This Day in History Sept. 5

Sept. 5

1666 Great Fire of London ends: 10,000 buildings including St Paul's Cathedral are destroyed
1774 1st Continental Congress assembles, in Philadelphia
1781 Battle of Virginia Capes, French defeat British, traps Cornwallis
1795 US-Algiers sign peace treaty
1798 Conscription is made mandatory in France by the Jourdan law
1836 Sam Houston elected president of the Republic of Texas
1862 Lee crosses the Potomac & enters Maryland
1877 American Indian Wars: Sioux chief Crazy Horse is bayoneted by a US soldier
1882 10,000 workers march in 1st Labor Day parade in NYC
1885 1st gasoline pump is delivered to a gasoline dealer (Ft Wayne, Ind)
1900 France proclaims a protectorate over Chad
1905 Treaty of Portsmouth USA, ends Russo-Japanese War
1914 Battle of Marne begins Northeast of Paris, the French attack and defeat German forces
1941 Whole territory of Estonia is occupied by Nazi Germany
1942 Japanese high command orders withdrawal at Milne Bay
1943 The 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment lands and occupies Lae Nadzab Airport
1944 Allies liberate Brussels
1945 Igor Gouzenko, a Soviet Union embassy clerk, defects to Canada, exposing Soviet espionage in
North America, signalling the beginning of the Cold War.
1953 1st privately operated atomic reactor-Raleigh NC
1958 1st color video recording on magnetic tape presented, Charlotte NC
1968 21 killed by hijackers aboard a Pan Am jet in Karachi Pakistan
1975 Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme attempts to assassinate Ford in Sacramento
1977 Voyager 1 (US) launched toward fly-by of Jupiter, Saturn
1978 Sadat, Begin & Carter began peace conference at Camp David, Md
1982 Eddie Hill sets propeller-driven boat water speed record of 229 mph
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
1991 The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples
Convention, 1989, comes into force
1996 Hurricane Fran makes landfall near Cape Fear, North Carolina with 115 mph winds
2012 A firecracker factory explodes near Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu

1847--Outlaw Jesse James born

1942 Milne Bay: The historic battle and US victory at Guadalcanal started before and lasted after the battle in New Guinea at Milne Bay. But, in between, Milne Bay was the first Allied victory over Japanese land forces in WWII. Milne Bay rarely finds mention in US histories because Australian forces were responsible for New Guinea. However, at Milne Bay and attached to Australian forces, were companies A, B, C, D, and F of the 43rd US Army engineers. My Dad was in Co. F. The engineers were there to build runways and aircraft facilities. Over a period of three nights, along with the Australians, Co. C and F got into it with approx. 2,000 Japanese marines. The Japanese, soundly defeated for the first time in WWII, retreated to the north coast of New Guinea. There they were abandoned by Japanese command and left to die.

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I was going to post this yesterday but forgot.
Milne Bay.