History for October 5

History for October 5 - On-This-Day.com:
Chester A. Arthur (U.S.) 1830, Robert H. Goddard 1882 - Known as the "Father of the Space Age", Ray Kroc 1902 - Businessman (McDonalds)


Bill Dana 1924, Vaclav Havel (Czechoslovakia) 1936, Karen Allen 1951


1813 - Chief Tecumseh of the Shawnee Indians was killed at the Battle of Thames when American forced defeated the British and the allied Indian warriors.


1919 - Enzo Ferrari debuted in his first race. He later founded the Auto Avio Construzioni Ferrari, an independent manufacturing company.


1930 - Laura Ingalls became the first woman to make a transcontinental airplane flight.


1947 - U.S. President Harry S Truman held the first televised presidential address from the White House. The subject was the current international food crisis.


1955 - The play "The Diary of Anne Frank" opened at the Cort Theatre in New York.


1969 - "Monty Python's Flying Circus" debuted on BBC television.


1991 - Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev announced that his country would cut its nuclear arsenal in response to the arms reduction that was initiated by U.S. President George Bush.


1998 - The U.S. paid $60 million for Russia's research time on the international space station to keep the cash-strapped Russian space agency afloat.