About August 5
August 5, 2024 is the 218th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 148 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 177 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On August 5
- 1071 –Byzantine–Norman wars: Italo-Normans begin a nearly-three-year siege of Bari.
- 1100 –Henry I is crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey.
- 1600 –The Gowrie Conspiracy against King James VI of Scotland (later to become King James I of England) takes place.
- 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.
- 1781 –The Battle of Dogger Bank takes place.
- 1824 –Greek War of Independence: Constantine Kanaris leads a Greek fleet to victory against Ottoman and Egyptian ships in the Battle of Samos.
- 1870 –Franco-Prussian War: the Battle of Spicheren is fought, resulting in a Prussian victory.
- 1901 –Peter O'Connor sets the first IAAF recognised long jump world record of 24 ft The record will stand for 20 years.
- 1906 –Persian Constitutional Revolution: Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar, King of Iran, agrees to convert the government to a constitutional monarchy.
- 1914 –In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed.
- 1914 –World War I: the German minelayer Königin Luise lays a minefield about 40 mi of the Thames Estuary (Lowestoft). She is intercepted and sunk by the British light-cruiser HMS Amphion.
- 1916 –World War I: Battle of Romani – Allied forces, under the command of Archibald Murray, defeat an attacking Ottoman army under the command of Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein, securing the Suez Canal and beginning the Ottoman retreat from the Sinai Peninsula.
- 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.
- 1949 –The Mann Gulch fire kills 13 firefighters in Montana.
- 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.
- 1960 –Burkina Faso, then known as Upper Volta, becomes independent from France.
- 1962 –Nelson Mandela is jailed. He would not be released until 1990.
- 1981 –Ronald Reagan fires 11,359 striking air-traffic controllers who ignored his order for them to return to work.
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