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Day Of The Week: October 5
October 5, 2025 is the 278th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 87 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Sunday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Libra is your zodiac sign. Opal is your modern birthstone. Jasper is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: October 5
- 1793 –French Revolution: Christianity is disestablished in France.
- 1903 –Sir Samuel Griffith is appointed the first Chief Justice of Australia and Sir Edmund Barton and Richard O'Connor are appointed as foundation justices.
- 1930 –British Airship R101 crashes in France en-route to India on its maiden voyage.
- 1944 –Suffrage is extended to women in France.
- 1948 –The 1948 Ashgabat earthquake kills 110,000.
- 1966 –Near Detroit, Michigan, there is a partial core meltdown at the Enrico Fermi demonstration nuclear breeder reactor.
- 1968 –Police baton civil rights demonstrators in Derry, Northern Ireland – considered to mark the beginning of The Troubles.
- 1970 –Montreal, Quebec: British Trade Commissioner James Cross is kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group, triggering the October Crisis.
- 1991 –The first official version of the Linux kernel, version 0.02, is released.
- 2001 –Robert Stevens becomes the first victim in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
Who were born on October 5?
- 1864 –Louis Lumière, French film pioneer (d. 1948)
- 1908 –Joshua Logan, American film director and writer (d. 1988)
- 1923 –Glynis Johns, British actress
- 1935 –Arlene Saunders, American soprano
- 1948 –Zoran Živković, Serbian writer
- 1955 –John Alexander, English former footballer
- 1966 –Jan Verhaas, Dutch snooker referee
- 1975 –Scott Weinger American actor
- 1985 –Nicola Roberts, English singer (Girls Aloud)
- 1986 –Mladen Bartulović, Croatian footballer
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