October 5: Difference between revisions

October 5 is the 278th day of the year (279th in Leap years). There are 87 days remaining.

Events

• 1582 - Due to the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
• 1665 - The University of Kiel is founded.
• 1793 - French revolution disestablished Christianity in France
• 1864 - Calcutta, India almost totally destroyed by a cyclone - 60,000 die
• 1877 - Chief Joseph surrenders his Nez Perce band to General Nelson A. Miles
• 1895 - First individual time trial for racing cyclists is held on a 50-mile course north of London.
• 1908 - Bulgaria declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire - Ferdinand I of Bulgaria becomes Tsar
• 1910 - Portugal overthrows the monarchy
• 1915 - Bulgaria enters World War I as one of the Central Powers.
• 1921 - The World Series was broadcast on the radio for the first time.
• 1930 - British Airship R101 crashed in France en-route to India on its maiden voyage.
• 1936 - The Jarrow March sets off for London.
• 1944 - Canadian Air Force pilots shoot down the first German Jet fighter over France
• 1947 - The first televised White House address is given by President Harry S. Truman.
• 1949 - WSAZ, the United States' first television station, located in Huntington, West Virginia, begins broadcasting.
• 1953 - First documented recovery meeting of Narcotics Anonymous
• 1953 - Earl Warren was sworn in as the 14th Chief Justice of the United States.
• 1962 - The Beatles released their first hit, "Love Me Do," in Britain.
• 1966 - Near Detroit, Michigan there is a partial core meltdown at the Enrico Fermi demonstration nuclear breeder reactor, killing three workers.
• 1969 - The first broadcast of Monty Python's Flying Circus
• 1970 - PBS became a television network
• 1970 - Montreal, Quebec: British Trade Commissioner James Cross is kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group.
• 1973 - Signature of the European Patent Convention
• 1974 - Guildford pub bombing by the IRA leaves 5 dead and 44 injured.
• 1974 - I Honestly Love You first reaches #1 on the Billboard charts, giving Olivia Newton-John her first top-selling single in the United States.
• 1981 - Raoul Wallenberg becomes an honorary American citizen
• 1984 - Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space, aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger (41-6).
• 1990 - After one hundred and fifty years The Herald broadsheet newspaper in Melbourne, Australia is published for the last time as a separate newspaper.
• 1991 - An Indonesian military transport crashes after takeoff from Jakarta killing 137.
• 1999 Linux kernel version 0.01 is released.
• 1999 - The Ladbroke Grove rail crash
• 2000 - Mass demonstrations in Belgrade leading to resignation of Slobodan Milošević
• 2001 - Tom Ridge resigned as Governor of Pennsylvania to become President Bush's Homeland Security Advisor.
• 2003 - Akhmad Kadyrov elected President of Chechnya

