Post by farmgal on Sept 4, 2010 18:49:03 GMT -5
September 5 is the 248th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar.
There are 117 days remaining until the end of the year.
Days left until election day November 02, 2010 58
Days left until election day November 06, 2012 793
1666 - Great Fire of London ends: 10,000 buildings including St. Paul's Cathedral are destroyed, but only 16 people are known to have died.
1692 - At Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Colonial clergyman Increase Mather, 53, received the first Doctor of Sacred Theology (STD) degree to be awarded in America.
1698 - In an effort to Westernize his nobility, Tsar Peter I of Russia imposes a tax on beards for all men except the clergy and peasantry.
1774 - First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1781 - Battle of the Chesapeake in the American Revolutionary War.
1793 - French Revolution the French National Convention initiates the Reign of Terror.
1810 - The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions was formally organized by the Congregational churches of New England at Farmington, Connecticut.
1812 - War of 1812: The Siege of Fort Wayne begins when Chief Winamac's forces attack two soldiers returning from the fort's outhouses.
1836 - Sam Houston is elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas.
1857 - Charles Darwin, now 48 years old, had not yet published his theory of evolution. On this day, he sent a letter to Asa Gray, a Harvard botanist, discussing his theory. The encouragement which followed from Gray and others, and new knowledge that Alfred Wallace had independently developed the same theory, prompted Darwin to end 20 years of indecision and publish his ideas.
1862 - A balloon ascent to a height of 7 miles was made by metereologist James Glaisher and his pilot Henry Tracey Coxwell. Although this was the greatest height then achieved by passengers in a balloon, its precise altitude is unknown because Glaisher lost consciousness and was unable to read the barometer. Death was narrowly avoided by the courageous efforts of the pilot. The height was estimated by extrapolating measurements already recorded on the ascent. Between 1862-66, Glaisher made balloon ascents, many of which were arranged by a committee of the British Association. Their objective was to carry out scientific observations such as the variation in temperature and humidity of the atmosphere at high elevations.
1862 - American Civil War: the Potomac River is crossed at White's Ford in the Maryland Campaign.
1870 - Three Roman Catholic universities were founded in the United States on this exact same date: St. John's in New York City, Loyola in Chicago, and Canisius in Buffalo, New York.
1877 - Indian Wars: Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse is bayoneted by a United States soldier after resisting confinement in a guardhouse at Fort Robinson in Nebraska.
1882 - The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City.
1885 - Sylvanus Bowser, inventor of the first U.S. gas pump, made his initial sale to Jake Gumper, owner of a service station in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The pump held one barrel of gasoline, and used marble vales and a wooden plunger. It was built in Bowser's barn, and patented in 1887.
1888 - American baseball player-turned-evangelist Billy Sunday, 26, married Helen Thompson, 20. In later years she became affectionately known as "Ma Sunday," and became his evangelistic campaign advisor. She survived Billy (d.1935) by 22 years.
1905 - Russo-Japanese War: In New Hampshire, USA, the Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by US President Theodore Roosevelt, ends the war.
1925 - The temperature at Centerville, AL, soars to 112 degrees to establish a state record. Every reporting station in Alabama was 100 degrees or above that afternoon. (The Weather Channel)
1906 - The first legal forward pass in American football is thrown by Bradbury Robinson of St. Louis University to teammate Jack Schneider in a 22–0 victory over Carroll College (Wisconsin).
1914 - World War I: First Battle of the Marne begins. Northeast of Paris, the French attack and defeat German forces who are advancing on the capital.
1927 - The first Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon, Trolley Troubles, produced by Walt Disney, is released by Universal Pictures.
1933 - A hurricane hit Brownsville, TX, killing forty persons and causing 12 million dollars damage. (David Ludlum)
1942 - World War II: Japanese high command orders withdrawal at Milne Bay, first Japanese defeat in the Pacific War.
1943 - World War II: The 503d Parachute Infantry Regiment lands and occupies Nazdab, near Lae in the Salamaua-Lae campaign.
