157 sourced historical events are currently published for October 5. Browse the chronology below or filter this date by place and event type. This collection is expanding, not an exhaustive account of the day.
The published October 5 chronology runs from 610 to 2026, a span of 1,416 years. It contains 157 sourced records across 38 countries and 8 event categories. These figures describe the current collection, not all events that occurred on this date.
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On October 5, 610, Patriarch Sergius crowned Heraclius emperor in Constantinople, following the overthrow of Phocas.
Heraclius’ fleet had landed nearby on October 3. The coronation date follows the historical chronology without conversion to the modern Gregorian calendar.
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Tang ships defeated a renewed attack by the fleet of Yamato Japan and its Baekje allies in the decisive engagement of the two-day Battle of Baekgang, on the southwest coast of present-day South Korea.
October 5 is the Julian date. The proleptic Gregorian equivalent is October 8.
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On October 5, 816, Pope Stephen IV crowned Louis the Pious as emperor at Reims. Louis had already received an imperial coronation from his father in Aachen in 813.
The date follows the historical chronology and has not been converted to the modern Gregorian calendar.
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Church leaders assembled in Constantinople for the council of 869–870, which the Roman Catholic Church recognizes as the Fourth Council of Constantinople.
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The Treaty of Zamora (Portuguese: Tratado de Zamora) was signed on 5 October 1143 between King Afonso I of Portugal and his cousin Alfonso VII of León. It took place at Zamora in the presence of the papal legate, Cardinal Guido de Vico. On the occasion, Alfonso VII acknowledged Afonso as king of Portugal.
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The Gascon campaign of 1450–1453 took place during the Hundred Years' War when the kingdom of France undertook a military campaign to invade and cede the Duchy of Gascony from the English. Following the decisive victory of the French at the battle of Castillion and after the fall of Bordeaux, the last English stronghold in Gascony, English control of Gascony was removed.
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The siege of Riga by the Russian army under Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich was the main event of the Russo-Swedish War. The fortifications of Riga consisted of a wall with ditch and 5 bastions around the old town. In 1652 Swedes had started construction of a new wall with 12 bastions around suburbs, but by 1656 the work had not been completed.
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The siege of Haguenau took place from 27 September to 5 October 1705 during the War of the Spanish Succession. An Imperial army under Johann Karl von Thüngen captured the French town of Haguenau in Alsace.
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The Battle of Vila Velha or Battle of Vila Velha de Ródão took place in October 1762 when a British-Portuguese force led by John Burgoyne and Charles Lee surprised and recaptured the town of Vila Velha de Ródão, Portugal, from Spanish invaders during the Seven Years' War as part of the Spanish invasion.
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On October 5, 1793, a British squadron raided Genoa’s harbour and captured the French frigate Modeste and two smaller armed vessels, violating Genoese neutrality.
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13 Vendémiaire, Year 4 in the French Republican Calendar (5 October 1795 in the Gregorian calendar), was a battle between the French Revolutionary troops and Royalist forces in the streets of Paris. This battle was part of the establishing of a new form of government, the Directory, and it was a major factor in the rapid advancement of Republican General Napoleon Bonaparte's career.
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The first combat of Schwanden and the second combat of Schwanden (5 October [O.S. 24 September] 1799) saw a Russian rearguard under the command of Pyotr Bagration, which acted self-determinately and not dependently on the commander-in-chief Suvorov, repelling a French attacks of Gabriel Molitor, who was directed by Honoré Gazan, at Schwanden, with various success, when the French commander-in-chief André Masséna tried to catch up with Suvorov's army.
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The action of 5 October 1804 was fought off Cabo de Santa Maria during the Napoleonic Wars. In the engagement, a British squadron under Commodore Graham Moore attacked a Spanish squadron led by Brigadier José de Bustamante. Although Britain and Spain were at peace at the time, the British had received intelligence that Bustamante's squadron was transporting gold from Montevideo to Cádiz to bolster Spain's finances before the Spanish declared war on Britain.
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The Battle of the Thames, also known as the Battle of Moraviantown, was a United States victory in the War of 1812 against the United Kingdom and Tecumseh's Confederacy. It took place on October 5, 1813 in Upper Canada, near present-day Chatham, Ontario. British troops under Major General Henry Procter had occupied Detroit until the U.S. Navy gained control of Lake Erie, depriving them of their supplies. Procter was forced to retreat north up the river Thames to Moraviantown, where his allies, the tribal confederacy under Shawnee leader Tecumseh, had no choice but to follow.
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The 1813 Delaware gubernatorial election was held on October 5, 1813. The Federalist former judge of the Delaware Court of Common Pleas Daniel Rodney defeated the Democratic-Republican New Castle county commissioner James Riddle.
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The 1819 Delaware gubernatorial election was held on October 5, 1819. Incumbent Federalist Governor John Clark was unable to seek re-election due to term limits. State Senator Henry Molleston ran as Clark's successor, winning the Federalist nomination. He faced Manaen Bull, Clark's 1816 opponent, and the Democratic-Republican nominee. Molleston won by a fairly wide margin, but died on November 11, 1819, prior to assuming office.
