Tuesday, 5 October 2010

On This Day - 5th October


1829 - Chester A. Arthur born
1902 - Larry Fine and Ray Kroc born
1917 - Allen Ludden born
1919 - Donald Pleasence born
1923 - Glynis Johns born
1951 - Karen Allen born
1954 - Bob Geldof born
1957 - Bernie Mac born
1965 - Mario Lemieux and Patrick Roy born
1967 - Guy Pearce born
1968 - Batons and water cannon have been used by police to break up a civil rights march in Londonderry.
1972 - Grant Hill born
1974 - Guildford pub bombings claim the lives of four people and more than 50 injured in explosions in southern England.
1975 - Kate Winslet born
1983 - Nikki Hilton born
1984 - Police and Customs in Essex seize Britain's biggest ever haul of cannabis made in a single raid.
1994 - The bodies of 48 members of a religious cult are discovered by Swiss police after an apparent mass suicide.
1999 - 31 people are killed and over 160 injured after two trains collide at Ladbroke Grove 'Paddington' in west London.
2000 - Opposition supporters storm the Yugoslav parliament building and proclaim Vojislav Kostunica as the new president.

2011 - Former England cricketer Graham Dilley dies aged 52 after a short illness.
2011 - Apple founder Steve Jobs dies of pancreatic cancer aged 56.

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