TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON: OCT 5
1450 Jews are expelled from Lower Bavaria by order of Ludwig IX
1762 The British fleet bombards and captures Spanish-held Manila in the Philippines.
1789 French Revolution: Women of Paris march to Versailles in the March on Versailles to confront Louis XVI about his refusal to promulgate the decrees on the abolition of feudalism, demand bread, and have the King and his court moved to Paris
1813 Chief Tecumseh of the Shawnee Indians was killed at the Battle of Thames when American forced defeated the British and the allied Indian warriors.
1864 Most of Calcutta destroyed by cyclone, approx 60,000 die
1877 Nez Perce Chief Joseph surrenders to Colonel Nelson Miles in Montana Territory, after a 1,700-mile trek to reach Canada falls 40 miles short.
1882 Outlaw Frank James surrenders in Missouri six months after brother Jesse’s assassination.
1915 Germany issues an apology and promises for payment for the 128 American passengers killed in the sinking of the British ship Lusitania.
1938 Germany invalidates Jews’ passports.
1943 Imperial Japanese forces execute 98 American POWs on Wake Island.
1947 In the first televised White House address, President Truman urged Americans to refrain from eating meat on Tuesdays and poultry on Sundays to help starving people in other countries.
1962 The fictional British spy with the code name 007 was featured on the big screen for the first time in Dr. No. Based on the 1958 Ian Fleming novel of the same name, the movie starred Sean Connery as James Bond.
1966 A sodium cooling system malfunction causes a partial core meltdown at the Enrico Fermi demonstration breeder reactor near Detroit. Radiation is contained.
1968 Police attack civil rights demonstrators in Derry, Northern Ireland; the event is considered to be the beginning of “The Troubles.”
1969 A Cuban defector landed a Soviet-made MiG-17 at Homestead Air Force Base in Florida. The plane entered U.S. air space and landed without being detected.
1969 Monty Python’s Flying Circus debuts on BBC One. The British sketch comedy series lasted for a year on the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
1970 The US Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is established.
1985 An Egyptian policeman went on a shooting rampage at a Sinai beach. Seven Israeli tourists were killed. The policeman died in prison the following January of an apparent suicide.
1986 Britain’s The Sunday Times newspaper publishes details of Israel’s secret nuclear weapons development program.
1988 In a debate between candidates for vice president of the U.S., Democratic Lloyd Bentsen told Republican Dan Quayle, “You’re no Jack Kennedy.”
1990 Cincinnati’s Contemporary Arts Center and its director were acquitted of obscenity charges resulting from an exhibit of Robert Mapplethorpe’s photographs.
1998 The U.S. paid $60 million for Russia’s research time on the international space station to keep the cash-strapped Russian space agency afloat.
2000 Slobodan Milosevic, president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, resigns in the wake of mass protest demonstrations.
2006 Walmart rolled out its $4 generic drug program to the entire state of Florida after a successful test in the Tampa area
REFERENCE: HISTORY.NET, ONTHISDAY.COM, TIMEANDDATE.COM, INFOPLEASE.COM, FACTMONSTER.COM, SCOPESYS.COM, ON-THIS-DAY.COM, THEPEOPLEHISTORY.COM
