Events
1590
– Alexander Farnese's army forces Henry
IV of France to raise the siege of Paris.
1661 – Fall of Nicolas Fouquet: Louis XIV
Superintendent of Finances is arrested in
Nantes by D'Artagnan, captain of the king's
musketeers.
1666 – Great Fire of London ends: 10,000
buildings including St. Paul's Cathedral
are destroyed, but only 6 people are known
to have died.
1697 – War of the Grand Alliance : A French
warship commanded by Captain Pierre Le Moyne
d'Iberville defeated an English squadron
at the Battle of Hudson's Bay.
1698 – In an effort to Westernize his nobility,
Tsar Peter I of Russia imposes a tax on
beards for all men except the clergy and
peasantry.
1725 – Wedding of Louis XV and Maria Leszczyńska.
1774 – First Continental Congress assembles
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1781 – Battle of the Chesapeake in the American
Revolutionary War.
1793 – French Revolution the French National
Convention initiates the Reign of Terror.
1798 – Conscription is made mandatory in
France by the Jourdan law.
1800 – Napoleon surrenders Malta to Great
Britain.
1812 – War of 1812: The Siege of Fort Wayne
begins when Chief Winamac's forces attack
two soldiers returning from the fort's outhouses.
1816 – Louis XVIII has to dissolve the Chambre
introuvable ("Unobtainable Chamber").
1836 – Sam Houston is elected as the first
president of the Republic of Texas.
1839 – United Kingdom declared First Opium
War on the Qing Dynasty of China.
1840 – Premiere of Giuseppe Verdi's Un giorno
di regno at La Scala of Milan.
1862 – American Civil War: the Potomac River
is crossed at White's Ford in the Maryland
Campaign.
1862 – James Glaisher, pioneering meteorologist
and Henry Tracey Coxwell break world record
for altitude whilst collecting data in their
balloon.
1864 – Achille François Bazaine becomes
Marshall of France.
1877 – Indian Wars: Oglala Sioux chief Crazy
Horse is bayoneted by a United States soldier
after resisting confinement in a guardhouse
at Fort Robinson in Nebraska.
1882 – The first United States Labor Day
parade is held in New York City.
1887 – Fire at Theatre Royal in Exeter,
England killed 186
1905 – Russo-Japanese War: In New Hampshire,
USA, the Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated
by US President Theodore Roosevelt, ends
the war.
1906 – The first legal forward pass in American
football is thrown by Bradbury Robinson
of St. Louis University to teammate Jack
Schneider in a 22–0 victory over Carroll
College (Wisconsin).
1914 – World War I: First Battle of the
Marne begins. Northeast of Paris, the French
attack and defeat German forces who are
advancing on the capital.
1915 – The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference
begins.
1918 – Decree "On Red Terror"
is published in Russia
1927 – The first Oswald the Lucky Rabbit
cartoon, Trolley Troubles, produced by Walt
Disney, is released by Universal Pictures.
1932 – The French Upper Volta is broken
apart between Ivory Coast, French Sudan,
and Niger.
1937 – Spanish Civil War: Llanes falls.
1938 – Chile: A group of youths affiliated
with the fascist National Socialist Movement
of Chile are assassinated in the Seguro
Obrero massacre.
1941 – Whole territory of Estonia is occupied
by Nazi Germany.
1942 – World War II: Japanese high command
orders withdrawal at Milne Bay, first Japanese
defeat in the Pacific War.
1943 – World War II: The 503rd Parachute
Infantry Regiment lands and occupies Nazdab,
near Lae in the Salamaua-Lae campaign.
1944 – Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg
constitute Benelux.
1945 – Cold War: Igor Gouzenko, a Soviet
Union embassy clerk, defects to Canada,
exposing Soviet espionage in North America,
signalling the beginning of the Cold War.
1945 – Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese-American
suspected of being wartime radio propagandist
Tokyo Rose, is arrested in Yokohama.
1948 – In France, Robert Schuman becomes
President of the Council while being Foreign
minister, As such, he is the negotiator
of the major treaties of the end of World
War II.
1957 – Cuba: Fulgencio Batista bombs the
revolt in Cienfuegos.
1960 – The poet Léopold Sédar Senghor is
elected as the first President of Senegal.
1960 – The boxer Muhammad Ali (then Cassius
Clay) is awarded the gold medal for his
first place in the light heavyweight boxing
competition at the Olympic Games in Rome.
1961 – The first conference of the Non Aligned
Countries is held in Belgrade.
1969 – My Lai Massacre: U.S. Army Lt. William
Calley is charged with six specifications
of premeditated murder for the death of
109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai.
1970 – Vietnam War: Operation Jefferson
Glenn begins: the United States 101st Airborne
Division and the South Vietnamese 1st Infantry
Division initiate a new operation in Thừa
Thiên-Huế Province.
1972 – Munich Massacre: A Palestinian terrorist
group called "Black September"
attack and take hostage 11 Israel athletes
at the Munich Olympic Games. 2 die in the
attack and 9 die the following day.
1975 – Sacramento, California: Lynette Fromme
attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald
Ford.
1977 – Hanns Martin Schleyer, is kidnapped
in Cologne, West Germany by the Red Army
Faction and is later murdered.
1977 – Voyager program: Voyager 1 is launched
after a brief delay.
1978 – Camp David Accords: Menachem Begin
and Anwar Sadat begin peace process at Camp
David, Maryland.
1980 – The St. Gotthard Tunnel opens in
Switzerland as the world's longest highway
tunnel at 10.14 miles (16.224 km) stretching
from Göschenen to Airolo.
1984 – STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery
lands after its maiden voyage.
1984 – Western Australia becomes the last
Australian state to abolish capital punishment.
1986 – Pan Am Flight 73 with 358 people
on board is hijacked at Karachi International
Airport.
1991 – The current international treaty
defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous
and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, came
into force.
2005 – Mandala Airlines Flight 091 crashes
into a heavily populated residential of
Sumatra, Indonesia, killing 104 people on
board and at least 39 persons on ground.
Holidays
and observances
Christian
Feast Day:
Bertin
Blessed Teresa of Calcutta
Genebald
Zechariah and Elisabeth (Anglican and Eastern
Orthodox Church)
September 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Earliest date on which Jeûne genevois can
fall, while September 11 is the latest;
celebrated on Thursday after the first Sunday
of September. (Canton of Geneva)
Jupiter Stator, commemorates that Jupiter
helped Romulus to stop the Sabine invasion
under Titus Tatius. (Roman Empire)
Teachers' Day (India)
Veterans' Day (Denmark)
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