October 5th

October 5th is the 278th (two hundred and seventy-eighth) day of the year—the 279th (two hundred and seventy-ninth) in leap years—in the Gregorian calendar. There are 87 days left to end the year.

Events

• 539 BC: Fall from Babylon to the Persian Empire, according to the Book of Daniel.
• 610: Heraclio is crowned emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire; after which he changes the imperial French language of Latin to Greek.
• 816: Louis I of France is crowned emperor by Pope Stephen IV.
• 869: the Council of Constantinople begins to depose the Patriarch of Constantinople Focio.
• 1143: The Treaty of Zamora recognizes the Kingdom of Portugal as an independent kingdom.
• 1550: In Chile, the Spanish conqueror Pedro de Valdivia founded the villa of Concepción del Nuevo Extremo in the bay of the same name, about 500 km south of the capital Santiago.
• 1582: in Spain, Italy, Poland and Portugal, this day is skipped – between Thursday, October 4, 1582 and Friday, October 15 – due to the implementation of the Gregorian calendar.
• 1665: The University of Kiel is founded in Germany.
• 1743: In Chile the village of Rancagua is founded.
• 1762: In the Philippines, the British occupy the city of Manila.
• 1789: March on Versailles to protest against King Louis XVI of France for lack of food.
• 1793: In France, the Government officially declared Christianity abolished.
• 1793: On the banks of the river Paraná, at the crossroads of the Camino Real that forked northwest (Córdoba, Bolivia and Peru), and north (al Litoral), the chapel of Nuestra Señora del Rosario is inaugurated. The farmhouse built around it will be declared "villa" in 1823, and "city" in 1853.
• 1837: In Spain, the Royal Order was published for which the first Provincial Institute of Second Education of Murcia was founded.
• 1844: The Storm of San Francisco de Assisi is unleashed in the Caribbean Sea. In Havana, Cuba, the hurricane leaves 100 dead, countless wounded, and 2546 collapsed houses. In Havana Bay, 13 merchant ships sank.
• 1872: in Buenos Aires, President Domingo F. Sarmiento founded the Argentine Naval School
• 1884: Spanish Empire in Asia and Oceania, the municipality of Santa Cruz is created in the present province of Dávao del Sur.
• 1906: In the province of Buenos Aires (Argentina) the village of Darregueira is founded.
• 1908: in Bulgaria zar Fernando I proclaims the independence of the country.
• 1908: Emperor Francis Joseph I signed the annexation of Bosnia-Herzegovina to the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
• 1910: In Portugal, after the triumph of the revolution, King Manuel II is overthrown and the First Portuguese Republic is established.
• 1914: In the framework of the First World War, French sergeant Frantz and his mechanic Quenault achieved the first air demolition of history.
• 1917: in Guadalajara, Mexico, the first edition of the newspaper El Informador is released.
• 1919: the football club Racing Club of Ferrol is founded.
• 1928: in Madrid, Spain, the Spanish Royal Academy presents the new grammar of the Spanish language.
• 1933: in Germany, the Nazi Party establishes absolute control of the press.
• 1933: In Cuba the coup d'etat of the dictator Fulgencio Batista is stabilized.
• 1933: In the neighborhood of Luyanó (La Habana, Cuba), fascist gangs of the ABC murder the workers' leader Luis Milián Hernández, a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League.
• 1934: In Asturias, Spain, there is a revolution in which the working class takes power for fifteen days facing the Government of the Republic.
• 1938: In Czechoslovakia the disintegration of the nation is planned.
• 1941: The 2nd Panzer Group is disintegrated in Germany.
• 1944: In the framework of the Second World War, the German city of Bochum is bombarded by the allies producing 994 victims.
• 1948: in Cuba a category 3 hurricane hits land. In a small diameter, it crosses the south of the province of Pinar del Río, and leaves for Havana.
• 1956: In Colombia PUNCH Productions are created by Alberto Peñaranda Restrepo and was the first television programmer in Colombia to close its broadcasts on May 19, 2000.
• 1957: In Chile, UCV Television broadcasts begin, the country's first television channel.
• 1958: 110 meters high (in an aerostatic balloon), in the area B7b of the Nevada atomic testing site (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 6:10 (local time) United States detonates its atomic bomb Hidalgo, of 0,077 kilotons. At 8:15 detonates the Colfax pump, of 0.006 kilotons, 107 meters underground, in the U3k area. It is the bombs No. 168 and 169 of the 1132 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• 1962: in London (United Kingdom), the British rock band The Beatles edits its first single, Love me do. The same would reach the 17th of the lists and mark the start of the promotion for the group.
• 1962: While it was sought for a European observatory, Belgium, Germany, France, the Netherlands and Sweden signed the ESO convention, which would mark the foundation of the European Observatory of the South.
• 1962: 494 meters underground, in the U9ad Area of the Nevada Atomic Test Site (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 9:00 (local time), the United States detonates its 115 kiloton Mississippi atomic bomb. It is the 290 bomb of 1132 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• 1964: in Cairo, Egypt, the Second Conference of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries (NOAL) began.
• 1968: In the United States, singer José Feliciano, during the World Baseball Series, is the first to sing the national anthem stylized.
• 1969: in London, UK, Monty Python issues his first chapter of the series Monty Python’s Flying Circus in the BBC chain.
• 1983: the asteroid is discovered 9007 James Bond.
• 1988: in Chile the national plebiscite is held, whereby the people reject the continuity and permanence in the power of the dictator Augusto Pinochet until 1997. The following year elections are held to elect a new president and a new National Congress.
• 1991: Linus Torvalds announced for the first time (in comp.os.minix) about the Linux computer system.
• 1994: In Switzerland, 48 persons belonging to the cult Order of the Solar Temple commit suicide collectively.
• 1995: in Guatemala, the army murders 11 peasants from the Aurora del Ocho community of October, to discourage the return of the exiles in Mexico.
• 1995: In Bosnia, U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke set a ceasefire between the fronts.
• 2000: In Peru, Congress approves the reduction of President Alberto Fujimori's mandate.
• 2013: in the park El Rejón in the city of Chihuahua (Mexico), a monster trock that was part of the show Extremo Aero Show is out of control and throws dozens of viewers. 5 adults and 4 children die and 80 people are injured.
• 2014: In the hospital Robert Reid Cabral of the city of Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) 11 children die for a breakdown in the oxygen of this hospital.
• 2021: In Argentina, Elena Highton, the only female minister of the Supreme Court of Justice, resigns from office.
• 2021: Microsoft launches Windows 11 operating system.

