About October 5
October 5, 2024 is the 279th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 87 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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Libra is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Opal is the modern birthstone for this month. Jasper is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 116 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On October 5
- 1582 –Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
- 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.
- 1857 –The City of Anaheim is founded.
- 1877 –Chief Joseph surrenders his Nez Perce band to General Nelson A. Miles.
- 1905 –Wilbur Wright pilots Wright Flyer III in a flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes, a world record that stood until 1908.
- 1930 –British Airship R101 crashes in France en-route to India on its maiden voyage.
- 1936 –The Jarrow March sets off for London.
- 1943 –98 American POW’s executed by Japanese forces on Wake Island.
- 1944 –Suffrage is extended to women in France.
- 1945 –Hollywood Black Friday: A six-month strike by Hollywood set decorators turns into a bloody riot at the gates of Warner Brothers’ studios.
- 1947 –The first televised White House address is given by U.S. President Harry S. Truman.
- 1966 –Near Detroit, Michigan, there is a partial core meltdown at the Enrico Fermi demonstration nuclear breeder reactor.
- 1968 –Police baton civil rights demonstrators in Derry, Northern Ireland – considered to mark the beginning of The Troubles.
- 1970 –Montreal, Quebec: British Trade Commissioner James Cross is kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group, triggering the October Crisis.
- 1982 –Chicago Tylenol murders: Johnson & Johnson initiates a nationwide product recall in the United States for all products in its Tylenol brand after several bottles in Chicago are found to have been laced with cyanide, resulting in seven deaths.
- 1984 –Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space, aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger.
- 1986 –Israeli secret nuclear weapons are revealed. The British newspaper The Sunday Times runs Mordechai Vanunu’s story on its front page under the headline: “Revealed — the secrets of Israel’s nuclear arsenal”.
- 1991 –An Indonesian military transport crashes after takeoff from Jakarta killing 137.
- 1991 –The first official version of the Linux kernel, version 0.02, is released.
- 2000 –Mass demonstrations in Belgrade lead to resignation of Serbian strongman Slobodan Milošević. These demonstrations are often called the Bulldozer Revolution.
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