October 5

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October 5 is the 278th day of the year (279th in Leap years). There are 87 days remaining.

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays
5 External links

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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: Christianity is disestablished in France.
1864 - The Indian city of Calcutta is almost totally destroyed by a cyclone; 60,000 die.
1869 - A strong hurricane devestates the Bay of Fundy region of Maritime Canada. The storm had been predicted over a year before by a British naval officer.
1877 - Chief Joseph surrenders his Nez Perce band to General Nelson A. Miles.
1895 - The first individual time trial for racing cyclists is held on a 50-mile course north of London.
1905 - Wilbur Wright pilots Wright Flyer III in a flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes, a world record that stood until 1908.
1910 - Portugal overthrows its monarchy and declares itself a republic.
1915 - Bulgaria enters World War I as one of the Central Powers.
1921 - Baseball: 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.
1945 - Hollywood Black Friday: A six month strike by Hollywood set decorators turns into into a bloody riot at the gates of Warner Brothers' studios.
1947 - The first televised White House address is given by U.S. President Harry S. Truman.
1949 - WSAZ, West Virginia's first television station, begins broadcasting in Huntington.
1953 - The first documented recovery meeting of Narcotics Anonymous is held.
1953 - Earl Warren is sworn in as the 14th Chief Justice of the United States.
1962 - The Beatles release their first hit, "Love Me Do," in Britain.
1966 - Near Detroit, Michigan, there is a partial core meltdown at the Enrico Fermi demonstration nuclear breeder reactor.
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.
1972 - The Last Goon Show of All goes to air on BBC Radio, one of the most celebrated and influential programmes in the history of radio.
1973 - Signature of the European Patent Convention
1974 - Guildford pub bombing by the IRA leaves 5 dead and 65 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 U.S. citizen.
1983 - Saurabh Lal son of Jagdish Lal was born.
1984 - Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space, aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger.
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.
1991 - The first official version of the Linux kernel, version 0.02, is released.
1999 - The Ladbroke Grove rail crash.
1999 - Angel premieres on the WB network.
2000 - Mass demonstrations in Belgrade lead to resignation of Serbian strongman Slobodan Milošević. These demonstration are often called the Bulldozer Revolution.
2001 - Robert Stevens becomes the first victim in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
2001 - Tom Ridge resigned as Governor of Pennsylvania to become President Bush's Homeland Security Advisor.
2003 - Akhmad Kadyrov elected President of Chechnya.
2005 - NHL started its season to end a year-and-a-half lockout.

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Births

1520 - Alessandro Cardinal Farnese, Italian cardinal (d. 1589)
1641 - Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan, French mistress of King Louis XIV of France (d. 1707)
1658 - Mary of Modena, queen of James II of England (d. 1718)
1695 - John Glas, Scottish minister (d. 1773)
1703 - Jonathan Edwards, American minister (d. 1758)
1712 - Francesco Guardi, Italian painter (d. 1793)
1713 - Denis Diderot, French philosopher and encylopedist (d. 1784)
1715 - Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, French economist (d. 1789)
1717 - Marie-Anne de Mailly-Nesle duchess de Châteauroux, French mistress of King Louis XV of France (d. 1744)
1781 - Bernard Bolzano, Czech mathematician and philosopher (d. 1848)
1795 - Alexander Keith, brewer (d. 1873)
1824 - Henry Chadwick, baseball writer and statistician (d. 1908)
1829 - Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States (d.1886)
1878 - Louise Dresser, American actress (d. 1965)
1879 - Francis Peyton Rous, American pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1970)
1882 - Robert Goddard, American rocket scientist (d. 1945)
1887 - René Cassin, French judge, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1976)
1889 - Teresa de la Parra, Venezuelan writer (d. 1936)
1894 - Bevil Rudd, South African athlete (d. 1948)
1902 - Larry Fine, American actor and comedian (d. 1975)
1902 - Ray Kroc, American fast food entrepreneur (d. 1984)
1903 - M. King Hubbert, American geophysicist (d. 1989)
1905 - Harriet E. MacGibbon, American actress (d. 1987)
1907 - Mrs. Miller, American singer (d. 1997)
1908 - Joshua Logan, American film director and writer (d. 1988)
1911 - Flann O'Brien, Irish humorist (d. 1966)
1917 - Allen Ludden, American television game show host (d. 1981)
1919 - Donald Pleasence, English actor (d. 1995)
1921 - Bill Willis, American football player
1922 - José Froilán González, Argentine race car driver
1922 - Bil Keane, American cartoonist
1922 - Jock Stein, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 1985)
1923 - Albert Guðmundsson, Icelandic professional football player and politician (d. 1994)
1923 - Glynis Johns, British actress
1924 - Bill Dana, American actor and comedian
1925 - Gail Davis, American actress (d. 1997)
1926 - Willi Unsoeld, American climber (d. 1979)
1928 - Louise Fitzhugh, American author (d. 1974)
1929 - Richard F. Gordon, Jr., American astronaut
1930 - Anne Haddy, Australian actress (d. 1999)
1930 - Pavel Popovich, Soviet cosmonaut
1930 - Reinhard Selten, German economist, Nobel Prize laureate
1933 - Diane Cilento, Australian actress
1934 - Angelo Buono, Jr., American serial killer (d. 2002)
1935 - Diahann Carroll, American actress
1936 - Václav Havel, playwright and President of the Czech Republic
1937 - Barry Switzer, American football coach
1938 - Teresa Heinz Kerry, American philanthropist, wife of John Kerry
1941 - Eduardo Duhalde, President of Argentina
1943 - Steve Miller, American musician
1947 - Brian Johnson, American singer (AC/DC) after replacing Bon Scott's death in 1980
1948 - Tawl Ross, American musician (P Funk)
1948 - Zoran Živković, Serbian writer
1950 - Jeff Conaway, American actor
1951 - Karen Allen, American actress
1951 - Bob Geldof, Irish musician (The Boomtown Rats)
1952 - Clive Barker, English writer
1952 - Duncan Regehr, Canadian actor
1957 - Mark Geragos, American attorney
1958 - André Kuipers, Dutch astronaut
1958 - Bernie Mac, American actor and comedian
1960 - Daniel Baldwin, American actor
1962 - Michael Andretti, American race car driver
1963 - Caron Keating, Irish television personality (d. 2004)
1965 - Mario Lemieux, Canadian hockey player
1965 - Patrick Roy, Canadian hockey player
1967 - Guy Pearce, English-born actor
1970 - Agnes Barley, American artist
1972 - Grant Hill, American basketball player
1975 - Kate Winslet, English actress
1976 - J.J. Yeley, Nascar Nextel Cup Driver
1979 - Curtis Sanford, Canadian Hockey Goalie for the St Louis Blues
1980 - Paul Thomas, American musician (Good Charlotte)
1983 - Nicky Hilton, American heiress

