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 248th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 117 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is August 23, 2025 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,757,030,400 seconds 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 ‘dihectatetracontaoctagon’ day.
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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 165 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 4,641 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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September 5 Historical Events
1781 –
Battle of the Chesapeake in the American Revolutionary War.
1793 –
French Revolution the French National Convention initiates the Reign of Terror.
1839 –
United Kingdom declared First Opium War on the Qing Dynasty of China.
1862 –
American Civil War: the Potomac River is crossed at White’s Ford in the Maryland Campaign.
1877 –
Indian Wars: Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse is bayoneted by a United States soldier after resisting confinement in a guardhouse at Fort Robinson in Nebraska.
1905 –
Russo-Japanese War: In New Hampshire, USA, the Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by US President Theodore Roosevelt, ends the war.
1906 –
The first legal forward pass in American football is thrown by Bradbury Robinson of St. Louis University to teammate Jack Schneider in a 22–0 victory over Carroll College (Wisconsin).
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.
1986 –
Pan Am Flight 73 with 358 people on board is hijacked at Karachi International Airport.
Who were born on September 5?
1888 –
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, second President of India (d. 1975)
1914 –
Gail Kubik, American composer (d. 1984)
1914 –
Nicanor Parra, Chilean poet and mathematician
1916 –
Frank Shuster, Canadian comedian (Wayne and Shuster) (d. 2002)
1916 –
Frank Yerby American novelist (d. 1991
1917 –
Sören Nordin, Swedish harness racing driver and trainer (d. 2008)
1918 –
Bob Katter, Sr., Australian politician, minister (d. 1990)
1918 –
Luis Alcoriza, Mexican screenwriter, film director, and actor (d. 1992)
1968 –
Brad Wilk, American musician (Audioslave, Rage Against the Machine)
1978 –
Laura Bertram, Canadian actress
Who died on September 5?
1786 –
Jonas Hanway, English merchant, traveler, and philanthropist (b. 1712)
1914 –
Charles Péguy, French poet, essayist and editor (b. 1873)
1926 –
Karl Harrer, German journalist and politician (b. 1890)
1970 –
Jochen Rindt, German-Austrian race car driver (b. 1942)
1982 –
Douglas Bader, RAF fighter pilot in World War II (b. 1910)
1990 –
Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1896)
1998 –
Fernando Balzaretti, Mexican actor (b. 1946)
2003 –
Gisele MacKenzie, Canadian-born singer (b. 1927)
2007 –
Jennifer Dunn, American politician (b. 1941)
2010 –
Corneille (Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo), Belgian artist (b. 1922)
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