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September 5: Day of the Week
September 5, 2024 is the 249th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 117 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Thursday.
If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is jeudi.
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Here’s the September calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.
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Zodiac & Birthstone
Virgo is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Sapphire is the modern birthstone for this month. Agate is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
September 5 Historical Event(s)
1774
First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1793
French Revolution the French National Convention initiates the Reign of Terror.
1812
War of 1812: The Siege of Fort Wayne begins when Chief Winamac’s forces attack two soldiers returning from the fort’s outhouses.
1816
Louis XVIII has to dissolve the Chambre introuvable (“Unobtainable Chamber”).
1862
American Civil War: the Potomac River is crossed at White’s Ford in the Maryland Campaign.
1864
Achille François Bazaine becomes Marshall of France.
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.
1906
The first legal forward pass in American football is thrown by Bradbury Robinson of St. Louis University to teammate Jack Schneider in a 22–0 victory over Carroll College (Wisconsin).
1927
The first Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon, Trolley Troubles, produced by Walt Disney, is released by Universal Pictures.
1942
World War II: Japanese high command orders withdrawal at Milne Bay, first Japanese defeat in the Pacific War.
Who were born on September 5?
1638
Louis XIV of France (d. 1715)
1873
Cornelius Vanderbilt III, American inventor, engineer, soldier (d. 1942)
1876
Abdelaziz Thâalbi, Tunisian politician. (d. 1944)
1918
Harold “Buddy” Williams, Australian country singer (d. 1986)
1919
Elisabeth Volkenrath, German Nazi concentration camp supervisor (d. 1945)
1935
Werner Erhard, American founder of transformational training programs
1939
Claudette Colvin, American civil rights movement leader (Montgomery Bus Boycott)
1946
Loudon Wainwright III, American singer and composer
1964
Kevin Saunderson American electronic music producer
1967
India Hicks, English model
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