1984 12th Space Shuttle Mission (41-D) -Discovery 1- lands at Edwards AFB

1986 Merv Griffin makes his final appearance as host of his own TV talk show.

1986 NASA awards study contracts to 5 aerospace firms

1986 NASA launches DOD-1

1988 Jerry Lewis' 23rd Labor Day telethon raises record $41,132,113

1989 Deborah Norville becomes news anchor of the Today Show

1990 Iraqi Pres Saddam Hussein urges Arabs to rise against the West

1991 Actor John Travolta weds Kelly Preston

1991 US trial of former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega begins

1995 France sets off an underground nuclear device in the South Pacific, ending a three-year moratorium on such tests.

1997 Digital Theater Sound (DTS) announces its intentions to enter the DVD market

1997 Humanitarian Mother Teresa dies of a heart attack in Calcutta, India, at age 87.

1999 Candid Camera star Allen Funt dies in Pebble Beach, CA, at age 84.

1905 The war in Korea and Manchuria, between Japan and Russian, ends

1972 Israeli athletes held hostage by Arab guerrillas at the Munich Olympics

1975 US President Gerald Ford escapes assassination attempt in Sacramento

1991 The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), wound up by the Congress of Peoples Deputies

1847 The birth of Jesse James, American outlaw of the Wild West

1902 The birth of Daryl F. Zanuck, American film producer

1942 The birth of Raquel Welch, American film actress

2005 Mandala Airlines Flight 091 737 crashes in Indonesia killing at least 117. (See airplane accidents in 205).

2005 John G. Roberts nominated by President George W. Bush, for Chief Justice of the United States.

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