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05 September, 2005
Mandala Airlines Flight 091 crashes into a heavily-populated residential of Sumatra, Indonesia, killing 104 people on board and at least 39 persons on ground.
05 September, 1986
Pan Am Flight 73 with 358 people on board is hijacked at Karachi International Airport.
05 September, 1984
STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery lands after its maiden voyage.
05 September, 1984
Western Australia becomes the last Australian state to abolish capital punishment.
05 September, 1980
The St. Gotthard Tunnel opens in Switzerland as the worlds longest highway tunnel at 10.14 miles (16.224 km) stretching from Goschenen to Airolo.
05 September, 1978
Camp David Accords: Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat begin peace process at Camp David, Maryland.
05 September, 1977
Hanns Martin Schleyer, is kidnapped in Cologne, West Germany by the Red Army Faction and is later murdered.
05 September, 1977
Voyager program: Voyager 1 is launched after a brief delay.
05 September, 1975
Sacramento, California: a follower of incarcerated cult leader Charles Manson, Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford.
05 September, 1972
Munich Massacre: A Palestinian terrorist group called "Black September" attack Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games.
05 September, 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 Thua Thien province.
05 September, 1969
My Lai Massacre: U.S. Army Lt. William Calley is charged with six specifications of premeditated murder for the death of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai.
05 September, 1961
The first conference of the Non Aligned Countries is held in Belgrade.
05 September, 1960
The poet Léopold Sédar Senghor is elected as the first President of Senegal.
05 September, 1957
Cuba: Fulgencio Batista bombs the revolt in Cienfuegos.
05 September, 1957
Jack Kerouacs novel On the Road is published, a defining work of the postwar Beat Generation.
05 September, 1948
Robert Schuman becomes President of the Council while being Foreign minister, As such, he is the negociator of the major treaties of the end of World War II.
05 September, 1945
Iva Toguri DAquino, a Japanese-American suspected of being wartime radio propagandist Tokyo Rose, is arrested in Yokohama.
05 September, 1944
Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg constitute Benelux.
05 September, 1943
World War II: The 503d Parachute Infantry Regiment lands and occupies Nazdab, near Lae in the Salamaua-Lae campaign.
05 September, 1942
World War II: Japanese high command orders withdrawal at Milne Bay, first Japanese defeat in the Pacific War.
05 September, 1939
World War II: The United States declares its neutrality in the war.
05 September, 1938
Chile: A group of youths affiliated with the fascist National Socialist Movement of Chile are assassinated in the Seguro Obrero massacre.
05 September, 1937
Spanish Civil War: Llanes falls.
05 September, 1932
The colonie of Upper Volta is broken apart between Ivory Coast, Mali, and Niger.
05 September, 1918
Decree "On Red Terror" is published in Russia
05 September, 1915
The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins.
05 September, 1914
World War I: First Battle of the Marne begins. Northeast of Paris, the French attack and defeat German forces who are advancing on the capital.
05 September, 1905
Russo-Japanese War: In New Hampshire, USA, the Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by US President Theodore Roosevelt, ends the war.
05 September, 1882
The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City.
05 September, 1877
Indian Wars: Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse is bayoneted by a United States soldier after resisting confinement in a guardhouse at Fort Robinson in Nebraska.
05 September, 1864
Achille François Bazaine becomes Marshall of France.
05 September, 1862
American Civil War: In the Confederacys first invasion of the North, General Robert E. Lee leads 55,000 men of the Army of Northern Virginia across the Potomac River at Whites Ford near Leesburg, Virginia, into Maryland.
05 September, 1840
Premiere of Giuseppe Verdis Un giorno di regno at La Scala of Milan.
05 September, 1839
The First Opium War begins in China.
05 September, 1836
Sam Houston is elected as the second president of the Republic of Texas.
05 September, 1816
Louis XVIII has to dissolve the Chambre introuvable ("Unobtainable Chamber").
05 September, 1800
Malta is conquered by Great Britain.
05 September, 1798
Conscription is made mandatory in France by the Jourdan law.
05 September, 1793
French Revolution the French National Convention initiates the Reign of Terror.
05 September, 1781
Battle of the Chesapeake in the American Revolutionary War.
05 September, 1774
First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
05 September, 1725
Wedding of Louis XV and Maria Leszczynska.
05 September, 1698
In an effort to move his people away from archaic customs, Tsar Peter I of Russia imposes a tax on beards.
05 September, 1666
Great Fire of London ends: 10,000 buildings including St. Pauls Cathedral are destroyed, but only 16 people are known to have died.
05 September, 1661
Fall of Nicolas Fouquet: Louis XIV Superintendent of Finances is arrested in Nantes by DArtagnan, captain of the kings musketeers.
05 September, 1590
Alexander Farneses army forces Henry IV of France to raise the siege of Paris.

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