Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 5
This is a list of selected October 5 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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Jules Bianchi
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| International Day of No Prostitution; | neutrality issues, stub |
| World Teachers' Day; | needs expert attention |
| Republic Day in Portugal (1910) | refimprove section |
| 1607 – Venetian statesman Paolo Sarpi survived an attack by assassins sent by Pope Paul V. | Referencing issues |
| 1877 – After battling the U.S. Army for more than three months, retreating over 1,000 miles across Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana, and enduring a five-day siege, Chief Joseph and his Nez Perce band finally surrendered. | refimprove |
| 1908 – Prince Ferdinand became the first Tsar of Bulgaria since the Ottoman invasion in the 14th century. | refimprove section, unreferenced section (Ancestry) |
| 1910 – The Portuguese Republican Party organised a coup d'etat, deposed the constitutional monarchy and implanted a republican regime in Portugal. | refimprove section |
| 1930 – The British airship R101 (pictured) crashed in France en route to India on its maiden overseas flight, killing 48 passengers and crew. | too many cites needed |
| 1945 – A six-month strike by Hollywood set decorators boiled over into a bloody riot at the gates of the Warner Bros. studios in Burbank, California. | refimprove |
| 1948 – The International Union for Conservation of Nature was founded at a congress sponsored by UNESCO director Julian Huxley in Fontainebleau, France. | unreferenced section |
| 1969 – The first episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus was broadcast on BBC1. | refimprove |
| 1970 – Members of the Front de libération du Québec's Liberation Cell kidnapped British diplomat James Cross in Montreal, sparking the October Crisis. | refimprove |
| 1986 – The British newspaper The Sunday Times published a story by Mordechai Vanunu, a former nuclear technician, revealing details of Israel's nuclear capability. | refimprove sections, outdated |
| 2000 – During protests over irregularities in the Yugoslavian general election, Serbian wheel-loader operator Ljubisav Đokić rammed the Radio Television of Serbia building with his vehicle, giving the protests the nickname "Bulldozer Revolution". | close paraphrasing section, refimprove section, CN tags |
| 2001 – American baseball player Barry Bonds surpassed Mark McGwire's single-season home run total with his milestone 71st and 72nd home runs. | refimprove section |
| Giovanni Visconti |d|1354 | unreferenced section (Ancestry) |
| Chester A. Arthur |b|1829| | Birthday not cited |
| Guido von List |b|1848 | Too much unreferenced content |
| Kelvin Tan |b|1981 | Too much unreferenced content, outdated |
Eligible
- 610 – Heraclius was crowned Byzantine emperor, having personally beheaded his predecessor, Phocas.
- 1143 – The Treaty of Zamora (pictured) established Portugal as a kingdom independent of the Kingdom of León.
- 1903 – Samuel Griffith (pictured) became the first Chief Justice of Australia, while Edmund Barton and Richard O'Connor became the first Puisne Justices of the High Court of Australia.
- 1936 – Around 200 men began a 291-mile (468 km) march from Jarrow to London, carrying a petition to the British government requesting the re-establishment of industry in the town.
- 1962 – "Love Me Do", the first single by the Beatles, was released in the United Kingdom.
- 1962 – Dr. No, the first James Bond film, was released.
- 1963 – The U.S. suspended the Commercial Import Program, its main economic support for South Vietnam, in response to the oppression of Buddhists by President Ngô Đình Diệm (pictured).
- 1970 – The environmental organization Greenpeace was incorporated as the Don't Make a Wave Committee in British Columbia, Canada.
- 1973 – Seven nations signed the European Patent Convention, providing an autonomous legal system according to which European patents are granted.
- 1975 – Dirty War: The Argentine guerrilla group Montoneros carried out Operation Primicia, a terrorist attack in which they hijacked an Aerolíneas Argentinas flight, captured Formosa International Airport, and attacked a military regiment.
- 1986 – Eugene Hasenfus's plane was shot down by Nicaraguan forces while carrying weapons to the Contra rebels on behalf of the U.S. government; he was subsequently captured, leading to an international controversy.
- 1988 – During the United States vice-presidential debate, Democratic candidate Lloyd Bentsen told his opponent Dan Quayle, "Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy."
- 1999 – Two trains collided head-on in Ladbroke Grove, London, killing 31 people, injuring 417, and severely damaging public confidence in the management and regulation of safety of Britain's privatised railway system.
- 2011 – Two Chinese cargo ships were attacked and their crews murdered on a stretch of the Mekong River in far northern Thailand.
- 2014 – Formula One racing driver Jules Bianchi (pictured) sustained fatal head injuries in a crash at the Japanese Grand Prix.
- Born/died:Justin II |d|578|Paul Fleming |b|1609|Tecumseh |d|1813| Catherine Cooper Hopley |b|1817| Guido von List |b|1848|Kumeko Urabe |b|1902|Jacques Offenbach |d|1880| Bill Willis |b|1921| Eduardo Duhalde |b|1941| Kate Winslet |b|1975|
Notes
- Happiness Is a Warm Gun appears on September 26, so Love Me Do should not appear in the same year.
- Boris III of Bulgaria appears on October 3, so Ferdinand I should not appear in the same year.
October 5: World Teachers' Day
Women's March on Versailles
- 869 – The Fourth Council of Constantinople, the eighth Catholic Ecumenical Council, was convened to discuss the patriarchate of Photios I of Constantinople.
- 1789 – French Revolution: Upset about the high price and scarcity of bread, thousands of Parisian women and allies marched (pictured) on the Palace of Versailles.
- 1869 – During construction of the Eastman tunnel in St. Anthony, Minnesota (now Minneapolis), the Mississippi River broke through the tunnel's limestone ceiling, nearly destroying Saint Anthony Falls.
- 1994 – Swiss police found the bodies of 48 members of the Order of the Solar Temple, who had died in a cult mass murder-suicide.
- Plácido Zuloaga (b. 1834)
- Francis William Reitz (b. 1844)
- Magda Szabó (b. 1917)
- Varghese Payyappilly (d. 1929)