Historical Events In August - 05

1965  Cook Islands in South Pacific granted internal self-government by New Zealand on August - 05.  

1965  Linda McGill becomes first Australian woman to swim the English Channel on August - 05.  

1966  On this day in history martin Luther King Jr stoned during Chicago march  

1966  On this day in history austin Diamond, cricketer (Australian capt to America 1913), dies  

1968  On this day in history luther Perkins American guitarist  

1969  Mariner 7 flies past Mars on this day in history.  

1971  On this day in history josef Stanislav, composer, dies at 74  

1972  Frederic Tozere, actor (Mr Phillips-Stanley), dies at 71 on this day in history.  

1973  On August - 05 uSSR launches Mars 6  

1974  Joan Jett forms her rock group the Runaways on this day in history.  

1976  On this day in history adrian Roland Holst, poet (Past the Roads), dies at 88  

1977  On this day in history charles Carson, actor (Cry the Beloved Country), dies at 87  

1978  Queenie Smith, actress/dancer (Funny Side), dies at 79 on this day in history.  

1981  Pres Regan fires 11,500 air traffic controllers on strike on August - 05.  

1982  Wanda Rotha, actress (Mrs Fitzherbert), dies at 72 on this day in history.  

1983  Judy Canova, singer/comedienne (Chatterbox), dies of cancer at 66 on this day in history.  

1984  On August - 05 howard Culver, actor (Howie-Gunsmoke), dies at 66  

1985  Flexible-wing glider altitude record set on August - 05.  

1985  Theodore Sturgeon, sci-fi author (Hugo, It, Caviar), dies at 67 on this day in history.  

1987  Zygmunt Mycielsky, composer, dies at 79 on this day in history.  

1988  Mario Biaggi politician convicted of racketeering on August - 05.  

1989  On this day in history ralph Meeker, actor (Kiss Me Deadly, Gentle Giant), dies at 68  

1990  On this day in history herman Gooding, Suriname police-inspector, dies  

1991  Sergei Bubka of USSR sets pole vault record in Malmo Sweden on this day in history.  

1991  Paul Brown, NFL founder (Cleveland Browns, Cin Bengals), dies at 82 on August - 05.  

1992  On August - 05 jeff Porcaro, drummer (Toto-Africa), dies of cardiac arrest at 38  

1994  Amy Sacks, producer (ABC sports, Disney), dies of Lupus at 39 on August - 05.  

1995  Agha Hasan Abedi, banker, dies at 73 on August - 05.  

1996  Abdulrahman Mohamed Babu, politician, dies at 72 on this day in history.  

1997  On August - 05 don Steele, LA radio personality (KRTH), dies of cancer at 61  

2000  On this day in history sir Alec Guinness, revered as one of Britain's most versatile actors, dies at 86.  

2011  On August - 05 juno, the first solar-powered spacecraft on a mission to Jupiter, is launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.  

2011  NASA announces that its Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured photographic evidence of possible liquid water on Mars during warm seasons on August - 05.  

2011  On August - 05 svalbard Polar Bear Attack (2011)  

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1301  Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, English politician (d. 1330) was born on this day in history.  

1397  Guillaume Dufay, Franco-Flemish composer and theorist (d. 1474) was born on this day in history.  

1461  Alexander Jagiellon, Grand Duke of Lithuania (d. 1506) was born on August - 05.  

1540  Joseph Justice Scaliger, proposed Julian dating was born on August - 05.  

1604  On August - 05 birth of john Eliot, "Apostle to Indians," Bible translator, baptized  

1607  On this day in history birth of philipp Friedrich Boddecker, composer  

1623  On this day in history birth of antonio Cesti, composer  

1624  William, Jamestown Va, 1st black child born in English America was born on this day in history.  

0882  On August - 05 death of king Louis III of France (b. 863)  

1063  Death of Gruffydd ap Llywelyn, King of Gwynedd on this day in history.  

1157  Dirk VI, Count of Holland, dies on this day in history.  

1364  Death of Emperor Kogon of Japan (b. 1313) on August - 05.  

1572  Death of Isaac Luria, Palestinian-born Kabbalist (b. 1534) on this day in history.  

1579  On this day in history death of stanislaus Hosius, Polish Catholic cardinal (b. 1504)  

1610  Death of Alonso García de Ramón, Spanish soldier and twice Royal Governor of Chile on August - 05.  

1644  J Henry Alting, theologist (Statenvertaling), dies at 61 on August - 05.