5th of August

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The August 5 is the 217th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 218th in leap years ), thus remain as 148 days until the end of the year.

Historic anniversaries
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15th 16 17th 18th 19th 20th 21
22nd 23 24 25th 26 27 28
29 30th 31

events

Politics and world events

25: Liu Xiu, the Emperor Han Guangwu di
1305: William Wallace
1543: Beginning of the siege of Nice
1716: Prince Eugene
Partitions of Poland in 1772, 1793 and 1795
  • 1772: In an agreement between Russia , Prussia and Austria is Poland for the first time divided . The aristocratic republic loses over a quarter of its total area and more than a third of its inhabitants. Frederick the Great secured the majority of the previous Royal Prussia , so that from this point on he can call himself King of Prussia.
1775: San Francisco Bay
1915: German cavalry in Warsaw

business

1888: The Benz Patent Motor Car No. 3
  • 1888: Without her husband Carl's knowledge , Bertha Benz sits down with her two sons Richard and Eugen in the already patented motor vehicle and drives 106 kilometers from Mannheim to Pforzheim . This first successful overland trip contributes significantly to allaying the reservations of potential customers and subsequently enables the company's economic success.
1955: VW Beetle

science and technology

Culture

Leonardo da Vinci: Landscape with a river

religion

Disasters

Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .

Sports

1951: Sports show of the youth after the opening

Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .

Born

Before the 18th century

  • Alexander the Jagiellonian (* 1461)

  • Charles d'Albert, Duke of Luynes (* 1578)

  • Charles Colbert de Croissy (* 1629)

  • Leonardo Leo (* 1694)

18th century

  • Charlotte Sophie von Bentinck (* 1715)

  • Johann Friedrich Struensee (* 1737)

  • Johann Philipp Bach (* 1752)

  • Carl Joseph Anton Mittermaier (* 1787)

19th century

1801-1850

  • Niels Henrik Abel (* 1802)

  • Ambroise Thomas (* 1811)

  • Ivar Andreas Aasen (* 1813)

  • Manuel Deodoro da Fonseca (* 1827)

  • Luise of Orange-Nassau (* 1828)

  • Carola von Wasa-Holstein-Gottorp (* 1833)

  • Ilya Efimowitsch Repin (* 1844)

  • Guy de Maupassant (* 1850)

1851-1900

  • Carl Dietrich Harries (* 1866)

  • JCW Beckham (* 1869)

  • General Ignacy Kazimierz Ledóchowski (* 1871)

  • General Thomas Holcomb (* 1879)

  • Hermann Lüdemann (* 1880)

  • Conrad Aiken (* 1889)

  • Lotte Neumann (* 1896)

  • Joan Beauchamp Procter (* 1897)

20th century

1901-1925

  • Joseph Cornelius Rossaint (* 1902)

  • Artyom Mikoyan (* 1905)

  • Miriam Rothschild (* 1908)

  • John Huston (born 1906)

  • John Calvert (* 1911) with his wife

  • Robert Taylor (* 1911)

  • Abbé Pierre (* 1912)

1926-1950

  • Betsy Jolas (born 1926)

  • Neil Armstrong (born 1930)

  • Michal Kováč (* 1930)

  • Michael Ballhaus (* 1935)

  • Norbert Gansel (* 1940)

  • Loni Anderson (born 1946)

  • Shirley Ann Jackson (born 1946)

  • Rosi Mittermaier (* 1950)

1951-1975

  • John Jarratt (born 1951)

  • Anja Kruse (* 1956)

  • Ulla Salzgeber (* 1958)

  • Pat Smear (born 1959)

  • Doris Schröder-Köpf (* 1963)

  • Pia Douwes (* 1964)

  • Colin McRae (* 1968)

  • Kajol (* 1974)

1976-2000

  • Jewel De'Nyle (born 1976)

  • Erik Guay (* 1981)

  • Jesse Williams (born 1981)

  • Annika Mehlhorn (* 1983)

  • Helene Fischer (* 1984)

  • Kathrin Zettel (* 1986)

  • Federica Pellegrini (* 1988)

  • Olivia Holt (* 1997)

Died

Before the 16th century

  • Leopold von Sturmberg († 1381)

16th and 17th centuries

  • Stanislaus Hosius († 1579)

  • Alonso García de Ramón († 1610)

  • Antonio Tempesta († 1630)

  • Gundaker of Liechtenstein († 1658)

18th century

  • James Gibbs († 1754)

  • Antoine Pesne († 1757)

  • Frederick North († 1792)

  • Richard Howe († 1799)

19th century

  • Sébastien Érard († 1831)

  • František Ladislav Čelakovský († 1852)

  • Adolf Hesse († 1863)

  • Ferdinand of Hebra († 1880)

  • Spotted Tail († 1881)

  • Philip Henry Sheridan († 1888)

  • Friedrich Engels († 1895)

  • Carl du Prel († 1899)

20th century

1901-1925

  • Empress Victoria († 1901)

  • Julius Stinde († 1905)

  • Anton Joseph Gruscha († 1911)

  • Peter Strasser († 1918)

1926-1950

  • Liane Berkowitz († 1943)

  • Hilde Coppi († 1943)

  • Cato Bontjes van Beek († 1943)

  • Wilhelm Marx († 1946)

1951-1975

  • Carmen Miranda († 1955)

  • Heinrich Otto Wieland († 1957)

  • Marilyn Monroe († 1962)

  • Gustav von Wangenheim († 1975)

1976-2000

  • Richard Burton († 1984)

  • Hertha Thiel († 1984)

  • Jeff Porcaro († 1992)

  • Alec Guinness († 2000)

21st century

  • George Duke († 2013)

  • Toni Morrison († 2019)

Holidays and memorial days

  • Church memorial days
    • Franz Härter , Alsatian pastor (Protestant)
    • St. Fabianus , Roman bishop, martyr and patron saint (Orthodox)
    • Maria Schnee , consecration of the Roman Patriarchal Basilica Santa Maria Maggiore (Catholic)

The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .

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