Notable Historical Events on October 5th
October 5th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
610 |
Heraclius' fleet takes Constantinople |
869 |
4th Council of Constantinople (8th ecumenical council) opens |
1143 |
The king Alfonso VII of Leon recognises Portugal as a Kingdom. |
1349 |
Paris' theologist Jean de Fayt warns against the Flagellants at Avignon |
1430 |
Duke Philip the Good of Bourgondy visits Brussels |
1450 |
Jews are expelled from Lower Bavaria by order of Ludwig IX |
1465 |
French King Louis XI signs peace with Charles the Stout |
1511 |
Eedgenootschap signs anti-French Saint League |
1511 |
Pope Julius II/Germany/Ferdinand of Aragon/Venice/Swiss |
1550 |
Foundation of Concepción, city in Chile. |
1568 |
Conference of York begins: trial against Mary Stuart |
1568 |
William of Oranges army occupies Brabant |
1572 |
Spanish army under Alva's son Don Frederik plunders Mechelen |
1582 |
Gregorian calendar introduced in Italy, other Catholic countries |
1632 |
Henry Casimir I appointed viceroy of Groningen |
1665 |
The University of Kiel is founded. |
1693 |
Haarlem people's revolution due to food shortages |
1750 |
Carlo Goldoni's "Il teatro comica," premieres in Venice |
1762 |
Opera "Orfeo Ed Euridice" is produced (Vienna) |
1789 |
French Revolution: Women of Paris march to Versailles in the March on Versailles to confront Louis XVI about his refusal to promulgate the decrees on the abolition of feudalism, demand bread, and have the King and his court moved to Paris. |
1793 |
French Revolution: Christianity is disestablished in France. |
1796 |
Spain declares war on England |
1813 |
Battle of Thames in Canada; Americans defeat British |
1823 |
Weber visits Beethoven |
1830 |
King Willem I mobilizes Dutch army |
1833 |
Charles Darwin moves with Parana to Santa Fe Bajada Argentina |
1857 |
The City of Anaheim was founded. |
1862 |
Battle of Big Hatchie River, MS |
1862 |
Federal fleet occupies Galveston, Texas |
1863 |
Confederate sub David damages Union ship Ironsides |
1864 |
Battle of Allatoona, 1/3 of Union troops die repulsing South |
1864 |
Most of Calcutta destroyed by cyclone (approx 60,000 die) |
1867 |
Last day of Julian calendar in Alaska |
1869 |
A strong hurricane devastates the Bay of Fundy region of Maritime Canada. The storm had been predicted over a year before by a British naval officer. |
1875 |
Palace Hotel on Market Street, SF opens |
1877 |
Chief Joseph surrenders, ending Nez Perce War |
1892 |
Dalton Gang ends in shoot-out in Coffeville, Kansas bank holdup |
1895 |
The first individual time trial for racing cyclists is held on a 50-mile course north of London. |
1896 |
William Gillette's "Secret Service," premieres in NYC |
1897 |
Solomon Andrees baloon/polar expedition reaches White Island |
1900 |
6th US Golf Open: Harry Vardon shoots a 313 at Chicago GC Ill |
1900 |
Harry Vardon wins US Open golf tournament |
1903 |
Sir Samuel Griffith is appointed the first Chief Justice of Australia and Sir Edmund Barton and Richard O'Connor are appointed as foundation justices. |
1905 |
Orville/Wilbur Wright's "Flyer III" flight 38.5 km in 38.3" |
1906 |
Henry Mathewson (NY Giants, Christy's brother) walks 14 men |
1907 |
Interprovincial Rugby Football Union plays 1st game (Mtl 17 Tor 8) |
1907 |
Phila A's Rube Vickers no-hits Wash Senators, 4-0 in 5 inning game |
1908 |
Bulgaria declares independence from Turkey, Ferdinand I becomes Tsar |
1908 |
White Sox Ed Walsh tops Detroit 6-1 for his 40th victory |
1910 |
Portugal overthrows monarchy, proclaims republic |
1911 |
Italian troops occupy Tripoli |
1912 |
Billy Mallett of Hamilton Tigers kicks 9 singles in a game |
1912 |
Red Sox defeat A's 3-0 for then AL record 105th win |
1912 |
Yanks win final game at Hilltop stadium |
1914 |
World War I first aerial combat resulting in a kill. |
1915 |
Bulgaria enters World War I as one of the Central Powers. |
1915 |
Allies land troops at the northern Greek city of Salonika; Greece is nominally neutral but allows the landing |
1916 |
Soldier Adolf Hitler is injured |
1919 |
Norwegian population agrees to prohibition |
1921 |
1st World Series radio broadcast, Yanks beat Giants 3-0 |
1921 |
Present constitution of Liechtenstein comes into effect |
1922 |
Yanks & Giants play an infamous 3-3 tie World Series game |
1923 |
Edwin Hubble identifies Cepheid variable star |
1924 |