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The 1829 Georgia gubernatorial election was held on October 5, 1829, to elect the governor of Georgia. Jacksonian Troup Governor John Forsyth, first elected in the 1827 election, declined to seek re-election to a second term, instead aiming to be elected to the U.S. Senate. Jacksonian Troup candidate George Rockingham Gilmer, U.S House rep for Georgia's 1st congressional district, won in a landslide with the backing of both local parties.
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The 1835 Michigan gubernatorial election was held on October 5, 1835. Democratic nominee Stevens T. Mason defeated Whig nominee John Biddle with 90.31% of the vote. This was the first state election for the Governor of Michigan; in addition to electing a governor (and lieutenant governor), Michigan also elected a prospective congressman and approved a state constitution.
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The 1835 Georgia gubernatorial election was held on October 5, 1835, to elect the governor of Georgia. Democratic Union Governor Wilson Lumpkin, first elected in the 1831 election, did not seek re-election to a second term, instead he became U.S. commissioner to the Cherokee Native Americans. Democratic Union candidate William Schley, U.S House rep for Georgia's 1st congressional district, narrowly defeated Whig State Rights candidate Charles Dougherty.
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The Election to the United States House of Representatives in Florida for the 30th Congress was held on October 5, 1846.
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The election to the United States House of Representatives in Florida for the 33rd Congress was held October 5, 1852 at the same time as the election for Governor.
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The Battle of Toppenish Creek was the first engagement of the Yakima War in Washington. Fought on October 5, 1855, a company of American soldiers, under Major Granville O. Haller, was attacked by a band of Yakamas, under Chief Kamiakin, and compelled to retreat. The battle occurred in Yakima Valley, several miles northwest of Fort Walla Walla, along Toppenish Creek and was a major victory for Native American forces.
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On October 5, 1857, Georgia held its gubernatorial election. Democrat Joseph E. Brown defeated Know Nothing candidate Benjamin H. Hill.
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The 1857 Mississippi gubernatorial election was held on October 5, 1857, in order to elect the Governor of Mississippi. Former Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Mississippi's 3rd district William McWillie defeated the American Party nominee Edward M. Yerger.
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The Battle of Cockle Creek, October 5, 1861, was a minor naval engagement off Chincoteague, Virginia early in the American Civil War.
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On October 5, 1862, Union forces pushed part of Earl Van Dorn’s retreating Confederate army back across the Hatchie River at Davis Bridge in Tennessee. Van Dorn found another crossing and escaped with his army.
This engagement followed the Confederate defeat at Corinth on October 4.
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The 1863 Georgia gubernatorial election was held on October 5, 1863, in order to elect the Governor of Georgia. It was the last gubernatorial election in Georgia under the Confederate States of America and saw Independent Democrat nominee and incumbent Governor Joseph E. Brown win a fourth and final term against Unionist nominee Joshua Hill and Pro-Administration nominee Lt. Col Timothy Furlow.
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The 1863 Mississippi gubernatorial election was held on October 5, 1863, to elect the governor of Mississippi. Charles Clark, a Democrat, won against Democrat A. M. West and Fire-Eater Democrat Reuben Davis.
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On October 5, 1863, the Confederate semi-submersible CSS David attacked the Union ironclad USS New Ironsides in Charleston Harbor. The boat brought a spar torpedo against the ship's hull and detonated it, damaging the vessel.
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The Battle of Allatoona, also known as the Battle of Allatoona Pass, was fought October 5, 1864, in Bartow County, Georgia, and was the first major engagement of the Franklin-Nashville Campaign of the American Civil War. A Confederate division under Maj. Gen. Samuel G. French attacked a Union garrison under Brig. Gen. John M. Corse, but was unable to dislodge it from its fortified position protecting the railroad through Allatoona Pass.
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On October 5, 1869, the Mississippi River broke through the roof of the Eastman Tunnel beneath Saint Anthony Falls in Minnesota. The collapse threatened to destroy the falls.
Water had begun leaking into the tunnel on October 4; the major breach and collapse followed on October 5.
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The Nez Perce War was an armed conflict in 1877 in the Western United States that pitted several bands of the Nez Perce tribe of Native Americans and their allies, a small band of the Palouse tribe led by Red Echo (Hahtalekin) and Bald Head (Husishusis Kute), against the United States Army.
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On October 5, 1877, Nez Perce leader Chief Joseph laid down his rifle at Bear Paw in Montana after a five-day battle and siege. White Bird refused to surrender and left with others that night.
The surrender did not include all Nez Perce people at Bear Paw.
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The Kresna–Razlog uprising (Bulgarian: Кресненско-Разложко въстание, romanized: Kresnensko-Razlozhko vastanie), also known as the Kresna uprising (Macedonian: Кресненско востание, romanized: Kresnensko vostanie), was an anti-Ottoman Bulgarian uprising that took place in Ottoman Macedonia, predominantly in the areas of modern Blagoevgrad Province in Bulgaria in late 1878 and early 1879. It was named by the insurgents as the Macedonian uprising.
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On October 5, 1879, reinforcements led by Colonel Wesley Merritt reached U.S. troops at Milk Creek in Colorado. The Ute fighters had already dispersed by the time he arrived.
