Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 5
September 5: Teachers' Day in India
- 1793 - French Revolution: The National Convention voted to implement terror measures, beginning the Reign of Terror.
- 1836 - Sam Houston (pictured) was elected as the first President of the Republic of Texas.
- 1905 - The Treaty of Portsmouth was signed at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in New Hampshire, USA, officially ending the Russo-Japanese War.
- 1972 - Munich Massacre: A Palestinian terrorist group called "Black September" attacked Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games.
- 1977 - NASA launched the Voyager 1 spaceprobe, currently the most distant man-made object from Earth.
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