What happened on October 5? There are more than 305 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About October 5
October 5 is the 279th day of the year 2024. There are 87 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday. This day falls under the 40th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Campton, Kentucky 41301 sunrise will occur at 07:32 AM and sunset will occur at 07:11 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Libra. The modern birthstone for this month is Opal while the mystical birthstone is Jasper.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 116 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For October 5
- 610Coronation of Byzantine Emperor Heraclius
- 869The Fourth Council of Constantinople is convened to decide about what to do about Patriarch Photius of Constantinople.
- 1143King Alfonso VII of León recognises Portugal as a Kingdom.
- 1450Jews are expelled from Lower Bavaria by order of Louis IX, Duke of Bavaria.
- 1550Foundation of Concepción, city in Chile.
- 1582Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
- 1665The University of Kiel is founded.
- 1789French Revolution: Women of Paris march to Versailles in the March on Versailles to confront Louis XVI about his refusal to promulgate the decrees on the abolition of feudalism, demand bread, and have the King and his court moved to Paris.
- 1793French Revolution: Christianity is disestablished in France.
- 1813Battle of Thames in Canada; Americans defeat British.
- 1857The City of Anaheim is founded.
- 1864The Indian city of Calcutta is almost totally destroyed by a cyclone; 60,000 die.
- 1869The Saxby Gale devastates the Bay of Fundy region of Maritime Canada. The storm had been predicted over a year before by a British naval officer.
- 1877Chief Joseph surrenders his Nez Perce band to General Nelson A. Miles.
- 1895The first individual time trial for racing cyclists is held on a 50-mile course north of London.
- 1903Sir Samuel Griffith is appointed the first Chief Justice of Australia and Sir Edmund Barton and Richard O'Connor are appointed as foundation justices.
- 1905Wilbur Wright pilots Wright Flyer III in a flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes, a world record that stood until 1908.
- 1910In a revolution in Portugal the monarchy is overthrown and a republic is declared .
- 1914World War I: first aerial combat resulting in an intentional fatality.
- 1915Bulgaria enters World War I as one of the Central Powers.
- 1921Baseball: The World Series is broadcast on the radio for the first time.
- 1930British Airship R101 crashes in France en-route to India on its maiden voyage.
- 1936The Jarrow March sets off for London.
- 194398 American POW’s executed by Japanese forces on Wake Island.
- 1944Royal Canadian Air Force pilots shoot down the first German jet fighter over France.
- 1944Suffrage is extended to women in France.
- 1945Hollywood Black Friday: A six-month strike by Hollywood set decorators turns into a bloody riot at the gates of Warner Brothers’ studios.
- 1947The first televised White House address is given by U.S. President Harry S. Truman.
- 1948The 1948 Ashgabat earthquake kills 110,000.
- 1953The first documented recovery meeting of Narcotics Anonymous is held.
- 1955Disneyland Hotel opens to the public in Anaheim, California.
- 1962Dr. No, the first in the James Bond film series, is released.
- 1966Near Detroit, Michigan, there is a partial core meltdown at the Enrico Fermi demonstration nuclear breeder reactor.
- 1968Police baton civil rights demonstrators in Derry, Northern Ireland – considered to mark the beginning of The Troubles.
- 1969The first episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus airs on BBC.
- 1970Montreal, Quebec: British Trade Commissioner James Cross is kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group, triggering the October Crisis.
- 1970The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is founded.
- 1973Signature of the European Patent Convention.
- 1974Guildford pub bombings: bombs planted by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) kill four British soldiers and one civilian.
- 1982Chicago Tylenol murders: Johnson & Johnson initiates a nationwide product recall in the United States for all products in its Tylenol brand after several bottles in Chicago are found to have been laced with cyanide, resulting in seven deaths.
- 1984Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space, aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger.
- 1986Israeli secret nuclear weapons are revealed. The British newspaper The Sunday Times runs Mordechai Vanunu’s story on its front page under the headline: “Revealed — the secrets of Israel’s nuclear arsenal”.
- 1988The Brazilian Constitution is ratified by Constituent Assembly.
