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100 years anniversary | ||||
05 Oct 1925 | Gail Davis: Little Rock, Arkansas -- Actress (Annie Oakley) | |||
05 Oct 1925 | WSM-AM in Nashville Tenn begins radio transmissions | |||
05 Oct 1925 | Gail Davis, American actress and singer (d. 1997) | |||
05 Oct 1925 | Herbert Kretzmer, South African-English journalist and songwriter | |||
05 Oct 1925 |
birth Sir Malcolm Brown Born 5 Oct 1925; died 27 Mar 1997 at age 71. English geologist who won a worldwide reputation for his contributions to petrology and was one of the few scientists outside America to be invited by NASA to work on the samples of lunar rock brought back by the Apollo 11 mission. From 1979 to 1985, he was Director of the Institute of Geological Sciences (which name Brown changed to the British Geological Survey in 1984). |
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75 years anniversary | ||||
05 Oct 1950 | "Pardon Our French" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 100 performances | |||
05 Oct 1950 | Eddie Clarke, English guitarist (Motörhead and Fastway) | |||
05 Oct 1950 | Jeff Conaway, American actor and singer (d. 2011) | |||
05 Oct 1950 | James Rizzi, American painter and illustrator (d. 2011) | |||
05 Oct 1950 | Frederic Lewy, German-American neurologist (b. 1885) | |||
05 Oct 1950 | birth Eddie Clarke, Motorhead, (1980 UK No.15 single 'Ace Of Spades'). | |||
50 years anniversary | ||||
05 Oct 1975 | Bobo Baldé, French-Guinean footballer | |||
05 Oct 1975 | Carson Ellis, American painter and illustrator | |||
05 Oct 1975 | Christian Fährmann, German footballer | |||
05 Oct 1975 | Parminder Nagra, English actress | |||
05 Oct 1975 | Monica Rial American voice actress, director, and screenwriter | |||
05 Oct 1975 | Scott Weinger American actor, producer, and screenwriter | |||
05 Oct 1975 | Kate Winslet, English actress and singer | |||
05 Oct 1975 | Lady Constance Malleson, English actress and author (b. 1895) | |||
05 Oct 1975 | Operation Primicia: terrorist attack against a Military Regiment at Formosa, Argentina. | |||
05 Oct 1975 | Stevie Wonder appeared at the Wonder Dream Concert in Kingston, Jamaica, a Jamaican Institute for the Blind benefit concert. Along with Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer, the three original Wailers, performing together for the last time. | |||
25 years anniversary | ||||
05 Oct 2000 | Johanna Döbereiner, Brazilian agronomist (b. 1924) | |||
05 Oct 2000 | Cătălin Hîldan, Romanian footballer (b. 1976) | |||
05 Oct 2000 | Mass demonstrations in Belgrade lead to resignation of Serbian strongman Slobodan Milošević. These demonstrations are often called the Bulldozer Revolution. | |||
05 Oct 2000 | UK TV show Top Of The Pops issued a Top 40 chart based on singles that had spent the longest time on the UK chart. No.3 was 'My Way' by Frank Sinatra, No.2 'She Loves You', The Beatles and No.1 'Relax' by Frankie Goes To Hollywood'. Read the full story | |||
05 Oct 2000 | Beatles' fans across the world rushed out to buy copies of the Fab Four's autobiography. Stores in Japan and Britain opened at midnight to satisfy demand for the book, the first written by the band members. Publishers said the 350,000-word volume, at a cost of £35, had already attracted more than 1.5m orders worldwide. | |||
20 years anniversary | ||||
05 Oct 2005
Spanish flu |
Spanish flu (biology) The Spanish flu virus is reconstructed and shown to be closely related to the Avian influenza virus. |
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15 years anniversary | ||||
05 Oct 2010 | Bernard Clavel, French author (b. 1923) | |||
05 Oct 2010 | Mary Leona Gage, American model and actress, Miss USA 1957 (b. 1939) | |||
05 Oct 2010 | Steve Lee, Swiss singer-songwriter (Gotthard) (b. 1963) |