About October 5
October 5, 2025 is the 278th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 87 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 135 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On October 5
- 610 –Coronation of Byzantine Emperor Heraclius
- 869 –The Fourth Council of Constantinople is convened to decide about what to do about Patriarch Photius of Constantinople.
- 1550 –Foundation of Concepción, city in Chile.
- 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.
- 1813 –Battle of Thames in Canada; Americans defeat British.
- 1869 –The Saxby Gale devastates the Bay of Fundy region of Maritime Canada. The storm had been predicted over a year before by a British naval officer.
- 1914 –World War I: first aerial combat resulting in an intentional fatality.
- 1921 –Baseball: The World Series is broadcast on the radio for the first time.
- 1936 –The Jarrow March sets off for London.
- 1943 –98 American POW’s executed by Japanese forces on Wake Island.
- 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.
- 1953 –The first documented recovery meeting of Narcotics Anonymous is held.
- 1962 –Dr. No, the first in the James Bond film series, is released.
- 1969 –The first episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus airs on BBC.
- 1970 –The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is founded.
- 1973 –Signature of the European Patent Convention.
- 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.
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