- 1988The Chilean opposition coalition Concertación (center-left) defeats Augusto Pinochet in his re-election attempt and a general election is called the following year.
- 1990After one hundred and fifty years The Herald broadsheet newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, is published for the last time as a separate newspaper.
- 1991An Indonesian military transport crashes after takeoff from Jakarta killing 137.
- 1991The first official version of the Linux kernel, version 0.02, is released.
- 1999The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in west London kills 31 people.
- 2000Mass demonstrations in Belgrade lead to resignation of Serbian strongman Slobodan Milošević. These demonstrations are often called the Bulldozer Revolution.
- 2001Robert Stevens becomes the first victim in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
Who Were Born On October 5?
- 1338Alexios III, Emperor of Trebizond (d. 1390)
- 1520Alessandro Farnese, Italian cardinal (d. 1589)
- 1641Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan, French mistress of King Louis XIV of France (d. 1707)
- 1658Mary of Modena, queen of James II of England (d. 1718)
- 1695John Glas, Scottish minister (d. 1773)
- 1703Jonathan Edwards, American minister (d. 1758)
- 1712Francesco Guardi, Italian painter (d. 1793)
- 1713Denis Diderot, French philosopher and encyclopedist (d. 1784)
- 1715Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, French economist (d. 1789)
- 1717Marie-Anne de Mailly-Nesle duchess de Châteauroux, French mistress of King Louis XV of France (d. 1744)
- 1781Bernard Bolzano, Czech mathematician and philosopher (d. 1848)
- 1792Joseph Crosfield, English soap and alkali manufacturer (d. 1844)
- 1795Alexander Keith, Scottish-born Canadian brewer (d. 1873)
- 1820David Wilber, American politician (d. 1890)
- 1824Henry Chadwick, English-born American baseball writer and statistician (d. 1908)
- 1829Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States (d. 1886)
- 1844Francis William Reitz, State President of the Orange Free State (d. 1934)
- 1848Guido von List, German writer (d. 1919)
- 1850Sergey Muromtsev, Russian lawyer and politician, and President of the First Imperial Duma (d. 1910)
- 1857Peadar Mac Fhionnlaoich, Irish Language writer (d. 1942)
- 1864Louis Lumière, French film pioneer (d. 1948)
- 1878Louise Dresser, American actress (d. 1965)
- 1879Francis Peyton Rous, American pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1970)
- 1882Robert Goddard, American rocket scientist (d. 1945)
- 1887René Cassin, French jurist and Nobel laureate (d. 1976)
- 1889Teresa de la Parra, Venezuelan writer (d. 1936)
- 1892Remington Kellogg, American naturalist (d. 1969)
- 1894Bevil Rudd, South African athlete (d. 1948)
- 1898Nachum Gutman, Israeli painter (d. 1980)
- 1899Georg, Duke of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1963)
- 1901John Alton, American cinematographer (d. 1996)
- 1902Larry Fine, American actor and comedian (d. 1975)
- 1902Ray Kroc, American fast food entrepreneur (d. 1984)
- 1903M. King Hubbert, American geophysicist (d. 1989)
- 1905Harriet E. MacGibbon, American actress (d. 1987)
- 1905John Hoyt, American film and television actor (d. 1991)
- 1907Mrs. Miller, American singer (d. 1997)
- 1908Joshua Logan, American film director and writer (d. 1988)
- 1909Tony Malinosky, American baseball player (d. 2011)
- 1911Flann O'Brien, Irish humorist (d. 1966)
- 1911Pierre Dansereau, Canadian ecologist (d. 2011)
- 1912Fritz Fischer, Nazi war criminal (d. 2003)
