Browse events, births, deaths and holidays on September 5 throughout history.
Mary Elizabeth Truss is a British politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from September to October 2022. On her fiftieth day …
Liz Truss is declared the winner of the UK Conservative Party leadership election, beating Rishi Sunak.
A Mw 6.7 earthquake struck Luding County in Sichuan province, China on 5 September 2022 at 12:52:19 local time. The epicenter was located 226 km (140 mi) from Chengdu, or 43 km (2…
At least 93 people die and 25 are missing after a magnitude 6.8 earthquake strikes Sichuan, China.
Alpha Condé is a Guinean politician who served as the fourth president of Guinea from 2010 to 2021. He spent decades in opposition to a succession of regimes in Guinea, unsuccessf…
The President of Guinea, Alpha Condé is captured by armed forces during a coup d'état.
The 2012 Afyonkarahisar arsenal explosion occurred at 21:15 local time on 5 September 2012 in Afyonkarahisar, Turkey. According to Turkish Armed Forces, 25 servicemen died, four o…
An accidental explosion at a Turkish Army ammunition store in Afyon, western Turkey kills 25 soldiers and wounds four…
The Waziristan Accord was a ceasefire agreement between the Government of Pakistan and local Taliban militants in North Waziristan.
The Waziristan Accord is signed between the Government of Pakistan and local Taliban militants in North Waziristan,…
Mandala Airlines Flight 091 (RI091/MDL091) was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Medan to Jakarta, operated by Mandala Airlines with a Boeing 737-200. On September 5, 200…
Mandala Airlines Flight 091 crashes after takeoff from Polonia International Airport in Medan, Indonesia, killing 149.
Hurricane Fran caused extensive damage in the United States in early September 1996. The sixth named storm, fifth hurricane, and third major hurricane of the 1996 Atlantic hurrica…
Hurricane Fran makes landfall near Cape Fear, North Carolina as a Category 3 storm with 115 mph sustained winds. Fran…
The Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 is an International Labour Organization Convention, also known as ILO Convention 169, or C169. It is the major binding internati…
The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, comes…
The Sri Lankan civil war was fought in Sri Lanka from 1983 to 2009. Beginning on 23 July 1983, it was an intermittent insurgency against the government by the Liberation Tigers of…
Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Army soldiers slaughter 158 civilians.
Pan Am Flight 73 was a Pan American World Airways flight from Mumbai, India, to New York City, United States, with scheduled stops in Karachi, Pakistan, and Frankfurt, West German…
Pan Am Flight 73 from Mumbai, India with 358 people on board is hijacked at Karachi International Airport.
STS-41-D was the 12th flight of NASA's Space Shuttle program, and the maiden flight of Space Shuttle Discovery. It was launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on August 30, 1…
STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery lands after its maiden voyage.
Western Australia is the westernmost state of Australia. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the no…
Western Australia becomes the last Australian state to abolish capital punishment.
Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp was a series of protest camps established to protest against nuclear weapons being placed at RAF Greenham Common in Berkshire, England. The camp…
The first women arrive at what becomes Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp in the UK.
The Gotthard Road Tunnel in Switzerland runs from Göschenen in the canton of Uri at its northern portal, to Airolo in Ticino to the south, and is 16.9 kilometres (10.5 mi) in leng…
The Gotthard Road Tunnel opens in Switzerland as the world's longest highway tunnel at 16.9 kilometres (10.5 mi)…
The Camp David Accords were a pair of political agreements signed by Egyptian president Anwar Sadat and Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin on 17 September 1978, following twelv…
Camp David Accords: Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat begin peace discussions at Camp David, Maryland.
The Voyager program is an American scientific program that employs two interstellar probes, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. They were launched in 1977 to take advantage of a favorable pl…
Voyager Program: NASA launches the Voyager 1 spacecraft.
Sacramento is the capital city of the U.S. state of California. The county seat of Sacramento County, it is located at the confluence of the Sacramento and American Rivers in the …
Sacramento, California: Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford.
The Munich massacre was a terrorist attack during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, carried out by eight members of the Palestinian militant organisation Black Sep…
Munich massacre: A Palestinian terrorist group called "Black September" attacks and takes hostage 11 Israeli athletes…
The Vietnam War was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam and their allies. North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Uni…
Vietnam War: Operation Jefferson Glenn begins: The United States 101st Airborne Division and the South Vietnamese 1st…
The My Lai Massacre was a U.S. Army war crime committed on 16 March 1968, involving the mass murder of between 347 and 504 civilians, almost all women, children and elderly men, i…
Mỹ Lai Massacre: U.S. Army Lieutenant William Calley is charged with six specifications of premeditated murder for the…