TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON: SEPTEMBER 5
1664 After days of negotiation, the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam surrenders to the British, who will rename it New York.
1666 Great Fire of London ends, leaving 13,200 houses destroyed and 8 dead
1698 Russia’s Peter the Great levied a tax on bearded men.
1774 The first session of the U.S. Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia. The delegates drafted a declaration of rights and grievances, organized the Continental Association, and elected Peyton Randolph as the first president of the Continental Congress.
1793 In France, the “Reign of Terror” began. The National Convention enacted measures to repress the French Revolutionary activities.
1836 Sam Houston is Elected President of Texas
1859 Harriot E. Wilson’s Our Nig, is published, the first U.S. novel by an African American woman.
1877 The great Sioux warrior Crazy Horse is fatally bayoneted at age 36 by a soldier at Fort Robinson, Nebraska.
1882 10,000 workers march in 1st Labor Day parade in NYC
1905 The Russian-Japanese War ends as representatives of the combating empires, meeting in New Hampshire, sign the Treaty of Portsmouth. Japan achieves virtually all of its original war aims.
1917 Federal raids were carried out in 24 cities on International Workers of the World (IWW) headquarters. The raids were prompted by suspected anti-war activities within the labor organization.
1945 Iva Toguri D’Aquino was arrested. D’Aquino was suspected of being the wartime radio propagandist “Tokyo Rose”. She served six years and was later pardoned by U.S. President Ford.
1957 On the Road is Hits the Bookshelves for the First Time. The book is considered to be a prime example of the Beat Generation
1958 Martin Luther King Jr. is arrested in an Alabama protest for loitering and fined $14 for refusing to obey police.
1969 Charges are brought against US lieutenant William Calley in the March 1968 My Lai Massacre during Vietnam War.
1972 “”Black September,” a Palestinian terrorist group take 11 Israeli athletes hostage at the Olympic Games in Munich; by midnight all hostages and all but 3 terrorists are dead.
1975 Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme attempts to assassinate Ford in Sacramento
1977 Hanns-Martin Schleyer, a German business executive who headed to powerful organization and had been an SS officer during WW2, is abducted by the left-wing extremist group Red Army Faction, who execute him on Oct. 18.
1983 The “MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour” on PBS (Public Broadcasting System) became the first hour-long network news show.
1990 Iraqi President Saddam Hussein urged for a Holy War against the West and former allies.
1991 Soviet lawmakers created an interim government to usher in the confederation after dissolving the U.S.S.R. The new name the Union of Sovereign States was taken.
2002 President Bush has promised to seek congress approval for “whatever is necessary” to oust Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq
2012 A six year ban on broadcasting live bullfighting on television in Spain ended.
2013 Two men dressed as police attacked a Shia Mosque near Kabul in Afghanistan. At least two people were injured in the attack and the two gunmen were killed after a gun battle with authorities.
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