Births

• 1338: Rabbi III of Trebisonda (f. 1390).
• 1520: Alessandro Farnese, Italian cardinal (f. 1589).
• 1658: Mary of Modena, Queen of England (f. 1718).
• 1703: Jonathan Edwards, theologian, philosopher and American missionary (f. 1758).
• 1712: Francesco Guardi, Italian painter (f. 1793).
• 1713: Denis Diderot, French writer and philosopher, promoter of the Encyclopedia (f. 1784).
• 1781: Bernard Bolzano, Czech mathematician (f. 1848).
• 1829: Chester A. Arthur, American politician and president between 1881 and 1885 (f. 1886).
• 1848: Daniel Rebolledo Sepúlveda, Chileno and captain of the Army (f. 1908).
• 1848: Guido von List, German writer (f. 1919).
• 1860: Mariano Holguín, Peruvian priest (f. 1945).
• 1861: Ismael Montes, Bolivian lawyer, military and political, 26th president of Bolivia between 1904 and 1909, and between 1913 and 1917 (f. 1933).
• 1864: Louis Lumière, French inventor, creator of cinema (f. 1948).
• 1873: Agustín Parrado García, Spanish bishop (f. 1949).
• 1879: Peyton Rous, American doctor (f. 1970).
• 1882: Robert Hutchings Goddard, American inventor (f. 1945).
• 1887: Rene Cassin, French judge, Nobel Peace Prize in 1968 (f. 1976).
• 1889: Teresa de la Parra, a Venezuelan writer (f. 1936).
• 1895: Walter Bedell Smith, American General (f. 1961).
• 1896: Raimundo Fernández-Cuesta, Spanish politician (f. 1992).
• 1898: José Camón Aznar, Spanish historian and thinker (f. 1979).
• 1901: John Alton, director of American cinema (f. 1996).
• 1902: Larry Fine, American actor and comedian (f. 1975).
• 1902: Ray Kroc, American businessman. (f. 1984).
• 1903: M. King Hubbert, American geographer and physicist (f. 1989).
• 1903: Germinal Esgleas, anarchist and Spanish trade unionist (f. 1981).
• 1908: Joshua Logan, American film producer and writer. (f. 1988).
• 1916: Stetson Kennedy, American writer and activist (f. 2011).
• 1917: Magda Szabó, writer, novelist and Hungarian poet (f. 2007).
• 1917: Demetrio Zorita Alonso, a Spanish military and aviator (f. 1956).
• 1919: Donald Pleasence, British actor (f. 1995).
• 1921: Francisco Dotras Lamberti, diplomat, businessman, painter, writer and Spanish announcer (f. 2014).
• 1922: José Froilán González, pilot of Formula 1 Argentina (f. 2013).
• 1922: Ricardo Lavié, an Argentine actor (f. 2010).
• 1922: Jock Stein, footballer and Scottish coach. (f. 1985).
• 1924: Aníbal Di Salvo, Argentine filmmaker (f. 2010).
• 1924: José Donoso, a Chilean writer. (f. 1996).
• 1925: Emiliano Aguirre, Spanish paleontologist.
• 1925: Julio Rodríguez Reyes, Puerto Rican singer, of the trio Los Panchos (f. 2013).
• 1926: Mariano Ozores, actor and Spanish humorist.
• 1930: Cristina Berys, an Argentine actress (f. 1994).
• 1930: Miguel Báez and Espuny "El Litri", Spanish bullfighter.
• 1930: Reinhard Selten, German economist (f. 2016).

