Saturday, September 5 - New Zealand Herald
Today is Saturday, September 5, the 248th day of 2015. There are 117 days left in the year. 1590 - The Duke of Parma, advancing from the Netherlands, forces France's King Henry IV to lift the siege of Paris in Catholic League War. 1793 - The revolutionary government in France starts the 10-month Reign of Terror, during which 17,000 people are executed. 1860 - Britain, Austria, France, Prussia, Russia and Turkey sign treaty to restore order in Syria after massacre of Christians by Druse. 1905 - Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by U. S. President Theodore Roosevelt in New Hampshire, ends Russo-Japanese War. 1966 - Chinese news agency claims U. S. planes sunk a Communist Chinese merchant ship and damaged another in the Gulf of Tonkin, killing nine Chinese seamen and wounding seven. 1972 - Eleven Israeli Olympic athletes, four Palestinian guerrillas and a West German policeman are killed in a gun battle at Munich airport. President Gerald Ford escapes an attempt on his life by Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, a disciple of Charles Manson, in Sacramento, California. Source: www.nzherald.co.nz
