WHAT HAPPENED ON 5. SEPTEMBER
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The poet Léopold Sédar Senghor is elected as the first President of Senegal. (5. September 1960)

The boxer Muhammad Ali (then Cassius Clay) is awarded the gold medal for his first place in the light heavyweight boxing competition at the Olympic Games in Rome. (5. September 1960)

The first conference of the Non Aligned Countries is held in Belgrade. (5. September 1961)

My Lai Massacre: U.S. Army Lt. William Calley is charged with six specifications of premeditated murder for the death of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai. (5. September 1969)

Vietnam War: Operation Jefferson Glenn begins — the United States 101st Airborne Division and the South Vietnamese 1st Infantry Division initiate a new operation in Thừa Thiên–Huế Province. (5. September 1970)

Jochen Rindt become the only driver to posthumously win the Formula One World Drivers' Championship (in 1970), after being killed in practice for the Italian Grand Prix. (5. September 1970)

Munich massacre: A Palestinian terrorist group called "Black September" attack and take hostage 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games. 2 die in the attack and 9 die the following day. (5. September 1972)

Sacramento, California: Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford. (5. September 1975)

Hanns Martin Schleyer is kidnapped in Cologne, West Germany by the Red Army Faction and is later murdered. (5. September 1977)

Voyager program: Voyager 1 is launched after a brief delay. (5. September 1977)

Camp David Accords: Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat begin peace process at Camp David, Maryland. (5. September 1978)

The St. Gotthard Tunnel opens in Switzerland as the world's longest highway tunnel at 10.14 miles (16.224 km) stretching from Göschenen to Airolo. (5. September 1980)

STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery lands after its maiden voyage. (5. September 1984)

Western Australia becomes the last Australian state to abolish capital punishment. (5. September 1984)

Pan Am Flight 73 with 358 people on board is hijacked at Karachi International Airport. (5. September 1986)

Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Army soldiers slaughter 158 civilians. (5. September 1990)

The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, comes into force. (5. September 1991)

Hurricane Fran makes landfall near Cape Fear, North Carolina as a Category 3 storm with 115 mph sustained winds. Fran caused over $3 billion in damage and killed 27 people. (5. September 1996)

A firecracker factory explodes near Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu, killing 40 and injuring 50 others. (5. September 2012)

An accidental explosion at a Turkish Army ammunition store in Afyon, western Turkey kills 25 soldiers and wounds 4 others. (5. September 2012)