Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 5

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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.
 * 1781 – American Revolutionary War: French naval forces handed Britain a major strategic defeat at the Battle of the Chesapeake (depicted).
 * 1836 – Sam Houston (pictured) became the first popularly elected president of the Republic of Texas.
 * 1882 – A group of London schoolboys led by Bobby Buckle founded Hotspur Football Club to continue to play sports during the winter months.
 * 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.
 * 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: | Caspar David Friedrich |b|1774| Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy |b|1817|Lester Allan Pelton |b|1829| Amy Beach |b|1867| Nap Lajoie |b|1874| Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb |b|1876| Freddie Mercury |b|1946| Jochen Rindt |d|1970| Neerja Bhanot |d|1986| Rochus Misch |d|2013 | Adam Exner |d|2023|