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    In 1774 The first session of the U.S. Continental Congress convenes in Philadelphia. The delegates drafted a declaration of rights and grievances, organized the Continental Association and elected Peyton Randolph as the first president of the Continental Congress.
    In 1781, Battle of Virginia Capes, where the French Fleet defeats the British rescue fleet, trapping Cornwallis at Yorktown.
    In 1877, Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse was fatally bayoneted by a U.S. soldier after resisting confinement in a guardhouse at Fort Robinson, Nebraska.
    In 1881, the American Red Cross provided relief for disaster for the first time. The disaster was the Great Fire of 1881 in Michigan.
    In 1882, the first U.S. Labor Day parade was held in New York City.
    In 1885, first gasoline pump is delivered to a gasoline dealer.
    In 1881, the American Red Cross provided relief for disaster for the first time. The disaster was the Great Fire of 1881 in Michigan.
    In 1882, the first U.S. Labor Day parade was held in New York City.
    In 1914, Babe Ruth hit his first homerun as a professional player in the International League.
    In 1935, Gene Autry starred in his first Western feature Tumbling Tumbleweeds.

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World War II, which had begun in Europe on September 1, 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany, ended six years later to the day, September 1, 1945. The final concluding ceremony came the following day, September 2, 1945, with the signing of surrender papers by representatives of Japan, Nazi Germany's Axis partner in the Far East.

In 1939, the U.S. proclaimed its neutrality in World War II.

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    In 1957, Jack Kerouac's On the Road was first published.
    In 1960, at the Olympics in Rome that He Who Would Become Muhammad Ali won the light heavyweight boxing gold medal.
    In 1972, eight Palestinian "Black September" terrorists seized Israeli athletes in th Olympic Village in Munich, West Germany and killed 11 Israeli athletes and six other people.
    In 1975, Lynette 'Squeaky' Fromme, a follower of mass murderer Charles Manson, tried to shoot President Ford.
    In 1977, Voyager II launched.
    In 1978, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and President Carter began a Middle East peace conference at Camp David, Maryland.
    In 1981, Lowell Thomas, biographist of Lawrence of Arabia, died.
    In 1983, "Sports Illustrated" became the first national weekly magazine to use four-color process illustrations on every page.
    In 1989, in his first nationally broadcast address from the White House, President Bush outlined a plan to fight illicit drugs, which he called the "quicksand of our entire society."
    In 1990, former Iraqi President, Saddam Hussein, urged for a Holy War against the West and former allies.
    In 1991, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega went on trial in Miami on money laundering and drug-trafficking charges. He was eventually convicted.

Six BCCI officials and a Medellin drug cartel leader were charged with laundering cocaine profits through the bank from 1983 to 1989.
    In 1994, a U.N.-sponsored population conference opened in Egypt, where Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland lashed out at the Vatican and at Muslim fundamentalists by defending abortion rights and sex education.
    In 1995, France conducted an underground nuclear test at the Mururoa Atoll in the South Pacific. It was the first of several -- all of which were met by protests worldwide.
    In 1996, Ramzi Ahmed Yousef and two others were convicted in New York of planning to blow up jetliners.

Moscow announced that Russian President Boris Yeltsin needed heart surgery.
In 1997, Albanian-born Mother Theresa, 1979 Nobel Peace Prize winner, known world-wide for her devotion to the poor, died of a heart attack.
In 1998, President Clinton appealed to the people of Ireland never to allow "the enemies of peace to break your will" as he wrapped up a three-day visit.

Allen Funt, the TV prankster whose "Candid Camera" thrived on America's willingness to laugh at itself and created a trademark phrase, has died. He was 84. Funt died at his home of complications from the 1993 stroke that forced him into retirement, the show reported. "Candid Camera," which aired off and on from 1948 to 1990 with Funt as host, secretly filmed people confronted with talking mailboxes or trick coffee cups. "Smile! You're on 'Candid Camera!'" was the victim's tipoff. Startled bowlers would see balls returned minus finger holes. A car would roll down a hill and stop, and passers-by asked to check on the trouble would find it lacked an engine. The show was a precursor of reality-genre TV shows such as "Cops" and "World's Most Dangerous Animals."

In 2001, Peru's attorney general filed homicide charges against ex-President Alberto Fujimori. Fujimori was linked to two massacres by paramilitary death squads. At the time of the charges Fujimori was in exile in Japan.

Fox News Channel terminated Paula Zahn for breach of contract.

Mexican President Vicente Fox traveled to Washington to ask the Bush administration for a U.S. agreement to legalize the status of 3.5 million Mexicans who entered the country illegally.
In 2002, in Kabul, Afghanistan, a car bomb killed at least 15 people.

In Kandahar, Afghanistan, President Hamid Karzai was unhurt in an assassination attempt. Kandahar governor Gul Agha Sherzai was wounded in the attack. Karzai's American body guards returned fire and killed three people.
In 2003, in London, magician David Blaine entered a clear plastic box and then suspended by a crane over the banks of the Thames River. He remained there until October 19 surviving only on water.

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, speaking in Iraq, said impressions of mounting Iraqi violence were being created by negative news media coverage.
In 2004, two weeks after Hurricane Charley hit Florida, Hurricane Frances barged in north of Palm Beach and cut across the state to the northwest before going into the Gulf of Mexico. The reported death toll was more than 30 and Florida damage from the two storms was placed at more than $10 billion.