September 5
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September 5 is the 248th day of the year (249th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 117 days remaining until the end of the year.
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Births [change]
- 1187 – Louis VIII of France (d. 1226)
- 1319 – Peter IV of Aragon (d. 1387)
- 1533 – Jacopo Zaparella, Italian philosopher (d. 1589)
- 1568 – Tommaso Campanella, Italian theologian, philosopher, and poet (d. 1639)
- 1638 – Louis XIV of France (d. 1715)
- 1667 – Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri, Italian Jesuit and mathematician (d. 1733)
- 1695 – Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician (d. 1770)
- 1722 – Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony (d. 1763)
- 1733 – Christoph Martin Wieland, German poet, translator and publisher (d. 1813)
- 1735 – Johann Christian Bach, German composer (d. 1782)
- 1750 – Robert Fergusson, Scottish poet (d. 1774)
- 1771 – Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen, Austrian general (d. 1847)
- 1772 – Fat 'h-Ali Shah Qajar, Persian King (d. 1834)
- 1774 – Caspar David Friedrich, German artist (d. 1840)
- 1786 – Sergey Uvarov, Russian politician and literary scholar (d. 1855)
- 1791 – Giacomo Meyerbeer, German composer (d. 1864)
- 1806 – Christophe Leon Louis Juchault de Lamorciere, French general and statesman (d. 1865)
- 1807 – Richard Chenevix Trench, clergyman and philologist (d. 1886)
- 1809 – Manuel Montt, 6th President of Chile (d. 1880)
- 1817 – Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian writer (d. 1875)
- 1818 – Edmund Kennedy, Australian explorer (d. 1848)
- 1827 – Goffredo Mameli, Italian patriot, poet and writer (d. 1849)
- 1836 – Justiniano Borgono, President of Peru (d. 1921)
- 1846 – Jack Daniel, American businessman (d. 1911)
- 1847 – Jesse James, American outlaw (d. 1882)
- 1867 – Amy Beach, American composer and pianist (d. 1944)
- 1869 – Archduchess Karoline Marie of Austria (d. 1945)
- 1873 – Cornelius Vanderbilt III, American military officer and engineer (d. 1942)
- 1874 – Nap Lajoie, baseball player (d. 1959)
- 1881 – Otto Bauer, Austrian politician (d. 1938)
- 1883 – Mel Sheppard, AMerican athlete (d. 1942)
- 1888 – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, second President of India (d. 1975)
- 1892 – Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian violinist (d. 1973)
- 1901 – Mario Scelba, Italian Prime Minister (d. 1991)
- 1902 – Darryl F. Zanuck, film producer and executive (d. 1979)
- 1905 – Arthur Koestler, Austrian writer (d. 1983)
- 1906 – Sunnyland Slim, American blues singer and pianist (d. 1995)
- 1912 – John Cage, American composer (d. 1992)
- 1912 – Kristina Söderbaum, German actress and photographer (d. 2001)
- 1913 – Frank Thomas, American animator (d. 2004)
- 1914 – Nicanor Parra, Chilean poet
- 1915 – Horst Sindermann, German politician (d. 1990)
- 1916 – Frank Yerby, novelist (d. 1991)
- 1918 – Luis Alcoriza, Mexican actor, screenwriter and director (d. 1992)
- 1918 – Buddy Williams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1986)
- 1921 – Jack Valenti, American political advisor and film executive (d. 2007)
- 1929 – Bob Newhart, American actor and comedian
- 1929 – Andriyan Nikolayev, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2004)
- 1932 – Simon Achidi Achu, former Prime Minister of Cameroon
- 1934 – Carol Lawrence, American actress and singer
- 1936 – Bill Mazeroski, American baseball player
- 1937 – Antonio Valentin Angelillo, Argentine footballer
- 1939 – George Lazenby, Australian actor
- 1939 – William Devane, actor
- 1939 – Clay Regazzoni, Swiss racing driver (d. 2006)
- 1939 – Susumu Tonegawa, Japanese Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist
- 1940 – Raquel Welch, American actress
- 1942 – Werner Herzog, German film director
- 1946 – Freddie Mercury, British singer (Queen) (d. 1991)
- 1946 – Loudon Wainwright III, singer and composer
- 1946 – Buddy Miles, American musician
- 1948 – Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Austrian diplomat and politician
- 1949 – Pat McQuaid, Irish cyclist and official
- 1950 – Cathy Guisewite, American cartoonist
- 1951 – Paul Breitner, German footballer
- 1951 – Michael Keaton, actor
- 1962 – Peter Wingfield, actor
- 1963 – Juan Alderete, American bass player and songwriter
- 1964 – Frank Farina, Australian footballer
- 1964 – Ken Norman, American basketball player
- 1965 – Chris Morris, British writer
- 1967 – Matthias Sammer, German footballer
- 1969 – Dweezil Zappa, American musician and son of Frank Zappa
- 1969 – Leonardo Araujo, Brazilian footballer
