- 1936 5 Oct The Jarrow March begins when 200 men from impoverished Tyneside march to lobby parliament for work.
- 1986 5 Oct Details of Israel's secret nuclear arsenal, leaked by dissident Mordechai Vanunu, appear in the Times.
- 2000 5 Oct Slobodan Milosevic, wanted for war crimes, resigns as president of Yugoslavia in a vote-rigging row.
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