Notable Historical Events on September 5th
September 5th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1198 |
Philips van Zwaben Hohenstaufen crowned king of Roman Catholic Germany |
1519 |
2nd Battle of Tehuacingo, Mexico: Hernán Cortés vs Tlascala Aztecs |
1550 |
William Cecil appoints himself English minister of foreign affairs |
1590 |
Alexander Farnese's army forces Henry IV of France to raise the siege of Paris. |
1596 |
Dutch fleet commander Cornelis de Houtman taken hostage in Java |
1622 |
Richelieu appointed Cardinal under French King Louis XIII |
1634 |
-6] Battle at Nordlingen: King Ferdinand III & Spain beat Sweden & German protestants |
1644 |
Prince Frederik Henry conquerors Sas of Gent |
1661 |
French superintendant of Finance Nicolas Fouquet arrested |
1666 |
Great Fire of London ends, leaving 13,200 houses destroyed and 8 dead |
1698 |
Russian Tsar Peter the Great imposes a tax on beards |
1750 |
Decree issued in Paderborn Prussia allows for annual search of all Jewish homes for stolen or "doubtful" goods |
1774 |
1st Continental Congress assembles at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
1781 |
Battle of Virginia Capes, French defeat British, trap Cornwallis |
1786 |
Montplaisir Ceramic factory opens in Schaarbeek Belgium |
1793 |
In the French Revolution, the "Reign of Terror" begins |
1795 |
USA and Algiers sign peace treaty |
1796 |
General Salicetti orders equal rights for Jews of Bologna, Italy |
1798 |
New conscription law goes into effect in France |
1800 |
Malta surrenders to British after they blockade French troops |
1814 |
-15] Battle of Masurische Meren: Germans chase Russians out of East Prussia |
1816 |
Louis XVIII has to dissolve the Chambre introuvable ("Unobtainable Chamber"). |
1836 |
Sam Houston elected president of Republic of Texas |
1838 |
Central Museum opens in Utrecht Netherlands |
1839 |
The First Opium War begins in China. |
1844 |
Iron ore discovered in Minnesota's Mesabi Mountains |
1862 |
Lee crosses Potomac & enters Maryland |
1863 |
Bread revolt in Mobile, Alabama |
1864 |
British, French & Dutch fleets attacked Japan in Shimonoseki Straits |
1864 |
Achille François Bazaine becomes Marshall of France. |
1877 |
Southern blacks led by Pap Singleton settle in Kansas |
1879 |
George Washington De Long, American Arctic Explorer, and commander on board the Jeannette, becomes trapped with his crew in pack ice during his attempt to reach the North Pole |
1882 |
10,000 workers march in 1st Labor Day parade in NYC |
1885 |
1st gasoline pump is delivered to a gasoline dealer (Ft Wayne, Ind) |
1887 |
Gas lamp at Theatre Royal in Exeter catches fire killing about 200 |
1889 |
German Christine Hardt patents the first modern brassiere |
1895 |
George Washington Murray elected to Congress from SC |
1900 |
France proclaims a protectorate over Chad |
1901 |
National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues forms |
1905 |
Lillian Mortimer's "No Mother to Guide" premieres in Detroit |
1905 |
50 prominent men meet in Sydney's Australia Hotel to found the National Defense League fueled by fear of Japan after it's victory over Russia |
1905 |
The Treaty of Portsmouth is signed concluding the Russo-Japanese War; US President Roosevelt will receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his role as mediator |
1906 |
1st legal forward pass (Brandbury Robinson to Jack Schneider) |
1907 |
King Edward VII of Great Britain meets Russia's Foreign Minister Alexander Izvolski in an attempt to strengthen Russia's relationship with Britain |
1908 |
Dodger Nap Rucker no-hits Boston Braves, 6-0 |
1910 |
Jack Coombs begins a record streak of 53 shutout innings |
1913 |
Phillies & Braves tie record of only 1 run in a double header, Phillies win 1st game 1-0, then a scoreless tie into 10th |
1914 |
US President Wilson orders the US Navy to make its wireless stations accessible for any transatlantic communications - even to German diplomats sending coded messages; this will lead to the interception of the Zimmermann telegram, helping to bring the US into the war |
