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History
1774 1st Continental Congress assembles, in Philadelphia
1795 US-Algiers sign peace treaty
1804 Absalom Jones is ordained a priest in the Protestant Episcopal
Church.
1846 John W. Cromwell is born. He will become the Secretary of the
American Negro Academy.
1859 "Our Nig" by Harriet E. Wilson is published. It is the first ovel published in the United States by an African American woman and will be lost to readers for years until reprinted with a critical essay by noted African American scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. in 1983.
1877 African Americans from the Post-Civil-War South, led by Benjamin'Pap' Singleton, settle in Kansas and establish towns like Nicodemus, to take advantage of free land offered by the United
States government through the Homestead Act of 1860.
1882 10,000 workers march in 1st Labor Day parade in NYC
1895 George Washington Murray is elected to Congress from South arolina.
1901 National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues formed
1905 Treaty of Portsmouth USA, ends Russo-Japanese War
1906 1st legal forward pass (Brandbury Robinson to Jack Schneider)
1908 Dodger Nap Rucker no-hits Boston Braves, 6-0
1913 Phillies & Braves tie record of only 1 run in a double header, Phillies win 1st game 1-0, then a scoreless tie into 10th
1916 Novelist Frank Yerby is born in Augusta, Georgia. A student at Fisk University and the University of Chicago, Yerby's early short story "Health Card" will win the O. Henry short story award. He will later turn to adventure novels and become a best-selling author in the 1940's and 1950's with "The Foxes of Harrow", "The Vixens" and many others. His later novels will include "Goat Song", "The Darkness at Ingraham's Crest-A Tale of the Slaveholding South", and "Devil Seed". In total, Yerby will publish over 30 novels that sell over 20 million copies.
1918 Due to WW I, 15th World Series begins a month early
1922 Yankees final game at the Polo Grounds, after 7 years
1927 Red Sox beat Yankees 12-11 in 18 innings
1936 Red Sox turn a triple-play on the Yankees
1944 Allies liberate Brussels
1946 Joe Garagiola plays his 1st major league baseball game
1953 1st privately operated atomic reactor-Raleigh NC
1958 "Doctor Zhivago" by Boris Pasternak published in the US
1958 1st color video recording on magnetic tape presented, Charlotte NC
1959 Wash Senator Jim Lemon is 7th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (3rd)
1960 Leopold Sedar Senghor, poet, politician, is elected President of
Senegal.
1960 Cassius Clay of Louisville, Kentucky, wins the gold medal in light heavyweight boxing at the Olympic Games in Rome, Italy. Clay will later change his name to Muhammad Ali and become one of the great boxing champions in the world. In 1996, at the Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia, Muhammad Ali will have the honor of lighting the Olympic flame.
1968 21 killed by hijackers aboard a Pan Am jet in Karachi Pakistan
1971 NY Mets Don Hahn hits 1st inside the park homer at Phillies Vet
1972 11 Israeli athletes are slain at Munich Olympics
1972 Chemical spill with fog sickens hundreds in Meuse Valley Belgium
1972 Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway win a gold record -- for their duet, "Where is the Love". The song gets to number five on the pop music charts and is one of two songs for the duo to earn gold. The other will be "The Closer I Get To You" (1978).
1977 Cleveland Indians stage 1st "I hate the Yankee Hanky Night"
1977 Voyager 1 (US) launched toward fly-by of Jupiter, Saturn
1978 Sadat, Begin & Carter began peace conference at Camp David, Md
1983 8th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 3-lands at Edwards AFB
1984 12th Space Shuttle Mission (41-D) -Discovery 1- lands at Edwards AFB
1986 NASA awards study contracts to 5 aerospace firms
1986 NASA launches DOD-1
1988 Jerry Lewis' 23rd Labor Day telethon raises record $41,132,113
1988 CFL's Earl Winfield (Ham) scores TDs on 101-yd punt return, 100-yd kickoff return & 58-yd pass reception
1991 US trial of former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega begins
1995 O.J. Simpson jurors hear testimony that police detective Mark Fuhrman
had uttered a racist slur, and advocated the killing of Blacks.
Missing in Action
1963 INTORATAT PHISIT THAILAND EXCAPED 01/07/67
1963 DE BRUIN EUGENE H. ESC NFI-CREW PIC PUBD
1963 TIK CHUI TO THAILAND NOT ON OFFICIAL LISTS (CIA) AIR AMERICA
1965 LA GRAND WILLIAM J. PORTLAND OR CRASH EXPLODE NO EJECT SEEN
1965 MARSHALL RICHARD C. CHICAGO IL CRASH EXPLODE NO EJECT SEEN
1965 SHAW EDWARD B. CRANSTON RI EXPLODE CRASH SEA NO PARA BEEP
1966 ABBOTT WILFRED K. AFTON WY 03/04/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE IN 99
1967 DOWNING DONALD W. JANESVILLE WI
1967 HANSON THOMAS P. MIAMI FL
1967 LAPORTE MICHAEL L. LOS ANGELES CA LOST IN HELICOPTER DROP
1967 MILLER CARL D. MARSHALL MO
1967 PRATHER MARTIN WILLIAM LOUISVILLE KY
1967 RAYMOND PAUL D. DEPOSIT NY
1968 POSEY GEORGE R. ANDERSON IN WASHED OVERBOARD
1970 HAUER ROBERT D. BROOKLINE MA
1974 SHARMAN NEIL AUSTRALIA
Haaretz
IDF tank commander killed in training accident
An Israel Defense Forces tank commander was killed and three others were injured when a Merkava-4 tank overturned during a training exercise Monday in Nebi Musa, in the Jordan Valley.
