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What happened in history on this day: October 5?
On October 5 in ...
- 578 - Death of Justin II, emperor of Eastern Roman Empire.
- 610 - Heraclius is crowned emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
- 869 - Fourth Council of Constantinople (eighth ecumenical council) opens.
- 1056 - Birth of Heinrich III; Holy Roman Emperor.
- 1450 - Jews are expelled from Lower Bavaria by order of Ludwig IX.
- 1703 - Birth of Jonathan Edwards US, theologian/philosopher (Original Sin).
- 1713 - Birth of Denis Diderot France, encyclopedist (Dictionnaire Encyclopédique).
- 1762 - The opera "Orfeo Ed Euridice" is produced (Vienna).
- 1789 - A Parisian mob of mostly women marches on Versailles and forces Royal family to accompany them back to Paris.
- 1813 - Battle of the Thames in Canada; Americans defeat British.
- 1813 - Death of Tecumseh at the Battle of the Thames at Chatham, Ontario.
- 1829 - Birth of Chester Alan Arthur in Fairfield, Vermont, USA; 21st US President (Republican, 1881-85).
- 1840 - Birth of John Addington Symonds; British historian/writer (Problems in Greek Ethics).
- 1864 - Birth of Louis Lumière; with brother Auguste made first motion picture in 1895.
- 1864 - Most of Calcutta destroyed by cyclone (approx 60,000 die).
- 1864 - Battle of Allatoona, one-third of US troops die repulsing the South.
- 1867 - Last day of Julian calendar in Alaska.
- 1877 - Chief Joseph surrenders, ending Nez Percé War.
- 1882 - Birth of Robert Hutchings Goddard in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA; rocket pioneer, holder of 214 patents.
- 1887 - Birth of René Cassin; pacifist (Nobel Peace Prize 1968).
- 1892 - Dalton Gang ends in shoot-out in Coffeyville, Kansas bank holdup.
- 1902 - Birth of Ray Kroc in Illinois, USA; founder of McDonald's, owner of San Diego Padres.
- 1904 - Birth of John Hoyt in Bronxville, New York, USA; actor (Gimme a Break, Tom Dick and Mary).
- 1905 - Wilbur Wright pilots Wright Flyer III 24 miles in 39 minutes.
- 1907 - Canadian Interprovincial Rugby Football Union plays first game (Montreal 17, Toronto 8).
- 1908 - Birth of Joshua Logan; Broadway producer (South Pacific).
- 1908 - Emperor Ferdinand I declares Bulgaria an independent kingdom, with himself as czar.
- 1910 - Revolution in Portugal overthrows constitutional monarchy of King Manuel II and establishes the Portuguese First Republic.
- 1912 - Birth of Tony Martin in Brooklyn, New York, USA; announcer (Arthur Godfrey).
- 1919 - Birth of Allen Ludden in Mineral Point, Wisconsin, USA; TV host (Password).
- 1919 - Birth of Donald Pleasence in Worksop, England; actor (Fantastic Voyage, Halloween).
- 1921 - First World Series radio broadcast, New York Yankees beat New York Giants 3-0 (World Series #18).
- 1921 - Birth of Bill Willis; AAFC, NFL guard (Cleveland Browns).
- 1921 - Constitution of Liechtenstein comes into effect.
- 1922 - New York Yankees and New York Giants play an infamous 3-3 tie World Series game (World Series #19).
- 1923 - Birth of Glynis Johns in Pretoria, South Africa; actress (Mary Poppins).
- 1923 - Birth of Philip Berrigan; militant priest (Chicago 7).
- 1923 - Edwin Hubble identifies Cepheid variable star.
- 1924 - Birth of Bill Dana in Quincy, Massachusetts, USA; comedian/actor (Jose Jimenez).
- 1925 - Birth of Gail Davis in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA; actress (Annie Oakley).
- 1929 - Birth of Richard F Gordon Junior in Seattle, Washington, USA; Captain US Navy/astronaut (Gemini 11, Apollo 12).
- 1930 - Birth of Pavel R Popovich in Ukraine; cosmonaut (Vostok 4, Soyuz 14).
- 1930 - Birth of Skip Homeier in Chicago, Illinois, USA; actor (Beachhead, Dakota Incident).
