Events on October 5 in history

The Herald (Melbourne) (October 5, 1990)

After one hundred and fifty years The Herald broadsheet newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, is published for the last time as a separate newspaper.

The Herald was a morning, and later, evening, broadsheet newspaper published in Melbourne, Australia from 3 January 1840 to 5 October 1990, when it merged with its sister morning newspaper The Sun News-Pictorial to form the Herald-Sun

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2 Aug

Gulf War
Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.
8 Aug

Gulf War
Iraq occupies Kuwait and the state is annexed to Iraq. This would lead to the Gulf War shortly afterward.
23 Aug

Gulf War
Saddam Hussein appears on Iraqi state television with a number of Western "guests" (actually hostages) to try to prevent the Gulf War.
28 Aug

Kuwait
Iraq declares Kuwait to be its newest province.
28 Nov

Margaret Thatcher
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher resigns as leader of the Conservative Party and the prime ministry, and is succeeded as both by John Major.

Events on October 5 in history

The Herald (Melbourne) (October 5, 1990)

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