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2008-08-05
Births, Deaths and Events in History - 2008-10-13
Births
1301-08-05 - Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, English politician (d. 1330)
1623-08-05 - Antonio Cesti, Italian composer (d. 1669)
1641-08-05 - John Hathorne, American magistrate (d. 1717)
1662-08-05 - James Anderson, Scottish historian (d. 1728)
1694-08-05 - Leonardo Leo, Italian composer (d. 1744)
1802-08-05 - Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician (d. 1829)
1813-08-05 - Ivar Aasen, Norwegian poet and language reformer (d. 1896)
1815-08-05 - Edward John Eyre, English explorer (d. 1901)
1827-08-05 - Deodoro da Fonseca, first Brazilian president (d.1892)
1850-08-05 - Guy de Maupassant, French author (d. 1893)
1862-08-05 - Joseph Merrick, The Elephant Man (d. 1890)
1866-08-05 - Carl Harries, German chemist (d. 1923)
1866-08-05 - Harry Trott, Australian cricketer (d. 1917)
1872-08-05 - Oswaldo Cruz, Brazilian physician (d. 1917)
1877-08-05 - Tom Thomson, Canadian painter (d. 1917)
1889-08-05 - Conrad Aiken, American writer (d. 1973)
1890-08-05 - Erich Kleiber, Austrian-born conductor (d. 1956)
1890-08-05 - Naum Gabo (born Naum Pevsner), sculptor (d. 1977)
1897-08-05 - Aksel Larsen, Danish politician (d. 1972)
1901-08-05 - Claude Autant-Lara, French film director (d. 2000)
1906-08-05 - John Huston, American director (d. 1987)
1906-08-05 - Wassily Leontief, Russian economist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1999)
1906-08-05 - Joan Hickson, British actress (d. 1998)
1908-08-05 - Harold Holt, 17th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1967)
1911-08-05 - Robert Taylor, American actor (d. 1969)
1912-08-05 - Abbé Pierre, French catholic priest
1914-08-05 - David Brian, American actor (d. 1993)
1918-08-05 - Betty Oliphant, Canadian ballerina (d. 2004)
1918-08-05 - Tom Drake, American actor (d. 1982)
1923-08-05 - Devan Nair, President of Singapore
1930-08-05 - Neil Armstrong, astronaut
1934-08-05 - Wendell Berry, writer, farmer
1935-08-05 - John Saxon, American actor
1937-08-05 - Herb Brooks, American hockey coach (d. 2003)
1939-08-05 - Princess Irene of the Netherlands
1943-08-05 - Nelson Briles, baseball player (d. 2005)
1946-08-05 - Loni Anderson, American actress
1946-08-05 - Ron Silliman, American poet
1947-08-05 - Rick Derringer, American musician
1947-08-05 - Angry Anderson, Australian entertainer
1947-08-05 - Bernie Carbo, baseball player
1951-08-05 - John Jarratt, Australian actor
1953-08-05 - Rick Mahler, baseball player (d. 2005)
1953-08-05 - Samantha Sang, Australian singer
1956-08-05 - Maureen McCormick, American actress
1959-08-05 - Pete Burns, British singer
1961-08-05 - Tawny Kitaen, American acresss
1961-08-05 - Clayton Rohner, American actor
1961-08-05 - Mark O'Connor, American violinist
1962-08-05 - Patrick Ewing, American basketball player
1964-08-05 - Adam Yauch, American musician
1966-08-05 - Jonathan Silverman, American actor
1968-08-05 - John Olerud, American baseball player
1968-08-05 - Oleg Luzhny, Ukrainian footballer
1968-08-05 - Tokimitsu Ishizawa, Japanese professional wrestler
1972-08-05 - Christian Olde Wolbers, Belgian bassist (Fear Factory)
1974-08-05 - Antoine Sibierski, French footballer
1975-08-05 - Kajol Mukherjee, Indian actress
1975-08-05 - Ami Foster, American actress
1976-08-05 - Jeff Friesen, Canadian ice hockey player
1976-08-05 - Kwon Sang-woo, South Korean actor
1977-08-05 - Mark Mulder, baseball player
1979-08-05 - David Healy, Northern Irish footballer
1980-08-05 - Wayne Bridge, English footballer
1980-08-05 - Jason Čulina, Australian footballer
1981-08-05 - Carl Crawford, baseball player
1981-08-05 - Rachel Scott, American murder victim (d. 1999)
1981-08-05 - Kō Shibasaki, Japanese singer
1982-08-05 - Ryu Seung Min, Korean table tennis player
