September 5

September 5 is the 248th day of the year (249th in leap years). There are 117 days remaining.

Events:

• 1698 - Tsar Peter the Great of Russia imposes a tax on beards
• 1774 - First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• 1836 - Sam Houston elected president of the Republic of Texas
• 1862 - Robert E. Lee invades Maryland
• 1905 - Treaty of Portsmouth signed, ending the Russo-Japanese War
• 1914 - Battle of the Marne[?] begins
• 1939 - United States declares its neutrality in World War II
• 1944 - Allies liberate Brussels
• 1960 - Cassius Clay wins the gold medal in boxing at the Rome Olympic Games
• 1972 - Palestinian terrorists attack Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games (see Munich massacre)
• 1977 - Voyager 1 launched
• 2002 - The Sour Biscuit Fire[?] in Oregon and northern California, which burned 499,570 acres, is finally contained.

Births:

• 1638 - Louis XIV of France (+ 1715)
• 1807 - Richard Chenevix Trench, clergyman, philologist (+ 1886)
• 1827 - Goffredo Mameli, Italian poet and writer
• 1847 - Jesse James, outlaw (+ 1882)
• 1879 - Frank Jewett[?], inventor, president of Bell Labs
• 1882 - The first Labor Day
• 1902 - Darryl F. Zanuck, movie producer and executive (+ 1979)
• 1905 - Arthur Koestler, Hungarian writer
• 1912 - John Cage, American composer (+ 1992)
• 1916 - Frank Yerby[?], novelist(+ 1991)
• 1921 - Jack Valenti, political advisor, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Motion Picture Association of America
• 1924 - Paul Volcker[?], head of the Federal Reserve Board
• 1929 - Bob Newhart, actor, comedian
• 1929 - Andrian Nikolayev, cosmonaut
• 1934 - Carol Lawrence[?], actress, singer
• 1936 - Bill Mazeroski[?], baseball star
• 1939 - George Lazenby[?], actor
• 1939 - Princess Irene of the Netherlands
• 1939 - William Devane[?], actor
• 1939 - Susumu Tonegawa[?], Nobel Prize winning molecular biologist
• 1940 - Raquel Welch, actress
• 1942 - Werner Herzog, film director
• 1946 - Freddie Mercury, British pop singer (+ 1991)
• 1946 - Loudon Wainwright III[?], singer, composer
• 1946 - Buddy Miles, musician
• 1950 - Cathy Guisewite[?], cartoonist
• 1965 - Chris Morris, British satirist
• 1976 - Tatyana Gutsu, Ukrainian gymnast

Deaths:

• 1235 - Henry I, Duke of Brabant
• 1877 - Crazy Horse, Sioux military leader
• 1902 - Rudolf Virchow, German doctor, pathologist, biologist, and politician
• 1906 - Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian phsyicist
• 1910 - Julian Edwards[?], composer
• 1912 - Arthur MacArthur[?], soldier
• 1930 - Robert Means Thompson, American naval officer
• 1970 - Jochen Rindt, Austrian racing driver
• 1988 - Gert Fröbe[?], actor
• 1992 - Fritz Leiber, science fiction and fantasy author
• 1995 - William Kunstler[?], lawyer, liberal activist
• 1997 - Georg Solti, conductor
• 1997 - Mother Teresa, Yugoslav development worker
• 1998 - Leo Penn[?], film director
• 1999 - Allen Funt[?], radio and television personality
• 2001 - Justin Wilson[?], celebrity chef
• 2001 - Heywood Hale Broun[?], sports commentator

Holidays:

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