On September 5, 1975, a follower of Charles Manson attempted to assassinate President Gerald R. Ford in Sacramento, California, before being restrained by a Secret Service agent
On Sep 5, 1995, First Lady Hillary Clinton, defying pressure from China’s communist regime to soften her remarks, delivered a landmark speech before the U.N. World Conference on Women in Beijing, declaring: ‘Human rights are women’s rights, and women’s rights are human rights.’
On September 5, 1982, 12-year-old Iowa paperboy Johnny Gosch was kidnapped while on his route delivering newspapers in West Des Moines. Gosch became one of the first to be featured on milk cartons across the United States as part of a campaign to find missing children