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What Happened on August 5th This Day in History

Year	Name
2021	Australia's second most populous state Victoria enters its sixth COVID-19 lockdown, enacting stage four restrictions statewide in reaction to six new COVID-19 cases recorded that morning.
2020	Prime Minister Narendra Modi attends the 'Bhoomi Pujan' or land worship ceremony and lays the foundation stone of Rama Mandir in Ayodhya after a Supreme Court verdict ruling in favour of building the temple on disputed land.
2019	The revocation of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir (state) occurred and the state was bifurcated into two union territories (Jammu and Kashmir (union territory) and Ladakh).
2015	The Environmental Protection Agency at Gold King Mine waste water spill releases three million gallons of heavy metal toxin tailings and waste water into the Animas River in Colorado.
2012	The Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting took place in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, killing six victims; the perpetrator committed suicide after being wounded by police.
2010	The Copiapó mining accident occurs, trapping 33 Chilean miners approximately 2,300 ft (700 m) below the ground for 69 days.
2010	Ten members of International Assistance Mission Nuristan Eye Camp team are killed by persons unknown in Kuran wa Munjan District of Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan.
2003	A car bomb explodes in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta outside the Marriott Hotel killing 12 and injuring 150.
1995	Yugoslav Wars: The city of Knin, Croatia, a significant Serb stronghold, is liberated by Croatian forces during Operation Storm. The date is celebrated in Croatia as Victory Day.
1984	A Biman Bangladesh Airlines Fokker F27 Friendship crashes on approach to Zia International Airport, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing all 49 people on board.
1981	President Ronald Reagan fires 11,359 striking air-traffic controllers who ignored his order for them to return to work.
1979	In Afghanistan, Maoists undertake the Bala Hissar uprising against the Leninist government.
1974	Vietnam War: The U.S. Congress places a $1 billion limit on military aid to South Vietnam.
1974	Watergate scandal: President Richard Nixon, under orders of the US Supreme Court, releases the "Smoking Gun" tape, recorded on June 23, 1972, clearly revealing his actions in covering up and interfering investigations into the break-in. His political support vanishes completely.
1973	Mars 6 is launched from the USSR.
1971	The first Pacific Islands Forum (then known as the "South Pacific Forum") is held in Wellington, New Zealand, with the aim of enhancing cooperation between the independent countries of the Pacific Ocean.
1969	The Lonesome Cowboys police raid occurs in Atlanta, Georgia, leading to the creation of the Georgia Gay Liberation Front.
1966	A group of red guards at Experimental High in Beijing, including Deng Rong and Liu Pingping, daughters of Deng Xiaoping and Liu Shaoqi respectively, beat the deputy vice principal, Bian Zhongyun, to death with sticks after accusing her of counter-revolutionary revisionism, producing one of the first fatalities of the Cultural Revolution.
1965	The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 begins as Pakistani soldiers cross the Line of Control dressed as locals.
1964	Vietnam War: Operation Pierce Arrow: American aircraft from carriers USS Ticonderoga and USS Constellation bomb North Vietnam in retaliation for strikes against U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin.
1963	Cold War: The United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union sign the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
1962	Apartheid: Nelson Mandela is jailed. He would not be released until 1990.
1962	American actress Marilyn Monroe is found dead at her home from a drug overdose.
1960	Burkina Faso, then known as Upper Volta, becomes independent from France.
1957	American Bandstand, a show dedicated to the teenage "baby-boomers" by playing the songs and showing popular dances of the time, debuts on the ABC television network.
1949	In Ecuador, an earthquake destroys 50 towns and kills more than 6,000.
1944	World War II: At least 1,104 Japanese POWs in Australia attempt to escape from a camp at Cowra, New South Wales; 545 temporarily succeed but are later either killed, commit suicide, or are recaptured.
1944	World War II: Polish insurgents liberate a German labor camp (Gęsiówka) in Warsaw, freeing 348 Jewish prisoners.
1944	World War II: The Nazis begin a week-long massacre of between 40,000 and 50,000 civilians and prisoners of war in Wola, Poland.
1940	World War II: The Soviet Union formally annexes Latvia.
1926	Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping.
1925	Plaid Cymru is formed with the aim of disseminating knowledge of the Welsh language that is at the time in danger of dying out.
1916	World War I: Battle of Romani: Allied forces, under the command of Archibald Murray, defeat an attacking Ottoman army under the command of Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein, securing the Suez Canal and beginning the Ottoman retreat from the Sinai Peninsula.
1914	World War I: The German minelayer SS Königin Luise lays a minefield about 40 miles (64 km) off the Thames Estuary (Lowestoft). She is intercepted and sunk by the British light-cruiser HMS Amphion.
1914	World War I: The guns of Point Nepean fort at Port Phillip Heads in Victoria (Australia) fire across the bows of the Norddeutscher Lloyd steamer SS Pfalz which is attempting to leave the Port of Melbourne in ignorance of the declaration of war and she is detained; this is said to be the first Allied shot of the War.
1914	In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed.
1906	Persian Constitutional Revolution: Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar, King of Iran, agrees to convert the government to a constitutional monarchy.
1901	Peter O'Connor sets the first IAAF recognised long jump world record of 24 ft 11.75 in (7.6137 m), a record that would stand for 20 years.
1888	Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008.
1884	The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island (now Liberty Island) in New York Harbor.
1882	Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, today known as ExxonMobil, is established officially. The company would later grow to become the holder of all Standard Oil companies and the entity at the center of the breakup of Standard Oil.[7]
1874	Japan launches its postal savings system, modeled after a similar system in the United Kingdom.
1864	American Civil War: The Battle of Mobile Bay begins at Mobile Bay near Mobile, Alabama, Admiral David Farragut leads a Union flotilla through Confederate defenses and seals one of the last major Southern ports.
1862	American Civil War: Battle of Baton Rouge: Along the Mississippi River near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Confederate troops attempt to take the city, but are driven back by fire from Union gunboats.
1861	American Civil War: In order to help pay for the war effort, the United States government levies the first income tax as part of the Revenue Act of 1861 (3% of all incomes over US$800; rescinded in 1872).
1861	The United States Army abolishes flogging.
1860	Charles XV of Sweden of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway in Trondheim.
1858	Cyrus West Field and others complete the first transatlantic telegraph cable after several unsuccessful attempts. It will operate for less than a month.
1824	Greek War of Independence: Konstantinos Kanaris leads a Greek fleet to victory against Ottoman and Egyptian naval forces in the Battle of Samos.
1816	The British Admiralty dismisses Francis Ronalds's new invention of the first working electric telegraph as "wholly unnecessary", preferring to continue using the semaphore.
1796	The Battle of Castiglione in Napoleon's first Italian campaigns of the French Revolutionary Wars.
1781	The Battle of Dogger Bank takes place.
1772	First Partition of Poland: The representatives of Austria, Prussia, and Russia sign three bilateral conventions condemning the ‘anarchy’ of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and imputing to the three powers ‘ancient and legitimate rights’ to the territories of the Commonwealth. The conventions allow each of the three great powers to annex a part of the Commonwealth, which they proceed to do over
1763	Pontiac's War: Battle of Bushy Run: British forces led by Henry Bouquet defeat Chief Pontiac's Indians at Bushy Run.
1735	Freedom of the press: New York Weekly Journal writer John Peter Zenger is acquitted of seditious libel against the royal governor of New York, on the basis that what he had published was true.
1716	Austro-Turkish War (1716–1718): One-fifth of a Turkish army and the Grand Vizier are killed in the Battle of Petrovaradin.
1689	Beaver Wars: Fifteen hundred Iroquois attack Lachine in New France.
1620	The Mayflower departs from Southampton, England, carrying would-be settlers, on its first attempt to reach North America; it is forced to dock in Dartmouth when its companion ship, the Speedwell, springs a leak.
1600	The Gowrie Conspiracy against King James VI of Scotland (later to become King James I of England) takes place.
1583	Sir Humphrey Gilbert establishes the first English colony in North America, at what is now St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.
1506	The Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Crimean Khanate in the Battle of Kletsk.
1388	The Battle of Otterburn, a border skirmish between the Scottish and the English in Northern England, is fought near Otterburn.
1305	First Scottish War of Independence: Sir John Stewart of Menteith, the pro-English Sheriff of Dumbarton, successfully manages to capture Sir William Wallace of Scotland, leading to Wallace's subsequent execution by hanging, evisceration, drawing and quartering, and beheading 18 days later.
1278	Spanish Reconquista: the forces of the Kingdom of Castile initiate the ultimately futile Siege of Algeciras against the Emirate of Granada.
1100	Henry I is crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey.
1068	Byzantine–Norman wars: Italo-Normans begin a nearly-three-year siege of Bari.
939	The Battle of Alhandic is fought between Ramiro II of León and Abd-ar-Rahman III at Zamora in the context of the Spanish Reconquista. The battle resulted in a victory for the Emirate of Córdoba.
910	The last major Danish army to raid England for nearly a century is defeated at the Battle of Tettenhall by the allied forces of Mercia and Wessex, led by King Edward the Elder and Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians.
642	Battle of Maserfield: Penda of Mercia defeats and kills Oswald of Northumbria.
135	Roman armies enter Betar, slaughtering thousands and ending the Bar Kokhba revolt.
70	Fires resulting from the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem are extinguished.
25	Guangwu claims the throne as Emperor of China, restoring the Han dynasty after the collapse of the short-lived Xin dynasty.

