ROSS SIMPSON
A Black September terrorist looks from the balcony of an apartment where Israeli Olympic team members are held hostage.
The Munich massacre on this day in 1972 was an attack during the 1972
Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, in which the Palestinian
terrorist group Black September took eleven Israeli Olympic team
members hostage and killed them along with a West German police
officer.
Geronimo (Mescalero-Chiricahua) “the one who yawns”
(June 1829 – February 17, 1909)
Apache chief Geronimo and the Indians he led, surrendered in Skeleton
Canyon in Arizona to U.S. Gen. Nelson Miles. For 30 years, the mighty
Native American warrior had battled to protect his tribe’s homeland;
however, by 1886 the Apaches were exhausted and outnumbered. Gen.
Miles accepted Geronimo’s surrender, making him the last Indian warrior
to formally give in to U.S. forces and signaling the end of the Indian Wars
in the Southwest. Geronimo died of pneumonia on February 17, 1909, as
a prisoner of the United States at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
President Harry S. Truman addressed the nation in the first
live, coast-to-coast television broadcast. (AP)
On September 4, 1951, President Harry S. Truman’s opening speech before a conference in San Francisco was broadcast across the nation, marking the
first time a TV program was broadcast from coast to coast. The speech
focused on Truman’s acceptance of a treaty that officially ended America’s
post-World War II occupation of Japan.
According to the CBS television network, the broadcast, via then-state-of-the-
art microwave technology, was picked up by 87 stations in 47 cities.
U.S. President Truman addresses the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference in San Francisco.
The American flag was flown in battle for the first time, during a Revolutionary
War skirmish at Cooch’s Bridge, Delaware. Patriot General William Maxwell
ordered the stars and strips banner raised as a detachment of his infantry and cavalry met an advance guard of British and Hessian troops. The rebels were defeated and forced to retreat to General George Washington’s main force
near Brandywine Creek in Pennsylvania.
