5 October

The **5t o October** is the 278t day o the year (279t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 87 days bidin.

## Events

* 1502 - Costa Rica is named bi Christopher Columbus.
* 1665 - The University o Kiel, in present-day northren Germany, is foondit.
* 1793 - Christianity is abandoned as the offeecial releegion o Fraunce.
* 1910 - 5 October 1910 revolution: Portugal becomes a republic, efter gettin rid o the monarchy.
* 1915 - Bulgarie enters Warld War I on the side o the Central Pouers.
* 1948 - A yirdquauk in Ashgabat, nou Turkmenistan, kills 110,000 fowk.
* 1951 - The first Mediterranean Gemmes stairt in Alexandria, Egyp. 
* 1962 - Dr. No, the first James Bond film, based on the beuks bi Ian Fleming an starrin Sean Connery, is released.
* 1962 - The Beatles release thair first sang, Love Me Do.
* 1969 - Monty Python's Flying Circus is first shawn on BBC One.
* 1999 - The Ladbroke Rail Crash in Wast Lunnon kills 31 fowk.
* 2011 - Steve Jobs, CEO o Apple Inc., dees agit 56, causin a lot o reaction on social media.
* 2014 - French Formula Ane driver Jules Bianchi suffers injuries at the Japanese Grand Prix that lead tae his daith in Julie 2015.
* 2016 - Scots-born Fraser Stoddart shares the Nobel Prize in Chemistry wi Jean-Pierre Sauvage an Ben Feringa.
* 2017 - Japanese-born Inglis novelist Kazuo Ishiguro wins the Nobel Prize in Leeteratur.
* 2017 - Sexual harrassment allegations agin the film producer Harvey Weinstein are published, leadin tae the #MeToo muivement.
* 2018 - Denis Mukwege an Nadia Murad win the Nobel Peace Prize.

## Births

* 1658 - Mary o Modena, Queen o James VII o Scotland (d. 1718)
* 1695 - John Glas, Scots clergyman (d. 1773)
* 1713 - Denis Diderot, French writer an philosopher (d. 1784)
* 1781 - Bernard Bolzano, Czech mathemateecian an philosopher (d. 1848)
* 1829 - Chester A. Arthur, 21nt Preses o the Unitit States (d. 1886)
* 1882 - Robert H. Goddard, American ingineer, professor, pheesicist an inventor (d. 1945)
* 1919 - Donald Pleasence, Inglis actor (d. 1995)
* 1922 - Jock Stein, Scots fitbaw manager (d. 1985)
* 1927 - Bruce Millan, Scots politeecian (d. 2013)
* 1931 - Derek Grierson, Scots fitbawer (d. 2011)
* 1932 - Neal Ascherson, Scots jurnalist an writer
* 1936 - Václav Havel, Czech dramatist, writer an statesman (d. 2011)
* 1946 - Thomson Allan, Scots fitbawer
* 1948 - Drew Jarvie, Scots fitbawer
* 1951 - Willie Donachie, Scots fitbawer
* 1951 - Bob Geldof, Erse muisicker an activist
* 1952 - Emomali Rahmon, Preses o Tajikistan
* 1957 - Bernie Mac, American actor an director (d. 2008)
* 1958 - Neil deGrasse Tyson, American astropheesicist, cosmologist an science communicator
* 1965 - Mario Lemieux, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1967 - Guy Pearce, Inglis-Australian actor
* 1969 - Andrea McLean, Scots telly presenter
* 1970 - Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh, Scots politeecian
* 1975 - Parminder Nagra, Inglis actress
* 1975 - Kate Winslet, Inglis actress
* 1983 - Jesse Eisenberg, American actor
* 1987 - Kevin Mirallas, Belgian fitbawer
* 1988 - Sam Warburton, Welsh rugby union player
* 1999 - Connor McLennan, Scots fitbawer

## Daiths
* 1056 - Henry III, Haly Roman Emperor (b. 1017)
* 1880 - Jacques Offenbach, French componer (b. 1819)
* 1918 - Roland Garros, French pilot (b. 1888)
* 1997 - Tommy Ring, Scots fitbawer (b. 1930)
* 2004 - Rodney Dangerfield, American actor an comedian (b. 1921)
* 2004 - Alex Rollo, Scots fitbawer (b. 1926)
* 2004 - Maurice Wilkins, New Zealand-Breetish pheesicist an molecular biologist (b. 1916)
* 2011 - Steve Jobs, American businessman, CEO o Apple Inc. (b. 1955)
* 2015 - Henning Mankell, Swadish writer (b. 1948)

## Halidays

* Naitional Day o Portugal
* Internaitional Teachers' Day (UNESCO)
* Teachers' Day (Pakistan, Roushie)
* Armed Forces Day (Indonesie)
* Ingineer's Day (Bolivie)