- 1969 – Mark Ramprakash, English cricketer
- 1973 – Paddy Considine, English actor
- 1973 – Rose McGowan, American actress
- 1975 – George Boateng, Dutch footballer
- 1976 – Tatyana Gutsu, Ukrainian gymnast
- 1976 – Carice van Houten, Dutch actress
- 1977 – Teresa Marinova, Bulgarian athlete
- 1978 – Chris Jack, New Zealand rugby player
- 1978 – Laura Bertram, Canadian actress
- 1979 – John Carew, Norwegian footballer
- 1979 – Juan Fuenmayor, Venezuelan footballer
- 1981 – Nina Eichinger, German actress
- 1981 – Bruno Neves, Portuguese cyclist (d. 2008)
- 1983 – Pablo Granoche, Uruguayan footballer
- 1987 – Pierre Casiraghi, Monegasque royalty
- 1988 – Felipe Caicedo, Ecuadorean footballer
- 1988 – Nuri Sahin, Turkish footballer
- 1989 – Ben Youngs, English rugby player
- 1989 – Jose Angel Valdes, Spanish footballer
- 1989 – Katerina Graham, American actress
- 1990 – Kim Yu-Na, South Korean figure skater
- 1990 – Franco Zuculini, Italian footballer
- 1991 – Skandar Keynes, British actor
- 1993 – Gage Golightly, American actress
Deaths [change]
- 1165 – Emperor Nijo of Japan (b. 1143)
- 1201 – Constance, Duchess of Brittany (b. 1161)
- 1235 – Henry I, Duke of Brabant (b. 1165)
- 1548 – Catherine Parr, sixth wife of Henry VIII of England (b. c. 1512)
- 1629 – Domenico Allegri, Italian composer (b. 1585)
- 1803 – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and author (b. 1741)
- 1836 – Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian playwright (b. 1790)
- 1855 – Thomas Mitchell, Scottish explorer of Australia (b. 1792)
- 1857 – Auguste Comte, French sociologist (b. 1798)
- 1876 – Manuel Blanco Encalada, first President of Chile (b. 1790)
- 1877 – Crazy Horse, Oglala Sioux chief (b. 1849)
- 1898 – Sarah Edmonds, Canadian nurse, soldier, and spy (b. 1841)
- 1901 – Ignacij Klemenčič, Slovene physicist (b. 1853)
- 1902 – Rudolf Virchow, German doctor, pathologist, biologist, and politician (b. 1821)
- 1906 – Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian phsyicist (b. 1844)
- 1912 – Arthur MacArthur, Jr., American soldier (b. 1845)
- 1917 – Marian Smochulowski, Polish physicist (b. 1872)
- 1926 – Karl Harrer, German journalist and politician (b. 1890)
- 1930 – Robert Means Thompson, American naval officer (b. 1849)
- 1931 – John Thomson, Scottish footballer (b. 1909)
- 1932 – Francisco Acebal, Spanish novelist, playwright and journalist (b. 1866)
- 1936 – Fernando Borrell Garcia, Spanish Republican soldier, photographed in moment of his death (b. 1912)
- 1965 – Thomas Johnston, Scottish-born politician (b. 1882)
- 1966 – Dezső Lauber, Hungarian sportsman (b. 1879)
- 1970 – Jochen Rindt, Austrian racing driver, posthumous Formula 1 champion (b. 1942)
- 1972 – Yossef Romano, Israeli weightlifter (b. 1940)
- 1972 – Moshe Weinberg, Israeli wrestling coach (b. 1939)
- 1979 – Alberto di Jorio, Italian cardinal (b. 1884)
- 1982 – Douglas Bader, British fighter pilot (b. 1910)
- 1988 – Gert Fröbe, actor (b. 1913)
- 1990 – Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian revolutionary and leader of the IMRO (b. 1896)
- 1997 – Georg Solti, conductor (b. 1912)
- 1997 – Mother Teresa, Albanian nun and development worker (b. 1910)
- 1998 – Leo Penn, American director (b. 1921)
- 2001 – Vladimir Zerjavic, Croat UN statistician (b. 1912)
- 2003 – Gisele MacKenzie, singer (b. 1927)
- 2010 – Shoya Tomizawa, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1990)
- 2010 – Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, Belgian-born artist (b. 1922)
- 2011 – Salvatore Licitra, Italian tenor (b. 1968)
- 2011 – Vann Nath, Cambodian painter (b. 1946)
Events [change]
- 1590 – Alexander Farnese's army forces Henry IV of France to raise the Siege of Paris.
- 1666 – Great Fire of London ended: A large fire in London burns out after three days. 10,000 buildings including St. Paul's Cathedral were destroyed, but only 16 people are known to have died.
- 1698 – In an effort to move his people away from Asiatic customs, Tsar Peter I of Russia imposes a tax on beards; All men except priests and peasants, are required to pay a tax of one hundred rubles a year and the commoners had to pay one kopek each.
- 1725 – Louis XV of France and Maria Leszczynska marry in Fontainbleau.
- 1774 – First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- 1781 – Battle of the Chesapeake in the American Revolutionary War: The British Navy is repelled by the French Navy, contributing to the British surrender at Yorktown.
- 1793 – In France, the French National Convention votes to implement terror measures to enforce the principles of the French Revolution, initiating (starting) the Reign of Terror.
