October 5: Sukkot begins (Judaism, 2017)
Samuel Griffith
- 610 – Heraclius was crowned Byzantine Emperor, having personally beheaded the previous emperor Phocas.
- 1869 – During construction of the Hennepin Island tunnel in St. Anthony, Minnesota (now Minneapolis), U.S., the Mississippi River broke through the tunnel's limestone ceiling, nearly destroying Saint Anthony Falls.
- 1903 – Samuel Griffith (pictured) became the first Chief Justice of Australia, while Edmund Barton and Richard O'Connor became the first Puisne Justices of the High Court of Australia.
- 1962 – Dr. No, the first in the James Bond film series, was released.
- 2011 – Two Chinese cargo ships were attacked on a stretch of the Mekong River in the Golden Triangle area of Southeast Asia, and their crews murdered.
Jacques Offenbach (d. 1880) · Magda Szabó (b. 1917) · Kate Winslet (b. 1975)
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