1945 - Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese-American suspected of being wartime radio propagandist Tokyo Rose, is arrested in Yokohama.
1948 - In France, Robert Schuman becomes President of the Council while being Foreign minister, As such, he is the negotiator of the major treaties of the end of World War II.
1950 - Baptist Bible College was founded in Springfield, MO, under auspices of the Baptist Bible Fellowship. With an enrollment of over 2,000, it is today one of the largest Bible colleges in America.
1950 - Hurricane Easy produced the greatest 24 hour rainfall in U.S. weather records. The hurricane deluged Yankeetown, on the upper west coast of Florida, with 38.7 inches of rain. (David Ludlum)
1969 - My Lai Massacre: U.S. Army Lt. William Calley is charged with six specifications of premeditated murder for the death of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai.
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 Thừa Thiên-Huế Province.
1972 - Munich Massacre: A Palestinian terrorist group called "Black September" attack and take hostage 11 Israel athletes at the Munich Olympic Games. 2 die in the attack and 9 die the following day.
1975 - Sacramento, California: Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford.
1975 - Strong winds reduced visibilities to near zero in blowing dust resulting in a 22-car chain reaction accident on Interstate 10 near Toltec AZ. Two persons were killed, and 14 others were injured. (The Weather Channel)
1977 - NASA launched Voyager 1 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, aboard a Titan-Centaur rocket. Voyager 2 had been launched similarly the previous month, on 20 Aug 1977.
1978 - Camp David Accords: Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat begin peace process at Camp David, Maryland.
1984 - STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery lands after its maiden voyage.
1986 - Pan Am Flight 73 with 358 people on board is hijacked at Karachi International Airport.
1987 - Thunderstorms over the Southern and Middle Atlantic Coast States drenched Charleston, SC, with 5.50 inches of rain, and a total of 13.50 inches in two days, flooding homes, and leaving roads and bridges under water. (The National Weather Summary) A tropical storm which formed off the South Atlantic coast was responsible for torrential rains over coastal regions of South Carolina. Between the 30th of August and the 8th of September, Charleston SC received 18.44 inches of rain. The heavy rains caused extensive flooding around the city of Charleston, seriously damaged cotton crops in the eastern part of the state, and resulted in an unusually high number of mosquitos. (Storm Data)
1988 - Five days of heavy rain commenced in west central Florida. Up to 20 inches of rain in four days resulted in extensive urban flooding, and evacuation of 1000 homes. Flooding claimed four lives, and caused more than five million dollars proprty damage. (The National Weather Summary)(Storm Data)
1989 - Thunderstorms produced six to ten inches of rain in south central Kansas between 6 AM and Noon. Serious flooding was reported around Wichita, with water four feet deep along some roads. A cold front crossing the Northern High Plains Region produced wind gusts to 63 mph at Sheridan WY. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
1991 - The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, came into force.
2007 - Three terrorists suspected to be a part of Al-Qaeda are arrested in Germany after allegedly planning attacks on both the Frankfurt International airport and US military installations.
Births
1847 - Jesse Woodson James (d 1882) American outlaw, gang leader, bank robber, train robber, and murderer from the state of Missouri and the most famous member of the James-Younger Gang.
1850 - Jack Daniel, Creator of Jack Daniel's (d. 1911)
1867 - Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (d 1944) was an American composer and pianist, first successful American female composer of large-scale art music.
1874 - Napoléon "Nap" Lajoie American major league baseball player from Woonsocket, Rhode Island, second baseman he was considered one of the greatest players of the fledgling American League in the early 20th century, and the most serious of Ty Cobb's challengers. (d 1959)
1879 - Frank Baldwin Jewett (d 1949) U.S. electrical engineer who directed research as the first president of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc., (1925-40). Jewett believed that the best science and technology result from bringing together and nurturing the best minds. Under his tenure Bell Labs laid the foundation for a new scientific discipline, radio astronomy, and transformed movies by synchronizing sound to pictures. Bell Labs was the first to transmit television over a long distance in the U.S. and designed the first electrical digital computer. Bell Labs won its first Nobel Prize in physics for fundamental work demonstrating the wave nature of matter.
