September 5: Reign of Terror begins, Palestinians attack Olympic athletes at Munich games

Maine Fast Fact: American Style magazine named Portland one of the country’s top 25 art destinations.

Births:

• 1847: Jesse James, American outlaw
• 1850: Jack Daniel, creator of the liquor Jack Daniels
• 1929: Bob Newhart, American actor and comedian
• 1939: Claudette Colvin, American civil rights movement leader, refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white person and was arrested nine months before Rosa Parks also refused to give up her seat
• 1946: Freddie Mercury, Zanzibar-born musician, singer, songwriter and frontman of the rock group Queen
• 1950: Cathy Guisewite, American cartoonist, creator of the comic strip Cathy
• 1951: Michael Keaton, American actor
• 1968: Brad Wilk, American musician, drummer for the rock groups Audioslave and Rage Against the Machine
• 1977: Rosevelt Colvin, American football player

Deaths:

• 1877: Crazy Horse, Chief of the Native American (Sioux) Lakota tribe, known for his participation in the Battle of Little Bighorn during the Great Sioux War of 1876
• 1997: Mother Teresa, Albanian-born missionary and humanitarian, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize

History:

• 1666: The Great Fire of London ends with 10,000 buildings destroyed and 16 deaths.
• 1698: Peter the Great imposes a tax on beards in Russia.
• 1774: The first Continental Congress meets in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• 1793: The Reign of Terror is initiated by the French National Convention during the French Revolution.
• 1836: Sam Houston is elected the first president of the Republic of Texas.
• 1877: Chief Crazy Horse of the Sioux tribe is killed with a bayonet by a United States soldier when he resists confinement in a guardhouse at Fort Robinson, Nevada.
• 1882: The first Labor Day parade is held in New York City.
• 1905: The Treaty of Portsmouth is signed in New Hampshire, ending the Russo-Japanese War.
• 1939: The United States declares neutrality in World War II.
• 1957: Jack Kerouac’s novel On the Road is published.
• 1958: Boris Pasternak’s novel Doctor Zhivago is published in the U.S.
• 1972: Palestinian terrorists attack the Israeli Olympic team at the Munich summer games, killing 11 Israeli athletes and coaches, five terrorists and one police officer.
• 1977: The Voyager 1 spacecraft is launched to visit and study the moons of Jupiter and Saturn and is currently studying the boundaries of the solar system.
• 1984: The Space Shuttle Discovery lands after its maiden voyage; Western Australia abolishes capital punishment, the last Australian state to do so.
• 2005: Mandala Airlines Flight 091 crashes into a residential area of Sumatra, Indonesia, killing 104 people on board and 39 people on ground; President George W. Bush nominates John Roberts for chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
• 2007: Three terrorists suspected to be a part of Al-Qaeda are arrested in Germany after allegedly planning attacks on U.S. military installations and the Frankfurt International Airport.