October 5

'''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
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 - In the first televised White House address, President Harry S. Truman urged Americans to refrain from eating meat on Tuesdays and poultry on Sundays to help starving people in other countries.
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 a sodium cooling system malfunction caused a partial core meltdown at the Enrico Fermi demonstration nuclear breeder reactor, killing three workers. The radiation was contained.
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. Founded in 1840 as The Port Phillip Herald, it is merged with its morning tabloid sister paper The Sun News-Pictorial and the first issue of the new Herald Sun is published on the 8th.
1991 - An Indonesian military transport crashes after takeoff from Jakarta killing 137. Linux kernel version 0.01 is released.
1995 - LandSat 6 was launched, but never reached orbit due to launch failure.
1999 - The Ladbroke Grove rail crash
2000 - Mass demonstrations in Belgrade leading to resignation of Slobodan Milosevic
2003 - Akhmad Kadyrov elected President of Chechnya

Births

1658 - Mary of Modena, queen of James II of England (d. 1718)
1703 - Jonathan Edwards, evangelical Christian leader
1713 - Denis Diderot, French philosopher and encylopedist (d. 1784)
1824 - Henry Chadwick, baseball writer and statistician
1878 - Louise Dresser, actress (d. 1965)
1829 - Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States (d.1886)
1882 - Robert Goddard, rocket scientist
1894 - Bevil Rudd, South African athlete
1902 - Larry Fine, American actor and comedian, original member of The Three Stooges (d. 1975)
1902 - Ray Kroc, American fast food entrepreneur (d. 1984)
1903 - M. King Hubbert, geophysicist (d. 1989)
1907 - Mrs. Miller, singer (d. 1997)
1908 - Joshua Logan, film director and writer (d. 1988)
1911 - Flann O'Brien, humorist (d. 1966)
1917 - Allen Ludden, television game show host (d. 1981)
1919 - Donald Pleasence, actor (d. 1995)
1921 - Bill Willis, American football player
1922 - Jose-Froilan Gonzalez, race car driver
1923 - Glynis Johns, actress
1924 - Bill Dana, actor, comedian
1930 - Pavel Popovich, cosmonaut
1933 - Diane Cilento, actress
1935 - Diahann Carroll, actress
1936 - Václav Havel, playwright, President of the Czech Republic
1937 - Barry Switzer, American football coach
1941 - Eduardo Duhalde, President of Argentina
1943 - Steve Miller, musician
1948 - Tawl Ross, musician (P Funk)
1950 - Jeff Conaway, American actor
1951 - Karen Allen, actress
1952 - Clive Barker, writer
1954 - Bob Geldof, musician
1958 - André Kuipers, astronaut
1958 - Bernie Mac, actor, comedian
1960 - Daniel Baldwin, actor
1962 - Michael Andretti, race car driver
1963 - Caron Keating, presenter (d. 2004)
1965 - Mario Lemieux, hockey player
1965 - Patrick Roy, hockey player
1967 - Guy Pearce, actor
1972 - Grant Hill, basketball player
1975 - Kate Winslet, actress
1983 - Nicky Hilton, American heiress of the Hilton Hotel chain

Deaths

578 - Justin II, Byantine Emperor
877 - Charles the Bald
1056 - Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor
1214 - King Alfonso VIII of Castile (b. 1155)
1285 - King Philip III of France (b. 1245)
1606 - Philippe Desportes, French poet (b. 1546)
1791 - Grigori Potemkin, Russian statesman
1813 - Tecumseh, Native American leader
1837 - Hortense de Beauharnais Queen of Holland and mother of the Emperor Napoleon III of France
1913 - Hans von Bartels, German painter
1930 - Christopher Birdwood Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson, British Secretary of State for Air
1936 - J. Slauerhoff, Dutch poet and novelist, from complications following neglected tuberculosis (b. 1898)
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, physical chemist
1983 - Earl Tupper, inventor of Tupperware
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
2003 - Dan Snyder, Atlanta Thrashers hockey player
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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