TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON: OCTOBER 5
1274 Around 1,000 soldiers of the Mongol army land on the Japanese island of Tsushima, the first attack of Kublai Khan’s Mongol invasion of Japan
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 Battle of the Thames; American forces under General William Henry Harrison defeat Tecumseh’s Confederacy and their British allies led by Henry Procter near Chatham, Upper Canada
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.
1937 U.S. President Roosevelt called for a “quarantine” of aggressor nations.
1938 Germany invalidates Jews’ passports.
1945 “Meet the Press” premieres on radio
1947 Harry Truman makes the 1st Presidential address televised from the White House
1969 Monty Python’s Flying Circus makes its debut. The British sketch comedy series lasted for a year on the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
1970 Members of the Quebec Liberation Front (QLF) kidnap British Trade Commissioner James Cross in Montreal, resulting in the October Crisis and Canada’s first peacetime use of the War Measures Act.
1970 The US Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is established.
1978 Over 30 major nations ratify the Environmental Modification Convention which prohibits weather warfare that has widespread, long-lasting or severe effects
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.
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 in what is referred to as the Bulldozer Revolution
2005 Former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay is indicted by a grand jury on two new charges of money laundering following his indictment by a separate grand jury on criminal conspiracy charges last week.
2020 US President Donald Trump leaves Walter Reed National Military Medical Center while still infectious with COVID-19 and returns to the White House
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
