About September 5
September 5, 2021 is the 248th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 117 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 149 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 5
- 1812 –War of 1812: The Siege of Fort Wayne begins when Chief Winamac’s forces attack two soldiers returning from the fort’s outhouses.
- 1836 –Sam Houston is elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas.
- 1839 –United Kingdom declared First Opium War on the Qing Dynasty of China.
- 1862 –James Glaisher, pioneering meteorologist and Henry Tracey Coxwell break world record for altitude whilst collecting data in their balloon.
- 1887 –Fire at Theatre Royal in Exeter, England killed 186
- 1915 –The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins.
- 1918 –Decree “On Red Terror” is published in Russia
- 1932 –The French Upper Volta is broken apart between Ivory Coast, French Sudan, and Niger.
- 1937 –Spanish Civil War: Llanes falls.
- 1941 –Whole territory of Estonia is occupied by Nazi Germany.
- 1942 –World War II: Japanese high command orders withdrawal at Milne Bay, first Japanese defeat in the Pacific War.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1978 –Camp David Accords: Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat begin peace process at Camp David, Maryland.
- 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.
- 1984 –Western Australia becomes the last Australian state to abolish capital punishment.
- 1991 –The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, came into force.
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