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456 – The Visigoths under king Theodoric II, acting on orders of the Roman emperor Avitus, invade Iberia with an army of Burgundians, Franks and Goths, led by the kings Chilperic I and Gondioc. They defeat the Suebi under king Rechiar on the river Urbicus near Astorga (Gallaecia).
610 – Coronation of Byzantine Emperor Heraclius.
816 – King Louis the Pious is crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by pope Stephen IV at Reims.
869 – The Fourth Council of Constantinople is convened to decide about what to do about patriarch Photius of Constantinople.
1143 – King Alfonso VII of León and Castile 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.
1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1665 – The University of Kiel is founded.
1789 – French Revolution: Women of Paris march to Versailles in the March on Versailles to confront Louis XVI of France about his refusal to promulgate the decrees on the abolition of feudalism, demand bread, and have the King and his court moved to Paris.
1793 – French Revolution: Christianity is disestablished in France.
1813 – The Battle of the Thames was fought near Chatham-Kent, Ontario during the War of 1812. Americans defeat British and kill Shawnee leader Tecumseh.
1857 – The City of Anaheim, California is founded.
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 been predicted over a year before by a British naval officer.
1869 – In St. Anthony Falls, MN, a man-made tunnel collapses, threatening the riverfront.
1877 – Chief Joseph surrenders his Nez Perce band to General Nelson A. Miles.
1895 – The first individual time trial for racing cyclists is held on a 50-mile course north of London.
1903 – Sir Samuel Griffith is appointed the first Chief Justice of Australia and Sir Edmund Barton and Richard O'Connor are appointed as foundation justices.
1905 – Wilbur Wright pilots Wright Flyer III in a flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes, a world record that stood until 1908.
1910 – In a revolution in Portugal the monarchy is overthrown and a republic is declared.
1911 – The Kowloon–Canton Railway (split into MTR East Rail Line and Guangshen Railway now) commences service between Kowloon and Canton.
1914 – World War I: first aerial combat resulting in an intentional fatality.
1915 – Bulgaria enters World War I as one of the Central Powers.
1921 – Baseball: The World Series is broadcast on the radio for the first time.
1923 – Astronomer Edwin Hubble identifies the Cepheid variable star.
1930 – British airship R101 crashes in France en route to India on its maiden voyage.
1936 – The Jarrow March sets off for London.
1938 – In Nazi Germany, Jews' passports are invalidated, and those who needed a passport for emigration purposes are given one marked with the letter J (Jude – Jew).
1943 – Ninety-eight American POW's are executed by Japanese forces on Wake Island.
1944 – Royal Canadian Air Force pilots shoot down the first German jet fighter over France.
1944 – Suffrage is extended to women in France.
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.
1948 – The 1948 Ashgabat earthquake kills 110,000.
1953 – The first documented recovery meeting of Narcotics Anonymous is held.
1953: Earl Warren was sworn in as the 14th chief justice of the United States, succeeding Fred M. Vinson.
1955 – Disneyland Hotel opens to the public in Anaheim, California.
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.
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 – Montreal: British Trade Commissioner James Cross is kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group, triggering the October Crisis.
1973 – Signature of the European Patent Convention.
1974 – Guildford pub bombings: bombs planted by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) kill four British soldiers and one civilian.
1975 – Operation Primicia: terrorist attack against a Military Regiment at Formosa, Argentina.
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.
1984 – Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space, aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger.
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".
1988 – The Chilean opposition coalition Concertación (center-left) defeats Augusto Pinochet in his re-election attempt and a general election is called the following year.
1988 – The Brazilian Constitution is ratified by the Constituent Assembly.
1990 – After one hundred and fifty years The Herald broadsheet newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, is published for the last time as a separate newspaper.
1991 – An Indonesian military transport crashes after takeoff from Jakarta killing 137.
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.
2000 – Mass demonstrations in Belgrade lead to resignation of Serbian strongman Slobodan Milošević. These demonstrations are often called the Bulldozer Revolution.
2001 – Barry Bonds surpasses Mark McGwire's single-season home run total with his milestone 71st and 72nd home runs.
2011 – In the Mekong River massacre, two Chinese cargo boats are hijacked and 13 crew members murdered in the lawless Golden Triangle region of Southeast Asia.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Placidus and his Companions, Martyrs
Contemporary Western
Anna Schäffer
Faustina Kowalska
Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos
Blessed Bartolo Longo
Thraseas
Placid and Maurus
Placidus (martyr)
Faustina Kowalska
Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos
Blessed Bartolo Longo
Thraseas
Placid and Maurus
Placidus (martyr)
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
October 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Martyr Charitina of Amisus (304)
Saints Peter (1326), Alexis (1378), Jonah (1461), Macarius (1563), Philip (1569),
and Hermogenes (1612), metropolitans of Moscow and Wonderworkers of all Russia
Martyr Mamelta (Mamelchtha) Persia (344)
Hieromartyr Dionysius of Alexandria, bishop (265)
Saints Damian the Healer (1071); and Saints Jeremiah (1070) and Matthew (1085),
clairvoyants, of the Kiev Caves
Saint John (Mavropos), metropolitan of Euchaita (1100)
Saint Charitina of Lithuania, princess (1281)
Saint Cosmas of Bithynia (10th century)
Saint Gregory (Grigol), archimandrite of Khandzta in the Klarjeti desert, Georgia (861)
St. Sabbas the fool-for-Christ, of Vatopedi monastery, Mt. Athos (1350)
St. Varlaam, desert-dweller of Chikoysk (1846)
Saint Methodia of Cimola (1908)
St. Seraphim (Amelin), schema-archimandrite of Glinsk Hermitage (1958)
New Hiero-confessor Gabriel, archimandrite in Melekess (Saratov) (1959)
Repose of Nun Agnia (Countess Anna Orlova-Chesmenskaya) (1848)
Uncovering of the relics (1841) of St. Eudocimus the Unknown,
monk of Vatopedi monastery, Mt. Athos
Uncovering of the relics (1985) of New Hiero-confessor Basil (Preobrazhensky),
bishop of Kineshma (1945)
Martyr Charitina of Amisus (304)
Saints Peter (1326), Alexis (1378), Jonah (1461), Macarius (1563), Philip (1569),
and Hermogenes (1612), metropolitans of Moscow and Wonderworkers of all Russia
Martyr Mamelta (Mamelchtha) Persia (344)
Hieromartyr Dionysius of Alexandria, bishop (265)
Saints Damian the Healer (1071); and Saints Jeremiah (1070) and Matthew (1085),
clairvoyants, of the Kiev Caves
Saint John (Mavropos), metropolitan of Euchaita (1100)
Saint Charitina of Lithuania, princess (1281)
Saint Cosmas of Bithynia (10th century)
Saint Gregory (Grigol), archimandrite of Khandzta in the Klarjeti desert, Georgia (861)
St. Sabbas the fool-for-Christ, of Vatopedi monastery, Mt. Athos (1350)
St. Varlaam, desert-dweller of Chikoysk (1846)
Saint Methodia of Cimola (1908)
St. Seraphim (Amelin), schema-archimandrite of Glinsk Hermitage (1958)
New Hiero-confessor Gabriel, archimandrite in Melekess (Saratov) (1959)
Repose of Nun Agnia (Countess Anna Orlova-Chesmenskaya) (1848)
Uncovering of the relics (1841) of St. Eudocimus the Unknown,
monk of Vatopedi monastery, Mt. Athos
Uncovering of the relics (1985) of New Hiero-confessor Basil (Preobrazhensky),
bishop of Kineshma (1945)
Coptic Orthodox
Hor and Susia (Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria)
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