What Happened On September 5

What Happened On Sep 5 Events

1774 Sep 5
to 1774 Oct 26
 The First Continental Congress
The first Continental Congress met in Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia, from September 5, to October 26, 1774. Carpenter's Hall was also the seat of the Pennsylvania Congress. All of the ...
1781 Sep 5 Battle of the Chesapeake
When the British fleet of 19 ships, now under Graves's command, arrived back at the Chesapeake on the morning of September 5, they found 25 French ships at anchor behind Cape Henry. The r...
1847 Sep 5 Jesse James Is Born
The infamous Jesse James was born on September 5, 1847. At seventeen, James left his native Missouri to fight as a Confederate guerilla in the Civil War. After the war, he returned to his...
1881 Sep 5 Great Thumb Forest Fire
In the Lower Peninsula of the state of Michigan, a widespread drought had begun to dry out pastures, crops, wells and, eventually, forests. The area was rich in timber, and a great deal o...
1882 Sep 5 The First Labor Day Parade
On September 5, 1882, some 10,000 workers assembled in New York City to participate in America's first Labor Day parade. After marching from City Hall, past reviewing stands in Union Squa...
1887 Sep 5 Theatre Royal Fire
On the 5th September 1887, on the first night of a romantic comedy called Romany Rye, and with an audience of 800, a naked gas flame ignited some drapes in the fly's. Within moments, pani...
1914 Sep 5
to 1914 Sep 15
 Battle of La Fere Champenoise
French Ninth Army, 120,000 Corps of Fifth French Army, 40,000 General Ferdinand Foch, Commander General Grosetti General Humbert German Forces, 500,000 General von Buelow's A...
1914 Sep 5
to 1914 Sep 10
 Battle of the Ourcq
Allied Forces, 515,000 Sixth French Army, 175,000 General Maunoury, Commander General Pau, Chief of Staff Paris Garrison, 50,000 General Gallieni, Commander Admiral Ronarch (Mar...
1914 Sep 5
to 1914 Sep 15
 First Battle of the Marne (the Miracle of the Marne)
Allied Forces, 1,200,000 General Joffre, Commander-in-Chief Army Alignment from Paris to Epinal: (Paris Garrison, General Gallieni) Sixth French Army, General Maunoury British Army...
1916 Sep 5
to 1916 Sep 22
 Battle Of Flers-Courcelette
The Battle of Flers-Courcelette, which began on 15 September 1916 and lasted for one week, was the third and last of the large-scale offensives mounted by the British Army during the Batt...
1918 Sep 5
to 1918 Sep 11
 1918 World Series
The 1918 World Series featured the Boston Red Sox, who defeated the Chicago Cubs four games to two. The Series victory for the Red Sox was their fifth in five tries, going back to 1903. ...
1934 Sep 5 "One Night Of Love" Is Released
One Night of Love is a 1934 musical romance, set in the opera world, starring Grace Moore and Tullio Carminati. It was written by James Gow, S.K. Lauren and Edmund H. North, from the stor...
1945 Sep 5 Igor Gouzenko Defects from USSR to Canada, Providing Evidence of a Soviet Spy Ring in Western Countries
Igor Sergeyevich Gouzenko (January 13, 1919, Rogachevo, Soviet Union – June 28, 1982, Mississauga, Canada) was a cipher clerk for the Soviet Embassy to Canada in Ottawa, Ontario. He defec...
1946 Sep 5 Freddie Mercury is born
Freddie Mercury (born Farrokh Bulsara) (5 September 1946 – 24 November 1991) was a British musician, best known as the frontman of the rock band Queen. As a performer, he was known for hi...
1950 Sep 5 Ronald Reagan Hosts "Startime" - The Swingin' Singin' Years
Star Time was a short-lived TV series which aired on the DuMont Television Network from September 5, 1950 to February 27, 1951. It featured singer Frances Langford and consisted of Jazz o...
1957 Sep 5 'On The Road' is Published
The story is set in the late 1940s. told in the first person by Sal Paradise, a budding writer given to ecstasies about America, hot jazz, the meaning of life, and marijuana. The book's p...
