October 5......

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

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.

● 1789 - French Revolution: Parisian women march to Versailles to confront Louis XVI about his refusal to promulgate the decrees on the abolition of feudalism.

● 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 devastates 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.

● 1937 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt called for a ''quarantine'' of aggressor nations.

● 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 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. President Truman asked Americans to refrain from eating meat on Tuesdays and poultry on Thursdays to help stockpile grain for starving people in Europe.

● 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, succeeding Fred M. Vinson.

● 1962 - The Beatles release their first single, "Love Me Do," in Britain.

● 1966 - Near Detroit, Michigan, there is a partial core meltdown at the Enrico Fermi demonstration nuclear breeder reactor.

● 1968 - Londonderry march ends in violence; Batons and water cannon used by police to break up a civil rights march in Londonderry.

● 1969 - The first broadcast of Monty Python's Flying Circus is on BBC Television.

● 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 in southern England by the IRA leaves 5 (4 BBC) 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.

● 1984 - Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space, aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger.

● 1984 - Drugs squad swoop on smugglers; Police and Customs in Essex seize Britain's biggest ever haul of cannabis made in a single raid.

● 1986 - American Eugene Hasenfus was captured by Sandinista soldiers after the Contra supply plane he was riding in was shot down over southern Nicaragua.

● 1986 - Israel's secret nuclear weapons was revealed. The British newspaper The Sunday Times ran Mordechai Vanunu's story on its front page under the headline: "Revealed — the secrets of Israel's nuclear arsenal."

● 1988 - Democrat Lloyd Bentsen lambasted Republican Dan Quayle (probably one of the dumbest people ever to hold such high office making him the perfect insurance policy for GHW Bush) during their vice-presidential debate, telling Quayle, ''Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy.''

● 1989 - A jury in Charlotte, N.C., convicted former PTL (Pass The Loot) evangelist Jim Bakker of using his TV show to defraud followers.

● 1990 - After one hundred and fifty years The Herald broadsheet newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, is published for the last time as a separate newspaper.

● 1990 - A jury in Cincinnati acquitted an art gallery and its director of obscenity charges stemming from an exhibit of sexually graphic photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe. Thus saving the First Amendment for destruction later.

● 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.

● 1994 - Cult members die in 'mass suicide;' The bodies of 48 members of a religious cult are discovered by Swiss police after an apparent mass suicide.

● 1998 - Michael Carneal pleaded guilty but mentally ill to fatally shooting three fellow students and wounding five other people at Heath High School in West Paducah, KY.

● 1999 - MCI WorldCom Inc. announced a $115 billion deal to take over Sprint Corp.

● 1999 - Death toll rising in Paddington crash; At least eight people are killed and 160 injured after two trains collide at Ladbroke Grove in west London..

● 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. Opposition supporters storm the Yugoslav parliament building and proclaim Vojislav Kostunica as the new president.

● 2001 - Robert Stevens dies of inhaled anthrax in Boca Raton, FL becoming the first victim in the 2001 anthrax attacks.

● 2001 - Tom Ridge resigned as Governor of Pennsylvania to become President Bush's Homeland Security Advisor.

● 2001 - Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants set a new mark for home runs in a single season, hitting his 71st and 72nd in a loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers.

● 2003 - Israel bombed an Islamic Jihad base in Syria.

● 2003 - Akhmad Kadyrov elected President of Chechnya.

● 2005 - Defying the White House, the Senate voted 90-9 to approve an amendment that would prohibit the use of ''cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment'' against anyone in U.S. government custody. (President Bush would issue a signing statement stating that even though he signed the legislation, he did not feel bound by it.)

● 2005 - NHL started its season to end a year-and-a-half lockout.

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 evangelical religious leader (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)

● 1789 - William Scoresby, British explorer (d. 1857)

● 1795 - Alexander Keith, brewer (d. 1873)

● 1824 - Henry Chadwick, baseball writer and statistician (d. 1908)

● 1829 - Chester A. Arthur in Fairfield, VT, 21st President of the United States (d.1886)

● 1864 - Louis Jean Lumière, French film pioneer and chemist(d. 1948)

● 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, first patent drawings used by Nazis to start rocket program (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)

● 1895 - Walter Bedell Smith, American Army chief of staff for U.S. forces in Europe during World War II (d. 1961)

● 1902 - Larry Fine, American actor and comedian (d. 1975)

● 1902 - Ray A. Kroc, American businessman who built the McDonald's fast food empire (d. 1984)

● 1903 - M. King Hubbert, American geophysicist (d. 1989)

● 1904 - John Hoyt, American film and television actor (d. 1991)

● 1905 - Harriet E. MacGibbon, American actress (d. 1987)

