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2008-10-05
Republic Day (Portugal)
26th January 1950 is one of the most important days in Indian history as it was on this day the constitution of India came into force and India became a truly sovereign state. In this day India became a totally republican unit. The country finally realized the dream of Mahatma Gandhi and the numerou...
Births, Deaths and Events in History - 2008-11-20
Births
1520-10-05 - Alessandro Cardinal Farnese, Italian cardinal (d. 1589)
1641-10-05 - Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan, French mistress of King Louis XIV of France (d. 1707)
1658-10-05 - Mary of Modena, queen of James II of England (d. 1718)
1695-10-05 - John Glas, Scottish minister (d. 1773)
1703-10-05 - Jonathan Edwards, American minister (d. 1758)
1712-10-05 - Francesco Guardi, Italian painter (d. 1793)
1713-10-05 - Denis Diderot, French philosopher and encylopedist (d. 1784)
1715-10-05 - Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, French economist (d. 1789)
1717-10-05 - Marie-Anne de Mailly-Nesle duchess de Châteauroux, French mistress of King Louis XV of France (d. 1744)
1781-10-05 - Bernard Bolzano, Czech mathematician and philosopher (d. 1848)
1792-10-05 - Joseph Crosfield, English soap and alkali manufacturer (d. 1844)
1795-10-05 - Alexander Keith, brewer (d. 1873)
1824-10-05 - Henry Chadwick, baseball writer and statistician (d. 1908)
1829-10-05 - Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States (d.1886)
1848-10-05 - Guido von List, German writer (d. 1919)
1864-10-05 - Louis Lumière, French film pioneer (d. 1948)
1878-10-05 - Louise Dresser, American actress (d. 1965)
1879-10-05 - Francis Peyton Rous, American pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1970)
1882-10-05 - Robert Goddard, American rocket scientist (d. 1945)
1887-10-05 - René Cassin, French judge, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1976)
1889-10-05 - Teresa de la Parra, Venezuelan writer (d. 1936)
1894-10-05 - Bevil Rudd, South African athlete (d. 1948)
1901-10-05 - John Alton, American cinematographer (d. 1996)
1902-10-05 - Larry Fine, American actor and comedian (d. 1975)
1902-10-05 - Ray Kroc, American fast food entrepreneur (d. 1984)
1903-10-05 - M. King Hubbert, American geophysicist (d. 1989)
1904-10-05 - John Hoyt, American film and television actor (d. 1991)
1905-10-05 - Harriet E. MacGibbon, American actress (d. 1987)
1907-10-05 - Mrs. Miller, American singer (d. 1997)
1908-10-05 - Joshua Logan, American film director and writer (d. 1988)
1911-10-05 - Flann O'Brien, Irish humorist (d. 1966)
1917-10-05 - Allen Ludden, American television game show host (d. 1981)
1919-10-05 - Donald Pleasence, English actor (d. 1995)
1921-10-05 - Bill Willis, American football player
1922-10-05 - José Froilán González, Argentine race car driver
1922-10-05 - Bil Keane, American cartoonist
1922-10-05 - Jock Stein, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 1985)
1923-10-05 - Albert Guðmundsson, Icelandic football player (d. 1994)
1923-10-05 - Glynis Johns, British actress
1924-10-05 - Bill Dana, American actor
1925-10-05 - Gail Davis, American actress (d. 1997)
1925-10-05 - Bob Thaves, American cartoonist (d. 2006)
1926-10-05 - Willi Unsoeld, American climber (d. 1979)
1928-10-05 - Louise Fitzhugh, American author (d. 1974)
1929-10-05 - Richard F. Gordon, Jr., American astronaut
1930-10-05 - Anne Haddy, Australian actress (d. 1999)
1930-10-05 - Pavel Popovich, Soviet cosmonaut
1930-10-05 - Reinhard Selten, German economist, Nobel laureate
1932-10-05 - Michael John Rogers, English ornithologist (d. 2006)
1933-10-05 - Diane Cilento, Australian actress
1934-10-05 - Angelo Buono, Jr., American serial killer (d. 2002)
1936-10-05 - Václav Havel, President of the Czech Republic
1937-10-05 - Barry Switzer, American football coach
1938-10-05 - Teresa Heinz Kerry, American philanthropist
