Events on October 5, 2011
Arthur, Chester Alan (Birth Date)Balloons Around the World
Bonds Breaks Season Home Run Record (10th Anniversary)
Chief Joseph Surrender
China: Chung Yeung Festival (or Double Nine Festival)
Civil War "Submarine" Attack
Edwards, Jonathan (Birth Date)
England: Nottingham Goose Fair
Enrico Fermi Atomic Power Plant Accident (45th Anniversary)
Fine, Larry (Birth Date)
Goddard, Robert Hutchings (Birth Date)
Hasenfus, Eugene, Captured (25th Anniversary)
Lumière, Louis (Birth Date)
Mississippi State Fair
"Monty Python's Flying Circus" TV Premiere
Portugal: Republic Day
Space Milestone: Challenger Sts 41-G
Stone, Thomas (Death Date)
Tecumseh (Death Date)
United Nations: World Teachers' Day
"You Bet Your Life" TV Premiere
"Zane Grey Theater" TV Premiere (55th Anniversary)
Birthdays on October 5, 2011
Karen Allen, 60, actress (The Wanderers, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Starman), born Carrollton, IL, Oct 5, 1951.Michael Andretti, 49, race car driver, son of Mario Andretti, born Bethlehem, PA, Oct 5, 1962.
Raymond Lester “Trace” Armstrong, 46, former football player, born Bethesda, MD, Oct 5, 1965.
Clive Barker, 59, author, born Liverpool, England, Oct 5, 1952.
Josie Bissett, 41, actress (“Melrose Place”), born Seattle, WA, Oct 5, 1970.
Ben Cardin, 68, US Senator (D, Maryland), born Baltimore, MD, Oct 5, 1943.
Jeff Conaway, 61, actor (“Taxi,” Grease), born New York, NY, Oct 5, 1950.
Bill Dana, 87, actor, comedian, born Quincy, MA, Oct 5, 1924.
Laura Davies, 48, golfer, 1994 LPGA Championship winner, born Coventry, England, Oct 5, 1963.
Jesse Eisenberg, 28, actor (The Squid and the Whale, Adventure-land), born New York, NY, Oct 5, 1983.
Bob Geldof, 60, singer (Boomtown Rats), social activist, born Dublin, Ireland, Oct 5, 1951.
Václav Havel, 75, dramatist, former president of the Czech Republic, born Prague, Czechoslovakia, Oct 5, 1936.
Grant Hill, 39, basketball player, born Dallas, TX, Oct 5, 1972.
Glynis Johns, 88, actress (Mary Poppins, The Ref, A Little Night Music), born Pretoria, South Africa, Oct 5, 1923.
Bil Keane, 89, cartoonist (“Family Circus”), born Philadelphia, PA, Oct 5, 1922.
Mario Lemieux, 46, Hall of Fame hockey player, hockey executive, born Montreal, QC, Canada, Oct 5, 1965.
Steve Miller, 68, musician, singer (Steve Miller Band), born Dallas, TX, Oct 5, 1943.
Parminder K. Nagra, 36, actress (Bend It Like Beckham, “ER”), born Leicester, Leicestershire, England, Oct 5, 1975.
Patrick Roy, 46, former hockey player, born Quebec City, QC, Canada, Oct 5, 1965.
Kate Winslet, 36, actress (Oscar for The Reader; Finding Neverland, Little Children, Titanic), born Reading, England, Oct 5, 1975.
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