About September 5
September 5, 2021 is the 248th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 117 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 149 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1836 –Sam Houston is elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas.
- 1864 –Achille François Bazaine becomes Marshall of France.
- 1882 –The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City.
- 1915 –The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1961 –The first conference of the Non Aligned Countries is held in Belgrade.
- 1977 –Voyager program: Voyager 1 is launched after a brief delay.
- 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.
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