This site was created to easily navigate collection of various events in history. History is the study of the past, particularly the written record of the human race, but more generally including scientific and archaeological discoveries about the past. It is important to know dates and events in the past.

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August 5th, 2007	Death	Florian Pittis, Romanian artist (born in 1943)
August 5th, 2007	Death	Jean-Marie Lustiger, Cardinal of France
August 5th, 2006	Death	Susan Butcher, American Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race champion (born in 1954)
August 5th, 2005	Death	Polina Astakhova, Russian gymnast (born in 1936)
August 5th, 2005	Death	Jim O Hora, American football coach (born in 1915)
August 5th, 2005	Death	Raul Roco, Philippine senator (born in 1941)
August 5th, 2003	Event	A car bomb explodes in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta outside the Marriott Hotel killing 12 and injuring 150.
August 5th, 2002	Death	Josh Ryan Evans, American actor (born in 1982)
August 5th, 2002	Death	Chick Hearn, American basketball announcer (born in 1916)
August 5th, 2002	Death	Franco Lucentini, Italian writer (born in 1920)

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