Events
of the day
Teachers
Day in India
It
is the birthday [5 September 1888
],of the second President of India,
academic philosopher Dr. Sarvepalli
Radhakrishnan.
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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