Title: October 5 Content: == Events == === Up to 1900 === * 610 Coronation of Emperor Heraclius of the Byzantine Empire. * 1143 King Alfonso VII of Leon recognises Portugal as a kingdom. * 1450 Jews are expelled from Lower Bavaria by order of Louis IX, Duke of Bavaria. * 1502 Christopher Columbus names Costa Rica. * 1550 The city of Concepcion, Chile is founded. * 1582 This day does not exist in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain, as the Gregorian calendar is introduced. In those countries, October 4 is followed by October 15. * 1665 The University of Kiel is founded. * 1762 British troops occupy Manila, Philippines. * 1789 French Revolution: Women in Paris march to Versailles in the March on Versailles to confront Louis XVI of France about his intention to hold on to the system of feudalism. * 1793 French Revolution: Christianity is removed as the official state religion of France. * 1813 The Battle of Thames is fought in Canada, in which American forces defeat British ones. * 1857 The city of Anaheim, California is founded. * 1864 Calcutta, India, is almost completely destroyed by a cyclone, killing 60,000 people. * 1869 In weather, the Saxby Gale devastates the Bay of Fundy along the maritime provinces of Eastern Canada. * 1877 Chief Joseph surrenders his Nez Perce band to US General Nelson A. Miles. * 1895 The first individual time trial for cyclists takes place in London. === 1901 2000 === * 1903 Samuel Griffith becomes the first Chief Justice of Australia. * 1905 Wilbur Wright pilots the Wright Flyer III in a flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes, a world record that stuck until 1908. * 1908 Austria- Hungary annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina. * 1910 Portugal becomes a Republic. * 1914 World War I: First aerial combat resulting in a death, in international conflict. * 1915 Bulgaria enters World War I as one of the Central Powers. * 1921 Baseball's World Series is broadcast on radio for the first time. * 1933 In Germany, the Nazis take total control of the press. * 1938 In Germany, under Nazi rule, Jews' passports are declared illegal. * 1943 World War II: 98 American POWs are executed by Japanese forces on Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean. * 1944 World War II: Royal Canadian Air Force pilots shoot down the first German jet fighter over France. * 1944 Women in France are given the right to vote. * 1947 The first televised White House address is given by Harry S. Truman. * 1948 A magnitude 7.3 earthquake strikes present-day Turkmenistan, killing over 100,000 people. * 1951 The first Mediterranean Games begin in Alexandria, Egypt. * 1955 Disneyland Hotel opens in Anaheim, California. * 1962 The first James Bond movie, Dr. No, is released. * 1962 Love Me Do, the Beatles' first single, is released in the United Kingdom. * 1968 Police baton civil rights demonstrators in Derry, Northern Ireland, considered to be the beginning of the Troubles. * 1969 Monty Python's Flying Circus is first shown on BBC One. * 1970 The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is founded. * 1970 In Montreal, Quebec, Canada, British trade commissioner James Cross is kidnapped by members of the Front de liberation du Quebec, starting the October Crisis. * 1973 Signature of the European Patent Convention. * 1974 The Guildford pub bombings are carried out by the Provisional IRA, killing 4 British soldiers and 1 civilian. * 1984 Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space. * 1986 Israel's secret nuclear weapons are revealed. * 1988 