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Events on October 5

• 1056 The Salian Henry IV becomes King of the Romans and Germans after his father Henry III has died unexpectedly.
• 1795 Napoleon Bonaparte has an uprising in Paris in the prelude to the Directory suppressed by cannon fire. His patron Paul de Barras immediately brings about the Corsican's appointment as a general of division as a reward.
• 1842 Joseph Groll brews the first batch of beer using the Pilsner brewing method.
• 1905 With the Wright Flyer III, Wilbur Wright manages a flight of over 38.6 km in 39.5 minutes, the longest flight in a motor-powered aircraft up to that time.
• 1938 Held responsible for the devastating provisions of the Munich Agreement for his country, Edvard Beneš resigns as President of Czechoslovakia.
• 1962 “Love Me Do”, the Beatles’ first single, composed by Paul McCartney and John Lennon, is released in Great Britain. It soon reaches No. 17 on the British charts and marks the beginning of a successful collaboration with producer George Martin.
• 1964 East German border guard Egon Schultz is accidentally shot by his own comrades as a total of 57 people flee through an escape tunnel from East Berlin to West Berlin.
• 1980 In the election to the 9th German Bundestag, the Union parties, with their chancellor candidate Franz Josef Strauß, lose votes and seats, while the SPD and FDP, which govern under Helmut Schmidt, gain them.
• 1989 For the first time, a Long Thursday takes place in the Federal Republic of Germany. It is an attempt to relax the rigid shop opening hours of the Shop Closing Act.
• 1991 Linus Torvalds announces the existence of version 0.01 of the Linux kernel on Usenet.
• 2000 In Belgrade, then the capital of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, peaceful mass protests take place, leading to the overthrow of President Slobodan Milošević.
• 2017 The science fiction film Blade Runner 2049 opens in German cinemas. It is the official sequel to Blade Runner, Ridley Scott's directorial work from 1982.

Born on October 5

• 1864 Louis Jean Lumière, French chemist and entrepreneur
• 1882 Robert Goddard, American rocket builder
• 1920 Gert Westphal, German actor and director
• 1930 Reinhard Selten, German economist and Nobel laureate
• 1932 Johanna Matz, Austrian actress
• 1940 Manfred Bissinger, German publicist
• 1950 Paola Felix, Swiss singer and television presenter
• 1950 James Rizzi, American artist
• 1970 Marcus Wadsak, Austrian meteorologist and radio and television presenter
• 1991 Olga von Luckwald, German actress

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „5. Oktober“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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