Today In History. What Happened This Day In History
A Timeline Of Events That Occurred On This Day In History
A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on this day in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened today in history.
Today in History
August 5
| 1391 | Castilian sailors in Barcelona, Spain set fire to a Jewish ghetto, killing 100 people and setting off four days of violence against Jews. | |
| 1763 | Colonel Henry Bouquet decisively defeats the Indians at the Battle of Bushy Run in Pennsylvania during Pontiac's rebellion. | |
| 1762 | Russia, Prussia and Austria sign a treaty agreeing on the partition of Poland. | |
| 1815 | A peace treaty with Tripoli–which follows treaties with Algeria and Tunis–brings an end to the Barbary Wars. | |
| 1858 | The first transatlantic cable is completed. | |
| 1861 | Congress adopts the nation's first income tax to finance the Civil War. | |
| 1864 | The Union Navy captures Mobile Bay in Alabama. | |
| 1892 | Harriet Tubman receives a pension from Congress for her work as a nurse, spy and scout during the Civil War. | |
| 1914 | The British Expeditionary Force mobilizes for World War I. | |
| 1914 | The first electric traffic signal lights are installed in Cleveland, Ohio. | |
| 1915 | The Austro-German Army takes Warsaw, in present-day Poland, on the Eastern Front. | |
| 1916 | The British navy defeats the Ottomans at the naval battle off Port Said, Egypt. | |
| 1921 | Mustapha Kemal is appointed virtual ruler of the Ottoman Empire. | |
| 1941 | The German army completes taking 410,000 Russian prisoners in Uman and Smolensk pockets in the Soviet Union. | |
| 1951 | The United Nations Command suspends armistice talks with the North Koreans when armed troops are spotted in neutral areas. | |
| 1962 | Actress Marilyn Monroe dies under mysterious circumstances. | |
| 1974 | President Richard Nixon admits he ordered a cover-up for political as well as national security reasons. | |
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Born on August 5 |
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| 1850 | Guy de Maupassant, short story writer and author of "The Necklace." | |
| 1876 | Mary Ritter Beard, American historian and writer. | |
| 1906 | John Houston, film director of such movies as The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and The Maltese Falcon. | |
| 1908 | Miriam Rothschild, English scientist and writer. | |
| 1923 | Richard G. Kleindienst, one of the key officials who helped elect Richard Nixon to the presidency in 1969. | |
| 1930 | Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon. | |
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