Day's Calendar – October 5

The 278th day of the year; 87 days remain until the New Year.

Church Calendar

Prophet Jonah (8th c. BC); Hieromartyr Phocas, Bishop of Sinope (117); Venerable Jonah the Presbyter; Holy Fathers Theophanes the Hymnographer and Theodore the Confessor (9th c.); Martyr Phocas the Gardener (c. 320).

Born:

1581 – Bernardo Strozzi, prominent Italian painter. Died in 1644.

1713 – Denis Diderot, French writer, Enlightenment philosopher, and encyclopedist.

1850 – Hamilton Gibson, American writer.

1889 – Nikoloz Kandelaki, sculptor. Died in 1970.

1906 – Mate Mirianashvili, physicist. Died in 1975.

1947 – Vano Chkhikvadze, writer.

Died:

1880 – Jacques Offenbach, French composer.

Events:

1586 – The trial of Mary, Queen of Scots, began in London.

1917 – The Writers' Union of Georgia was founded in Tbilisi.

1930 – Laura Ingalls became the first woman to complete a transcontinental flight.

1974 – American David Kunst completed the first walk around the world; he traveled for four years and covered 14,450 miles.

1989 – The Dalai Lama became a Nobel Prize laureate.