Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 5
This is a list of selected October 5 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| World Teachers' Day; | unreferenced, stub |
| Double Ninth Festival in the Chinese calendar (2011); | unreferenced, stub |
| 869 – The Fourth Council of Constantinople, the eighth Catholic Ecumenical Council, was convened to discuss the patriarchate of Photios I of Constantinople. | refimprove |
| 1864 – Calcutta, capital of British India, was almost completely destroyed by a cyclone which killed 60,000 people. | unreferenced section, date not cited |
| 1903 – Samuel Griffith became the first Chief Justice of Australia, while Edmund Barton and Richard O'Connor became the first Puisne Justices of the High Court of Australia. | Griffith needs more footnotes, Barton is featured on September 24, O'Connor is short |
| 1930 – The British airship R101 crashed in France in route to India on its maiden voyage, killing 48 passengers and crew. | Tagged with {{Nofootnotes}} |
| 1945 – A six-month strike by Hollywood set decorators boiled over into a bloody riot at the gates of the Warner Bros. studios in Burbank, California. | no inline references. |
| 1948 – The International Union for Conservation of Nature was founded at a congress sponsored by UNESCO director Julian Huxley in Fontainebleau, France. | inappropriate tone |
| 1969 – The first episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus was broadcast on BBC1. | refimprove |
| 1970 – Members of the Front de Libération du Québec kidnapped British diplomat James Cross, sparking the October Crisis in Montreal. | unreferenced section |
| 2000 – Serbian engineering vehicle operator Ljubisav Đokić rammed the Radio Television of Serbia building with a wheel loader in a protest known as the Bulldozer Revolution, causing Slobodan Milošević to resign two days later. | Tagged with {{expand}} |
Eligible
- 1963 – The U.S. suspended the Commercial Import Program, its main economic support for South Vietnam, in response to oppression of Buddhism by President Ngo Dinh Diem.
- 1986 – The British newspaper The Sunday Times published a story by Mordechai Vanunu, a former nuclear technician, revealing details of Israel's nuclear capability.
October 5: Republic Day in Portugal (1910)
- 610 – Heraclius was crowned Byzantine Emperor, after having personally beheaded the previous emperor Phocas.
- 1789 – French Revolution: Upset about the high price and scarcity of bread, thousands of Parisian women and their various allies (pictured) marched on the royal palace at Versailles.
- 1908 – Prince Ferdinand became the first Tsar of Bulgaria since the Ottoman invasion in the 14th century.
- 1962 – Dr. No, the first in the James Bond film series, was released.
- 1973 – Seven nations signed the European Patent Convention, providing an autonomous legal system according to which European patents are granted.