5 October

Events

1502 - Costa Rica is named bi Christopher Columbus.
1665 - The University o Kiel, in present-day northren Germany, is foondit.
1793 - Christianity is abandoned as the offeecial releegion o Fraunce.
1910 - 5 October 1910 revolution: Portugal becomes a republic, efter gettin rid o the monarchy.
1915 - Bulgarie enters Warld War I on the side o the Central Pouers.
1948 - A yirdquauk in Ashgabat, nou Turkmenistan, kills 110,000 fowk.
1951 - The first Mediterranean Gemmes stairt in Alexandria, Egyp.
1962 - Dr. No, the first James Bond film, based on the beuks bi Ian Fleming an starrin Sean Connery, is released.
1962 - The Beatles release thair first sang, Love Me Do.
1969 - Monty Python's Flying Circus is first shawn on BBC One.
1999 - The Ladbroke Rail Crash in Wast Lunnon kills 31 fowk.
2011 - Steve Jobs, CEO o Apple Inc., dees agit 56, causin a lot o reaction on social media.
2014 - French Formula Ane driver Jules Bianchi suffers injuries at the Japanese Grand Prix that lead tae his daith in Julie 2015.
2016 - Scots-born Fraser Stoddart shares the Nobel Prize in Chemistry wi Jean-Pierre Sauvage an Ben Feringa.
2017 - Japanese-born Inglis novelist Kazuo Ishiguro wins the Nobel Prize in Leeteratur.
2017 - Sexual harrassment allegations agin the film producer Harvey Weinstein are published, leadin tae the #MeToo muivement.
2018 - Denis Mukwege an Nadia Murad win the Nobel Peace Prize.

Remove ads

Births

1658 - Mary o Modena, Queen o James VII o Scotland (d. 1718)
1695 - John Glas, Scots clergyman (d. 1773)
1713 - Denis Diderot, French writer an philosopher (d. 1784)
1781 - Bernard Bolzano, Czech mathemateecian an philosopher (d. 1848)
1829 - Chester A. Arthur, 21nt Preses o the Unitit States (d. 1886)
1882 - Robert H. Goddard, American ingineer, professor, pheesicist an inventor (d. 1945)
1919 - Donald Pleasence, Inglis actor (d. 1995)
1922 - Jock Stein, Scots fitbaw manager (d. 1985)
1927 - Bruce Millan, Scots politeecian (d. 2013)
1931 - Derek Grierson, Scots fitbawer (d. 2011)
1932 - Neal Ascherson, Scots jurnalist an writer
1936 - Václav Havel, Czech dramatist, writer an statesman (d. 2011)
1946 - Thomson Allan, Scots fitbawer
1948 - Drew Jarvie, Scots fitbawer
1951 - Willie Donachie, Scots fitbawer
1951 - Bob Geldof, Erse muisicker an activist
1952 - Emomali Rahmon, Preses o Tajikistan
1957 - Bernie Mac, American actor an director (d. 2008)
1958 - Neil deGrasse Tyson, American astropheesicist, cosmologist an science communicator
1965 - Mario Lemieux, Canadian ice hockey player
1967 - Guy Pearce, Inglis-Australian actor
1969 - Andrea McLean, Scots telly presenter
1970 - Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh, Scots politeecian
1975 - Parminder Nagra, Inglis actress
1975 - Kate Winslet, Inglis actress
1983 - Jesse Eisenberg, American actor
1987 - Kevin Mirallas, Belgian fitbawer
1988 - Sam Warburton, Welsh rugby union player
1999 - Connor McLennan, Scots fitbawer

Remove ads

Daiths

1056 - Henry III, Haly Roman Emperor (b. 1017)
1880 - Jacques Offenbach, French componer (b. 1819)
1918 - Roland Garros, French pilot (b. 1888)
1997 - Tommy Ring, Scots fitbawer (b. 1930)
2004 - Rodney Dangerfield, American actor an comedian (b. 1921)
2004 - Alex Rollo, Scots fitbawer (b. 1926)
2004 - Maurice Wilkins, New Zealand-Breetish pheesicist an molecular biologist (b. 1916)
2011 - Steve Jobs, American businessman, CEO o Apple Inc. (b. 1955)
2015 - Henning Mankell, Swadish writer (b. 1948)

September	Days in October	November
1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 \| 6 \| 7 \| 8 \| 9 \| 10 \| 11 \| 12 \| 13 \| 14 \| 15 \| 16 \| 17 \| 18 \| 19 \| 20 \| 21 \| 22 \| 23 \| 24 \| 25 \| 26 \| 27 \| 28 \| 29 \| 30 \| 31

Events