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Deaths

578 - Justin II, Byzantine Emperor
877 - Charles the Bald (b. 823)
1056 - Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1017)
1112 - Sigebert of Gembloux, French chronicler
1214 - King Alfonso VIII of Castile (b. 1155)
1285 - King Philip III of France (b. 1245)
1528 - Richard Fox, English churchman
1540 - Helius Eobanus Hessus, German poet (b. 1488)
1564 - Pierre de Manchicourt, Flemish composer
1565 - Lodovico Ferrari, Italian mathematician (b. 1522)
1606 - Philippe Desportes, French poet (b. 1546)
1714 - Kaibara Ekiken, Japanese philosopher (b. 1630)
1740 - Johann Philipp Baratier, German scholar (b. 1721)
1791 - Grigori Potemkin, Russian statesman (b. 1739)
1805 - Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, British general (b. 1738)
1813 - Tecumseh, Shawnee leader
1837 - Hortense de Beauharnais Queen of Holland and mother of the Emperor Napoleon III of France (b. 1783)
1861 - Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski, Polish bishop (b. 1778)
1913 - Hans von Bartels, German painter (b. 1856)
1918 - Roland Garros, French pilot (shot down) (b. 1888)
1930 - Christopher Birdwood Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson, British military officer (b. 1875)
1933 - Renée Adorée, French actress (b. 1898)
1936 - J. Slauerhoff, Dutch poet and novelist (tuberculosis) (b. 1898)
1938 - Saint Faustina Polish religious (b. 1905)
1940 - Ballington Booth, Salvation Army Officer and co-founder of Volunteers of America (b. 1857)
1941 - Louis Dembitz Brandeis, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1856)
1943 - Leon Roppolo, American musician (b. 1902)
1969 - Walter Hagen, American golfer (b. 1892)
1976 - Lars Onsager, Norwegian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
1981 - Gloria Grahame, American actress (b,1923)
1983 - Earl Tupper, American inventor (b. 1907)
1986 - Hal B. Wallis, American film producer (b. 1898)
1986 - James H. Wilkinson, English mathematician (b. 1919)
1992 - Eddie Kendricks, American singer (b. 1939)
1993 - Jim Holton, Scottish footballer (b. 1951)
1995 - Linda Gary, voice actress (b. 1944)
1996 - Seymour Cray, American computer pioneer (b. 1925)
1997 - Brian Pillman, Professional Wrestler (b. 1962)
2000 - Catalin Haldan, Romanian football player (b. 1976)
2001 - Mike Mansfield, American politician (b. 1903)
2003 - Denis Quilley, British actor (b. 1927)
2003 - Dan Snyder, Canadian hockey player (b. 1978)
2003 - Timothy Treadwell, bear enthusiast featured in Grizzly Man (b. 1957)
2004 - Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian (b. 1921)
2004 - Maurice Wilkins, New Zealand-born physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1916)

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Holidays

Roman festivals - mundus patet: one of the three days that the mundus was opened for public.
Portugal - Republic Day, celebrates overthrow of the Monarchy in 1910
International World Teachers' Day [1]

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