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

  • 1143 –
    King Alfonso VII of León recognises Portugal as a Kingdom.
  • 1450 –
    Jews are expelled from Lower Bavaria by order of Louis IX, Duke of Bavaria.
  • 1550 –
    Foundation of Concepción, city in Chile.
  • 1665 –
    The University of Kiel is founded.
  • 1813 –
    Battle of Thames in Canada; Americans defeat British.
  • 1864 –
    The Indian city of Calcutta is almost totally destroyed by a cyclone; 60,000 die.
  • 1895 –
    The first individual time trial for racing cyclists is held on a 50-mile course north of London.
  • 1905 –
    Wilbur Wright pilots Wright Flyer III in a flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes, a world record that stood until 1908.
  • 1910 –
    In a revolution in Portugal the monarchy is overthrown and a republic is declared .
  • 1914 –
    World War I: first aerial combat resulting in an intentional fatality.
  • 1930 –
    British Airship R101 crashes in France en-route to India on its maiden voyage.
  • 1936 –
    The Jarrow March sets off for London.
  • 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.
  • 1962 –
    Dr. No, the first in the James Bond film series, is released.
  • 1970 –
    The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is founded.
  • 1973 –
    Signature of the European Patent Convention.
  • 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”.
  • 1990 –
    After one hundred and fifty years The Herald broadsheet newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, is published for the last time as a separate newspaper.
  • 2001 –
    Robert Stevens becomes the first victim in the 2001 anthrax attacks.

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