Today In History - September 5

1774 first Continental Congress assembles, in Philadelphia
1836 Sam Houston is elected the president of the Republic of Texas
1862 General Lee crosses the Potomac and enters Maryland
1882 10,000 workers march in the first Labor Day parade in NYC
1885 The first gasoline pump is delivered to a gasoline dealer in Ft. Wayne, IN
1901 National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues formed
1914 Battle of Marne in WW I begins
1918 Due to WW I, the 15th World Series begins a month early
1923 Flyweights Gene LaRue and Kid Pancho KO each other simultaneously
1944 The Allies liberate Brussels
1946 Joe Garagiola plays his first major league baseball game
1953 The first privately operated atomic reactor opens in Raleigh, NC
1958 "Doctor Zhivago" by Boris Pasternak is published in the US
1958 The first color video recording on magnetic tape is presented in Charlotte, NC
1960 Cassius Clay captures the Olympic light heavyweight gold medal
1968 21 people are killed by hijackers aboard a Pan Am jet in Karachi, Pakistan
1972 11 Israeli athletes are slain at Munich Olympics
1975 Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme attempts to assassinate President Ford in Sacramento, CA
1977 Voyager 1 is launched by the US and heads toward a fly-by of Jupiter and Saturn
1978 Sadat, Begin & Carter began peace conference at Camp David, MD
1979 The Earl of Mountbatten's funeral is held in Burma
1980 World's longest auto tunnel, the St. Gotthard Tunnel in the Swiss Alps, opens
1982 Eddie Hill sets propeller-driven boat water speed record of 229 mph
1986 NASA launches DOD-1
1989 Deborah Norville becomes the news anchor of the Today Show
1990 Iraqi President Saddam Hussein urges Arabs to rise against the West
1991 Actor John Travolta weds actress Kelly Preston
1991 US trial of the former Panamanian leader, Manuel Noriega, begins

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