What are the important events that happened on September 5? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
September 5: Facts & Myths About This Day
September 5 is the 249th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 117 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is August 23, 2024 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,758,240 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectatetracontaenneagon’ day.
Virgo is the zodiac 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 146 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,276 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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September 5 Historical Events
- 1590 –Alexander Farnese’s army forces Henry IV of France to raise the siege of Paris.
- 1882 –The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City.
- 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.
- 1942 –World War II: Japanese high command orders withdrawal at Milne Bay, first Japanese defeat in the Pacific War.
- 1943 –World War II: The 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment lands and occupies Nazdab, near Lae in the Salamaua-Lae campaign.
- 1945 –Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese-American suspected of being wartime radio propagandist Tokyo Rose, is arrested in Yokohama.
- 1960 –The poet Léopold Sédar Senghor is elected as the first President of Senegal.
- 1977 –Hanns Martin Schleyer, is kidnapped in Cologne, West Germany by the Red Army Faction and is later murdered.
- 1978 –Camp David Accords: Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat begin peace process at Camp David, Maryland.
Who were born on September 5?
- 1750 –Robert Fergusson, Scottish poet (d. 1774)
- 1826 –John Wisden, England cricketer (d. 1884)
- 1905 –Arthur Koestler, Hungarian writer (d. 1983)
- 1928 –Joyce Hatto, British pianist, subject of fraudulent recordings (d. 2006)
- 1929 –Andrian Nikolayev, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2004)
- 1950 –Cathy Guisewite, American cartoonist
- 1954 –Frederick Kempe, American author, journalist, and executive
- 1965 –David Brabham, Australian racing driver
- 1970 –Kim Hye-su, South Korean actress and model
- 1983 –Pablo Granoche, Uruguayan footballer
Who died on September 5?
- 1165 –Emperor Nijo of Japan (b. 1143)
- 1837 –James Ruse, pioneer Australian farmer (b. 1759)
- 1926 –Karl Harrer, German journalist and politician (b. 1890)
- 1936 –Gustave Kahn, French Symbolist poet and art critic (b. 1859)
- 1954 –Eugen Schiffer, German politician (b. 1860)
- 1966 –Dezső Lauber, Hungarian athlete (b. 1879)
- 1980 –Don Banks, Australian composer (b. 1923)
- 1982 –Douglas Bader, RAF fighter pilot in World War II (b. 1910)
- 2007 –D. James Kennedy, American televangelist (b. 1930)
- 2008 –Evan Tanner American mixed martial artist (b. 1971)
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