Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 5

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August 5: Independence Day in Burkina Faso (1960)

642 - Penda of Mercia defeated and killed Oswald of Northumbria in the Battle of Maserfield, becoming the most powerful of the Anglo-Saxon rulers of the time.
1100 - Henry I was crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey.
1858 - Cyrus West Field and colleagues completed the first transatlantic telegraph cable.
1861 - The U.S. government issued its first income tax: 3% of all incomes over 800 dollars (later rescinded in 1872).
1995 - Operation Storm: Croatian forces recovered the town of Knin from the Republic of Serbian Krajina.