1982-08-05 - Tobias Regner, German singer
1983-08-05 - Dawn Richard, American singer (Danity Kane)
1985-08-05 - Salomon Kalou, Ivory Coast footballer
1993-08-05 - Suzuka Ohgo, Japanese actress
Bizarre
2006-08-05 - National Mustard Day
2006-08-05 - Work Like a Dog Day
2007-08-05 - Sister`s Day
2007-08-05 - National Mustard Day
2007-08-05 - Work Like a Dog Day
Deaths
1063-08-05 - Gruffydd ap Llywelyn, King of Gwynedd
1364-08-05 - Emperor Kogon of Japan (b. 1313)
1572-08-05 - Isaac Luria, Palestinian-born Kabbalist (b. 1534)
1579-08-05 - Stanislaus Hosius, Polish Catholic cardinal (b. 1504)
1633-08-05 - Archbishop George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1562)
1678-08-05 - Juan García de Zéspedes, Mexican musician and composer (b. 1619)
1743-08-05 - John Hervey, Lord Hervey, English statesman and writer (b. 1696)
1778-08-05 - Charles Clémencet, French historian (b. 1703)
1792-08-05 - Frederick North, Lord North, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1732)
1799-08-05 - Richard Howe, British admiral (b. 1726)
1868-08-05 - Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, French archaeologist (b. 1788)
1880-08-05 - Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra, Austrian physician (b. 1816)
1895-08-05 - Friedrich Engels, German philosopher (b. 1820)
1911-08-05 - Bob Caruthers, baseball player (b. 1864)
1923-08-05 - Vatroslav Jagić, Croatian slavist (b. 1835)
1929-08-05 - Millicent Fawcett, British suffragist and feminist (b. 1847)
1946-08-05 - Wilhelm Marx, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1863)
1952-08-05 - Sameera Moussa, Egyptian nuclear scientist (b. 1917)
1955-08-05 - Carmen Miranda, Portuguese actress and singer (b. 1909)
1957-08-05 - Heinrich Otto Wieland, German chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1877)
1959-08-05 - Edgar Guest, English poet (b. 1881)
1960-08-05 - Arthur Meighen, 9th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1874)
1962-08-05 - Marilyn Monroe, American actress (b. 1926)
1963-08-05 - Salvador Bacarisse, Spanish composer (b. 1898)
1964-08-05 - Art Ross, professional ice hockey player and executive (b. 1886) (Art Ross Trophy)
1978-08-05 - Jesse Haines, baseball player (b. 1893)
1984-08-05 - Richard Burton, British actor (b. 1925)
1991-08-05 - Paul Brown, American football coach (b. 1908)
1992-08-05 - Jeff Porcaro, American drummer (b. 1954)
1992-08-05 - Soichiro Honda, founder of the Honda Motor Company (b. 1906)
1998-08-05 - Todor Zhivkov, Bulgarian Communist dictator from 1956 to 1989 (b. 1911)
2000-08-05 - Sir Alec Guinness, British actor (b. 1914)
2000-08-05 - Otto Buchsbaum, writer and ecological activist (b. 1920)
2002-08-05 - Josh Ryan Evans, American actor (b. 1982)
2002-08-05 - Chick Hearn, American basketball announcer (b. 1916)
2005-08-05 - Polina Astakhova, Russian gymnast (b. 1936)
2005-08-05 - Jim O'Hora, American football coach (b. 1915)
2005-08-05 - Raul Roco, Philippine senator (b. 1941)
2006-08-05 - Susan Butcher, American Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race champion (b. 1954)
2040-08-05 - Arcadius, Roman emperor
1998-08-05 - Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 909)
Declared
2007-08-05 - Burkina Faso - Independence Day.
2007-08-05 - Saint Dominic, confessor [medieval date, in Paris; nowadays August 4]
Events
1962-08-05 - Nelson Mandela is jailed. He would not be released until 1990.
1963-08-05 - United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union sign a nuclear test ban treaty.
1964-08-05 - Vietnam War: Operation Pierce Arrow - American aircraft from carriers USS Ticonderoga and USS Constellation bomb North Vietnam in retaliation for strikes attacked US destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin.
1969-08-05 - Mariner program: Mariner 7 makes its closest fly-by of Mars (3,524 kilometers).
