5 September

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The 5t o September is the 248t day o the year (249t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 117 days bidin.

Events

1666 - The Great Fire o Lunnon is brocht unner control.
1698 - Roushie Tsar Peter the Great bans beards.
1800 - Great Breetain taks ower Malta.
1836 - Sam Houston is electit Preses o the Republic o Texas.
1869 - The foondation stane is laid for Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavarie.
1882 - Inglis fitbaa club Tottenham Hotspur F.C. is foondit.
1887 - A fire at the Theatre Royal in Exeter, Devon, Ingland, kills 186 fowk.
1914 - Warld War I: Stairt o the Battle on the Marne.
1940 - Warld War II: Estonie is occupied bi Germany.
1944 - Warld War II: The Soviet Union declares war on Bulgarie.
1970 - Racin driver Jochen Rindt is kilt at the Italian Grand Prix. He becomes the first driver tae win the Formula Ane Warld Championship efter his daith.
1972 - Terror group "Black September" attacks Israel's wechtliftin team at the 1972 Simmer Olympics in Munich.
1977 - The Voyager 1 spacecraft is launched.
1980 - The Gotthard Road Tunnel in Swisserland opens.
2000 - Tuvalu jynes the Unitit Naitions.
2005 - Mandala Airlines Flicht 91 crashes in Medan, Indonesie, killin 101 fowk on the plane an 47 on the groond.
2008 - Quentin Bryce becomes the first female Govrenor-General o Australie.
2012 - A firecracker factory splosion in Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu, Indie, kills 40 fowk.
2014 - Roushie an Ukraine agree tae a ceasefire in the conflict in Eastren Ukraine.
2015 - The accidental splosion o a militar ammunition store in Afyon, Turkey, kills 25 sodgers.

Births

1187 - Louis VIII o Fraunce (d. 1226)
1638 - Louis XIV o Fraunce (d. 1715)
1735 - Johann Christian Bach, German componer (d. 1782)
1750 - Robert Fergusson, Scots makar (d. 1774)
1774 - Caspar David Friedrich, German penter (d. 1840)
1791 - Giacomo Meyerbeer, German componer (d. 1864)
1847 - Jesse James, American ootlaw (d. 1882)
1858 - William Abbott Herdman, Scots marine zoologist (d. 1924)
1888 - Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Indian philosopher an Preses (d. 1975)
1912 - John Cage, American componer (d. 1992)
1914 - Nicanor Parra, Chilean poet, mathemateecian an pheesicist (d. 2018)
1939 - George Lazenby, Australian actor
1940 - Raquel Welch, American actress
1942 - Werner Herzog, German film director
1946 - Ian Lister, Scots fitbawer (d. 2013)
1946 - Freddie Mercury, Zanzibar-born sangster (Queen) (d. 1991)
1951 - Paul Breitner, German fitbawer
1951 - Michael Keaton, American actor
1965 - Murdo Fraser, Scots politeecian
1973 - Paddy Considine, Inglis actor, director an producer
1979 - John Carew, Norse fitbawer
1980 - Marianna Madia, Italian politeecian
1988 - Nuri Sahin, German-Turkish fitbawer
1990 - Kim Yuna, Sooth Korean figur skeitcher
1996 - Sigrid, Norse sangster

Daiths

1787 - John Brown, Scots airtist (b. 1752)
1857 - Auguste Comte, French philosopher (b. 1798)
1902 - Rudolf Virchow, German scientist (b. 1821)
1931 - John Thomson, Scots fitbawer (b. 1909)
1965 - Tom Johnston, Scots politeecian (b. 1881)
1970 - Jochen Rindt, German-Austrick racin driver (b. 1942)
1997 - Georg Solti, Hungarian-Breetish conductor (b. 1912)
1997 - Mither Teresa, Albanian nun (b. 1910)
2017 - Nicolaas Bloembergen, Dutch-American pheesicist (b. 1920)

Halidays

Teacher's Day (Indie)
Airchitects Day (Guatemala)