Reuters historical calendar - August 5

LONDON, Aug 4 (Reuters) Following are some of the major events to have occurred on August 5 since 1900: 1914 - The first electric traffic signals to control different streams of traffic were installed at Euclid Avenue and East 105th street in Cleveland, Ohio.

1915 - Warsaw, evacuated by the Russians, was occupied by the Germans in World War One.

1926 - ''Don Juan'', the first film accompanied by a pre-recorded soundtrack, was shown at New York's Warner Theatre.

1940 - Latvia was absorbed into the Soviet Union as the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic.

1949 - An earthquake in Ecuador killed 6,000 people.

1962 - Nelson Mandela, who in 1994 became South Africa's first black president, was arrested near Howick, Natal, and charged with incitement.

1962 - American film actress Marilyn Monroe died in Los Angeles at the age of 36.

1963 - Russia, the United States and Britain signed a nuclear test ban treaty in Moscow.

1974 - U.S. President Richard Nixon admitted he had withheld information about the Watergate break-in; he resigned on August 9.

1984 - British actor Richard Burton died at the age of 58.

1995 - The United States and Vietnam declared an end to decades of enmity, formally established diplomatic ties and pledged a new era of cooperation.

1995 - Croatian government forces seized the rebel Serb ''capital'' of Knin in a lightning assault designed to win back the breakaway region of Krajina after 4 years.

1998 - Todor Zhivkov, Bulgarian communist ruler from 1954-89, died aged 86.

2003 - Police arrested Zambia's ex-president Frederick Chiluba after a prolonged anti-corruption probe, charging him with stealing 30 million dollar during his decade of rule.

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