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August 5
August 5 is the 217th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (218th in leap years), with 148 days remaining.
Events
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642 - Battle of Maserfeld - Penda of Mercia defeats and kills Oswald of Bernicia
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1100 - Henry I crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey
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1305 - William Wallace, who led Scottish resistance to England, was captured by the English near Glasgow and transported to London for trial and execution.
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1583 - Sir Humphrey Gilbert establishes first English colony in North America, at what is now St John's, Newfoundland.
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1689 - 1,500 Iroquois attack village of Lachine, in New France.
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1763 - Pontiac's War - Battle of Bushy Run - British forces led by Henry Bouquet defeat Chief Pontiac's Indians at Bushy Run .
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1772 - First Partition of Poland begins.
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1812 - War of 1812: Tecumseh's Indian force ambushes Thomas Van Horne 's 200 Americans at Brownstone Creek, causing them to flee and retreat.
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1858 - Cyrus West Field and others complete the first transatlantic telegraph cable after several unsuccessful attempts. It operated for less than a month.
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1860 - Carl IV of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway, in Trondheim.
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1861 - American Civil War: In order to help pay for the war effort, the United States government issues the first income tax as part of the Revenue Act of 1861 (3% of all incomes over US $800; rescinded in 1872).
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1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Baton Rouge - Along the Mississippi River near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Confederate troops drive Union forces back into the city.
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1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Mobile Bay begins - At Mobile Bay near Mobile, Alabama, Admiral David Farragut leads a Union flotilla through Confederate defenses and seals one of the last major Southern ports.
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1882 - Standard Oil of New Jersey is established.
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1884 - The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor.
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1914 - In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed.
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1944 - Holocaust: Polish insurgents liberate a German labor camp in Warsaw, freeing 348 Jewish prisoners.
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1949 - In Ecuador an earthquake destroys 50 towns and kills more than 6000.
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1960 - Burkina Faso, then known as "Upper Volta", became independent from France
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1962 - Film actress and sex icon, Marilyn Monroe is found dead in her Los Angeles, California home after apparently overdosing on sleeping pills.
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1963 - United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union sign a nuclear test ban treaty.
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1964 - Vietnam War: Operation Pierce Arrow - American aircraft from carriers USS Ticonderoga and USS Constellation bomb North Vietnam in retaliation for strikes attacked US destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin.
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1969 - Mariner program: Mariner 7 makes its closest fly-by of Mars (3,524 kilometers).
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Vietnam War: The U.S. Congress places a $1 billion dollar limit on 1974 military aid to South Vietnam.
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1981 - Ronald Reagan fires 11,359 striking air-traffic controllers who ignored his order for them to return to work.
Births
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1641 - John Hathorne, magistrate (d. 1717)
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1802 - Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician
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1811 - Thomas Ambroise , composer (d. 1896)
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1813 - Ivar Aasen, Norwegian poet and the inventor of Nynorsk
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1842 - Ferdinand Keller , painter (d. 1922)
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1850 - Guy de Maupassant, author (d. 1893)
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1862 - Joseph Merrick, deformed celebrity (d. 1890)
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1866 - Carl Harries , chemist (d. 1923)
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1877 - Tom Thomson, painter (d. 1917)
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1889 - Conrad Aiken, American writer (d. 1973)
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1890 - Erich Kleiber, conductor (d. 1956)
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1906:
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1908 - Harold Holt, seventeenth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1967)
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1911 - Robert Taylor, actor (d. 1969)
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1930 - Neil Armstrong, astronaut
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1935 - John Saxon, actor
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1937 - Herb Brooks, ice hockey coach (d. 2003)
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1939 - Princess Irene of the Netherlands
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1940 - Roman Gabriel , professional football player
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1943 - Nelson Briles, Major League Baseball player (d. 2005)
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1946:
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1947 - Rick Derringer, rock and roll musician
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1951 - Airto Moreira , Brazilian percussionist
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1953 - Rick Mahler, Major League Baseball player (d. 2005)
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1956 - Maureen McCormick, actress, The Brady Bunch
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1961 - Clayton Rohner, actor
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1962 - Patrick Ewing, basketball player
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1964 - Adam Yauch, musician
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1971 - Jeff Somers, author
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1975 - Kajol Mukherjee, actress
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1977 - Mark Mulder, baseball pitcher
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1981:
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1983 - Sararu Mihai Emanuel , pornstar
Deaths
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882 - King Louis III of France
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1633 - Archbishop George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1562)
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1895 - Friedrich Engels, socialist philosopher
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1923 - Vatroslav Jagic Croatian slavist (b. 1835)
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1929 - Millicent Fawcett, British suffragist and feminist (b. 1847)
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1955 - Carmen Miranda, actress, singer
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1960 - Arthur Meighen, ninth Prime Minister of Canada
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1962 - Marilyn Monroe, American actress
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1984 - Richard Burton, British actor
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1991 - Paul Brown, Pro Football Hall of Fame coach (b. 1908)
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2000 - Sir Alec Guinness, 86, British actor
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2002 - Josh Ryan Evans, actor (b. 1982)
- 2002 - Chick Hearn, pro-basketball announcer
Holidays and observances
External links
August 4 - August 6 - July 5 - September 5 -- listing of all days
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