October 5 facts for kids

October 5 is the 278th day of the year (279th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 87 days remain until the end of the year.

October 5th is a day filled with many interesting events throughout history! From ancient times to modern days, people have made discoveries, changed governments, and created new things on this date. Let's explore some of the most important and exciting moments that happened on October 5th.

Historical Events

Ancient and Medieval Times

• 610 – Heraclius arrived in Constantinople and became the new Byzantine Emperor.
• 816 – King Louis the Pious was crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by the Pope.
• 1143 – Portugal officially became a kingdom after the Treaty of Zamora was signed. This treaty recognized Portugal's independence from the Kingdom of León.

From the 1600s to the 1900s

• 1789 – During the French Revolution, a large group of women marched to Versailles. This event showed a big shift in power away from the king and queen.
• 1813 – In the War of 1812, American forces won an important battle against British and Native Canadian forces near Detroit. This was called the Battle of the Thames.
• 1869 – A very powerful storm called the Saxby Gale caused a lot of damage in the Bay of Fundy area in Canada.
• 1869 – The Eastman tunnel in Minnesota, United States, collapsed during its construction. This caused a landslide that almost destroyed St. Anthony Falls.
• 1877 – The Nez Perce War, a conflict in the northwestern United States, came to an end.
• 1900 – A peace meeting in Paris criticized British actions in South Africa and supported the right of the Boer Republic to govern itself.

The 20th Century and Beyond

• 1905 – The Wright brothers flew their Wright Flyer III for a new world record! They flew 24 miles in 39 minutes.
• 1910 – A revolution in Portugal ended the monarchy, and the country became a republic.
• 1911 – The Kowloon–Canton Railway started its train service.
• 1914 – World War I: For the first time ever, an aircraft successfully shot down another aircraft with gunfire. This was a big step for fighter planes.
• 1921 – The World Series baseball championship was broadcast on radio for the very first time.
• 1930 – The British airship R101 crashed in France on its first trip to India, sadly killing 48 people.
• 1931 – Clyde Edward Pangborn and Hugh Herndon Jr. made the first nonstop flight across the Pacific Ocean in their plane, Miss Veedol.
• 1936 – The Jarrow March, a protest walk by unemployed people, began its journey to London.
• 1943 – World War II: During the Battle of the Pacific, 98 American prisoners of war were killed by Japanese forces on Wake Island.
• 1944 – The French government gave women the right to vote.
• 1945 – A strike by Hollywood set decorators turned into a violent event at the Warner Brothers studio gates.
• 1947 – President Truman gave the first ever televised speech from the Oval Office.
• 1962 – The very first James Bond movie, Dr. No, was released in Britain. It was based on the books by Ian Fleming.
• 1962 – The first single by The Beatles, "Love Me Do", was released in Britain.
• 1966 – A nuclear reactor near Detroit had a partial meltdown. This was at the Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station.
• 1968 – A march for civil rights in Northern Ireland was stopped by police.
• 1970 – The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), a well-known TV network, was founded.
• 1984 – Marc Garneau became the first Canadian to travel into space.
• 1986 – A story in The Sunday Times by Mordechai Vanunu revealed that Israel had secret nuclear weapons.
• 1988 – In Chile, a group of opposition parties won against Augusto Pinochet in his attempt to be re-elected.
• 1990 – After 150 years, The Herald newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, was published for the last time as a separate newspaper.
• 1991 – An Indonesian Air Force C-130 plane crash killed 135 people.
• 1999 – The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in West London caused the deaths of 31 people.
• 2000 – Large protests in Serbia led to the resignation of Slobodan Milošević.

Famous Birthdays

Many interesting people were born on October 5th!