- 1930 - The R 101 airship from England en route to Egypt crashes in Bois de Coutumes, Beauvais, France and burns completely except for the steel frame, killing 47 including British Secretary of State for Air Lord Thomson.
- 1931 - First nonstop transpacific flight, Japan to Washington (Herndon and Pangborn).
- 1933 - Birth of Diane Cilento in Australia; actress (Agony and Ecstasy, Wicker Man).
- 1935 - Birth of Peter Brown in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Lawman, Laredo, The Bold and the Beautiful).
- 1937 - Birth of Barry Switzer; football coach (University of Oklahoma).
- 1938 - Czechoslovakian President Eduard Benes resigns.
- 1939 - In Moscow, Latvia signs a Pact of Mutual Assistance with the Soviet Union, granting Soviet bases at Libau and Windau.
- 1941 - Birth of Ricardo Hoffmann; marathon swimmer (299 miles).
- 1941 - Louis D Brandeis, first Jewish US Supreme Court Justice, dies at age 84.
- 1941 - Mickey Owens drops a third strike, Tom Hendrick reaches first safely, would have been the last out, instead New York Yankees score 4 and win 7-4.
- 1941 - Soviet Premier Josef Stalin receives a radio message from spy Richard Sorge in Tokyo, Japan, that Japan would go to war with the United States soon. Stalin orders twelve divisions (1700 tanks, 1500 planes, 2,500,000 men) from eastern Siberia and Outer Mongolia to come to the defense of Moscow.
- 1942 - Saint Louis Cardinals beat New York Yankees, 4 games to 1, in 39th World Series.
- 1943 - Birth of Steve Miller in Milwaukee, USA; rocker ("Abracadabra", "Space Cowboy").
- 1945 - Dr. Leonardo Conti, former chief of health in Germany, hangs himself in Nuremberg jail. He had authorized a variety of experiments involving killing humans to study the effects of bacteria and poisons.
- 1945 - Meet the Press premieres on radio.
- 1947 - First Presidential address televised from White House - Harry Truman.
- 1948 - Birth of Sal Viscuso in Brooklyn, New York, USA; actor (Soap, Montefuscos).
- 1950 - Birth of Jeff Conway in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Bobby - Taxi).
- 1950 - NBC-TV debuts the game show You Bet Your Life, hosted by Groucho Marx.
- 1951 - Birth of Bob Geldof; pop musician (Boomtown Rats - "I Don't Like Mondays", Band Aid).
- 1951 - Birth of Karen Allen in Illinois, USA; actress (Cruising, Starman, Wanderers).
- 1951 - Birth of Leah Poulos-Mueller; American speed skater (Olympic-gold-1980).
- 1952 - Birth of Clive Barker; producer (Hell Raiser).
- 1953 - Earl Warren sworn in as 14th chief justice of the USA.
- 1953 - New York Yankees break own record with 5th consecutive World Series win - Billy Martin's 12 hits set record (World Series #50).
- 1954 - Birth of Duncan Regehr in Alberta, Canada; actor (Wizards and Warriors).
- 1954 - Hurricane Hazel hits Eastern US.
- 1955 - Birth of Leo Barnes; rocker (Hothouse Flowers - "Don't Go").
- 1956 - Yogi Berra becomes the fourth New York Yankees' player to hit a World Series Grand Slam (World Series #53).
- 1957 - Birth of Bernard Jeffrey McCullough [Bernie Mac] in Chicago, Illinois, USA; American actor/comedian (The Bernie Mac Show, Ocean's Eleven, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, Transformers) (died 2008).
- 1958 - Birth of Brent W Jett Junior in Pontiac, Michigan, USA; US Navy Lieutenant Commander/astronaut.
- 1958 - Birth of Lee Thompson; sax (Madness - "Baggy Trousers").
- 1960 - ABC airs the last Naked City TV show.
- 1960 - Eastern Air Lines' Electra turbo-prop crashes in Boston Harbor (61 die).
- 1961 - CBS premieres The Bob Cummings Show, a 30-minute comedy show.
- 1962 - Beatles release their first single record "Love Me Do".
- 1962 - Birth of Ken Noda in New York City, USA; pianist (Rivalry).
- 1962 - Birth of Michael Andretti; Indy-car racer/Auto Hall of Fame (elected 1986).
- 1963 - ABC TV debuts cartoon Casper the Friendly Ghost.