- 1798 – Conscription (military service) is made mandatory (meaning young men had to do it) in France.
- 1800 – Napoleon Bonaparte surrenders Malta to Great Britain.
- 1812 – War of 1812: Siege of Fort Wayne begins with Chief Winamac's forces attacking two soldiers returning from the fort's outhouses.
- 1836 – Sam Houston is elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas.
- 1839 – The United Kingdom declares the First Opium War on the Qing Dynasty of China.
- 1862 – American Civil War: In the Confederacy's first invasion of the North, General Robert E. Lee leads 55,000 men of the Army of Northern Virginia across the Potomac River at White's Ford near Leesburg, Virginia into Maryland.
- 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 – Tottenham Hotspur Football Club is founded in London.
- 1882 – The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City.
- 1887 – Fire at the Theatre Royal in Exeter, England kills 186 people.
- 1901 – The National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues (later renamed Minor League Baseball), is formed in Chicago.
- 1905 – Russo-Japanese War: Treaty of Portsmouth signed – In New Hampshire a treaty mediated by US President Theodore Roosevelt, is signed by victor Japan and defeated party Russia.
- 1906 – Brandbury Robinson throws the first legal forward pass in an American football game.
- 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.
- 1932 – French Upper Volta is broken up between French Sudan, Ivory Coast and Niger.
- 1936 – Federico Borrell Garcia, a Republican soldier in the Spanish Civil War, is photographed in the moment of his death by Robert Capa.
- 1937 – Spanish Civil War: The fall of Llanes.
- 1939 – World War II: The United States declares its neutrality in the war. It later enters on the side of the Allies.
- 1941 – World War II: Estonia is occupied by Nazi Germany.
- 1942 – World War II: The Battle of Milne Bay in the Pacific Ocean ends in a Japanese defeat against the Allies.
- 1943 – World War II: The 503rd Parachute Regiment under American General Douglas MacArthur lands and occupies Nazdab in Papua New Guinea.
- 1944 – World War II: The USSR declares war on Bulgaria.
- 1944 – Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg form the Benelux.
- 1945 – Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese-American suspected of being wartime radio propagandist Tokyo Rose, is arrested in Yokohama.
- 1948 – Robert Schuman becomes Prime Minister of France
- 1949 – A former sharpshooter in World War II, Howard Unruh kills 13 neighbors in Camden, New Jersey with a souvenir Luger to become America's first single-episode mass murderer.
- 1957 – Cuba: Fulgencio Batista bombs a revolt in the city of Cienfuegos.
- 1958 – The English language translation of the novel Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak is published.
- 1960 – Leopold Sedar Senghor is elected as the 1st President of Senegal.
- 1960 – Cassius Clay wins the gold medal in boxing at the Rome Olympic Games.
- 1969 – My Lai Massacre: 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 Thua Thien Province.
- 1972 – Munich Massacre: A Palestinian terrorist group called "Black September" attack Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games.
- 1975 – In Sacramento, California, a follower of incarcerated cult leader Charles Manson named Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate US President Gerald Ford, but is thwarted by a Secret Service agent.
- 1977 – Voyager program: Voyager 1 is launched after a brief delay.
- 1977 – In Cologne, Hanns Martin Schleyer is kidnapped by members of the Red Army Faction
- 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 (16.32 km) stretching from Goschenen to Airolo.
- 1983 – The half-hour Robert MacNeil Report changes its name to the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, becoming the first hour-long network news show.
- 1983 – Peter Jennings becomes lead anchor for ABC World News Tonight.
- 1983 – Tom Brokaw becomes lead anchor for NBC Nightly News.
- 1984 – Western Australia becomes the last Australian state to ban Capital Punishment.
- 1984 – STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery lands after its maiden voyage.
- 1986 – Pan Am Flight 73 with 358 people on board is hijacked at Karachi International Airport.
- 1988 – With US$2 billion in federal aid, the Robert M. Bass Group agrees to buy the United States's largest bankrupt thrift, American Savings and Loan Association.
- 1991 – The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, the Indigenous and Tribal People's Convention, 1989, comes into force.
- 1997 – At least 87 people killed in the Beni-Messous massacre in Algeria.
- 2000 – Tuvalu joins the United Nations.
- 2001 – Peru's attorney general files homicide charges against ex-President Alberto Fujimori.
- 2001 – Young Left formed in Toronto, Ontario.
- 2002 – A car bomb kills 30 people in Kabul, Afghanistan, in an apparent assassination attempt on Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
- 2002 – The Sour Biscuit Fire in Oregon and northern California, which burned 499,570 acres (2,020 km²), is finally contained.
- 2002 – The Beltway sniper attacks begin with the murder of Paul LaRuffa.
- 2004 – Future Hurricane Ivan becomes a Hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean.
- 2005 – A Mandala Airlines plane crashes in a residential area in Sumatra, Indonesia, killing 104 on board and 39 on the ground.
- 2008 – Quentin Bryce becomes Governor-General of Australia.
- 2012 – A magnitude 7.9 earthquake hits Costa Rica.
Observances [change]
- Teachers' Day (India)
