Event:
William Cecil appoints himself English minister of foreign affairs
More Notable Events on September 5:
1991 Actor John Travolta weds Kelly Preston
1991 U.S. trial of former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega begins
1989 Deborah Norville becomes news anchor of Today Show
1972 11 Israeli athletes are slain at Munich Olympics by terrorists
1939 Franklin D. Roosevelt declares U.S. neutrality at start of WW II in Europe
