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 Spain and Portugal.
• 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
• 1921 - The World Series was broadcast on the radio for the first time.
• 1930 - British Airship R101c 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.
• 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
• 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. 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

• 1703 - Jonathan Edwards, evangelical Christian leader
• 1713 - Denis Diderot, philosopher
• 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, vaudeville, actor (Three Stooges) (d. 1975)
• 1902 - Ray Kroc, entrepreneur (see McDonald's Corporation) (d. 1984)
• 1903 - M. King Hubbert, geophysicist (d. 1989)
• 1907 - Mrs. Miller, singer (d. 1997)
• 1908 - Joshua Logan, film director, 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)
• 1922 - Jose-Froilan Gonzalez, Formula One 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, argentinian former president
• 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 (Homicide: Life on the Street)
• 1962 - Michael Andretti, auto racer
• 1963 - Caron Keating, former Blue Peter presenter (d. 2004)
• 1965 - Mario Lemieux, hockey player for the Pittsburgh Penguins
• 1965 - Patrick Roy, hockey player
• 1967 - Guy Pearce, actor
• 1972 - Grant Hill, Orlando Magic basketball player
• 1975 - Kate Winslet, actress

Deaths

• 578 - Justin II, Byantine Emperor
• 877 - Charles the Bald
• 1056 - Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor
• 1214 - Alfonso VIII of Castile
• 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
• 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
• 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

October 4 - October 6 - September 5 - November 5 - more historical anniversaries

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