Born Before 1900

• 1274 – Al-Dhahabi, a Syrian scholar and historian.
• 1377 – Louis II of Anjou, a French duke.
• 1520 – Alessandro Farnese, an Italian cardinal and diplomat.
• 1524 – Rani Durgavati, a brave queen of Gond in India.
• 1609 – Paul Fleming, a German doctor and poet.
• 1641 – Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan, a famous figure in the court of Louis XIV of France.
• 1658 – Mary of Modena, an English queen.
• 1703 – Jonathan Edwards, an important American pastor.
• 1712 – Francesco Guardi, a famous Italian painter.
• 1713 – Denis Diderot, a French philosopher and writer.
• 1728 – Chevalier d'Éon, a French diplomat and spy.
• 1781 – Bernard Bolzano, a Czech mathematician and philosopher.
• 1795 – Alexander Keith, a Scottish-Canadian brewer and politician who became the Mayor of Halifax.
• 1816 – Ursula Frayne, an Irish-Australian nun and missionary.
• 1829 – Chester A. Arthur, who became the 21st President of the United States.
• 1844 – Francis William Reitz, a South African lawyer and politician.
• 1858 – Helen Churchill Candee, an American journalist and author.
• 1864 – Louis Lumière, a French director and producer who helped invent cinema.
• 1878 – Louise Dresser, an American actress.
• 1879 – Francis Peyton Rous, an American scientist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
• 1882 – Robert H. Goddard, an American physicist and engineer, known for his rocket work.
• 1887 – René Cassin, a French judge who won the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1888 – Mary Fuller, an American actress and screenwriter.
• 1899 – Elda Anderson, an American physicist and health researcher.
• 1900 – Bing Xin, a Chinese author famous for her children's books.

Born After 1900

• 1902 – Larry Fine, an American comedian, part of The Three Stooges.
• 1902 – Ray Kroc, an American businessman who helped build McDonald's.
• 1905 – John Hoyt, an American actor.
• 1908 – Joshua Logan, an American director and screenwriter.
• 1917 – Allen Ludden, an American television game show host.
• 1919 – Donald Pleasence, an English actor.
• 1922 – José Froilán González, an Argentinian racing driver.
• 1922 – Bil Keane, an American cartoonist, creator of "The Family Circus".
• 1922 – Jock Stein, a Scottish football player and manager.
• 1923 – Glynis Johns, a British actress and singer.
• 1924 – Bill Dana, an American actor and producer.
• 1925 – Gail Davis, an American actress.
• 1928 – Louise Fitzhugh, an American author and illustrator.
• 1929 – Richard F. Gordon Jr., an American astronaut.
• 1930 – Pavel Popovich, a Ukrainian cosmonaut.
• 1930 – Reinhard Selten, a German economist who won a Nobel Prize in Economics.
• 1932 – Dean Prentice, a Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1936 – Václav Havel, a Czech poet, playwright, and the first President of the Czech Republic.
• 1937 – Barry Switzer, an American football coach.
• 1939 – Marie-Claire Blais, a Canadian author.
• 1941 – Stephanie Cole, an English actress.
• 1941 – Eduardo Duhalde, a former President of Argentina.
• 1943 – Steve Miller, an American singer-songwriter and guitarist.
• 1943 – Michael Morpurgo, a famous English author.
• 1947 – Brian Johnson, an English singer, lead singer of AC/DC.
• 1948 – Russell Mael, an American vocalist.
• 1949 – Peter Ackroyd, an English biographer and novelist.
• 1949 – Bill James, an American historian and author.
• 1950 – Eddie Clarke, an English rock guitarist.
• 1950 – Jeff Conaway, an American actor.
• 1951 – Karen Allen, an American actress.
• 1951 – Bob Geldof, an Irish singer-songwriter and activist.
• 1952 – Clive Barker, an English author and director.
• 1952 – Imran Khan, a Pakistani cricketer and former Prime Minister of Pakistan.
• 1957 – Bernie Mac, an American actor and comedian.
• 1958 – André Kuipers, a Dutch astronaut.
• 1958 – Neil deGrasse Tyson, an American astrophysicist and author.
• 1959 – Maya Lin, an American architect and sculptor, known for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
• 1960 – Daniel Baldwin, an American actor.
• 1960 – Careca, a Brazilian footballer.
• 1962 – Michael Andretti, an American race car driver.
• 1963 – Laura Davies, an English golfer.
• 1963 – Nick Robinson, an English journalist.
• 1965 – Mario Lemieux, a Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1965 – Patrick Roy, a Canadian ice hockey player and coach.
• 1967 – Guy Pearce, an English-Australian actor.
• 1970 – Josie Bissett, an American actress.
• 1972 – Grant Hill, an American basketball player.
• 1974 – Rich Franklin, an American mixed martial artist.
• 1974 – Heather Headley, a Trinidadian-American singer and actress.
• 1975 – Parminder Nagra, an English actress.
• 1975 – Scott Weinger, an American actor.
• 1975 – Kate Winslet, a famous English actress.
• 1976 – Ramzan Kadyrov, a Russian-Chechen general and politician.
• 1977 – Vinnie Paz, an Italian-American rapper.
• 1978 – Jesse Palmer, a Canadian football player and sportscaster.
• 1978 – James Valentine, an American musician from the band Maroon 5.
• 1978 – Morgan Webb, a Canadian-American television host.
• 1980 – Paul Thomas, an American bass player from Good Charlotte.
• 1983 – Jesse Eisenberg, an American actor and writer.
• 1983 – Nicky Hilton, an American socialite and fashion designer.
• 1984 – Kenwyne Jones, a Trinidadian footballer.
• 1985 – Nicola Roberts, an English singer.
• 1987 – Dillon Francis, an American DJ and record producer.
• 1987 – Kevin Mirallas, a Belgian footballer.
• 1989 – Travis Kelce, an American football player.
• 1992 – Kevin Magnussen, a Danish racing driver.
• 1999 – Washington Sundar, an Indian cricketer.
• 2006 – Jacob Tremblay, a Canadian actor.

