September 05, 2008
Today is 249th day of the year
118 days remain until the new year
118 days remain until the new year
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Births Today
- 1831 - "Victorien Sardou, French playwright; author of 'La Tosca'"
- 1847 - "Jesse James, American outlaw of the Wild West"
- 1902 - "Daryl F. Zanuck, American film producer"
- 1927 - "Malcolm Allison, Football manager"
- 1937 - "Dick Clement, Writer, director and producer"
- 1942 - "Raquel Welch, American film actress"
- 1945 - "Al Stewart, Singer/songwriter"
- 1946 - "Freddy Mercury, Lead singer with 'Queen' who died of AIDS"
events today
- 1569 - "Pieter Brueghel, the Flemish painter, died"
- 1905 - "The war in Korea and Manchuria, between Japan and Russian, ended"
- 1951 - "Maureen Connolly, Little Mo, became the youngest winner of the US Tennis Championships"
- 1969 - Independent Television (ITV) began broadcasting in colour
- 1972 - Israeli athletes were held hostage by Arab guerrillas at the Munich Olympics
- 1975 - "At London's Hilton Hotel a bomb exploded, killing two people and injuring sixty three"
- 1975 - US President Gerald Ford escaped an assassination attempt in Sacramento
- 1991 - "The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), was 'wound up' by the Congress of Peoples Deputies"