Staff Sergeant Ran Hendifer, 22, from Tel Aviv, will be buried Tuesday at 4 P.M. in Holon's military cemetery, Israel Radio reported.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/621333.html
Four killed when blast destroys Gaza City weapons laboratory
At least four people were killed and 27 more were wounded when an explosion destroyed a weapons laboratory in the home of a senior Hamas figure after nightfall Monday in Gaza City, residents and hospital officials said.
Ten of the wounded people were listed in moderate condition. One of the dead was a woman.
The house belonged to Nidal Farhat, a senior member of Hamas' military wing.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/621342.html
Israeli Arab jailed 10 years for driving bomber to restaurant
The Haifa District Court sentenced Jamal Mahajna on Monday to ten years in prison for driving a suicide bomber to her Haifa destination two years ago. Mahajna, 49, from Umm al-Fahm, was convicted of causing death by negligence and of transporting individuals illegal in Israel.
Mahajna drove suicide bomber Hanadi Jaradat to the Maxim restaurant in Haifa in October 2003, where she blew herself up, killing 21 people and wounding dozens of others.
Mahajna admitted to picking up the suicide bomber in the village of Barata, in Wadi Ara. The two agreed that Mahajna would drive her to Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, where she claimed her father was hospitalized. Her father, a cancer patient, was, in fact, denied an entry permit to Israel. It appears that this was the motive behind Jatadat's plan to blow herself up in the hospital.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/621316.html
Planning body rejects greens' alternate plan for Jerusalem high-speed train
The planning body responsible for authorizing the high-speed rail line to Jerusalem rejected on Sunday the alternate plans proposed by environmental organizations and has given a green light to the plan set forth by Israel Railways.
The 17-kilometer section of the rail line between Latrun to the west and Mevasseret Zion to the east was under contention.
The railway's plan for this section includes three two-track tunnels and three bridges. But green organizations, the Israel Nature and Parks Authority, the Society for Protection of Nature in Israel, the Jewish National Fund and area residents decided to consider alternate plans.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/621335.html
Movement in Syria and Lebanon
Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah delivered a surprise this weekend when he declared that his organization would agree to disarm if it received guarantees of security in Lebanon from an international party (other than the United States). Although it conditioned its disarmament on the end of Israel's occupation of "Lebanese territory," that is, the Shaba Farms, this is the first time that Nasrallah has made such a declaration.
This declaration is obviously very interesting to Israel, even though it was not meant primarily for Israel's ears: Hezbollah is one of the main focuses of the struggle now taking place in Lebanon. Granted, it maintained its strength in the recent parliamentary elections and even succeeded in placing ministers in the cabinet, but under the current dynamic in Lebanon, it can only lose.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/620904.html
FM Shalom: Egypt's Mubarak 'quite likely' to visit Israel in November
Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom said Monday it is "quite likely" that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak will come to Israel in November to participate in ceremonies marking ten years since the assassination of former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin.
Mubarak is also to meet with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon should he come in November, Shalom told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.
Shalom said Monday that it was still unclear if King Abdullah would arrive in Israel on an official visit in the coming days, as was announced last week.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/621246.html
IDF leads PA officers on tour of vacated Gaza Strip settlements
Israel Defense Forces troops drove Palestinian security commanders around demolished settlements in Gaza on Monday in preparation for handing over the enclaves next week.
The aim of the visit was to allow the Palestinians to plan for an orderly deployment of their security forces after the IDF pulls out of the settlements, and to give them a chance to familiarize themselves with the area, security sources said.
News media were barred from covering the visit.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/621314.html
Israel
Why is Israel betraying India?
By MANOJ PUNDIT, NARESH RAGHUBEER AND AJIT SOMESHWAR
Dear Israeli friends: As you extend your hand of friendship to Pakistan, your friends in the Indian Diaspora are shaking their heads and wondering if Natan Sharansky was correct when he suggested that Israel has lost its moral compass.
