Holidays Calendar for October 5, 2017
October 5 is Republic Day in Portugal. This holiday celebrates the proclamation of the Portuguese First Republic in 1910.
Constitution Day is a public holiday in the Republic of Vanuatu celebrated on October 5. It commemorates the signing of the Constitution of Vanuatu that took place on this day in 1979.
International Day of No Prostitution (IDNP) is observed annually on October 5. This awareness day was first held in 2002 in some localities in the United States and Australia.
World Meningitis Day is observed annually to raise awareness about a widespread disease that can affect anyone regardless of their age, gender or country of origin and is often fatal if not diagnosed and treated quickly. Originally observed on April 24, it was moved to October 5 in 2022.
Vranec World Day is observed annually on October 5. This wine-related holiday was created to celebrate a grape variety that originated in Montenegro but is widely grown in North Macedonia, as well as to promote Macedonian wines in general.
Global James Bond Day is an annual celebration of one of the most iconic fictional characters and one of the most popular and longest-running film franchises. It has been held every October 5 since 2012.
World Teachers' Day is an annual global observance that recognizes the significant contribution of teachers to society. It was officially established by UNESCO in 1994. World Teacher's Day is celebrated on October 5.
Engineer' Day is annually celebrated on October 5. This holiday was established to celebrate the foundation of the Engineers Society of Bolivia.
Armed Forces Day in Indonesia is celebrated on October 5. This holiday commemorates the creation of the People's Security Army (Tentara Keamanan Rakjat), the predecessor of the country's National Armed Forces, in 1945.
Law Enforcement Day is an official professional holiday in the Islamic Republic of Iran. It is celebrated on 13 Mehr according to the Solar Hijri calendar used in Iran, which corresponds to October 5 in the Gregorian calendar.
National Dolphin Day is observed in India annually on October 5. It was launched by the National Board for Wildlife and the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change in 2022 to raise awareness of the plight of Indian dolphins and highlight the importance of dolphin conservation efforts.
State Language Day is an official holiday in the Republic of Tajikistan. It was originally observed on July 22, but in 2009 the celebration was moved to October 5.
National Poetry Day is an annual event that takes place in the United Kingdom and Ireland on the first or second Thursday in October. It was founded in 1994 by British philanthropist, publisher and entrepreneur William Sieghart.
The birthday of Nar Bahadur Bhandari is an official holiday in the Indian state of Sikkim. It is celebrated on October 5 to honor the second Chief Minister of Sikkim who governed the state for fifteen years, from 1979 to 1994.
The National Apple Betty Day is dedicated to Ronald and Nancy Reagan's favorite dessert. Apple Betty is a variation of a traditional American dessert called Brown Betty.
Festivals on October 5, 2017
- Romics in Rome, Italy
- Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- CinEast Film Festival in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
- Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival in Yamagata, Japan
- Great American Beer Festival in Denver, USA
- New York Comic Con in New York, USA
- Rocking the Daisies in Cape Town, South Africa
- O Grove Seafood Festival in O Grove, Spain
- Oppikoppi in Northam, South Africa
- Melbourne Festival in Melbourne, Australia
- Sitges Film Festival in Sitges, Spain
- Haifa International Film Festival in Haifa, Israel
- Shanghai Comic Convention in Shanghai, China
- BFI London Film Festival in London, United Kingdom
- Algeria International Festival of Comics (FIBDA) in Algiers, Algeria
This Day in History
- 2011 Died: Steve Jobs, American businessman, inventor, and investor best known for co-founding the technology company Apple Inc. He was also the founder of NeXT and chairman and majority shareholder of Pixar.
- 2011 Died: Charles Napier, American actor who was known for playing supporting and occasional leading roles in television and films. He was frequently cast as police officers, soldiers, or authority figures.
- 2006 Born: Jacob Tremblay, Canadian actor. He rose to prominence as a child actor for his role as a child born in captivity in the 2015 psychological drama Room.
- 2004 Died: Maurice Wilkins, New Zealand-born British biophysicist and Nobel Prize laureate whose research spanned multiple areas of physics and biophysics.
- 2003 Died: Timothy Treadwell, American bear enthusiast, environmentalist, documentary filmmaker, and founder of the bear-protection organization Grizzly People.
- 2000 Serbians went to the streets of Belgrade for a mass demonstration. The demonstration led to the resignation of Serbian President Slobodan Milošević.
