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 statistically.

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays

Events

1582 - Pope Gregory XIII announced the Gregorian calendar.
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.
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 - 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.
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, ten months and two days, 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, described by owner Rupert Murdoch as "The world's first 24-hour newspaper" with morning and afternoon editions is published on the 8th.
1991 - An Indonesian military transport crashes after takeoff from Jakarta killing 137
1999 - The Ladbroke Grove rail disaster.

Births

1703 - Jonathan Edwards, evangelical Christian leader
1713 - Denis Diderot, philosopher
1824 - Henry Chadwick, baseball writer and statistician
1878 - Louise Dresser, actress († 1965)
1830 - Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States (†1886)
1882 - Robert Goddard, rocket scientist
1902 - Larry Fine, vaudeville, actor (Three Stooges) († 1975)
1902 - Ray Kroc, entrepreneur (see McDonald's Corporation) († 1984)
1907 - Mrs. Miller, singer († 1997)
1908 - Joshua Logan, film director, writer († 1988)
1917 - Allen Ludden, television game show host († 1981)
1919 - Donald Pleasence, actor († 1995)
1923 - Glynis Johns, actress
1924 - Bill Dana, actor, comedian
1930 - Pavel Popovich, cosmonaut
1933 - Diane Cilento, actress
1935 - Diahann Carroll, actress
1936 - Vaclav 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
1962 - Michael Andretti, auto racer
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
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
1941 - Louis Dembitz Brandeis, justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
1969 - Walter Hagen, champion golfer
1976 - Lars Onsager, physical chemist
1986 - Hal B. Wallis, film producer
1992 - Eddie Kendricks, singer

Holidays

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