On this day in History - Oct. 5
- 0578 - Justin II dies. Byzantine Emperor (565-78).
- 0877 - Charles the Bald dies (b. 0823)
- 1056 - Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor dies (b. 1017)
- 1112 - Sigebert of Gembloux dies. French chronicler
- 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.
- 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
- 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 de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau was born (d. 1789). French economist and politician
- 1717 - Marie-Anne de Mailly-Nesle duchess de Châteauroux was born (d. 1744). French mistress of King Louis XV of France
- 1740 - Johann Philipp Baratier dies (b. 1721). German scholar.
- 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.
- 1789 - French Revolution: Parisian women march to Versailles to confront Louis XVI about his refusal to promulgate the decrees on the abolition of feudalism.
- 1791 - Grigori Potemkin dies (b. 1739). Russian statesman.
- 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 - Louis Lumière was born (d. 1948). French film pioneer / 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)
- 1869 - A strong hurricane devastates the Bay of Fundy region of Maritime Canada. The storm had been predicted over a year before by a British naval officer.
- 1878 - Louise Dresser was born (d. 1965). American actress.
- 1879 - Francis Peyton Rous was born († 1970). American patologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 1880 - Jacques Offenbach dies (b. 1819). 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
- 1889 - Teresa de la Parra was born (d. 1936). Venezuelan writer.
- 1894 - Bevil Rudd was born (d. 1948). South African athlete.
- 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;
- 1903 - M. King Hubbert was born (d. 1989). American geophysicist.
- 1904 - John Hoyt was born (d. 1991). American film and television actor.
- 1904 - Rosa Damasceno dies (b. 23 Fev 1849). Portuguese actress.
- 1905 -Wilbur Wright pilots Wright Flyer III in a flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes, a world record that stood until 1908. / Os irmãos Wright realizam o primeiro vôo circular do mundo (v. também em História da aviação)
- 1905 - Harriet E. MacGibbon was born (d. 1987). American actress.
- 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.
- 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 - Portugal: 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 - Baseball: 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
- 1922 - Bil Keane was born. American cartoonist.
- 1922 - Jock Stein was born (d. 1985). Scottish footballer and manager.
- 1923 - Albert Guðmundsson was born (d. 1994). Icelandic professional football player and politician.
- 1923 - Glynis Johns was born. British actress
- 1924 - Bill Dana was born. Actor and comedian
- 1925 - Gail Davis was born (d. 1997). American actress.
- 1925 - Bob Thaves was born (d. 2006). American cartoonist (Frank and Ernest)
- 1926 - Willi Unsoeld was born (d. 1979). American climber.
- 1928 - Louise Fitzhugh was born (d. 1974). American author.
- 1929 - Richard F. Gordon, Jr. was born. American astronaut
- 1930 - Anne Haddy was born (d. 1999). Australian actress.
- 1930 - Reinhard Selten was born. German economist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 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 - Diane Cilento was born. Australian actress
- 1933 - Renée Adorée dies (b. 1898). French actress.
- 1933 - Nikolai Nikolaevich Yudenich dies (b. 1862). Russian general.
- 1934 - Angelo Buono, Jr. was born (d. 2002). American serial killer.
- 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 - Teresa Heinz Kerry was born. American philanthropist, wife of John Kerry
- 1938 - Saint Faustina dies (b. 1905). Polish religious
- 1939 - Marie Laforêt was born. French singer and actress.
- 1939 - Marie-Claire Blais was born. French Canadian author and playwright
- 1940 - Ballington Booth dies (b. 1857). Salvation Army Officer and co-founder of Volunteers of America
- 1941 - Louis Dembitz Brandeis dies (b. 1856). U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
- 1941 - Eduardo Duhalde was born. President of Argentine
- 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.
- 1945 - Hollywood Black Friday: A six month strike by Hollywood set decorators turns into a bloody riot at the gates of Warner Brothers' studios.
- 1946 - Zahida Hina was born. Pakistani columnist and story writer.
