Historical Events for 5th September 2023

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1666 - Great Fire of London ends, leaving 13,200 houses destroyed and 8 dead
1901 - National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues, better known as Minor League Baseball is formed at the Leland Hotel in Chicago
1949 - US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Defending champion Margaret Osborne duPont beats fellow American Doris Hart 6-4, 6-1
1962 - Cubs Ken Hubbs sets 2nd base record for consecutive errorless games at 78 and consecutive errorless chances (418), he errors in the 4th
1979 - Earl of Mountbatten's Ceremonial Funeral held in Westminster Abbey, London
1986 - NASA launches DoD-1 (classified Department of Defense satellite)
1986 - 3rd MTV Video Music Awards: Whitney Houston wins
1997 - Orioles beat Yankes 13-9 in longest 9 inning game
2012 - 54 people are killed and 50 injured after a firecracker factory explodes in Nadu
2019 - South African women march on parliament to protest violence against women after a month when 30 were killed by their spouses

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