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History Events on September 05

By  Jacquelyn Blankenship  05 Sep   97 Views

History Events on September 05

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The United Kingdom declares war on the Qing dynasty of China.

#First_Opium_War

In 1839

The French Upper Volta is broken apart between Ivory Coast, French Sudan, and Niger.

#French_Upper_Volta

In 1932

Alexander Farnese's army forces Henry IV of France to lift the siege of Paris.

#Alexander_Farnese,_Duke_of_Parma

In 1590

Sacramento, California: Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford.

#Sacramento,_California

In 1975

War of 1812: The Siege of Fort Wayne begins when Chief Winamac's forces attack two soldiers returning from the fort's outhouses.

#War_of_1812

In 1812

Sam Houston is elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas.

#Sam_Houston

In 1836

First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia.

#Continental_Congress

In 1774

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.

#Robert_Schuman

In 1948

Western Australia becomes the last Australian state to abolish capital punishment.

#Western_Australia

In 1984

Jochen Rindt becomes the only driver to posthumously win the Formula One World Drivers' Championship (in 1970), after being killed in practice for the Italian Grand Prix.

#Jochen_Rindt

In 1970

Whole territory of Estonia is occupied by Nazi Germany.

#Estonia

In 1941

Pan Am Flight 73 from Mumbai, India with 358 people on board is hijacked at Karachi International Airport.

#Pan_Am_Flight_73

In 1986

Cuban Revolution: Fulgencio Batista bombs the revolt in Cienfuegos.

#Cuban_Revolution

In 1957

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).

#Forward_pass

In 1906

Fall of Nicolas Fouquet: Louis XIV Superintendent of Finances is arrested in Nantes by D'Artagnan, captain of the king's musketeers.

#Nicolas_Fouquet

In 1661

Cold War: Igor Gouzenko, a Soviet Union embassy clerk, defects to Canada, exposing Soviet espionage in North America, signalling the beginning of the Cold War.

#Cold_War

In 1945

World War II: Japanese high command orders withdrawal at Milne Bay, the first major Japanese defeat in land warfare during the Pacific War.

#World_War_II

In 1942

American 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.

#American_Indian_Wars

In 1877

An accidental explosion at a Turkish Army ammunition store in Afyon, western Turkey kills 25 soldiers and wounds four others.

#2012_Afyonkarahisar_arsenal_explosion

In 2012

Hurricane Fran makes landfall near Cape Fear, North Carolina as a Category 3 storm with 115 mph sustained winds. Fran caused over $3 billion in damage and killed 27 people.

#Hurricane_Fran

In 1996

Muhammad Ali (then known as Cassius Clay) wins the gold medal in the light heavyweight boxing competition at the Olympic Games in Rome.

#Muhammad_Ali

In 1960

Poet Léopold Sédar Senghor is the first elected President of Senegal.

#Léopold_Sédar_Senghor

In 1960

Battle of the Chesapeake in the American Revolutionary War: The British Navy is repelled by the French Navy, contributing to the British surrender at Yorktown.

#Battle_of_the_Chesapeake

In 1781

Russo-Japanese War: In New Hampshire, United States, the Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, ends the war.

#Russo-Japanese_War

In 1905

World War I: First Battle of the Marne begins. Northeast of Paris, the French attack and defeat German forces who are advancing on the capital.

#World_War_I

In 1914

Chile: A group of youths affiliated with the fascist National Socialist Movement of Chile are executed after surrendering during a failed coup.

#Chile

In 1938

The Gotthard Road Tunnel opens in Switzerland as the world's longest highway tunnel at 10.14 miles (16.32 km) stretching from Göschenen to Airolo.

#Gotthard_Road_Tunnel

In 1980

Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese American suspected of being wartime radio propagandist Tokyo Rose, is arrested in Yokohama.

#Iva_Toguri_D'Aquino

In 1945

Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Army soldiers slaughter 158 civilians.

#Sri_Lankan_Civil_War

In 1990

Camp David Accords: Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat begin peace discussions at Camp David, Maryland.

#Camp_David_Accords

In 1978

Great Fire of London ends: Ten thousand buildings, including Old St Paul's Cathedral, are destroyed, but only six people are known to have died.

#Great_Fire_of_London

In 1666

Spanish Civil War: Llanes falls to the Nationalists following a one-day siege.

#Spanish_Civil_War

In 1937

French Revolution: The French National Convention initiates the Reign of Terror.

#French_Revolution

In 1793

Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg constitute Benelux.

#Luxembourg

In 1944

A fire at the Theatre Royal, Exeter, kills 186.

#Theatre_Royal,_Exeter

In 1887

The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City.

#Labor_Day

In 1882

American Civil War: The Army of Northern Virginia crosses the Potomac River at White's Ford in the Maryland Campaign.

#American_Civil_War

In 1862

Olympe de Gouges writes the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen.

#Olympe_de_Gouges

In 1791

STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery lands after its maiden voyage.

#STS-41-D

In 1984

In an effort to Westernize his nobility, Tsar Peter I of Russia imposes a tax on beards for all men except the clergy and peasantry.

#Tsar

In 1698

Vietnam War: Operation Jefferson Glenn begins: The United States 101st Airborne Division and the South Vietnamese 1st Infantry Division initiate a new operation in Th?a Thiên-Hu? Province.

#Vietnam_War

In 1970

Conscription is made mandatory in France by the Jourdan law.

#Conscription

In 1798

The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins.

#Zimmerwald_Conference

In 1915

The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, comes into force.

In 1991

Voyager Program: NASA launches the Voyager 1 spacecraft.

In 1977

Munich massacre: A Palestinian terrorist group called "Black September" attacks and takes hostage 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games. Two die in the attack and nine are murdered the following day.

In 1972

My Lai Massacre: U.S. Army Lieutenant William Calley is charged with six specifications of premeditated murder for the death of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai.

In 1969

World War II: The 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment lands and occupies Lae Nadzab Airport, near Lae in the Salamaua-Lae campaign.

In 1943

The first Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon, Trolley Troubles, produced by Walt Disney, is released by Universal Pictures.

In 1927

Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle party in San Francisco ends with the death of the young actress Virginia Rappe: One of the first scandals of the Hollywood community.

In 1921

Tottenham Hotspur, a Premier League football club from North London, is founded (as Hotspur F.C.).

In 1882

Louis XVIII has to dissolve the Chambre introuvable ("Unobtainable Chamber").

In 1816

Wedding of Louis XV and Maria Leszczy?ska.

In 1725

War of the Grand Alliance : A French warship commanded by Captain Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville defeated an English squadron at the Battle of Hudson's Bay.

In 1697

Liu Yan declares himself emperor, establishing the Southern Han state in southern China, at his capital of Panyu.

In 917

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