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.

Events

1500-1899

• 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

1900-1999

• 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

2000-2099

• 2000 - Mass demonstrations in Belgrade leading to resignation of Slobodan Milosevic
• 2003 - Akhmad Kadyrov elected President of Chechnya

Births

1700-1899

• 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

1900-1999

• 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)
• 1921 - Bill Willis, American football Hall of Famer
• 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

500-1899

• 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

1900-1999

• 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

2000-2099

• 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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