What are the important events that happened on October 5? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

October 5: Facts & Myths About This Day

October 5 is the 279^th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 87 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is September 22, 2024 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 28,801,440 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectaheptacontaenneagon’ day.

Libra is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Opal is the modern birthstone for this month. Jasper is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 116 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,306 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

October 5 Historical Events

• 1450 –
  Jews are expelled from Lower Bavaria by order of Louis IX, Duke of Bavaria.
• 1877 –
  Chief Joseph surrenders his Nez Perce band to General Nelson A. Miles.
• 1895 –
  The first individual time trial for racing cyclists is held on a 50-mile course north of London.
• 1936 –
  The Jarrow March sets off for London.
• 1968 –
  Police baton civil rights demonstrators in Derry, Northern Ireland – considered to mark the beginning of The Troubles.
• 1970 –
  Montreal, Quebec: British Trade Commissioner James Cross is kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group, triggering the October Crisis.
• 1974 –
  Guildford pub bombings: bombs planted by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) kill four British soldiers and one civilian.
• 1982 –
  Chicago Tylenol murders: Johnson & Johnson initiates a nationwide product recall in the United States for all products in its Tylenol brand after several bottles in Chicago are found to have been laced with cyanide, resulting in seven deaths.
• 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.

Who were born on October 5?

• 1879 –
  Francis Peyton Rous, American pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1970)
• 1916 –
  Stetson Kennedy, American writer (d. 2011)
• 1917 –
  Allen Ludden, American television game show host (d. 1981)
• 1936 –
  Václav Havel, President of the Czech Republic (d. 2011)
• 1938 –
  Teresa Heinz Kerry, American philanthropist
• 1940 –
  Thom Christopher, American actor
• 1955 –
  Jean-Jacques Lafon, French singer-songwriter
• 1960 –
  Evangelia Tzampazi, Greek politician
• 1986 –
  Mladen Bartulović, Croatian footballer
• 1987 –
  Tim Ream, American soccer player

Who died on October 5?

• 1285 –
  King Philip III of France (b. 1245)
• 1777 –
  Johann Andreas Segner, Slovak and German mathematician, physicist, and physician (b. 1704)
• 1791 –
  Grigori Potemkin, Russian statesman (b. 1739)
• 1848 –
  Joseph Hormayr Freiherr zu Hortenburg, Austrian politician (b. 1781)
• 1895 –
  Ralph Tollemache, British clergyman (b. 1826)
• 1943 –
  Leon Roppolo, American musician (b. 1902)
• 1983 –
  Humberto Mauro, Brazilian film director and screenwriter (b. 1897)
• 2003 –
  Denis Quilley, English actor (b. 1927)
• 2004 –
  William H. Dobelle, American biomedical engineer (b. 1941)
• 2011 –
  Bert Jansch, Scottish folk musician (b. 1943)