Historical Events on October 5

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• 610 Heraclius' fleet takes Constantinople

• 869 4th Council of Constantinople (8th ecumenical council) opens
• 1143 King Alfonso VII of Leon recognises Portugal as a Kingdom

• 1349 Paris theologian Jean de Fayt warns against the Flagellants at Avignon

• 1450 Jews are expelled from Lower Bavaria by order of Ludwig IX

• 1511 Eedgenootschap signs anti-French Saint League
• 1550 Foundation of the city of Concepción, Chile.

• 1572 Spanish army under Alva's son Don Frederik plunders Mechelen
• 1632 Henry Casimir I appointed viceroy of Groningen
• 1665 The University of Kiel is founded.
• 1693 Haarlem people's revolution due to food shortages
• 1750 Carlo Goldoni's "Il Teatro Comico" premieres in Venice
• 1762 Opera "Orfeo Ed Euridice" by Christoph Willibald Gluck is first produced in Vienna in front of Empress Maria Theresa.

• 1796 Spain declares war on England

• 1830 King Willem I mobilizes Dutch army
• 1857 Mormon pioneer Captain Lot Smith and members of the Utah militia destroy US army supply wagon train in Wyoming during Utah War
• 1857 The City of Anaheim is founded
• 1862 Battle of Hatchie Bridge, Tennessee; confederate forces avoid capture by Union army
• 1862 Federal fleet occupies Galveston, Texas
• 1863 Confederate sub David damages Union ship Ironsides
• 1864 Battle of Allatoona, 1/3 of Union troops die repulsing South
• 1864 Most of Calcutta destroyed by cyclone, approx 60,000 die
• 1867 Last day of Julian calendar in Alaska
• 1869 A strong hurricane known as the Saxby Gale devastates the Bay of Fundy region in Maritime Canada. Incredibly British naval officer Stephen Martin Saxby predicted the storm 10 months earlier in December 1868 via astronomy.
• 1869 Man-made tunnel under St. Anthony Falls, Minnesota collapses, threatening the Minneapolis riverfront
• 1875 Palace Hotel on Market Street opens in San Francisco

• 1892 The Dalton Gang ends in shoot-out in Coffeyville, Kansas bank holdup; 4 members killed, and a fifth captured
• 1895 First UK individual cycling time trial is held on a 50-mile course north of London; Frederick Thomas Bidlake organiser
• 1896 William Gillette's dramatic play "Secret Service" premieres in NYC
• 1897 Swedish explorer Solomon August Andrée expedition to the North Pole reaches White Island

• 1907 Canadian Interprovincial Rugby Football Union (IRFU) plays first game; Montreal beats Toronto, 17-8 in Montreal
• 1908 Bulgaria declares independence from Turkey, Ferdinand I becomes Tsar
• 1908 Chicago White Sox pitcher Ed Walsh beats Detroit Tigers, 6-1, his 40th victory of the MLB season; forces AL pennant race to the final day
• 1910 Portugal overthrows monarchy, proclaims republic
• 1911 Italian troops occupy Tripoli
• 1912 Boston Red Sox beat Philadelphia Athletics, 3 - 0 for their 105th win of the MLB season, an AL record until 1927 NY Yankees (110)
• 1912 NY Highlanders last game at Hilltop stadium; beat Washington, 8-6; Brooklyn Dodgers last game at Washington Park; lose 1-0 v NY Giants
• 1914 World War I first aerial combat resulting in a kill
• 1915 Allies land troops at the northern Greek city of Salonika; Greece is nominally neutral but allows the landing
• 1915 Bulgaria enters World War I as one of the Central Powers.

• 1919 Norwegian population agrees to prohibition
• 1921 Present constitution of Liechtenstein comes into effect
• 1922 NY Yankees and NY Giants play out a controversial 3-3 tie in 10 innings in Game 2 of Baseball World Series at Polo Grounds, Manhattan, NYC; Giants win series, 4-0-1

• 1924 1st Little Orphan Annie-strip appears in NYC Daily News
• 1925 The Lacarno Conference meets: Germany agrees to recognise their frontiers with France and Belgium and will apply for membership in the League of Nations
• 1925 WSM-AM in Nashville Tenn begins radio transmissions
• 1930 British airship crashes in storm at Beauvais, France, 48 die
• 1930 Homecoming of the bodies of Swedish polar balloon expedition (1897) led by Salomon August Andrée
• 1931 1st nonstop transpacific flight, Japan to Wash (Herndon & Pangborn)
• 1931 Paul Green's play "House of Connelly" premieres in NYC
• 1932 With new ownership Detroit Falcons officially change name to Detroit Red Wings, and the Winged Wheel is introduced; previous names Cougars (1926-30), Falcons (1930-32)
• 1936 The Jarrow March sets off for London
• 1937 Dutch Minister Carl Romme says unemployment is 25% "quarter of Romme"
• 1942 5,000 Jews of Dubno, Russia massacred