This records the reinforcements’ arrival, rather than every event in the White River conflict.
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Bering Sea Anti-Poaching Operations were conducted in 1891 by the navies and marine corps' of the United States and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Due to the near extinction of the seal population in the Bering Sea, the American and British governments dispatched a squadron of warships to suppress poaching activities, under the command of United States Navy Commander Charles S. Cotton.
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The 1892 Georgia gubernatorial election was held on October 5, 1892, in order to elect the Governor of Georgia. Democratic nominee and incumbent Governor William J. Northen defeated People's Party nominee W. L. Peck.
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On October 5, 1897, Brazilian forces defeated the remaining defenders of Canudos in Bahia, bringing the War of Canudos to an end.
The settlement was burned the following day, October 6.
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On 5 October 1897, Yu Hongzheng, a chemist, was born.
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The 1898 Georgia gubernatorial election was held on October 5, 1898, in order to elect the Governor of Georgia. Democratic nominee and incumbent Secretary of State of Georgia Allen D. Candler defeated People's Party nominee John R. Hogan.
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The 1904 Georgia gubernatorial election was held on October 5, 1904, in order to elect the Governor of Georgia. Democratic nominee and incumbent Governor Joseph M. Terrell ran unopposed and thus won re-election.
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On 5 October 1904, Fu Baoshi, a painter, was born.
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Wilbur Wright flew more than 24 miles over Huffman Prairie in the Wright Flyer III. He repeatedly circled the field, staying aloft for about 39 minutes.
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The inaugural State Fair of Oklahoma opened in Oklahoma City, several weeks before Oklahoma became a state. The city’s Chamber of Commerce recorded a crowd of more than 10,000 on opening day.
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On October 5, 1908, in the Gregorian calendar, Prince Ferdinand proclaimed Bulgaria’s independence from the Ottoman Empire at Tarnovo.
The same date was September 22, 1908, in the Julian calendar then used in Bulgaria.
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On October 5, 1910, a republic was proclaimed in Lisbon after the overthrow of Portugal’s monarchy.
The proclamation preceded the adoption of the new constitution in 1911.
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The 1910 Georgia gubernatorial election was held on October 5, 1910, in order to elect the Governor of Georgia. Democratic nominee and former Governor Hoke Smith defeated Independent Democratic candidate and incumbent Governor Joseph Mackey Brown and Socialist Party nominee C. O. Brown.
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The Chinese section of the Kowloon–Canton Railway opened, linking the existing line from Kowloon with Canton, now Guangzhou. An opening ceremony took place in Shum Chun, now Shenzhen.
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On October 5, 1914, a French crew flying a Voisin III shot down a German Aviatik near Reims, France, using a machine gun.
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During the night of October 4–5, 1914, troops of the German Sixth Army established a foothold on the Lorette plateau in northern France.
This records the overnight advance, rather than all the later battles fought around Lorette.
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On October 5, 1915, British and French troops began landing at Salonika, now Thessaloniki, in Greece.
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The Contoocook Board of Trade organized a two-day agricultural fair at George’s Park in New Hampshire. It later grew into the Hopkinton State Fair.
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The Third Battle of Petrozsény was a World War I military engagement between Romanian forces on one side and Central Powers forces (Austria-Hungary and Germany) on the other side. It was part of the wider Battle of Transylvania and the last engagement in the area around Petrozsény. The battle resulted in a Central Powers victory.
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Radio listeners followed the opening game of the 1921 World Series between the New York Giants and Yankees. On WJZ, announcer Tommy Cowan relayed play-by-play from a report sent by telephone from the Polo Grounds.
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The 1923 Chinese presidential election was the election held on 5 October 1923 in Beijing for the third term of the President of China. Zhili warlord Cao Kun won the election through bribery. The capital was under control of the Zhili Clique after the Zhili–Anhui War. In 1922 the Zhili warlords Wu Peifu and Cao Kun restored the "old" parliament elected in 1912.
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The 1925 FA Charity Shield was the twelfth staging of the FA Charity Shield, an annual association football match arranged to raise funds for charitable causes supported by the Football Association (the FA), the governing body of football in England. For the fourth time, the match was contested by select teams of amateur and professional players. It was played on 5 October 1925 at White Hart Lane, London, and ended as a 6–1 win for the Amateurs. Claude Ashton scored four goals and Frank Macey two for the Amateurs; Charlie Hannaford scored the Professionals' goal.
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The 1925 Hama uprising was one of the major events of the Great Syrian Revolt. It involved a rebel assault led by Fawzi al-Qawuqji against Mandatory French security installations in Hama and a subsequent uprising by residents sympathetic to the rebel cause. Heavy French bombardment of the city and the dispatch of reinforcements followed.
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The 1926 Arkansas gubernatorial election was held on October 5, 1926. Incumbent Democratic Governor Tom Terral was defeated in the Democratic primary. Democratic nominee John Ellis Martineau defeated Republican nominee Drew Bowers with 76.45% of the vote.
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On October 5, 1930, the British airship R101 crashed near Allonne, France, during its first overseas voyage to India. Forty-eight of the 54 people aboard died.
The airship had left Britain the previous evening.