Notable Deaths

Here are some of the well-known people who passed away on October 5th.

Before 1900

• 578 – Justin II, a Byzantine emperor.
• 610 – Phocas, a Byzantine emperor.
• 1056 – Henry III, a Holy Roman Emperor.
• 1111 – Robert II, a count of Flanders.
• 1214 – Alfonso VIII, a king of Castile and Toledo.
• 1285 – Philip III, a king of France.
• 1524 – Joachim Patinir, a Flemish landscape painter.
• 1565 – Lodovico Ferrari, an Italian mathematician.
• 1714 – Kaibara Ekken, a Japanese botanist and philosopher.
• 1805 – Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, an English general and politician.
• 1813 – Tecumseh, a famous Native American tribal leader.
• 1880 – Jacques Offenbach, a German-French cellist and composer.
• 1885 – Thomas C. Durant, an American railroad tycoon.

After 1900

• 1918 – Roland Garros, a French soldier and pilot, after whom the famous tennis stadium is named.
• 1927 – Sam Warner, a Polish-American director and producer who co-founded Warner Bros..
• 1930 – Christopher Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson, an Indian-English soldier and politician.
• 1933 – Renée Adorée, a French-American actress.
• 1940 – Silvestre Revueltas, a Mexican violinist and composer.
• 1941 – Louis Brandeis, an important American lawyer and judge.
• 1942 – Dorothea Klumpke, an American astronomer.
• 1950 – Frederic Lewy, a German-American neurologist.
• 1967 – Clifton Williams, an American astronaut.
• 1976 – Lars Onsager, a Norwegian-American chemist and physicist who won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
• 1981 – Gloria Grahame, an American actress.
• 1983 – Earl Tupper, an American inventor and businessman who founded Tupperware Corporation.
• 1992 – Eddie Kendricks, an American singer-songwriter.
• 1996 – Seymour Cray, an American engineer who founded CRAY Inc, known for supercomputers.
• 2001 – Mike Mansfield, an American soldier, politician, and diplomat.
• 2004 – Rodney Dangerfield, a well-known American comedian and actor.
• 2004 – Maurice Wilkins, a New Zealand-English physicist and biologist who won a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
• 2011 – Bert Jansch, a Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist.
• 2011 – Steve Jobs, an American businessman who co-founded Apple Inc. and Pixar.
• 2011 – Charles Napier, an American actor.
• 2014 – Andrea de Cesaris, an Italian racing driver.
• 2014 – Geoffrey Holder, a Trinidadian-American actor, singer, and dancer.
• 2015 – Henning Mankell, a Swedish author and playwright.

Holidays and Observances

• World Space Week (October 4–10)
• Armed Forces Day (Indonesia)
• Constitution Day (Vanuatu)
• Engineer's Day (Bolivia)
• Republic Day (Portugal)
• Teachers' Day (Pakistan)
• Teachers' Day (Russia)
• World Teachers' Day

See also

In Spanish: 5 de octubre para niños