- 1991 An Indonesian military transport crashed after takeoff from Jakarta. 137 people were killed in the accident.
- 1986 The British newspaper The Sunday Times published Mordechai Vanunu's story on its front page. The article revealed the Israeli secret nuclear weapons.
- 1983 Born: Jessie Eisenberg, American actor and author known for his roles in The Social Network, To Rome with Love, Now You See Me, The Double, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and other films.
- 1976 Died: Lars Onsager, Norwegian-American physical chemist and theoretical physicist. He was awarded the 1968 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research on the effects on diffusion of temperature gradients.
- 1975 Born: Kate Winslet, English actress. Known for her roles as headstrong and complicated women in independent films, particularly period dramas, she has received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award.
- 1968 The police suppressed civil right demonstrations in Derry, Northern Ireland. This event is considered to mark the beginning of The Troubles.
- 1967 Born: Guy Pearce, UK-born Australian actor. He received international attention for his breakout role in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.
- 1965 Born: Mario Lemieux, Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played parts of 17 seasons in the NHL for the Pittsburgh Penguins. He purchased the club in 1999 to bring it out of bankruptcy.
- 1962 The Beatles released their first single "Love Me Do" in the United Kingdom. The single was backed with "P.S. I Love You".
- 1960 Born: Daniel Baldwin, American actor, producer and director. He is best known for his role as Detective Beau Felton in the popular NBC TV series Homicide: Life on the Street.
- 1958 Born: Neil deGrasse Tyson, American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator. In 2015, he was awarded the Public Welfare Medal by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
- 1947 U.S. President Harry S. Truman delivered the first televised White House address to the nation.
- 1936 Born: Václav Havel, Czech statesman, author, poet, playwright and dissident. He served as the last president of Czechoslovakia and then as the first president of the Czech Republic.
- 1933 Died: Renée Adorée, French actress who often appeared in Hollywood silent movies during the 1920s. She might have gained prominence hadn't she died of tuberculosis at the age of 35.
- 1930 British airship R101 crashed in France during its maiden overseas voyage. 48 of 54 people on board were killed. Among the deceased passengers was Lord Thomson, the Air Minister who had initiated the program of civil airship development.
- 1927 Died: Sam Warner, Polish-born American film producer, the co-founder and chief executive officer of Warner Bros Studios. He died the day before the premiere of this film.
- 1918 Died: Roland Garros, French aviator and fighter pilot during World War I. He is known as the first person to cross the Mediterranean Sea by air.
- 1880 Died: Jacques Offenbach, German composer, cellist and impresario of the Romantic period. He composed nearly 100 operettas and didn't complete his only opera The Tales of Hoffman.
- 1879 Born: Francis Peyton Rous, American pathologist and virologist, known for his involvement in the discovery of the role of viruses in the transmission of certain types of cancer.
- 1869 The tropical cyclone Saxby Gale devastated the Bay of Fundy region in Canada. The storm had been predicted over a year before by a British naval officer.
- 1864 Born: Louis Jean Lumière, French director and producer known as one of the first filmmakers. Together with his brother Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas he patented the cinematograph and shot the first true motion picture in history.
- 1864 The city of Calcutta, India, was totally destroyed by a powerful cyclone. 60,000 people died.
- 1829 Born: Chester A. Arthur, American politician, the 21st President of the United States, who succeeded James Garfield upon his assassination. The centerpiece of his administration was the advocacy for the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act.
- 1813 Died: Tecumseh, Native American leader of the Shawnee and a large tribal confederacy that opposed the United States during Tecumseh's War.
- 1789 Women of Paris marched to Versailles to confront Louis XVI of France about his refusal to promulgate the decrees on the abolition of feudalism. They also demanded bread and moving of the King and his court to Paris.
- 1781 Born: Bernard Bolzano, Czech mathematician and philosopher remembered for his antimilitarist views. His most famous work is The Paradoxes of the Infinite, which was published posthumously.
- 1743 Born: Giuseppe Gazzaniga, Italian composer and educator. During his life he composted 51 operas, including Don Giovanni Tenorio, his most famous opera.
- 1713 Born: Denis Diderot, French philosopher, art critic and writer, a prominent figure during the Age of Enlightenment. He is best known as a co-founder, chief editor and contributor to the Encyclopédie.
- 1640 Born: Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart, Marquise de Montespan (Madame de Montespan), French noblewoman and the most celebrated mistress of King Louis XIV of France.