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Notable anniversaries in history for today: October 5
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of Bill Dana in Quincy, Massachusetts, USA; comedian/actor (Jose Jimenez).
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Duncan Regehr in Alberta, Canada; actor (Wizards and Warriors).
- 70th: 1954 - Hurricane Hazel hits Eastern US.
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Douglas Emerson in Glendale, California, USA; actor (Robbie - Herbie The Love Bug).
- 40th: 1984 - 13th Space Shuttle Mission (41-G) - Challenger 6 - launched. Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space.
- 30th: 1994 - In Switzerland, 23 members of the Order of the Solar Temple cult are found dead, a day after 25 of their fellow cultists are similarly discovered dead in Morin Heights, Quebec.
- 30th: 1994 - UNESCO inaugurates World Teachers' Day to celebrate and commemorate the signing of the Recommendation Concerning the Status of Teachers on October 5, 1966.
- 25th: 1999 - Thirty-one people die in the Ladbroke Grove rail crash, west of London, England.
- 20th: 2004 - The Austrian Mint begins producing the world's largest gold coin, the 1000-ounce Vienna Philharmonic gold coins with face value 100,000 euros, 37 cm in diameter, dubbed "Big Phil", to celebrate the 15th anniversary of Austria's Philharmonic gold bullion coin program.
- 20th: 2004 - A fire breaks out on the Canadian submarine HMCS Chicoutimi, leaving it stranded without power in the North Atlantic ocean, off the north coast of Ireland; one crewmember is killed.
- 20th: 2004 - Death of Maurice Wilkins, New Zealand-born physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1916).
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