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This day in history: 5 September

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458 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 5 September.
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2022: At least 93 people die and 25 are missing after a magnitude 6.8 earthquake strikes Sichuan, China.

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day: Bertin

Christian feast day: Charbel (martyr)

Christian feast day: Genebald

Christian feast day: Gregorio Aglipay (Episcopal Church)

Christian feast day: Mother Teresa

Christian feast day: September 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: Ursicinus of Ravenna

Christian feast day: Zechariah and Elisabeth (Anglican and Eastern Orthodox Church)

Earliest date on which Jeûne genevois can fall, while September 11 is the latest; celebrated on Thursday after the first Sunday of September. (Canton of Geneva)

First day of school in Vietnam

International Day of Charity

Teacher's Day (India)

Events

2022At least 93 people die and 25 are missing after a magnitude 6.8 earthquake strikes Sichuan, China.

2022Liz Truss is declared the winner of the UK Conservative Party leadership election, beating Rishi Sunak.

2021The President of Guinea, Alpha Condé is captured by armed forces during a coup d'état.

2012An accidental explosion at a Turkish Army ammunition store in Afyon, western Turkey kills 25 soldiers and wounds four others.

2006The Waziristan Accord is signed between the Government of Pakistan and local Taliban militants in North Waziristan, obliging the Taliban to expel foreign jihadists and the government to compensate the tribes for loss of life and property an

2005Mandala Airlines Flight 091 crashes after takeoff from Polonia International Airport in Medan, Indonesia, killing 149.

1996Hurricane Fran makes landfall near Cape Fear, North Carolina as a Category 3 storm with 115 mph sustained winds. Fran caused over $3 billion in damage and killed 27 people.

1991The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, comes into force.

1990Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Army soldiers slaughter 158 civilians.

1986Pan Am Flight 73 from Mumbai, India with 358 people on board is hijacked at Karachi International Airport.

1984STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery lands after its maiden voyage.

1984Western Australia becomes the last Australian state to abolish capital punishment.

1981The first women arrive at what becomes Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp in the UK.

1980The Gotthard Road Tunnel opens in Switzerland as the world's longest highway tunnel at 16.9 kilometres (10.5 mi) stretching from Göschenen to Airolo.

1978Camp David Accords: Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat begin peace discussions at Camp David, Maryland.

1977Voyager Program: NASA launches the Voyager 1 spacecraft.

1975Sacramento, California: Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford.

1972Munich massacre: A Palestinian terrorist group called "Black September" attacks and takes hostage 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games. Two die in the attack and nine are murdered the following day.

1970Vietnam 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.

1969Mỹ Lai Massacre: U.S. Army Lieutenant William Calley is charged with six specifications of premeditated murder for the death of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai.

1968End of the Congress of Carrara, one of the major 20th century anarchist congresses.

1960Muhammad Ali (then known as Cassius Clay) wins the gold medal in the light heavyweight boxing competition at the Olympic Games in Rome.

1960Poet Léopold Sédar Senghor is the first elected President of Senegal.

1957Cuban Revolution: Fulgencio Batista bombs the revolt in Cienfuegos.

1954KLM Flight 633 crashes into the River Shannon in Shannon, County Clare, Ireland, killing 28.

1948In France, Robert Schuman becomes President of the Council while being Foreign minister; as such, he is the French negotiator of the major treaties of the end of World War II.

1945Cold War: Igor Gouzenko, a Soviet Union embassy clerk, defects to Canada, exposing Soviet espionage in North America, signalling the beginning of the Cold War.

1945Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese American who broadcast under the name Orphan Annie during World War II, is arrested in Yokohama by U.S. military authorities amid widespread speculation of her being wartime radio propagandist Tokyo Rose.

1944Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg constitute Benelux.

1943World War II: In the Pacific Theater, the 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment lands and occupies Lae Nadzab Airport, near Lae during the Salamaua–Lae campaign.

1942World War II: Japanese high command orders withdrawal at Milne Bay, the first major Japanese defeat in land warfare during the Pacific War.

1941Whole territory of Estonia is occupied by Nazi Germany.

1938Chile: A group of youths affiliated with the fascist National Socialist Movement of Chile are executed after surrendering during a failed coup.

1937Spanish Civil War: Llanes falls to the Nationalists following a one-day siege.

1932The French Upper Volta is broken apart between Ivory Coast, French Sudan, and Niger.

1915The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins.

