September 5

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on September 5. From 1900 until now. September 5 is under the sign of Virgo. Famous birthdays on this day include Freddie Mercury (1946), Rose McGowan (1973) and Raquel Welch (1940). Several movies were released around September 5 over the years, such as The Thin Man in 1957 directed by W.S. Van Dyke and The Princess Bride in 1987 directed by Rob Reiner.
But much more happened on September 5 over the years: find out below

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2018 War in Afghanistan (2001–present): A Suicide attack at a wrestling club in a Hazara Shi’ite neighborhood of the Afghan capital Kabul and a second explosion apparently targeting emergency services and journalists kills at least 20 people and wounds 70 others. (Reuters)
2017 Syrian Civil War: Siege of Deir ez-Zor (2014–17): The Syrian Army lifts the 28-month-long siege of Deir ez-Zor by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. (Reuters) (BBC News)
2016 War in Afghanistan (2001–present): Two successive suicide bombers on foot kill at least 24 people and injure 91 others, including senior security and police officials, after striking close to the Afghan Ministry of Defence in Kabul. The Taliban claims responsibility by disclosing the death of 58 officers and commanders. Another bombing took place not long after. (Reuters) (BBC) Today (Singapore) (Sina Corp)
2015 Afghanistan War: Gunmen kill 13 minority Hazara men but spare the life of one woman among a traveling party in usually tranquil Balkh Province. No group claims responsibility. (AFP via Times of Oman)
2014 War in Donbass:: The government of Ukraine and pro-Russian rebels agree to a cease-fire, fighting continues after the announcement. (Reuters)
2013 Syrian civil war:: According to Turkey, almost all G20 summit leaders support operations against Syria. (Reuters)Russian opposition to military intervention in Syria gains increasing international support. (The Daily Telegraph)
2012 A drone strike conducted by the United States kills at least five suspected militants in the eastern Yemeni province of Hadhramaut. (Reuters)
2011 India and Bangladesh sign a pact to end their 40-year border demarcation dispute.
2010 Israel
2009 The G-20 finance ministers outline plans for banking reform, including tougher regulation of financial institutions. (MarketWatch) (Reuters)
2008 Arizona Senator John McCain is nominated as US Presidential candidate for the Republican party, with Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin as vice presidential candidate.
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.
2006 Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan
2005 John G. Roberts is nominated by President George W. Bush for Chief Justice of the United States, to replace William Rehnquist, who had died two days previously.
2004 Two large earthquakes strike western Japan, the first measuring 6.9 and the second 7.3 on the Richter scale. Tsunamis 1– (3–7 ft) are expected to hit the Pacific coast. (Reuters)
2003 Hong Kong's leader Tung Chee-hwa announces that he will indefinitely postpone plans for an extremely unpopular security bill which sparked massive public protests and would have granted the government broad powers to prosecute vaguely defined threats to national security.
2002 An assassination attempt was made on President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan in Kandahar. A gunman wearing the uniform of the new Afghan Army opened fire, wounding the Governor of Kandahar and an American Special Operations officer. The gunman and one of the President's bodyguards were killed.
2000 Tuvalu joins the United Nations.
1998 The Government of North Korea adopts a military dictatorship on its 50th anniversary.
1997 Larry King weds Shawn Southwick
1996 Summer & Smoke opens at Criterion Theater, New York City
1994 Barb Mucha wins LPGA State Farm Rail Golf Classic
1993 Fool Moon closes at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC after 207 performances
1992 Andrew Dice Clay marries his longtime live-in lover Trinie
1991 8th MTV Awards: REM
1990 Iraqi President Saddam Hussein urges Arabs to rise against the West.
1989 Chris Evert last US Open match, she is defeated by Zina Garrison
1988 Betsy King wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
1987 Carlton Fisk clubs his 300th career HR off Danny Jackson
1986 3rd MTV Awards: Whitney Houston wins
1984 12th Space Shuttle Mission (41-D) - Discovery 1 - lands at Edwards Air Force Base.
