5 September

The **5t o September** is the 248t day o the year (249t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 117 days bidin.

## Events

* 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

* 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
* 1787 - John Brown, Scots airtist (b. 1752)
* 1857 - Auguste Comte, French philosopher (b. 1798)
* 1902 - Rudolf Virchow, German scientist (b. 1821)
* 1931 - John Thomson, Scots fitbawer (b. 1909)
* 1965 - Tom Johnston, Scots politeecian (b. 1881)
* 1970 - Jochen Rindt, German-Austrick racin driver (b. 1942)
* 1997 - Georg Solti, Hungarian-Breetish conductor (b. 1912)
* 1997 - Mither Teresa, Albanian nun (b. 1910)
* 2017 - Nicolaas Bloembergen, Dutch-American pheesicist (b. 1920)

## Halidays
* Teacher's Day (Indie)
* Airchitects Day (Guatemala)