THIS DAY IN HISTORY ― OCTOBER 5

October 5 is the 278th day of the year(279th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 87 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Wednesday or Friday (58 in 400 years each) than on Saturday or Sunday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Tuesday or Thursday (56).

NATIONAL GET FUNKY DAY  

1450 – Jews are expelled from Lower Bavaria by order of Ludwig IX.

1582 – Gregorian calendar introduced in Italy, France (most areas), Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.

1789 – French Revolution: The March on Versailles is made by women to confront Louis XVI about his refusal to promulgate the decrees on the abolition of feudalism, demand bread, and have the King and his court moved to Paris.

1813 ―During the War of 1812, a combined British and Indian force is defeated by General William Harrison's American army at the Battle of the Thames near Ontario, Canada. 

1877 – Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce Indians surrenders to U.S. General Nelson A. Miles in the Bear Paw mountains of Montana, declaring, "Hear me, my chiefs: My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever."

1892 – The Dalton gang attempts to rob two banks simultaneously in Coffeyville, Kansas, but meets resistance from townspeople, who wind up killing four of the five bandits.

1919 – On October 5, 1919, a young Italian car mechanic and engineer named Enzo Ferrari takes part in his first car race, a hill climb in Parma, Italy. He finished fourth. Ferrari was a good driver, but not a great one: In all, he won just 13 of the 47 races he entered. Many people say that this is because he cared too much for the sports cars he drove; he could never bring himself to ruin an engine in order to win a race.

1942 – On this day in 1942, Joseph Stalin, premier and dictator of the Soviet Union, fires off a telegram to the German and Soviet front at Stalingrad, exhorting his forces to victory. "That part of Stalingrad which has been captured must be liberated."

1947 – On this day in 1947, President Harry Truman (1884-1972) makes the first-ever televised presidential address from the White House, asking Americans to cut back on their use of grain in order to help starving Europeans.

1953 – Earl Warren is sworn in as 14th chief justice of the United States. Warren is one of only two people to be elected Governor of California three times, the other being Jerry Brown. Before holding these positions, he was the District Attorney for Alameda County, California, and the Attorney General of California.

1970 – PBS becomes a U.S. television network.

1974 – American David Kunst completes the first round-the-world journey on foot, taking four years and 21 pairs of shoes to complete the 14,500-mile journey across the land masses of four continents.

1983 – Polish labor leader, Lech Walesa, wins the Nobel Peace Prize.

1989 – The Dalai Lama, the exiled religious and political leader of Tibet, is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of his nonviolent campaign to end the Chinese domination of Tibet.

2000 – Mass demonstrations in Belgrade lead to resignation of Serbian strongman Slobodan Milošević. These demonstrations are often called the Bulldozer Revolution.

TODAY'S BIRTHS

1829 – Chester A. Arthur, American general, lawyer, and politician, 21st President of the United States (d. 1886)

1882 – Robert H. Goddard, American physicist, engineer, and academic, father of American rocketry (d. 1945)

1902 – Ray Kroc, American businessman and philanthropist, McDonald's (d. 1984)
1936 – Václav Havel, Czech poet, playwright, and politician, 1st President of the Czech Republic (d. 2011)

From Wikipedia and Google, except as noted.