1939-10-05 - Marie Laforêt, French singer and actress
1939-10-05 - Marie-Claire Blais, French Canadian author and playwright
1941-10-05 - Eduardo Duhalde, President of Argentina
1942-10-05 - Richard Street, American singer (The Temptations)
1943-10-05 - Steve Miller, American musician
1945-10-05 - Brian Connolly, English singer (Sweet) (d. 1997)
1946-10-05 - Zahida Hina, Pakistani columnist
1946-10-05 - Jean Perron, Quebec hockey coach
1947-10-05 - Brian Johnson, British singer (AC/DC)
1948-10-05 - Tawl Ross, American musician (P Funk)
1948-10-05 - Zoran Živković, Serbian writer
1949-10-05 - Ralph Goodale, Canadian politician
1949-10-05 - B.W. Stevenson, American singer (d. 1988)
1950-10-05 - 'Fast' Eddie Clarke, British musician, (Motorhead, Fastway)
1950-10-05 - Jeff Conaway, American actor
1950-10-05 - Edward P. Jones, American writer
1951-10-05 - Karen Allen, American actress
1951-10-05 - Bob Geldof, Irish singer (The Boomtown Rats)
1952-10-05 - Clive Barker, English writer
1952-10-05 - Duncan Regehr, Canadian actor
1957-10-05 - Mark Geragos, American attorney
1958-10-05 - André Kuipers, Dutch astronaut
1958-10-05 - Bernie Mac, American comedian
1960-10-05 - Daniel Baldwin, American actor
1962-10-05 - Michael Andretti, American race car driver
1963-10-05 - Caron Keating, Irish television personality (d. 2004)
1964-10-05 - Keiji Fujiwara, Japanese voice actor
1965-10-05 - Mario Lemieux, Canadian hockey player
1965-10-05 - Patrick Roy, Canadian hockey player
1966-10-05 - Jan Verhaas, Dutch Snooker referee
1967-10-05 - Guy Pearce, Anglo-Australian actor
1970-10-05 - Agnes Barley, American artist
1970-10-05 - Josie Bissett, American actress
1972-10-05 - Grant Hill, American basketball player
1974-10-05 - Colin Meloy, American singer (The Decemberists)
1974-10-05 - Heather Headley, Trinidad and Tobago singer
1975-10-05 - Kate Winslet, English actress
1975-10-05 - Bobo Balde, Guinean footballer
1975-10-05 - Parminder Nagra, English actress
1976-10-05 - Song Seung-hun, South Korean actor
1976-10-05 - J. J. Yeley, American race car driver
1978-10-05 - Shane Ryan, Irish Gaelic footballer
1978-10-05 - Morgan Webb, television presenter
1978-10-05 - James Valentine, American musician (Maroon 5)
1979-10-05 - Curtis Sanford, Canadian hockey player
1979-10-05 - Vince Grella, Australian footballer
1980-10-05 - Paul Thomas, American musician (Good Charlotte)
1981-10-05 - Kelvin Tan Wei Lian, Singaporean singer
1983-10-05 - Nicky Hilton, American heiress
1985-10-05 - Nicola Roberts, English singer (Girls Aloud)
1987-10-05 - Javier Villa, Spanish racing driver
Deaths
1056-10-05 - Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1017)
1112-10-05 - Sigebert of Gembloux, French chronicler
1214-10-05 - King Alfonso VIII of Castile (b. 1155)
1285-10-05 - King Philip III of France (b. 1245)
1528-10-05 - Richard Fox, English churchman
1540-10-05 - Helius Eobanus Hessus, German poet (b. 1488)
1564-10-05 - Pierre de Manchicourt, Flemish composer
1565-10-05 - Lodovico Ferrari, Italian mathematician (b. 1522)
1606-10-05 - Philippe Desportes, French poet (b. 1546)
1714-10-05 - Kaibara Ekiken, Japanese philosopher (b. 1630)
1740-10-05 - Johann Philipp Baratier, German scholar (b. 1721)
1791-10-05 - Grigori Potemkin, Russian statesman (b. 1739)
1805-10-05 - Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, British general (b. 1738)
1813-10-05 - Tecumseh, Shawnee leader
1837-10-05 - Hortense de Beauharnais Queen of Holland and mother of the Emperor Napoleon III of France (b. 1783)
1861-10-05 - Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski, Polish bishop (b. 1778)
1880-10-05 - Jacques Offenbach, German-born composer (b. 1819)
1913-10-05 - Hans von Bartels, German painter (b. 1856)
1918-10-05 - Roland Garros, French pilot (shot down) (b. 1888)
1930-10-05 - Christopher Birdwood Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson, British military officer (b. 1875)
