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
- 1590 –Alexander Farnese’s army forces Henry IV of France to raise the siege of Paris.
- 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.
- 1800 –Napoleon surrenders Malta to Great Britain.
- 1816 –Louis XVIII has to dissolve the Chambre introuvable (“Unobtainable Chamber”).
- 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.
- 1887 –Fire at Theatre Royal in Exeter, England killed 186
- 1932 –The French Upper Volta is broken apart between Ivory Coast, French Sudan, and Niger.
- 1937 –Spanish Civil War: Llanes falls.
- 1943 –World War II: The 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment lands and occupies Nazdab, near Lae in the Salamaua-Lae campaign.
- 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.
- 1945 –Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese-American suspected of being wartime radio propagandist Tokyo Rose, is arrested in Yokohama.
- 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.
- 1970 –Vietnam War: Operation Jefferson Glenn begins: the United States 101st Airborne Division and the South Vietnamese 1st Infantry Division initiate a new operation in Thừa Thiên-Huế Province.
- 1975 –Sacramento, California: Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford.
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