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Old 10-05-2016, 12:27 PM   #307
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October 5

Over 100 countries observe World Teachers' Day today.

610 – Heraclius was crowned Byzantine Emperor, having personally beheaded the previous emperor, Phocas.

1789 – French Revolution: Women March on Versailles to confront Louis XVI of France about his refusal to promulgate the decrees on the abolition of feudalism, to demand bread, and to have the King and his court moved to Paris.

1813 – Battle of the Thames in Canada; Americans defeat British and kill Shawnee leader Tecumseh.

1864 – The Indian city of Calcutta is almost totally destroyed by a cyclone; 60,000 die.

1869 – The Saxby Gale devastates the Bay of Fundy region of Maritime Canada. The storm had reportedly been predicted over a year before by a British naval officer, Lieutenant Stephen Martin Saxby.

1877 – Chief Joseph surrenders his Nez Perce band to General Nelson A. Miles.

1905 – Wilbur Wright pilots Wright Flyer III in a flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes, a world record that stood until 1908.

1914 – World War I: first aerial combat resulting in an intentional fatality.

1936 – Around 200 men marched from Jarrow to London, carrying a petition to the British government requesting the re-establishment of industry in the town.

1945 – Hollywood Black Friday: A six-month strike by Hollywood set decorators turns into a bloody riot at the gates of Warner Brothers' studios.

1947 – The first televised White House address is given by U.S. President Harry S. Truman.

1962 – Dr. No, the first in the James Bond film series, is released.

1962 – The Beatles' first single, "Love Me Do" backed with "P.S. I Love You", is released in the United Kingdom.

1965 - Johnny Cash was arrested crossing the Mexican border into El Paso, Texas after customs officials found 100's of pills in his guitar case. He received a suspended jail sentence and a $1,000 fine.

1966 - Having moved to and living in London, England, Jimi Hendrix, Mitch Mitchell and Noel Redding played together for the first time.

1966 – Near Detroit, Michigan, there is a partial core meltdown at the Enrico Fermi demonstration nuclear breeder reactor.

1968 – Police baton civil rights demonstrators in Derry, Northern Ireland – considered to mark the beginning of The Troubles.

1969 – The first episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus airs on BBC One.

1970 – The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is founded.

1970 – British Trade Commissioner James Cross is kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group, triggering the October Crisis in Canada.

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".

1990 – After one hundred and fifty years The Herald broadsheet newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, is published for the last time as a separate newspaper.

1999 – The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in west London kills 31 people.

2001 – Barry Bonds surpasses Mark McGwire's single-season home run total with his milestone 71st* and 72nd* home runs.

Births

1829 – Chester A. Arthur (21st POTUS); 1864 – Louis Lumière (co-inventer of the moving picture); 1882 – Robert H. Goddard (rocket man); 1902 – Larry Fine (The Three Stooges); 1902 – Ray Kroc (McDonald's); 1905 – John Hoyt; 1907 – Mrs. Miller♪ ♫; 1917 – Allen Ludden; 1919 – Donald Pleasence; 1922 – Bil Keane (created comic strip The Family Circus); 1924 – Bill Dana; 1924 – Bob Thaves (created comic strip Frank & Ernest); 1925 – Gail Davis (Annie Oakley); 1936 – Václav Havel; 1937 – Barry Switzer; 1938 – Johnny Duncan♪ ♫; 1938 – Teresa Heinz (yeah, that Heinz); 1943 – Steve Miller(The Steve Miller Band); 1945 – Brian Connolly♪ ♫(Sweet); 1947 – Brian Johnson♪ ♫(AC/DC); 1949 – Peter Ackroyd; 1950 – Jeff Conaway; 1951 – Karen Allen (Raiders of the Lost Ark); 1951 – Bob Geldof ('Pink' in Pink Floyd - The Wall); 1952 – Clive Barker; 1952 – Harold Faltermeyer(wrote the theme Axel F. for Beverly Hills Cop, and wrote Top Gun Anthem for Top Gun); 1957 – Bernie Mac; 1958 – Neil deGrasse Tyson; 1959 – Maya Lin(designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial); 1960 – Daniel Baldwin; 1962 – Michael Andretti; 1965 – Mario Lemieux; 1967 – Guy Pearce; 1975 – Kate Winslet; 1976 – J. J. Yeley; 1978 – Morgan Webb(X-Play hostess from TechTV); 1980 – Paul Thomas(Good Charlotte); 1983 – Jesse Eisenberg

Deaths

1813 – Tecumseh; 1927 – Sam Warner (Co-founded Warner Bros); 1933 – Renée Adorée; 1941 – Louis Brandeis; 1981 – Gloria Grahame; 1983 – Earl Tupper (Tupperware); 1986 – Hal B. Wallis; 1992 – Eddie Kendricks♪ ♫(one of The Temptations); 1996 – Seymour Cray (founded CRAY Inc); 2003 – Timothy Treadwell (eaten by a grizzly bear); 2004 – Rodney Dangerfield; 2009 – Mike Alexander; 2011 – Steve Jobs; 2011 – Charles Napier; 2013 – Butch Warren; 2016 - Rod Temperton(Heatwave, wrote 'Thriller', 'Rock With You', 'Off The Wall')
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