The history of today SEPTEMBER 5

	Bing Crosby caused a stir in Waikiki when he showed up at the Outrigger Canoe Club with the latest craze from Hollywood — a motor scooter, the Sept. 5, 1936, Advertiser reported.

1959: Pan American World Airways begins trans-Pacific jet service with a stopover in Honolulu.

1961: Plans for a deep-water port at Campbell Industrial Park are detailed.

1972: Seven Arab terrorists turn the 1972 Olympics into a scene of political murder that begins with a pre-dawn attack on Israeli athletes in the Olympic village and ends 18 hours later in a bloody airfield shootout with German police. Eleven Israelis and a Munich policeman are killed.

1993: The body of former Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos is put on a plane for the first leg of the trip back home for burial in his native town. Marcos died in Hawai'i in 1989.

1997: Mother Teresa dies in Calcutta at the age of 87.

2003: The NCAA strips the University of Hawai'i men's volleyball team of its 2002 national championship because the team included a player with professional experience.

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