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 August - 05 martin Luther King Jr stoned during Chicago march  

1966  On August - 05 austin Diamond, cricketer (Australian capt to America 1913), dies  

1968  On August - 05 luther Perkins American guitarist  

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

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

1972  Frederic Tozere, actor (Mr Phillips-Stanley), dies at 71 on August - 05.  

1973  USSR launches Mars 6 on this day in history.  

1974  On August - 05 joan Jett forms her rock group the Runaways  

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

1977  Charles Carson, actor (Cry the Beloved Country), dies at 87 on August - 05.  

1978  Queenie Smith, actress/dancer (Funny Side), dies at 79 on August - 05.  

1981  Pres Regan fires 11,500 air traffic controllers on strike on this day in history.  

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  On this day in history flexible-wing glider altitude record set  

1985  Theodore Sturgeon, sci-fi author (Hugo, It, Caviar), dies at 67 on August - 05.  

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  Herman Gooding, Suriname police-inspector, dies on August - 05.  

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 August - 05.  

1992  On this day in history jeff Porcaro, drummer (Toto-Africa), dies of cardiac arrest at 38  

1994  On August - 05 amy Sacks, producer (ABC sports, Disney), dies of Lupus at 39  

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

1996  On this day in history abdulrahman Mohamed Babu, politician, dies at 72  

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

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

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

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 this day in history 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  On this day in history birth of guillaume Dufay, Franco-Flemish composer and theorist (d. 1474)  

1461  On this day in history birth of alexander Jagiellon, Grand Duke of Lithuania (d. 1506)  

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

1604  John Eliot, "Apostle to Indians," Bible translator, baptized was born on this day in history.  

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

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

1624  On August - 05 birth of william, Jamestown Va, 1st black child born in English America  

0882  Death of King Louis III of France (b. 863) on August - 05.  

1063  On August - 05 death of gruffydd ap Llywelyn, King of Gwynedd  

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

1364  Death of Emperor Kogon of Japan (b. 1313) on this day in history.  

1572  On this day in history 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 August - 05.