OCTOBER 5: debuts at RTE / Half Moon Club / "Sweetest Thing" video debuts / Edge (Paul McGuinness, too) with Bono at Fight Global Poverty, in NYC / Bono and Edge film an interview to be appearing on a new HBO Music Series (Dave Stuart's programme) to be broadcast in November!

"Early Ireland" - october 5, 1979. U2 make their small-screen debut on RTE at a televised concert in the Opera House in Cork.

"Boy" tour - october 5, 1980. U2 perform in London, England at the Half Moon Club.

"Sweetest Thing video debuts in U.S." - october 5, 1998. The video for the new version of "Sweetest Thing" makes its U.S. debut on MTV and VH-1.

Edge (Paul McGuinness, too) with Bono at Fight Global Poverty, in NYC - october 5, 2005. Fight global poverty U2 frontman Bono and a Columbia University economist Jeffrey Sachs say global poverty can be eliminated in this lifetime, ending the tremendous risk it poses toward mankind and the value of human life. The lecture was the first in a series planned by NYU's Glucksman Ireland House to commemorate the late New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who was a prominent antipoverty advocate. Among the eclectic group at the event were U2 lead guitarist The Edge and members of NYU's Graduate Student Organizing Committee, who handed out fliers asking those involved in NYU events hold events off-campus, or if that is impossible to visibly support the union's cause. irishbroad. Some photos flickr.

Bono and Edge film an interview to be appearing on a new HBO Music Series (Dave Stuart's programme) to be broadcast in November - October 5, 2006 - The interview is being filmed in New York City this Thursday, October 5th, and U2.com had 50 invitations to the recording available exclusively for New York subscribers.