- 1913Eugene Bennett Fluckey American Navy Submariner (d. 2007)
- 1916Stetson Kennedy, American writer (d. 2011)
- 1917Allen Ludden, American television game show host (d. 1981)
- 1919Donald Pleasence, English actor (d. 1995)
- 1919Robin Bailey, English actor (d. 1999)
- 1921Bill Willis, American football player (d. 2007)
- 1922Bil Keane, American cartoonist (d. 2011)
- 1922Jock Stein, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 1985)
- 1922José Froilán González, Argentine race car driver
- 1923Albert Guðmundsson, Icelandic footballer (d. 1994)
- 1923Glynis Johns, British actress
- 1923Philip Berrigan, American peace activist (d. 2002)
- 1923Stig Dagerman, Swedish writer (d. 1954)
- 1924Barbara Kelly, Canadian-born actress (d. 2007)
- 1924Bill Dana, American actor
- 1924Bob Thaves, American cartoonist Frank and Ernest (comic strip) (d. 2006)
- 1924José Donoso, Chilean writer (d. 1996)
- 1925Gail Davis, American actress (d. 1997)
- 1926Willi Unsoeld, American climber (d. 1979)
- 1928Louise Fitzhugh, American author (d. 1974)
- 1929Bill Wirtz, American ice hockey executive (d. 2007)
- 1929Fred Feast, English actor (d. 1999)
- 1929Richard F. Gordon, Jr., American astronaut
- 1930Anne Haddy, Australian actress (d. 1999)
- 1930Pavel Popovich, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2009)
- 1930Reinhard Selten, German economist, Nobel laureate
- 1932Dean Prentice, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1932Michael John Rogers, English ornithologist (d. 2006)
- 1933Diane Cilento, Australian actress
- 1934Angelo Buono, Jr., American serial killer (d. 2002)
- 1934Kenneth D. Taylor, Canadian ambassador to Iran during the 1979 hostage crisis
- 1935Arlene Saunders, American soprano
- 1936Václav Havel, President of the Czech Republic (d. 2011)
- 1937Barry Switzer, American football coach
- 1938Teresa Heinz Kerry, American philanthropist
- 1939Consuelo Ynares-Santiago, Filipino Supreme Court jurist
- 1939Marie-Claire Blais, French Canadian author and playwright
- 1939Marie Laforêt, French singer and actress
- 1939Walter Wolf, Slovenian-born Canadian industrialist
- 1940John Byrne Cooke, American novelist and photographer; son of Alistair Cooke
- 1940Milena Dravić, Serbian actress
- 1940Thom Christopher, American actor
- 1941Eduardo Duhalde, President of Argentina
- 1942Richard Street, American singer (The Temptations)
- 1943Ben Cardin, American politician, junior senator of Maryland
- 1943Steve Miller, American musician (Steve Miller Band)
- 1945Brian Connolly, Scottish singer (Sweet) (d. 1997)
- 1945Geoff Leigh, English musician (Henry Cow)
- 1946Jean Perron, Canadian ice hockey coach
- 1946Zahida Hina, Pakistani columnist
- 1947Brian Johnson, English singer (AC/DC)
- 1948Carter Cornelius, American musician (Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose) (d. 1991)
- 1948Tawl Ross, American musician (P Funk)
- 1948Zoran Živković, Serbian writer
- 1949B. W. Stevenson, American singer (d. 1988)
- 1949Bill James, American baseball writer
- 1949Ralph Goodale, Canadian politician
- 1950Eddie Clarke, English guitarist (Motörhead, Fastway)
- 1950Edward P. Jones, American writer
- 1950James Rizzi, American pop artist (d. 2011)
- 1950Jeff Conaway, American actor (d. 2011)
- 1951Bob Geldof, Irish singer (The Boomtown Rats) and activist
- 1951Karen Allen, American actress
- 1952Clive Barker, English writer
- 1952Duncan Regehr, Canadian actor
- 1952Gigi Sabani, Italian TV host (d. 2007)
- 1955Ángela Molina, Spanish actress
- 1955Caroline Loeb, French singer and actress
