On This Day:
Thursday September 5, 2013 This is the 248th day of the year, with 117 days remaining in 2013. Fact of the Day: dyes, pigments, paints Dyes, pigments, and paints are substances that are used to give color to objects. The substances that give color to dyes are called dyestuffs, while pigments form the color in paints. Dyestuffs, when dissolved in water, penetrate the fibers of fabrics by means of a chemical reaction. Pigments are held in place using a substance called a vehicle which acts to bind the pigment to the surface being painted. Since the beginning of history, people have created color by means of dyes and pigments - originally natural ones, and now synthetic ones.
Holidays Pakistan: Defense of Pakistan Day.
Events 3114 B.C.E. - From this day was reckoned the Mayan Long Count end-of-the-world date: December 21, 2012.
1774 - First Continental Congress assembled in Philadelphia. Delegates drafted a declaration of rights and grievances and elected Virginian Peyton Randolph as the first president of Congress.
1836 - Sam Houston elected president of the Republic of Texas.
1877 - Sioux chief Crazy Horse was killed in jail by a U.S. soldier. A year earlier, Crazy Horse and his followers defeated General George Custer at Little Bighorn in Montana, killing Custer and 264 others.
1882 - First Labor Day parade was held with 10,000 workers in attendance in New York City. This first celebration was initiated by Peter J. McGuire, a carpenter and labor union leader who cofounded the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions.
1905 - Russo-Japanese War ended with signing of Treaty of Portsmouth in New Hampshire.
1910 - Marie Curie demonstrated radium's transformation from ore to metal at the Academy of Sciences in France.
1914 - Battle of Marne began. The British and French fought the Germans for six days, resulting in 500,000 casualties.
1914 - Babe Ruth hit his first home run as a professional for Providence in the International League.
1957 - Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" was published.
1958 - "Doctor Zhivago" by Boris Pasternak, was published in the U.S.
1972 - Members of the Black September faction of the Palestinian Liberation Army attacked the Israeli delegation at the Munich Olympic Games Village. Seventeen people died in the incident.
1975 - President Gerald R. Ford escaped an assassination attempt by Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, a follower of Charles Manson, in Sacramento, California.
1980 - Longest tunnel, St. Gotthard Automobile Tunnel in Switzerland, opened.
1983 - "MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour" premiered, the first regularly scheduled daily hour news show.
1986 - Pan Am Flight 73 with 358 people on board is hijacked at Karachi International Airport by four armed men of the Abu Nidal organization.
2001 - Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants set a new mark for home runs in a single season, hitting his 71st and 72nd.
Births 1187 - Louis VIII (Coeur-de-Lion), king of France.
1638 - Louis XIV, king of France who built palace of Versailles.
1842 - Jesse James, outlaw of the American Wild West.
1902 - Darryl F. Zanuck, American motion picture executive and producer.
1905 - Arthur Koestler, Hungarian-born British novelist and essayist.
1912 - John Cage, American avant-garde composer, artist, writer, and philosopher.
1923 - Arthur C. Nielsen, American television market researcher.
1929 - Bob Newhart, American comedian and actor.
1934 - Carol Lawrence, American actress.
1940 - Raquel Welch, American actress.
1950 - Cathy Lee Guisewite, American cartoonist who created the comic strip "Cathy."
1951 - Michael Keaton (born Michael John Douglas), American film actor.
Deaths 1997 - Mother Teresa (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu), Albanian-born Indian nun and recipient of the 1979 Nobel Prize for Peace.
1997 - Sir Georg Solti, Hungarian-born British musical conductor and pianist.
1999 - Allen Funt, American television personality, best known as the creator and host of "Candid Camera."
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