The days that never were

For example, if you were to look up today's date, Oct. 5, you would find that it was the date of Tecumseh's death in 1813, in 1857 the city of Anaheim, Calif., was founded, Harry Truman gave the first televised White House address in 1947 and Larry Fine was born on this date in 1902. But if you were to look up this date in history in the countries of Spain, Portugal, Italy or Poland, you would come up empty handed - for one year at least.