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
- 1661 –Fall of Nicolas Fouquet: Louis XIV Superintendent of Finances is arrested in Nantes by D'Artagnan, captain of the king’s musketeers.
- 1725 –Wedding of Louis XV and Maria Leszczyńska.
- 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.
- 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 –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.
- 1932 –The French Upper Volta is broken apart between Ivory Coast, French Sudan, and Niger.
- 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.
- 1944 –Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg constitute Benelux.
- 1945 –Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese-American suspected of being wartime radio propagandist Tokyo Rose, is arrested in Yokohama.
- 1957 –Cuba: Fulgencio Batista bombs the revolt in Cienfuegos.
- 1960 –The poet Léopold Sédar Senghor is elected as the first President of Senegal.
- 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.
- 1991 –The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, came into force.
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