Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index October 5 is the 278th day of the year (279th in Leap years). There are 87 days remaining. It is also the most populous birthday of the year statistically. Table of contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays Events 1582 - Pope Gregory XIII announced the Gregorian calendar. 1793 - French revolution disestablished Christianity in France 1864 - Calcutta, India almost totally destroyed by a cyclone - 60,000 die 1877 - Chief Joseph surrenders his Nez Perce band to General Nelson A. Miles 1908 - Bulgaria declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire - Ferdinand I of Bulgaria becomes Tsar 1910 - Portugal overthrows the monarchy 1921 - The World Series was broadcast on the radio for the first time. 1930 - British Airship R101c crashed in France en-route to India on its maiden voyage. 1944 - Canadian Air Force pilots shoot down the first German Jet fighter over France 1947 - In the first televised White House address, President Harry S Truman urged Americans to refrain from eating meat on Tuesdays and poultry on Sundays to help starving people in other countries. 1953 - Earl Warren was sworn in as the 14th Chief Justice of the United States. 1962 - The Beatles released their first hit, "Love Me Do," in Britain. 1966 - Near Detroit, Michigan a sodium cooling system malfunction caused a partial core meltdown at the Enrico Fermi demonstration nuclear breeder reactor, killing three workers. The radiation was contained. 1969 - The first broadcast of Monty Python's Flying Circus 1970 - PBS became a television network 1970 - Montreal, Quebec: British Trade Commissioner James Cross is kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group. 1981 - Raoul Wallenberg becomes an honorary American citizen 1984 - Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space, aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger (41-6). 1990 - After one hundred and fifty years, ten months and two days, The Herald broadsheet newspaper in Melbourne, Australia is published for the last time as a separate newspaper. Founded in 1840 as The Port Phillip Herald, it is merged with its morning tabloid sister paper The Sun News Pictorial and the first issue of the new Herald-Sun, described by owner Rupert Murdoch as "The world's first 24-hour newspaper" with morning and afternoon editions is published on the 8th. 1991 - An Indonesian military transport crashes after takeoff from Jakarta killing 137 1999 - The Ladbroke Grove rail disaster. Births 1703 - Jonathan Edwards, evangelical Christian leader 1713 - Denis Diderot, philosopher 1824 - Henry Chadwick, baseball writer and statistician 1878 - Louise Dresser, actress († 1965) 1830 - Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States (†1886) 1882 - Robert Goddard, rocket scientist 1902 - Larry Fine, vaudeville, actor (Three Stooges) († 1975) 1902 - Ray Kroc, entrepreneur (see McDonald's Corporation) († 1984) 1907 - Mrs. Miller, singer († 1997) 1908 - Joshua Logan, film director, writer († 1988) 1917 - Allen Ludden, television game show host († 1981) 1919 - Donald Pleasence, actor († 1995) 1923 - Glynis Johns, actress 1924 - Bill Dana, actor, comedian 1930 - Pavel Popovich, cosmonaut 1933 - Diane Cilento, actress 1935 - Diahann Carroll, actress 1936 - Vaclav Havel, playwright, president of the Czech Republic 1937 - Barry Switzer, American football coach 1941 - Eduardo Duhalde, argentinian former president 1943 - Steve Miller, musician 1948 - Tawl Ross, musician (P Funk) 1951 - Karen Allen, actress 1952 - Clive Barker, writer 1954 - Bob Geldof, musician 1962 - Michael Andretti, auto racer 1965 - Mario Lemieux, hockey player for the Pittsburgh Penguins 1965 - Patrick Roy, hockey player 1967 - Guy Pearce, actor 1972 - Grant Hill, Orlando Magic basketball player 1975 - Kate Winslet, actress Deaths 578 - Justin II, Byantine Emperor 877 - Charles the Bald 1813 - Tecumseh, Native American leader 1837 - Hortense de Beauharnais Queen of Holland and mother of the Emperor Napoleon III of France 1913 - Hans von Bartels, German painter 1941 - Louis Dembitz Brandeis, justice of the Supreme Court of the United States 1969 - Walter Hagen, champion golfer 1976 - Lars Onsager, physical chemist 1986 - Hal B. Wallis, film producer 1992 - Eddie Kendricks, singer Holidays External Links: Birthday Statistics See Also: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December October 4 - October 6 - September 5 - November 5 - more historical anniversaries This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.