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
- 869 –The Fourth Council of Constantinople is convened to decide about what to do about Patriarch Photius of Constantinople.
- 1143 –King Alfonso VII of León recognises Portugal as a Kingdom.
- 1582 –Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
- 1665 –The University of Kiel is founded.
- 1813 –Battle of Thames in Canada; Americans defeat British.
- 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.
- 1914 –World War I: first aerial combat resulting in an intentional fatality.
- 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.
- 1944 –Suffrage is extended to women in France.
- 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.
- 1970 –Montreal, Quebec: British Trade Commissioner James Cross is kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group, triggering the October Crisis.
- 1990 –After one hundred and fifty years The Herald broadsheet newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, is published for the last time as a separate newspaper.
- 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.
- 2000 –Mass demonstrations in Belgrade lead to resignation of Serbian strongman Slobodan Milošević. These demonstrations are often called the Bulldozer Revolution.
- 2001 –Robert Stevens becomes the first victim in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
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