- 1965 - Birth of Mario Lemieux in Montreal, Quebec, Canada; NHL Pittsburgh Penguin (number 66) high scorer.
- 1965 - Chuck Linster performs 6,006 consecutive push-ups.
- 1965 - Dick McInnes stays aloft almost 12 hours in a kite.
- 1967 - Clifton C Williams Junior, astronaut, dies at age 35, in T-38 jet crash.
- 1969 - BBC Television debuts comedy Monty Python's Flying Circus.
- 1969 - Birth of Karyn Parsons; actress (Hilary - Fresh Prince of Bel Air).
- 1969 - Tom Dempsey of New Orleans Saints kicks 55-yard field goal.
- 1969 - The NET TV network airs the first The Forsyte Saga 60-minute serial TV show in the USA.
- 1970 - NET (National Education Television) in the US changes name to the Public Broadcast System (PBS) TV network.
- 1970 - In Canada, Quebec separatists kidnap British trade commissioner James Cross.
- 1972 - Herbert Mullin, serial killer, first kills, claiming to prevent earthquakes.
- 1972 - CBC TV debuts consumer-friendly TV show Market Place in Canada.
- 1973 - The European Patent Convention is signed.
- 1974 - Birth of Douglas Emerson in Glendale, California, USA; actor (Robbie - Herbie The Love Bug).
- 1975 - Birth of Scott E Weinger in New York City; actor (Steve Taylor - The Family Man).
- 1976 - Death of Barbara Nichols at age 46 of a liver ailment; actress (The Bob Cummings Show, Jack Benny, Disneyland, Pajama Game, Loved One).
- 1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer wins the Nobel Prize for Literature.
- 1980 - Kansas City Royals' Willie Wilson establishes a major league record for the most at-bats in a season with 705.
- 1980 - Parliamentary elections are held in Federal Republic of Germany. The CDU/CSU gets 44.5 percent of the votes, the SPD 42.9 percent and the FDP 10.6 percent. The SPD/FDP coalition continues. Helmut Schmidt (SPD) continues as chancellor.
- 1980 - British Leyland launches its new Metro automobile, a three-door entry-level hatchback which is designed as the eventual replacement for the Mini.
- 1980 - New York Yankees set American League attendance mark at 2,627,417.
- 1981 - Death of Gloria Grahame AKA Gloria Hallward at age 57 of cancer; actress (The Bad and the Beautiful film (1952, Academy award), Sue - Rich Man, Poor Man TV mini-series, Seventh Avenue).
- 1981 - Jud Strunk, singer/comedian (Laugh-In), dies at age 48.
- 1981 - Deceased Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg becomes an honarary American citizen.
- 1982 - New Jersey Devils first game, ties Pittsburgh Penguins 3-3 at the Meadowlands Coliseum.
- 1982 - Unmanned rocket sled reaches 9,851 kph at White Sands, New Mexico.
- 1983 - Birth of Nicky Hilton; American model and socialite.
- 1983 - Lech Walesa of Poland wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
- 1984 - 13th Space Shuttle Mission (41-G) - Challenger 6 - launched. Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space.
- 1985 - Birth of Nicola Roberts; British singer (Girls Aloud).
- 1985 - In Northwest Territories, Canada, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake occurs.
- 1985 - Louisiana's Grambling Tigers, coached by Eddie Robinson, win record 324th football game.
- 1986 - London Sunday Times reports Israel is stocking nuclear arms.
- 1987 - Birth of Brandan Wright; American basketball player.
- 1988 - Israel bans Meir Kahane's Kach Party on grounds of racism.
- 1988 - Thousands riot in Algiers, Algeria against the National Liberation Front government.
- 1988 - Chilean president Augusto Pinochet is defeated in a national plebiscite which sought to renew his mandate.
- 1989 - U.S. televangelist John Nunes is found guilty of embezzling US$158 million.
- 1990 - Cincinnati jury acquits art gallery of obscenity (Mapplethorpe photos).
- 1990 - Meir Kahane, founder of Jewish defense league, assassinated at age 58.
- 1990 - Disney re-releases the film Fantasia to theaters, based on a two-year restoration from original film negatives, with the original soundtrack.
- 1990 - After 150 years, 10 months and 2 days (Friday, January 3, 1840 - Friday, October 5, 1990), The Herald newspaper in Melbourne, Australia is published for the last time as a separate newspaper.