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Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon completed the first nonstop flight across the Pacific in Miss Veedol, landing near Wenatchee after taking off from northern Japan.
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A military offensive was launched by Chetnik forces in 1943 to seize large territories in eastern Bosnia following the capitulation of Italy. The attack on Višegrad during this offensive was one of the few conflicts of Mihailović's Yugoslav army in the homeland with the Wehrmacht forces in the NDH area. The Chetnik attack on the German-Ustaša garrison in Višegrad on October 5, 1943 was carried out at the request of the Allies, with the aim of showing the Chetnik struggle against the occupiers to the American and British military missions.
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The Northeast College of Administration was founded in Harbin. It later merged with Harbin University and became a predecessor of Jilin University.
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On October 5, 1947, President Harry S. Truman gave the first televised address from the White House, asking viewers to conserve food for Europe.
This records a White House television address; the source does not identify the Oval Office as its setting.
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The Taiyuan campaign was a campaign of the Chinese Civil War fought between the nationalist and communist factions. The campaign was over the control of Taiyuan, the capital of the province of Shanxi, China. The campaign resulted in a communist victory.
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The 1960 DFB-Pokal final decided the winner of the 1959–60 DFB-Pokal, the 17th season of Germany's knockout football cup competition. It was played on 5 October 1960 at the Rheinstadion in Düsseldorf. Borussia München Gladbach won the match 3–2 against Karlsruher SC, to claim their first cup title.
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On October 5, 1962, Dr. No, the first film in the James Bond series, premiered in London.
This records the London premiere; the wider British release followed.
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The Beatles released Love Me Do in Britain, with P.S. I Love You on the other side of the single.
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On October 5, 1963, President John F. Kennedy and his advisers met at the White House to review aid restrictions on South Vietnam, including funding for the Commercial Import Program that had already been suspended.
October 5 is the date of this discussion, rather than the first suspension of import funding.
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The 1965 Greater Anchorage Borough election was an election for borough offices in Anchorage, Alaska. It was held on October 5, 1965. 8,535 ballots were cast. In a proposition ("Prop B"), the borough's voters voted overwhelmingly against reclassifying from a second class borough into a first class borough, maintaining the borough classification that they had voted to adopt two years prior.
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The Korean DMZ Conflict, also known as the Second Korean War, was a series of armed clashes between North Korea and South Korea, supported by the United States, along the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between 1966 and 1969.
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BBC One aired the first episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus. The sketch comedy series became known for its surreal humour and animated sequences.
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On October 5, 1970, members of the Front de libération du Québec kidnapped British trade commissioner James Cross from his home in Montreal, beginning the October Crisis.
Pierre Laporte was kidnapped separately on October 10.
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The Public Broadcasting Service began operating as the successor to National Educational Television, distributing programming to public television stations across the United States.
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The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonated two 6-pound (2.7-kilogram) gelignite bombs at two pubs in Guildford, Surrey, England on 5 October 1974. The pubs were targeted that evening because they were popular with British Army personnel stationed at Pirbright barracks. Four soldiers and one civilian were killed. Sixty-five people were wounded.
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Parliamentary elections were held in Austria on 5 October 1975. The result was a victory for the Social Democratic Party, which won 93 of the 183 seats. Voter turnout was 92.9%.
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Operación Primicia (Spanish pronunciation: [opeɾaˈsjon pɾiˈmisja], "Operation Scoop") was a large guerrilla attack that took place on 5 October 1975, in Formosa, Argentina. It was the largest attack ever launched by the paramilitary group Montoneros, which attempted to seize the barracks of the 29th Forest infantry regiment. This attack worsened the Dirty War, and indirectly led to the 1976 Argentine coup d'état the following year.
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A federal election was held in West Germany on 5 October 1980 to elect the members of the 9th Bundestag. Although the CDU/CSU remained the largest faction in parliament, Helmut Schmidt of the Social Democratic Party remained Chancellor.
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The 1980 Portuguese legislative election took place on 5 October. The election renewed all 250 members of the Assembly of the Republic. Following the victory of the Democratic Alliance (AD) in the previous election, on 2 December 1979, Francisco Sá Carneiro was sworn in as Prime Minister in January 1980.
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Momoe Yamaguchi performed her farewell concert at Nippon Budokan in Tokyo before retiring from show business.
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Challenger lifted off from Kennedy Space Center on mission STS-41-G with a crew of seven, including Sally Ride and Kathryn Sullivan. The crew also included Marc Garneau, the first Canadian in space.
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The Ras Burqa massacre was a mass shooting on 5 October 1985 on Israeli vacationers in Ras Burqa, a beach resort area in the Sinai peninsula, in which seven people, including four children, were killed by Egyptian soldier Suleiman Khater.
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Presidential elections were held in Egypt on 5 October 1987. The vote took the form of a referendum on the candidacy of Hosni Mubarak, who had been nominated by the two-thirds required in the People's Assembly on 5 July. Just over 97% of voters allegedly voted in favour with an 88.5% turnout.
