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Events

• 1939 (87 years ago) The Thirteen Roses: Thirteen female members of the Unified Socialist Youth are executed by Francoist forces in Madrid, Spain.
• 1940 (86 years ago) World War II: The Soviet Union formally annexes Latvia.
• 1949 (77 years ago) In Ecuador, an earthquake destroys 50 towns and kills more than 6,000.
• 1960 (66 years ago) Burkina Faso, then known as Upper Volta, becomes independent from France.
• 1981 (45 years ago) President Ronald Reagan fires 11,359 striking air-traffic controllers who ignored his order for them to return to work.
• 1995 (31 years ago) Yugoslav Wars: The city of Knin, Croatia, a significant Serb stronghold, is taken by Croatian forces during Operation Storm. The date is celebrated in Croatia as Victory Day.
• 2003 (23 years ago) A car bomb explodes in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta outside the Marriott Hotel killing 12 and injuring 150.
• 2021 (5 years ago) Australia's second most populous state Victoria enters its sixth COVID-19 lockdown, enacting stage four restrictions statewide in reaction to six new COVID-19 cases recorded that morning.

Births

• 1681 (345 years ago) Vitus Bering, Danish-born Russian explorer (died 1741)
• 1802 (224 years ago) Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician and theorist (died 1829)
• 1844 (182 years ago) Ilya Repin, Russian painter and sculptor (died 1930)
• 1850 (176 years ago) Guy de Maupassant, French short story writer, novelist, and poet (died 1893)
• 1906 (120 years ago) John Huston, American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1987)
• 1930 (96 years ago) Neil Armstrong, American pilot, engineer, and astronaut, first man to walk on the Moon (died 2012)
• 1968 (58 years ago) Marine Le Pen, French lawyer and politician
• 1974 (52 years ago) Kajol, Indian film actress

Deaths

• 882 (1144 years ago) Louis III, Frankish king (born 863)
• 1895 (131 years ago) Friedrich Engels, German philosopher (born 1820)
• 1955 (71 years ago) Carmen Miranda, Portuguese-Brazilian actress and singer (born 1909)
• 1957 (69 years ago) Heinrich Otto Wieland, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1877)
• 1984 (42 years ago) Richard Burton, Welsh actor (born 1925)
• 1998 (28 years ago) Todor Zhivkov, Bulgarian commander and politician, 36th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (born 1911)
• 2000 (26 years ago) Alec Guinness, English actor (born 1914)
• 2019 (7 years ago) Toni Morrison, American author, Pulitzer Prize winner, and Nobel laureate (born 1931).

All 430 events, births and deaths of August 5