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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
- 1550 –Foundation of Concepción, city in Chile.
- 1582 –Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
- 1864 –The Indian city of Calcutta is almost totally destroyed by a cyclone; 60,000 die.
- 1915 –Bulgaria enters World War I as one of the Central Powers.
- 1930 –British Airship R101 crashes in France en-route to India on its maiden voyage.
- 1943 –98 American POW’s executed by Japanese forces on Wake Island.
- 1962 –Dr. No, the first in the James Bond film series, is released.
- 1966 –Near Detroit, Michigan, there is a partial core meltdown at the Enrico Fermi demonstration nuclear breeder reactor.
- 1982 –Chicago Tylenol murders: Johnson & Johnson initiates a nationwide product recall in the United States for all products in its Tylenol brand after several bottles in Chicago are found to have been laced with cyanide, resulting in seven deaths.
- 1991 –The first official version of the Linux kernel, version 0.02, is released.
Who were born on October 5?
- 1864 –Louis Lumière, French film pioneer (d. 1948)
- 1892 –Remington Kellogg, American naturalist (d. 1969)
- 1922 –Bil Keane, American cartoonist (d. 2011)
- 1929 –Fred Feast, English actor (d. 1999)
- 1937 –Barry Switzer, American football coach
- 1943 –Ben Cardin, American politician, junior senator of Maryland
- 1949 –Ralph Goodale, Canadian politician
- 1955 –Jean-Jacques Lafon, French singer-songwriter
- 1957 –Mark Geragos, American attorney
- 1972 –Grant Hill, American basketball player
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