On this day in History - Oct. 5

• 0578 - Justin II dies. Byzantine Emperor (565-78).
• 0610 - Coronation of Byzantine Emperor Heraclius.
  
• 0869 - The Fourth Council of Constantinople is convened to decide about what to do about Patriarch Photius of Constantinople.
• 0877 - Charles the Bald dies (b. 0823).
• 1056 - Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor dies (b. 1017).
• 1112 - Sigebert of Gembloux dies. French chronicler.
• 1143 - The king Alfonso VII of Leon recognises Portugal as a Kingdom / 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.
• 1550 – Foundation of Concepción, city in Chile.
• 1557 - Morte do aventureiro português Diogo Álvares Correia.
• 1564 - Pierre de Manchicourt dies. Flemish composer.
• 1565 - Lodovico Ferrari dies (b. 1522). Italian mathematician.
• 1582 - Because of the implementation of 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 - Francisco de Santiago dies. Portuguese composer.
• 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
• 1777 - Ján Andrej Segner dies (b. 1704). Slovak and German mathematician, physicist, and physician.
• 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.
• 1792 - Joseph Crosfield was born (d. 1844). English soap and alkali manufacturer.
  
• 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 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (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.
• 1810 - Maximiano Torres dies in Trafaria (b. 6 Feb 1748). Portuguese poet.
  
• 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.
• 1820 - David Wilber was born (d. 1890). American politician.
  
• 1822 - Bruno Carranza Ramírez was born. President of Costa Rica (1870).
• 1824 - Henry Chadwick was born (d. 1908). English-born American 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.
• 1844 - Francis William Reitz was born (d. 1934). State President of the Orange Free State.
• 1848 - Guido von List was born (d. 1919). German writer.
  
• 1848 - Joseph Hormayr Freiherr zu Hortenburg dies (b. 1781). Austrian politician.
• 1850 - Sergey Muromtsev was born (d. 1910). Russian lawyer and politician, and President of the First Imperial Duma.
  
• 1857 - The City of Anaheim was founded.
• 1861 - Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski dies (b. 1778). Polish bishop.
• 1864 - The Indian city of Calcutta is almost totally destroyed by a cyclone 60,000 die.
• 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.
• 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, 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.
• 1892 - Remington Kellogg was born (d. 1969). American naturalist.
  
• 1894 - Bevil Rudd was born (d. 1948). South African athlete.
• 1895 - The 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).
• 1899 - Georg, Duke of Mecklenburg was born (d. 1962). Head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
  
• 1901 - John Alton was born (d. 1996). American cinematographer.
  
• 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 - Sir Samuel Griffith is appointed the first Chief Justice of Australia and Sir Edmund Barton and Richard O'Connor are appointed as foundation justices.
• 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.
• 1906 - Cyro dos Anjos was born (d. 1994). Brazilian writer.
• 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 and declares istself a republic / 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.
• 1912 - Fritz Fischer was born. Nazi war criminal.
• 1913 - Eugene Bennett Fluckey was born (d. 2007). American Navy Submariner.
• 1913 - Hans von Bartels dies (b. 1856). German painter.
• 1914 - World War I first aerial combat resulting in a kill.
• 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 - 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). Scottish 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.
• 1923 - Philip Berrigan was born (d. 2002). American peace activist.
  
• 1923 - Bill Wirtz was born (d. 2007). Longtime Chicago Blackhawks owner.
  
• 1924 - Barbara Kelly was born (d. 2007). Canadian-born actress.
  
• 1924 - José Donoso was born (d. 1996). Chilean writer.
  
• 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 - Fred Feast was born (d. 1999). English actor.
• 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. Soviet 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.
• 1932 - Michael John Rogers was born (d. 2006). English ornithologist.
  