1960 Sep 5 Life Magazine Publishes 'The Dangerous Summer'
The book charts the rise of Antonio Ordóñez (the son of Cayetano Ordóñez, whose exploits in the bull ring and fighting technique Hemingway had written about in The Sun Also Rises) across ...
1972 Sep 5
4:30AM
to 1972 Sep 6
12:04AM
 Eleven Israeli athletes and coaches killed in Munich massacre
The Munich massacre is an informal name for events occurred during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, when members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage and eventu...
1975 Sep 5 Lynnette Fromm Attempts to Assassinate President Gerald Ford
Ford faced two assassination attempts during his presidency, occurring within three weeks of each other: while in Sacramento, California on September 5, 1975, Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, a ...
1986 Sep 5 "Sherman's March" Is Released
Sherman's March: A Meditation on the Possibility of Romantic Love In the South During an Era of Nuclear Weapons Proliferation is a 1986 documentary film written and directed by Ross McElw...
1987 Sep 5 Alice Cooper releases Raise Your Fist and Yell
Raise Your Fist and Yell is a 1987 concept album by rock musician Alice Cooper. It features the track "Prince of Darkness", which is featured very briefly in the John Carpenter film of th...
1987 Sep 5 Motörhead release Rock 'n' Roll
Rock 'N' Roll is the eighth album by the British band Motörhead and the first appearance of their four-piece line up of Lemmy, Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor, Würzel and Philip Campbell, wh...
1989 Sep 5 Annihilator release Alice in Hell
Alice in Hell is the first album by the Canadian thrash metal band Annihilator, released in 1989. The album was re-released twice: 1998 with 3 demo tracks as bonus tracks and again on Sep...
1989 Sep 5 NOFX release S&M Airlines
S&M Airlines is the second album by NOFX.
1989 Sep 5 Rage releases Secrets in a Weird World
Secrets in a Weird World is the fourth full-length album by the German heavy metal band Rage. It was released in 1989. The album was remastered by Noise/Sanctuary in 2002 with slightly al...
1989 Sep 5 Sepultura release Beneath the Remains
Beneath the Remains is the third studio album by Brazilian thrash metal band Sepultura, released in 1989. It was their first release through Roadrunner Records. Beneath the Remains had...
1989 Sep 5 Soundgarden release Louder Than Love
Louder Than Love is the second studio album by the American grunge band Soundgarden, released on September 5, 1989 through A&M Records. After touring in support of its first full-length s...
1991 Sep 5 "Black Robe" Is Released
Black Robe is a 1991 film directed by Bruce Beresford. The screenplay was written by Irish-Canadian author Brian Moore, who based it on his own novel of the same name. The film's main cha...
1995 Sep 5 Alice Cooper releases Classicks
Classicks is a compilation album by Alice Cooper, released by Epic Records in September, 1995. This release was to mark the end of Cooper's record contract with Epic Records, which had sp...
1995 Sep 5 Jughead's Revenge releases 13 Kiddie Favorites
13 Kiddie Favorites is a compilation album by the punk rock band Jughead's Revenge, released in 1995. It is a collection of b-sides and never-before material. Although it is often referre...
1997 Sep 5 Mother Teresa Dies
Mother Teresa suffered a heart attack in Rome in 1983, while visiting Pope John Paul II. After a second attack in 1989, she received an artificial pacemaker. In 1991, after a battle with ...
2000 Sep 5 The Smashing Pumpkins release MACHINA II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music
MACHINA II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music is the sixth studio album by American alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins. It was released for free on the Internet on September 5...
2004 Sep 5 Boston Red Sox defeat Texas Rangers, 6-5
When it began, the Red Sox were 5 1/2 games behind the Yankees in the American League East and tied with Anaheim for the wild-card lead. When it ended, this nigh-perfect 10-game Fenway...
2005 Sep 5 Chicago White Sox defeat Boston Red Sox, 5-3
Again Curt Schilling went to the mound, and again he walked off haunted by the apparition of Schilling past and perplexed by the incarnation of Schilling present. Yes, yesterday's 5-3 ...
