October 5 Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

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.

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays

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.
• 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 ()
• 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
• 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
• 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

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