Births

• 1641 - Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan, French mistress of Louis XIV of France (d. 1707)
• 1658 - Mary of Modena, queen of James II of England (d. 1718)
• 1695 - John Glas, Scottish minister (d. 1773)
• 1703 - Jonathan Edwards, American minister (d. 1758)
• 1712 - Francesco Guardi, Italian painter (d. 1793)
• 1713 - Denis Diderot, French philosopher and encylopedist (d. 1784)
• 1781 - Bernard Bolzano, Czech mathematician and philosopher (d. 1848)
• 1824 - Henry Chadwick, baseball writer and statistician (d. 1908)
• 1829 - Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States (d.1886)
• 1878 - Louise Dresser, American actress (d. 1965)
• 1882 - Robert Goddard, American rocket scientist (d. 1945)
• 1894 - Bevil Rudd, South African athlete (d. 1948)
• 1902 - Larry Fine, American actor and comedian (d. 1975)
• 1902 - Ray Kroc, American fast food entrepreneur (d. 1984)
• 1903 - M. King Hubbert, American geophysicist (d. 1989)
• 1907 - Mrs. Miller, American singer (d. 1997)
• 1908 - Joshua Logan, American film director and writer (d. 1988)
• 1911 - Flann O'Brien, Irish humorist (d. 1966)
• 1917 - Allen Ludden, American television game show host (d. 1981)
• 1919 - Donald Pleasence, English actor (d. 1995)
• 1921 - Bill Willis, American football player
• 1922 - Jose-Froilan Gonzalez, Argentine race car driver
• 1923 - Glynis Johns, British actress
• 1924 - Bill Dana, actor and comedian
• 1930 - Pavel Popovich, cosmonaut
• 1933 - Diane Cilento, Australian actress
• 1935 - Diahann Carroll, American actress
• 1936 - Václav Havel, playwright and President of the Czech Republic
• 1937 - Barry Switzer, American football coach
• 1941 - Eduardo Duhalde, President of Argentina
• 1943 - Steve Miller, American musician
• 1948 - Tawl Ross, musician (P Funk)
• 1948 - Zoran Živković, Serbian writer
• 1950 - Jeff Conaway, American actor
• 1951 - Karen Allen, American actress
• 1952 - Clive Barker, English writer
• 1952 - Duncan Regehr, Canadian actor
• 1954 - Bob Geldof, Irish musician
• 1958 - André Kuipers, astronaut
• 1958 - Bernie Mac, American actor and comedian
• 1960 - Daniel Baldwin, American actor
• 1962 - Michael Andretti, American race car driver
• 1963 - Caron Keating, Irish television presenter (d. 2004)
• 1965 - Mario Lemieux, Canadian hockey star
• 1965 - Patrick Roy, Canadian hockey player
• 1967 - Guy Pearce, English-born actor
• 1972 - Grant Hill, American basketball player
• 1975 - Kate Winslet, English actress
• 1980 - Paul Thomas, American musician (Good Charlotte)
• 1983 - D.J. "Voovy" Muszynski, musician
• 1983 - Nicky Hilton, American heiress

Deaths

• 578 - Justin II, Byzantine Emperor
• 877 - Charles the Bald (b. 823)
• 1056 - Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1017)
• 1214 - King Alfonso VIII of Castile (b. 1155)
• 1285 - King Philip III of France (b. 1245)
• 1565 - Lodovico Ferrari, Italian mathematician (b. 1522)
• 1606 - Philippe Desportes, French poet (b. 1546)
• 1714 - Kaibara, Japanese philosopher (b. 1630)
• 1791 - Grigori Potemkin, Russian statesman (b. 1739)
• 1813 - Tecumseh, Shawnee leader
• 1837 - Hortense de Beauharnais Queen of Holland and mother of the Emperor Napoleon III of France (b. 1783)
• 1861 - Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski, Polish bishop (b. 1778)
• 1913 - Hans von Bartels, German painter (b. 1856)
• 1930 - Christopher Birdwood Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson, British Secretary of State for Air
• 1936 - J. Slauerhoff, Dutch poet and novelist (tuberculosis) (b. 1898)
• 1938 - Saint Faustina Polish religious
• 1941 - Louis Dembitz Brandeis, justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
• 1943 - Leon Roppolo, jazz musician (b. 1902)
• 1969 - Walter Hagen, champion golfer
• 1976 - Lars Onsager, chemist
• 1983 - Earl Tupper, American inventor
• 1986 - Hal B. Wallis, film producer
• 1986 - James H. Wilkinson, mathematician (b. 1919)
• 1992 - Eddie Kendricks, singer
• 1995 - Linda Gary, voice actor (b. 1944)
• 1996 - Seymour Cray, American computer pioneer
• 2003 - Denis Quilley, British actor (b. 1927)
• 2003 - Dan Snyder, Canadian hockey player (b. 1978)
• 2004 - Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian (b. 1921)
• 2004 - Maurice Wilkins, DNA pioneer (b. 1916)

Holidays

• Portugal - Republic Day, celebrates the overthrow of the Monarchy in 1910

External links

• BBC: On This Day

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