1983 8th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 3-lands at Edwards AFB
1982 82nd US Golf Amateur Championship won by Jay Sigel
1980 Poland party leader Edward Gierek resigns
1979 Canada puts its 1st gold bullion coin on sale
1978 Sadat, Begin and Carter began peace conference at Camp David, Maryland
1977 RAF kidnap West German work Chairman Schleyer
1976 Rex closes at Lunt-Fontaine Theater NYC after 48 performances
1975 Czech tennis ace Martina Navratilova asks for political asylum in New York City
1973 Desert Song opens at Uris Theater NYC for 15 performances
1972 11 Israeli athletes are slain at Munich Olympics by Black Sept
1971 Astros pitcher J R Richard debut, strikes out 15 Giants in a 5-3 win
1970 Estimated 15 cm (6 inches) of rainfall, Bug Point, Utah (state record).
1969 Frente Obrero wins Dutch Antilles national elections
1968 82nd US Womens Tennis: Virginia Wade beats Billie Jean King (64 64)
1967 KMEG TV channel 14 in Sioux City, IA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1966 WRLK TV channel 35 in Columbia, SC (PBS) begins broadcasting
1963 British prostitute Christine Keeler is arrested for perjury. On December 6 she is sentenced to 9 months in prison.
1962 Atletico Madrid wins 2nd Europe Cup II
1961 JFK begins underground nuclear testing
1960 President Kasavubu fires Premier Lumumba of Congo
1958 Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak published in US
1957 Cuban Dictator Batista bombs Cienfuegos uprising
1956 20 die in a train crash in Springer, New Mexico, USA.
1955 Fred Kaps becomes world champion magician
1954 Dutch Super Constellation crashes at Shannon, 28 die
1953 US give Persian Premier Zahedi $45 million aid
1951 65th US Womens Tennis: Mo Connolly beats Shirley J Fry (63 16 64)
1950 64th US Womens Tennis: Margaret Osborne duPont beats D Hart (63 63)
1949 63rd US Womens Tennis: M Osborne duPont beats Doris Hart (64 61)
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.
1946 Yours Is My Heart opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 36 performances
1945 (2030 hours) Igor Gouzenko, a cipher clerk at the Soviet embassy in Ottawa, Canada, leaves the embassy with 109 top secret documents, seeking political asylum rather than return to the Soviet Union.
1944 Mad Tuesday 65,000 Dutch Nazi collaborators flee to Germany
1943 57th US Womens Tennis: Pauline Betz beats A Louise Brough (63 57 63)
1942 Battle at Alam Halfa ends
1940 WWII: Commerce raiding German auxiliary cruiser ''Komet'' enters the Pacific Ocean via the Bering Strait after crossing the Arctic Ocean from the North Sea with the help of Soviet icebreakers ''Lenin'', ''Stalin'', and ''Kaganovich''.
1939 34th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in Haverford (3-2)
1938 Chile: A group of youths affiliated with the fascist National Socialist Movement of Chile are assassinated in the Seguro Obrero massacre.
1936 Red Sox turn a triple-play on Yankees
1934 10 ampndash 8th Nuremberg Rally
1932 The French Upper Volta is broken apart between Ivory Coast, French Sudan, and Niger.
1930 The Mickey Mouse film The Chain Gang is released to theaters in the USA. This film debuts Pluto the dog, though he is not named.
1929 French Premier A Briand requests a US of Europe
1927 Universal Pictures releases the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit film Trolley Troubles to theaters in the USA. This is the first Oswald film release, a series created by the Walt Disney film studio.
1925 29th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Bobby Jones
1923 Flyweights Gene LaRue and Kid Pancho knock out each other simultaneously.
1922 17th Davis Cup: USA beats Australasia in New York (4-1)
1921 Walter Johnson sets strikeout mark at 2,287
1920 Iron monument unveiled at Stone churches, Flanders
1918 Decree ''On Red Terror'' is published in Russia
1916 36th US Mens Tennis: R N Williams III beats Johnston (46 64 06 62 64)
1915 35th US Mens Tennis: William Johnston beats McLoughlin (16 60 75 108)
1914 Battle of Marne (WWI) begins: Germans chase out Russians
1910 Jack Coombs begins a record streak of 53 shutout innings
1906 1st legal forward pass (Brandbury Robinson to Jack Schneider)
1905 Treaty of Portsmouth USA, ends Russo-Japanese War.
1901 National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues formed.
1900 France proclaims a protectorate over Chad.
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