1914World War I: First Battle of the Marne begins. Northeast of Paris, the French attack and defeat German forces who are advancing on the capital.

1905Russo-Japanese War: In New Hampshire, United States, the Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, ends the war.

1887A fire at the Theatre Royal, Exeter kills 186, making it the UK's deadliest ever building fire.

1882The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City.

Born on this day

2007Matthew Schaefer, Canadian ice hockey player

2001Bukayo Saka, English footballer

2001Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow, Australian rugby league player

1999Filip Chytil, Czech ice hockey player

1998Caroline Dolehide, American tennis player

1998Davion Mitchell, American basketball player

1998Mac Jones, American football player

1997Kyōko Saitō, Japanese idol

1997Steven Kwan, American baseball player

1996Jarren Duran, American baseball player

1996Richairo Zivkovic, Dutch footballer

1996Sigrid, Norwegian singer

1995Lucas Wallmark, Swedish ice hockey player

1994Bonnie Anderson, Australian singer, songwriter and actress

1994Dayton Wetherby, US-born Panamanian footballer

1994Gregorio Paltrinieri, Italian swimmer

1994Kings Elliot, Swiss-English singer

1994Nediam Vargas, Venezuelan sprinter

1994Sarah Carli, Australian track and field athlete

1993Pablo Reyes, Dominican baseball player

1993T. J. Warren, American basketball player

1991Skandar Keynes, English actor and political adviser

1990Franco Zuculini, Argentine footballer

1990Lance Stephenson, American basketball player

1990Yuna Kim, South Korean figure skater

1989Ben Youngs, English rugby player

1989Craig Smith, American ice hockey player

1989Elena Delle Donne, American basketball player

1989José Ángel Valdés, Spanish footballer

1989Kat Graham, American actress and singer

1988Denni Avdić, Swedish footballer

1988Emmy Raver-Lampman, American actress and singer

1988Felipe Caicedo, Ecuadorian footballer

1986Pragyan Ojha, Indian cricketer

1985Justin Dentmon, American basketball player

1985Ryan Guy, American soccer player

1984Alison Bell, Scottish field hockey player

1984Annabelle Wallis, English actress

1984Chris Anker Sørensen, Danish cyclist (died 2021)

1983Chris Young, American baseball player

Died on this day

2024Herbie Flowers, English musician (born 1938)

2024Laurent Tirard, French film director and screenwriter (born 1967)

2024Radha Charan Gupta, Indian historian of mathematics (born 1935)

2024Rebecca Cheptegei, Ugandan athlete (born 1991)

2024Rich Homie Quan, American rapper (born 1990)

2024Sérgio Mendes, Brazilian pianist and composer (born 1941)

2021Sarah Harding, English singer, member of Girls Aloud (born 1981)

2019Francisco Toledo, Mexican painter, sculptor, and graphic artist (born 1940)

2018Beatriz Segall, Brazilian actress (born 1926)

2018Bhagwatikumar Sharma, Indian Gujarati writer and journalist (born 1934)

2017Nicolaas Bloembergen, Dutch-American physicist and Nobel laureate (born 1920)

2016Hugh O'Brian, American actor (born 1925)

2016Phyllis Schlafly, American lawyer, writer, and political activist (born 1924)

2015Aadesh Shrivastava, Indian singer-songwriter (born 1964)

2015Chester Stranczek, American baseball player and businessman (born 1929)

2015Goh Eng Wah, Malaysian-Singaporean businessman, founded Eng Wah Global (born 1923)

2014Bruce Morton, American journalist (born 1930)

2014Mara Neusel, German mathematician, author, and academic (born 1964)

2013Edwin Bideau, American lawyer and politician (born 1950)

2013Geoffrey Goodman, English pilot, journalist, and author (born 1922)

2013Isamu Jordan, American journalist and academic (born 1975)

2012Ian Dick, Australian cricketer and field hockey player (born 1926)

2012John Oaksey, English jockey and journalist (born 1929)

2012Victoria Fyodorova, Russian-American actress and author (born 1946)

2010Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, Belgian-Dutch poet and painter (born 1922)

2010Hedley Beare, Australian author and academic (born 1932)

2009Gani Fawehinmi, Nigerian lawyer and activist (born 1938)

2007D. James Kennedy, American pastor and author (born 1930)

2007Jennifer Dunn, American engineer and politician (born 1941)

2007Nikos Nikolaidis, Greek director and screenwriter (born 1939)

Quote of the day

“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labour does the body.”

Seneca

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