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A national plebiscite was held in Chile on 5 October 1988 to decide whether Augusto Pinochet, the head of a military dictatorship that had ruled the country since the 1973 coup d'état, would remain president for a further eight-year term. Voters were asked simply to approve or reject Pinochet as the sole candidate proposed by the commanders-in-chief of the armed forces, a mechanism set out in the transitory provisions of the 1980 Constitution.
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The Herald was a morning and, later, evening broadsheet newspaper published in Melbourne, Australia, from 3 January 1840 to 5 October 1990. It later merged with its sister morning newspaper The Sun News-Pictorial to form the Herald-Sun.
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On 5 October 1991, an Indonesian Air Force Lockheed C-130H-30 Hercules crashed shortly after takeoff from Jakarta-Halim Perdana Kusuma Airport due to an engine fire. It killed all but one of the 134 people on board with an additional 2 people on the ground.
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The Battle of Zadar (Croatian: Bitka za Zadar) was a military engagement between the Yugoslav People's Army (Jugoslovenska Narodna Armija, or JNA), supported by the Croatian Serb Serbian Autonomous Oblast of Krajina (SAO Krajina), and the Croatian National Guard (Zbor Narodne Garde, or ZNG), supported by the Croatian Police. The battle was fought north and east of the city of Zadar, Croatia, in the second half of September and early October 1991 during the Croatian War of Independence.
This entry records the event's end date, as given in the source infobox.
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General elections were held in Guyana on 5 October 1992. They were the first free and fair elections since 1964. The People's Progressive Party ended the People's National Congress' 28-year rule, winning 28 of the 53 seats and 53.5% of the vote. Voter turnout was 80.4%.
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On October 5, 1994, police discovered 48 bodies linked to the Order of the Solar Temple at Cheiry and Granges-sur-Salvan in Switzerland.
This is the date of discovery, rather than a claim that all the victims died that day.
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Ultimate Jeopardy - the second Ultimate Jeopardy professional wrestling supercard event produced by Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) - took place on October 5, 1996 in the ECW Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States. Excerpts from Ultimate Jeopardy aired on episodes #181, #182, and #183 of the syndicated television program ECW Hardcore TV in October 1996, while the bout between Bam Bam Bigelow and Terry Gordy was included on the compilation DVD Extreme Warfare Volume 2.
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Badd Blood: In Your House was the eighteenth In Your House professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by the World Wrestling Federation and presented by PlayStation, that took place on October 5, 1997, at the Kiel Center in St. Louis, Missouri. On the afternoon of the event, Brian Pillman, who was scheduled to face Dude Love on the show, was found dead in his hotel room. The announcement was made to fans during the half-hour "pregame show" prior to the pay-per-view being broadcast.
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The Ladbroke Grove rail crash (also known as the Paddington train crash) was a rail accident which occurred on 5 October 1999 at Ladbroke Grove in London, United Kingdom. With 31 people killed and more than 520 injured, this remains the worst rail accident on the Great Western Main Line. This was the second major accident on the Great Western Main Line in just over two years, the first being the Southall rail crash of September 1997, a few miles west of this accident. Both crashes would have been prevented by an operational Automatic Train Protection (ATP) system, wider fitting of which had been rejected on cost grounds.
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The 1999 Des Moines mayoral election was held on October 5, 1999, to elect the mayor of Des Moines, Iowa. It saw Preston Daniels win reelection.
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The overthrow of Slobodan Milošević occurred on 5 October 2000, in Belgrade, in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, following the presidential election on September 24th, and culminating in the downfall of Slobodan Milošević's government on 5 October 2000.
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The Leyenda de Plata (2001) was professional wrestling tournament produced by the Mexican wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLLl; Spanish "World Wrestling Council") that ran from October 5, 2001, over the course of three of CMLL's Friday night shows in Arena México with the finals on October 19, 2001. The annual Leyenda de Plata tournament is held in honor of lucha libre legend El Santo and is one of CMLL's most important annual tournaments.
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General elections were held in Bosnia and Herzegovina on 5 October 2002. The elections for the House of Representatives elections were divided into two; one for the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and one for Republika Srpska. In the presidential election, each of the three national communities elected a President. Bosniaks elected Sulejman Tihić, Croats elected Dragan Čović and Serbs elected Mirko Šarović.
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The 2002 Shreveport mayoral election resulted in the re-election of Democrat Keith Hightower who defeated Republican Vernon Adams by a large margin in the election of October 5, 2002. As Hightower won a simple majority in this round, no run-off election was held.
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General elections were held in Republika Srpska on 5 October 2002, as part of the general elections across Bosnia and Herzegovina. Dragan Čavić of the Serb Democratic Party was elected president. As of 2025, This was the most recent Presidential election that the Serb Democratic Party or any other party other then Alliance of Independent Social Democrats won.
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Presidential elections were held in the disputed Russian republic of Chechnya on 5 October 2003, amidst the Second Chechen War. Held six months after a three-part constitutional referendum, the election was reported as a success for Russian-backed candidate Akhmad Kadyrov, who reportedly won with 84% of the vote and 88% turnout. Early candidates in the election besides Kadyrov included Aslambek Aslakhanov, Malik Saidullaev, and Umar Dzhabrailov.
