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The following events took place on September 5. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 60 events. Showing 31 - 60.

• 1937

  Spanish Civil War: Llanes falls to the Nationalists following a one-day siege.
• 1938

  Chile: A group of youths affiliated with the fascist National Socialist Movement of Chile are assassinated in the Seguro Obrero massacre.
• 1941

  Whole territory of Estonia is occupied by Nazi Germany.
• 1942

  World War II: Japanese high command orders withdrawal at Milne Bay, the first major Japanese defeat in land warfare during the Pacific War.
• 1943

  World War II: The 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment lands and occupies Lae Nadzab Airport, near Lae in the Salamaua–Lae campaign.
• 1944

  Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg constitute Benelux.
• 1945

  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.
• 1945

  Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese American suspected of being wartime radio propagandist Tokyo Rose, is arrested in Yokohama.
• 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.
• 1957

  Cuban Revolution: Fulgencio Batista bombs the revolt in Cienfuegos.
• 1957

  On the Road, a novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, is published.
• 1960

  The poet Léopold Sédar Senghor is elected as the first President of Senegal.
• 1960

  Muhammad Ali (then Cassius Clay) wins the gold medal in the light heavyweight boxing competition at the Olympic Games in Rome.
• 1969

  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.
• 1970

  Vietnam War: Operation Jefferson Glenn begins: The United States 101st Airborne Division and the South Vietnamese 1st Infantry Division initiate a new operation in Thừa Thiên–Huế Province.
• 1970

  Jochen Rindt becomes the only driver to posthumously win the Formula One World Drivers’ Championship (in F1 1970), after being killed in practice for the Italian Grand Prix.
• 1972

  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 die the following day.
• 1975

  Sacramento, California: Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford.
• 1977

  Hanns Martin Schleyer is kidnapped in Cologne, West Germany by the Red Army Faction and is later murdered.
• 1977

  Voyager program: Voyager 1 is launched after a brief delay.
• 1978

  Camp David Accords: Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat begin peace discussions at Camp David, Maryland.
• 1980

  The Gotthard Road Tunnel opens in Switzerland as the world’s longest highway tunnel at 10.14 miles stretching from Göschenen to Airolo.
• 1984

  STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery lands after its maiden voyage.
• 1984

  Western Australia becomes the last Australian state to abolish capital punishment.
• 1986

  Pan Am Flight 73 with 358 people on board is hijacked at Karachi International Airport.
• 1990

  Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Army soldiers slaughter 158 civilians.
• 1991

  The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, comes into force.
• 1996

  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.
• 2012

  A firecracker factory explodes near Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu, killing 40 and injuring 50 others.
• 2012

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

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