September
5
Teachers
Day in India
It is the
birthday [5 September 1888 ],of the second President of India,
academic philosopher Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. It is considered
a "celebration" day, where teachers and students report
to school as usual but the usual activities and classes are
replaced by activities of celebration, thanks and remembrance.
At some schools on this day, the responsibility of teaching
is taken up by the senior students to show appreciation for
their teachers.
Events
1590 – Alexander
Farnese's army forces Henry IV of France to raise the siege
of Paris.
1661 – Fall of Nicolas Fouquet: Louis XIV Superintendent of
Finances is arrested in Nantes by D'Artagnan, captain of the
king's musketeers.
1666 – Great Fire of London ends: 10,000 buildings including
St. Paul's Cathedral are destroyed, but only 6 people are known
to have died.
1697 – 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.
1698 – 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.
1725 – Wedding of Louis XV and Maria Leszczyńska.
1774 – First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.
1781 – Battle of the Chesapeake in the American Revolutionary
War.
1793 – French Revolution the French National Convention initiates
the Reign of Terror.
1798 – Conscription is made mandatory in France by the Jourdan
law.
1800 – Napoleon surrenders Malta to Great Britain.
1812 – War of 1812: The Siege of Fort Wayne begins when Chief
Winamac's forces attack two soldiers returning from the fort's
outhouses.
1816 – Louis XVIII has to dissolve the Chambre introuvable ("Unobtainable
Chamber").
1836 – Sam Houston is elected as the first president of the
Republic of Texas.
1839 – United Kingdom declared First Opium War on the Qing Dynasty
of China.
1840 – Premiere of Giuseppe Verdi's Un giorno di regno at La
Scala of Milan.
1862 – American Civil War: the Potomac River is crossed at White's
Ford in the Maryland Campaign.
1862 – James Glaisher, pioneering meteorologist and Henry Tracey
Coxwell break world record for altitude whilst collecting data
in their balloon.
1864 – Achille François Bazaine becomes Marshall of France.
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.
1882 – The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New
York City.
1887 – Fire at Theatre Royal in Exeter, England killed 186
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).
1914 – 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.
1915 – The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins.
1918 – Decree "On Red Terror" is published in Russia
1927 – The first Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon, Trolley Troubles,
produced by Walt Disney, is released by Universal Pictures.
1932 – The French Upper Volta is broken apart between Ivory
Coast, French Sudan, and Niger.
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.
1941 – Whole territory of Estonia is occupied by Nazi Germany.
1942 – World War II: Japanese high command orders withdrawal
at Milne Bay, first Japanese defeat in the Pacific War.
1943 – World War II: The 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment lands
and occupies Nazdab, 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 – Cuba: Fulgencio Batista bombs the revolt in Cienfuegos.
1960 – The poet Léopold Sédar Senghor is elected as the first
President of Senegal.
1960 – The boxer Muhammad Ali (then Cassius Clay) is awarded
the gold medal for his first place in the light heavyweight
boxing competition at the Olympic Games in Rome.
1961 – The first conference of the Non Aligned Countries is
held in Belgrade.
1969 – My Lai Massacre: U.S. Army Lt. 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.
1972 – Munich Massacre: A Palestinian terrorist group called
"Black September" attack and take hostage 11 Israel
athletes at the Munich Olympic Games. 2 die in the attack and
9 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 process at Camp David, Maryland.
1980 – The St. Gotthard Tunnel opens in Switzerland as the world's
longest highway tunnel at 10.14 miles (16.224 km) 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.
1991 – The current international treaty defending indigenous
peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, came
into force.
2005 – Mandala Airlines Flight 091 crashes into a heavily populated
residential of Sumatra, Indonesia, killing 104 people on board
and at least 39 persons on ground.
Holidays
and observances
Christian
Feast Day:
Bertin
Blessed Teresa of Calcutta
Genebald
Zechariah and Elisabeth (Anglican and Eastern Orthodox Church)
September 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Earliest date on which Jeûne genevois can fall, while September
11 is the latest; celebrated on Thursday after the first Sunday
of September. (Canton of Geneva)
Jupiter Stator, commemorates that Jupiter helped Romulus to
stop the Sabine invasion under Titus Tatius. (Roman Empire)
Teachers' Day (India)
Veterans' Day (Denmark)
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