Wednesday, October 5, 2011

October 5

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

Events

610 – Coronation of Byzantine Emperor Heraclius
1450 – Jews are expelled from Lower Bavaria by order of Louis IX, Duke of Bavaria.
1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in ItalyPolandPortugal and Spain.
1789 – French Revolution: Women of Paris march to Versailles in the March on Versailles to confront Louis XVI about his refusal to promulgate the decrees on the abolition of feudalism, demand bread, and have the King and his court moved to Paris.
1793 – French RevolutionChristianity is disestablished in France.
1813 – Battle of Thames in Canada; Americans defeat British.
1914 – World War I: first aerial combat resulting in a kill.
1915 – Bulgaria enters World War I as one of the Central Powers.
1944 – Royal Canadian Air Force pilots shoot down the first German jet fighter over 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.
1966 – Near Detroit, Michigan, there is a partial core meltdown at the Enrico Fermi demonstration nuclear breeder reactor.
1968 – Police baton civil rights demonstrators in DerryNorthern Ireland – considered to mark the beginning of The Troubles.
1970 – Montreal, QuebecBritish Trade Commissioner James Cross is kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group, triggering the October Crisis.
1986 – Israeli secret nuclear weapons are revealed. The British newspaper The Sunday Times runs Mordechai Vanunu's story on its front page under the headline: "Revealed — the secrets of Israel's nuclear arsenal".
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.
2000 – Mass demonstrations in Belgrade lead to resignation of Serbian strongman Slobodan Milošević. These demonstrations are often called the Bulldozer Revolution. - wikipedia

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