On This Day in History for August 5
Events in History
- 135 Betar last outpost of Bar Kochba falls to Rome
- 642 Battle of Maserfield - Penda of Mercia defeats and kills Oswald of Bernicia
- 910 The last major Viking army to raid England is defeated at the Battle of Tettenhall by the allied forces of Mercia and Wessex, led by King Edward and Earl Aethelred
- 1100 Henry I is crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey, London
- 1264 Anti-Jewish riots break out in Arnstadt Germany
- 1305 William Wallace, who led Scottish resistance to England, is captured by the English near Glasgow and transported to London for trial and execution.
- 1388 Battle of Otterburn, a border skirmish between the Scottish and the English in Northern England
- 1391 Castilian sailors fire attack Jewish ghetto of Barcelona, 100's killed
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William Allen
Guy de Maupassant
Hugh S. Johnson
Neil Armstrong
Reid Hoffman
Marine Le PenWeddings in History
- 1764 Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II (17) weds queen Maria Luisa of Spain (18) in Innsbruck, Austria
- 1885 Author Arthur Conan Doyle (26) weds Louisa Hawkins
- 2005 Bavaria's Prince Leopold's son Prince Manuel von Bayern (31) weds Prince Ludwig-Ferdinand's daughter Princess Anna of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg in Sweden
Divorces in History
- 1925 Turkish President Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (44) divorces wife Latife Hanim after 2 years of marriage
More Weddings & Divorces in History
Frederick North
Friedrich Engels
Arthur Meighen
Robert Muldoon
Toni MorrisonAugust in History
The Strange, Mysterious Story of the Balloon Expedition to the North Pole
The discovery of Swedish engineer S. A. Andrée's tragic, long-lost polar expedition in 1930 led to more questions than answers.
August 5, 1930
Battle of Petrovaradin
The Battle of Petrovaradin or Peterwardein which saw a decisive victory for the Imperial Army
August 5, 1716
A Pill to Cure All Ills
Not well? Take a Beecham’s Pill was often the advice. So popular was it that nobody doubted it’s extravagant claim in the world’s first advertising slogan.
August 6, 1859
Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima
Mushroom cloud over Hiroshima
August 6, 1945