Page 7: Historical Events In August - 05

1965  On this day in history cook Islands in South Pacific granted internal self-government by New Zealand   

1965  On August - 05 linda McGill becomes first Australian woman to swim the English Channel.   

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  On August - 05 mariner 7 flies past Mars   

1971  Josef Stanislav, composer, dies at 74 on this day in history.   

1972  On this day in history frederic Tozere, actor (Mr Phillips-Stanley), dies at 71   

1973  USSR launches Mars 6 on this day in history.   

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

1976  On August - 05 adrian Roland Holst, poet (Past the Roads), dies at 88   

1977  Charles Carson, actor (Cry the Beloved Country), dies at 87 on this day in history.   

1978  On August - 05 queenie Smith, actress/dancer (Funny Side), dies at 79   

1981  On August - 05 pres Regan fires 11,500 air traffic controllers on strike   

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 August - 05.   

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

1985  Flexible-wing glider altitude record set on this day in history.   

1985  On August - 05 theodore Sturgeon, sci-fi author (Hugo, It, Caviar), dies at 67   

1987  Zygmunt Mycielsky, composer, dies at 79 on August - 05.   

1988  Mario Biaggi politician convicted of racketeering on this day in history.   

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

1990  On August - 05 herman Gooding, Suriname police-inspector, dies   

1991  On August - 05 sergei Bubka of USSR sets pole vault record in Malmo Sweden   

1991  Paul Brown, NFL founder (Cleveland Browns, Cin Bengals), dies at 82 on this day in history.   

1992  Jeff Porcaro, drummer (Toto-Africa), dies of cardiac arrest at 38 on this day in history.   

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

1995  Agha Hasan Abedi, banker, dies at 73 on this day in history.   

1996  Abdulrahman Mohamed Babu, politician, dies at 72 on August - 05.   

1997  Don Steele, LA radio personality (KRTH), dies of cancer at 61 on this day in history.   

2000  Sir Alec Guinness, revered as one of Britain's most versatile actors, dies at 86 on August - 05.   

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

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

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

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1301  On this day in history birth of edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, English politician (d. 1330)   

1397  Guillaume Dufay, Franco-Flemish composer and theorist (d. 1474) was born on August - 05.   

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  Philipp Friedrich Boddecker, composer was born on this day in history.   

1623  On August - 05 birth of antonio Cesti, composer   

1624  William, Jamestown Va, 1st black child born in English America was born on August - 05.   

0882  Death of King Louis III of France (b. 863) on this day in history.   

1063  On this day in history death of gruffydd ap Llywelyn, King of Gwynedd   

1157  Dirk VI, Count of Holland, dies on August - 05.   

1364  On August - 05 death of emperor Kogon of Japan (b. 1313)   

1572  On August - 05 death of isaac Luria, Palestinian-born Kabbalist (b. 1534)   

1579  Death of Stanislaus Hosius, Polish Catholic cardinal (b. 1504) on August - 05.   

1610  Death of Alonso García de Ramón, Spanish soldier and twice Royal Governor of Chile on this day in history.   

1644  J Henry Alting, theologist (Statenvertaling), dies at 61 on this day in history.