| 1391 | Castilian sailors in Barcelona, Spain set fire to a Jewish ghetto, killing 100 people and setting off four days of violence against Jews. | |
| 1763 | Colonel Henry Bouquet decisively defeats the Indians at the Battle of Bushy Run in Pennsylvania during Pontiac's rebellion. | |
| 1762 | Russia, Prussia and Austria sign a treaty agreeing on the partition of Poland. | |
| 1815 | A peace treaty with Tripoli--which follows treaties with Algeria and Tunis--brings an end to the Barbary Wars. | |
| 1858 | The first transatlantic cable is completed. | |
| 1861 | Congress adopts the nation's first income tax to finance the Civil War. | |
| 1864 | The Union Navy captures Mobile Bay in Alabama. | |
| 1892 | Harriet Tubman receives a pension from Congress for her work as a nurse, spy and scout during the Civil War. | |
| 1914 | The British Expeditionary Force mobilizes for World War I. | |
| 1914 | The first electric traffic signal lights are installed in Cleveland, Ohio. | |
| 1915 | The Austro-German Army takes Warsaw, in present-day Poland, on the Eastern Front. | |
| 1916 | The British navy defeats the Ottomans at the naval battle off Port Said, Egypt. | |
| 1921 | Mustafa Kemal is appointed virtual ruler of the Ottoman Empire. | |
| 1941 | The German army completes taking 410,000 Russian prisoners in the Uman and Smolensk pockets in the Soviet Union. | |
| 1951 | The United Nations Command suspends armistice talks with the North Koreans when armed troops are spotted in neutral areas. | |
| 1962 | Actress Marilyn Monroe dies under mysterious circumstances. | |
| 1964 | President Lyndon Johnson begins bombing North Vietnam in retaliation for the Gulf of Tonkin incident and asks Congress to go to war against North Vietnam. | |
| 1974 | President Richard Nixon admits he ordered a cover-up for political as well as national security reasons. | |
| 1981 | President Ronald Reagan fires 11,500 striking air traffic controllers. | |
| 1992 | Four police officers are indicted on civil rights charges in the beating of Rodney King. | |
| 1995 | Croatian forces capture the city of Knin, a Serb stronghold, during Operation Storm. | |
| 1997 | The mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, Ramzi Yousef, goes on trial. | |
| 2012 | A gunman in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, opens fire in a Sikh temple, killing six before committing suicide. |
Today in History August 05
A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on this day in history.
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