- 1990 - Death of Peter Taylor, English football player and manager (born 1928).
- 1991 - The first official version of the Linux kernel, version 0.02, is released.
- 1992 - Death of Eddie Kendricks at age 52 from lung cancer; American singer (The Temptations - "The Way You Do the Things You Do" (1964), solo - "Keep on Truckin'", "Boogie Down").
- 1992 - IBM Personal Computer company introduces the IBM ThinkPad line of laptop computers.
- 1994 - In Switzerland, 23 members of the Order of the Solar Temple cult are found dead, a day after 25 of their fellow cultists are similarly discovered dead in Morin Heights, Quebec.
- 1994 - UNESCO inaugurates World Teachers' Day to celebrate and commemorate the signing of the Recommendation Concerning the Status of Teachers on October 5, 1966.
- 1999 - Thirty-one people die in the Ladbroke Grove rail crash, west of London, England.
- 2000 - President Slobodan MiloÜevic leaves office after widespread demonstrations throughout Serbia and the withdrawal of Russian support.
- 2001 - Tom Ridge resigns as Governor of Pennsylvania to become the first director of the newly created United States Office of Homeland Security.
- 2001 - The Atlanta Braves defeat the Florida Marlins 20-3 to clinch the National League East title and becomes the first team in professional sports to win 10 consecutive division titles.
- 2001 - Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants breaks the single season home run record with his 71st and 72nd home runs of the year. Both are off pitcher Chan Ho Park of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
- 2001 - The Seattle Mariners break the Major League Baseball record for wins in a season set by the 1998 New York Yankees, winning their 115th game, defeating the Texas Rangers at Safeco Field. The Mariners finish the season 116-46.
- 2001 - Emilie Schindler, the widow of Oskar Schindler (Schindler's List) dies in Berlin, Germany.
- 2003 - Death of Dan Snyder, Canadian hockey player (born 1978).
- 2003 - Israeli warplanes strike inside Syrian territory.
- 2004 - The Austrian Mint begins producing the world's largest gold coin, the 1000-ounce Vienna Philharmonic gold coins with face value 100,000 euros, 37 cm in diameter, dubbed "Big Phil", to celebrate the 15th anniversary of Austria's Philharmonic gold bullion coin program.
- 2004 - A fire breaks out on the Canadian submarine HMCS Chicoutimi, leaving it stranded without power in the North Atlantic ocean, off the north coast of Ireland; one crewmember is killed.
- 2004 - Death of Maurice Wilkins, New Zealand-born physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1916).
- 2007 - Merrill Lynch announces it would write off about US$5 billion in investments for the quarter, its largest trading loss ever.
- 2007 - Death of Justin Tuveri, Italian veteran of World War I (born 1898).
- 2008 - Germany's government finance ministry agrees to a 50 billion euro (US$70 billion) plan to save private Hypo Real Estate, one of the country's biggest banks.
- 2008 - Animated TV series Star Wars: The Clone Wars debuts in the USA.
- 2008 - In Geneva, Switzerland, David Feldman's Rarities of the World auction. Some highlights:
- Russia 1857 10-kopek stamp and 1858 30-kopek stamp on cover: 1,314,500 euros (US$1,794,818), a record for a Russian philatelic item;
- China 1883 5-candareen stamp, nine on cover: 1,165,125 euros (US$1,590,861), a record for a Chinese philatelic item;
- USA 1847 5-cent and 10-cent, proof panes of 100 stamps each, with specimen overprints: 850,000 euros (US$1,160,590).
- 2020 - The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 passes 35 million worldwide.
- 2020 - US President Donald Trump returns to the White House from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, recovering from Covid-19.
- 2020 - The World Health Organization estimates that total worldwide cases of COVID-19 may be around 760 million - roughly a tenth of the global population.
- 2021 - Roscosmos launches the Soyuz MS-19 mission, which carries an Expedition 66 crewmember and two Channel One Russia personnel to the International Space Station. The two Channel One crew will perform principal photography on the film Vyzov aboard the station.
- 2023 - Death of Dick Butkus at age 80 at home in Malibu, California; American football player (NFL, linebacker, Chicago Bears, 1965-1973), actor (Any Given Sunday movie (1999)).
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