Bob Geldof

• 1930: Hermilo Novelo, Mexican musician (f. 1983).
• 1930: June Almeida, Scottish virologue (f. 2007).
• 1931: Ismael Rivera, Puerto Rican singer (f. 1987).
• 1931: Fernando Siro, Argentine actor (f. 2006).
• 1933: Carmen Salinas, Mexican actress.
• 1936: Vaclav Havel, Czech writer and president (f. 2011).
• 1939: A. R. Penck, German sculptor and painter.
• 1939: Carmen Salinas, actress, comedian, politics and Mexican theatrical entrepreneur (f. 2021).
• 1939: Marie Laforêt, French actress and singer of Armenian origin (f. 2019).
• 1941: Orlando Barone, Argentine journalist.
• 1941: Eduardo Duhalde, politician, lawyer and Argentine notary, Acting President of Argentina between 2002 and 2003.
• 1947: Brian Johnson, British singer, AC/DC band.
• 1949; Klaus Ludwig, German motor racing pilot.
• 1950: Eddie Clarke, British guitarist, from the Motörhead band.
• 1950: Jeff Conaway, American actor (f. 2011).
• 1950: Laura Gemser, erotic actress, model and Dutch designer.
• 1951: Karen Allen, American actress.
• 1951: Bob Geldof, Irish musician and political activist.
• 1952: Clive Barker, British writer.
• 1952: David Lebón, an Argentine musician.
• 1952: Emomali Rahmon, President of Tajikistan.
• 1955: Sandra Torres, Guatemalan policy.
• 1957: Bernie Mac, American actor and comedian (f. 2008).
• 1957: Lee Thompson, musician, saxophoneist and British writer, Madness band.
• 1958: Viviane Senna, Brazilian entrepreneur.
• 1958: Antonio Di Gennaro, Italian footballer.
• 1958: Neil deGrasse Tyson, American scientific astronomer and divulgeer.
• 1959: Ernesto Laguardia, Mexican actor and presenter.
• 1959: Maya Lin, American artist and architect.
• 1960: Daniel Baldwin, American actor.
• 1960: Careca, Brazilian footballer.
• 1962: Michael Andretti, American motor racing pilot.
• 1963: Charlotte Link, German writer.
• 1964: Dave Dederer, American guitarist, of the bands The Presidents of the United States of America and Loaded.
• 1964: Keiji Fujiwara, Japanese actor of bent (f. 2020).
• 1965: Carlos Alberto Mayor, footballer and Argentine coach.
• 1965: Mario Lemieux, Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1966: Xabier Carbayeda, Spanish cyclist.
• 1966: Julio Milostich, Chilean actor
• 1967: Johnny Gioeli, American rock singer
• 1967: Guy Pearce, British actor.
• 1968: Sam Rockwell, American actor.
• 1968: Fabian Estay, Chilean footballer.
• 1970: Josie Bissett, American actress.
• 1971: Alfredo Berti, Argentine footballer.
• 1971: Ale Sergi, Argentinean singer, from the Miranda band.
• 1971: Mauricio Pellegrino, footballer and Argentine coach.
• 1971: Bertrand Crasson, Belgian footballer.
• 1972: Grant Hill, American basketball player.
• 1972: Tom Hooper, British filmmaker.
• 1974: Jeff Strasser, Luxembourg footballer.
