"In 1972, Palestinian militants attacked the Israeli Olympic delegation at the Munich Games, killing two and taking nine others hostage; five of the militants, a German police officer and all nine hostages were killed in the following 24 hours. In 1986, four hijackers who had seized a Pan Am jumbo jet on the ground in Karachi, Pakistan, opened fire on the jet's passengers; a total of 20 passengers and crew members were killed before Pakistani commandos stormed the jetliner."
"In 1991, the 35th annual Naval Aviation Symposium held by the Tailhook Association opened in Las Vegas; during the four-day gathering, there were reports that as many as 90 people, most of them women, were sexually assaulted or otherwise harassed. (The episode triggered the resignation of Navy Secretary Henry L. Garrett III.) Today's Birthdays: Actor Lucille Soong (TV: Fresh Off the Boat) is 90."
Sept. 5 includes a range of historical events and notable births. In 1774 the first Continental Congress assembled in Philadelphia. Sam Houston won the Republic of Texas presidency in 1836. The 1905 Treaty of Portsmouth ended the Russo-Japanese War and led to Theodore Roosevelt's Nobel Peace Prize. In 1957 Jack Kerouac's On the Road was published, and Cassius Clay won Olympic boxing gold in 1960. The date also marks violent episodes: an assassination attempt on President Gerald R. Ford in 1975, the 1972 Munich Olympic massacre, a 1986 Pan Am jet massacre in Karachi, and the 1991 Tailhook sexual-assault scandal. Notable birthdays on the date include Lucille Soong, Bill Mazeroski, William Devane, George Lazenby, Werner Herzog, Al Stewart, Cathy Guisewite, Michael Keaton, and Rose McGowan.
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