September 5
Activity of the day
Today is . . .
- Teacher's Day in India
- Be Late for Something Day in the U.S.
On this day . . .
- The United States declares its neutrality in World War II (1939)
- The novel On the Road by author Jack Kerouac is first published (1957)
- Palestinian terrorists attack the Israeli Olympic team at the summer games in Munich (1972)
- Voyager 1, first spacecraft to leave solar system, is launched (1977)
- Nobel Peace Prize winner Mother Teresa dies in Calcutta, India, aged 87 (1997)
Births
- Louis VIII, King of France (1187)
- Louis XIV, the 'Sun King' of France (1638)
- Jesse James, American outlaw (1847)
- John Newton Cage, experimental American composer (1912)
- Raquel Welch (Racquel Tejada), American actress (1940)
- Werner Herzog, German film director (1942)
- Al Stewart, Scottish singer/songwriter (1945)
- Freddie Mercury (Frederick Bulsara), rock singer (1946)
- Loudon Wainwright III, American singer (1946)
- Mark Ramprakash, English cricketer (1969)
Deaths
- Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Flemish painter (1569)
- Georg Solti, Hungarian-born British conductor (1997)
- Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1997)