1st Little Orphan Annie-strip appears in NYC Daily News |
1925 |
WSM-AM in Nashville Tenn begins radio transmissions |
1930 |
British airship crashes in storm at Beauvais France, 48 die |
1931 |
1st nonstop transpacific flight, Japan to Wash (Herndon & Pangborn) |
1931 |
Paul Green's "House of Connelly," premieres in NYC |
1936 |
The Jarrow March sets off for London. |
1937 |
Minister Romme says unemployment is 25% "quarter of Romme" |
1941 |
Mickey Owens drops a 3rd strike, Tom Hendrick reaches 1st safely - would have been last out, instead Yanks score 4 & win 7-4 |
1942 |
5,000 Jews of Dubno Russia massacred |
1942 |
St Louis Cards beat NY Yankees, 4 games to 1, in 39th World Series |
1943 |
US air raid on Wake |
1944 |
Harold Arlen/ET Harburgs musical premieres in NYC |
1944 |
Kerkrade (Neth) liberated |
1944 |
Suffrage is extended to women in France. |
1945 |
"Meet the Press" premieres on radio |
1945 |
Indonesian army forms |
1945 |
Queen Wilhelmina visits Rotterdam |
1945 |
Hollywood Black Friday: A six month strike by Hollywood set decorators turns into a bloody riot at the gates of Warner Brothers' studios. |
1946 |
"Yours Is My Heart" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 36 perfs |
1947 |
1st Presidential address televised from White House- Harry Truman |
1947 |
Al Gionfriddo makes a great catch off Joe Dimaggio in World Series |
1949 |
WBNS TV channel 10 in Columbus, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1949 |
WOR (now WWOR) TV channel 9 in NY-Secaucus, NY (IND) begins |
1950 |
"Pardon Our French" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 100 perfs |
1952 |
19th congress of Communist Party meets in Moscow |
1952 |
6th NHL All-Star Game: 1st Team ties 2nd Team 1-1 at Detroit |
1953 |
Earl Warren sworn in as 14th chief justice of US |
1953 |
50th World Series sees NY Yankees beat Dodgers, 4 games to 2, as NY Billy Martin's 12 hits set record; Yanks win record 5th consec WS |
1953 |
The first documented recovery meeting of Narcotics Anonymous is held. |
1954 |
Hurricane Hazel hits Eastern US |
1956 |
Yogi Berra becomes 4th Yank to hit a World Series grand slam |
1957 |
11th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 5-3 at Montreal |
1957 |
12th Ryder Cup: Britain-Ireland win, 7½-4½ at Lindrick Golf Club (Rotherham, Yorkshire, England) |
1957 |
Yugoslav dissident Milovan Djilos sentenced to 7 years |
1958 |
KRTV TV channel 3 in Great Falls, MT (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1958 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1958 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1960 |
British Labour party demands unilateral nuclear disarmament |
1960 |
Eastern AL Electra turbo-prop crashed in Boston Harbor (61 die) |
1960 |
KEYC TV channel 12 in Mankato, MN (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1961 |
China & Nepal sign treaty |
1962 |
Beatles release their 1st record "Love Me Do" |
1963 |
17th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Toronto 3-3 at Toronto |
1963 |
Hyde St Pier re-opens as State Historical Park |
1963 |
Little Richard joins Everly Brothers Tour |
1964 |
KIXE TV channel 9 in Redding, CA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1964 |
SF Fire Department Museum is dedicated |
1965 |
Chuck Linster performs 6,006 consecutive push-ups |
1965 |
Dick McInnes stays aloft almost 12 hours in a kite |
1968 |
KPLM (now KESQ) TV channel 42 in Palm Springs, CA (ABC) begins |
1968 |
Civil rights march in Derry is stopped by the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) before it had properly begun; clashes between RUC and protesters lead to two days of serious rioting-some consider this to be the beginning of 'the Troubles' in Northern Ireland |
1969 |
Carol Mann wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational |
1969 |
Monty Python's Flying Circus begins airing on BBC |
1969 |
Tom Dempsey of New Orleans Saints kicks 55-yard field goal |
1970 |
John Creach, joins Jefferson Airplane |
1970 |
Quebec separatists kidnap British trade commissioner James Cross |
1970 |
PBS becomes a US television network. |
1971 |
A new sitting of the Northern Ireland parliament at Stormont begins, though the Social Democratic and Labour Party remain absent due to its continuing protest against Internment |
1972 |
Herbert Mullin 1st kills, to prevent earthquakes |
1973 |
Signature of the European Patent Convention. |
