October 5Birthdays & History

On this day: October 5 in history

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1. 610Heraclius arrives at Constantinople, kills Byzantine Emperor Phocas, and becomes emperor.Middle EastEurope
2. 816King Louis the Pious is crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by the Pope.Europe
3. 869The Fourth Council of Constantinople is convened to depose patriarch Photios I.Middle East
4. 1143With the signing of the Treaty of Zamora, King Alfonso VII of León and Castile recognises Portugal as a Kingdom.Europe
5. 1450Louis IX, Duke of Bavaria expels Jews from his jurisdiction.Europe
6. 1607Assassins attempt to kill Venetian statesman and scientist Paolo Sarpi.Europe
7. 1789French Revolution: The Women's March on Versailles effectively terminates royal authority.Europe
8. 1813War of 1812: The Army of the Northwest defeats a British and Native Canadian force threatening Detroit.EuropeNorth America
9. 1869The Eastman tunnel, in Minnesota, United States, collapses during construction, causing a landslide that nearly destroys St. Anthony Falls.North America
10. 1869The Saxby Gale devastates the Bay of Fundy region in Canada.North America
11. 1877The Nez Perce War in the northwestern United States comes to an end.North America
12. 1900Peace congress in Paris condemns British policy in South Africa and asserts Boer Republic's right to self-determination.EuropeAfrica
13. 1905The Wright brothers pilot the Wright Flyer III in a new world record flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes.North America
14. 1910In a revolution in Portugal the monarchy is overthrown and a republic is declared.Europe
15. 1911The Kowloon–Canton Railway commences service.Asia
16. 1914World War I: An aircraft successfully destroys another aircraft with gunfire for the first time.Europe
17. 1921The World Series is the first to be broadcast on radio.North America
18. 1930British airship R101 crashes in France en route to India on its maiden voyage killing 48 people.EuropeAsia
19. 1931Clyde Edward Pangborn and Hugh Herndon, Jr. make the first nonstop flight across the Pacific Ocean in the plane Miss Veedol.AsiaNorth America
20. 1936The Jarrow March sets off for London.Europe
21. 1938Holocaust: In Nazi Germany, Jews' passports are invalidated.Europe
22. 1943World War II: Pacific Theater: Ninety-eight American POWs are executed by Japanese forces on Wake Island.North AmericaAsia
23. 1944The Provisional Government of the French Republic enfranchises women.Europe
24. 1945A six-month strike by Hollywood set decorators turns into a bloody riot at the gates of the Warner Brothers studio.North America
25. 1947President Truman makes the first televised Oval Office address.North America
26. 1962The first Beatles single "Love Me Do" is released in Britain.Europe
27. 1962The first of the James Bond film series, based on the novels by Ian Fleming, Dr. No, is released in Britain.Europe
28. 1963The United States suspends the Commercial Import Program in response to repression of the Buddhist majority by the regime of President Ngo Dinh Diem.North America
29. 1966A reactor at the Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station near Detroit suffers a partial meltdown.North America
30. 1968A Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march in Derry is violently suppressed by police.Europe
31. 1970The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is founded in the United States.North America
32. 1970The British Trade Commissioner, James Cross, is kidnapped by members of the Front de libération du Québec, triggering the October Crisis in Canada.EuropeNorth America
33. 1974Bombs planted by the PIRA in pubs in Guildford kill four British soldiers and one civilian.Europe
34. 1978Brother Eddie Villanueva and 15 others from the Polytechnic University of the Philippines begin the Jesus Is Lord Church.Asia
35. 1982Tylenol products are recalled after bottles in Chicago laced with cyanide cause seven deaths.North America
36. 1984Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space.North America
37. 1985Seven Israeli vacationers, including four children, are killed in a mass shooting at Ras Burqa in the Sinai Peninsula by an Egyptian soldier.Middle East
38. 1988A Chilean opposition coalition defeats Augusto Pinochet in his re-election attempt.Latin America
39. 1990After 150 years The Herald newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, is published for the last time as a separate newspaper.Oceania
40. 1991An Indonesian Air Force C-130 crash kills 135 people.Asia
41. 1994Swiss police find the bodies of 48 members of the Order of the Solar Temple, who had died in a cult mass murder-suicide.Europe
42. 1999The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in West London kills 31 people.Europe
43. 2000Mass demonstrations in Serbia force the resignation of Slobodan Milošević.Europe
44. 2011In the Mekong River massacre, two Chinese cargo boats are hijacked and 13 crew members murdered.Asia
45. 2021Windows 11 is released to the general public.North America

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