Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 5

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  Sam Houston
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  Voyager 1
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  Theodore Roosevelt
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  Carpenters' Hall, Philadelphia
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  Squeaky Fromme
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  Léopold Sédar Senghor
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  Crazy Horse
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  Interior of the Gotthard Road Tunnel
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  Casablanca Fair poster
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  Sam Houston

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Blurb	Reason
: Teachers' Day in India	refimprove
1697 – Nine Years' War: A French warship captured York Factory, a trading post of the Hudson's Bay Company in present-day Manitoba, Canada.	refimprove
1793 – French Revolution: The National Convention began the Reign of Terror, a ten-month period of systematic repression and mass executions by guillotine of perceived enemies within the country.	refimprove section
1807 – Gunboat War: The Royal Navy concluded their bombardment of Copenhagen and captured the Dano-Norwegian navy, leading to the term "Copenhagenization".	lots of cn
1836 – Sam Houston (pictured) became the first popularly elected president of the Republic of Texas.	Too much uncited
1877 – Oglala Lakota war leader Crazy Horse was fatally wounded after surrendering while allegedly resisting imprisonment at Camp Robinson in present-day Nebraska, U.S.	Refimprove
1914 – World War I: The First Battle of the Marne began with French forces engaging the advancing German army at the Marne River near Paris.	refimprove section
1921 – Popular American comedian Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle attended a party during which a woman was fatally injured; although he was eventually acquitted of manslaughter, the trial's scandal derailed his career.	lots of CN tags (18)
1927 – Walt Disney's and Ub Iwerks' first popular character Oswald the Lucky Rabbit made its debut in the animated cartoon Trolley Troubles.	refimprove section
1945 – Cold War: Soviet cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko defected to Canada with over 100 documents on Soviet espionage activities and sleeper agents.	refimprove section
1960 – Senegalese poet Léopold Sédar Senghor was elected as the first president of Senegal.	refimprove
1980 – The Gotthard Road Tunnel, at the time the world's longest highway tunnel at 16.4 km (10.2 mi), opened in Switzerland stretching from Göschenen to Airolo.	unreferenced section
1991 – The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, came into force.	appears on June 27
Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland |b|1641	unreferenced section (Ancestry)
Sarah Emma Edmonds |d|1898|	unreferenced sections
Adam Malik|d|1984	Too much uncited
Yuna Kim |b|1990	unreferenced section

Eligible

• 1367 – Swa Saw Ke was crowned the ruler of the Kingdom of Ava in Upper Myanmar.
• 1781 – American Revolutionary War: French naval forces handed Britain a major strategic defeat at the Battle of the Chesapeake (depicted).
• 1816 – Facing rising discontent in France, Louis XVIII was forced to dissolve the Chambre introuvable, the legislature dominated by Ultra-royalists.
• 1882 – A group of London schoolboys led by Bobby Buckle founded Hotspur Football Club to continue to play sports during the winter months.
• 1887 – A fire that killed 186 people broke out at the Theatre Royal, Exeter, England.
• 1905 – Under the mediation of U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt, the Russo-Japanese War officially ended with the signing of a treaty at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Maine.
• 1915 – The Zimmerwald Conference, the first of three international socialist conferences forming the Zimmerwald movement, opened in Switzerland.
• 1915 – The Casablanca Fair (poster pictured) opened in the French protectorate in Morocco.
• 1926 - Forty-eight people died in a fire in a makeshift cinema in Dromcolliher, Ireland.
• 1943 – World War II: American and Australian airborne forces landed at Nadzab as part of the New Guinea campaign against Japan.
• 1964 – Hurricane Cleo dissipated after causing 156 deaths, mainly in Haiti, and causing roughly US$187 million in damages across the Caribbean and southeastern United States.
• 1975 – Squeaky Fromme (pictured), a devotee of Charles Manson, attempted to assassinate U.S. president Gerald Ford in Sacramento, California.
• 1977 – NASA launched the space probe Voyager 1, currently the farthest spacecraft from Earth, from Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

• Born/died: | Katharina Zell |d|1562| James Innes |d|1759| Caspar David Friedrich |b|1774| Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy |b|1817| Lester Allan Pelton |b|1829| Amy Beach |b|1867| Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb |b|1876| Archie Jackson |b|1909| Jean-Chrysostome Weregemere |b|1919| George Lazenby |b|1939| Raquel Welch|b|1940| Freddie Mercury |b|1946| Ahmad Al-Abdullah Al-Sabah|b|1952| Jochen Rindt |d|1970| Neerja Bhanot |d|1986| Bukayo Saka|b|2001| Rochus Misch |d|2013| Adam Exner |d|2023| Ruth Weiss |d|2025|

Notes

• Geronimo appears on September 3, so Crazy Horse should not appear in the same year

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• 917 – Liu Yan declared himself emperor, establishing the state of Southern Han at his capital of Panyu (present-day Guangzhou) in southern China.
• 1774 – In response to the British Parliament's enactment of the so-called Intolerable Acts, representatives from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies convened the First Continental Congress at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia.
• 1970 – During the practice session of the Italian Grand Prix at Monza Circuit, Jochen Rindt was killed and subsequently became motor racing's only posthumous world champion.
• 1972 – The Palestinian militant group Black September took hostage eleven Israeli athletes and coaches at the Olympic Games in Munich, West Germany; all of the hostages were killed less than 24 hours later.
• 2020 – California wildfires: A pyrotechnic device at a gender reveal party ignited the El Dorado Fire (pictured), burning for 71 days and killing one firefighter.