- 1955Jean-Jacques Lafon, French singer-songwriter
- 1955John Alexander, English former footballer
- 1957Bernie Mac, American actor and comedian (d. 2008)
- 1957Lee Thompson, English saxophonist (Madness), vocalist
- 1957Mark Geragos, American attorney
- 1958André Kuipers, Dutch astronaut
- 1958Neil DeGrasse Tyson, American Astrophysicist
- 1959Maya Lin, American sculptor/architect
- 1960Careca, Brazilian footballer
- 1960Daniel Baldwin, American actor
- 1960David Kirk, New Zealand rugby union footballer
- 1960Evangelia Tzampazi, Greek politician
- 1961Matthew Kauffman, American journalist and George Polk Award winner
- 1961Sharon Cheslow, American musician, composer and artist
- 1962Caron Keating, British television personality (d. 2004)
- 1962Michael Andretti, American race car driver
- 1962Thomas Herbst, German footballer
- 1963Laura Davies, English golfer
- 1964Keiji Fujiwara, Japanese voice actor
- 1964Malik Saidullaev Chechen businessman
- 1964Warren E. Miller, Maryland politician
- 1965Mario Lemieux, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1965Patrick Roy, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1965Trace Armstrong, American football player
- 1966Dennis Byrd, American football player
- 1966Jan Verhaas, Dutch snooker referee
- 1966Sean M. Carroll, American cosmologist
- 1966Terri Runnels, Former Wrestling manager and valet
- 1967Guy Pearce, Anglo-Australian actor
- 1967Rex Chapman, American basketball player
- 1970Audie Pitre, bass guitarist (d. 1996)
- 1970Josie Bissett, American actress
- 1971Mauricio Pellegrino, Argentine former footballer
- 1971Samuel Vincent, Canadian voice actor
- 1971South Park Mexican, American rapper
- 1972Aaron Guiel, Canadian baseball outfielder
- 1972Grant Hill, American basketball player
- 1972Thomas Roberts, American news anchor
- 1974Alex Walkinshaw, English actor
- 1974Colin Meloy, American singer (The Decemberists)
- 1974Heather Headley, Trinidadian singer
- 1974Rich Franklin, American Mixed Martial Artist
- 1975Bobo Baldé, Guinean footballer
- 1975Carson Ellis, American artist
- 1975Kate Winslet, English actress
- 1975Parminder Nagra, English actress
- 1975Scott Weinger American actor
- 1976J. J. Yeley, American race car driver
- 1976Ramzan Kadyrov, Chechen President
- 1976Royston Tan, Singaporean screenwriter & director
- 1976Song Seung-hun, South Korean actor
- 1978James Valentine, American musician (Maroon 5)
- 1978Jesse Palmer, Canadian-born American football player
- 1978Morgan Webb, Canadian-born television presenter
- 1978Shane Ryan, Irish Gaelic footballer
- 1979Curtis Sanford, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1979Joe Lipari, American writer, comedian & filmmaker
- 1979Vincenzo Grella, Australian footballer
- 1980James Toseland, British motorcycle racer
- 1981Kelvin Tan Wei Lian, Singaporean singer
- 1982Steve Williams, Australian-born German rugby player
- 1983Jesse Eisenberg, American actor
- 1983Mashrafe Mortaza, Bangladeshi cricketer
- 1983Nicky Hilton, American heiress
- 1983Noot Seear, Canadian fashion model and actress
- 1984Kenwyne Jones, Trinidadian footballer
- 1984Naima Adedapo, American Idol season 10 finalist
- 1984Tiana Benjamin, British actress
- 1985Nicola Roberts, English singer (Girls Aloud)
- 1986Mladen Bartulović, Croatian footballer
- 1987Javier Villa, Spanish racing driver
- 1987Kevin Mirallas, Belgian footballer
- 1987Park So Yeon, South Korean Singer (T-ara)
- 1987Tim Ream, American soccer player
- 1988Bahar Kızıl, German Singer (Monrose)
- 1988Benny Howell, English cricketer
Who Died On October 5?