• 1943 US air raid on Wake, Japanese execute 98 US prisoners in retaliation
• 1944 Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg's musical "Bloomer Girl" premieres in NYC
• 1944 Kerkrade is liberated in the Netherlands
• 1944 Suffrage is extended to women in France
• 1945 "Meet the Press" premieres on radio
• 1945 Hollywood Black Friday: A six month strike by Hollywood set decorators turns into a bloody riot at the gates of Warner Brothers' studios.
• 1945 Indonesian army forms

• 1946 1st Cannes Film Festival ends
• 1946 Newcastle United equals English Football League record for biggest winning margin in a 13-0 thrashing of Newport in a Division 2 match at St. James' Park; Len Shackleton scores 6, Charlie Wayman 4 for the Toon

• 1949 WBNS TV channel 10 in Columbus, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting
• 1949 WOR (now WWOR) TV channel 9 in NY-Secaucus, NY (IND) begins

• 1952 19th congress of Communist Party meets in Moscow

• 1953 The first documented recovery meeting of Narcotics Anonymous is held.

• 1954 Hurricane Hazel forms in the Caribbean, killing 400-1000 people in the Bahamas and Haiti
• 1957 Yugoslav dissident Milovan Djilos sentenced to 7 years
• 1958 KRTV TV channel 3 in Great Falls, MontanaT (CBS) begins broadcasting
• 1958 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1958 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1960 British Labour party demands unilateral nuclear disarmament
• 1960 Eastern AL Electra turbo-prop crashed in Boston Harbor (61 die)
• 1960 KEYC TV channel 12 in Mankato, MN (CBS) begins broadcasting

• 1961 China & Nepal sign treaty

• 1962 The Beatles release their first record, "Love Me Do"
• 1963 Hyde St Pier re-opens as State Historical Park

• 1964 KIXE TV channel 9 in Redding, CA (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1964 San Francisco Fire Department Museum dedicated
• 1965 Chuck Linster performs 6,006 consecutive push-ups
• 1965 Dick McInnes from Henderson, Kentucky stays aloft almost 12 hours in a kite pulled by a speedboat along the Ohio River

• 1968 Civil rights march in Derry stopped by the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC)and resulting clashes lead to two days of serious rioting, often considered the start of 'the Troubles' in Northern Ireland
• 1968 KPLM (now KESQ) TV channel 42 in Palm Springs, CA (ABC) begins

• 1970 American fiddle player "Papa" John Creach joins Jefferson Airplane
• 1970 PBS becomes a US television network.
• 1970 Quebec separatists kidnap British trade commissioner James Cross
• 1971 A new sitting of the Northern Ireland parliament at Stormont begins, though the Social Democratic and Labour Party remain absent due to its continuing protest against Internment
• 1972 Herbert Mullin 1st kills, claiming it was to prevent earthquakes

• 1973 Signature of the European Patent Convention.
• 1974 Guildford pub bombing by the IRA leaves 5 dead and 65 injured.

• 1975 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1976 MLB expansion draft: Seattle Mariners & Toronto Blue Jays pick 30 unprotected AL players; Ruppert Jones OF (Seattle) & Bob Bailor OF (Toronto) are first picks
• 1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer wins the Nobel Prize for literature
• 1978 Over 30 major nations ratify the Environmental Modification Convention which prohibits weather warfare that has widespread, long-lasting or severe effects
• 1978 Sweden's Fälldin government falls

• 1980 Formal opening of meditation hall of Zenshin Temple in Riverdale, the Bronx NYC
• 1981 Dutch guilder/Deutsche mark revalued up 5.5%
• 1981 Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg becomes an honorary American (posthumously)
• 1982 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
• 1982 First regular season NHL game is played in New Jersey (Newark; NJ Devils play a 3-3 tie against Pittsburgh Penguins at Brendan Byrne Arena; Don Lever scores first Devils' goal
• 1982 Hernan Siles Zuazo appointed president of Bolivia

• 1982 Unmanned rocket sled reaches 9,851 kph at White Sands, NM

• 1983 Panamanian jockey Jorge Velasquez wins his 5,000th career race, riding Banquet Scene to victory in the 4th race at Belmont Park

• 1985 Grambling's Eddie Robinson wins record 324th football game
• 1986 London Sunday Times reports Israel is stocking nuclear arms

• 1988 Brazil adopts its Constitution

• 1988 Israel bans Meir Kahane's Kach Party on grounds of racism
• 1990 "Henry and June" film, based on the book by Anaïs Nin, first film to be given an NC-17 rating in the US, released
• 1990 Cincinnati jury acquits art gallery of obsentity (Mappelthorpe photos)

