History Events on September 05

The United Kingdom declares war on the Qing dynasty of China.

#First_Opium_War

The French Upper Volta is broken apart between Ivory Coast, French Sudan, and Niger.

#French_Upper_Volta

Alexander Farnese's army forces Henry IV of France to lift the siege of Paris.

#Alexander_Farnese,_Duke_of_Parma

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

#Sacramento,_California

War of 1812: The Siege of Fort Wayne begins when Chief Winamac's forces attack two soldiers returning from the fort's outhouses.

#War_of_1812

Sam Houston is elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas.

#Sam_Houston

First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia.

#Continental_Congress

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.

#Robert_Schuman

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

#Western_Australia

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

#Jochen_Rindt

Whole territory of Estonia is occupied by Nazi Germany.

#Estonia

Pan Am Flight 73 from Mumbai, India with 358 people on board is hijacked at Karachi International Airport.

#Pan_Am_Flight_73

Cuban Revolution: Fulgencio Batista bombs the revolt in Cienfuegos.

#Cuban_Revolution

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).

#Forward_pass

Fall of Nicolas Fouquet: Louis XIV Superintendent of Finances is arrested in Nantes by D'Artagnan, captain of the king's musketeers.

#Nicolas_Fouquet

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.

#Cold_War

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

#World_War_II

American 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.

#American_Indian_Wars

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

#2012_Afyonkarahisar_arsenal_explosion

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.

#Hurricane_Fran

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

#Muhammad_Ali

Poet Léopold Sédar Senghor is the first elected President of Senegal.

#Léopold_Sédar_Senghor

Battle of the Chesapeake in the American Revolutionary War: The British Navy is repelled by the French Navy, contributing to the British surrender at Yorktown.

#Battle_of_the_Chesapeake

Russo-Japanese War: In New Hampshire, United States, the Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, ends the war.

#Russo-Japanese_War

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.

#World_War_I

Chile: A group of youths affiliated with the fascist National Socialist Movement of Chile are executed after surrendering during a failed coup.

#Chile

The Gotthard Road Tunnel opens in Switzerland as the world's longest highway tunnel at 10.14 miles (16.32 km) stretching from Göschenen to Airolo.

#Gotthard_Road_Tunnel

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

#Iva_Toguri_D'Aquino

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

#Sri_Lankan_Civil_War

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

#Camp_David_Accords

Great Fire of London ends: Ten thousand buildings, including Old St Paul's Cathedral, are destroyed, but only six people are known to have died.

#Great_Fire_of_London

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

#Spanish_Civil_War

French Revolution: The French National Convention initiates the Reign of Terror.

#French_Revolution

Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg constitute Benelux.

#Luxembourg

A fire at the Theatre Royal, Exeter, kills 186.

#Theatre_Royal,_Exeter

The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City.

#Labor_Day

American Civil War: The Army of Northern Virginia crosses the Potomac River at White's Ford in the Maryland Campaign.

#American_Civil_War

Olympe de Gouges writes the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen.

#Olympe_de_Gouges

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

#STS-41-D

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.

#Tsar

Vietnam War: Operation Jefferson Glenn begins: The United States 101st Airborne Division and the South Vietnamese 1st Infantry Division initiate a new operation in Th?a Thiên-Hu? Province.

#Vietnam_War

Conscription is made mandatory in France by the Jourdan law.

#Conscription

The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins.

#Zimmerwald_Conference

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

Voyager Program: NASA launches the Voyager 1 spacecraft.

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 are murdered the following day.

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.

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

The first Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon, Trolley Troubles, produced by Walt Disney, is released by Universal Pictures.

Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle party in San Francisco ends with the death of the young actress Virginia Rappe: One of the first scandals of the Hollywood community.

Tottenham Hotspur, a Premier League football club from North London, is founded (as Hotspur F.C.).

Louis XVIII has to dissolve the Chambre introuvable ("Unobtainable Chamber").

Wedding of Louis XV and Maria Leszczy?ska.

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.

Liu Yan declares himself emperor, establishing the Southern Han state in southern China, at his capital of Panyu.