The Brazilian Constitution is ratified by the Constituent Assembly. * 1989 Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama, wins the Nobel Peace Prize. * 1991 An Indonesian military transport plane crashes after take- off from Jakarta, Indonesia, killing 137, including two on the ground. Only one on board survives. * 1992 Lennart Meri becomes President of Estonia. * 1999 The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in West London kills 31 people. * 2000 Mass demonstrations in Belgrade lead to the resignation of Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic. === From 2001 === * 2001 In baseball, Barry Bonds overtakes Mark McGwire's single-season home run record, hitting his 71st and 72nd home runs of the season respectively. * 2004 At 27.25 degrees Celsius, Germany records its warmest October 5th in 125 years. * 2011 Steve Jobs, former CEO of Apple Inc., dies aged 56, leading to widespread reaction on social media. * 2014 Formula One racing driver Jules Bianchi suffers serious injuries in a crash at the Japanese Grand Prix, leading to his death in July 2015. * 2017 Allegations of sexual harassment against the film producer Harvey Weinstein are published, starting the #MeToo movement. * 2018 Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad win the Nobel Peace Prize. == Births == === Up to 1900 === * 1338 Alexios III, Emperor of Trebizond (d. 1390) * 1520 Alessandro Farnese, Italian cardinal (d. 1589) * 1640 Françoise-Athenais, marquise de Montespan, mistress to King Louis XIV of France (d. 1707) * 1658 Mary of Modena, Queen of England (d. 1718) * 1703 Jonathan Edwards, American theologian (d. 1758) * 1712 Francesco Guardi, Italian painter (d. 1793) * 1713 Denis Diderot, French philosopher (d. 1784) * 1717 Marie Anne de Mailly, mistress to Louis XV of France (d. 1744) * 1743 Giuseppe Gazzaniga, Italian opera composer (d. 1818) * 1781 Bernard Bolzano, Czech mathematician and philosopher (d. 1848) * 1789 William Scoresby, British sailor and explorer (d. 1857) * 1829 Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States (d. 1886) * 1844 Francis William van Reitz, State President of the Orange Free State (d. 1934) * 1848 Guido von List, German writer (d. 1919) * 1850 Sergey Muromtsev, Russian lawyer and politician (d. 1910) * 1858 Helen Churchill Candee, American author and journalist (d. 1929) * 1861 Ismael Montes, President of Bolivia (d. 1933) * 1862 Wilhelm Solf, German politician and diplomat (d. 1936) * 1864 Louis Lumière, French cinema pioneer (d. 1948) * 1878 Louise Dresser, American actress (d. 1965) * 1879 Francis Peyton Rous, American pathologist (d. 1970) * 1881 Robert Stangland, American athlete (d. 1953) * 1882 Robert H. Goddard, American rocket scientist (d. 1945) * 1882 Giorgio Abetti, Italian astronomer (d. 1982) * 1885 Ida Rubinstein, Russian dancer, actress and choreographer (d. 1960) * 1887 Max Ackermann, German painter (d. 1975) * 1887 René Cassin, French jurist (d. 1976) * 1888 Mary Fuller, American actress and comedienne (d. 1973) * 1889 Teresa de la Parra, Venezuelan novelist (d. 1936) * 1892 Remington Kellogg, American naturalist (d. 1969) * 1894 Bevil Rudd, South African athlete (d. 1948) * 1895 Walter Bedell Smith, American general (d. 1961) * 1898 Nachum Gutman, Moldovan- Israeli painter and sculptor (d. 1980) * 1899 Georg, Duke of Mecklenburg (d. 1963) === 1901 1950 === * 1901 John Alton, American cinematographer (d. 1996) * 1902 Ray Kroc, American fast food entrepreneur (d. 1984) * 1905 John Hoyt, American actor (d. 1991) * 1908 Joshua Logan, American