Oct. 5: Fancy Flights, Dead Parrots and Half Bees Debut, And The Safety Seal Is Born

1864 - The Indian city of Calcutta is almost totally destroyed by a cyclone; 60,000 die.

1905 -  Wilbur Wright pilots Wright Flyer III in a flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes, a world record that stood until 1908.

1914 - World War I: first aerial combat resulting in a kill.

1921 -  Baseball: The World Series is broadcast on the radio for the first time.

1930 -  British Airship R101 crashes in France en-route to India on its maiden voyage.

1944 - Royal Canadian Air Force pilots shoot down the first German jet fighter over France.

1944 - Suffrage is extended to women in France.

1947 - The first televised White House address is given by U.S. President Harry S. Truman.

1962 -  Dr. No, the first in the James Bond film series, is released.

1968 - Police baton civil rights demonstrators in Derry, Northern Ireland – considered to mark the beginning of The Troubles.

1969 - The first episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus airs on BBC.

1970 - The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is founded.

1982 -  Chicago Tylenol murders: Johnson & Johnson initiates a nationwide product recall in the United States for all products in its Tylenolbrand after several bottles in Chicago are found to have been laced with cyanide, resulting in seven deaths.

1986 - Israeli secret nuclear weapons are revealed. The British newspaper The Sunday Times runs Mordechai Vanunu's story on its front page under the headline: "Revealed — the secrets of Israel's nuclear arsenal".

2001 - Robert Stevens becomes the first victim in the 2001 anthrax attacks.