5 September

 10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 5 September:

1. In Israel on this date in 1999, two car bombs exploded simultaneously killing the three terrorists who were transporting the bombs. The bomb makers had refused to comply with Israel’s switch to Standard Time – as Palestinians, they refused to “live on Zionist time”, but the drivers had made the switch, so both bombs detonated "early" en route to their destination.
2. In 1664, the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam surrendered to the British, who would rename it New York.
3. In 1910, Marie Curie demonstrated the transformation of Radium ore to metal at the Academy of Sciences in France.
4. In 2000, Jennifer Murray, 60, of Frome in Somerset. became the first woman to complete a solo circumnavigation of the world in a Helicopter.
5. In 2016, an Asteroid was named in honour of Freddie Mercury on what would have been his 70th birthday.
6. In 1956, Elvis Presley surprised his mother with a gift of a pink Cadillac.
7. The Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp was established outside Greenham Air Base on this date in 1981. They maintained a presence there for exactly 19 years, the last campaigners leaving on this date in 2000.
8. The word "hippie" was first used on this date in 1965 when San Francisco Examiner writer Michael Fallon applied the term to the San Francisco counter-culture in an article about the Blue Unicorn coffee-house where LEMAR (Legalise Marijuana) and the Sexual Freedom League met.
9. In 1995, Prince Bhekimpi of Swaziland announced his campaign to banish ghosts from the Enkhaba Region. Not sure how he planned to achieve that. Even threatening them with the death penalty if they refused to leave was hardly likely to be effective.
10. In 1999, Josef Bartosek set a record for the longest electric wheelchair journey. He'd travelled in his chair for 30 days through Slovakia, Ukraine, Hungary, and Austria.

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