Date History - On this day in history
What happened today in history
Born on this day - September 5th
1969 - Dweezil Zappa, American musician
1950 - Cathy Guisewite, American cartoonist
1945 - Al Stewart, Scottish singer and songwriter
1937 - Antonio Valentin Angelillo, Argentinian football player
1924 - Paul Volcker, American banker
1912 - John Cage, American composer (d. 1992)
1874 - Nap Lajoie, baseball player (d. 1959)
1807 - Richard Chenevix Trench, Irish Anglican clergyman and philologist (d. 1886)
1750 - Robert Fergusson , Scottish poet (d. 1774)
1667 - Giovanni Gerolamo Saccheri, Italian mathematician (d. 1733)
Died on this day - September 5th
1997 - Mother Teresa, Albanian missionary and humanitarian, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1910)
1988 - Gert Fröbe, German actor (b. 1913)
1948 - Richard C. Tolman, American mathematical physicist (b. 1881)
1906 - Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist (b. 1844)
1857 - Auguste Comte, French sociologist (b. 1798)
1803 - Francois Devienne, French composer (b. 1759)
1165 - Emperor Nijo of Japan (b. 1143)
Events on this day - September 5th
2001 - Young Left formed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
1986 - Pan Am Flight 73 with 358 people on board is hijacked at Karachi International Airport.
1978 - Camp David Accords: Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat begin peace process at Camp David, Maryland.
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 Thua Thien Province.
1945 - Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese-American suspected of being wartime radio propagandist Tokyo Rose, is arrested in Yokohama.
1906 - Brandbury Robinson throws the first legal forward pass in an American football game.
1862 - American Civil War: In the Confederacy's first invasion of the North, General Robert E. Lee leads 55,000 men of the Army of Northern Virginia across the Potomac River at White's Ford near Leesburg, Virginia, into Maryland.
1666 - Great Fire of London ends: A large fire in London burns out after three days. 10,000 buildings including St. Paul's Cathedral are destroyed, but only 16 people are known to have died.