• 1975: Parminder Nagra, British actress of Indian origin.
• 1975: Kate Winslet, British actress.
• 1976: Mauro Colagreco, Argentine chef.
• 1976: Katia Aveiro, Portuguese singer.
• 1976: Ramzan Kadyrov, Czech President.
• 1977: Angel Martin, comic, screenwriter, actor and presenter of Spanish television.
• 1977: Wendy Vera, composer, songwriter and Ecuadorian musical producer.
• 1978: James Valentine, American guitarist, band Maroon 5.
• 1978: Gustavo Biscayzacú, Uruguayan footballer.
• 1979: Vincenzo Grella, Australian footballer.
• 1979: Julio César Cáceres, Paraguayan footballer.
• 1979: Patricia Conde, comic, screenwriter, actress and presenter of Spanish television.
• 1979: Ximena Herrera, Bolivian-Mexican actress.
• 1980: Paul Thomas, American bassist, of the Good Charlotte band.
• 1981: Tito el Bambino, Puerto Rican singer.
• 1981: Joel Lindpere, Estonian footballer.
• 1982: Rustam Judzhámov, Ukrainian footballer.
• 1983: Nicky Hilton, social, professional model and American designer.
• 1983: Jesse Eisenberg, American actor.
• 1983: Alexi O Gan, Dominican baseball player.
• 1983: Noot Seear, Canadian model and actress.
• 1983: Juan Manuel Vargas, Peruvian footballer.
• 1983: Jadson, Brazilian footballer.
• 1983: Ebert William Amâncio, Brazilian footballer.
• 1984: Kenwyne Jones, footballer trinitense.
• 1984: Glenn McMillan, Brazilian actor.
• 1985: Nicola Roberts, British singer, of the band Girls Aloud.
• 1987: Kevin Mirallas, Belgian footballer.
• 1987: Park Soyeon, South Korean singer, T-ara band.
• 1987: Javier Villa, Spanish GP2 pilot.
• 1987: Luigi Vitale, Italian footballer.
• 1988: Sam Warburton, Welsh Ripper.
• 1989: Kenshō Ono, Japanese seiyū.
• 1989: Gerardo Ortiz, singer and author of the Mexican genre.
• 1989: Diogo Ferreira, Australian footballer.
• 1989: Daniele Ratto, Italian cyclist.
• 1990: Federico Delbonis, Argentine tennis player.
• 1990: Pia Pakarinen, Finnish model.
• 1991: Davide Petrucci, Italian footballer.
• 1991: Xiao Zhan, Chinese actor and singer.
• 1992: Mercedes Lambre, actress and Argentine singer.
• 1992: Christoffer Nyman, Swedish footballer.
• 1993: Wismichu, youtuber Spanish.
• 1997: Florian Faber, Swiss archer.
• 1997: Walter Chigüila, Salvadoran footballer.
• 1998: Exequiel Palacios, Argentine soccer player.
• 1998: Mateo Hernández, Argentine soccer player.
• 1998: Antoine Viquerat, French swimmer.
• 1998: Alberto Cabrera, Spanish basketball player.
• 1998: Allan Dahl Johansson, Norwegian speed skater.
• 1998: Francisco Saubidet Birkner, Argentine regatist.
• 2000: Gabriel Brazão, Brazilian footballer.
• 2000: Matus Vojtko, Slovak footballer.
• 2001: Dalila Bela, Canadian actress of Latin genealogy.
• 2001: Jonatan Hellvig, Swedish volleyballist.
• 2006: Jacob Tremblay, Canadian actor.

