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October 5th
1813 ~ Death of Tecumseh, American Indian leader.
1882 ~ Birthday of Robert Goddard, rocket scientist.
1902 ~ Birthday of Ray Kroc, founder of McDonald's Corporation.
1947 ~ President Harry Truman gave the first televised White House address.
1968 ~ The beginning of The Troubles of Northern Ireland.
1969 ~ “Monty Python's Flying Circus" made its debut on BBC Television.
1970 ~ Montreal, Quebec: British Trade Commissioner James Cross was kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group.
1994 ~ Forty eight members of a Swiss cult die in a mass suicide.
2000 ~ Mass demonstrations in Belgrade led to the resignation of Slobodan Milosevic.
2004 ~ Death of Maurice Wilkins, New Zealand physicist, Nobel laureate.
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