About August 5
August 5, 2024 is the 218th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 148 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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Leo is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Peridot is the modern birthstone for this month. Diamond is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 177 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On August 5
- 642 –Battle of Maserfield – Penda of Mercia defeats and kills Oswald of Northumbria.
- 1600 –The Gowrie Conspiracy against King James VI of Scotland (later to become King James I of England) takes place.
- 1620 –The Mayflower departs from Southampton, England on its first attempt to reach North America.
- 1689 –1,500 Iroquois attack the village of Lachine in New France.
- 1763 –Pontiac’s War: Battle of Bushy Run – British forces led by Henry Bouquet defeat Chief Pontiac’s Indians at Bushy Run.
- 1772 –The First Partition of Poland begins.
- 1861 –The United States Army abolishes flogging.
- 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.
- 1874 –Japan launches its postal savings system, modeled after a similar system in the United Kingdom.
- 1882 –The Standard Oil of New Jersey is established.
- 1884 –The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe’s Island (now Liberty Island) in New York Harbor.
- 1906 –Persian Constitutional Revolution: Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar, King of Iran, agrees to convert the government to a constitutional monarchy.
- 1940 –World War II: the Soviet Union formally annexes Latvia.
- 1944 –World War II: The Nazis begin a three-day massacre of anywhere between 40,000 and 100,000 civilians and prisoners of war in Wola, Poland.
- 1949 –The Mann Gulch fire kills 13 firefighters in Montana.
- 1974 –Vietnam War: the U.S. Congress places a $1 billion dollar limit on military aid to South Vietnam.
- 1979 –In Afghanistan, Maoists undertake an attempted military uprising.
- 1981 –Ronald Reagan fires 11,359 striking air-traffic controllers who ignored his order for them to return to work.
- 1995 –The city of Knin, a significant Serb stronghold, is captured by Croatian forces during Operation Storm. The date is celebrated in Croatia as Victory Day.
- 2003 –A car bomb explodes in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta outside the Marriott Hotel killing 12 and injuring 150.
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