Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 5
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This is a list of selected August 5 anniversaries that appears on the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition may be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors.August 5: Independence Day in Burkina Faso (1960); Victory and Homeland Thanksgiving Day in Croatia
- 642 – King Penda of Mercia defeated and killed King Oswald of Northumbria in the Battle of Maserfield.
- 1100 – Henry I was crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey.
- 1858 – American businessman and financier Cyrus West Field (pictured) and colleagues completed the first transatlantic telegraph cable, crossing the Atlantic Ocean from Foilhommerum, Valentia Island, Ireland to Heart's Content, Newfoundland.
- 1962 – American actress and model Marilyn Monroe was found dead in the bedroom of her Brentwood, Los Angeles home. Although it was officially ruled as an overdose of sleeping pills in a "probable suicide", her death has been the subject of murder conspiracy theories since then.
- 2003 – A suicide bomber detonated a car bomb outside the lobby of the JW Marriott Hotel in Setiabudi, South Jakarta, Indonesia, killing twelve people and injuring 150.
