About September 5
September 5, 2025 is the 248th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 117 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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Virgo is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Sapphire is the modern birthstone for this month. Agate is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 165 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 5
- 1590 –Alexander Farnese’s army forces Henry IV of France to raise the siege of Paris.
- 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.
- 1725 –Wedding of Louis XV and Maria Leszczyńska.
- 1774 –First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- 1800 –Napoleon surrenders Malta to Great Britain.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1932 –The French Upper Volta is broken apart between Ivory Coast, French Sudan, and Niger.
- 1944 –Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg constitute Benelux.
- 1945 –Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese-American suspected of being wartime radio propagandist Tokyo Rose, is arrested in Yokohama.
- 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.
- 1977 –Hanns Martin Schleyer, is kidnapped in Cologne, West Germany by the Red Army Faction and is later murdered.
- 1978 –Camp David Accords: Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat begin peace process at Camp David, Maryland.
- 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.
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