October 5: International Day of No Prostitution
Women's March on Versailles
- 1789 – French Revolution: Upset about the high price and scarcity of bread, thousands of Parisian women and their various allies marched (pictured) on the royal palace at Versailles.
- 1910 – The Portuguese Republican Party organised a coup d'etat, deposed the constitutional monarchy and implanted a republican regime in Portugal.
- 1930 – The British airship R101 crashed in France en route to India on its maiden voyage, killing 48 passengers and crew.
- 1975 – Dirty War: The guerrilla group Montoneros carried out Operation Primicia, a terrorist attack in which they hijacked an Aerolíneas Argentinas flight, captured the Formosa International Airport, and attacked a military regiment.
- 2000 – Serbian engineering vehicle operator Ljubisav Đokić rammed the Radio Television of Serbia building with a wheel loader in a protest known as the Bulldozer Revolution, causing Slobodan Milošević to resign two days later.
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