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1774 - The first Continental Congress of the 13 United States colonies met in Philadelphia with all attending except Georgia. It ended on October 26 with criticism of British influence in North America.

1793 - In France, the Reign of Terror began.

1877 - Sioux chief Crazy Horse was fatally bayoneted by a US soldier after resisting arrest at Fort Robinson, Nebraska. A year earlier, Crazy Horse had led combined Sioux-Cheyenne forces to victory over George A. Custer's troops at the Battle of Little Bighorn, Montana. Crazy Horse was killed when he was only 34 years of age.

1881 - High winds flared forest fires in Michigan into an inferno. Over the next three days, more than 1 million acres burned and 125 people were killed.

1882 - In New York City, the first Labor Day holiday parade was held. The festivities were sponsored by the Central Labor Union. A totla of 10,000 workers, all male, took part in the parade.

1885 - The first gasoline pump produced in the United States was purchased by Jake Gumper of Ft. Wayne, Indiana.

1900 - France proclaimed a protectorate over Chad.

1901 - In Chicago, Illinois, The National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues formed. It was the first organized baseball league.

1905 - The Treaty of Portsmouth was signed by Russia and Japan to end the Russo-Japanese War.

1906 - Bradbury Robinson made football's first legal forward pass. At a game against Carroll College, Robinson threw the ball to Jack Schneider of St. Louis University.

1914 - The Battle of the Marne began. German, British and French troops fought for six days, killing half a million people.

1921 - Silent film comedian Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle was accused of the rape and accidental murder of young film actress Virginia Rappe, in what would be referred to as the "Fatty Arbuckle Scandal." On this date, Rappe's bloodied body was found in a San Francisco hotel suite. She died in a hospital three days later from massive injuries, which included a ruptured bladder and peritonitis. Arbuckle had hosted a wild, three-day party at the hotel during the Labor Day weekend. Although Arbuckle was ultimately acquitted of any wrongdoing by a jury, his brilliant film acting career was destroyed. He had been one of the most popular (and highest-paid) film comedians of the silent era, second only to Charlie Chaplin. Arbuckle's films were banned and, at age 37, he was a despondent has-been. Under an assumed name, Arbuckle continued to work infrequently on low-budget films as a director, and he died twelve years after Rappe, penniless.

1938 - It was the first broadcast of "Life Can Be Beautiful" on the NBC Red network. The program was hailed as “an inspiring message of faith drawn from life.” It aired until 1954.

1939 - The United States proclaimed its neutrality in World War II.

1945 - Japanese-American Iva Toguri D'Aquino, suspected of being the World War II propaganda radio broadcaster Tokyo Rose, was arrested in Yokohama. She served six years for treason.

1956 - "I Walk the Line" was Johnny Cash'e debut song, which climbed to #17 on the pop music charts.

1958 - The first videotaped color program aired on WBTV-TV in Charlotte, North Carolina. It was "The Betty Freezor Show."

1958 - Russian writer Boris Pasternak's masterpiece "Doctor Zhivago" was first published in the United States. Having finished his novel in 1956, the book had to be smuggled out of the Soviet Union to be published in the West. "Doctor Zhivago" is an epic of love and spiritual isolation amid the harshness of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath. That same year Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize of Literature.

1960 - At the Olympic Games in Rome, Italy, Cassius Clay of Louisville, Kentucky won the gold medal in light heavyweight boxing. Later, Clay changed his name to Muhammad Ali and became one of the world's greatest boxing champions. At the Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1996, Muhammad Ali lit the Olympic flame.

1964 - Roy Orbison's single, Oh, Pretty Woman, entered Billboard's pop charts on this date, and stayed on the charts for 14 weeks, three of those weeks in the Number 1 spot. The recording was later certified gold.

1971 - Houston Astro, J.R. Richard, tied Karl Spooner’s record when he struck out 15 batters in his major-league baseball debut. The Astros defeated the San Francisco Giants 5-3.

1972 - During the Olympic Games in Munich, West Germany, eleven members of the Israeli Olympic team were killed by members of the Black September Faction of the Palestinian Liberation Army. Five of the eight guerrillas were also killed. In retaliation, Israeli jets bombed Palestinian positions in Lebanon and Syria three days later.

1972 - With their duet "Where is the Love," Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway won earned a record. The song reached number five on the pop music charts and was one of two songs the duo earned a gold record for. The other song was "The Closer I Get To You" in 1978.

1975 - Lynette A. Frome, a follower of convicted murderer Charles Manson, attempted to shoot United States President Gerald Ford.

1977 - The United States space probe Voyager 1 was launched.

1980 - The longest underground motorway in the world, Switzerland’s St. Gotthard Auto Tunnel, opened. It took ten years and $417 million to build the 10+ mile tunnel.

1983 - "Sports Illustrated" became the first weekly national magazine to utilize the four-color process for illustrations on every page.

1983 - On PBS, Public Broadcasting System, the "MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour" became the first hourlong network news show.

1983 - United States President Reagan denounced the Soviet Union for shooting down a Korean Air Lines jetlines. Reagan demanded that the Soviet Union pay reparations for the act that killed 269 people.

1984 - Real estate magnate, Mortimer Zuckerman, spent $163 million on a deal to purchase the newsmagazine, "U.S. News & World Report".

1986 - A Pan Am jumbo jet carrying 358 people was hijacked at Karachi airport in Pakistan. When security forces stormed the plane 21 people were killed and dozens were wounded.

1986 - After 23 years, Merv Griffin aired his last program for Metromedia Television.

1990 - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein urged for a holy war against the West and its Arab allies.

1991 - Jury selection began in the trial of former Panamanian ruler Manuel Noriega.

1991 - The congress of people's deputies dissolved the U.S.S.R. (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics). After 70 years of tight, centralized control, the nation became a loosly held together federation called the Union of Sovereign States.

1995 - France set off an underground nuclear blast in the South Pacific.

1998 - Rocker Tommy Lee, convicted of spousal abuse for kicking wife Pamela Anderson Lee, was released from jail early for good behavior after serving less than four months of a six-month sentence. The Motley Crue drummer would be on probation for three years. He must also donate $5,000 to a shelter for battered women, avoid drugs and alcohol, stay at least 100 yards away from his wife, attend anger management classes, and undergo random drug tests. In addition, he must perform 200 hours of community service. His wife filed for divorce after reporting the attack. The couple married in 1995.