5 September
Notable Births
Bukayo Saka
b. 2001
English footballer (born 2001)
Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow
b. 2001
Australia & Samoa international rugby league footballer
Filip Chytil
b. 1999
Czech ice hockey player (born 1999)
Caroline Dolehide
b. 1998
American tennis player (born 1998)
Mac Jones
b. 1998
American football player (born 1998)
Davion Mitchell
b. 1998
American basketball player (born 1998)
Steven Kwan
b. 1997
American baseball player (born 1997)
Kyōko Saitō
b. 1997
Japanese actress, television presenter, singer, and model
Jarren Duran
b. 1996
American baseball player (born 1996)
Sigrid (singer)
b. 1996
Norwegian singer (born 1996)
Richairo Živković
b. 1996
Curaçaoan footballer (born 1996)
Lucas Wallmark
b. 1995
Swedish ice hockey player (born 1995)
Gregorio Paltrinieri
b. 1994
Italian swimmer (born 1994)
Pablo Reyes
b. 1993
Dominican baseball player (born 1993)
T. J. Warren
b. 1993
American basketball player (born 1993)
Lance Stephenson
b. 1990
American basketball player (born 1990)
Yuna Kim
b. 1990
South Korean figure skater (born 1990)
Franco Zuculini
b. 1990
Argentine footballer
Otto Bauer
b. 1881
Austrian socialist politician (1881–1938)
Jesse James
b. 1847
American outlaw (1847–1882)
Notable Deaths
Rebecca Cheptegei
d. 2024
Ugandan athlete (1991–2024)
Herbie Flowers
d. 2024
English musician (1938–2024)
Radha Charan Gupta
d. 2024
Indian historian of mathematics (1935–2024)
Sérgio Mendes
d. 2024
Brazilian musician (1941–2024)
Rich Homie Quan
d. 2024
American rapper (1989–2024)
Laurent Tirard
d. 2024
French film director and screenwriter (1967–2024)
Sarah Harding
d. 2021
English singer, model, and actress (1981–2021)
Francisco Toledo
d. 2019
Mexican artist (1940–2019)
Bhagwatikumar Sharma
d. 2018
Indian author and journalist (1934–2018)
Beatriz Segall
d. 2018
Brazilian actress (1926–2018)
Nicolaas Bloembergen
d. 2017
Dutch–American physicist (1920–2017)
Hugh O'Brian
d. 2016
American actor (1925–2016)
Phyllis Schlafly
d. 2016
American activist (1924–2016)
Aadesh Shrivastava
d. 2015
Indian musician
Mara Neusel
d. 2014
Mathematician
Ian Dick (Australian sportsman)
d. 2012
Australian cricketer and field hockey player
Victoria Fyodorova
d. 2012
American actress
Corneille Guillaume Beverloo
d. 2010
Dutch artist
Gani Fawehinmi
d. 2009
Nigerian lawyer (1938–2009)
Alan Kippax
d. 1972
Australian cricketer
On This Day in History
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2022
Liz Truss is declared the winner of the UK Conservative Party leadership election, beating Rishi Sunak.
Liz Truss
2022
At least 93 people die and 25 are missing after a magnitude 6.8 earthquake strikes Sichuan, China.
2022 Luding earthquake
2021
The President of Guinea, Alpha Condé is captured by armed forces during a coup d'état.
Alpha Condé
2012
An accidental explosion at a Turkish Army ammunition store in Afyon, western Turkey kills 25 soldiers and wounds four others.
2012 Afyonkarahisar arsenal explosion
2005
Mandala Airlines Flight 091 crashes after takeoff from Polonia International Airport in Medan, Indonesia, killing 149.
Mandala Airlines Flight 091
1996
Hurricane Fran makes landfall near Cape Fear, North Carolina as a Category 3 storm with 115 mph sustained winds. Fran caused over $3 billion in damage and killed 27 people.
Hurricane Fran
1991
The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, comes into force.
Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989
1990
Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Army soldiers slaughter 158 civilians.
Sri Lankan civil war
1986
Pan Am Flight 73 from Mumbai, India with 358 people on board is hijacked at Karachi International Airport.
Pan Am Flight 73
1984
STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery lands after its maiden voyage.
STS-41-D
1984
Western Australia becomes the last Australian state to abolish capital punishment.
Western Australia
1981
The first women arrive at what becomes Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp in the UK.
Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp
1980
The Gotthard Road Tunnel opens in Switzerland as the world's longest highway tunnel at 16.9 kilometres (10.5 mi) stretching from Göschenen to Airolo.
Gotthard Road Tunnel
1978
Camp David Accords: Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat begin peace discussions at Camp David, Maryland.
Camp David Accords
1977
Voyager Program: NASA launches the Voyager 1 spacecraft.
Voyager program
1975
Sacramento, California: Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford.
Sacramento, California
1972
Munich massacre: A Palestinian terrorist group called "Black September" attacks and takes hostage 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games. Two die in the attack and nine are murdered the following day.
Munich massacre
1970
Vietnam War: Operation Jefferson Glenn begins: The United States 101st Airborne Division and the South Vietnamese 1st Infantry Division initiate a new operation in Thừa Thiên–Huế Province.
Vietnam War
1969
Mỹ Lai Massacre: U.S. Army Lieutenant William Calley is charged with six specifications of premeditated murder for the death of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai.
My Lai massacre
1968
End of the Congress of Carrara, one of the major 20th century anarchist congresses.
Congress of Carrara