Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 5
August 5: Independence Day in Burkina Faso (1960), Victory and Homeland Thanksgiving Day in Croatia.
- 642 – King Penda of Mercia defeated and killed King Oswald of Northumbria in the Battle of Maserfield.
- 1100 – Henry I was crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey.
- 1858 – American businessman and financier Cyrus West Field (pictured) and colleagues completed the first transatlantic telegraph cable, crossing the Atlantic Ocean from Foilhommerum, Valentia Island, Ireland to Heart's Content, Newfoundland.
- 1962 – American actress and model Marilyn Monroe was found dead in the bedroom of her Brentwood, Los Angeles home. Although it was officially ruled as an overdose of sleeping pills in a "probable suicide", her death has been the subject of murder conspiracy theories since then.
- 2003 – A suicide bomber detonated a car bomb outside the lobby of the JW Marriott Hotel in Setiabudi, South Jakarta, Indonesia, killing twelve people and injuring 150.
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