Famous People Born on August 5

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Year	Name
1995	Pierre-Emile Højbjerg, Danish footballer
1972	Theodore Whitmore, Jamaican footballer and manager
1850	Guy de Maupassant, French short story writer, novelist, and poet (d. 1893)
1797	Friedrich August Kummer, German cellist and composer (d. 1879)
1946	Rick van der Linden, Dutch keyboard player and songwriter (d. 2006)
1989	Jessica Nigri, American model and actress
1935	Michael Ballhaus, German director and cinematographer (d. 2017)
1694	Leonardo Leo, Italian composer (d. 1744)
1974	Kajol, Indian film actress
1996	Cho Seung-youn, South Korean singer-songwriter and rapper

Famous People Deaths On August 5

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Date	Name
2020	Hawa Abdi, Somali human rights activist and physician (b. 1947)
910	Eowils and Halfdan, joint kings of Northumbria
1963	Salvador Bacarisse, Spanish composer (b. 1898)
1980	Harold L. Runnels, American soldier and politician (b. 1924)
1895	Friedrich Engels, German philosopher (b. 1820)
1929	Millicent Fawcett, English trade union leader and activist (b. 1847)
1994	Menachem Avidom, Israeli composer (b. 1908)
877	Ubayd Allah ibn Yahya ibn Khaqan, Abbasid vizier
2000	Otto Buchsbaum, Austrian-Brazilian journalist and activist (b. 1920)
2014	Harold J. Greene, American general (b. 1962)