October
5
World
Teachers Day
World Teachers’
Day, held annually on 5 October since 1994, commemorates the
anniversary of the signing in 1966 of the UNESCO/ILO Recommendation
Concerning the Status of Teachers. It is an occasion to celebrate
the essential role of teachers in providing quality education
at all levels.
“Recovery
Begins with Teachers”: World Teachers’ Day, 5 October 2010
Live testimonies from teachers supporting recovery
worldwide and a photo exhibition which shows teachers in demanding
situations were among the high points of the World Teachers’
Day celebrations on 5 October in UNESCO’s headquarters in Paris.
The “Tribute
to Teachers” exhibition, inaugurated by the Director-General
of UNESCO, was made available online for a month via a virtual
exhibition.
The day’s
activities also included presentations of the latest statistics
on teachers; initiatives to promote excellence in teaching;
developments from the Task Force on Teachers for Education For
All; teacher education activities of the UN Relief and Works
Agency and how new technologies can accelerate teacher development.
World
Cerebral Palsy Day
World Cerebral Palsy Day is observed annually on the first Wednesday
of October. Managed by a group of nonprofit Cerebral Palsy (CP)
organizations called the World Cerebral Palsy Initiative, the
day raises awareness about CP and brings attention to the specific
needs of those living with this complex physical condition.
Events
456 – The
Visigoths under king Theodoric II, acting on orders of the Roman
emperor Avitus, invade Spain with an army of Burgundians, Franks
and Goths, led by the kings Chilperic I and Gondioc. They defeat
the Suebi under king Rechiar on the river Urbicus near Astorga
(Gallaecia).
610 – Coronation of Byzantine Emperor Heraclius.
869 – The Fourth Council of Constantinople is convened to decide
about what to do about patriarch Photius of Constantinople.
1143 – King Alfonso VII of León recognises Portugal as a Kingdom.
1450 – Jews are expelled from Lower Bavaria by order of Louis
IX, Duke of Bavaria.
1550 – Foundation of Concepción, city in Chile.
1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar
this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal
and Spain.
1665 – The University of Kiel is founded.
1789 – French Revolution: Women of Paris march to Versailles
in the March on Versailles to confront Louis XVI about his refusal
to promulgate the decrees on the abolition of feudalism, demand
bread, and have the King and his court moved to Paris.
1793 – French Revolution: Christianity is disestablished in
France.
1813 – Battle of Thames in Canada; Americans defeat British.
1857 – The City of Anaheim is founded.
1864 – The Indian city of Calcutta is almost totally destroyed
by a cyclone; 60,000 die.
1869 – The Saxby Gale devastates the Bay of Fundy region of
Maritime Canada. The storm had been predicted over a year before
by a British naval officer.
1877 – Chief Joseph surrenders his Nez Perce band to General
Nelson A. Miles.
1895 – The first individual time trial for racing cyclists is
held on a 50-mile course north of London.
1903 – Sir Samuel Griffith is appointed the first Chief Justice
of Australia and Sir Edmund Barton and Richard O'Connor are
appointed as foundation justices.
1905 – Wilbur Wright pilots Wright Flyer III in a flight of
24 miles in 39 minutes, a world record that stood until 1908.
1910 – In a revolution in Portugal the monarchy is overthrown
and a republic is declared .
1914 – World War I: first aerial combat resulting in an intentional
fatality.
1915 – Bulgaria enters World War I as one of the Central Powers.
1921 – Baseball: The World Series is broadcast on the radio
for the first time.
1930 – British Airship R101 crashes in France en-route to India
on its maiden voyage.
1936 – The Jarrow March sets off for London.
1943 – 98 American POW's executed by Japanese forces on Wake
Island.
1944 – Royal Canadian Air Force pilots shoot down the first
German jet fighter over France.
1944 – Suffrage is extended to women in France.
1945 – Hollywood Black Friday: A six-month strike by Hollywood
set decorators turns into a bloody riot at the gates of Warner
Brothers' studios.
1947 – The first televised White House address is given by U.S.
President Harry S. Truman.
1948 – The 1948 Ashgabat earthquake kills 110,000.
1953 – The first documented recovery meeting of Narcotics Anonymous
is held.
1955 – Disneyland Hotel opens to the public in Anaheim, California.
1962 – Dr. No, the first in the James Bond film series, is released.
1966 – Near Detroit, Michigan, there is a partial core meltdown
at the Enrico Fermi demonstration nuclear breeder reactor.
1968 – Police baton civil rights demonstrators in Derry, Northern
Ireland – considered to mark the beginning of The Troubles.
1969 – The first episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus airs
on BBC.
1970 – The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is founded.
1970 – Montreal, Quebec: British Trade Commissioner James Cross
is kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group, triggering
the October Crisis.
1973 – Signature of the European Patent Convention.
1974 – Guildford pub bombings: bombs planted by the Provisional
Irish Republican Army (IRA) kill four British soldiers and one
civilian.
1982 – Chicago Tylenol murders: Johnson & Johnson initiates
a nationwide product recall in the United States for all products
in its Tylenol brand after several bottles in Chicago are found
to have been laced with cyanide, resulting in seven deaths.
1984 – Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space, aboard
the Space Shuttle Challenger.
1986 – Israeli secret nuclear weapons are revealed. The British
newspaper The Sunday Times runs Mordechai Vanunu's story on
its front page under the headline: "Revealed — the secrets
of Israel's nuclear arsenal".
1988 – The Chilean opposition coalition Concertación (center-left)
defeats Augusto Pinochet in his re-election attempt and a general
election is called the following year.
1988 – The Brazilian Constitution is ratified by Constituent
Assembly.
1990 – After one hundred and fifty years The Herald broadsheet
newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, is published for the last
time as a separate newspaper.
1991 – An Indonesian military transport crashes after takeoff
from Jakarta killing 137.
1991 – The first official version of the Linux kernel, version
0.02, is released.
1999 – The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in west London kills 31
people.
2000 – Mass demonstrations in Belgrade lead to resignation of
Serbian strongman Slobodan Milošević. These demonstrations are
often called the Bulldozer Revolution.
Holidays
and observances
Armed Forces
Day (Indonesia)
Christian Feast Day:
Faustyna Kowalska
Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos (Roman Catholic Church)
Thraseas
Hor and Susia (Coptic Church)
Placid and Maurus
Placidus (martyr)
October 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Constitution Day (Vanuatu)
One of the three Mundus patet (Roman Empire)
Republic Day (Portugal)
Stara Zagora (Bulgaria)
Teacher's Day (Pakistan)
World Teachers' Day (International)
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