Deaths

• 578: Justin II, Byzantine emperor (n. 520).
• 610: Focas, Byzantine emperor (n. 547).
• 989: Henry III, aristocrat carinthium (n. 940).
• 1056: Henry III the Black, emperor of the Holy Roman German Empire (n. 1017).
• 1258: Philip III of France, French king (n. 1245).
• 1398: Blanca de Évreux, queen consorte de Francia (n. 1331).
• 1524: Joachim Patinir, a flamenco painter (n. 1480).
• 1565: Lodovico Ferrari, Italian mathematician (n. 1522).
• 1606: Philippe Desportes, French poet (n. 1546).
• 1793: José del Castillo, a Spanish painter (n. 1737).
• 1815: Juan Hipólito Vieytes, an Argentine economist and journalist (n. 1762).
• 1816: Camilo Torres Tenorio, Colombian lawyer and politician (n. 1766).
• 1837: Hortensia de Beauharnais, queen of the Netherlands and mother of Napoleon III (n. 1783).
• 1851: Marie Jules César Lelorgne de Savigny, French botanist (n. 1777).
• 1871: Aleksandr Afanásiev, Russian writer and folklorist (n. 1826).
• 1880: Jacques Offenbach, German composer (n. 1819).
• 1885: Daniel Alcides Carrion, Peruvian student, martyr of medicine (n. 1857).
• 1905: Carlos Walker Martínez, Chilean writer and politician (n. 1842).
• 1918: Roland Garros, French aviator (n. 1888).
• 1933: Renee Adorée, French actress (n. 1898).
• 1935: Pius Tamayo, poet and forerunner of Marxist thought in Venezuela (n. 1898).
• 1938: Maria Faustyna Kowalska, Polish Catholic nun (n. 1905).
• 1940: Silvestre Revols, Mexican musician (n. 1899).
• 1957: José Leandro Andrade, Uruguayan footballer (n. 1901).
• 1974: Miguel Enríquez, Chilean politician, secretary general of the Revolutionary Left Movement (n. 1944).
• 1976: Lars Onsager, Norwegian chemical, nobel chemistry award in 1968 (n. 1903).
• 1981: Gloria Grahame, American actress (n. 1923).
• 1983: Earl Tupper, American inventor, founder of the Tupperware Company (n. 1907).
• 1984: Leonard Rossiter, British actor (n. 1926).
• 1986: Diego Angulo Íñiguez, Spanish art historian and essayist (n. 1901).
• 1986: James H. Wilkinson, British mathematician (n. 1919).
• 1992: Enrique Kicho Díaz, contrabajist and bandoneonist of Argentine tango (n. 1918).
• 1992: Eddie Kendricks, American singer and composer, of the band The Temptations (n. 1939).
• 1992: Apa Sahib Pant, politician, diplomat and Indian writer (n. 1912).
• 1996: Seymour Cray, American businessman (n. 1925).
• 1997: Federico Gallo, Spanish journalist (n. 1930).
• 2000: Cuco Sánchez, Mexican singer (n. 1921).
• 2002: José Botella Llusiá, Spanish researcher and gynecologist (n. 1912).
• 2003: Neil Postman, American cultural critic (n. 1931).