• 1990 Pittsburgh Penguins left wing Kevin Stevens has 2 goals & 4 assists in 7-4 opening-night win against the Washington Capitals at Capital Centre to set NHL record for most points in a season opener (6)
• 1991 Fresno State ties NCAA football record with 49 points in a quarter (2nd), as they route New Mexico, 94-17 at Bulldog Stadium, Fresno
• 1991 Military transport plane crashes at Jakarta, 133 dies
• 1991 The first official version of the Linux kernel, version 0.02, is released.
• 1991 USSR reduces nuclear weapons arsenal
• 1992 NY senator Alphonse D'Amato filibusters for 15 hours 20 mins
• 1992 US Air goes on strike

• 1993 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC

• 1994 52 members of Zonnetempel, murdered

• 1996 Cleveland Indians strike out 23 Baltimore Orioles in 12 innings in 4-3 ALDS win at Jacobs Field; Orioles win series, 3-1
• 1996 New York centre fielder Bernie Williams homers from each side of the plate as the Yankees beat Texas, 6-4 to win the AL Division Series, 3 - 1
• 1996 Yao Wenyuan is released from prison after serving 20 years for his role in the Chinese Cultural Revolution
• 1997 STS 86 (Atlantis 20) lands
• 1999 The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in west London kills 31 people.

• 2001 MLB's Atlanta Braves become first pro sports team to win 10 straight division titles after mauling the Marlins, 20-3 to clinch the NL East title; NBA's Boston Celtics (1957-65) & LA Lakers (1982-90) both won 9 in a row
• 2001 Robert Stevens becomes the first victim in the 2001 anthrax attacks.

• 2002 For the first time in its 42-year old history, the Anaheim Angels win a post-season series by beating the Yankees, 9-5 to take the ALDS, 3-1
• 2003 Chicago Cubs win their first MLB postseason series since the 1908 World Series with 5-1 win v Atlanta Braves in Game 5 NLDS at Turner Field
• 2003 Kansas City wide receiver Dante Hall scores on game winning 93-yard punt return in Chiefs 24-23 victory v Denver Broncos at Arrowhead Stadium; returns for score in an NFL-record 4th straight game

• 2005 NHL great Wayne Gretzky makes his coaching debut for the Phoenix Coyotes in 3-2 loss to the Vancouver Canucks at Rogers Arena
• 2005 NHL opens regular season after 10-month lockout of entire 2004-05 season; Ottawa's Daniel Alfredsson & Dany Heatley first players to score winning goals in a shoot out in NHL history; both score v Toronto goalie Ed Belfour in 3-2 OT victory

• 2007 African Burial Ground in Manhattan is the first National Monument, dedicated to the first Africans of early New York and Americans of African descent [1]

• 2009 Australia wins cricket's Champions Trophy at Centurion Park in Gauteng, South Africa by 6 wickets (28 balls remaining) v New Zealand; chasing 200, Shane Watson is 105 not out in Australia's 206/4
• 2009 ICC Men's Cricket Champions Trophy, Centurion Park, Gauteng: Australia beats New Zealand by 6 wickets for their second title; Player of the series: Ricky Ponting, AUS 288 runs
• 2010 Injured Indian cricket batsman VVS Laxman is the hero with 73 not out as the home team chases down 216 to beat Australia with just 1 wicket to spare in the 1st Test at Mohali
• 2012 Anglo Platinum Limited fires 12,000 striking workers in South Africa
• 2013 New Zealand beats South Africa, 38-27 in Johannesburg to retain the Rugby Championship with an undefeated record; All Black flanker Liam Messam crosses for 2 tries

• 2015 Floods in South Carolina a "1,000-year storm" result in 12 deaths and 9 dams to fail

• 2015 Nobel prize for Medicine awarded to William C. Campbell, Satoshi Ōmura (Roundworm) and Youyou Tu (Malaria)
• 2015 Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement announced by trade ministers of 12 countries in Atlanta

• 2017 Iraqi forces claim victory and control over Islamic State's last urban stronghold Hawija, Northern Iraq

• 2018 Banksy work "Girl With Balloon" automatically shreds moments after being sold for 1 million pounds in London, renamed "Love is in the Bin"
• 2018 Nobel Peace Prize awarded jointly to Congolese gynaecologist Denis Mukwege and Yazidi activist Nadia Murad for "efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war"
• 2018 Record price at auction for a living female artist as Jenny Saville's "Propped" sells for £9.5 million in London
• 2018 US unemployment figures hit lowest level since 1969 - 3.7% according to Department of Labor

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