1285 – Philip III of France died of the plague.
1450 – Jews are expelled from Lower Bavaria by order of Ludwig IX
1796 – Spain declared war on Britain in the Napoleonic Wars.
1813 – Tecumseh Native American leader dies.
1859 – An arsonist sets fire inside New York City’s iron and glass Crystal Palace, the most presitigious museum in the U.S. at the time. It burns to the ground, causing $2M damage and destroying thousands of priceless artifacts.
1864 – Calcutta, India almost totally destroyed by a cyclone – 60,000 die
1864 – Battle of Allatoona, 1/3 of Union troops die repulsing the South
1877 – After marching for more than 1,400 miles and confronting 2,000 US soldiers along the way, Chief Joseph surrendered with starving remnant of Nez Perce people.
1892 – The Dalton Gang are all killed.
1930 – The British airship R101 crashed on its first flight at Allonne, near Beauvais, France, killing 48 of its 54 passengers.
1942 – German engineer Herman Graebe witnesses a Nazi mass execution in the Ukraine.
1942 – America’s ‘Yankee Doodle Dandy’, George M. Cohan, died at age 64.
1954 – Blaming “conflicting career demands” for the breakup of their 9-month marriage, screen actress Marilyn Monroe filed suit for divorce in Santa Monica, California, against baseball star Joe DiMaggio on grounds of mental cruelty
1954 – Hurricane Hazel hits Eastern US
1970 – Anwar Sadat was nominated to succeed Gamal Abdel Nasser as president of Egypt.
1972 – Herbert Mullin first kills, to prevent earthquakes
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1986 – Iran-Contra Scandal breaks.
1989 – Former evengelist, Jim Bakker, was convicted by a jury in Norfolk, VA
1991 – Marky Mark & the Funky Bunch (with Loleatta Holloway) hit number one
1994 – Almost 50 members of the Order of the Solar Temple sect died in two suicide fires in Switzerland.
1998 – Infamous David Letterman stalker, Margaret Ray, age 46, committed suicide by kneeling in front of a train in Colorado.
1999 – In a move reminiscent of a strange combination of Nazi crimes committed against Gypsies and the postwar construction of the Berlin Wall, the town of Usti nad Labem in the Czech Republic begins construction of a wall to separate a portion of its Gypsy population away from more respectable folks.
October 5th is the United States most popular birth date. It seems that on average more people are born on this day than any other.an average of 12,576 people are born each year on the 5th of October and that some 968,000 Americans celebrate this day annually. It is nine monyhs after New Years Day.
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