Historical timeline for October 5

Windows 11 is released to the general public.

In the Mekong River massacre, two Chinese cargo boats are hijacked and 13 crew members murdered.

Mass demonstrations in Serbia force the resignation of Slobodan Milošević.

The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in West London kills 31 people.

Swiss police find the bodies of 48 members of the Order of the Solar Temple, who had died in a cult mass murder-suicide.

An Indonesian Air Force C-130 crash kills 135 people.

After 150 years The Herald newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, is published for the last time as a separate newspaper.

A Chilean opposition coalition defeats Augusto Pinochet in his re-election attempt.

Seven Israeli vacationers, including four children, are killed in a mass shooting at Ras Burqa in the Sinai Peninsula by an Egyptian soldier.

Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space.

Tylenol products are recalled after bottles in Chicago laced with cyanide cause seven deaths.

Bombs planted by the PIRA in pubs in Guildford kill four British soldiers and one civilian.

The British Trade Commissioner, James Cross, is kidnapped by members of the Front de libération du Québec, triggering the October Crisis in Canada.

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is founded in the United States.[citation needed]

A Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march in Derry is violently suppressed by police.

A reactor at the Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station near Detroit suffers a partial meltdown.

The United States suspends the Commercial Import Program in response to repression of the Buddhist majority by the regime of President Ngo Dinh Diem.

The first Beatles single "Love Me Do" is released in Britain.

The first of the James Bond film series, based on the novels by Ian Fleming, Dr. No, is released in Britain.

President Truman makes the first televised Oval Office address.