Today in History - TheNewsTribune.com
Today is Saturday, September 5, the 248th day of 2015. There are 117 days left in the year. On September 5, 1945, Japanese-American Iva Toguri D'Aquino, suspected of being wartime broadcaster "Tokyo Rose," was arrested in Yokohama. (D'Aquino was later convicted of treason and served six years in prison. she was pardoned in 1977 by President Gerald R. Ford. In 1914, the First Battle of the Marne, resulting in a French-British victory over Germany, began during World War I. In 1939, four days after war had broken out in Europe, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued a proclamation declaring U. S.... In 1961, President John F. Kennedy signed legislation making aircraft hijackings a federal crime. In 1972, the Palestinian group Black September attacked the Israeli Olympic delegation at the Munich Games. In 1975, President Gerald R. Ford escaped an attempt on his life by Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, a disciple of Charles Manson, in Sacramento, California. In 1995, France ended its three-year moratorium on nuclear tests, setting off an underground blast on a South Pacific atoll. Source: www.thenewstribune.com
