Today in History: France conducted an underground nuclear test at Mururoa Atoll

The following are some of the major events to have occurred on September 5:

1905 – The Treaty of Portsmouth (New Hampshire) was signed, ending the Russo-Japanese War. Russia ceded Port Arthur to Japan.

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 “Squeaky” Fromme, a follower of the cult leader Charles Manson, tried to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford.

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 – 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.

2001 – Britney Spears performs with snake during live broadcast of MTV Video Music Awards.

2002 – Last segment of concrete track placed in Shanghai for world’s first operating magnetic levitation train.

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huge protests in Hong Kong and raised fears China was trying to curb civil rights in the former British colony was withdrawn by the city government.

2008 – Condoleezza Rice arrived in Tripoli on the first trip by a U.S. secretary of state to Libya since 1953.

2012 – Explosion at ammunition store in Afyon, western Turkey kills 25 soldiers.

2017 - Hurricane Irma becomes the most powerful hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic Basin region with winds of 185mph (280km/h).

(Reuters)