1914 |
- till the 12th Sept Battle of Marne (WWI) begins French and British forces prevent German forces advancing on Paris |
1914 |
French headquarters move to Chatillon-sur-Seine |
1914 |
Gr Britain/France/Belgium/Russia sign pact of London |
1914 |
Proclamation prohibits Canadian mint from issuing gold coins |
1915 |
35th US Men's Tennis: William Johnston beats McLoughlin (1-6 6-0 7-5 10-8) |
1915 |
Anti-war conference in Zimmerwald, Switzerland |
1915 |
Tsar Nicholas II, distressed by increasing Russian losses, assumes personal command of his nation's military forces; clearly a symbolic act and devastating for his leadership |
1916 |
36th US Men's Tennis: R N Williams III beats Johnston (4-6 6-4 0-6 6-2 6-4) |
1918 |
Due to WW I, 15th World Series begins a month early |
1918 |
Decree "On Red Terror" is published in Russia |
1920 |
Iron monument unveiled at Stone churches, Flanders |
1921 |
Walter Johnson sets strikeout mark at 2,287 |
1922 |
17th Davis Cup: USA beats Australasia in New York (4-1) |
1922 |
Yankees final game at Polo Grounds (played there 7 years) |
1923 |
Flyweights Gene LaRue & Kid Pancho KO each other simultaneously |
1925 |
112 F (44°C), Centerville, Alabama (state record) |
1925 |
29th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Bobby Jones |
1927 |
Red Sox beat Yankees 12-11 in 18 innings |
1929 |
French premier A Briand requests a US of Europe |
1932 |
The French Upper Volta is broken apart between Ivory Coast, French Sudan, and Niger. |
1936 |
Red Sox turn a triple-play on Yankees |
1937 |
Spanish Civil War: Llanes falls. |
1939 |
34th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in Haverford (3-2) |
1939 |
FDR declares US neutrality at start of WW II in Europe |
1939 |
New Zealand Prime Minister, Michael Joseph Savage declares New Zealand's support for Britain in the war with Germany; Savage famously told the nation 'where she goes, we go. Where she stands,we stand' |
1942 |
Battle at Alam Halfa ends |
1942 |
British & US bomb Le Havre & Bremen |
1943 |
57th US Women's Tennis: Pauline Betz beats A Louise Brough (6-3 5-7 6-3) |
1943 |
US airland at Nadzab, New-Guinea |
1944 |
"Mad Tuesday" 65,000 Dutch nazi collaborators flee to Germany |
1944 |
5 resistance fighter executed in Terneuzen |
1944 |
Allies liberate Brussels |
1944 |
Belgium, Luxembourg & Netherlands sign unity treaty |
1944 |
British premier Churchill travels to Scotland |
1944 |
Dutch Armed Forces forms, under prince Bernhard |
1946 |
"Yours Is My Heart" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 36 performances |
1946 |
Joe Garagiola plays his 1st major league baseball game |
1948 |
In France, Robert Schuman becomes President of the Council while being Foreign minister, As such, he is the negotiator of the major treaties of the end of World War II. |
1949 |
63rd US Women's Tennis: M Osborne duPont beats Doris Hart (6-4 6-1) |
1949 |
69th US Men's Tennis: Pancho Gonzales beat Schroeder (16-18 2-6 6-1 6-2 6-4) |
1950 |
64th US Women's Tennis: Margaret Osborne duPont beats D Hart (6-3 6-3) |
1950 |
70th US Men's Tennis: Art Larsen beats Herbert Flam (6-3 4-6 5-7 6-4 6-3) |
1950 |
98.3 cm rainfall at Yankeetown, Florida (state record) |
1951 |
65th US Women's Tennis: Mo Connolly beats Shirley J Fry (6-3 1-6 6-4) |
1951 |
71st US Men's Tennis: Frank A Sedgman beats Elias Seixas Jr (6-4 6-1 6-1) |
1952 |
General Carlos Ibáñez elected president of Chile |
1953 |
1st privately operated atomic reactor-Raleigh, NC |
1953 |
US give Persian premier Zahedi $45 million aid |
1954 |
Dutch Super Constellation crashes at Shannon, 28 die |
1955 |
Fred Kaps becomes world champion magician |
1955 |
Dodger Don Newcombe hits NL pitcher record 7th HR of season |
1955 |
WKRG TV channel 5 in Mobile, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1955 |
WTTW TV channel 11 in Chicago, IL (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1956 |
20 die in a train crash in Springer NM |
1957 |
Cuban dictator Batista bombs Cienfuegos uprising |
1957 |