1897 - Ella Frieda Schuler (née Winkelmann, American supercentenarian and at age 113 years, the oldest living person in the state of Kansas. Schuler is one of the 15 verified oldest living people. She currently resides in Topeka at Aldersgate Village Retirement Community.
1902 - Darryl Francis Zanuck (d 1979) American producer, writer, actor, director, and studio executive who played a major part in the Hollywood studio system as one of its longest survivors (the length of his career being rivalled only by that of Adolph Zukor).
1916 - Frank Yerby American novelist (d. 1991)
1921 - Jack Valenti President of Motion Picture Association of America
1923 - Arthur C Nielsen market researcher (TV's Nielsen's Ratings)
1927 - Paul Volcker Federal Reserve chairman
1929 - Bob Newhart Oak Park Ill, comedian (Bob Newhart Show, Newhart)
1934 - Carol Lawrence Illinois, dancer/actress (Dean Martin Summer Show)
1935 - Werner Erhard Philadelphia, founded EST
1936 - John Danforth, American politician
1937 - William Devane Albany NY, actor (Family Plot, Missles of October)
1939 - John Stewart San Diego Ca, rocker (Kingston Trio-Fire in the Wind)
1939 -0 Claudette Colvin, American civil rights movement leader (Montgomery Bus Boycott)
1940 - Raquel Welch Chicago, Illinois (Myra Breckenridge, 1,000,000 BC, 100 Rifles)
1950 - Cathy Guisewite cartoonist (Cathy)
1951 - Michael Keaton, American actor
1960 - Willie Gault bob sledder/NFL receiver (Chicago Bears, LA Raiders)
Deaths:
1548 - Catherine Parr, Sixth wife of Henry VIII of England (b. c.1512)
1912 - Arthur MacArthur, Jr., U.S. Army general (b. 1845)
1930 - Johann Georg Hagen (b 1847) Jesuit priest and astronomer who made a catalog of variable stars (1890-1908). Working at the Vatican Observatory he reexamined for accuracy the listing of all of the NGC (New General Catalogue of Nebulae and Star Clusters) objects north of about -30 degrees. He published lists of errata in the NGC. During his observations, he observed dark nebulae, tenuous dark clusters of interstellar matter sometimes known as Hagen's clouds. These strange clouds have not been recorded by others, and are now attributed to optical illusions associated with visual observations. Jesuits have been involved in astronomy since 1551 when Fr. Christoph Clavius, SJ, a mathematician and astronomer helped Pope Gregory XIII reform the calendar.
1930 - Robert Means Thompson, American naval officer (b. 1849)
1931 - John Thomson, football player who died in an accidental collision during a match (b. 1909)
1937 - David Hendricks Bergey (b 1860) American bacteriologist who was lead author of Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, which work remains a widely used international reference work for bacterial taxonomy. He was chairman of a committee to devise a classification scheme for all known bacteria suitable for identifying species. With four other bacteriologists, he first published the Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology in 1923, followed by revised editions every few years to keep pace with the discovery of new bacterial species and other changes. His research included tuberculosis, food preservatives, phagocytosis, and anaphylaxis. He distinguished the several organisms in a class called Schizomycetes.
1943 - Ales Hrdlicka (b 1869) Czechoslovakian-American physical anthropologist known for his studies of Neanderthal man and his theory of the migration of American Indians from Asia. He worked gratis as a field anthropologist (1899-1903) under Fredric Ward Putnam, in four intense anthropometric studies of the Indians of the American Southwest and northern Mexico. In 1903, Hrdlicka joined the Smithsonian Institute, where during the next forty years, he compiled the most complete collection of human bone material in the world. He was the one of the first scientists to argue the Americans originated in Asia and came across the Bering Strait, and participated in numerous archeological expeditions which contributed a great amount of information and physical evidence.
