August 5

Today in History
• 910 - The last major Viking army to raid England is defeated at the Battle of Tettenhall
• 1305 - William Wallace, is captured and transported to London for trial and execution
• 1583 - Humphrey Gilbert claims Newfoundland for Britain, 1st English colony in North America
• 1689 - 1,500 Iroquois attack the village of Lachine, in New France
• 1772 - 1st Partition of Poland between Austria, Prussia and Russia is made public
• 1812 - War of 1812: Tecumseh's Native force ambushes Thomas Van Horne's 200 Americans
• 1846 - Oregon territory divided between US and Britain at 49th parallel
• 1858 - First transatlantic telegraph cable lands at Trinity Bay, Newfoundland


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• Blogger Day
• Burkina Faso Independence Day
• Mead Day
• National Mustard Day
• National Oyster Day
• Our Lady of Africa
• Sandcastle Day
• National Eisteddfod

Birthdays
• 1301 - Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent
• 1461 - Alexander Jagiellon, Grand Duke of Lithuania
• 1624 - William Tucker, 1st child of African descent to be born in English colony in America
• 1681 - Vitus Bering, Danish explorer of Bering Strait and coast of Alaska
• 1704 - William AllenWilliam Allen, loyalist, Chief Justice of the Province of Pennsylvania
• 1749 - Thomas Lynch, signer, Declaration of Independence
• 1815 - Edward John Eyre, British explorer and Governor of Jamaica
• 1827 - Deodoro da Fonseca, Brazilian military officer and first President of Brazil