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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