5 October
Notable Births
Jacob Tremblay
b. 2006
Canadian actor (born 2006)
Washington Sundar
b. 1999
Indian cricketer (born 1999)
Exequiel Palacios
b. 1998
Argentine footballer (born 1998)
Jewell Loyd
b. 1993
American basketball player (born 1993)
Wakamotoharu Minato
b. 1993
Japanese professional sumo wrestler
Kevin Magnussen
b. 1992
Danish racing driver (born 1992)
Cody Zeller
b. 1992
American basketball player (born 1992)
Pär Lindholm
b. 1991
Swedish ice hockey player (born 1991)
Tornike Shengelia
b. 1991
Georgian basketball player (born 1991)
Nathan Peats
b. 1990
Australian professional rugby league footballer
Travis Kelce
b. 1989
American football player (born 1989)
Benny Howell
b. 1988
English cricketer (born 1988)
Bahar Kizil
b. 1988
German singer
Maja Salvador
b. 1988
Filipino actress (born 1988)
Dillon Francis
b. 1987
American electronic music producer and DJ (born 1987)
Michael Grabner
b. 1987
Austrian ice hockey player (born 1987)
Jesse Joensuu
b. 1987
Finnish ice hockey player (born 1987)
Kevin Mirallas
b. 1987
Belgian association football player (born 1987)
Tim Ream
b. 1987
American soccer player (born 1987)
Park So-yeon (singer)
b. 1987
South Korean singer (born 1987)
Notable Deaths
Robert Coover
d. 2024
American novelist (1932–2024)
Eberhard van der Laan
d. 2017
Dutch politician
Chantal Akerman
d. 2015
Belgian film director, screenwriter, and educator (1950–2015)
Joker Arroyo
d. 2015
Filipino politician (1927–2015)
Grace Lee Boggs
d. 2015
American social activist, author (1915–2015)
Henning Mankell
d. 2015
Swedish author (1948–2015)
David Chavchavadze
d. 2014
American writer (1924–2014)
Andrea de Cesaris
d. 2014
Italian racing driver (1959–2014)
Geoffrey Holder
d. 2014
Trinidadian-American actor and dancer (1930–2014)
Yuri Lyubimov
d. 2014
Soviet and Russian stage actor and director
Ruth R. Benerito
d. 2013
American scientist and inventor (1916–2013)
Carlo Lizzani
d. 2013
Italian film director, screenwriter and critic
Yakkun Sakurazuka
d. 2013
Japanese comedian and voice actor
Vojin Dimitrijević
d. 2012
Serbian law professor, intellectual and human rights activist
James W. Holley III
d. 2012
American politician
Edvard Mirzoyan
d. 2012
Armenian composer
Claude Pinoteau
d. 2012
French film director and scriptwriter
Derrick Bell
d. 2011
American lawyer, professor, and civil rights activist
Bert Jansch
d. 2011
Scottish folk musician (1943–2011)
Steve Jobs
d. 2011
American businessman and inventor (1955–2011)
On This Day in History
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2021
Windows 11 is released to the general public.
Windows 11
2011
In the Mekong River massacre, two Chinese cargo boats are hijacked and 13 crew members murdered.
Mekong River massacre
2000
Mass demonstrations in Serbia force the resignation of Slobodan Milošević.
Overthrow of Slobodan Milošević
1999
The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in West London kills 31 people.
Ladbroke Grove rail crash
1994
Swiss police find the bodies of 48 members of the Order of the Solar Temple, who had died in a cult mass murder-suicide.
Order of the Solar Temple
1991
An Indonesian Air Force C-130 crash kills 135 people.
1991 Jakarta Indonesian Air Force C-130 crash
1990
After 150 years The Herald newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, is published for the last time as a separate newspaper.
The Herald (Melbourne)
1988
A Chilean opposition coalition defeats Augusto Pinochet in his re-election attempt.
Augusto Pinochet
1985
Seven Israeli vacationers, including four children, are killed in a mass shooting at Ras Burqa in the Sinai Peninsula by an Egyptian soldier.
Ras Burqa massacre
1984
Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space.
Marc Garneau
1982
Tylenol products are recalled after bottles in Chicago laced with cyanide cause seven deaths.
Tylenol
1974
Bombs planted by the PIRA in pubs in Guildford kill four British soldiers and one civilian.
Provisional Irish Republican Army
1970
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is founded in the United States.[citation needed]
PBS
1970
The British Trade Commissioner, James Cross, is kidnapped by members of the Front de libération du Québec, triggering the October Crisis in Canada.
James Cross
1968
A Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march in Derry is violently suppressed by police.
Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association
1966
A reactor at the Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station near Detroit suffers a partial meltdown.
Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station
1963
The United States suspends the Commercial Import Program in response to repression of the Buddhist majority by the regime of President Ngo Dinh Diem.
Commercial Import Program
1962
The first of the James Bond film series, based on the novels by Ian Fleming, Dr. No, is released in Britain.
James Bond
1962
The first Beatles single "Love Me Do" is released in Britain.
The Beatles
1947
President Truman makes the first televised Oval Office address.
United States Oval Office Address