5th September anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1638
  • France
  • "Birth of Louis XIV, The Sun King"
  • 1735
  • "Birth of J C Bach, composer"
  • 1831
  • "Birth of Victorien Sardou, French playwright"
  • 1847
  • United States
  • "Birth of Jesse James, American outlaw and legend of the Wild West."
  • 1946
  • Great Britain
  • "Birth of Freddie Mercury, lead singer with Queen."
  • 1958
  • Boris Pasternak’s novel ‘Doctor Zhivago’ was published in the USA .
• event
  • 1666
  • Great Britain
  • Great Fire of London Rages
  • 1800
  • British capture Malta from French troops who had been in occupation.
  • 1885
  • The first train runs through the Severn Tunnel
  • 1909
  • Or 6th? American explorer Robert Peary sent a wireless message to say that he had reached the North Pole five months earlier (6th April)
  • 1914
  • The Battle of the Marne Begins
  • 1939
  • The USA declared itself neutral in World War II
  • 1959
  • The UKs first trunk phone call from a public call-box was made in Bristol
  • 1972
  • Terrorists kill Israeli competitors at the Olympic Games in Munich
• Death
  • 1857
  • "Death of Auguste Comte, French philosopher (Founder of sociology)"
  • 1997
  • Albania
  • "Death of Mother Teresa, Albanian-born Indian missionary and charity worker (Winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace, 1979)"
  • 1997
  • "Death of Sir Georg Solti, Hungarian-born British conductor"