Page 7: 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  Martin Luther King Jr stoned during Chicago march on this day in history.   

1966  Austin Diamond, cricketer (Australian capt to America 1913), dies on this day in history.   

1968  Luther Perkins American guitarist on August - 05.   

1969  On August - 05 mariner 7 flies past Mars   

1971  On August - 05 josef Stanislav, composer, dies at 74   

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

1973  USSR launches Mars 6 on August - 05.   

1974  Joan Jett forms her rock group the Runaways on August - 05.   

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 August - 05.   

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

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  On August - 05 judy Canova, singer/comedienne (Chatterbox), dies of cancer at 66   

1984  Howard Culver, actor (Howie-Gunsmoke), dies at 66 on this day in history.   

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

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

1991  On August - 05 paul Brown, NFL founder (Cleveland Browns, Cin Bengals), dies at 82   

1992  Jeff Porcaro, drummer (Toto-Africa), dies of cardiac arrest at 38 on August - 05.   

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

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

1996  On August - 05 abdulrahman Mohamed Babu, politician, dies at 72   

1997  Don Steele, LA radio personality (KRTH), dies of cancer at 61 on August - 05.   

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

2011  On this day in history 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 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 August - 05.   

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

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

1540  On this day in history birth of joseph Justice Scaliger, proposed Julian dating   

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 this day in history.   

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

1063  On this day in history 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  Death of Isaac Luria, Palestinian-born Kabbalist (b. 1534) on August - 05.   

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

1610  On August - 05 death of alonso García de Ramón, Spanish soldier and twice Royal Governor of Chile   

1644  On August - 05 j Henry Alting, theologist (Statenvertaling), dies at 61