5th October anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1908
  • "Birth of Joshua Logan, American stage and film director, producer and writer."
• event
  • 1908
  • Bulgaria declared its independence from Turkey .
  • 1936
  • The Jarrow March begins
  • 1938
  • Nazi Germany demanded that the passports of all German and Austrian Jews must be stamped with the letter ‘J’.
  • 1958
  • Charles de Gaulle establishes Fifth Republic in France – and is elected President on 21 Dec more
  • 1968
  • Beginning of disturbances in N Ireland
  • 1969
  • The first episode of Monty Pythons Flying Circus was broadcast in the UK
  • 1974
  • Great Britain
  • IRA Bomb Guildford
  • 1983
  • Poland
  • "Lech Walesa, leader of the Solidarity movement in Poland, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize."
  • 1984
  • Marc Garneau became the first Canadian in space
  • 1994
  • The bodies of 48 members of the Order of the Solar Temple religious sect were discovered in two towns near Geneva after an apparent mass suicide
  • 1999
  • "31 people were killed and over 500 injured in a train crash at Ladbrook Grove, near Paddington Station, west London"
• Death
  • 1933
  • "Death of Nikolai Yudenich, Russian general ."
  • 1934
  • "Death of Jean Vigo, French film director, whose films blended realism, Surrealism and cynicism and had an enormous impact on the public"
  • 1983
  • "Death of Earl Tupper, American inventor of ‘Tupperware’ ."