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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