5th October

EVENTS:

• 1665 – The University of Kiel is founded.
• 1864 – The Indian city of Calcutta is almost totally destroyed by a cyclone; 60,000 die.
• 1895 – The first individual time trial for racing cyclists is held on a 50-mile course north of London.
• 1905 – Wilbur Wright pilots Wright Flyer III in a flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes, a world record that stood until 1908.
• 1948 – The 1948 Ashgabat earthquake kills 110,000.
• 1970 – The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is founded.
• 1991 – The first official version of the Linux kernel, version 0.02, is released.
• 2011 – In the Mekong River massacre, two Chinese cargo boats are hijacked and 13 crew members murdered in the lawless Golden Triangle region of Southeast Asia.

BIRTHS:

• 1879 – Francis Peyton Rous, American pathologist and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)
• 1887 – René Cassin, French judge and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1976)
• 1913 – Eugene B. Fluckey American admiral, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2007)
• 1923 – Kailashpati Mishra, Indian politician, 18th Governor of Gujarat (d. 2012)
• 1930 – Reinhard Selten, German economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1937 – Barry Switzer, American football player and coach
• 1955 – John Alexander, English footballer
• 1958 – Neil Peart, Australian footballer
• 1965 – Trace Armstrong, American football player and agent
• 1978 – Mark Gower, English footballer
• 1983 – Mashrafe Mortaza, Bangladeshi cricketer
• 1988 – Benny Howell, English cricketer
• 1989 – Marcel Baude, German footballer
• 1991 – Tornike Shengelia, Georgian basketball player
• 1993 – Jewell Loyd, American basketball player
• 1999 – Washington Sundar, Indian cricketer

HOLIDAYS and OBSERVANCES:

• Armed Forces Day (Indonesia)
• Constitution Day (Vanuatu)
• Republic Day (Portugal)
• Teachers’ Day (Pakistan)
• World Teachers’ Day (International)