Historical timeline for September 5

Liz Truss is declared the winner of the UK Conservative Party leadership election, beating Rishi Sunak.

At least 93 people die and 25 are missing after a magnitude 6.8 earthquake strikes Sichuan, China.

The President of Guinea, Alpha Condé is captured by armed forces during a coup d'état.

An accidental explosion at a Turkish Army ammunition store in Afyon, western Turkey kills 25 soldiers and wounds four others.

Mandala Airlines Flight 091 crashes after takeoff from Polonia International Airport in Medan, Indonesia, killing 149.

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.

The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, comes into force.

Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Army soldiers slaughter 158 civilians.

Pan Am Flight 73 from Mumbai, India with 358 people on board is hijacked at Karachi International Airport.

STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery lands after its maiden voyage.

Western Australia becomes the last Australian state to abolish capital punishment.

The first women arrive at what becomes Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp in the UK.

The Gotthard Road Tunnel opens in Switzerland as the world's longest highway tunnel at 16.9 kilometres (10.5 mi) stretching from Göschenen to Airolo.

Camp David Accords: Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat begin peace discussions at Camp David, Maryland.

Voyager Program: NASA launches the Voyager 1 spacecraft.

Sacramento, California: Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford.

Munich massacre: A Palestinian terrorist group called "Black September" attacks and takes hostage 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games. Two die in the attack and nine are murdered the following day.

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.

Mỹ Lai Massacre: U.S. Army Lieutenant William Calley is charged with six specifications of premeditated murder for the death of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai.

End of the Congress of Carrara, one of the major 20th century anarchist congresses.