Browse events, births, deaths and holidays on October 5 throughout history.
Windows 11 is the current major release of Microsoft's Windows NT operating system, released on October 5, 2021, as the successor to Windows 10 (2015). It is available as a free u…
Windows 11 is released to the general public.
The Mekong River massacre occurred on the morning of 5 October 2011, when two Chinese cargo ships were attacked on a stretch of the Mekong River in the Golden Triangle region on t…
In the Mekong River massacre, two Chinese cargo boats are hijacked and 13 crew members murdered.
The overthrow of Slobodan Milošević, president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, began after the general election on 24 September 2000 and culminated on 5 October 2000. It is…
Mass demonstrations in Serbia force the resignation of Slobodan Milošević.
The Ladbroke Grove rail crash occurred on 5 October 1999 at Ladbroke Grove in London, England, when a Thames Trains passenger train passed a signal at danger, colliding almost hea…
The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in West London kills 31 people.
The Order of the Solar Temple, or simply the Solar Temple, was a new religious movement and secret society, often described as a cult, notorious for the mass deaths of many of its…
Swiss police find the bodies of 48 members of the Order of the Solar Temple, who had died in a cult mass murder-suicide.
On 5 October 1991, an Indonesian Air Force Lockheed C-130H-30 Hercules crashed shortly after takeoff from Jakarta-Halim Perdana Kusuma Airport due to an engine fire. It killed all…
An Indonesian Air Force C-130 crash kills 135 people.
The Herald was a morning and, later, evening broadsheet newspaper published in Melbourne, Australia, from 3 January 1840 to 5 October 1990. It later merged with its sister morning…
After 150 years The Herald newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, is published for the last time as a separate newspaper.
Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte was a Chilean army officer and military dictator who ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990. He led the Chilean Army in the overthrow of President Salvad…
A Chilean opposition coalition defeats Augusto Pinochet in his re-election attempt.
The Ras Burqa massacre was a mass shooting on 5 October 1985 on Israeli vacationers in Ras Burqa, a beach resort area in the Sinai peninsula, in which seven people, including four…
Seven Israeli vacationers, including four children, are killed in a mass shooting at Ras Burqa in the Sinai Peninsula…
Joseph Jean-Pierre Marc Garneau was a Canadian Armed Forces officer, astronaut and politician. Garneau served as a naval officer before being selected as an astronaut as part of t…
Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space.
Tylenol is a brand of medication, advertised for reducing pain, reducing fever, and relieving the symptoms of allergies, cold, cough, headache, and influenza. An active ingredient…
Tylenol products are recalled after bottles in Chicago laced with cyanide cause seven deaths.
Eduardo Cruz Villanueva, most commonly referred to as Bro. Eddie Villanueva or ECV, is an evangelist and President and Spiritual Director of the Jesus Is Lord Church Worldwide (JI…
Brother Eddie Villanueva and 15 others from the Polytechnic University of the Philippines begin the Jesus Is Lord…
The Provisional Irish Republican Army, officially known as the Irish Republican Army and informally known as the Provos, was an Irish republican paramilitary force that sought to …
Bombs planted by the PIRA in pubs in Guildford kill four British soldiers and one civilian.
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and non-commercial, free-to-air television network based in Arlington, Virginia. PBS is a nonprofit organiz…
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is founded in the United States.[citation needed]
James Richard Cross was an Irish-born British diplomat who served in India, Malaysia and Canada. While posted in Canada, Cross was kidnapped by members of the Front de libération …
The British Trade Commissioner, James Cross, is kidnapped by members of the Front de libération du Québec, triggering…
The Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association was an organisation that campaigned for civil rights for Irish Catholics in Northern Ireland during the late 1960s and early 1970s. F…
A Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march in Derry is violently suppressed by police.
The Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station is a nuclear power plant on the shore of Lake Erie near Monroe, in Frenchtown Charter Township, Michigan on approximately 1,000 acres (…
A reactor at the Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station near Detroit suffers a partial meltdown.
The Commercial Import Program, sometimes known as the Commodity Import Program (CIP), was an economic aid arrangement between South Vietnam and its main supporter, the United Stat…
The United States suspends the Commercial Import Program in response to repression of the Buddhist majority by the…
The James Bond franchise focuses on the character of James Bond, a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels …
The first of the James Bond film series, based on the novels by Ian Fleming, Dr. No, is released in Britain.
The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. The band comprised John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. They are regarded as the most i…
The first Beatles single "Love Me Do" is released in Britain.