Reuters historical calendar - September 5

London, Sep 4 (Reuters) Following are some of the major events to have occurred on September 5 since 1900: 1905 - The Treaty of Portsmouth (New Hampshire) was signed, ending the Russo-Japanese War. Russia ceded Port Arthur to Japan.

1914 - Charles Peguy, French poet and philosopher and champion of Alfred Dreyfus, was shot by German soldiers in World War One.

1939 - President Franklin Roosevelt declared US neutrality at the start of World War Two in Europe.

1960 - In the Congo, President Joseph Kasavubu sacked Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba and appointed Joseph Ileo. However Lumumba refused to leave his position and proceeded to remove Kasavubu from his position as president.

1972 - During the Olympic games, Arab guerrillas of the Black September movement attacked an Israeli dormitory in the Olympic village at Munich, killing two members of the Israeli team. Nine more Israelis, five guerrillas and a West German policeman later died in a shoot-out at Munich airport.

1975 - In Sacramento, Lynette Fromme, a follower of the cult leader Charles Manson, tried to assassinate US President Gerald Ford.

1977 - West German urban guerrillas kidnapped businessman Hanns Martin Schleyer, the president of the Federation of West German Industries. His body was found on October 19 in France.

1980 - The 10.6-mile (17-km) St Gotthard road tunnel in Switzerland opened. Then the longest in the world, the road tunnel cost 690 million Swiss francs and took 11 years to build.

1986 - After a 16-hour siege by four hijackers, Pakistani security forces stormed a Pan Am Boeing 747 carrying 400 passengers and crew in Karachi. Twenty-two people were killed.

1995 - France conducted an underground nuclear test at Mururoa Atoll, prompting worldwide condemnation. Anti-nuclear and independence protesters rioted in Tahiti for two days.

1997 - During a severe storm in Asuncion, Paraguay, a stadium collapsed, killing 37 people at a political rally. At least 100 people were injured.

1997 - Sir Georg Solti, Hungarian-born international conductor, died.

1997 - Mother Teresa, 87, died of a heart attack in Calcutta, where she established her Missionaries of Charity order. She opened her first Calcutta slum school in 1949.

1998 - North Korea re-elected de facto leader Kim Jong-il as head of the National Defence Commission, calling it the highest post in the land after the abolition of the presidency.

2001 - Two men shot dead Corsican nationalist Nicolas Montigny, linked to the underground militant group Armata Corsa, in an Internet cafe in Bastia, the third such murder in a month.

2002 - A car bomb exploded in Afghan capital Kabul killing 26 and injuring 150. Later in Kandahar, Afghan president Hamid Karzai survived an assassination attempt when a man dressed in military uniform fired at his car, he was shot dead by bodyguards.

2002 - The Sri Lankan government lifted a ban on Tamil Tiger rebels, ignoring opposition from President Kumaratunga but clearing a major obstacle to peace.

2003 - An anti-subversion bill that had drawn huge protests in Hong Kong and raised fears China was trying to curb civil rights in the former British colony was withdrawn by the city government.

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