1933-10-05 - Renée Adorée, French actress (b. 1898)
1933-10-05 - Nikolai Nikolaevich Yudenich, Russian general (b. 1862)
1936-10-05 - J. Slauerhoff, Dutch poet and novelist (tuberculosis) (b. 1898)
1938-10-05 - Saint Faustina Polish religious (b. 1905)
1940-10-05 - Ballington Booth, Salvation Army Officer and co-founder of Volunteers of America (b. 1857)
1941-10-05 - Louis Dembitz Brandeis, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1856)
1943-10-05 - Leon Roppolo, American musician (b. 1902)
1950-10-05 - Frederic Lewy, German neurologist (b. 1885)
1969-10-05 - Walter Hagen, American golfer (b. 1892)
1976-10-05 - Lars Onsager, Norwegian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
1976-10-05 - Barbara Nichols, American actress (b. 1929)
1981-10-05 - Gloria Grahame, American actress (b. 1923)
1983-10-05 - Earl Tupper, American inventor (b. 1907)
1986-10-05 - Hal B. Wallis, American film producer (b. 1898)
1986-10-05 - James H. Wilkinson, English mathematician (b. 1919)
1992-10-05 - Eddie Kendricks, American singer (b. 1939)
1993-10-05 - Jim Holton, Scottish footballer (b. 1951)
1995-10-05 - Linda Gary, American voice-actress (b. 1944)
1996-10-05 - Seymour Cray, American computer pioneer (b. 1925)
1997-10-05 - Brian Pillman, American professional wrestler (b. 1962)
2000-10-05 - Catalin Haldan, Romanian football player (b. 1976)
2001-10-05 - Mike Mansfield, American politician (b. 1903)
2002-10-05 - Chuck Rayner, National Hockey League goaltender (b. 1920)
2003-10-05 - Denis Quilley, British actor (b. 1927)
2003-10-05 - Dan Snyder, Canadian hockey player (b. 1978)
2003-10-05 - Timothy Treadwell, bear enthusiast featured in Grizzly Man (b. 1957)
2004-10-05 - Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian (b. 1921)
2004-10-05 - Maurice Wilkins, New Zealand-born physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1916)
2004-10-05 - William H. Dobelle, American biomedical engineer, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine nominee (b. 1941)
2006-10-05 - Antonio Peña, Mexican founder of lucha libre promotion Asistencia AsesorÃa y Administración (b. 1953)
Declared
2007-10-05 - Roman festivals - mundus patet: one of the three days that the mundus was opened for public.
2007-10-05 - International World Teachers' Day [1]
Events
1988-10-05 - The Chilean opposition coalition Concertación (center-left) defeat Augusto Pinochet in his re-election intentions. Next year a general election was called.
1990-10-05 - After one hundred and fifty years The Herald broadsheet newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, is published for the last time as a separate newspaper.
1991-10-05 - An Indonesian military transport crashes after takeoff from Jakarta killing 137.
1991-10-05 - The first official version of the Linux kernel, version 0.02, is released.
1999-10-05 - The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in west London kills 31 people.
2000-10-05 - Mass demonstrations in Belgrade lead to resignation of Serbian strongman Slobodan Milošević. These demonstrations are often called the Bulldozer Revolution.
2001-10-05 - Robert Stevens becomes the first victim in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
2001-10-05 - Tom Ridge resigns as Governor of Pennsylvania to become President Bush's Homeland Security Advisor.
2001-10-05 - Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants set a new mark for home runs in a single season, hitting his 71st and 72nd in a loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers.
2003-10-05 - Akhmad Kadyrov is elected President of Chechnya.
2005-10-05 - The National Hockey League resumes its season after a year-and-a-half lockout.
2006-10-05 - Mass walkouts across the United States in protest of the Bush administration, organized by the World Can't Wait organization.
1550-10-05 - Foundation of Concepción, city in Chile.
