October 5

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.

Events

1500-1899

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 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

1900-1999

1908 - Bulgaria declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire - Ferdinand I of Bulgaria becomes Tsar

1910 - Portugal overthrows the monarchy

1915 - Bulgaria enters World War I as one of the Central Powers.

1921 - 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

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.

1949 - WSAZ, the United States' first television station, located in Huntington, West Virginia, begins broadcasting.

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

1974 - Guildford pub bombing by the IRA leaves 5 dead and 44 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 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. Founded in 1840 as The Port Phillip Herald, it is merged with its morning tabloid sister paper The Sun News-Pictorial and the first issue of the new Herald Sun is published on the 8th.

1991 - An Indonesian military transport crashes after takeoff from Jakarta killing 137. Linux kernel version 0.01 is released.

1995 - LandSat 6 was launched, but never reached orbit due to launch failure.

1999 - The Ladbroke Grove rail crash