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

  • 910 –
    The last major Danish army to raid England is defeated at the Battle of Tettenhall by the allied forces of Mercia and Wessex, led by King Edward the Elder and Earl Aethelred of Mercia.
  • 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.
  • 1716 –
    The Battle of Petrovaradin takes place.
  • 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.
  • 1772 –
    The First Partition of Poland begins.
  • 1781 –
    The Battle of Dogger Bank takes place.
  • 1862 –
    American Civil War: Battle of Baton Rouge – along the Mississippi River near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Confederate troops drive Union forces back into the city.
  • 1874 –
    Japan launches its postal savings system, modeled after a similar system in the United Kingdom.
  • 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 –
    In Ecuador, an earthquake destroys 50 towns and kills more than 6,000.
  • 1957 –
    American Bandstand, a show dedicated to the teenage “baby-boomers” by playing the songs and showing popular dances of the time, debuts on the ABC television network.
  • 1964 –
    Vietnam War: Operation Pierce Arrow – American aircraft from carriers USS Ticonderoga and USS Constellation bomb North Vietnam in retaliation for strikes against U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin.
  • 1969 –
    Mariner program: Mariner 7 makes its closest fly-by of Mars (3,524 kilometers).
  • 1979 –
    In Afghanistan, Maoists undertake an attempted military uprising.
  • 2010 –
    2010 Copiapó mining accident occurs, trapping 33 Chilean miners approximately 2,300 ft below the ground.

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