About September 5

September 5, 2024 is the 249th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 117 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.

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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 146 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.
  • 1661 –
    Fall of Nicolas Fouquet: Louis XIV Superintendent of Finances is arrested in Nantes by D'Artagnan, captain of the king’s musketeers.
  • 1800 –
    Napoleon surrenders Malta to Great Britain.
  • 1816 –
    Louis XVIII has to dissolve the Chambre introuvable (“Unobtainable Chamber”).
  • 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.
  • 1882 –
    The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City.
  • 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).
  • 1915 –
    The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins.
  • 1918 –
    Decree “On Red Terror” is published in Russia
  • 1932 –
    The French Upper Volta is broken apart between Ivory Coast, French Sudan, and Niger.
  • 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.
  • 1957 –
    Cuba: Fulgencio Batista bombs the revolt in Cienfuegos.
  • 1960 –
    The poet Léopold Sédar Senghor is elected as the first President of Senegal.
  • 1961 –
    The first conference of the Non Aligned Countries is held in Belgrade.
  • 1977 –
    Hanns Martin Schleyer, is kidnapped in Cologne, West Germany by the Red Army Faction and is later murdered.
  • 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.

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