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.
- 1661 –Fall of Nicolas Fouquet: Louis XIV Superintendent of Finances is arrested in Nantes by D'Artagnan, captain of the king’s musketeers.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1957 –Cuba: Fulgencio Batista bombs the revolt in Cienfuegos.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 Goschenen to Airolo.
- 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.
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