Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 5
This is a list of selected September 5 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.
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French and British ships engage in the Battle of the Chesapeake
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| 1793 – French Revolution: The National Convention began the "Reign of Terror", a ten-month period of systematic repression and mass executions by guillotine of perceived enemies within the country. | refimprove |
| 1905 – Under the mediation of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt (pictured), the Russo-Japanese War officially ended with the signing of the Treaty of Portsmouth at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard near Portsmouth, New Hampshire, US. | not neutral, needs more footnotes |
| 1914 – World War I: The First Battle of the Marne began with French forces engaging the advancing German army at the Marne River near Paris. | needs more footnotes |
| 1945 – Cold War: Soviet cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko defected to Canada with over 100 documents on Soviet espionage activities and sleeper agents. | refimprove |
Eligible
- 1774 – In response to the British Parliament enacting the Intolerable Acts, representatives from twelve of Britain's North American colonies convened the First Continental Congress at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia.
- 1836 – Sam Houston became the first popularly elected President of the Republic of Texas.
- 1980 – The St. Gotthard Tunnel opened in Switzerland as the world's longest highway tunnel at 24.51 km (15.3 miles) stretching from Goschenen to Airolo.
- 1991 – The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, came into force.
September 5: Labour Day in Canada and Labor Day in the United States (2011); Teachers' Day in India
- 1781 – American Revolutionary War: French naval forces handed Britain a major strategic defeat in the Battle of the Chesapeake.
- 1943 – World War II: American and Australian forces made an airborne landing at Nadzab as part of the New Guinea campaign against Japan.
- 1960 – Senegalese poet Léopold Sédar Senghor (pictured) was elected as the first President of Senegal.
- 1972 – The Palestinian militant group Black September took hostage eleven Israeli athletes and coaches at the Olympic Games in Munich, West Germany; all of the hostages were killed less than 24 hours later.
- 1977 – NASA launched the robotic space probe Voyager 1, currently the man-made object most distant from Earth.