1974 |
Guildford pub bombing by the IRA leaves 5 dead and 65 injured. |
1975 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1976 |
Seattle & Toronto picks 30 unprotected players on other AL rosters Ruppert Jones (Seattle) & Bob Bailor (Toronto) are picked 1st |
1977 |
"Hair" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 43 performances |
1978 |
Isaac Bashevis Singer wins Nobel Prize for literature |
1978 |
Sweden's Fälldin government falls |
1978 |
Over 30 major nations ratify the Environmental Modification Convention which prohibits environmental modification techniques |
1980 |
Formal opening of meditation hall of Zenshin Temple in Riverdale Bronx |
1980 |
Kathy Whitworth/Donna Caponi Young win Portland Ping Team Golf Champ |
1980 |
Yanks set AL attendance mark at 2,627,417 |
1981 |
Dutch guilder/Deutsche mark revalued up 5.5% |
1981 |
Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg becomes an honarary American |
1982 |
1st NJ Devils game, tie the Pitts Penguins 3-3 at the Meadowlands |
1982 |
China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC |
1982 |
Hernan Siles Zuazo appointed president of Bolivia |
1982 |
Unmanned rocket sled reaches 9,851 kph at White Sands, NM |
1983 |
Lech Walesa wins Nobel Peace Prize |
1984 |
13th Space Shuttle Mission (41-G)-Challenger 6-launched |
1985 |
Grambling's Eddie Robinson wins record 324th football game |
1986 |
London Sunday Times reports Israel is stocking nuclear arms |
1988 |
Brazil adopts its Constitution |
1988 |
Chilean population agrees at referendum against Pinochet regime |
1988 |
Israel bans Meir Kahane's Kach Party on grounds of racism |
1990 |
Cincinnati jury acquits art gallery of obsentity (Mappelthorpe photos) |
1991 |
Military transport plane crashes at Djakarta, 133 dies |
1991 |
NJ Devils begin their 10th Anniversary with a 7-2 win over the Blues |
1991 |
USSR reduces nuclear weapons arsenal |
1991 |
Carlos Huerta's NCAA record streak of successful points after a touchdown ends at 157 |
1991 |
Fresno State ties NCAA record with 49 points in a quarter, as they route New Mexico 94-17 |
1991 |
The first official version of the Linux kernel, version 0.02, is released. |
1992 |
1st overturn of a George Bush veto (cable bill) |
1992 |
NY senator Alphonse D'Mato fillerbusters for 15 hours 20 mins |
1992 |
US Air goes on strike |
1993 |
China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC |
1993 |
Last honor guard at Lenin's mausoleum |
1993 |
Pope John Paul II publishes encyclical Veritatis splendor |
1994 |
28th Country Music Association Award: Vince Gill & Pam Tillis wins |
1994 |
52 members of Zonnetempel, murdered |
1995 |
"Company" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 68 performances |
1996 |
Caroline Pierce wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic |
1996 |
Cleve Indians strike out 23 Balt Orioles in 12 inn playoff game |
1996 |
NY Yankee Bernie Williams switch hits HRs in a post season game |
1997 |
35th Tennis Fed Cup: France beats Netherlands in Den Bosch Neth (4-1) |
1997 |
Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA CoreStates Betsy King Classic |
1997 |
Davis Love III wins golf's Buick challenge, shooting a 267 |
1997 |
STS 86 (Atlantis 20) lands |
1997 |
Vantage Senior Golf Championship |
1999 |
The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in west London kills 31 people. |
2000 |
Mass demonstrations in Belgrade lead to resignation of Serbian strongman Slobodan Milošević. These demonstrations are often called the Bulldozer Revolution. |
2001 |
Robert Stevens becomes the first victim in the 2001 anthrax attacks. |
2001 |
Tom Ridge resigns as Governor of Pennsylvania to become President Bush's Homeland Security Advisor. |
2001 |
Barry Bonds hits his 71st home run, breaking Mark McGwire's record of 70 for the most home runs hit in a single season (Bonds would end up with 73 in total) |
2007 |
"Michael Clayton", starring George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, and Tilda Swinton, is released |
2012 |
Anglo Platinum Limited fires 12,000 striking workers in South Africa |
2013 |
Wladimir Klitschko defeats Alexander Povetkin to retain his WBA Heavyweight Championship |
2014 |
South Sydney Rabbitohs win the 2014 NRL Grand Final |
2016 |
Google Introduces the Pixel, Its Own Smartphone |
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