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

  • 869 –
    The Fourth Council of Constantinople is convened to decide about what to do about Patriarch Photius of Constantinople.
  • 1450 –
    Jews are expelled from Lower Bavaria by order of Louis IX, Duke of Bavaria.
  • 1550 –
    Foundation of Concepción, city in Chile.
  • 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.
  • 1793 –
    French Revolution: Christianity is disestablished in France.
  • 1813 –
    Battle of Thames in Canada; Americans defeat British.
  • 1857 –
    The City of Anaheim is founded.
  • 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.
  • 1895 –
    The first individual time trial for racing cyclists is held on a 50-mile course north of London.
  • 1910 –
    In a revolution in Portugal the monarchy is overthrown and a republic is declared .
  • 1943 –
    98 American POW’s executed by Japanese forces on Wake Island.
  • 1944 –
    Royal Canadian Air Force pilots shoot down the first German jet fighter over France.
  • 1955 –
    Disneyland Hotel opens to the public in Anaheim, California.
  • 1970 –
    Montreal, Quebec: British Trade Commissioner James Cross is kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group, triggering the October Crisis.
  • 1970 –
    The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is founded.
  • 1973 –
    Signature of the European Patent Convention.
  • 1984 –
    Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space, aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger.
  • 1991 –
    An Indonesian military transport crashes after takeoff from Jakarta killing 137.
  • 1999 –
    The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in west London kills 31 people.
  • 2001 –
    Robert Stevens becomes the first victim in the 2001 anthrax attacks.

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