5 August

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The 5t o August is the 217t day o the year (218t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 148 days ti come.

Events

1100 - Coronation o Henry I o Ingland.
1305 - William Wallace that fendit Scottish frae Ingland, wis grippit by the Inglis naur Glesgae an taen tae Lunnon for tae be tried.
1388 - The Battle o Otterburn taks place atween Scotland an Ingland in Northumberland (on 19 August accordin tae some sources).
1772 - Poland is pairteetioned in a Treaty atween Proushie, Roushie an Austrick.
1888 - Bertha Benz, wife o Karl Benz, drives the patentit automobile frae Mannheim tae Pforzheim in Germany.
1914 - The first traffeck licht is installed in Cleveland, Ohio.
1914 - Warld War I: The Unitit Kinrick declares war on Germany.
1925 - The Welsh poleetical pairty Plaid Cymru is foondit, wi the aim o protectin the Welsh leid.
1936 - Jesse Owens wins the gowd medal in the 200-metre race at the 1936 Simmer Olympic Gemmes in Berlin.
1949 - A yirdquauk in Ecuador kills 6,000 fowk.
1960 - Burkina Faso, then Upper Volta, gains unthirldom frae Fraunce.
1962 - Marilyn Monroe is found dead in her hame in Los Angeles, Californie.
1962 - Nelson Mandela is jailed in Sooth Africae.
1965 - The Indo-Pakistani War o 1965 stairts.
1969 - The Mariner 7 space probe maks a fly-by o Maurs, at a deestance o 3,524 kilometres frae the planet.
1971 - The first Paceefic Islands Forum is held in Wellington, New Zealand.
1973 - At least 3 fowk are kilt in a shuitin at Athens Airport.
2003 - A car bomb splodes ootside the Marriott Hottle in Jakarta, Indonesie, killin 12 fowk.
2010 - 33 miners are trapped underground efter an accident near Copiapo, northren Chile. They are rescued in October.
2011 - The Juno space probe is launched tae the planet Jupiter.
2012 - Scots player Andy Murray wins the gowd medal in men's singles tennis at the 2012 Simmer Olympics in Lunnon.
2016 - Stairt o the 2016 Simmer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2017 - A referendum results in constitutional chynges an the addin o reid stripes tae the Banner o Mauritanie.
2018 - The Indonesie isle o Lombok is strack bi a yirdquauk, killin ower 560 fowk.
2019 - The govrenment o Indie strips the Indie-admeenistert pairt o Kashmir frae its special status wi immediate effect.
2020 - Scotland's first local COVID-19 lockdoon is imposit in Aiberdeen efter a cluster o cases wis identifeed there.
2020 - Douglas Ross becomes leader o the Scots Conservative Pairty.