- 1946 - Jean Perron was born. National Hockey League coach
- 1947 - Brian Johnson, American singer (AC/DC) after replacing Bon Scott's death in 1980
- 1947 - The first televised White House address is given by President Harry S. Truman.
- 1947 - Brian Johnson was born. American singer (AC/DC) after replacing Bon Scott's death in 1980
- 1948 - Tawl Ross was born. Musician (P Funk)
- 1948 - Zoran Živković was born. Serbian writer
- 1949 - Ralph Goodale was born. Canadian politician.
- 1949 - B.W. Stevenson was born (d. 1988). American country pop singer.
- 1949 - WSAZ, the United States' first television station, located in Huntington, West Virginia, begins broadcasting.
- 1950 - Jeff Conaway was born. American actor.
- 1950 - Frederic Lewy dies (b. 1885). German neurologist.
- 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
- 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.
- 1964 - Keiji Fujiwara was born. Japanese seiyu (voice actor)
- 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.
- 1970 - Agnes Barley was born. American artist.
- 1970 - Josie Bissett was born. American actress.
- 1972 - Grant Hill was born. American basketball player
- 1973 - Signature of the European Patent Convention
- 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.
- 1974 - Colin Meloy was born. American singer songwriter.
- 1975 - Bobo Balde was born. Guinean football player
- 1975 - Kate Winslet was born. English actress ( Titanic, Jude, Hamlet, Get Back )
- 1975 - Carlos Calado was born in Alcanena. Portuguese athlete
- 1976 - J. J. Yeley was born. American race car driver
- 1976 - Lars Onsager dies (b. 1903). Norwegian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1976 - Barbara Nichols dies (b. 1929). American actress.
- 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.”
- 1978 - Shane Ryan was born. Irish Gaelic Football player
- 1978 - Morgan Webb was born. Television presenter and magazine columnist.
- 1978 - James Valentine was born. American guitarist (Maroon 5).
- 1979 - Curtis Sanford was born. Canadian Hockey Goalie
- 1979 - Vince Grella was born. Australian football player
- 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.
- 1981 - Kelvin Tan Wei Lian was born. Singaporean singer
- 1981 - Gloria Grahame dies (b. 1923). American actress.
- 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. Hawaian athlete
- 1984 - Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space, aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger (41-6).
- 1985 - Nicola Roberts was born. English singer (Girls Aloud)
- 1985 - Abdus Sattar dies. President of Bangladesh (1981-1982).
- 1986 - Israel's secret nuclear weapons was revealed. The British newspaper The Sunday Times ran Mordechai Vanunu's story on its front page under the headline: "Revealed — the secrets of Israel's nuclear arsenal."
- 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.
- 1993 - Jim Holton dies (d. 1951). Scottish footballer.
- 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.
- 1997 - Brian Pillman dies (b. 1962). American professional wrestler.
- 1998 - José Maria Lima de Freitas dies (b. 1927). Portuguese writer and artist
- 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
- 2000 - Catalin Haldan dies (b. 1976). Romanian football player.
2001 - Tom Ridge resigned as Governor of Pennsylvania to become President Bush's Homeland Security Advisor. - 2001 - Robert Stevens becomes the first victim in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
- 2001 - Mike Mansfield, American politician (b. 1903)
- 2002 - Chuck Rayner dies (b. 1920). National Hockey League goaltender.
- 2003 - Akhmad Kadyrov elected President of Chechnya
- 2003 - Denis Quilley dies (b. 1927). British actor.
- 2003 - Dan Snyder dies (b. 1978). Canadian hockey player.
- 2003 - Timothy Treadwell dies (b. 1957). Bear enthusiast featured in Grizzly Man
- 2004 - Maurice Wilkins dies (b. 1916). New Zealand-born physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
- 2004 - William H. Dobelle dies (b. 1941). American biomedical engineer, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine nominee.
- 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.
- 2005 - NHL started its season to end a year-and-a-half lockout.
- Eastern Orthodox name day for St. Charitini
- Portugal - Republic Day, celebrates the overthrow of the Monarchy in 1910
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