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The 2003 TG4 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship Final featured Mayo and Dublin. Mayo defeated Dublin in a low scoring game. Mayo retained the title, winning their fourth final in five years, while Dublin were making their debut appearance. Dublin led 0–4 to 0–2 at half-time. Two minutes from full-time Mayo trailed Dublin by a point. However the match was decided thanks to a late goal from Player of the Match, Diane O'Hora.
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The eighth gubernatorial election for the city of Bangkok, Thailand, was held on 5 October 2008. The election was won by the incumbent Governor Apirak Kosayothin, placing him in his second consecutive four-year term in office, winning 45.93 percent of the vote. Of a total of 4,087,329 eligible voters, 2,214,320 voted, giving a turnout rate of 54.18 percent, lower than the 70 percent target expected by the Election Committee. Sixteen candidates contested the election. Mr Apirak, candidate for the opposition Democrat Party, was seen as the favourite.
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No Mercy (2008) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), which took place on October 5, 2008, at the Rose Garden in Portland, Oregon. It was the eleventh No Mercy event and starred wrestlers from the Raw, SmackDown and ECW brands. It is one of only two WWE pay-per-view events to be held in the state of Oregon, the other being Unforgiven 2004. Eight professional wrestling matches were scheduled on the event's card, which featured a supercard, a scheduling of more than one main event.
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Municipal elections were held in Bosnia and Herzegovina on 5 October 2008. Parties and independent candidates had to register by 23 May 2008, party or coalition lists by 25 June 2008. These were the first local elections were representatives of minorities were elected to the municipal assemblies. 64 political parties and 183 independent candidates were certified to stand in the election. Nationalist parties (the Party of Democratic Action and the Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the federation and the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats in the RS) were the most successful in the election, while the Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina was considered to have been the loser of the election.
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The 2008 São Paulo municipal election took place in the city of São Paulo, with the first round taking place on 5 October and the second round taking place on 26 October 2008. Voters voted to elect the Mayor, the Vice Mayor, and 55 City Councillors for the administration of the city.
This entry records the first round, as dated in the source infobox.
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Voters across Brazil went to the polls to choose mayors, deputy mayors and municipal councillors. Municipalities requiring a mayoral runoff voted again on October 26.
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The 2010 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup final was played on October 5, 2010, at Qwest Field (since renamed CenturyLink Field) in Seattle, Washington, United States. The match determined the winner of the 2010 U.S. Open Cup, a tournament open to amateur and professional soccer teams affiliated with the United States Soccer Federation. This was the 97th edition of the oldest competition in United States soccer.
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The Mekong River massacre occurred on the morning of 5 October 2011, when two Chinese cargo ships were attacked on a stretch of the Mekong River in the Golden Triangle region on the borders of Myanmar (Burma) and Thailand. All 13 crew members on both ships were killed and dumped in the river. It was the deadliest attack on Chinese nationals abroad in modern times.
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UFC on FX: Browne vs. Bigfoot (also known as UFC on FX 5) was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on October 5, 2012 at the Target Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was the fifth UFC event broadcast live on FX.
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On October 5, 2013, U.S. Navy SEALs carried out a raid in Barawe, Somalia, targeting an al-Shabaab leader. The force withdrew without capturing its target.
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Operation Puttur was an counter-terrorism operation launched jointly by the Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu Police, which resulted in the capture two extremists belonging to Al Ummah in Puttur on 5 October 2013. The militants were planning to plant bombs at the Tirumala Venkateswara Temple, and commit a murder in Chennai in the name of the "Muslim Defence Force".
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On October 5, 2014, Maranhão held its gubernatorial election. Flávio Dino of the Communist Party of Brazil won a majority and was elected in the first round.
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The Piauí gubernatorial election was held on 5 October 2014 to elect the next governor of the state of Piauí. Governor Moraes Souza Filho ran for his first full term after becoming governor in 2014, but was resoundingly defeated by Senator Wellington Dias of the PT in the first round.
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The Paraíba gubernatorial election was held on 5 October 2014 to elect the next governor of the state of Paraíba, Brazil. Governor Ricardo Coutinho of the Brazilian Socialist Party ran for reelection and won.
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The Rio Grande do Sul gubernatorial election was held on 5 October 2014 to elect the next governor of the state of Rio Grande do Sul. Since no candidate received more than 50% of the vote in the first round, a second-round runoff election was held on 26 October. Incumbent governor Tarso Genro was running for a second term, a distinction not achieved in recent history.
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The Paraná gubernatorial election was held on 5 October 2014 to elect the next governor of the state of Paraná. Governor Beto Richa successfully ran for reelection, winning without the need for a runoff.
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The Alagoas gubernatorial election was held on 5 October 2014 to elect the next governor of the state of Alagoas. If no candidate had received more than 50% of the vote, a second-round runoff election would have been held on 26 October. Governor Teotônio Vilela Filho was ineligible due to term limits. Federal Deputy Renan Filho of the PMDB won election to the open seat in the first round.
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The Amapá gubernatorial election was held on 5 October 2014 to elect the next governor of the state of Amapá. Since no candidate received more than 50% of the vote, a second-round runoff election was held on 26 October. Governor Camilo Capiberibe ran for a second term and was forced into a runoff with former Governor Waldez Góes.
