About August 5
August 5, 2025 is the 217th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 148 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 196 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.
- 1071 –Byzantine–Norman wars: Italo-Normans begin a nearly-three-year siege of Bari.
- 1600 –The Gowrie Conspiracy against King James VI of Scotland (later to become King James I of England) takes place.
- 1689 –1,500 Iroquois attack the village of Lachine in New France.
- 1735 –Freedom of the press: New York Weekly Journal writer John Peter Zenger is acquitted of seditious libel against the royal governor of New York, on the basis that what he had published was true.
- 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.
- 1858 –Cyrus West Field and others complete the first transatlantic telegraph cable after several unsuccessful attempts. It will operate for less than a month.
- 1861 –American Civil War: in order to help pay for the war effort, the United States government levies the first income tax as part of the Revenue Act of 1861 (3% of all incomes over US $800; rescinded in 1872).
- 1874 –Japan launches its postal savings system, modeled after a similar system in the United Kingdom.
- 1888 –Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008.
- 1906 –Persian Constitutional Revolution: Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar, King of Iran, agrees to convert the government to a constitutional monarchy.
- 1914 –In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed.
- 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.
- 1944 –World War II: possibly the biggest prison breakout in history occurs as 545 Japanese POWs attempt to escape outside the town of Cowra, New South Wales, Australia.
- 1949 –In Ecuador, an earthquake destroys 50 towns and kills more than 6,000.
- 1962 –Nelson Mandela is jailed. He would not be released until 1990.
- 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.
- 2003 –A car bomb explodes in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta outside the Marriott Hotel killing 12 and injuring 150.
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