Today in History
October 5
1762The British fleet bombards and captures Spanish-held Manila in the Philippines.
1795 The day after he routed counterrevolutionaries in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte accepts their formal surrender.
1813 U.S. victory at the Battle of the Thames, in Ontario, broke Britain's Indian allies with the death of Shawnee Chief Tecumseh, and made the Detroit frontier safe.
1821Greek rebels capture Tripolitza, the main Turkish fort in the Peloponnese area of Greece.
1864 At the Battle of Allatoona, a small Union post is saved from Lt. Gen. John Bell Hood's army.
1877Nez Perce Chief Joseph surrenders to Colonel Nelson Miles in Montana Territory, after a 1,700-mile trek to reach Canada falls 40 miles short.
1880The first ball-point pen is patented on this day by Alonzo T. Cross.
1882Outlaw Frank James surrenders in Missouri six months after brother Jesse's assassination.
1915 Germany issues an apology and promises for payment for the 128 American passengers killed in the sinking of the British ship Lusitania.
1931 Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon complete the first heavier than air nonstop flight over the Pacific. Their flight, begun October 3, lasted 41 hours, 31 minutes and covered 5,000 miles. They piloted their Bellanca CH-200 monoplane from Samushiro, 300 miles north of Tokyo, Japan, to Wenatchee, Washington.
1965 U.S. forces in Saigon receive permission to use tear gas.
1966A sodium cooling system malfunction causes a partial core meltdown at the Enrico Fermi demonstration breeder reactor near Detroit. Radiation is contained.




Born on October 5
1830Chester A. Arthur, 21st president of the United States (1881-1885).
1882Robert Goddard, American rocket scientist, held more than 200 rocketry patents.
1902Ray Croc, founder of the McDonald's hamburger franchise in 1955.
1911Flann O'Brien, Irish novelist and playwright (The Hard Life, The Third Policeman).
1936Václav Havel, Czech dissident dramatist who became the first freely elected president of Czechoslovakia in 55 years.
1959Maya Lin, American architect who designed the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C.

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