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
- 1661 –Fall of Nicolas Fouquet: Louis XIV Superintendent of Finances is arrested in Nantes by D'Artagnan, captain of the king’s musketeers.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1725 –Wedding of Louis XV and Maria Leszczyńska.
- 1781 –Battle of the Chesapeake in the American Revolutionary War.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1927 –The first Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon, Trolley Troubles, produced by Walt Disney, is released by Universal Pictures.
- 1945 –Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese-American suspected of being wartime radio propagandist Tokyo Rose, is arrested in Yokohama.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1978 –Camp David Accords: Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat begin peace process at Camp David, Maryland.
- 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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