What are the important events that happened on September 5? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

September 5: Facts & Myths About This Day

September 5 is the 248^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 117 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is August 23, 2025 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 488,064 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectatetracontaoctagon’ day.

Virgo is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Sapphire is the modern birthstone for this month. Agate is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 165 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,641 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

September 5 Historical Events

• 1839 –
  United Kingdom declared First Opium War on the Qing Dynasty of China.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1960 –
  The poet Léopold Sédar Senghor is elected as the first President of Senegal.
• 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.
• 1975 –
  Sacramento, California: Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford.
• 1991 –
  The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, came into force.

Who were born on September 5?

• 1319 –
  Peter IV of Aragon (d. 1387)
• 1836 –
  Justiniano Borgoño, President of Peru (d. 1921)
• 1923 –
  Ken Meuleman, Australian cricketer (d. 2004)
• 1938 –
  John Ferguson Sr., Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)
• 1956 –
  Roine Stolt, Swedish guitarist (The Flower Kings)
• 1962 –
  Peter Wingfield, Welsh actor
• 1973 –
  Paddy Considine, English actor
• 1977 –
  Rosevelt Colvin, American football player
• 1988 –
  Felipe Caicedo, Ecuadorian footballer
• 1990 –
  Antonio Esposito, Italian footballer

Who died on September 5?

• 1786 –
  Jonas Hanway, English merchant, traveler, and philanthropist (b. 1712)
• 1876 –
  Manuel Blanco Encalada, first president of Chile (b. 1790)
• 1930 –
  Robert Means Thompson, American naval officer (b. 1849)
• 1931 –
  John Thomson, Scottish football player (b. 1909)
• 1936 –
  Gustave Kahn, French Symbolist poet and art critic (b. 1859)
• 1970 –
  Jochen Rindt, German-Austrian race car driver (b. 1942)
• 1993 –
  Claude Renoir, French cinematographer (b.1914)
• 1994 –
  Shimshon Amitsur, Israeli mathematician and Israel Prize recipient (b. 1921)
• 2001 –
  Justin Wilson, American Cajun chef and humorist (b. 1914)
• 2007 –
  Jennifer Dunn, American politician (b. 1941)