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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1921 –Baseball: The World Series is broadcast on the radio for the first time.
- 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.
- 1945 –Hollywood Black Friday: A six-month strike by Hollywood set decorators turns into a bloody riot at the gates of Warner Brothers’ studios.
- 1966 –Near Detroit, Michigan, there is a partial core meltdown at the Enrico Fermi demonstration nuclear breeder reactor.
- 1968 –Police baton civil rights demonstrators in Derry, Northern Ireland – considered to mark the beginning of The Troubles.
- 1969 –The first episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus airs on BBC.
- 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.
- 1974 –Guildford pub bombings: bombs planted by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) kill four British soldiers and one civilian.
- 1988 –The Brazilian Constitution is ratified by Constituent Assembly.
- 1991 –The first official version of the Linux kernel, version 0.02, is released.
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