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 249^th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 117 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is August 23, 2024 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,725,494,400 seconds 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 ‘dihectatetracontaenneagon’ 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 146 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 4,276 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

September 5 Historical Events

• 1840 –
  Premiere of Giuseppe Verdi’s Un giorno di regno at La Scala of Milan.
• 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.
• 1915 –
  The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins.
• 1927 –
  The first Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon, Trolley Troubles, produced by Walt Disney, is released by Universal Pictures.
• 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.
• 1961 –
  The first conference of the Non Aligned Countries is held in Belgrade.
• 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.
• 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.

Who were born on September 5?

• 1695 –
  Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician (d. 1770)
• 1771 –
  Archduke Charles of Austria, Austrian general (d. 1847)
• 1781 –
  Anton Diabelli, Austrian composer, editor and music publisher (d. 1858)
• 1912 –
  Frank Thomas, American animator (d. 2004)
• 1919 –
  Elisabeth Volkenrath, German Nazi concentration camp supervisor (d. 1945)
• 1935 –
  Werner Erhard, American founder of transformational training programs
• 1942 –
  Werner Herzog, German film director
• 1979 –
  George O'Callaghan, Irish footballer
• 1983 –
  Antony Sweeney, Hartlepool United footballer
• 1990 –
  Kim Yu-Na, Korean figure skater

Who died on September 5?

• 1235 –
  Henry I, Duke of Brabant (b. 1165)
• 1803 –
  François Devienne, French composer (b. 1759)
• 1914 –
  Charles Péguy, French poet, essayist and editor (b. 1873)
• 1948 –
  Richard C. Tolman, American mathematical physicist (b. 1881)
• 1984 –
  Jane Roberts, American psychic medium, writer
• 1992 –
  Fritz Leiber, American author (b. 1910)
• 1999 –
  Allen Funt, American radio and television personality (b. 1914)
• 2005 –
  Roberto Viaux, Chilean Army General (b. 1917)
• 2010 –
  Corneille (Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo), Belgian artist (b. 1922)
• 2010 –
  Shoya Tomizawa Japanese MotoGP Racer (b. 1990)