During the 1972 Summer Olympics at Munich, in the early
morning of September 5, a group of Palestinian terrorists
stormed the Olympic Village apartment of the Israeli athletes,
killing two and taking nine others hostage.

The terrorists were part of a group known as Black September,
in return for the release of the hostages, they demanded that
Israel release over 230 Arab prisoners being held in Israeli jails
and two German terrorists.

In an ensuing shootout at the Munich airport, the nine Israeli
hostages were killed along with five terrorists and one West
German policeman. Olympic competition was suspended for
24 hours to hold memorial services for the slain athletes.

Black September terrorist looks from the balcony of an apartment where Israeli Olympic team members are held hostage.

With terrorists holed up in the Israeli athletes’ quarters,
swarms of German policemen, in uniform and plain
clothes, move in and seal off the area.

A German policeman leans against a wall outside the
apartment.

PARIS (WKRC) – A gold medalist will return home with a little
more than just a fancy necklace after he made history by
becoming his country’s first man to win a gold medal.

Carlos Yulo, 24, became the first male gold medalist from his
home country of the Philippines when he dominated the
competition in the Men’s Floor Exercise. He cemented his
athletic exceptionality by earning a second gold medal the
next day in the Men’s Vault Final.

On August 4, 1936, American Jesse Owens won gold in the long
jump at the Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. It was the
second of four gold medals Owens won in Berlin, as he firmly
dispelled German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler’s notion of the superiority
of an Aryan “master race,” for all the world to see.

James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens
(September 12, 1913 – March 31, 1980)

Melvin Emery Patton (November 16, 1924 – May 9, 2014) was an
American sprinter, who set the world record of 9.2 seconds in
the 100 yard dash in 1948. He also set a 220 yd. world record
in 1949 on a straightaway of 20.2, breaking the record held by
Jesse Owens.                                                                                

Patton won two gold medals at the 1948 Summer Olympics. He
was ranked first in the world in the 100 m and 200 m events in
1947 and 1949.

Patton was inducted into the National Track and Field Hall of
Fame in 1985, and died in Fallbrook, California.

   
CARLATA BRADLEY

At the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York, a woman’s
rights convention—the first ever held in the United States—
convened with almost 200 women in attendance.

The convention was organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, two abolitionists who met at the 1840 World Anti-
Slavery Convention in London.