October 5

October 5 is the 278th day of the year (279th in Leap years). There are 87 days remaining. It is also the most populous birthday of the year in the US statistically.

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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)
• 1830 – 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 (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)
• 1951 – Karen Allen, actress
• 1952 – Clive Barker, writer
• 1954 – Bob Geldof, musician
• 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

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)
• 1988 – lil K was born, rock star and part time ninja
• 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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