 - William Kunstler, lawyer, liberal activist
   * 1997 - Georg Solti, conductor
   * 1997 - Mother Teresa, Yugoslav development worker
   * 1998 - Leo Penn, film director
   * 1999 - Allen Funt, radio and television personality
   * 2001 - Justin Wilson, celebrity chef
   * 2001 - Heywood Hale Broun, sports commentator

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