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
  • 1143 –
    King Alfonso VII of León recognises Portugal as a Kingdom.
  • 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.
  • 1864 –
    The Indian city of Calcutta is almost totally destroyed by a cyclone; 60,000 die.
  • 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.
  • 1903 –
    Sir Samuel Griffith is appointed the first Chief Justice of Australia and Sir Edmund Barton and Richard O'Connor are appointed as foundation justices.
  • 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.
  • 1969 –
    The first episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus airs on BBC.
  • 1970 –
    The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is founded.
  • 1988 –
    The Brazilian Constitution is ratified by Constituent Assembly.
  • 1988 –
    The Chilean opposition coalition Concertación (center-left) defeats Augusto Pinochet in his re-election attempt and a general election is called the following year.
  • 1990 –
    After one hundred and fifty years The Herald broadsheet newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, is published for the last time as a separate newspaper.
  • 2000 –
    Mass demonstrations in Belgrade lead to resignation of Serbian strongman Slobodan Milošević. These demonstrations are often called the Bulldozer Revolution.
  • 2001 –
    Robert Stevens becomes the first victim in the 2001 anthrax attacks.

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