Daily Calendar for Friday, September 5, 2025

Events

• Great Fire of London ended– 1666
• Russia’s Peter the Great imposed a tax on beards– 1698
• First Continental Congress opened, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania– 1774
• First standardized naval uniforms adopted for U.S.– 1776
• The Central Labor Union in New York organized the first Labor Day parade– 1882
• A treaty of peace signed in Portsmouth, NH, ending the Russo-Japanese war– 1905
• USS Mount Vernon torpedoed by German submarine off France– 1918
• Boris Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago published in the U.S.– 1958
• Cassius Clay won an Olympic gold medal for boxing– 1960
• Lynette Fromme attempted to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford– 1975
• After 30 years, ABC canceled TV show American Bandstand– 1987
• Lake water DNA analysis showed no evidence of the Loch Ness Monster (but perhaps a giant eel)– 2019