1974-08-05 - Vietnam War: The U.S. Congress places a $1 billion dollar limit on military aid to South Vietnam.
1981-08-05 - Ronald Reagan fires 11,359 striking air-traffic controllers who ignored his order for them to return to work.
1993-08-05 - Popular trading card game Magic: The Gathering is released. First trading card game to date.
1995-08-05 - The city of Knin, a significant Serb stronghold, is captured by Croatian forces during Operation Storm. The date is celebrated as the day of victory (Victory and Homeland Thanksgiving Day) in Croatia.
1999-08-05 - Mark McGwire becomes the 16th member of the 500 home run club with a home run at Busch Stadium in St. Louis, Missouri.
2001-08-05 - The Cleveland Indians defeat the Seattle Mariners 15-14 in a record-setting game known as the Impossible Return.
2003-08-05 - A car bomb explodes in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta.
1100-08-05 - Henry I crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey.
1305-08-05 - William Wallace, who led Scottish resistance to England, is captured by the English near Glasgow and transported to London for trial and execution.
1388-08-05 - Battle of Otterburn, border skirmish between the Scottish and the English in Northern England.
1583-08-05 - Sir Humphrey Gilbert establishes first English colony in North America, at what is now St John's, Newfoundland.
1620-08-05 - The Mayflower departs Southampton, England.
1689-08-05 - 1,500 Iroquois attack village of Lachine, in New France.
1763-08-05 - Pontiac's War: Battle of Bushy Run - British forces led by Henry Bouquet defeat Chief Pontiac's Indians at Bushy Run.
1772-08-05 - First Partition of Poland begins.
1812-08-05 - War of 1812: Tecumseh's Indian force ambushes Thomas Van Horne's 200 Americans at Brownstone Creek, causing them to flee and retreat.
1858-08-05 - Cyrus West Field and others complete the first transatlantic telegraph cable after several unsuccessful attempts. It operated for less than a month.
1860-08-05 - Carl IV of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway, in Trondheim.
1861-08-05 - American Civil War: In order to help pay for the war effort, the United States government issues the first income tax as part of the Revenue Act of 1861 (3% of all incomes over US $800; rescinded in 1872).
1861-08-05 - The United States Army abolished flogging.
1862-08-05 - American Civil War: Battle of Baton Rouge - Along the Mississippi River near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Confederate troops drive Union forces back into the city.
1864-08-05 - American Civil War: Battle of Mobile Bay begins - At Mobile Bay near Mobile, Alabama, Admiral David Farragut leads a Union flotilla through Confederate defenses and seals one of the last major Southern ports.
1870-08-05 - Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Spicheren is fought, resulting in a Prussian victory.
1874-08-05 - Japan launches its postal savings system, modeled after a similar system in England.
1882-08-05 - Standard Oil of New Jersey is established.
1882-08-05 - Martial law is enacted in Japan.
1884-08-05 - The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor.
1888-08-05 - Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim in the first long distance automobile trip.
1901-08-05 - Peter O'Connor sets the first IAAF recognised long jump world record of 24ft 11¾ins. The record will stand for 20 years.
1912-08-05 - Japan's first taxicab service begins in Ginza, Tokyo.
1914-08-05 - In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed.
1940-08-05 - World War II : Latvia is annexed by the Soviet Union.
1943-08-05 - World War II: During the Battle of Troina, at around 11 A.M, Mount Etna erupted sending much ash and lave miles into the sky.
1944-08-05 - World War II: Possibly the biggest prison breakout in history occurs as 545 Japanese POWs attempt to escape outside the town of Cowra, NSW, Australia. Most are killed but many escape and later commit suicide. Five Australian guards also die.
1944-08-05 - Holocaust: Polish insurgents liberate a German labor camp in Warsaw, freeing 348 Jewish prisoners.
1949-08-05 - In Ecuador an earthquake destroys 50 towns and kills more than 6000.
1957-08-05 - American Bandstand, a show dedicated to the teenage "baby-boomers" by playing the songs and showing popular dances of the time, debuts on the ABC television network.
1960-08-05 - Burkina Faso, then known as "Upper Volta", becomes independent from France.
1962-08-05 - Marilyn Monroe is found dead in her home.
2055-08-05 - In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses. Justinian I immediately orders the dome rebuilt.
2032-08-05 - Athanasius is elected Patriarch bishop of Alexandria.
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