On This Day: October 5

Historical Events 📜

• 2021: Windows 11 is released to the general public.
• 2011: In the Mekong River massacre, two Chinese cargo boats are hijacked and 13 crew members murdered.
• 2000: Mass demonstrations in Serbia force the resignation of Slobodan Milošević.
• 1999: The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in West London kills 31 people.
• 1994: Swiss police find the bodies of 48 members of the Order of the Solar Temple, who had died in a cult mass murder-suicide.
• 1991: An Indonesian Air Force C-130 crash kills 135 people.
• 1990: After 150 years The Herald newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, is published for the last time as a separate newspaper.
• 1988: A Chilean opposition coalition defeats Augusto Pinochet in his re-election attempt.
• 1985: Seven Israeli vacationers, including four children, are killed in a mass shooting at Ras Burqa in the Sinai Peninsula by an Egyptian soldier.
• 1984: Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space.
• 1982: Tylenol products are recalled after bottles in Chicago laced with cyanide cause seven deaths.
• 1974: Bombs planted by the PIRA in pubs in Guildford kill four British soldiers and one civilian.
• 1970: The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is founded in the United States.[citation needed]
• 1970: The British Trade Commissioner, James Cross, is kidnapped by members of the Front de libération du Québec, triggering the October Crisis in Canada.
• 1968: A Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march in Derry is violently suppressed by police.

Famous Births 👶

• 2006: Jacob Tremblay, Canadian actor
• 1999: Washington Sundar, Indian cricketer
• 1998: Exequiel Palacios, Argentine footballer
• 1997: Michael Hoecht, Canadian American football player
• 1993: Jewell Loyd, American basketball player
• 1993: Wakamotoharu Minato, Japanese sumo wrestler
• 1992: Kevin Magnussen, Danish racing driver
• 1992: Cody Zeller, American basketball player
• 1991: Pär Lindholm, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1991: Tornike Shengelia, Georgian basketball player
• 1990: Nathan Peats, Australian rugby league player
• 1989: Kelsey Adrian, Canadian basketball player
• 1989: Marcel Baude, German footballer
• 1989: Ify Ibekwe, American basketball player
• 1989: Travis Kelce, American football player

Notable Deaths 🕊️

• 2024: Robert Coover, American novelist (born 1932)
• 2017: Eberhard van der Laan, Dutch politician, mayor of Amsterdam (born 1955)
• 2016: Brock Yates, American journalist and author (born 1933)
• 2015: Chantal Akerman, Belgian-French actress, director, and producer (born 1950)
• 2015: Joker Arroyo, Filipino lawyer and politician (born 1927)
• 2015: Grace Lee Boggs, American philosopher, author, and activist (born 1915)
• 2015: Henning Mankell, Swedish author and playwright (born 1948)
• 2014: David Chavchavadze, English-American CIA officer and author (born 1924)
• 2014: Andrea de Cesaris, Italian racing driver (born 1959)
• 2014: Geoffrey Holder, Trinidadian-American actor, singer, dancer, and choreographer (born 1930)
• 2014: Yuri Lyubimov, Russian actor and director (born 1917)
• 2013: Ruth R. Benerito, American chemist and academic (born 1916)
• 2013: Carlo Lizzani, Italian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1922)
• 2013: Yakkun Sakurazuka, Japanese voice actress and singer (born 1976)
• 2012: Keith Campbell, English biologist and academic (born 1954)

Holidays & Observances 🎉

• World Space Week (October 4–10)
• Armed Forces Day (Indonesia)
• Christian feast day:
  Anna Schäffer
• Christian feast day:
  Faustina Kowalska
• Christian feast day:
  Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos (Roman Catholic Church)
• Christian feast day:
  Blessed Bartolo Longo
• Christian feast day:
  Thraseas
• Christian feast day:
  Hor and Susia (Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria)
• Christian feast day:
  Placid and Maurus
• Christian feast day:
  Placidus (martyr)
• Christian feast day:
  October 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Constitution Day (Vanuatu)
• Engineer’s Day (Bolivia)
• International Day of No Prostitution
• Republic Day (Portugal)