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What Happened on October 5th This Day in History

Year	Name
2011	In the Mekong River massacre, two Chinese cargo boats are hijacked and 13 crew members murdered.
2000	Mass demonstrations in Serbia force the resignation of Slobodan Milošević.
1999	The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in west London kills 31 people.
1991	An Indonesian Air Force C-130 crash kills 135 people.
1990	After 150 years The Herald newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, is published for the last time as a separate newspaper.
1988	A Chilean opposition coalition defeats Augusto Pinochet in his re-election attempt.
1986	Mordechai Vanunu's story in The Sunday Times reveals Israel's secret nuclear weapons.
1984	Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space.
1982	Tylenol products are recalled after bottles in Chicago laced with cyanide cause seven deaths.
1974	Bombs planted by the PIRA in pubs in Guildford kill four British soldiers and one civilian.
1970	The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is founded.
1970	The British Trade Commissioner, James Cross, is kidnapped by members of the Front de libération du Québec, triggering the October Crisis in Canada.
1968	A Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march in Derry is violently suppressed by police.
1966	A reactor at the Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station near Detroit suffers a partial meltdown.
1963	The United States suspends the Commercial Import Program in response to repression of the Buddhist majority by the regime of President Ngo Dinh Diem.
1962	The first of the James Bond film series, based on the novels by Ian Fleming, Dr. No, is released in Britain.
1962	The first Beatles single, Love Me Do is released in Britain.
1947	President Truman makes the first televised Oval Office address.
1945	A six-month strike by Hollywood set decorators turns into a bloody riot at the gates of the Warner Brothers studio.
1944	The Provisional Government of the French Republic enfranchises women.
1943	Ninety-eight American POWs are executed by Japanese forces on Wake Island.
1938	In Nazi Germany, Jews' passports are invalidated.
1936	The Jarrow March sets off for London.
1930	British airship R101 crashes in France en route to India on its maiden voyage killing 48 people.
1921	The World Series is the first to be broadcast on radio.
1914	World War I: An aircraft successfully destroys another aircraft with gunfire for the first time.
1911	The Kowloon–Canton Railway commences service.
1910	In a revolution in Portugal the monarchy is overthrown and a republic is declared.
1905	The Wright brothers pilot the Wright Flyer III in a new world record flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes.
1900	Peace congress in Paris condemns British policy in South Africa and asserts Boer Republic's right to self-determination.
1877	The Nez Perce War in the northwestern United States comes to an end.
1869	The Saxby Gale devastates the Bay of Fundy region in Canada.
1869	The Eastman tunnel, in Minnesota, United States, collapses during construction, causing a landslide that nearly destroys St. Anthony Falls.
1838	The Killough massacre in east Texas sees eighteen Texian settlers either killed or kidnapped.
1813	War of 1812: The Army of the Northwest defeats a British and Native Canadian force threatening Detroit.
1789	French Revolution: The Women's March on Versailles effectively terminates royal authority.
1607	Assassins attempt to kill Venetian statesman and scientist Paolo Sarpi.
1450	Louis IX, Duke of Bavaria expels Jews from his jurisdiction.
1143	With the signing of the Treaty of Zamora, King Alfonso VII of León and Castile recognises Portugal as a Kingdom.
869	The Fourth Council of Constantinople is convened to depose patriarch Photios I.
816	King Louis the Pious is crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by the Pope.
610	Heraclius arrives at Constantinople, kills Byzantine Emperor Phocas, and becomes emperor.

Famous People Born on October 5

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Year	Name
1943	Steve Miller, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1658	Mary of Modena (d. 1718)
1924	Frederic Morton, Austrian-American banker, journalist, and author (d. 2015)
1972	Grant Hill, American basketball player and actor
1942	Richard Street, American singer-songwriter (d. 2013)
1908	Mehmet Ali Aybar, Turkish lawyer and politician (d. 1995)
1972	Annely Akkermann, Estonian banker and politician
1960	David Kirk, New Zealand rugby player and coach
1882	Robert H. Goddard, American physicist, engineer, and academic (d. 1945)
1931	Rosalie Gower, Canadian nurse and politician (d. 2013)

Famous People Deaths On October 5

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Date	Name
1952	Joe Jagersberger, Austrian racing driver (b. 1884)
1885	Thomas C. Durant, American railroad tycoon (b. 1820)
2015	Chantal Akerman, Belgian-French actress, director, and producer (b. 1950)
1983	Humberto Mauro, Brazilian director and screenwriter (b. 1897)
1606	Philippe Desportes, French poet and author (b. 1546)
610	Phocas, Byzantine emperor
2013	Ruth R. Benerito, American chemist and academic (b. 1916)
1528	Richard Foxe, English bishop and academic (b. 1448)
1861	Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski, Polish archbishop (b. 1778)
1777	Johann Andreas Segner, Slovak-German mathematician, physicist, and physician (b. 1704)