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September 5
1698 - Russia's Peter the Great levied a tax on bearded men.
1774 - The first Continental Congress met in Philadelphia.
1793 - The Reign of Terror began during the French Revolution as the National Convention instituted harsh measures to repress counter-revolutionary activities.
1836 - The Republic of Texas made military hero Sam Houston its first president.
1864 - Voters in Louisiana approved a new state constitution abolishing slavery.
1905 - The Treaty of Portsmouth, which ended the Russo-Japanese War, was signed at the Portsmouth naval base in New Hampshire.
1939 - Four days after war had broken out in Europe, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued a proclamation declaring U.S. neutrality in the conflict.
1961 - President John F. Kennedy signed legislation making aircraft hijackings a federal crime.
1975 - President Gerald Ford escaped an attempt on his life by Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, a disciple of Charles Manson, in Sacramento, California.
1984 - The space shuttle Discovery ended its inaugural flight as it landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
1986 - Four hijackers who had seized a Pan Am jumbo jet on the ground in Karachi, Pakistan, opened fire when the lights inside the plane failed; a total of 20 people were killed before the Pakistani commandos stormed the jetliner.
1995 - France ended its three-year moratorium on nuclear tests, setting off an underground blast on a South Pacific atoll.
1997 - Breaking the royal reticence over the death of Princess Diana, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II delivered a televised address in which she called her former daughter-in-law "a remarkable person."
1997 - Humanitarian Mother Teresa, won won a Nobel Peace Prize for her work with the poor, died in Calcutta, India at age 87.
2010 - A Los Angeles police officer shot and killed Manuel Jaminez, a Guatemalan immigrant, in a case that sparked angry protests. (A civilian oversight panel later said the officer was justified in using deadly force against Jaminez, who witnessses said was drunk and threatening passersby with a knife.)
2015 - Germans waving welcome signs in German, English and Arabic gathered at a train station to welcome the first group of a wave of migrants fleeing conflict in the Middle East, Afghanistan and Africa.
2018 - The New York Times published an opinion piece from an anonymous senior administration official claiming to be part of an internal “resistance” working to thwart President Donald Trump’s “worst inclinations;” Trump responded that if such a “gutless” person exists, “the Times must, for National Security purposes, turn him/her over to the government at once!”
2019 - A jury in Oakland, California, acquitted one of the two men charged in a deadly warehouse fire and deadlocked on whether to convict or acquit the other. (Derick Almena is scheduled to be tried again in October on manslaughter charges; he was the founder of an artists’ collective at the site where the fast-moving fire trapped and killed 36 partygoers in December, 2016.)
2019 - The Education Department said it was fining Michigan State University a record $4.5 million for failing to respond adequately to sexual assault complaints about Larry Nassar, a campus sports doctor who molested elite gymnasts and other female athletes.
2019 - Drug chains CVS and Walgreens and grocery chain Wegmans joined retailers requesting that customers refrain from openly carrying firearms in their stores, even where state laws allow it.
Birthdays
25 - Caroline Sunshine (actress)
27 - Gage Golightly (actress)
29 - Skandar Keynes (actor)
30 - Yuna Kim (figure skater)
30 - Alicia Banit (actress)
31 - Kat Graham (actress)
32 - Emmy Raver (actress)
34 - Andrew Ducote (actor)
36 - Erin Krakow (actress)
43 - Sin Cara (professional wrestler)
44 - Carice Van Houten (actress)
47 - Rose McGowan (actress)
57 - Kristian Alfonso (actor)
64 - Debbie Turner-Larson (actress)
69 - Michael Keaton (actor)
74 - Jerry LeVias (football player)
74 - Dennis Dugan (actor)
75 - Al Stewart (singer)
80 - Raquel Welch (actress)
81 - George Lazenby (actor)
81 - William Devane (actor)
81 - Bill Kilmer (football player)
85 - Lucille Soong (actress)
88 - Carol Lawrence (actress/singer)
91 - Bob Newhart (actor/comedian)
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Today in Sports History - September 5
1901 - The National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues forms.