1582-10-05 - Due to the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1665-10-05 - The University of Kiel is founded.
1789-10-05 - French Revolution: Parisian women 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.
1793-10-05 - French Revolution: Christianity is disestablished in France.
1864-10-05 - The Indian city of Calcutta is almost totally destroyed by a cyclone; 60,000 die.
1869-10-05 - A strong hurricane devastates the Bay of Fundy region of Maritime Canada. The storm had been predicted over a year before by a British naval officer.
1877-10-05 - Chief Joseph surrenders his Nez Perce band to General Nelson A. Miles.
1886-10-05 - City of Johannesburg, South Africa founded following the discovery of gold there.
1895-10-05 - The first individual time trial for racing cyclists is held on a 50-mile course north of London.
1905-10-05 - Wilbur Wright pilots Wright Flyer III in a flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes, a world record that stood until 1908.
1910-10-05 - Portugal overthrows its monarchy and declares itself a republic.
1915-10-05 - Bulgaria enters World War I as one of the Central Powers.
1921-10-05 - Baseball: The World Series was broadcast on the radio for the first time.
1930-10-05 - British Airship R101 crashed in France en-route to India on its maiden voyage.
1936-10-05 - The Jarrow March sets off for London.
1944-10-05 - Canadian Air Force pilots shoot down the first German jet fighter over France.
1945-10-05 - Hollywood Black Friday: A six month strike by Hollywood set decorators turns into a bloody riot at the gates of Warner Brothers' studios.
1947-10-05 - The first televised White House address is given by U.S. President Harry S. Truman.
1949-10-05 - WSAZ, West Virginia's first television station, begins broadcasting in Huntington.
1953-10-05 - The first documented recovery meeting of Narcotics Anonymous is held.
1953-10-05 - Earl Warren is sworn in as the 14th Chief Justice of the United States.
1962-10-05 - The Beatles release their first single, "Love Me Do," in Britain.
1966-10-05 - Near Detroit, Michigan, there is a partial core meltdown at the Enrico Fermi demonstration nuclear breeder reactor.
1969-10-05 - The first broadcast of Monty Python's Flying Circus.
1970-10-05 - PBS became a television network.
1970-10-05 - Montreal, Quebec: British Trade Commissioner James Cross is kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group.
1972-10-05 - The Last Goon Show of All goes to air on BBC Radio, one of the most celebrated and influential programmes in the history of radio.
1973-10-05 - Signature of the European Patent Convention
1974-10-05 - Guildford pub bombing by the IRA leaves 5 dead and 65 injured.
1974-10-05 - I Honestly Love You first reaches #1 on the Billboard charts, giving Olivia Newton-John her first top-selling single in the United States.
1981-10-05 - Raoul Wallenberg becomes an honorary U.S. citizen.
1984-10-05 - Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space, aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger.
1986-10-05 - Israeli secret nuclear weapons was revealed. The British newspaper The Sunday Times ran Mordechai Vanunu's story on its front page under the headline: "Revealed — the secrets of Israel's nuclear arsenal."
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2008-11-20
Anniversary of the Revolution (Mexico)
Brazilian's Conscience Day) (Brazil)
Edmund the Martyr (Church of England)
Teacher's Day (Vietnam)
Universal Children's Day (UNICEF)
Zumbi Day (Brazil)
wedding day of Queen Elizabeth II (United Kingdom)
2008-11-21
Armed Forces Day in Bangladesh (Bangladesh)
Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (R.C. Saints)
Our Lady of Apresentação Day (Brazil)
2008-11-22
Feast of Saint Cecilia (R.C. Saints)
Independence Day (Lebanon)
usually the first day of sun sign Sagittarius or the last day of Scorpio (Astrology)
2008-11-23
Kinro kansha no hi (Japan)
Pope Clement I (Roman Catholic Calendar of Saints)
Rudolf Maister Day (Slovenia)
St George's Day (Georgia)
2008-11-24
Cobh (Feast Day of Saint Colman of Cloyne)
Lac and other Vietnamese Martyrs (R.C. Saints)
2008-11-25
Independence Day (Suriname)
National Day (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Saint Catherine of Alexandria; Elizabeth of Reute (R.C. Saints)
2008-11-26
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Proclamation Day (Mongolia)
Saint Stylianos (Eastern Orthodoxy)
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