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578Oct 5Justinus II, Byzantine emperor (565-78), died.
610Oct 5Heraclitus’ fleet took Constantinople.
1450Oct 5Jews were expelled from Lower Bavaria by order of Ludwig IX.
1568Oct 5Willem of Orange’s army occupied Brabant.
1572Oct 5The Spanish army under Duke of Alva’s son Don Frederik plundered Mechelen (Flanders).
1750Oct 5Carlo Goldoni’s “Il Teatro Comica,” premiered in Venice.
1795Oct 5The day after he routed counterrevolutionaries in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte accepted their formal surrender. Napoleon takes charge.
1821Oct 5Greek rebels captured Tripolitza, the main Turkish fort in the Pelponnese area of Greece.
1823Oct 5Carl Maria von Weber visited Beethoven.
1863Oct 5Confederate sub David damaged the Union ship Ironsides.
1865Oct 5George Calvert Yount (b.1794), founder of Yountville, died in Napa Valley, Ca.
1882Oct 5Outlaw Frank James surrendered in Missouri six months after brother Jesse’s assassination.
1905Oct 5Orville and Wilbur Wright’s “Flyer III” flew 38.5 km in 38.3 minutes.
1911Oct 5Italian troops occupied Tripoli.
1916Oct 5Corporal Adolf Hitler was wounded in WW I.
1924Oct 51st Little Orphan Annie strip appeared in NYC Daily News.
1937Oct 5Saying, “the epidemic of world lawlessness is spreading,” President Roosevelt called for a “quarantine” of aggressor nations.
1940Oct 5Silvestre Revueltas, Mexican composer: Cuauhnahuac/Planos, died at 40.
1942Oct 55,000 Jews of Dubno, Russia, were massacred.
1953Oct 5California Gov. Earl Warren (1891-1974) was sworn in as the 14th chief justice of the United States, succeeding Fred M. Vinson. He was named by Pres. Eisenhower as chief justice of the US. Warren retired in 1969. In 2000 Lucas A. Powe, Jr., authored “The Warren Court and American Politics.”
1958Oct 5Racially desegregated Clinton High School in Clinton, Tenn., was mostly leveled by an early morning bombing.
1960Oct 5A Lockheed Electra turbo-prop crashed in Boston Harbor and 62 people died. The plane had flown into a flock of starlings.
1962Oct 5The Beatles’ first hit, “Love Me Do,” was first released in the United Kingdom.
1966Oct 5A sodium cooling system malfunction caused a partial core meltdown at the Enrico Fermi demonstration breeder reactor near Detroit, Mich. Radiation was contained.
1968Oct 5Catholic demonstrators in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, clashed with police.
1969Oct 5Monty Python’s Flying Circus made its debut on BBC Television. It ran on British TV until 1974.
1970Oct 5British trade commissioner James Richard Cross was kidnapped in Canada by militant Quebec separatists; he was released the following December.
1974Oct 5Eugene McQuaid, a Catholic civilian, was killed near a British army checkpoint on Northern Ireland’s border on the main Belfast-Dublin road. In 2006 the IRA leadership offered its sincere apologies to the McQuaid family for the death of Eugene and for the heartache and trauma that the IRA actions caused.
1976Oct 5Researcher Alan Dickinson warned the British Medical Research council that their human growth hormone program was susceptible to contamination from infected pituitary glands.
1978Oct 5Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902-1991), Polish-born American author, was named winner of the Nobel Prize for literature.
1983Oct 5The TV show “Whiz Kids” was produced by Philip DeGuere Jr. and ran for one season.
1989Oct 5The Dalai Lama, the spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet, was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
1990Oct 5The US House of Representatives rejected a $500 billion budget agreement forged by congressional leaders and the Bush administration.
1991Oct 5The San Jose Sharks opened local play at the Cow Palace in Daly City while they awaited the building of an arena in San Jose, Ca.
1992Oct 5Both houses of Congress voted to override President Bush’s veto of a measure to re-regulate cable television companies.
1993Oct 5US Army Gen. John Shalikashvili was confirmed by the Senate to head the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
1994Oct 548 members of a secret religious doomsday cult were found dead in apparent murder-suicides carried out simultaneously in two Swiss villages; five other bodies were found in a sect apartment in Montreal, Canada.
1995Oct 5Pres. Clinton announced that a cease-fire was agreed on in Bosnia to start on Oct 10, and that combatants would attend talks in the US. Bosnia’s combatants agreed to a 60-day cease-fire and new talks on ending their three and a-half years of battle.
1996Oct 5Already under fire for his drug policies, President Clinton revealed that a secret FBI memorandum said the government’s anti-drug strategy “had never been properly organized.” Clinton argued that the problems predated his administration.
1997Oct 5The White House released videotapes of President Clinton greeting supporters at 44 coffee klatches. Republicans claimed the tapes as proof that Clinton had raised campaign donations at the White House in violation of the law.
1998Oct 5A House committee voted along hardened partisan lines 21-16 to begin an open-ended impeachment inquiry into 15 possible charges against Pres. Clinton.
1999Oct 5It was announced that MCI WorldCom Incorporated had agreed to pay $115 billion for Sprint Corporation.
2000Oct 5“The Beatles Anthology,” a $60 oversize volume with 1,200 photos, went on sale.
2001Oct 5The US received permission from Uzbekistan to set up a base of operations against Afghanistan.
2002Oct 5Addressing police and National Guardsmen in New Hampshire, President Bush warned that Saddam Hussein could strike without notice and inflict “massive and sudden horror” on America.
2003Oct 5The Chicago Cubs won their first postseason series since 1908 when they beat Atlanta 5-1 in the decisive Game 5 of the National League playoffs.
2004Oct 5Americans David J. Gross, H. David Politzer and Frank Wilczek won the 2004 Nobel Prize in physics for their explanation of the force that binds particles inside the atomic nucleus. Their theory of quantum chromodynamics explained who quarks behave.
2005Oct 5Defying the White House, US senators voted 90-9 to approve an amendment that would prohibit the use of “cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment” against anyone in U.S. government custody.
2006Oct 5In Miami, Florida, inauguration ceremonies were held for the Carnival Center for the Performing Arts.
2007Oct 5It was reported that approval ratings for Pres. George Bush had dropped to 31%. Approval for Congress’s performance fell to 22%. Bush defended his administration’s methods of detaining and questioning terrorism suspects, saying they were successful and lawful.
2008Oct 5The United States opened a trade office in Libya to boost economic ties with the oil-rich state.
2009Oct 5President Barack Obama ordered the federal government, the nation’s largest energy user, to cut its greenhouse gas emissions and to reduce its impact on the environment.
2010Oct 5US ATF deputy director Kenneth Melson and Mexico Attorney General Arturo Chavez signed a memorandum of understanding that will increase to 30 a month the number of people trained to use the program, known as eTrace, an electronic database that can trace the manufacture, import, sale and ownership of guns.
2011Oct 5President Barack Obama signed legislation to keep the federal government running for another six weeks. Congress must now finish work on agency budgets for the new fiscal year. The law provides funding for government operations through Nov 18.
2012Oct 5Better than expected US jobs figures that included a surprise fall in the unemployment rate to its lowest level since January 2009.
2013Oct 5Thomas Momson, head of the Mormon Church, said that worldwide membership in the Church of Jesus Christ Latter-day Saints has reached 15 million.
2014Oct 5Hewlett-Packard said it will split into two businesses, one for PCs and printers and the other for data center hardware and services for corporations.

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