August 5 135 Betar last outpost of Bar Kochba falls to Rome
August 5 642 Battle of Maserfield
August 5 910 the Battle of Tettenhall Between Mercia and Wessex
August 5 1388 Battle of Otterburn
August 5 1399 Battle at Worskla
August 5 1435 Battle at Ponza
August 5 1543 French and Turkish troops occupy Nice
August 5 1654 French troops occupy Stenay
August 5 1666 English fleet Defeats Dutch
August 5 1763 Pontiac War Battle of Bushy Run
August 5 1781 Battle of Dogger Bank
August 5 1861 Naval Engagement at Fernandina
August 5 1861 US Army abolishes flogging
August 5 1862 Battle of Baton Rouge
August 5 1914 Battle of Liège
August 5 1914 Montenegro declares war against Austria-Hungary
August 5 1917 British troops attack canal of Ypres
August 5 1944 US 79th/90th division occupy Laval/Mayenne
August 5 1963 Britain, USA and USSR sign nuclear test ban treaty
August 5 1964 US begins bombing North Vietnam
August 5 1965 The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 begins
August 5 1966 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
August 5 1981 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
August 5 1995 Croatian forces capture the city of Knin.
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