1948 - Richard C. Tolman, American mathematical physicist (b. 1881)
1949 - Dennis Robert Hoagland (b 1884) American plant physiologist and authority on plant and soil interactions. He recognized early that the complex problems of soil and plant interrelations must be studied with rigid experimental control and the isolation of individual variables. Thus, he perfected the water-culture technique for growing plants without soil, which nutrient solution is still in plant physiology research. He collected much data on the influence of oxygen, temperature, light, and other factors on ion absorption by roots. In the late 1930's, he adopted radioactive isotopes as tracers. In his fieldwork on soil chemistry he studied zinc, potassium, and phosphate deficiencies of fruit trees in California. He influenced further intensive study of aspects of micronutrients (trace elements).
1969 - Mitchell Ayres orchestra leader (Hollywood Palace), dies at 58
1981 - Ayatollah Ali Qoddusi prosecutor-general of Iran, assassinated
1997 - Mother Teresa, Albanian-born missionary and humanitarian, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1910)
1999 - Allen Funt, American radio and television personality (b. 1914)
2001 - Justin Wilson, American Cajun chef and humorist (b. 1914)
2002 - David Todd Wilkinson, American astronomer, author of the first study of the Cosmic microwave background radiation (b. 1935)
2007 - Jennifer Blackburn Dunn (b 1941) was a prominent Republican member of the United States House of Representatives 1993–2005, representing Washington's 8th congressional district.
2007 - Paul Eugene Gillmor (b 1939) was an American politician of the Republican Party who served as the U.S. Representative from the 5th congressional district of Ohio from 1989 until his death.
2007 - D. James Kennedy, American televangelist (b. 1930)
Holidays and observances
Christian Feast Day:
Bertin
Blessed Teresa of Calcutta
Genebald
Zechariah and Elisabeth (Anglican and Eastern Orthodox Church)
www.weatherforyou.com/cgi-bin/weather_history/today2S.pl
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_5
www.scopesys.com/cgi-bin/today2.cgi
www.todayinsci.com/9/9_05.htm
There are 117 days remaining until the end of the year.
Days left until election day November 02, 2010 58
Days left until election day November 06, 2012 793
1666 - Great Fire of London ends: 10,000 buildings including St. Paul's Cathedral are destroyed, but only 16 people are known to have died.
1692 - At Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Colonial clergyman Increase Mather, 53, received the first Doctor of Sacred Theology (STD) degree to be awarded in America.
1698 - In an effort to Westernize his nobility, Tsar Peter I of Russia imposes a tax on beards for all men except the clergy and peasantry.
1774 - First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1781 - Battle of the Chesapeake in the American Revolutionary War.
1793 - French Revolution the French National Convention initiates the Reign of Terror.
1810 - The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions was formally organized by the Congregational churches of New England at Farmington, Connecticut.
1812 - War of 1812: The Siege of Fort Wayne begins when Chief Winamac's forces attack two soldiers returning from the fort's outhouses.
1836 - Sam Houston is elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas.
1857 - Charles Darwin, now 48 years old, had not yet published his theory of evolution. On this day, he sent a letter to Asa Gray, a Harvard botanist, discussing his theory. The encouragement which followed from Gray and others, and new knowledge that Alfred Wallace had independently developed the same theory, prompted Darwin to end 20 years of indecision and publish his ideas.
1862 - A balloon ascent to a height of 7 miles was made by metereologist James Glaisher and his pilot Henry Tracey Coxwell. Although this was the greatest height then achieved by passengers in a balloon, its precise altitude is unknown because Glaisher lost consciousness and was unable to read the barometer. Death was narrowly avoided by the courageous efforts of the pilot. The height was estimated by extrapolating measurements already recorded on the ascent. Between 1862-66, Glaisher made balloon ascents, many of which were arranged by a committee of the British Association. Their objective was to carry out scientific observations such as the variation in temperature and humidity of the atmosphere at high elevations.
1862 - American Civil War: the Potomac River is crossed at White's Ford in the Maryland Campaign.