1906 - Brandbury Robinson of St. Louis University was recognized as throwing the first forward pass in football history.
1921 - Walter Johnson sets a new major league record for career strikeouts with 2,287.
1960 - Cassius Clay won the gold medal in light heavyweight boxing at the Olympic Games in Rome, Italy. Clay later changed his name to Muhammad Ali.
1971 - J.R. Richard of the Houston Astros tied Karl Spooner's record when he struck out 15 batters in his major league debut.
1972 - Palestinian guerrillas of the group Black September killed 11 Israelis and a police officer at the Summer Olympic Games in Munich, West Germany; German forces killed five of the gunmen.
1975 - In New York, Martina Navratilova appeared at the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service office and asked for political asylum.
1987 - John McEnroe was fined $17,500 and suspended for two months for his behavior during a match with Slobodan Zivojinovic.
1989 - Chris Evert retired from professional tennis after a 19-year career.
1994 - Jerry Rice of the San Francisco 49ers catches two touchdown passes and runs for another score in the 49ers' 44-14 rout of the Oakland Raiders; Rice surpasses Jim Brown as the NFL's career TD leader with 127.
1995 - Cal Ripken Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles ties Lou Gehrig's record of 2,130 consecutive games played.
1998 - Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals hit his 60th home run of the season, tying Babe Ruth for the second-most ever hit in a single season; Sammy Sosa of the Chicago Cubs hit his 58th home run on the same day.
1999 - The Cincinnati Reds set a major league team record for home runs in two consecutive games. The team hit 14 home runs over the two games at Veterans Stadium.
2001 - The New York Islanders signed Alexi Yashin to a 10-year $90 million contract. It was the biggest deal in NHL history.
2019 - The NFL opened its 100th season in Chicago, where the Green Bay Packers defeated the Chicago Bears 10-3 in the season's first game.
1698 - Russia's Peter the Great levied a tax on bearded men.
1774 - The first Continental Congress met in Philadelphia.
1793 - The Reign of Terror began during the French Revolution as the National Convention instituted harsh measures to repress counter-revolutionary activities.
1836 - The Republic of Texas made military hero Sam Houston its first president.
1864 - Voters in Louisiana approved a new state constitution abolishing slavery.
1905 - The Treaty of Portsmouth, which ended the Russo-Japanese War, was signed at the Portsmouth naval base in New Hampshire.
1939 - Four days after war had broken out in Europe, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued a proclamation declaring U.S. neutrality in the conflict.
1961 - President John F. Kennedy signed legislation making aircraft hijackings a federal crime.
1975 - President Gerald Ford escaped an attempt on his life by Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, a disciple of Charles Manson, in Sacramento, California.
1984 - The space shuttle Discovery ended its inaugural flight as it landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
1986 - Four hijackers who had seized a Pan Am jumbo jet on the ground in Karachi, Pakistan, opened fire when the lights inside the plane failed; a total of 20 people were killed before the Pakistani commandos stormed the jetliner.
1995 - France ended its three-year moratorium on nuclear tests, setting off an underground blast on a South Pacific atoll.
1997 - Breaking the royal reticence over the death of Princess Diana, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II delivered a televised address in which she called her former daughter-in-law "a remarkable person."
1997 - Humanitarian Mother Teresa, won won a Nobel Peace Prize for her work with the poor, died in Calcutta, India at age 87.
2010 - A Los Angeles police officer shot and killed Manuel Jaminez, a Guatemalan immigrant, in a case that sparked angry protests. (A civilian oversight panel later said the officer was justified in using deadly force against Jaminez, who witnessses said was drunk and threatening passersby with a knife.)
2015 - Germans waving welcome signs in German, English and Arabic gathered at a train station to welcome the first group of a wave of migrants fleeing conflict in the Middle East, Afghanistan and Africa.
