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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