Yugoslavia bans Milovan Djilas' book "new class marine officers" |
1958 |
"Doctor Zhivago" by Boris Pasternak published in US |
1958 |
1st color video recording on magnetic tape presented, Charlotte, NC |
1958 |
WKPC TV channel 15 in Louisville, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1959 |
Wash Senator Jim Lemon is 7th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (3rd) |
1960 |
Cassius Clay wins Olympic light heavyweight gold medal |
1960 |
President Kasavubu fires premier Lumumba of Congo |
1960 |
Wilma Rudolph wins her 2nd gold medal |
1960 |
A.J. Foyt wins the first of 67 Indy car victories at Du Quoin, Ill. State Fairgrounds. |
1960 |
The poet Léopold Sédar Senghor is elected as the first President of Senegal. |
1961 |
JFK begins underground nuclear testing |
1961 |
President Kennedy signs law against hijacking (death penalty) |
1961 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1962 |
Atletico Madrid wins 2nd Europe Cup II |
1962 |
Cubs Ken Hubbs sets 2nd base record for consecutive errorless games at 78 & consecutive errorless chances (418), he errors in the 4th |
1966 |
Jerry Lewis' 1st Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $15,000 |
1966 |
WRLK TV channel 35 in Columbia, SC (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1967 |
-23] Hurricane Beuleah, kills 54 in Caribbean, Mexico & Texas |
1967 |
KMEG TV channel 14 in Sioux City, IA (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1967 |
WEBA TV channel 14 in Allendale, SC (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1968 |
21 killed by hijackers aboard a Pan Am jet in Karachi Pakistan |
1968 |
82nd US Women's Tennis: Virginia Wade beats Billie Jean King (6-4 6-4) |
1968 |
88th US Men's Tennis: Arthur Ashe beats Tom Okker (1412 57 63 36 63) |
1968 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1969 |
Frente Obrero wins Dutch Antilles national elections |
1970 |
Estimated 15 cm (6") of rainfall, Bug Point, Utah (state record) |
1971 |
Astros pitcher J R Richard debut, strikes out 15 Giants in a 5-3 win |
1971 |
NY Mets Don Hahn hits 1st inside the park homer at Phillies Vet |
1972 |
11 Israeli athletes taken hostage and later killed by Palestinian Black September group at the Munich Olympics |
1972 |
Chemical spill with fog sickens hundreds in Meuse Valley Belgium |
1972 |
Jerry Lewis' 7th Muscular Dystrophy telethon, John & Yoko appear |
1973 |
"Desert Song" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 15 performances |
1973 |
1st one-day Cricket international for WI (v Eng) - lose by 1 wicket |
1973 |
Conference of less developed countries approves forming "producers' associations" and calls for withdrawal of Israeli forces from occupied Arab lands |
1975 |
First Assassination attempt on US President Gerald Ford in Sacramento by Lynette Fromme in Sacramento |
1975 |
Portugal premier Goncalvez resigns |
1975 |
Wings release "Letting Go" |
1976 |
"Rex" closes at Lunt-Fontaine Theater NYC after 48 performances |
1976 |
"Very Good Eddie" closes at Booth Theater NYC after 307 performances |
1976 |
Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Golf Classic |
1977 |
Cleveland Indians stage 1st "I hate the Yankee Hanky Night" |
1977 |
Jerry Lewis' 12th Muscular Dystrophy telethon |
1977 |
RAF kidnap West German work chairman Schleyer |
1977 |
Voyager 1 (US) launched toward fly-by of Jupiter, Saturn |
1978 |
Sadat, Begin & Carter began peace conference at Camp David, Md |
1979 |
A's Matt Keough A's beats Brewers 6-1 for 1st win after 14 straight losses, ended 1978 with 4 loses (1 shy of the record 19) |
1979 |
Canada puts its first gold bullion coin on sale |
1979 |
Earl Mountbatten's funeral held in London |
1979 |
Iran army occupies Piranshahr |
1979 |
Roscoe Tanner fires 11 aces, breaks the net with his bullet serve & upsets top-seeded Bjorn Borg in US Tennis Open quarterfinals |
1980 |
Poland party leader Edward Gierek resigns |
1980 |
World's longest road tunnel, St Gotthard in Swiss Alps, opens |
1982 |
82nd US Golf Amateur Championship won by Jay Sigel |
1982 |