Has Israel lost its moral clarity? We are wondering why your leaders, including those at the American Jewish Congress, are so ready to trade the Jewish people's new courtship with India's billion people, plus 25 million Diaspora Indians, for photo-ops and meaningless statements from Pakistan.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1125831261289&p=1006953079865
Hezbollah pressing Israel to return body of fighter
By Ze'ev Schiff
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Hezbollah, which has on more than one occasion made Israel pay a heavy price for the return of the bodies of Israel Defense Forces soldiers, has recently been taking steps through international officials in an attempt to obtain the corpse of a Hezbollah member, reportedly from a prominent Lebanese family, who was killed two months ago in a clash with the IDF and buried in Israel.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/621174.html
No change in policy on recognising Israel: Aziz
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said on Sunday that there was no change in Pakistan’s policy on recognition of Israel and the recent meeting between the foreign ministers of the two countries was only to promote the Palestinian cause and ensure peace in the Middle East.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_5-9-2005_pg7_3
Jordan urges Israel, Palestinians to resume peace negotiations
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By The Associated Press
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The United States and its peace partners must help the Palestinians and Israelis resume talks aimed at achieving Palestinian statehood, Jordan's prime minister told a top UN envoy on Sunday.
Jordanian premier Adnan Badran told Alvaro de Soto, the senior UN envoy for the Mideast peace process, that Palestinian leaders need the international community's support following Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.
Badran, who did not specify if the required support was political, military or financial, praised the role of the Quartet, a grouping of the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/620849.html
U.S. asks allies to avoid new pressure on Israel
WASHINGTON The Bush administration, hoping to strengthen Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in the Israeli turmoil after the Gaza withdrawal, is urging allies of the United States to refrain from pressing Israel to make new concessions to Palestinians, senior U.S. officials say.
Since the pullout, Palestinian leaders, with some support in Europe and elsewhere, have urged Israel to take further action to stop the growth of settlements in the West Bank and to make many other moves.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/09/04/news/israel.php
Pakistan-Israel talks irk Palestinians
By Khalid Amayreh
Sunday 04 September 2005, 1:19 Makka Time, 22:19 GMT
Palestinian officials have reacted angrily to the Pakistani government's decision to normalise relations with Israel.
On Thursday, Pakistani Foreign Minister Khursheed Kasuri met in Istanbul with his Israeli counterpart Silvan Shalom in what has been described as a breakthrough between the two countries.
They said the meeting was intended to help normalise bilateral relations.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/2D57216E-D47F-4740-B2B8-BC6A99050254.htm
The Jerusalem Post
Jewish communities play big relief role
By SAM SER
American Jews are used to helping those in need by opening their wallets. Now, all over the South, they are opening their homes as well.
Jewish communities across the southern United States have taken in Jews from the Gulf Coast areas most affected by Hurricane Katrina.
Houston has taken in by far the highest number of New Orleans refugees, and the highest number of Jewish refugees also. But smaller communities have come through as well. Offers of help and refuge have come from as far east as Jacksonville, as far north as Memphis and as far west as Dallas.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1125886819185
Jew spits at Greek priests in J'lem
By ETGAR LEFKOVITS
A young religious Jew spat at a procession of Greek Orthodox priests in the Old City of Jerusalem on Monday, police said, in the third such incident in the mixed city in the last year.
The skullcap-wearing assailant, Amitai Shashar, 20, told police that he spat at the procession near the Church of the Holy Sepulcher because he saw the cross that participants in the ceremony were carrying, Jerusalem police spokesman Shmuel Ben-Ruby said.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1125886816885
Gaza unrest may spoil PA plans for calm
By KHALED ABU TOAMEH
For the second day running, scores of Palestinian Authority policemen blocked a main road in the Gaza Strip to demand a raise in their salaries. Eyewitnesses said the policemen fired into the air as they closed the coastal road linking the northern Gaza Strip with the southern part of the area and brought traffic to a standstill.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1125886817820
On eve of hearings for Roberts, Jewish groups make voices heard
By MATTHEW E. BERGER/JTA
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As the Senate prepares for the first confirmation hearings of a Supreme Court justice in more than a decade, Jewish organizations are giving lawmakers an earful on the kinds of information they want gleaned from Judge John Roberts.
Jewish organizations from across the political spectrum have sent letters and met with members of the Senate Judiciary Committee ahead of the hearings, set to begin September 6. While few groups plan to endorse or oppose Roberts, many do want senators to ask specific questions about how he would rule on issues they care about, such as the separation of church and state.
Some groups, however, already have staked out strong positions.
The National Council of Jewish Women announced its opposition to Roberts the day he was nominated to the high court and has met with committee members throughout the summer, pushing them to reject Roberts.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1125831262160
Our World: Our Pakistani pals
By CAROLINE GLICK
Last Thursday's "historic" meeting between Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom and Pakistani Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri in Istanbul was immediately extolled by the local media as the "first fruits" of the disengagement from Gaza.
In his statement following the meeting Shalom said, "I wish to particularly thank President Musharraf for his courage in promoting peace and moderation in our region and in general."
In the midst of the hullabaloo about the the first public meeting between Israeli and Pakistani officials, it was hard to remember that Pakistan is the operational epicenter of the global jihad and a major proliferator of nuclear weapons technology and know-how to Iran.
Only recently, CIA director Porter Goss effectively said that US intelligence is certain that Osama bin Laden is in Pakistan. Goss explained that the US is unable to apprehend the arch-terrorist due to "sovereignty issues," – that is, Pakistan isn't cooperating.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1125886818733
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