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
- 1550 –Foundation of Concepción, city in Chile.
- 1582 –Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
- 1813 –Battle of Thames in Canada; Americans defeat British.
- 1857 –The City of Anaheim is founded.
- 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.
- 1953 –The first documented recovery meeting of Narcotics Anonymous is held.
- 1955 –Disneyland Hotel opens to the public in Anaheim, California.
- 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.
- 1974 –Guildford pub bombings: bombs planted by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) kill four British soldiers and one civilian.
- 1991 –An Indonesian military transport crashes after takeoff from Jakarta killing 137.
- 1991 –The first official version of the Linux kernel, version 0.02, is released.
- 1999 –The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in west London kills 31 people.
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