Steve Jobs

• 2004: Rodney Dangerfield, American actor and comedian (n. 1921).
• 2004: Maurice Wilkins, New Zealand physicist, codescubridor of the DNA structure (n. 1916).
• 2005: Alvaro Domecq Díez, cattle rancher, rejoiner and Spanish businessman (n. 1917).
• 2007: Fernando Rosas Pfingsthorn, director of Chilean orchestra and musician (n. 1931).
• 2009: Giselher Klebe, German composer (n. 1925).
• 2010: Roy Ward Baker, British filmmaker (n. 1916).
• 2010: Bernard Clavel, French writer (n. 1923).
• 2010: Jorge Presno, Uruguayan lawyer and politician (n. 1929).
• 2010: Steve Lee, Swiss singer and composer Gotthard (n. 1963).
• 2011: Niver Arboleda, Colombian footballer (n. 1967).
• 2011: Bert Jansch, British musician (n. 1943).
• 2011: Steve Jobs, American computer and businessman, founder of Apple (n. 1955).
• 2011: Charles Napier, American actor (n. 1936).
• 2012: Luis Gómez Llorente, politician and Spanish philosopher (n. 1939).
• 2013: Carlo Lizzani, Italian director (n. 1922).
• 2014: Andrea de Cesaris, Italian motorist pilot (n. 1959).
• 2015: Grace Lee Boggs, American activist (n. 1915).
• 2015: Ana Diosdado, writer and Argentine-Spanish actress (n. 1938).
• 2015: Henning Mankell, Swedish writer (n. 1948).
• 2015: Carlos de Borbón-Dos Sicilias, aristocrat española (n. 1938).
• 2015: Chantal Akerman, film director and Belgian artist (n. 1950).
• 2018: Héctor Ulloa, Colombian actor (n. 1936).
• 2021: Francisca Celsa dos Santos, Brazilian supercentenary (n. 1904).

Celebrations

• James Bond World Day
• World Day of Non-Prostitution (It will be understood by exploitation of a person to: the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation)(ref. https://www.gob.mx/fgr/es/articulos/informer-know-the-modalities-of-the-treat-of-persons?idiom=es).
• World Teacher Day
• Argentina:
  • Road Day and Road Education
• BoliviaBolivia:
  • Bolivian Engineer Day
• SpainSpain:
  • The Virgin of the Way (Valverde de la Virgen, León): Feast in honor of St.
  • Lion: Feast in honor of San Froilán
  • Lugo: Fiesta in honor of San Froilán
  • Moclín (Granada): Romería del Cristo del Paño
  • Tarazona (Zaragoza): Feast in honor of San Atilano
  • Trasanquelos (Oza Cesuras. La Coruña): Fiesta en honor de San Salvador
• IndonesiaIndonesia:
  • Armed Forces Day
• Mexico Mexico:
  • National Day of the Magic People
• PakistanPakistan:
  • Master's Day
• Paraguay Paraguay:
  • Day of the Way
• Peru Peru:
  • Peruvian Medicine Day
• Portugal:
  • Day of the Republic
• Russia Russia:
  • Master's Day
• VanuatuVanuatu:
  • Constitutional Day
• Venezuela Venezuela:
  • National Salsa Day

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