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)


Larry Fine 1902, Bill Dana 1924, Vaclav Havel (Czechoslovakia) 1936


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.


1937 - U.S. President Roosevelt called for a "quarantine" of aggressor nations.


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 - A Cuban defector landed a Soviet-made MiG-17 at Homestead Air Force Base in Florida. The plane entered U.S. air space and landed without being detected.


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


2006 - Walmart rolled out its $4 generic drug program to the entire state of Florida after a successful test in the Tampa area.