Eddie Hill sets propeller-driven boat water speed record of 229 mph |
1983 |
8th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 3-lands at Edwards AFB |
1983 |
Elmer Trettr sets record for highest terminal velocity at 201.34 mph |
1983 |
Jerry Lewis' 18th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $30,691,627 |
1983 |
Lauri Peterson wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic |
1984 |
12th Space Shuttle Mission (41-D) -Discovery 1- lands at Edwards AFB |
1986 |
3rd MTV Awards: Whitney Houston wins |
1986 |
Karachi Pakistan army storms hijacked US B-747, 19 killed |
1986 |
NASA awards study contracts to 5 aerospace firms |
1986 |
NASA launches DOD-1 |
1987 |
Carlton Fisk clubs his 300th career HR off Danny Jackson |
1987 |
John McEnroe is fined $17,500 for tirades at US Tennis Open |
1988 |
Betsy King wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic |
1988 |
Jerry Lewis' 23rd Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $41,132,113 |
1988 |
CFL's Earl Winfield (Ham) scores TDs on 101-yd punt return, 100-yd kickoff return & 58-yd pass reception |
1989 |
Chris Evert last US Open match, she is defeated by Zina Garrison |
1989 |
Deborah Norville becomes news anchor of Today Show |
1990 |
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein urges Arabs to rise against the West |
1990 |
Pete Sampras ends Ivan Lendl's bid for 9th straight US Open final |
1991 |
8th MTV Awards: REM wins |
1991 |
Nelson Mandela chosen as president of African National Congress |
1991 |
US trial of former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega begins |
1992 |
Dan O'Brien sets world record decathlon (8891 pts) |
1993 |
"Fool Moon" closes at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC after 207 perfs |
1993 |
"Jelly's Last Jam" closes at Virginia Theater NYC after 569 perfs |
1993 |
"Will Rogers Follies" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 983 perfs |
1993 |
F Murray Abraham released from hospital after car accident |
1993 |
Largest US Tennis Open 2 sessions (total) daily gate (43,502) |
1993 |
Noureddine Morceli runs world record mile (3:44,39) |
1994 |
Barb Mucha wins LPGA State Farm Rail Golf Classic |
1994 |
Jerry Lewis' 29th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $47,100,000 |
1994 |
Jingyi Le swims world record 100m women's freestyle (54.01 sec) |
1994 |
Kirgizia government resigns |
1994 |
San Francisco 49ers Jerry Rice catches NFL record 127th touchdown pass |
1995 |
Cal Ripken Jr ties Gehrig's record of playing in 2,130 straight games |
1996 |
"Summer & Smoke" opens at Criterion Theater NYC |
1996 |
MTV Video Music Awards |
1996 |
Following US cruise missile strikes on Iraq, crude oil prices rise as the market speculates when Iraq will begin exporting oil under UN Resolution 986 |
1997 |
Athens in Greece, selected to host 2004 Olympics |
1997 |
Orioles beat Yankes 13-9 in longest 9 inning game |
2000 |
The Haverstraw-Ossining Ferry makes its maiden voyage. |
2005 |
Mandala Airlines Flight 091 crashes into a heavily-populated residential of Sumatra, Indonesia, killing 104 people on board and at least 39 persons on ground. |
2007 |
Three terrorists suspected to be a part of Al-Qaeda are arrested in Germany after allegedly planning attacks on both the Frankfurt International airport and US military installations. |
2009 |
Denmark celebrates the first national flagday, in memory of the fallen Danes in international operations since 1948. |
2012 |
54 people are killed and 50 injured after a firecracker factory explodes in Nadu |
2012 |
Austerity measure requires Greece to increase its maximum working days to six per week |
2012 |
25 are killed and 4 wounded after an ammunition store exploded in Afyon, Turkey |
2016 |
Obama, Russia's Putin meet on sidelines of G20 summit |
2016 |
Satellite owner says SpaceX owes it $50 million or a free flight |
2016 |
North Korea fires three ballistic missiles, reports say |
2016 |
Obama becomes first sitting president to visit Laos |
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