September 5th, 2008

Today in History

1997:
1997 - The IOC picks Athens to be the host city for the 2004 Summer Olympics.

1986:
Pan Am Flight 73 with 358 people on board is hijacked at Karachi International Airport.

1970:
Vietnam War: Operation Jefferson Glenn begins: the United States 101st Airborne Division and the South Vietnamese 1st Infantry Division initiate a new operation in Thua Thien Province.

1943:
World War II: The 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment under U.S. General Douglas MacArthur lands and occupies Nazdab in Papua New Guinea.

1774:
First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.