director and screenwriter (d. 1988) * 1911 Brian O'Nolan, Irish writer (d. 1966) * 1914 Zhang Zhen, Chinese general (d. 2015) * 1916 Stetson Kennedy, American writer (d. 2011) * 1919 Donald Pleasence, English actor (d. 1995) * 1920 Meliton Kantaria, Soviet-Georgian soldier, raised Soviet Flag on the Reichstag (d. 1993) * 1921 Pham Duy, Vietnamese singer-songwriter (d. 2013) * 1922 José Froilán González, Argentine racing driver (d. 2013) * 1922 Jock Stein, Scottish football manager (d. 1985) * 1923 Albert Gudmundsson, Icelandic footballer and politician (d. 1994) * 1923 Glynis Johns, British actress * 1923 Kailashpati Mishra, Indian politician, Governor of Gujarat (d. 2012) * 1924 Bill Dana, American actor * 1924 Frederic Morton, Austrian-American writer (d. 2015) * 1924 Javid Iqbal, Pakistani judge (d. 2015) * 1925 Walter Dale Miller, American politician, 29th Governor of South Dakota (d. 2015) * 1927 Bruce Millan, Scottish politician (d. 2013) * 1929 Robert F. Gordon, Jr., American astronaut * 1930 Pavel Popovich, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2009) * 1930 Reinhard Selten, German economist (d. 2016) * 1931 Derek Grierson, Scottish footballer (d. 2011) * 1932 Madhav Apte, Indian cricketer (d. 2019) * 1932 Neal Ascherson, Scottish journalist and writer * 1933 Diane Cilento, Australian actress (d. 2011) * 1936 Václav Havel, Czech playwright and former President of the Czech Republic and Czechoslovakia (d. 2011) * 1937 Barry Switzer, American football coach * 1938 Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of US Senator John Kerry and part of the family that owns the Heinz ketchup company * 1941 Eduardo Duhalde, former President of Argentina * 1943 Michael Morpurgo, English writer * 1944 Cesare Nosiglia, Italian archbishop * 1944 Nils Malmros, Danish movie director and screenwriter * 1946 Thomson Allan, Scottish footballer * 1946 Robin Lane Fox, English historian and author * 1947 Michèle Pierre-Louis, 14th Prime Minister of Haiti * 1947 Brian Johnson, English singer-songwriter (AC/DC) * 1948 Drew Jarvie, Scottish footballer * 1948 Tawl Ross, American guitarist (Funkadelic) * 1949 Peter Ackroyd, English author * 1949 Klaus Ludwig, German racing driver * 1950 Jeff Conaway, American actor (d. 2011) * 1950 Eddie Clarke, English guitarist === 1951 1975 === * 1951 Bob Geldof, Irish musician and humanitarian activist * 1951 Karen Allen, American actress * 1951 Willie Donachie, Scottish footballer * 1952 Emomalii Rahmon, President of Tajikistan * 1952 Vladimir Nevzorov, Russian judoka * 1954 Jimmy Hartwig, German footballer and actor * 1955 Jean-Jacques Lafon, French singer- songwriter * 1955 Caroline Loeb, French actress and singer * 1955 Angela Molina, Spanish actress * 1957 Lee Thompson, English singer-songwriter and saxophonist * 1957 Bernie Mac, American actor and comedian (d. 2008) * 1958 Antonio Di Gennaro, Italian footballer * 1958 André Kuipers, Dutch astronaut * 1958 Neil deGrasse Tyson, American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author * 1960 David Kirk, New Zealand rugby player * 1960 Daniel Baldwin, American actor * 1960 Careca, Brazilian footballer * 1962 Caron Keating, British television personality (d. 2004) * 1962 Michael Andretti, American racing driver * 1963 Laura Davies, British golfer * 1963 Michael Hadschieff, Austrian speed skater * 1963 Charlotte Link, German author * 1963 Nick Robinson, English journalist * 1964 Keiji Fujiwara, Japanese voice actor * 1965 Mario Lemieux, Canadian ice hockey player * 1966 Inessa Kravets, Ukrainian athlete * 1967 Guy