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Old 10-04-2010, 08:14 PM
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October 5th
1805 ~ Death of Charles Cornwallis, British general.

1813 ~ Death of Tecumseh, American Indian leader.

1882 ~ Birthday of Robert Goddard, rocket scientist.

1902 ~ Birthday of Ray Kroc, founder of McDonald's Corporation.

1936 ~ Birthday of Václav Havel, playwright, president of the Czech Republic.

1947 ~ President Harry Truman gave the first televised White House address.

1994 ~ Forty eight members of a Swiss cult die in a mass suicide.

1969 ~ “Monty Python's Flying Circus” made its debut on BBC Television.

1972 ~ Montreal, Quebec: British Trade Commissioner James Cross was kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group.

2000 ~ Mass demonstrations in Belgrade led to the resignation of Slobodan Milosevic.
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