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1264Aug 5Anti-Jewish riots broke out in Arnstadt, Germany.
1391Aug 5Castilian sailors in Barcelona, Spain set fire to a Jewish ghetto, killing 100 people and setting off four days of violence against the Jews.
1583Aug 5Humphrey Gilbert, English explorer, annexed Newfoundland in the name of Queen Elizabeth and founded the first English settlement in the New World. His colony disappeared. He drowned this same year at sea in a storm off the Azores.
1762Aug 5Russia, Prussia and Austria signed a treaty agreeing on the partition of Poland.
1763Aug 5Colonel Henry Bouquet decisively defeated the Indians at the Battle of Bushy Run in Pennsylvania during Pontiac’s rebellion.
1792Aug 5Frederick 7th baron Lord North (60), English premier, died. He presided over Britain’s loss of its American colonies (1770-82).
1815Aug 5A peace treaty with Tripoli, which followed treaties with Algeria (Jun 30) and Tunis (Aug 28), brought an end to the Barbary Wars. Commodores Stephen Decatur and William Bainbridge had conducted successful operations against the Barbary States of Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli
1861Aug 5US Army abolished flogging.
1862Aug 5Battle of Baton Rouge, LA.
1864Aug 5During the Civil War, Union Adm. David G. Farragut is said to have given his famous order, “Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!” as he led his fleet against Mobile Bay, Ala. The Union Navy captured Mobile Bay in Alabama.
1884Aug 5The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty was laid on Bedloe’s Island in New York Harbor.
1891Aug 5The 1st travelers checks were issued by American Express.
1892Aug 5Harriet Tubman received a pension from Congress for her work as a nurse, spy and scout during the Civil War.
1914Aug 5One of the first, if not the first, electric traffic light systems were installed in Cleveland, Ohio.
1915Aug 5The Austro-German Army took Warsaw, in present-day Poland, on the Eastern Front.
1916Aug 5The British navy defeated the Ottomans at the naval battle off Port Said, Egypt.
1926Aug 5Houdini stayed in a coffin under water for 1 hr.
1933Aug 5President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the National Labor Board to enforce the right of collective bargaining. It was later replaced with the National Labor Relations Board.
1936Aug 5Jesse Owens won his 3rd Olympic medal (200m sprint) at the Berlin Olympics.
1941Aug 5The German army completed taking 410,000 Russian prisoners in Uman and Smolensk pockets in the Soviet Union.
1949Aug 5A bomb exploded at a synagogue in Damascus, Syria, killing 12 people.
1951Aug 5The United Nations Command suspended armistice talks with the North Koreans when armed troops are spotted in neutral areas.
1952Aug 5In LA, Ca., 14 Communist leaders were convicted of conspiring to overthrow the US government. 6 of the defendants were from SF, one was from Oakland.
1953Aug 5Operation “Big Switch” was under way as prisoners taken during the Korean conflict were exchanged at Panmunjom.
1955Aug 5The Oakland, Ca., fire department ended segregation between black and white fire fighters.
1962Aug 5In South Africa Nelson Mandela was arrested near Howick and charged with illegally leaving the country and incitement to strike. He was later sentenced to five years of hard labor.
1966Aug 5Martin Luther King Jr. was stoned during a march in Chicago.
1968Aug 5The Republican national convention convened in Miami Beach. Ronald Reagan announced that he would seek the GOP nomination for president. He soon threw his support to Nixon.
1973Aug 5Russia launched its Mars 6 Orbiter
1980Aug 5Hurricane “Allen” battered the southern peninsula of Haiti, leaving more than 200 dead in its wake. Hurricane Allen went on to hit the southeastern US.
1981Aug 5Pres. Reagan began firing 11,500 air traffic controllers who had gone out on strike 2 days earlier.
1986Aug 5US Senate voted for the SDI-project, better known as Star Wars.
1988Aug 5Treasury Secretary James A. Baker III announced he was resigning to take over the presidential election campaign of Vice President George Bush. Nicholas F. Brady was nominated to take Baker’s place at Treasury.
1989Aug 5Five Central American presidents began meeting in Honduras to discuss a timetable for dismantling Nicaraguan Contra bases.
1990Aug 5An angry President Bush again denounced the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, telling reporters, “This will not stand. This will not stand, this aggression against Kuwait.”
1991Aug 5The Yugoslav army called off its intervention to Slovenia’s independence.
1992Aug 5Federal civil rights charges were filed against four Los Angeles police officers acquitted of state charges in the videotaped beating of Rodney King; two were later convicted.
1993Aug 5The U.S. House of Representatives passed President Clinton’s budget plan by a close vote of 218-216.
1995Aug 5Secretary of State Warren Christopher arrived in Hanoi, Vietnam, to “build a bridge of cooperation.” Christopher was the first US secretary of state to visit Vietnam since the war and the first ever to go to Hanoi.
1996Aug 5In a bold bid to capture a skeptical public’s attention, Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole proposed a $548 billion tax cut.
1997Aug 5North Korea agreed to hold talks with South Korea in New York beginning on this day.
1998Aug 5In Cambodia election officials declared Hun Sen the winner and int’l. monitors backed the results.
1999Aug 5Mark McGwire became the 16th member of the 500-home run club, hitting two homers”” numbers 500 and 501 — in the St. Louis Cardinals’ loss to San Diego.
2000Aug 5President Clinton vetoed a Republican-sponsored tax cut for married couples, describing it as “the first installment of a fiscally reckless tax strategy.”
2001Aug 5The spacecraft Galileo flew as close as 120 miles above Io’s north pole and captured wisps of volcanic gas largely composed of sulfur dioxide.
2002Aug 5Shell Oil agreed to pay $28 million to the Tahoe Public Utility District to help cleanup contamination from the gasoline additive MTBE.
2003Aug 5US Episcopal leaders approved New Hampshire bishop-elect Rev. Gene Robinson as the church’s first openly gay bishop.
2004Aug 5Pres. Bush signed a $417.5 billion wartime defense bill.
2005Aug 5VP Dick Cheney, accompanied by former President George H.W. Bush and former Secretary of State Colin Powell, paid respects to new Saudi King Abdullah (81).
2006Aug 5The late Reggie White was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame along with Troy Aikman, Warren Moon, John Madden, Rayfield Wright and Harry Carson.
2007Aug 5President Bush and Afghan President Hamid Karzai began meeting at Camp David to discuss security issues in Afghanistan.
2008Aug 5The US Energy Department said that even if no new reactors are built, getting rid of the country’s nuclear waste will cost $96.2 billion and require a major expansion of the planned Nevada waste dump beyond limits imposed by Congress.
2009Aug 5Euna Lee (36) and Laura Ling (32), American journalists freed by North Korea, returned home to the United States along with former Pres. Clinton for a jubilant, emotional reunion with family members and friends they hadn’t seen since their arrests on March 17.

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