Pearce, Australian actor * 1967 Rex Chapman, American basketball player and sportscaster * 1970 Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh, Scottish politician * 1971 Mauricio Pellegrino, Argentine footballer * 1972 Grant Hill, American basketball player * 1974 Alex Walkinshaw, English actor * 1975 Kate Winslet, English actress * 1975 Parminder Nagra, English actress * 1975 Bobo Baldé, Guinean footballer * 1975 Monica Rial, American voice actress === From 1976 === * 1976 Song Seung-heon, South Korean actor and singer * 1976 Ramzan Kadyrov, President of Chechnya * 1976 Royston Ten, Singaporean director, producer and screenwriter * 1977 Konstantin Zyryanov, Russian footballer * 1977 Hugleikur Dagsson, Icelandic artist * 1978 James Valentine, American musician (Maroon 5) * 1979 Vince Grella, Australian footballer * 1979 Joe Lipari, American writer, comedian and moviemaker * 1980 Paul Thomas, American musician (Good Charlotte) * 1980 James Toseland, British motorcycle racer * 1981 Zhang Yining, Chinese table tennis player * 1981 Joel Lindpere, Estonian footballer * 1982 Brandi Williams, American singer-songwriter and actress * 1983 Florian Mayer, German tennis player * 1983 Jesse Eisenberg, American actor * 1983 Nicky Hilton, American heiress of the Hilton Hotel chain * 1984 Zlatko Dedic, Slovenian footballer * 1984 Kenwyne Jones, Trinidadian footballer * 1984 Clint Jones, American ski jumper * 1985 Nicola Roberts, British singer (Girls Aloud) * 1987 Kevin Mirallas, Belgian footballer * 1987 Park So Yeon, South Korean singer * 1987 Hadleigh Parkes, New Zealand-Welsh rugby union player * 1988 Bahar Kızıl, German singer-songwriter (Monrose) * 1988 Sam Warburton, Welsh rugby player * 1989 Asmirandah, Indonesian actress, singer, writer and model * 1991 Arthur Pic, French racing driver * 1992 Kevin Magnussen, Danish racing driver * 1992 Mercedes Lambre, Argentine actress and singer == Deaths == === Up to 1900 === * 578 Justin II, Byantine Emperor (b. 520) * 877 Charles the Bald * 1056 Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1017) * 1112 Sigebert of Gembloux, French monk, historian and author (b. 1030) * 1214 King Alfonso VIII of Castile (b. 1155) * 1285 King Philip III of France (b. 1245) * 1606 Philippe Desportes, French poet (b. 1546) * 1763 King Augustus III of Poland (b. 1696) * 1777 Johann Andreas Segner, Slovakian-German mathematician, physicist and physician (b. 1704) * 1791 Grigori Potemkin, Russian statesman (b. 1739) * 1805 Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, English general (b. 1738) * 1813 Tecumseh, Native American leader (b. 1768) * 1837 Hortense de Beauharnais Queen of Holland and mother of the Emperor Napoleon III of France (b. 1783) * 1853 Mahlon Dickerson, Governor of New Jersey (b. 1770) * 1855 Thomas Mitchell, Australian explorer * 1861 Kinsley S. Bingham, Governor of Michigan (b. 1808) * 1880 Jacques Offenbach, French composer (b. 1819) === 1901 2000 === * 1913 Hans von Bartels, German painter (b. 1856) * 1918 Roland Garros, French pilot (b. 1888) * 1927 Sam Warner, American movie producer (b. 1887) * 1930 Christopher Birdwood Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson, British Secretary of State for Air (b. 1876) * 1933 Renée Adoree, French actress (b. 1898) * 1936 J. Slauerhoff, Dutch poet and novelist, from complications following neglected tuberculosis (b. 1898) * 1938 Mary Faustina Kowalska, Polish nun, mystic and saint (b. 1905) * 1940 Silvestre Revueltas, Mexican composer (b. 1899) * 1941 Louis Dembitz Brandeis, justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (b. 