What are the important events that happened on October 5? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
October 5: Facts & Myths About This Day
October 5 is the 278th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 87 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is September 22, 2025 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 29,327,040 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectaheptacontaoctagon’ day.
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Libra is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Opal is the modern birthstone for this month. Jasper is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 135 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,671 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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October 5 Historical Events
- 1143 –King Alfonso VII of León recognises Portugal as a Kingdom.
- 1450 –Jews are expelled from Lower Bavaria by order of Louis IX, Duke of Bavaria.
- 1550 –Foundation of Concepción, city in Chile.
- 1864 –The Indian city of Calcutta is almost totally destroyed by a cyclone; 60,000 die.
- 1877 –Chief Joseph surrenders his Nez Perce band to General Nelson A. Miles.
- 1930 –British Airship R101 crashes in France en-route to India on its maiden voyage.
- 1953 –The first documented recovery meeting of Narcotics Anonymous is held.
- 1962 –Dr. No, the first in the James Bond film series, is released.
- 1991 –The first official version of the Linux kernel, version 0.02, is released.
- 1999 –The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in west London kills 31 people.
Who were born on October 5?
- 1641 –Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan, French mistress of King Louis XIV of France (d. 1707)
- 1820 –David Wilber, American politician (d. 1890)
- 1844 –Francis William Reitz, State President of the Orange Free State (d. 1934)
- 1878 –Louise Dresser, American actress (d. 1965)
- 1894 –Bevil Rudd, South African athlete (d. 1948)
- 1911 –Pierre Dansereau, Canadian ecologist (d. 2011)
- 1933 –Diane Cilento, Australian actress
- 1939 –Consuelo Ynares-Santiago, Filipino Supreme Court jurist
- 1978 –Shane Ryan, Irish Gaelic footballer
- 1987 –Park So Yeon, South Korean Singer (T-ara)
Who died on October 5?
- 1528 –Richard Foxe, English churchman
- 1805 –Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, British general (b. 1738)
- 1848 –Joseph Hormayr Freiherr zu Hortenburg, Austrian politician (b. 1781)
- 1933 –Renée Adorée, French actress (b. 1898)
- 1983 –Humberto Mauro, Brazilian film director and screenwriter (b. 1897)
- 1986 –Hal B. Wallis, American film producer (b. 1898)
- 1986 –James H. Wilkinson, English mathematician (b. 1919)
- 1992 –Eddie Kendricks, American singer (The Temptations) (b. 1939)
- 2000 –Cătălin Hîldan, Romanian footballer (b. 1976)
- 2010 –Steve Lee, Swiss musician and vocalist (Gotthard) (b. 1963)
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