Year 1877
American Indian Wars: Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse is bayoneted by a United States soldier after resisting confinement in a guardhouse at Fort Robinson in Nebraska.
SEPTEMBER 5
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5 September: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 5 September.
Year 1962
5 September is celebrated as Teachers’ Day in India.
Year 1977
Voyager 1 (US) launched toward fly-by of Jupiter, Saturn.
Year 1983
8th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 3-lands at Edwards AFB.
Year 1984
12th Space Shuttle Mission (41-D) -Discovery 1- lands at Edwards AFB
Year 1986
Hijacking of aircraft Pan Am 73 at Karachi airport, Pakistan, 20 passengers killed.
Year 2019
Erramatti Mangamma becomes the world’s oldest living mother giving birth to twins aged 74 in Hyderabad, India.
Born 1872
Valliyappan Olaganathan Chidambaram Pillai was an Indian freedom fighter and leader of the Indian National Congress.
Born 1874
Ananda Chandra Agarwala was a writer, poet, historian, translator and administrative officer from the Sonitpur district of Assam.
Born 1888
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was an Indian philosopher, academic, and statesman who served as the first Vice President of India and the second President of India.
Born 1910
Phiroze Palia, Indian cricketer (d. 1981)
Born 1942
Keshav Ginde, Indian classical flutist.
Born 1952
Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Indian film director, screenwriter and producer.
Born 1954
Harish Meena, Indian Politician serving as a Member of Parliament of the 16th Lok Sabha from the constituency of Dausa, Rajasthan.
Born 1963
Yogendra Yadav, Indian activist, psephologist and politician whose primary interests are in the political and social sciences.
Born 1970
Achint Kaur, Indian television and Cinema actresses.
Born 1971
Irshad Kamil, Indian poet and lyricist.
Born 1971
Harjeet Brar Bajakhana was a professional kabaddi player. He was a Raider in circle style kabaddi.
Born 1976
Pankaj Tripathi, Indian actor who appears predominantly in Hindi films.
Born 1979
Ayaan Ali Khan, Indian classical musician who plays the sarod.
Born 1986
Pragyan Ojha, Indian former cricketer, who represented India in Test, ODIs and T20.
Born 1986
Jyotsna Radhakrishnan, playback singer in Malayalam cinema.
Born 1992
Asha Bhat, Indian model, actress, engineer and beauty pageant titleholder from Karnataka.
Died 1930
Niralamba Swami was great Indian nationalist.
Died 1931
Nabadwipchandra Dev Burman was a noted Indian sitarist and Dhrupad singer.
Died 1986
Neerja Bhanot was an Indian head purser who died while saving passengers on Pan Am Flight 73 which had been hijacked by terrorists during a stopover in Karachi. She was an Indian model and the youngest recipient of the country's highest peacetime military award Ashok Chakra
Died 1986
Ganapathi Thanikaimoni was an Indian palynologist.
Died 1991
Sharad Joshi was a Hindi poet, writer, satirist and dialogue and scriptwriter in Hindi films and television.
Died 1995
Salil Chowdhury was an Indian songwriter, music director, lyricist, writer and poet, who composed for Bengali, Hindi, and Malayalam films.
Died 1996
Basil Salvadore D'Souza, Indian bishop (b. 1926)
Died 1997
Mother Teresa, Albanian-Indian nun, missionary, and saint, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
Died 2010
Homi Nusserwanji Sethna was an Indian nuclear scientist.
Died 2011
Vaidyanatha Ganapati Sthapati was a Sthapati and head of the College of Architecture and Sculpture in the Vastu Shastra tradition.
Died 2015
Aadesh Shrivastava, Indian singer-songwriter (b. 1964)
Died 2018
Bhagwatikumar Sharma, Indian Gujarati writer and journalist (b. 1934)