August 5

August 5 is the 217th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (218th in leap years), with 148 days remaining.

Events

• 1772 - First Partition of Poland[?]
• 1862 - Battle of Baton Rouge[?]
• 1864 - Battle of Mobile Bay[?] begins.
• 1882 - Standard Oil Company of New Jersey established
• 1884 - Cornerstone for Statue of Liberty laid
• 1914 - First traffic light installed, in Cleveland, Ohio
• 1963 - United States, Great Britain, and Soviet Union sign a nuclear test ban treaty
• 1969 - Mariner 7 Mars fly-by
• 1981 - Ronald Reagan fires 11,359 air-traffic controllers
• 1983 - AT&T is broken up into several "Baby Bells"

Births

• 1811 - Thomas Ambroise[?], composer (+ 1896)
• 1842 - Ferdinand Keller[?], painter (+ 1922)
• 1850 - Guy de Maupassant, author (+ 1893)
• 1866 - Carl Harries[?], chemist (+ 1923)
• 1889 - Conrad Aiken, poet (+ 1973)
• 1890 - Erich Kleiber, conductor (+ 1956)
• 1906 - John Huston, director (+ 1987)
• 1911 - Robert Taylor[?], actor (+ 1969)
• 1930 - Neil Armstrong, astronaut
• 1935 - John Saxon[?], actor
• 1939 - Princess Irene of the Netherlands
• 1940 - Roman Gabriel[?], professional football player
• 1946 - Loni Anderson[?], actress
• 1946 - Jimmy Webb, composer, musician
• 1947 - Rick Derringer[?], rock and roll musician
• 1951 - Airto[?], percussionist
• 1956 - Maurren McCormick[?], actress, The Brady Bunch
• 1962 - Patrick Ewing, basketball player

Deaths

• 882 - King Louis III of France
• 1895 - Friedrich Engels, socialist philosopher
• 1955 - Carmen Miranda, actress, singer
• 1960 - Arthur Meighen, ninth Prime Minister of Canada
• 1962 - Marilyn Monroe, actress
• 1984 - Sir Richard Burton, actor
• 2000 - Sir Alec Guinness, 86, British actor
• 2002 - Chick Hearn, pro-basketball announcer

Holidays and observances

• Burkina Faso - Independence Day
• Croatia - National Thanksgiving Day

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