● 1907 - Mrs. Miller, American singer (d. 1997)

● 1908 - Joshua Logan, American stage and film director, producer 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 (''Family Circus'')

● 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)

● 1925 - Bob Thaves, American cartoonist (Frank and Ernest) (d. 2006)

● 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)

● 1936 - Václav Havel, playwright and former President of the Czech Republic

● 1937 - Barry Switzer, American football coach

● 1938 - Teresa Heinz Kerry, American philanthropist, wife of John Kerry

● 1939 - Marie Laforêt, French singer and actress

● 1939 - Marie-Claire Blais, French Canadian author and playwright

● 1941 - Arlene Smith, R&B singer (The Chantels)

● 1941 - Eduardo Duhalde, President of Argentina

● 1942 - Richard Street, R&B singer (The Temptations)

● 1943 - Steve Miller, American musician

● 1946 - Zahida Hina, Pakistani columnist and story writer

● 1946 - Jean Perron, National Hockey League coach

● 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

● 1949 - Ralph Goodale, Canadian politician

● 1949 - B.W. Stevenson, American country pop singer (d. 1988)

● 1950 - Jeff Conaway, American actor (''Taxi'')

● 1951 - Karen Allen, American actress

● 1951 - Bob Geldof, Irish musician (The Boomtown Rats)

● 1952 - Clive Barker, English writer and director

● 1952 - Duncan Regehr, Canadian actor

● 1954 - David Bryson, Rock musician (Counting Crows)

● 1954 - Bob Geldof, Rock singer-activist

● 1957 - Mark Geragos, American attorney

● 1958(57? NYT) - Bernie Mac, American actor and comedian

● 1958 - André Kuipers, Dutch astronaut

● 1960 - Daniel Baldwin, American actor

● 1962 - Michael Andretti, American race car driver

● 1963 - Caron Keating, Irish television personality (d. 2004)

● 1964 - Keiji Fujiwara, Japanese seiyu (voice actor)

● 1964 – Dave Dederer, Rock musician (Presidents of the United States of America)

● 1965 - Mario Lemieux, Canadian hockey player

● 1965 - Patrick Roy, Canadian hockey player

● 1967 - Guy Pearce, English-born actor

● 1970 - Agnes Barley, American artist

● 1970 - Josie Bissett, American actress

● 1972 - Grant Hill, American basketball player

● 1974 - Colin Meloy, American singer songwriter

● 1974 - Heather Headley, R&B singer-actress

● 1975 - Kate Winslet, English actress

● 1975 - Bobo Balde, Guinean footballer

● 1975 - Brian Mashburn, Rock musician (Save Ferris)

● 1975 - Parminder Nagra, Actress (''ER'')

● 1975 - Scott Weinger, Actor

● 1976 - J.J. Yeley, Nascar Nextel Cup Driver

● 1978 - Shane Ryan, Irish Gaelic Footballer

● 1978 - Morgan Webb, G4TV host and FHM columnist

● 1978 - James Valentine, American guitarist (Maroon 5)

● 1979 - Curtis Sanford, Canadian Hockey Goalie

● 1979 - Vince Grella, Australian footballer

● 1980 - Paul Thomas, American musician (Good Charlotte)

● 1983 - Nicky Hilton, American heiress and TV personality

● 1985 - Brooke Valentine, R&B singer

● 1985 - Nicola Roberts, English singer (Girls Aloud)

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)

● 1880 - Jacques Offenbach, German-born composer (b. 1819)

● 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)

● 1933 - Nikolai Nikolaevich Yudenich, Russian general (b. 1862)

● 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, the first Jewish member of the nation's highest court (b. 1856)

● 1943 - Leon Roppolo, American musician (b. 1902)

● 1950 - Frederic Lewy, German neurologist (b. 1885)

● 1969 - Walter Hagen, American golfer (b. 1892)

● 1976 - Lars Onsager, Norwegian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)

● 1976 - Barbara Nichols, American actress (b. 1929)

● 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, American professional wrestler (b. 1962)

● 2000 - Catalin Haldan, Romanian football player (b. 1976)

● 2001 - Robert Stevens dies of inhaled anthrax in Boca Raton, FL becoming the first victim in the 2001 anthrax attacks.

● 2001 - Mike Mansfield, Former US Senate majority leader and ambassador (b. 1903)

● 2002 - Chuck Rayner, National Hockey League goaltender (b. 1920)

● 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)

● 2004 - William H. Dobelle, American biomedical engineer, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine nominee (b. 1941)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● 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

● French Republican Calendar - Réséda (Mignonette) Day, fourteenth day in the Month of Vendémiaire


Click on this LINK to see original Wikipedia list with many having links with details.

Additional facts taken from:

The BBC Take on the day

On this day in the New York Times