History Events on October 05

The Jarrow March sets off for London.

#Jarrow_March

A Chilean opposition coalition defeats Augusto Pinochet in his re-election attempt.

#1988_Chilean_national_plebiscite

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

#1948_Ashgabat_earthquake

The city of Anaheim, California is founded.

#Anaheim,_California

The Provisional Government of the French Republic enfranchises women.

#Provisional_Government_of_the_French_Republic

World War I: An aircraft successfully destroys another aircraft with gunfire.

#World_War_I

French Revolution: The Women's March on Versailles effectively terminates royal authority.

#Women's_March_on_Versailles

Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space.

#Marc_Garneau

The Kowloon-Canton Railway commences service.

#Kowloon-Canton_Railway

The Killough massacre in east Texas sees eighteen Texian settlers either killed or kidnapped.

#Killough_massacre

Heraclius arrives at Constantinople, kills Byzantine Emperor Phocas, and becomes emperor.

#Heraclius

War of 1812: The Army of the Northwest defeats a British and Native Canadian force threatening Detroit.

#Battle_of_the_Thames

In a revolution in Portugal the monarchy is overthrown and a republic is declared.

#5_October_1910_revolution

King Louis the Pious is crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by the Pope.

#Louis_the_Pious

Mordechai Vanunu's story in The Sunday Times reveals Israel's secret nuclear weapons.

#Mordechai_Vanunu

The University of Kiel is founded.

#University_of_Kiel

In Nazi Germany, Jews' passports are invalidated.

#Nuremberg_Laws

A reactor at the Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station near Detroit suffers a partial meltdown.

#Enrico_Fermi_Nuclear_Generating_Station

The city of Concepción is founded, in present-day Chile.

#Concepción,_Chile

The Nez Perce War in the northwestern United States comes to an end.

#Nez_Perce_War

In the Mekong River massacre, two Chinese cargo boats are hijacked and 13 crew members murdered.

#Mekong_River_massacre

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

#1921_World_Series

Assassins sent by the Pope attempt to kill Venetian statesman and scientist Paolo Sarpi.

#Paolo_Sarpi

Louis IX, Duke of Bavaria expels Jews from his jurisdiction.

#Louis_IX,_Duke_of_Bavaria

The Wright brothers pilot the Wright Flyer III in a new world record flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes.

#Wright_brothers

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

#Wake_Island

King Alfonso VII of León and Castile recognises Portugal as a Kingdom.

#Alfonso_VII_of_León_and_Castile

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

#R101

An Indonesian Air Force C-130 crash kills 135 people.

#1991_Jakarta_Indonesian_Air_Force_C-130_crash

Mass demonstrations in Serbia force the resignation of Slobodan Miloševi?.

The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in west London kills 31 people.

After 150 years The Herald newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, is published for the last time as a separate newspaper.

Tylenol products are recalled after bottles in Chicago laced with cyanide cause seven deaths.

Bombs planted by the PIRA kill four British soldiers and one civilian.

The British Trade Commissioner is kidnapped by members of the FLQ, triggering the October Crisis in Canada.

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is founded.

A Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march in Derry is violently suppressed by police.

President Truman makes the first televised Oval Office address.

A six-month strike by Hollywood set decorators turns into a bloody riot at the gates of the Warner Brothers studio.

The Hennepin Island tunnel collapses during construction, nearly destroying St. Anthony Falls.

The Saxby Gale devastates the Bay of Fundy region in Canada.

The Fourth Council of Constantinople is convened to depose patriarch Photios I.