About October 5
October 5, 2024 is the 279th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 87 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 116 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.
- 1550 –Foundation of Concepción, city in Chile.
- 1665 –The University of Kiel is founded.
- 1793 –French Revolution: Christianity is disestablished in France.
- 1877 –Chief Joseph surrenders his Nez Perce band to General Nelson A. Miles.
- 1895 –The first individual time trial for racing cyclists is held on a 50-mile course north of London.
- 1921 –Baseball: The World Series is broadcast on the radio for the first time.
- 1936 –The Jarrow March sets off for London.
- 1944 –Royal Canadian Air Force pilots shoot down the first German jet fighter over France.
- 1945 –Hollywood Black Friday: A six-month strike by Hollywood set decorators turns into a bloody riot at the gates of Warner Brothers’ studios.
- 1948 –The 1948 Ashgabat earthquake kills 110,000.
- 1953 –The first documented recovery meeting of Narcotics Anonymous is held.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1986 –Israeli secret nuclear weapons are revealed. The British newspaper The Sunday Times runs Mordechai Vanunu’s story on its front page under the headline: “Revealed — the secrets of Israel’s nuclear arsenal”.
- 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.
- 1991 –An Indonesian military transport crashes after takeoff from Jakarta killing 137.
- 1999 –The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in west London kills 31 people.
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