On this day in History - Oct. 05

0578 - Justin II dies. Byzantine Emperor (565-78).
0877 - Charles the Bald dies (b. 0823)
1056 - Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor dies (b. 1017)
1143 - Na Conferência de Zamora, Afonso VII de Castela assina um tratado de paz com D. Afonso Henriques, na presença de um representante do Papa, sendo reconhecida a independência de Portugal.
1214 - King Alfonso VIII of Castile dies (b. 1155)
1285 - King Philip III, the Stout, dies (b. 1245). King of France (1270-85).
1520 - Alessandro Cardinal Farnese was born (d. 1589). Italian cardinal.
1528 - Richard Fox dies. English churchman
1540 - Helius Eobanus Hessus dies (b. 1488). German poet.
1541 - Nasce em Creta no Império Otomano Domenicos Theotocopuli - El Greco († 1614) . Renomado pintor que trabalhou em Espanha, na cidade de Toledo.
1557 - Morte do aventureiro português Diogo Álvares Correia
1564 - Pierre de Manchicourt dies. Flemish composer
1565 - Lodovico Ferrari dies (b. 1522). Italian mathematician.
1582 - Due to the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain. / Último dia do calendário juliano (oficialmente os dias de 6 a 14 de Outubro não existiram)
1606 - Philippe Desportes dies (b. 1546). French poet.
1641 - Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan was born (d. 1707). French mistress of Louis XIV of France
1644 - Morte do compositor português Francisco de Santiago
1658 - Mary of Modena was born (d. 1718). Queen of James II of England.
1665 - The University of Kiel is founded.
1678 - Thomas Strutz dies. German composer.
1678 - Juan de Dios Aguinao dies. Colombian bishop
1695 - John Glas was born (d. 1773). Scottish minister.
1703 - Jonathan Edwards was born (d. 1758). American theologian and philosopher (Original Sin).
1712 - Francesco Guardi was born (d. 1793). Italian painter.
1713 - Denis Diderot was born (d. 1784). French philosopher and encylopedist.
1714 - Kaibara Ekiken dies (b. 1630). Japanese philosopher.
1715 - Victor Riqueti was born. French economist and politician.
1768 - Marquês de Pombal obriga, por decreto, os nobres portugueses anti-semitas que tivessem filhos em idade de casar, a organizar casamentos com famílias judaicas
1781 - Bernard Bolzano was born (d. 1848). Czech mathematician and philosopher.
1791 - Grigori Potemkin dies (b. 1739). Russian statesman.
1793 - French revolution disestablished Christianity in France
1795 - Alexander Keith was born (d. 1873). Founded the Alexander Keith's brewing company in 1820
1798 - Morgado de Mateus dies (b. 1722). Portuguese noble.

1799 - António Dinis da Cruz e Silva dies (b. 1731). Portuguese poet. His work mainly published after his death includes: Odes Pindáricas (1801), o poema O Hissope (1802), e os seis volumes das Poesias (1807-1817). He belonged to the movement "Arcádia Lusitana" with Manuel Esteves Negrão e Teotónio Gomes de Carvalho.
1805 - Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis dies (b. 1738). British general.
1813 - Tecumseh dies in The Battle of Moraviantown that was decisive in the War of 1812. Some 600 British regulars and 1,000 Indian allies under English General and Shawnee leader Tecumseh were greatly outnumbered and quickly defeated by US forces under the command of Maj. Gen. William Henry Harrison.
1822 - Bruno Carranza Ramírez was born. President of Costa Rica (1870).
1824 - Henry Chadwick was born (d. 1908). Baseball writer and statistician.
1829 - Chester A. Arthur was born in Fairfield, Vermont († 1886). 21st President of the United States.
1837 - Hortense de Beauharnais dies (b. 1783). Queen of Holland and mother of the Emperor Napoleon III of France dies.
1861 - Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski dies (b. 1778). Polish bishop.
1864 - Calcutta, India almost totally destroyed by a cyclone - 60,000 die.
1864 - Nasce Louis Jean Lumière, que, com seu irmão Auguste, foi inventor do projector cinematográfico e considerado, por muitos, como um dos pais do cinema († 1948)
1877 - Chief Joseph surrenders his Nez Perce band to General Nelson A. Miles
1878 - Louise Dresser was born (d. 1965). American actress.
1879 - Francis Peyton Rous was born († 1970). American patologist .

1880 - Jacques Offenbach dies at 61. German-French composer (La Belle Helene, Orpheus, Tales of Hoffman).