1870 - Three Roman Catholic universities were founded in the United States on this exact same date: St. John's in New York City, Loyola in Chicago, and Canisius in Buffalo, New York.
1877 - Indian Wars: Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse is bayoneted by a United States soldier after resisting confinement in a guardhouse at Fort Robinson in Nebraska.
1882 - The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City.
1885 - Sylvanus Bowser, inventor of the first U.S. gas pump, made his initial sale to Jake Gumper, owner of a service station in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The pump held one barrel of gasoline, and used marble vales and a wooden plunger. It was built in Bowser's barn, and patented in 1887.
1888 - American baseball player-turned-evangelist Billy Sunday, 26, married Helen Thompson, 20. In later years she became affectionately known as "Ma Sunday," and became his evangelistic campaign advisor. She survived Billy (d.1935) by 22 years.
1905 - Russo-Japanese War: In New Hampshire, USA, the Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by US President Theodore Roosevelt, ends the war.
1925 - The temperature at Centerville, AL, soars to 112 degrees to establish a state record. Every reporting station in Alabama was 100 degrees or above that afternoon. (The Weather Channel)
1906 - The first legal forward pass in American football is thrown by Bradbury Robinson of St. Louis University to teammate Jack Schneider in a 22–0 victory over Carroll College (Wisconsin).
1914 - World War I: First Battle of the Marne begins. Northeast of Paris, the French attack and defeat German forces who are advancing on the capital.
1927 - The first Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon, Trolley Troubles, produced by Walt Disney, is released by Universal Pictures.
1933 - A hurricane hit Brownsville, TX, killing forty persons and causing 12 million dollars damage. (David Ludlum)
1942 - World War II: Japanese high command orders withdrawal at Milne Bay, first Japanese defeat in the Pacific War.
1943 - World War II: The 503d Parachute Infantry Regiment lands and occupies Nazdab, near Lae in the Salamaua-Lae campaign.
1945 - Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese-American suspected of being wartime radio propagandist Tokyo Rose, is arrested in Yokohama.
1948 - In France, Robert Schuman becomes President of the Council while being Foreign minister, As such, he is the negotiator of the major treaties of the end of World War II.
1950 - Baptist Bible College was founded in Springfield, MO, under auspices of the Baptist Bible Fellowship. With an enrollment of over 2,000, it is today one of the largest Bible colleges in America.
1950 - Hurricane Easy produced the greatest 24 hour rainfall in U.S. weather records. The hurricane deluged Yankeetown, on the upper west coast of Florida, with 38.7 inches of rain. (David Ludlum)
1969 - My Lai Massacre: U.S. Army Lt. William Calley is charged with six specifications of premeditated murder for the death of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai.
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 Thừa Thiên-Huế Province.
1972 - Munich Massacre: A Palestinian terrorist group called "Black September" attack and take hostage 11 Israel athletes at the Munich Olympic Games. 2 die in the attack and 9 die the following day.
1975 - Sacramento, California: Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford.
1975 - Strong winds reduced visibilities to near zero in blowing dust resulting in a 22-car chain reaction accident on Interstate 10 near Toltec AZ. Two persons were killed, and 14 others were injured. (The Weather Channel)
1977 - NASA launched Voyager 1 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, aboard a Titan-Centaur rocket. Voyager 2 had been launched similarly the previous month, on 20 Aug 1977.
1978 - Camp David Accords: Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat begin peace process at Camp David, Maryland.
1984 - STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery lands after its maiden voyage.
1986 - Pan Am Flight 73 with 358 people on board is hijacked at Karachi International Airport.
