Tuesday, September 5, 2017

Day 248 - This day in legal and military history

September 5
 

INTERNATIONAL Day of Charity
 

NATIONAL Be Late for Something Day
 

NATIONAL Cheese Pizza Day
 


Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
 

1664 After days of negotiation, the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam surrenders to the British, who rename it New York
 

1698 Russia's Peter the Great levied a tax on bearded men 

1774 The first Continental Congress met in Philadelphia
 

1972 Palestinian terrorists murder 11 Israelis at the Munich Olympics
 

1975 In Sacramento, California, an assassination attempt against President Gerald Ford is thwarted when a Secret Service agent wrests a semi-automatic .45-caliber pistol from Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, a follower of incarcerated cult leader Charles Manson
 

1991 Jury selection began in Miami in the drug and racketeering trial of former Panamanian ruler Manuel Noriega

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