1856) * 1943 Leon Roppolo, jazz musician (b. 1902) * 1957 José Leandro Andrade, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1901) * 1969 Walter Hagen, champion golfer * 1976 Lars Onsager, Norwegian physical chemist (b. 1903) * 1976 Barbara Nichols, American actress (b. 1929) * 1983 Earl Tupper, inventor of Tupperware (b. 1907) * 1983 Humberto Mauro, Brazilian movie director and screenwriter (b. 1897) * 1986 Hal B. Wallis, movie producer * 1986 James H. Wilkinson, mathematician (b. 1919) * 1992 Eddie Kendricks, singer (b. 1939) * 1995 Linda Gary, voice actor (b. 1944) * 1996 Seymour Cray, American computer pioneer (b. 1926) === From 2001 === * 2002 Chuck Rayner, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1920) * 2003 Denis Quilley, British actor (b. 1927) * 2003 Dan Snyder, Atlanta Thrashers ice hockey player (b. 1978) * 2004 Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian (b. 1921) * 2004 Maurice Wilkins, DNA pioneer (b. 1916) * 2007 Walter Kempowski, German writer (b. 1929) * 2007 Justin Tuveri, Italian World War I veteran (b. 1898) * 2009 Giselher Klebe, German composer (b. 1925) * 2009 Israel Gelfand, Soviet- born American mathematician (b. 1913) * 2010 Bernard Clavel, French writer (b. 1923) * 2011 Bert Jansch, Scottish musician (b. 1943) * 2011 Steve Jobs, American computer entrepreneur and innovator, co-founder and CEO of Apple Inc. (b. 1955) * 2011 Charles Napier, American actor (b. 1936) * 2012 Claude Pinoteau, French movie director and screenwriter (b. 1925) * 2013 Carlo Lizzani, Italian actor and movie director (b. 1922) * 2014 Yuri Lyubimov, Russian stage actor and director (b. 1917) * 2014 Andrea de Cesaris, Italian racing driver (b. 1959) * 2014 Anna Przybylska, Polish actress (b. 1978) * 2014 Geoffrey Holder, Trinidadian actor, director, artist and dancer (b. 1930) * 2014 Anna Maria Gherardi, Italian actress (b. 1939) * 2014 Misty Upham, American actress (b. 1982) * 2015 Henning Mankell, Swedish writer (b. 1948) * 2015 Jos Vandeloo, Belgian writer and poet (b. 1925) * 2015 Grace Lee Boggs, American writer and activist (b. 1915) * 2015 Chantal Akerman, Belgian movie director and artist (b. 1950) * 2015 Infante Carlos, Duke of Calabria (b. 1938) * 2016 Georges Balandier, French sociologist, ethnologist and anthropologist (b. 1920) * 2016 Michal Kovac, 1st President of Slovakia (b. 1930) * 2016 Josh Samman, American mixed martial artist (b. 1988) * 2017 Toon Geurts, Dutch sprint canoeist (b. 1932) * 2017 Eberhard van der Laan, Dutch politician (b. 1955) * 2017 Giorgio Pressburger, Hungarian-Italian writer (b. 1937) * 2017 Anne Wiazemsky, French actress and novelist (b. 1947) * 2017 Sylke Tempel, German journalist and novelist (b. 1963) * 2018 Jimmy Duquennoy, Belgian cyclist (b. 1995) * 2018 Ray Galton, English screenwriter (b. 1930) * 2018 Ivar Odnes, Norwegian politician (b. 1963) * 2018 Víctor Pey, Spanish- Chilean engineer and political activist (b. 1915) * 2019 Andy Etcheburren, American baseball player (b. 1943) * 2019 Marcello Giordani, Italian tenor (b. 1963) * 2019 David Greaves, English snooker player (b. 1946) * 2019 Henry Keizer, Dutch politician and businessman (b. 1960) * 2019 Blaine Lindgren, American sprinter (b. 1939) * 2019 Margaret Lyons, Canadian radio executive (b. 1923) * 2019 Philippe Vandevelde, Belgian comic writer (b. 1957) == Observances == * Republic Day (Portugal) * International Teachers' Day (UNESCO) * Teachers' Day (Pakistan, Russia) * Armed Forces Day (Indonesia) * Constitution Day (Vanuatu) * Stara Zagora (Bulgaria) October 05