1987 - Thunderstorms over the Southern and Middle Atlantic Coast States drenched Charleston, SC, with 5.50 inches of rain, and a total of 13.50 inches in two days, flooding homes, and leaving roads and bridges under water. (The National Weather Summary) A tropical storm which formed off the South Atlantic coast was responsible for torrential rains over coastal regions of South Carolina. Between the 30th of August and the 8th of September, Charleston SC received 18.44 inches of rain. The heavy rains caused extensive flooding around the city of Charleston, seriously damaged cotton crops in the eastern part of the state, and resulted in an unusually high number of mosquitos. (Storm Data)
1988 - Five days of heavy rain commenced in west central Florida. Up to 20 inches of rain in four days resulted in extensive urban flooding, and evacuation of 1000 homes. Flooding claimed four lives, and caused more than five million dollars proprty damage. (The National Weather Summary)(Storm Data)
1989 - Thunderstorms produced six to ten inches of rain in south central Kansas between 6 AM and Noon. Serious flooding was reported around Wichita, with water four feet deep along some roads. A cold front crossing the Northern High Plains Region produced wind gusts to 63 mph at Sheridan WY. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
1991 - The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, came into force.
2007 - Three terrorists suspected to be a part of Al-Qaeda are arrested in Germany after allegedly planning attacks on both the Frankfurt International airport and US military installations.
Births
1847 - Jesse Woodson James (d 1882) American outlaw, gang leader, bank robber, train robber, and murderer from the state of Missouri and the most famous member of the James-Younger Gang.
1850 - Jack Daniel, Creator of Jack Daniel's (d. 1911)
1867 - Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (d 1944) was an American composer and pianist, first successful American female composer of large-scale art music.
1874 - Napoléon "Nap" Lajoie American major league baseball player from Woonsocket, Rhode Island, second baseman he was considered one of the greatest players of the fledgling American League in the early 20th century, and the most serious of Ty Cobb's challengers. (d 1959)
1879 - Frank Baldwin Jewett (d 1949) U.S. electrical engineer who directed research as the first president of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc., (1925-40). Jewett believed that the best science and technology result from bringing together and nurturing the best minds. Under his tenure Bell Labs laid the foundation for a new scientific discipline, radio astronomy, and transformed movies by synchronizing sound to pictures. Bell Labs was the first to transmit television over a long distance in the U.S. and designed the first electrical digital computer. Bell Labs won its first Nobel Prize in physics for fundamental work demonstrating the wave nature of matter.
1897 - Ella Frieda Schuler (née Winkelmann, American supercentenarian and at age 113 years, the oldest living person in the state of Kansas. Schuler is one of the 15 verified oldest living people. She currently resides in Topeka at Aldersgate Village Retirement Community.
1902 - Darryl Francis Zanuck (d 1979) American producer, writer, actor, director, and studio executive who played a major part in the Hollywood studio system as one of its longest survivors (the length of his career being rivalled only by that of Adolph Zukor).
1916 - Frank Yerby American novelist (d. 1991)
1921 - Jack Valenti President of Motion Picture Association of America
1923 - Arthur C Nielsen market researcher (TV's Nielsen's Ratings)
1927 - Paul Volcker Federal Reserve chairman
1929 - Bob Newhart Oak Park Ill, comedian (Bob Newhart Show, Newhart)
1934 - Carol Lawrence Illinois, dancer/actress (Dean Martin Summer Show)
1935 - Werner Erhard Philadelphia, founded EST
1936 - John Danforth, American politician
1937 - William Devane Albany NY, actor (Family Plot, Missles of October)
1939 - John Stewart San Diego Ca, rocker (Kingston Trio-Fire in the Wind)
1939 -0 Claudette Colvin, American civil rights movement leader (Montgomery Bus Boycott)
1940 - Raquel Welch Chicago, Illinois (Myra Breckenridge, 1,000,000 BC, 100 Rifles)
1950 - Cathy Guisewite cartoonist (Cathy)
1951 - Michael Keaton, American actor
1960 - Willie Gault bob sledder/NFL receiver (Chicago Bears, LA Raiders)
Deaths:
1548 - Catherine Parr, Sixth wife of Henry VIII of England (b. c.1512)
1912 - Arthur MacArthur, Jr., U.S. Army general (b. 1845)
1930 - Johann Georg Hagen (b 1847) Jesuit priest and astronomer who made a catalog of variable stars (1890-1908). Working at the Vatican Observatory he reexamined for accuracy the listing of all of the NGC (New General Catalogue of Nebulae and Star Clusters) objects north of about -30 degrees. He published lists of errata in the NGC. During his observations, he observed dark nebulae, tenuous dark clusters of interstellar matter sometimes known as Hagen's clouds. These strange clouds have not been recorded by others, and are now attributed to optical illusions associated with visual observations. Jesuits have been involved in astronomy since 1551 when Fr. Christoph Clavius, SJ, a mathematician and astronomer helped Pope Gregory XIII reform the calendar.