1882 - Robert Goddard was born († 10 Aug 1945). American rocket scientist "father of the Space Age".
1887 - René Cassin was born (d. 1976). French judge, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1894 - Bevil Rudd was born (d. 1948). South African athlete.
1895 - First individual time trial for racing cyclists is held on a 50-mile course north of London.
1897 - Fim da Guerra de Canudos (Bahia - Brasil)
1902 - Larry Fine was born (d. 1975). American actor and comedian.
1902 - Ray Kroc was born (d. 14 Jan 1984). American fast food entrepreneur: founder of McDonald’s;

1904 - Rosa Damasceno dies (b. 23 Fev 1849). Portuguese actress.
1903 - M. King Hubbert was born (d. 1989). American geophysicist.
1905 - Os irmãos Wright realizam o primeiro vôo circular do mundo (v. também em História da aviação)
1907 - Mrs. Miller was born (d. 1997). American singer
1908 - Joshua Logan was born († 12 Jul 1988). American film director and writer.
1908 - A Bulgária proclama a independência, separando-se do Império Otomano.
1910 - Portugal overthrows the monarchy / A República é proclamada em Portugal, cerca das 10 horas da manhã, nos Paços do Concelho de Lisboa.
1911 - Forças monárquicas comandadas por Paiva Couceiro realizam a primeira de várias incursões no norte do país.
1911 - Término do mandato do presidente português Teófilo Braga.

1911 - Tropas italianas ocupam Trípoli, na Líbia, durante a guerra com a Turquia.
1911 - Flann O'Brien was born (d. 1966). Irish humorist.
1913 - Hans von Bartels dies (b. 1856). German painter.
1915 - Bulgaria enters World War I as one of the Central Powers.
1917 - Allen Ludden was born (d. 1981). American television game show host.
1918 - Roland Garros dies (b. 1888). French tennis player and stunt flyer.
1919 - Donald Pleasence was born (d. 1995). English actor (You Only Live Twice, Fantastic Voyage, Tale of Two Cities, The Adventures of Robin Hood).
1919 - António José de Almeida ocupa o lugar de Presidente da República, em substituição do almirante Canto e Castro.
1921 - Bill Willis was born. American football player
1921 - The World Series was broadcast on the radio for the first time.
1922 - Jose-Froilan Gonzalez was born. Argentine race car driver
1922 - Jock Stein was born (d. 1985). Football player and manager.
1922 - Jose-Froilan Gonzalez was born. Argentine race car driver
1923 - Glynis Johns was born. British actress
1924 - Bill Dana was born. Actor and comedian
1930 - Pavel Popovich was born. Cosmonaut
1930 - British Airship R101 crashed in France en-route to India on its maiden voyage.
1930 - Christopher Birdwood Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson dies (b. 1875). British military officer.
1930 - Reinhard Selten was born. German economist.
1933 - Renée Adorée dies (b. 1898). French actress.
1933 - Diane Cilento was born. Australian actress
1934 - Jean Vigo dies (26 Apr 1905). French film director.
1935 - Diahann Carroll was born. American actress.
1935 - Tarcísio Meira was born. Brazilian actor.
1936 - Václav Havel was born. Playwright and President of the Czechoslovakia Republic
1936 - The Jarrow March sets off for London.
1936 - J. Slauerhoff dies (b. 1898). Dutch poet and novelist (tuberculosis)
1937 - Barry Switzer was born. American football coach
1938 - Saint Faustina dies (b. 1905). Polish religious
1939 - Marie Laforêt was born. French singer and actress.
1941 - Louis Dembitz Brandeis dies (b. 1856). U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
1941 - Eduardo Duhalde was born. President of Argentina
1942 - Substituição do Réis pelo Cruzeiro como padrão monetário do Brasil
1943 - Aprovada a lei que substitui o peso paraguaio pelo guarani
1943 - Steve Miller was born. American musician The Steve Miller Band: The Joker, Rock’n Me, Fly Like an Eagle, Jet Airliner, Abracadabra, Take the Money and Run
1943 - Leon Roppolo dies (b. 1902). American musician.
1944 - Canadian Air Force pilots shoot down the first German Jet fighter over France
1947 - The first televised White House address is given by President Harry S. Truman.
1947 - Brian Johnson was born. Singer (group rock AC/DC).
1948 - Tawl Ross was born. Musician (P Funk)
1948 - Zoran Živković was born. Serbian writer
1949 - WSAZ, the United States' first television station, located in Huntington, West Virginia, begins broadcasting.
1950 - Jeff Conaway was born. American actor
1951 - Karen Allen was born. American actress
1951 - Bob Geldof was born. Irish singer, composer and humanist.
1952 - Clive Barker was born. English writer and film director
1952 - Duncan Regehr was born. Canadian actor
1952 - Vanderlei Luxemburgo was born. Brazilian football coach.
1953 - First documented recovery meeting of Narcotics Anonymous
1953 - Earl Warren was sworn in as the 14th Chief Justice of the United States.
1954 - Bob Geldof was born. Irish musician
1957 - Mark Geragos was born. American attorney
1958 - André Kuipers was born. Astronaut
1958 - Bernie Mac was born. American actor and comedian
1958 - André Kuipers was born. Astronaut
1958 - Bernie Mac was born. American actor and comedian
1960 - Daniel Baldwin was born. American actor
1960 - Antônio de Oliveira Filho (Careca) was born. Brazilian football (soccer) player
1962 - Michael Andretti was born. American race car driver
1962 - The Beatles released their first hit, "Love Me Do," in Britain.
1962 - Michael Andretti was born. American race car driver
1963 - Caron Keating was born (d. 2004). Irish TV personality.
1965 - Mario Lemieux was born. Canadian hockey player
1965 - Patrick Roy was born. Canadian hockey player
1966 - Near Detroit, Michigan there is a partial core meltdown at the Enrico Fermi demonstration nuclear breeder reactor, killing three workers.

