Wat gebeurde er op 5 oktober?

1. Wat gebeurde er op 5 oktober?

• 2014 – Formula One racing driver Jules Bianchi crashed at the Japanese Grand Prix, sustaining fatal head injuries that would kill him the following year.
• 2011 – Two Chinese cargo ships were attacked and their crews murdered on a stretch of the Mekong River in far northern Thailand.
• 2000 – Colour revolutions: During protests over irregularities in the Yugoslavian general election, a wheel-loader was driven into the Radio Television of Serbia building, giving the protests the nickname "Bulldozer Revolution".
• 1999 – Two trains collided head-on in Ladbroke Grove, London, killing 31 people, injuring 417, and severely damaging public confidence in the management and regulation of safety of Britain's privatised railway system.
• 1994 – Swiss police found the bodies of 48 members of the Order of the Solar Temple, who had died in a cult mass murder-suicide.

2. Wie werd geboren op 5 oktober?

• 2006 – Jacob Tremblay, Canadian actor
• 1999 – Washington Sundar, Indian cricketer
• 1998 – Exequiel Palacios, Argentine footballer
• 1997 – Michael Hoecht, Canadian American football player
• 1993 – Jewell Loyd, American basketball player

3. Wie stierf op 5 oktober?

• 2026 – Jeffrey Archer, English novelist and politician (born 1940)
• 2024 – Robert Coover, American novelist (born 1932)
• 2017 – Eberhard van der Laan, Dutch politician, mayor of Amsterdam (born 1955)
• 2016 – Brock Yates, American journalist and author (born 1933)
• 2015 – Chantal Akerman, Belgian-French actress, director, and producer (born 1950)

4. Wat wordt er op 5 oktober gevierd?

• World Space Week (October 4–10)
• Armed Forces Day (Indonesia)
• Christian feast day: Anna Schäffer
• Christian feast day: Charitina of Amisus
• Christian feast day: Faustina Kowalska