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The Rio Grande do Norte gubernatorial election was held on 5 October 2014 to elect the governor of Rio Grande do Norte. Incumbent Governor Rosalba Ciarlini sought nomination for a second term, but her candidacy was vetoed by her party due to her low approval ratings. Robinson Faria was announced as the victor with 54,38% of the vote, who had been elected as Vice-Governor in 2010 alongside Governor Ciarlini.
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The Sergipe gubernatorial election was held on 5 October 2014 to elect the next governor of the state of Sergipe. If no candidate had received more than 50% of the vote, a second-round runoff election would have been held on 26 October. Governor Jackson Barreto ran for his first full term after assuming the Governorship in December 2013 and won in the first round.
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The Mato Grosso gubernatorial election was held on 5 October 2014 to elect the next governor of the state of Mato Grosso. If no candidate had received more than 50% of the vote, a second-round runoff election would have been held on 26 October. Governor Silval Barbosa did not run for a second term. Senator Pedro Taques of the PDT won election to the open seat in the first round.
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The Tocantins gubernatorial election was held on 5 October 2014 to elect the next governor of the state of Tocantins, Brazil. If no candidate had received more than 50% of the vote, a second-round runoff election would have been held on 26 October. Governor Sandoval Cardoso ran for his first full term after becoming governor in 2014, but lost to former Governor Marcelo Miranda in the first round.
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The Espírito Santo gubernatorial election was held on 5 October 2014 to elect the Governor of the state of Espírito Santo. Governor Renato Casagrande lost a bid for a second term to former Governor Paulo Hartung.
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The Amazonas gubernatorial election was held on 5 October 2014 to elect the next governor of the state of Amazonas. If no candidate had received more than 50% of the vote, a second-round runoff election would've been held on 26 October. In the election Governor José Melo ran for his first full term after assuming the Governorship in April 2014, and he won.
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The Rio de Janeiro gubernatorial election was held on 5 October 2014 to elect the next governor of the state of Rio de Janeiro. Since no candidate received more than 50% of the vote, a second-round runoff election was held on the 26th of October. Incumbent Governor Luiz Fernando Pezão, who was running for his first full term, was forced into the runoff against Marcelo Crivella but ultimately won.
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The Roraima gubernatorial election was held on 5 October 2014 to elect the next governor of the state of Roraima, Brazil. Governor Chico Rodrigues ran for his first full term after assuming the Governorship in April 2014.
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The Santa Catarina gubernatorial election was held on 5 October 2014 to elect the next governor of the state of Santa Catarina. Governor Raimundo Colombo was re-elected to a second term.
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The first round of the Acre gubernatorial election was held on 5 October 2014 to elect the next governor of the state of Acre. No candidate won 50% of the vote and thus a second-round runoff election was held on 26 October. Governor Tião Viana was re-elected for a second term.
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The São Paulo gubernatorial election was held on 5 October 2014 to elect the next governor of the state of São Paulo. If no candidate had received more than 50% of the vote, a second-round runoff election would have been held on 26 October. Incumbent Governor Geraldo Alckmin won re-election in the first round.
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The Pará gubernatorial election was held on 5 October 2014 to elect the next governor of the state of Pará.
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The Ceará gubernatorial election was held on October 5, 2014 to elect the next governor of the state of Ceará.
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The Bahia gubernatorial election was held on 5 October 2014 to elect the next governor of the state of Bahia.
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The Rondônia gubernatorial election was held on 5 October 2014 to elect the next governor of the state of Rondônia.
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One Shot (2017) was a professional wrestling supercard event produced by Major League Wrestling (MLW), which took place on October 5, 2017, at the Gilt Nightclub in Orlando, Florida. This was the first event under the One Shot chronology and MLW's first event since 2004. Nine professional wrestling matches were contested at the event. In the main event, Shane Strickland defeated Ricochet.
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On October 5, 2017, armed men attacked three police stations in Mocímboa da Praia, in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado Province.
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The PFL 8 mixed martial arts event for the 2018 season of the Professional Fighters League was held on October 5, 2018, at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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The CMLL International Gran Prix (2018) is a lucha libre, or professional wrestling, tournament produced and scripted by the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL; "World Wrestling Council" in Spanish) which took place on October 5, 2018 in Arena México, Mexico City, Mexico, CMLL's main venue. The 2018 International Gran Prix was the fourteenth time CMLL held an International Gran Prix tournament since 1994.
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The 2019 National Premier Leagues Grand Final was the seventh National Premier Leagues Grand Final, the championship deciding match of the National Premier Leagues in Australia. It was played on 5 October 2019 at Albert Butler Park in Wollongong between Wollongong Wolves and Lions FC. Wollongong won the match 4–3 to secure their first championship in the National Premier Leagues.
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On October 5, 2019, Major League Wrestling and The Crash held a joint professional wrestling show in Tijuana, Mexico. Matches were recorded for later episodes of MLW Fusion.
The television broadcasts followed the live show.