1930 - Robert Means Thompson, American naval officer (b. 1849)
1931 - John Thomson, football player who died in an accidental collision during a match (b. 1909)
1937 - David Hendricks Bergey (b 1860) American bacteriologist who was lead author of Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, which work remains a widely used international reference work for bacterial taxonomy. He was chairman of a committee to devise a classification scheme for all known bacteria suitable for identifying species. With four other bacteriologists, he first published the Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology in 1923, followed by revised editions every few years to keep pace with the discovery of new bacterial species and other changes. His research included tuberculosis, food preservatives, phagocytosis, and anaphylaxis. He distinguished the several organisms in a class called Schizomycetes.
1943 - Ales Hrdlicka (b 1869) Czechoslovakian-American physical anthropologist known for his studies of Neanderthal man and his theory of the migration of American Indians from Asia. He worked gratis as a field anthropologist (1899-1903) under Fredric Ward Putnam, in four intense anthropometric studies of the Indians of the American Southwest and northern Mexico. In 1903, Hrdlicka joined the Smithsonian Institute, where during the next forty years, he compiled the most complete collection of human bone material in the world. He was the one of the first scientists to argue the Americans originated in Asia and came across the Bering Strait, and participated in numerous archeological expeditions which contributed a great amount of information and physical evidence.
1948 - Richard C. Tolman, American mathematical physicist (b. 1881)
1949 - Dennis Robert Hoagland (b 1884) American plant physiologist and authority on plant and soil interactions. He recognized early that the complex problems of soil and plant interrelations must be studied with rigid experimental control and the isolation of individual variables. Thus, he perfected the water-culture technique for growing plants without soil, which nutrient solution is still in plant physiology research. He collected much data on the influence of oxygen, temperature, light, and other factors on ion absorption by roots. In the late 1930's, he adopted radioactive isotopes as tracers. In his fieldwork on soil chemistry he studied zinc, potassium, and phosphate deficiencies of fruit trees in California. He influenced further intensive study of aspects of micronutrients (trace elements).
1969 - Mitchell Ayres orchestra leader (Hollywood Palace), dies at 58
1981 - Ayatollah Ali Qoddusi prosecutor-general of Iran, assassinated
1997 - Mother Teresa, Albanian-born missionary and humanitarian, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1910)
1999 - Allen Funt, American radio and television personality (b. 1914)
2001 - Justin Wilson, American Cajun chef and humorist (b. 1914)
2002 - David Todd Wilkinson, American astronomer, author of the first study of the Cosmic microwave background radiation (b. 1935)
2007 - Jennifer Blackburn Dunn (b 1941) was a prominent Republican member of the United States House of Representatives 1993–2005, representing Washington's 8th congressional district.
2007 - Paul Eugene Gillmor (b 1939) was an American politician of the Republican Party who served as the U.S. Representative from the 5th congressional district of Ohio from 1989 until his death.
2007 - D. James Kennedy, American televangelist (b. 1930)
Holidays and observances
Christian Feast Day:
Bertin
Blessed Teresa of Calcutta
Genebald
Zechariah and Elisabeth (Anglican and Eastern Orthodox Church)
www.weatherforyou.com/cgi-bin/weather_history/today2S.pl
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_5
www.scopesys.com/cgi-bin/today2.cgi
www.todayinsci.com/9/9_05.htm