• 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 - Arlene Saunders was born. American soprano.
• 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 - Consuelo Ynares-Santiago was born. Filipino Supreme Court jurist.
• 1939 - Marie Laforêt was born. French singer and actress.
• 1939 - Marie-Claire Blais was born. French Canadian author and playwright.
• 1939 - Walter Wolf was born. Slovenian-born Canadian industrialist.
• 1940 - Ballington Booth dies (b. 1857). Salvation Army Officer and co-founder of Volunteers of America.
• 1940 - Lincoln Loy McCandless dies (b. 1859). American cattle rancher.
• 1940 - Silvestre Revueltas dies (b. 1889). Mexican musician.
• 1941 - Louis Dembitz Brandeis dies (b. 1856). U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
• 1941 - Eduardo Duhalde was born. President of Argentine.
• 1941 - Louis Dembitz Brandeis dies (b. 1856). U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
• 1942 - Substituição do Réis pelo Cruzeiro como padrão monetário do Brasil.
• 1942 - Richard Street was born. American singer (The Temptations)
• 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.
• 1944 - Suffrage is extended to women in France.
• 1945 - Hollywood Black Friday: A six month strike by Hollywood set decorators turns into a bloody riot at the gates of Warner Brothers' studios.
• 1945 - Brian Connolly was born (d. 1997). Scottish singer (Sweet).
  
