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.
- 1725 –Wedding of Louis XV and Maria Leszczyńska.
- 1774 –First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- 1781 –Battle of the Chesapeake in the American Revolutionary War.
- 1798 –Conscription is made mandatory in France by the Jourdan law.
- 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.
- 1862 –James Glaisher, pioneering meteorologist and Henry Tracey Coxwell break world record for altitude whilst collecting data in their balloon.
- 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.
- 1918 –Decree “On Red Terror” is published in Russia
- 1927 –The first Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon, Trolley Troubles, produced by Walt Disney, is released by Universal Pictures.
- 1937 –Spanish Civil War: Llanes falls.
- 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.
- 1944 –Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg constitute Benelux.
- 1945 –Cold War: Igor Gouzenko, a Soviet Union embassy clerk, defects to Canada, exposing Soviet espionage in North America, signalling the beginning of the Cold War.
- 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.
- 1975 –Sacramento, California: Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford.
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