2018 - The New York Times published an opinion piece from an anonymous senior administration official claiming to be part of an internal “resistance” working to thwart President Donald Trump’s “worst inclinations;” Trump responded that if such a “gutless” person exists, “the Times must, for National Security purposes, turn him/her over to the government at once!”
2019 - A jury in Oakland, California, acquitted one of the two men charged in a deadly warehouse fire and deadlocked on whether to convict or acquit the other. (Derick Almena is scheduled to be tried again in October on manslaughter charges; he was the founder of an artists’ collective at the site where the fast-moving fire trapped and killed 36 partygoers in December, 2016.)
2019 - The Education Department said it was fining Michigan State University a record $4.5 million for failing to respond adequately to sexual assault complaints about Larry Nassar, a campus sports doctor who molested elite gymnasts and other female athletes.
2019 - Drug chains CVS and Walgreens and grocery chain Wegmans joined retailers requesting that customers refrain from openly carrying firearms in their stores, even where state laws allow it.
Birthdays
25 - Caroline Sunshine (actress)
27 - Gage Golightly (actress)
29 - Skandar Keynes (actor)
30 - Yuna Kim (figure skater)
30 - Alicia Banit (actress)
31 - Kat Graham (actress)
32 - Emmy Raver (actress)
34 - Andrew Ducote (actor)
36 - Erin Krakow (actress)
43 - Sin Cara (professional wrestler)
44 - Carice Van Houten (actress)
47 - Rose McGowan (actress)
57 - Kristian Alfonso (actor)
64 - Debbie Turner-Larson (actress)
69 - Michael Keaton (actor)
74 - Jerry LeVias (football player)
74 - Dennis Dugan (actor)
75 - Al Stewart (singer)
80 - Raquel Welch (actress)
81 - George Lazenby (actor)
81 - William Devane (actor)
81 - Bill Kilmer (football player)
85 - Lucille Soong (actress)
88 - Carol Lawrence (actress/singer)
91 - Bob Newhart (actor/comedian)
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Today in Sports History - September 5
1901 - The National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues forms.
1906 - Brandbury Robinson of St. Louis University was recognized as throwing the first forward pass in football history.
1921 - Walter Johnson sets a new major league record for career strikeouts with 2,287.
1960 - Cassius Clay won the gold medal in light heavyweight boxing at the Olympic Games in Rome, Italy. Clay later changed his name to Muhammad Ali.
1971 - J.R. Richard of the Houston Astros tied Karl Spooner's record when he struck out 15 batters in his major league debut.
1972 - Palestinian guerrillas of the group Black September killed 11 Israelis and a police officer at the Summer Olympic Games in Munich, West Germany; German forces killed five of the gunmen.
1975 - In New York, Martina Navratilova appeared at the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service office and asked for political asylum.
1987 - John McEnroe was fined $17,500 and suspended for two months for his behavior during a match with Slobodan Zivojinovic.
1989 - Chris Evert retired from professional tennis after a 19-year career.
1994 - Jerry Rice of the San Francisco 49ers catches two touchdown passes and runs for another score in the 49ers' 44-14 rout of the Oakland Raiders; Rice surpasses Jim Brown as the NFL's career TD leader with 127.
1995 - Cal Ripken Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles ties Lou Gehrig's record of 2,130 consecutive games played.
1998 - Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals hit his 60th home run of the season, tying Babe Ruth for the second-most ever hit in a single season; Sammy Sosa of the Chicago Cubs hit his 58th home run on the same day.
1999 - The Cincinnati Reds set a major league team record for home runs in two consecutive games. The team hit 14 home runs over the two games at Veterans Stadium.
2001 - The New York Islanders signed Alexi Yashin to a 10-year $90 million contract. It was the biggest deal in NHL history.
2019 - The NFL opened its 100th season in Chicago, where the Green Bay Packers defeated the Chicago Bears 10-3 in the season's first game.