Historical Events on October 5 (Part 2)

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• 2020 At least 14m tonnes of plastic pieces are at the bottom of the ocean, 30 times more than on the surface according to new research [1]
• 2020 India COVID-19 death toll passes 100,000, with 6.6 million known cases, 3rd highest death toll in the world behind the US and Brazil
• 2020 Nobel Prize for Medicine awarded jointly to Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice for the discovery of hepatitis C virus [1]

• 2020 WHO estimates 10% of world's population may have been infected with COVID-19, more than 20 times the number of confirmed cases
• 2021 480 Otis wins Alaska's Fat Bear Week for pre-hibernation weight gain for the third year in a row
• 2021 Major French investigation finds clergy sexually abused more than 200,000 children over 70 years, most of the victims boys [1]
• 2021 Nobel Prize for Physics awarded to Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi for pioneering work that warned of climate change
• 2021 Russia launches an actor and director to the International Space Station to make the first film in orbit

• 2022 Nobel Prize for Chemistry awarded to Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless (his 2nd) for their work on Click Chemistry
• 2022 Worcester Warriors players have their contracts terminated as the club enters administration
• 2023 Nobel Prize for Literature awarded to Norwegian author Jon Fosse [1]
• 2023 Record 961 migrating birds die after hitting McCormick Place Lakeside Center building in Chicago during fall migration [1]
• 2023 Russian missile attack on a cake holding wake in Ukrainian village of Hroza kills at least 51 people [1]

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