October 5

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October 5 is the 278th day of the year (279th in Leap years). There are 87 days remaining. It is also the most populous birthday of the year statistically.

Events

1864 - Calcutta, India almost totally destroyed by a cyclone - 60,000 die
1877 - Chief Joseph surrenders his Nez Perce band to General Nelson A. Miles
1908 - Bulgaria declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire - Ferdinand I of Bulgaria becomes Tsar
1910 - Portugal overthrows the monarchy
1921 - The World Series was broadcast on the radio for the first time.
1930 - British Airship R101c crashed in France en-route to India on its maiden voyage.
1944 - Canadian Air Force pilots shoot down the first German Jet fighter over France
1947 - In the first televised White House address, President Harry S Truman urged Americans to refrain from eating meat on Tuesdays and poultry on Sundays to help starving people in other countries.
1953 - Earl Warren was sworn in as the 14th Chief Justice of the United States.
1962 - The Beatles released their first hit, "Love Me Do," in Britain.
1969 - The first broadcast of Monty Python's Flying Circus
1970 -
- PBS became a television network
- Montreal, Quebec: British Trade Commissioner James Cross is kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group.
1981 - Raoul Wallenberg becomes an honorary American citizen
1984 - Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space, aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger (41-6).
1990 - After one hundred and fifty years, ten months and two days, The Herald broadsheet newspaper in Melbourne, Australia is published for the last time as a separate newspaper. Founded in 1840 as The Port Phillip Herald, it is merged with its morning tabloid sister paper The Sun News Pictorial and the first issue of the new Herald-Sun, described by owner Rupert Murdoch as "The world's first 24-hour newspaper" with morning and afternoon editions is published on the 8th.