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Historical Events on October 5

539 BC

The army of Cyrus the Great of Persia takes Babylon (Gregorian calendar)
456

The Visigoths under king Theodoric II, acting on orders of the Roman emperor Avitus, invade Iberia with an army of Burgundians, Franks and Goths, led by the kings Chilperic I and Gondioc. They defeat the Suebi under king Rechiar on the river Urbicus near Astorga (Gallaecia).
610

Coronation of Byzantine Emperor Heraclius.
816

King Louis the Pious is crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by Pope Stephen IV at Reims.
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 and Castile 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.
1582

Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1607

Assassins sent by Pope Paul V attempt to kill Venetian statesman and scientist Paolo Sarpi, who survives fifteen stiletto thrusts.
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 of France about his refusal to promulgate the decrees on the abolition of feudalism, demand bread, and have the King and his court moved to Paris.
1793

French Revolution: Christianity is disestablished in France.
1813

Battle of the Thames in Canada; Americans defeat British and kill Shawnee leader Tecumseh.
1857

The City of Anaheim, California is founded.
1864

The Indian city of Calcutta is almost totally destroyed by a cyclone; 60,000 die.
1869

The Saxby Gale devastates the Bay of Fundy region of Maritime Canada. The storm had reportedly been predicted over a year before by a British naval officer.
1869

During construction, the Hennepin Island tunnel has a limestone cap breached and the rushing water breaks large chunks of land away and the St. Anthony Falls are nearly destroyed.
1877

Chief Joseph surrenders his Nez Perce band to General Nelson A. Miles.
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.
1911

The Kowloon-Canton Railway (split into MTR East Rail Line and Guangshen Railway now) commences service between Kowloon and Canton.
1914

World War I: First aerial combat resulting in an intentional fatality.
1915

Bulgaria enters World War I as one of the Central Powers.
1921

The World Series is the first to be broadcast on radio.
1930

British airship R101 crashes in France en route to India on its maiden voyage.
1936

The Jarrow March sets off for London.
1938

In Nazi Germany, Jews' passports are invalidated; those who needed a passport for emigration purposes are given one marked with the letter "J" (for "Jude", or Jew).
1943

Ninety-eight American POWs are executed by Japanese forces on Wake Island.
1944

Suffrage is extended to women in 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.
1947

The first televised White House address is given by U.S. President Harry S. Truman.
1948

The Ashgabat earthquake kills between 10,000 and 110,000 people.
1955

Disneyland Hotel opens to the public in Anaheim, California.
1962

Dr. No, the first in the James Bond film series, is released.
1962

The Beatles' first single, "Love Me Do" backed with "P.S. I Love You", is released in the United Kingdom.
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

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is founded.
1970

British Trade Commissioner James Cross is kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group, triggering the October Crisis in Canada.
1974

Guildford pub bombings: Bombs planted by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) kill four British soldiers and one civilian.
1980

Elisabeth blast furnace demolished at Bilston Steelworks marking the end of iron and steel production in the Black Country.[1]
1982

Chicago Tylenol murders: Johnson & Johnson initiates a nationwide product recall in the United States for all products in its Tylenol brand after several bottles in Chicago are found to have been laced with cyanide, resulting in seven deaths.
1984

Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space, aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger.
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".
1988

The Chilean opposition coalition Concertación (center-left) defeats Augusto Pinochet in his re-election attempt and a general election is called the following year.
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

An Indonesian military transport crashes after takeoff from Jakarta killing 137.
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

Barry Bonds surpasses Mark McGwire's single-season home run total with his milestone 71st and 72nd home runs.
2011

In the Mekong River massacre, two Chinese cargo boats are hijacked and 13 crew members murdered in the lawless Golden Triangle region of Southeast Asia.

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