• 1945 - Geoff Leigh was born. English musician (Henry Cow).
• 1946 - Jean Perron was born. Canadian ice hockey coach
• 1946 - Zahida Hina was born. Pakistani columnist and story writer.
• 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 - The 1948 Ashgabat earthquake kills 110,000.
• 1948 - Tawl Ross was born. American 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 - Bill James was born. American baseball writer.
• 1949 - WSAZ, the United States' first television station, located in Huntington, West Virginia, begins broadcasting.
• 1950 - 'Fast' Eddie Clarke was born. English guitarist (Motörhead, Fastway).
• 1950 - Edward P. Jones was born. American writer.
• 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 - Gigi Sabani was born (d. 2007). Italian TV host.
• 1952 - Vanderlei Luxemburgo was born. Brazilian football coach.
• 1952 - Joe Jagersberger dies (b. 1884 or 1885). Austrian racing driver.
• 1953 - The first documented recovery meeting of Narcotics Anonymous.
• 1953 - Earl Warren was sworn in as the 14th Chief Justice of the United States.
• 1953 - Russell Mael was born. American pop singer (Sparks).
• 1955 - Ángela Molina was born. Spanish actress.
• 1957 - Bernie Mac was born (d. 2008). American comedian.
• 1957 - Lee Thompson was born. English saxophonist, vocalist.
• 1957 - Mark Geragos was born. American attorney.
• 1958 - André Kuipers was born. Dutsh astronaut.
• 1960 - Daniel Baldwin was born. American actor.
• 1960 - Antônio de Oliveira Filho (Careca) was born. Brazilian football (soccer) player.
• 1961 - David Kirk was born. New Zealand rugby union footballer.
• 1961 - Matthew Kauffman was born. American journalist and George Polk Award winner.
• 1961 - Sharon Cheslow was born. American musician, composer and artist.
• 1962 - The Beatles released their first hit, "Love Me Do," in Britain.
• 1962 - Caron Keating was born (d. 2004). British television personality.
• 1962 - Michael Andretti was born. American race car driver.
• 1963 - Laura Davies was born. English golfer.
• 1964 - Keiji Fujiwara was born. Japanese seiyu (voice actor).
• 1964 - Malik Saidullaev was born. Chechen businessman.
• 1964 - Warren E. Miller was born. Maryland politician.
• 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.
• 1966 - Jan Verhaas was born. Dutch snooker referee.
• 1967 - Guy Pearce was born. English-born actor.
• 1968 - Police baton civil rights demonstrators in Derry, Northern Ireland - considered to mark the beginning of The Troubles.
• 1969 - The first episode of the famous comedy show Monty Python's Flying Circus aired on BBC.
• 1969 - Walter Hagen dies (b. 1892). American golfer.
• 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.
• 1970 - South Park Mexican was born. American rapper.
• 1971 - Mauricio Pellegrino was born. Argentine former footballer.
• 1972 - The Last Goon Show of All goes to air on BBC Radio, one of the most celebrated and influential programmes in the history of radio.
• 1972 - Grant Hill was born. American basketball player.
• 1972 - Thomas Roberts was born. American news anchor.
• 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.
• 1974 - Colin Meloy was born. American singer songwriter.
• 1974 - Heather Headley was born. Trinidadian singer.
• 1974 - Rich Franklin was born. American Mixed Martial Artist.
• 1975 - Bobo Baldé 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.
• 1975 - Parminder Nagra was born. English actress.
• 1975 - Scott Weinger wads born. English actor.
• 1976 - J. J. Yeley was born. American race car driver.
• 1976 - Song Seung-hun was born. South Korean actor.
• 1976 - Ramzan Kadyrov was born.Chechen President.
• 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 - James Valentine wa born. American musician (Maroon 5).
• 1978 - Jesse Palmer was born. Canadian-born American football player.
• 1978 - Morgan Webb was born. Canadian-born television presenter.
• 1978 - Shane Ryan was born. Irish Gaelic Football player.
• 1979 - Curtis Sanford was born. Canadian Hockey Goalie.
• 1979 - Jaime Chambers was born.American television reporter.
• 1979 - Vincenzo 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 U.S.A. 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 - Mashrafe Mortaza was born. Bangladeshi cricketer.
• 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.
• 1983 - Earl Tupper dies (b. 1907). American inventor.
• 1983 - Humberto Mauro dies (b. 1897). Brazilian film director and screenwriter.
• 1984 - Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space, aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger (41-6).
• 1984 - Kenwyne Jones was born. Trinidadian footballer.
• 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.
• 1986 - Mike Burgmann dies (b. 1947). Australian racing driver.
• 1987 - Javier Villa was born. Spanish racing driver.
• 1987 - Kevin Mirallas was born. Belgian footballer.
• 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.
• 1988 - The Chilean opposition coalition Concertación (center-left) defeat Augusto Pinochet in his re-election intentions. Next year a general election was called.
• 1988 - Bahar Kızıl was born. German Singer (Monrose).
• 1988 - Bobby Edner was born. American actor.
• 1988 - Maja Salvador was born. Filipina actress.
• 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.
• 1990 - Mark Anthony Fitzpatrick was born. Irish radio host.
• 1990 - Myles Jeffrey was born. American actor.
• 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 - Angel premieres on the WB network.
• 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 dies (b. 1903). American politician.
• 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 - Portugal: Carlos Carvalhas renuncia ao cargo de secretário geral do Partido Comunista Português. Jerónimo de Sousa assume seu lugar.
• 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 - Portugal: Carlos Carvalhas renuncia ao cargo de secretário geral do Partido Comunista Português. Jerónimo de Sousa assume seu lugar.
• 2004 - Rodney Dangerfield dies (b. 1921). American comedian.
• 2004 - Maurice Wilkins dies (b. 1916). New Zealand-born physicist, Nobel laureate.
• 2004 - William H. Dobelle dies (b. 1941). American biomedical engineer, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine nominee.
• 2005 - NHL started its season to end a year-and-a-half lockout.
• 2006 - Jennifer Moss dies (b. 1945). English actress.
• 2006 - Antonio Peña dies (b. 1953). Mexican founder of lucha libre promotion AAA.
• 2007 - Justin Tuveri dies (b. 1898). Italian veteran of the first Worl War.
• Roman calendar: Mundus patet: a harvest feast involving the dead.
• Portugal - Republic Day, celebrates overthrow of the Monarchy in 1910, also on this day of 1143 Portugal was recognized as a country by the King of Spain Afonso IV.
• International World Teachers' Day (UNESCO).
• Indonesia - Army Day.
  
• French Republican Calendar - Réséda (Mignonette) Day, fourteenth day in the Month of Vendémiaire.
• Eastern Orthodox name day for St. Charitini.