September 5 in History
What happened on September 5 in history?
A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on september 5 in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened on september 5 in history.
?>1996
Hurricane Fran comes ashore near Cape Fear, No. Car. It will kill 27 people and cause more than $3 billion in damage.
1984
Space Shuttle Discovery lands afters its maiden voyage.
1980
World’s longest tunnel opens; Switzerland’s St. Gotthard Tunnel stretches 10.14 miles (16.224 km) from Goschenen to Airolo.
1978
Israel’s Menachem Begin and Egypt’s Anwar Sadat begin discussions on a peace process, at Camp David, Md.
1977
Hanns-Martin Schleyer, a German business executive who headed to powerful organization and had been an SS officer during WW2, is abducted by the left-wing extremist group Red Army Faction, who execute him on Oct. 18.
1977
Voyager 1 space probe launched.
1975
President Gerald Ford evades an assassination attempt in Sacramento, California.
1972
“Black September,” a Palestinian terrorist group take 11 Israeli athletes hostage at the Olympic Games in Munich; by midnight all hostages and all but 3 terrorists are dead.
1969
Charges are brought against US lieutenant William Calley in the March 1968 My Lai Massacre during Vietnam War.
1960
Leopold Sedar Sengingor, poet and politician, is elected president of Senegal, Africa.
1958
Martin Luther King Jr. is arrested in an Alabama protest for loitering and fined $14 for refusing to obey police.
1944
Germany launches its first V-2 missile at Paris, France.
1910
Marie Curie demonstrates the transformation of radium ore to metal at the Academy of Sciences in France.
1905
The Russian-Japanese War ends as representatives of the combating empires, meeting in New Hampshire, sign the Treaty of Portsmouth. Japan achieves virtually all of its original war aims.
1878
Bat Masterson, Wyatt Earp, Bill Tilghman and Clay Allison, four of the West’s most famous gunmen, meet in Dodge City, Kansas.
1877
The great Sioux warrior Crazy Horse is fatally bayoneted at age 36 by a soldier at Fort Robinson, Nebraska.
1870
Author Victor Hugo returns to Paris from the Isle of Guernsey where he had lived in exile for almost 20 years.
1867
The first shipment of cattle leaves Abilene, Kansas, on a Union Pacific train headed to Chicago.
1859
Harriot E. Wilson’s Our Nig, is published, the first U.S. novel by an African American woman.
1816
Louis XVIII of France dissolves the chamber of deputies, which has been challenging his authority.
1804
US Navy lieutenant Richard Somers and members of his crew are buried at Tripoli; they died when USS Intrepid exploded while entering Tripoli harbor on a mission to destroy the enemy fleet there during the First Barbary War.
1792
Maximilien Robespierre is elected to the National Convention in France.
1666
The Fire of London is extinguished after two days.
1664
After days of negotiation, the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam surrenders to the British, who will rename it New York.