Important Events From This day in History October 5th

 

1969 Monty Python's Flying Circus

1969 : Monty Python's Flying Circus makes its debut on BBC Television, there were only 45 episodes aired over four seasons featuring the zany comedy sketches with John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Graham Chapman, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, Eric Idle. Some of the sketches are still considered to be some of the greatest comedy skits.

1910 Portugal Republic

1910 : Portugal established a republic after the Portuguese monarchy is ousted by revolutionaries.

1925 Grand Ole Opry

1925 : The Grand Ole Opry a weekly country music radio program broadcast live on WSM radio in Nashville, Tennessee launches on the WSM Radio Station.

1928 China Fossils

1928 : The American Museum of Natural History has returned to Peking with a wealth of fossils from animals never seen before from outer Mongolia, they had been in constant battles with Chinese outlaws trying to get the food, supplies and cars that the expedition had but they managed to out wit and outrun the outlaws using brain work and the much faster cars than the outlaws horses.

1930 Great Britain Airship

1930 : Great Britons largest dirigible the R-101 Airship crashes in Beauvais, France, killing all on board.

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1933 Machine Gun Kelly

1933 : Machine Gun Kelly has pleaded not guilty to charges of a being a co-conspirator in the Urschel kidnapping.

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1947 President Harry Truman

1947 : President Harry Truman delivered the first televised presidential address from the White House.

1948 Turkmenistan Ashgabat Earthquake

1948 : An earthquake measuring magnitude 7.3 strikes Ashgabat and surrounding villages flattening all buildings leaving more than 100,000 people dead. This is one of the strongest and most deadly earthquakes on record.

1954 Yugoslavia Trieste

1954 : Yugoslavia and Italy have ended their 9 year bitter dispute over the Trieste free territory and have agreed to split it between them with Italy getting control of the Adriatic port of Trieste and Yugoslavia retaining the zone she has occupied since the end of the last World War.

1962 Germany Berlin Wall

October 5th, 1962 : East German guards shot a man with Tommy gun blasts on the eastern side of the Berlin Wall and would not allow ambulances from the red cross on the western side to approach even though the man was screaming in pain, the incident took place about 3 miles from checkpoint Charlie.

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1962 UK Beatles First Single

1962 : The Beatles release their first single in the UK "Love Me Do" (released on a 45RPM Single Format on Parlophone Label) which gets to number seventeen. It was later released in the US on April 27th, 1964 and goes to Number 1.

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1974 UK Guildford Bombing

1974 : IRA plant bombs in two pubs in Guildford in southern England, The pubs are mostly frequented by soldiers back from duty in Northern Ireland. At least four people were killed and more than 50 injured in in the two terrorist attacks.

1986 Iran Contra Scandal

1986 : The first leak concerning the Iran Contra scandal occurs when Eugene Hasenfus is captured by troops of the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua where he confesses that he was shipping military supplies into Nicaragua for use by the Contras, that had been created and funded by the United States and run by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). After long persistent investigations by journalists and Congress it was found it involved the secret sale of U.S. weapons to Iran and the proceeds from these sales used to covertly fund the Contra war in Nicaragua.

1986 Israel Secret Nuclear Weapons

October 5th, 1986 : The British newspaper The Sunday Times ran an Israeli former nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu's story reavealing the secrets of Israel's nuclear arsenal, possibly which included as many as 100 nuclear warheads. Mordechai Vanunu is later kidnapped in Rome by Israeli agents and smuggled to Israel, where he was tried for treason and espionage and sentenced to 18 years in prison.

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