September 05, 2008
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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"
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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"
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