The 5t o September is the 248t day o the year (249t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 117 days bidin.
Events
1869 : Neuschwanstein Castle
1977 : Voyager 1 launches
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
Nicanor Parra
Freddie Mercury
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
Halidays