2005 Sep 5 Coldplay releases "Fix You" single
"Fix You" is a song by English alternative rock band Coldplay. It was written by all four members of the band for their third album, X&Y. The track is built around a church-style organ, t...
2005 Sep 5 The Rolling Stones Release 'A Bigger Bang'
A Bigger Bang is the 22nd studio album by The Rolling Stones. It is a follow-up to their previous full-length studio album, 1997's Bridges to Babylon, and like Bridges to Babylon and its ...
2006 Sep 5 Beyonce releases second studio album "B'Day"
B'Day is the second studio album by American R&B singer Beyoncé Knowles. Columbia Records, in collaboration with Music World Music and Sony Urban Music, released it worldwide on September...
2006 Sep 5 Boston Red Sox defeat Chicago White Sox, 1-0
One night it's Julian Tavarez, the reliever turned emergency starter. The next, it's Kason Gabbard, a lefthander who began the season in Double A, had lost all three big-league decisions ...
2007 Sep 5 Tampa Bay Rays defeat Baltimore Orioles, 17-2
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Radhames Liz should have seen it coming. Not the ball that slammed into his left leg in the first inning, but the likelihood that his third major league start woul...
2007 Sep 5 Toronto Blue Jays defeat Boston Red Sox, 6-4
It's not quite as simple as Oki-Doki anymore. There will be times, like last night, when it's Oki, duck. An inning after Manny Delcarmen was taken deep by one Toronto strongman, Troy G...
2008 Sep 5 Boston Red Sox defeat Texas Rangers, 8-1
ARLINGTON, Texas --Josh Beckett and Mike Lowell had an immediate impact in their return to the lineup for the AL wild card-leading Boston Red Sox. Beckett struck out seven over five sc...
2008 Sep 5 "Dream On" Airs
At the end of the season, the brothers end their "When You Look Me in the Eyes" tour. Their tour ends up in their hometown of Wyckoff, New Jersey. In "Dream On" they finish showing us ho...
2008 Sep 5 Miley Cyrus Performs At "Stand Up To Cancer"
She hosted the 2008 CMT Music Awards with her father in April. In 2008, Cyrus hosted the Teen Choice Awards. On September 5 2008, Cyrus along with many female singers performs a single fo...
2008 Sep 5 Oakland Athletics defeat Baltimore Orioles, 11-2
Hours after learning he would be leading the Orioles again in 2009, Dave Trembley witnessed something he had never seen before on a baseball diamond. This is a guy who rode minor leagu...
2008 Sep 5 Seattle Mariners defeat New York Yankees, 3-1
SEATTLE - At least they didn't get no-hit. The Yankees' improbable playoff hopes took another huge step backward Friday night with their 3-1 loss to the lowly Mariners, although it cou...
2009 Sep 5 Baltimore Orioles defeat Texas Rangers, 5-4
Orioles third baseman Melvin Mora has come to the mound on numerous occasions during Chris Tillman's first eight starts. Matt Wieters, or whoever was catching Tillman that day, has also b...
2009 Sep 5 Chicago Cubs defeat New York Mets, 5-3
The 22-year-old is the team's lone September callup thus far, one of the few top prospects who wasn't pressed into duty as the Mets suffered a slew of injuries. He called his debut game t...
2009 Sep 5 Chicago White Sox defeat Boston Red Sox, 5-1
CHICAGO - Walpole Joe Morgan would likely say after a game like this, “We couldn’t have hit Gavin Floyd with 30 bats.’’ And indeed, that was the case. Sometimes, you just have to tip y...
2009 Sep 5 Minnesota Golden Gophers defeat Syracuse Orange, 23-20
The best part of being back is being able to reconnect with some people that you haven't been in touch with since you left," he said. "There's a lot of people coming back to the program.
2009 Sep 5 Minnesota Twins defeat Cleveland Indians, 4-1
CLEVELAND -- For the second time in two years, the Twins are facing a potential grievance from the players' union over their handling of a starting pitcher. Last year, the union examin...