- 578Justin II, Byzantine Emperor
- 1056Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1017)
- 1112Sigebert of Gembloux, French chronicler
- 1214King Alfonso VIII of Castile (b. 1155)
- 1285King Philip III of France (b. 1245)
- 1528Richard Foxe, English churchman
- 1540Helius Eobanus Hessus, German poet (b. 1488)
- 1564Pierre de Manchicourt, Flemish composer
- 1565Lodovico Ferrari, Italian mathematician (b. 1522)
- 1606Philippe Desportes, French poet (b. 1546)
- 1714Kaibara Ekiken, Japanese philosopher (b. 1630)
- 1740Johann Philipp Baratier, German scholar (b. 1721)
- 1777Johann Andreas Segner, Slovak and German mathematician, physicist, and physician (b. 1704)
- 1791Grigori Potemkin, Russian statesman (b. 1739)
- 1805Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, British general (b. 1738)
- 1813Tecumseh, Shawnee leader (b. 1768)
- 1848Joseph Hormayr Freiherr zu Hortenburg, Austrian politician (b. 1781)
- 1861Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski, Polish bishop (b. 1778)
- 1880Jacques Offenbach, German-born composer (b. 1819)
- 1895Ralph Tollemache, British clergyman (b. 1826)
- 1913Hans von Bartels, German painter (b. 1856)
- 1918Roland Garros, French pilot (b. 1888)
- 1930Christopher Birdwood Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson, British military officer (b. 1875)
- 1933Nikolai Nikolaevich Yudenich, Russian general (b. 1862)
- 1933Renée Adorée, French actress (b. 1898)
- 1936J. Slauerhoff, Dutch poet and novelist (b. 1898)
- 1938Saint Faustina, Polish saint (b. 1905)
- 1940Ballington Booth, English-born American religious leader (b. 1857)
- 1940Lincoln Loy McCandless, American cattle rancher (b. 1859)
- 1940Silvestre Revueltas, Mexican musician (b. 1889)
- 1941Louis Dembitz Brandeis, American jurist (b. 1856)
- 1943Leon Roppolo, American musician (b. 1902)
- 1950Frederic Lewy, German neurologist (b. 1885)
- 1952Joe Jagersberger, Austrian racing driver (b. 1884)
- 1975Lady Constance Malleson, British actor and writer (b. 1895)
- 1976Barbara Nichols, American actress (b. 1929)
- 1976Lars Onsager, Norwegian chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903)
- 1981Gloria Grahame, American actress (b. 1923)
- 1983Earl Tupper, American inventor (b. 1907)
- 1983Humberto Mauro, Brazilian film director and screenwriter (b. 1897)
- 1986Hal B. Wallis, American film producer (b. 1898)
- 1986James H. Wilkinson, English mathematician (b. 1919)
- 1986Mike Burgmann, Australian racing driver (b. 1947)
- 1992Eddie Kendricks, American singer (The Temptations) (b. 1939)
- 1993Jim Holton, Scottish footballer (b. 1951)
- 1995Linda Gary, American voice actress (b. 1944)
- 1996Seymour Cray, American electrical engineer and supercomputer architect (b. 1925)
- 1997Brian Pillman, American professional wrestler (b. 1962)
- 2000Cătălin Hîldan, Romanian footballer (b. 1976)
- 2001Mike Mansfield, American politician (b. 1903)
- 2002Chuck Rayner, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1920)
- 2003Dan Snyder, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1978)
- 2003Denis Quilley, English actor (b. 1927)
- 2003Timothy Treadwell, American bear enthusiast and documentary film maker (b. 1957)
- 2004Maurice Wilkins, New Zealand physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1916)
- 2004Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian (b. 1921)
- 2004William H. Dobelle, American biomedical engineer (b. 1941)
- 2006Antonio Peña, Mexican lucha libre promoter (b. 1953)
- 2006Jennifer Moss, English actress (b. 1945)
- 2007Justin Tuveri, Italian WWI veteran (b. 1898)
- 2009Mike Alexander, English bassist (Evile) (b. 1977)
- 2010Bernard Clavel, French novelist (b. 1923)
- 2010Mary Leona Gage, American beauty pageant winner and actress (b. 1939)
- 2010Steve Lee, Swiss musician and vocalist (Gotthard) (b. 1963)
- 2011Bert Jansch, Scottish folk musician (b. 1943)
- 2011Charles Napier, American actor (b. 1936)
- 2011Derrick Bell, American legal scholar and civil rights advocate (b. 1930)
- 2011Fred Shuttlesworth, American civil rights activist (b. 1922)
- 2011Steve Jobs, American computer entrepreneur and innovator, co-founder and CEO of Apple Inc. (b. 1955)
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