Page 7: Historical Events In August - 05

1965  Cook Islands in South Pacific granted internal self-government by New Zealand on this day in history.   

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  On August - 05 luther Perkins American guitarist   

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  On August - 05 uSSR launches Mars 6   

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

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

1977  On August - 05 charles Carson, actor (Cry the Beloved Country), dies at 87   

1978  On this day in history queenie Smith, actress/dancer (Funny Side), dies at 79   

1981  Pres Regan fires 11,500 air traffic controllers on strike on August - 05.   

1982  On this day in history wanda Rotha, actress (Mrs Fitzherbert), dies at 72   

1983  Judy Canova, singer/comedienne (Chatterbox), dies of cancer at 66 on August - 05.   

1984  Howard Culver, actor (Howie-Gunsmoke), dies at 66 on August - 05.   

1985  On August - 05 flexible-wing glider altitude record set   

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

1987  On this day in history zygmunt Mycielsky, composer, dies at 79   

1988  On August - 05 mario Biaggi politician convicted of racketeering   

1989  Ralph Meeker, actor (Kiss Me Deadly, Gentle Giant), dies at 68 on this day in history.   

1990  On this day in history 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 August - 05.   

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  On this day in history agha Hasan Abedi, banker, dies at 73   

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

1997  On August - 05 don Steele, LA radio personality (KRTH), dies of cancer at 61   

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

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

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

2011  Svalbard Polar Bear Attack (2011) on this day in history.   

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

1397  On August - 05 birth of guillaume Dufay, Franco-Flemish composer and theorist (d. 1474)   

1461  Alexander Jagiellon, Grand Duke of Lithuania (d. 1506) was born on August - 05.   

1540  On August - 05 birth of joseph Justice Scaliger, proposed Julian dating   

1604  On this day in history birth of john Eliot, "Apostle to Indians," Bible translator, baptized   

1607  Philipp Friedrich Boddecker, composer was born on August - 05.   

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  On this day in history death of king Louis III of France (b. 863)   

1063  Death of Gruffydd ap Llywelyn, King of Gwynedd on August - 05.   

1157  On August - 05 dirk VI, Count of Holland, dies   

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

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  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