Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 5
This is a list of selected September 5 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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Casablanca Fair poster
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| : Teachers' Day in India | refimprove |
| 1697 – Nine Years' War: A French warship captured York Factory, a trading post of the Hudson's Bay Company in present-day Manitoba, Canada. | refimprove |
| 1793 – French Revolution: The National Convention began the Reign of Terror, a ten-month period of systematic repression and mass executions by guillotine of perceived enemies within the country. | refimprove section |
| 1807 – Gunboat War: The Royal Navy concluded their bombardment of Copenhagen and captured the Dano-Norwegian navy, leading to the term "Copenhagenization". | lots of cn |
| 1877 – Oglala Lakota war leader Crazy Horse was fatally wounded after surrendering while allegedly resisting imprisonment at Camp Robinson in present-day Nebraska, U.S. | Refimprove |
| 1914 – World War I: The First Battle of the Marne began with French forces engaging the advancing German army at the Marne River near Paris. | refimprove section |
| 1921 – Popular American comedian Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle attended a party during which a woman was fatally injured; although he was eventually acquitted of manslaughter, the trial's scandal derailed his career. | lots of CN tags (18) |
| 1927 – Walt Disney's and Ub Iwerks' first popular character Oswald the Lucky Rabbit made its debut in the animated cartoon Trolley Troubles. | refimprove section |
| 1945 – Cold War: Soviet cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko defected to Canada with over 100 documents on Soviet espionage activities and sleeper agents. | refimprove section |
| 1960 – Senegalese poet Léopold Sédar Senghor was elected as the first president of Senegal. | refimprove |
| 1972 – The Palestinian militant group Black September took hostage eleven Israeli athletes and coaches at the Olympic Games in Munich, West Germany; all of the hostages were killed less than 24 hours later. | refimprove sections |
| 1980 – The Gotthard Road Tunnel, at the time the world's longest highway tunnel at 16.4 km (10.2 mi), opened in Switzerland stretching from Göschenen to Airolo. | unreferenced section |
| 1991 – The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, came into force. | appears on June 27 |
| Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland |b|1641 | unreferenced section (Ancestry) |
| Yuna Kim |b|1990 | unreferenced section |
| Sarah Emma Edmonds |d|1898| | unreferenced sections |
Eligible
- 917 – Liu Yan declared himself emperor, establishing the state of Southern Han at his capital of Panyu (present-day Guangzhou) in southern China.
- 1774 – In response to the British Parliament's enactment of the so-called Intolerable Acts, representatives from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies convened the First Continental Congress at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia.
- 1781 – American Revolutionary War: French naval forces handed Britain a major strategic defeat at the Battle of the Chesapeake (depicted).
- 1836 – Sam Houston (pictured) became the first popularly elected president of the Republic of Texas.
- 1882 – A group of London schoolboys led by Bobby Buckle founded Hotspur Football Club to continue to play sports during the winter months.
- 1905 – Under the mediation of U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt, the Russo-Japanese War officially ended with the signing of a treaty at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Maine.
- 1915 – The Zimmerwald Conference, the first of three international socialist conferences forming the Zimmerwald movement, opened in Switzerland.
- 1915 – The Casablanca Fair (poster pictured) opened in the French protectorate in Morocco.
- 1926 - Forty-eight people died in a fire in a makeshift cinema in Dromcolliher, Ireland.
- 1943 – World War II: American and Australian airborne forces landed at Nadzab as part of the New Guinea campaign against Japan.
- 1977 – NASA launched the space probe Voyager 1, currently the farthest spacecraft from Earth, from Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
- Born/died: | Caspar David Friedrich |b|1774| Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy |b|1817|Lester Allan Pelton |b|1829| Amy Beach |b|1867| Nap Lajoie |b|1874| Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb |b|1876| Freddie Mercury |b|1946| Jochen Rindt |d|1970| Neerja Bhanot |d|1986| Rochus Misch |d|2013 | Adam Exner |d|2023|
Notes
- Geronimo appears on September 3, so Crazy Horse should not appear in the same year
Squeaky Fromme
- 1367 – Swa Saw Ke was crowned the ruler of the Kingdom of Ava in Upper Myanmar.
- 1816 – Facing rising discontent in France, Louis XVIII was forced to dissolve the Chambre introuvable, the legislature dominated by Ultra-royalists.
- 1887 – A fire that killed 186 people broke out at the Theatre Royal, Exeter, England.
- 1964 – Hurricane Cleo dissipated after causing 156 deaths, mainly in Haiti, and causing roughly US$187 million in damages across the Caribbean and southeastern United States.
- 1975 – Squeaky Fromme (pictured), a devotee of Charles Manson, attempted to assassinate U.S. president Gerald Ford in Sacramento, California.
- Katharina Zell (d. 1562)
- James Innes (d. 1759)
- Archie Jackson (b. 1909)
- Jean-Chrysostome Weregemere (b. 1919)
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