What are the important events that happened on August 5? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
August 5: Facts & Myths About This Day
August 5 is the 217th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 148 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is July 23, 2022 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,659,657,600 seconds 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 ‘dihectadecaheptagon’ day.
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Leo is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Peridot is the modern birthstone for this month. Diamond is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 170 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 3,514 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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August 5 Historical Events
- 910 –The last major Danish army to raid England is defeated at the Battle of Tettenhall by the allied forces of Mercia and Wessex, led by King Edward the Elder and Earl Aethelred of Mercia.
- 1583 –Sir Humphrey Gilbert establishes the first English colony in North America, at what is now St John’s, Newfoundland.
- 1861 –American Civil War: in order to help pay for the war effort, the United States government levies the first income tax as part of the Revenue Act of 1861 (3% of all incomes over US $800; rescinded in 1872).
- 1862 –American Civil War: Battle of Baton Rouge – along the Mississippi River near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Confederate troops drive Union forces back into the city.
- 1906 –Persian Constitutional Revolution: Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar, King of Iran, agrees to convert the government to a constitutional monarchy.
- 1916 –World War I: Battle of Romani – Allied forces, under the command of Archibald Murray, defeat an attacking Ottoman army under the command of Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein, securing the Suez Canal and beginning the Ottoman retreat from the Sinai Peninsula.
- 1925 –Plaid Cymru is formed with the aim of disseminating knowledge of the Welsh language that is at the time in danger of dying out.
- 1971 –The first Pacific Islands Forum (then known as the “South Pacific Forum”) is held in Wellington, New Zealand, with the aim of enhancing cooperation between the independent countries of the Pacific Ocean.
- 1981 –Ronald Reagan fires 11,359 striking air-traffic controllers who ignored his order for them to return to work.
- 2003 –A car bomb explodes in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta outside the Marriott Hotel killing 12 and injuring 150.
Who were born on August 5?
- 1877 –Tom Thomson, Canadian painter (d. 1917)
- 1932 –Tera de Marez Oyens, Dutch composer (d. 1996)
- 1934 –Wendell Berry, American poet, writer and farmer
- 1969 –Robert Scott, Australian rower
- 1977 –Mark Mulder, American baseball player
- 1978 –Nektaria Karantzi, Greek singer
- 1979 –David Healy, Northern Irish footballer
- 1980 –Salvador Cabañas, Paraguayan footballer
- 1982 –LoLo Jones, American track and field athlete
- 1988 –Federica Pellegrini, Italian swimmer
Who died on August 5?
- 882 –King Louis III of France (b. 863)
- 1778 –Charles Clémencet, French historian (b. 1703)
- 1868 –Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, French archaeologist (b. 1788)
- 1895 –Friedrich Engels, German philosopher (b. 1820)
- 1911 –Bob Caruthers, American baseball player (b. 1864)
- 1967 –György Bródy, Hungarian water polo player (b. 1908)
- 1998 –Todor Zhivkov, Bulgarian dictator (b. 1911)
- 2001 –Christopher Skase, Australian fugitive businessman (b. 1948)
- 2002 –Matt Robinson, American actor (b. 1937)
- 2008 –Neil Bartlett, English chemist, produced xenon hexafluoroplatinate (b. 1932)
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