1966 - Peter Fonseca was born in Lisbon, Portugal. Canadian marathoner who won the 1996 Olympics
1967 - Guy Pearce was born. English-born actor
1969 - Walter Hagen dies (b. 1892). American golfer.
1969 - The first broadcast of Monty Python's Flying Circus
1970 - PBS became a television network
1970 - Montreal, Quebec: British Trade Commissioner James Cross is kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group.
1972 - Grant Hill was born. American basketball player
1973 - Signature of the European Patent Convention
1974 - Guildford pub bombing by the IRA leaves 5 dead and 65 injured.
1974 - I Honestly Love You first reaches #1 on the Billboard charts, giving Olivia Newton-John her first top-selling single in the United States.
1975 - Kate Winslet was born. English actress ( Titanic, Jude, Hamlet, Get Back )
1975 - Carlos Calado was born in Alcanena. Portuguese athlete
1976 - Lars Onsager dies (b. 1903). Norwegian chemist.
1978 - The Nobel Prize in Literature goes to... Author Isaac Bashevis Singer for “...his impassioned narrative art which, with roots in a Polish-Jewish cultural tradition, brings universal human conditions to life.”
1980 - Paul Thomas was born. American musician (Good Charlotte)

1980 - Em Portugal, a coligação Aliança Democrática obtém maioria absoluta nas eleições legislativas.
1981 - Raoul Wallenberg becomes an honorary American citizen
1983 - D.J. "Voovy" Muszynski was born. Musician
1983 - Nicky Hilton was born. American heiress
1983 - Earl Tupper dies (b. 1907). American inventor.
1983 - D.J. "Voovy" Muszynski was born. Musician
1983 - Nicky Hilton was born. American heiress
1983 - Lech Wałęsa was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, founder of Solidarity, campaigner for human rights, for his efforts on behalf of Polish workers.
1984 - Laura Kahili was born. Hawaiian athlete
1984 - Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space, aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger (41-6).
1985 - Abdus Sattar dies. President of Bangladesh (1981-1982)
1986 - Hal B. Wallis dies (b. 1898). American film producer.
1986 - James H. Wilkinson dies (b. 1919). English mathematician.
1988 - Brazil adopts its Constitution / Promulgada a nova Constituição do Brasil. Os territórios do Amapá e Roraima são elevados a categoria de estado. O estado do Tocantins é criado com o desmembramento do norte de Goiás

1989 - The Dalai Lama, the spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet, was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

1990 - After one hundred and fifty years The Herald broadsheet newspaper in Melbourne, Australia is published for the last time as a separate newspaper.
1991 - An Indonesian military transport crashes after takeoff from Jakarta killing 137.
1991 - The first official version of the Linux kernel, version 0.02, is released.
1992 - Eddie Kendricks dies (b. 1939). American singer
1995 - Linda Gary dies (b. 1944). Voice actor.

1995 - Seamus Heaney won the Nobel Prize in literature . His works include: “Death of a Naturalist” (1966), “Door into the Dark” (1969), “North” (1975), “Field Work” (1979), “The Spirit Level” (1996) and the Nobel lecture “Crediting Poetry.”
1996 - Seymour Cray dies (b. 1925). American computer pioneer.

1998 - Morre José Maria Lima de Freitas (n. 1927). Escritor e artista plástico português.

1999 - The Ladbroke Grove rail crash

1999 - Kofi Annan presented a UN plan to take full control of East Timor and guide the territory to nationhood over 2-3 years.
2000 - Mass demonstrations in Belgrade leading to resignation of Slobodan Milošević
2001- Tom Ridge resigned as Governor of Pennsylvania to become President Bush's Homeland Security Advisor.
2003 - Akhmad Kadyrov elected President of Chechnya
2003 - Denis Quilley dies (b. 1927). British actor.
2003 - Dan Snyder dies (b. 1978). Canadian hockey player.
2004 - Rodney Dangerfield dies (b. 1921). American comedian.

2004 - Americans David J. Gross, H. David Politzer and Frank Wilczek won the 2004 Nobel Prize in physics for their explanation of the force that binds particles inside the atomic nucleus. Their theory of quantum chromodynamics explained who quarks behave.
2004 - Maurice Wilkins dies (b. 15 Dec 1916). New Zealand-born, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
2004 - Carlos Carvalhas renuncia ao cargo de secretário geral do Partido Comunista Português. Jerónimo de Sousa assume seu lugar.
Eastern Orthodox name day for St. Charitini
Portugal - Republic Day, celebrates the overthrow of the Monarchy in 1910
International World Teachers' Day