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The 2021 Liberal Party of Australia (New South Wales Division) leadership election was a leadership vote held on 5 October 2021 to elect a new leader of the New South Wales Division of the Liberal Party of Australia and subsequently the Premier of New South Wales, following the resignation of Gladys Berejiklian. The election was conducted among the Liberal Party members of the Parliament of New South Wales and contested between Dominic Perrottet and Rob Stokes.
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Windows 11 became generally available as an upgrade for eligible computers and on new PCs with the operating system already installed.
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The 27th Busan International Film Festival (Korean: 제27회 부산국제영화제) was held from October 5 at the Busan Cinema Center in Busan, South Korea till October 14. This year, the festival restarted events and program sections which were not conducted due to COVID-19 for last 2 years. The festival opened with Iranian film Scent of the Wind by director Seyed Hadi Mohaghegh, Jeon Yeo-been with Ryu Jun-yeol were master of ceremonies for the opening ceremony.
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On 5 October 2022, Li Yi, a writer and critic, died.
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A by-election for the United Kingdom parliamentary constituency of Rutherglen and Hamilton West was held on 5 October 2023, following the recall of incumbent Scottish National Party (SNP) MP Margaret Ferrier. The by-election was won by Michael Shanks of the Labour Party with a large swing of 20.4%. Ferrier, elected for the SNP, was suspended from her party in October 2020 after it emerged she had significantly breached COVID-19 restrictions.
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The 2023 Memphis mayoral election took place on October 5, 2023, to elect the next mayor of Memphis, Tennessee. Incumbent Jim Strickland was term-limited and could not seek re-election to a third term in office. The election used the plurality vote system, with no possibility of a runoff. The election was officially non-partisan, but several candidates were affiliated with political parties.
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UFC 307: Pereira vs. Rountree Jr. was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that took place on October 5, 2024, at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.
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An election for the leader of Social Democracy (SOCDEM) was held on 5 October 2024 due to the resignation of the incumbent Michal Šmarda.
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2024 Haryana Legislative Assembly election was held on 5 October 2024 to elect all 90 members of the Haryana Legislative Assembly. The schedule of the election was announced by the Election Commission of India on 16 August 2024. The ballots were counted and the results were declared on 8 October 2024.
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Progress x Noah x DEFY was a professional wrestling event co-promoted by Progress Wrestling, Pro Wrestling Noah and DEFY Wrestling. It took place on October 5, 2024, in Oberhausen, Germany at the Turbinenhalle Oberhausen. The event also featured wrestlers from Westside Xtreme Wrestling (wXw). Six matches were contested at the event. The main event saw Luke Jacobs defeat Timothy Thatcher to retain the PROGRESS World Championship.
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The 2024 Bad Blood, also promoted as Bad Blood: Atlanta, was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming event produced by WWE, held for wrestlers from the promotion's main roster brands, Raw and SmackDown. It was the fourth Bad Blood and took place on October 5, 2024, at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Georgia, which was the 27-year anniversary of the first event that also featured the first Hell in a Cell match.
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The 2024 Uzbekistan Cup final (in Uzbek: Футбол бўйича 2024-йилги Ўзбекистон Кубоги финали) was the 32nd final of the Uzbekistan Cup. The match was played on 5 October 2024, Saturday, at the "Istiqlol" Stadium in Fergana to determine the winner of 2024 Uzbekistan Cup. The match ended with Andijan's 3–2 victory over Navbahor.
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The siege of North Gaza was an engagement of the Gaza war in the North Gaza Governorate, Gaza Strip, between Israel and Hamas-led Palestinian forces. It began on 5 October 2024 when the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reinvaded Jabalia and its refugee camp for the first time in months since earlier fighting.
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A leadership election was held for the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) of Northern Ireland on 5 October 2024, following the resignation of Colum Eastwood on 29 August 2024 to focus on his role in the party's New Ireland Commission and as Member of Parliament (MP) for Foyle. The SDLP's other MP, Claire Hanna, ran unopposed for the leadership.
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The Battle of Jebel Moya was the 3-month battle over the strategically important area of Jebel Moya in the Sennar State during the Sudanese civil war. It saw the area be initially taken over by the RSF in June 2024 for around 3 months before it was recaptured by SAF in October of the same year.
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ONE Fight Night 25: Nicolas vs. Eersel 2 was a combat sport event produced by ONE Championship that took place on October 5, 2024, at Lumpinee Boxing Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand.
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The 2025 Internazionali di Calabria was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the first edition of the tournament and part of the 2025 WTA 125 tournaments. It took place in Rende, Italy between 29 September and 5 October 2025.
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The 2025 Samsun Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the first edition of the tournament and part of the 2025 WTA 125 tournaments. It took place in Samsun, Turkey between 29 September and 5 October 2025.
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The Reykjavík International Film Festival wrapped up its 2025 edition after eleven days of screenings.
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The 2026 Quebec general election was held on October 5, 2026, to elect members to the National Assembly of the 44th Quebec Legislature. Lieutenant Governor Manon Jeannotte dropped the writs of election on August 27, 2026, after Premier Christine Fréchette advised her to dissolve the legislature. Key issues of the election campaign included the cost of living, housing, Quebec sovereignty, infrastructure, protection of Quebec culture and the French language, U.S. tariffs, healthcare, the economy, and energy.
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