5 September in history

5 events that happened on 5 September, from 1698 to 1975.

  1. ✦ Anniversary of the day

    1698 CE 328 years ago

    Peter the Great shaves his nobles' beards

    Back from his Grand Embassy to western Europe, Peter I personally cut off the beards of leading boyars. A tax on beards followed, part of his drive to westernise Russia's elite.

    Peter the Great

  2. 1774 CE 252 years ago

    The First Continental Congress meets in Philadelphia

    Delegates from twelve colonies gathered at Carpenters' Hall to coordinate resistance to Britain's Intolerable Acts. They agreed a boycott of British goods and planned to meet again.

  3. 1877 CE 149 years ago

    Crazy Horse is killed at Camp Robinson

    The Oglala Lakota leader Crazy Horse, a victor at Little Bighorn, was bayoneted by a soldier while resisting arrest at Camp Robinson, Nebraska. He died that night.

  4. 1972 CE 54 years ago

    Palestinian gunmen seize Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics

    Black September militants killed two members of the Israeli team and took nine hostage. All nine and a West German policeman died in a failed rescue at Fürstenfeldbruck airbase.

  5. 1975 CE 51 years ago

    Lynette Fromme tries to shoot President Ford

    Manson Family follower Lynette 'Squeaky' Fromme aimed a pistol at Gerald Ford in Sacramento, but no round was chambered. A second attempt on Ford came 17 days later.

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