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
- 1798 –Conscription is made mandatory in France by the Jourdan law.
- 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.
- 1862 –James Glaisher, pioneering meteorologist and Henry Tracey Coxwell break world record for altitude whilst collecting data in their balloon.
- 1882 –The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City.
- 1905 –Russo-Japanese War: In New Hampshire, USA, the Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by US President Theodore Roosevelt, ends the war.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1957 –Cuba: Fulgencio Batista bombs the revolt in Cienfuegos.
- 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.
- 1969 –My Lai Massacre: U.S. Army Lt. William Calley is charged with six specifications of premeditated murder for the death of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai.
- 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.
- 1984 –Western Australia becomes the last Australian state to abolish capital punishment.
- 1986 –Pan Am Flight 73 with 358 people on board is hijacked at Karachi International Airport.
- 2005 –Mandala Airlines Flight 091 crashes into a heavily populated residential of Sumatra, Indonesia, killing 104 people on board and at least 39 persons on ground.
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