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
- 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.
- 1774 –First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- 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.
- 1840 –Premiere of Giuseppe Verdi’s Un giorno di regno at La Scala of Milan.
- 1887 –Fire at Theatre Royal in Exeter, England killed 186
- 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.
- 1915 –The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins.
- 1932 –The French Upper Volta is broken apart between Ivory Coast, French Sudan, and Niger.
- 1942 –World War II: Japanese high command orders withdrawal at Milne Bay, first Japanese defeat in the Pacific War.
- 1944 –Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg constitute Benelux.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1977 –Voyager program: Voyager 1 is launched after a brief delay.
- 1980 –The St. Gotthard Tunnel opens in Switzerland as the world’s longest highway tunnel at 10.14 miles (16.224 km) stretching from Goschenen to Airolo.
- 1984 –STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery lands after its maiden voyage.
- 1986 –Pan Am Flight 73 with 358 people on board is hijacked at Karachi International Airport.
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