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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Interior of the Gotthard Road Tunnel
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| : Teachers' Day in India | refimprove |
| 1836 – Sam Houston became the first popularly elected President of the Republic of Texas. | tagged for expansion |
| 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 section |
| 1991 – The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, came into force. | appears on June 27 |
Eligible
- 917 – Liu Yan declared himself emperor, establishing the Southern Han state in southern China, at his capital of Panyu (present-day Guangzhou).
- 1697 – War of the Grand Alliance: A French warship captured York Factory, a trading post of the Hudson's Bay Company in present-day Manitoba, Canada.
- 1781 – American Revolutionary War: French naval forces handed Britain a major strategic defeat in the Battle of the Chesapeake.
- 1877 – Oglala Lakota war leader Crazy Horse was fatally wounded after surrendering while allegedly resisting imprisonment at Camp Robinson in present-day Nebraska, US.
- 1905 – Under the mediation of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, the Russo-Japanese War officially ended with the signing of the Treaty of Portsmouth at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard near Portsmouth, New Hampshire, US.
- 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.
- 1927 – Walt Disney's and Ub Iwerks' first popular character Oswald the Lucky Rabbit made its debut in the animated cartoon Trolley Troubles.
- 1943 – World War II: American and Australian forces made an airborne landing at Nadzab as part of the New Guinea campaign against Japan.
- 1975 – Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, a devotee of Charles Manson, attempted to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford.
- 1980 – The St. Gotthard Tunnel, at the time the world's longest highway tunnel, opened in Switzerland at 16.4 km (10.2 mi) stretching from Goschenen to Airolo.
- 1774 – In response to the British Parliament enacting the Intolerable Acts, representatives from twelve of Britain's North American colonies convened the First Continental Congress at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1945 – Cold War: Soviet cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko defected to Canada with over 100 documents on Soviet espionage activities and sleeper agents.
- 1977 – NASA launched the robotic space probe Voyager 1 (pictured), currently the farthest spacecraft from Earth.