January 5
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
January 5 is the 5th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 360 days remaining after January 5 until the end of the year (361 in leap years).
[change] Events
- 1463 – Poet François Villon is banned from Paris.
- 1477 – Battle of Nancy, Charles the Bold killed, Burgundy becomes part of France.
- 1500 – Duke Ludovico Sforza conquers Milan.
- 1527 – Martyrdom of Felix Manz, a Swiss Anabaptist.
- 1554 – Great fire in Eindhoven, Netherlands.
- 1675 – Battle of Colmar, French army beats Brandenburg.
- 1757 – Louis XV of France survives the assassination attempt by Robert-François Damiens, the last person to be executed in France with the traditional and gruesome form of death penalty used for regicides.
- 1759 – George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Custis.
- 1781 – American Revolutionary War: Richmond, Virginia, is burned by British naval forces led by Benedict Arnold.
- 1846 – The United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Territory with the United Kingdom.
- 1854 – The San Francisco steamer sinks, 300 dead.
- 1895 – Dreyfus Affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
- 1896 – An Austrian newspaper reports that Wilhelm Roentgen discovered a type of radiation later known as X-rays.
- 1900 – Irish leader John Edward Redmond calls for a revolt against British rule.
- 1909 – Colombia recognizes the independence of Panama.
- 1914 – Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day's labor.
- 1925 – Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first female governor in the United States.
- 1933 – Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay.
- 1940 – FM radio is demonstrated to the FCC for the first time.
- 1944 – The Daily Mail becomes the first transoceanic newspaper.
- 1945 – The Soviet Union recognizes the new pro-Soviet government of Poland.
- 1948 – Warner Brothers shows the first color newsreel (Tournament of Roses Parade and the Rose Bowl).
- 1956 – Elvis Presley records "Heartbreak Hotel."
- 1957 – Major league baseballer Jackie Robinson retires.
- 1961 – Television: Mr. Ed debuts.
- 1964 – Pope Paul VI meets the Greek patriarch Athenagoras I in Jerusalem, the first meeting of Catholic and Orthodox Christianity leaders since 1439.
- 1968 – Alexander Dubček comes to power, "Prague Spring" begins in Czechoslovakia.
- 1970 – Soap opera: All My Children premieres.
- 1972 – President of the United States Richard Nixon orders the development of a space shuttle program.
- 1973 – Netherlands recognizes East Germany.
- 1974 – An earthquake in Lima, Peru, kills six, and damages hundreds of houses.
- 1975 – The Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier Lake Illawarra, killing twelve people.
- 1976 – Cambodia is renamed Democratic Kampuchea.
- 1980 – Hewlett-Packard announces release of its first personal computer.
- 1984 – Richard Stallman starts developing GNU.
- 1987 – US President Ronald Reagan undergoes prostate surgery causing worries about his health.
- 1993 – The oil tanker MV Braer runs aground on the coast of the Shetland Islands spilling 84,700 tonnes of oil.
- 1993 – Washington state executes Westley Allan Dodd by hanging (the first legal hanging in America since 1965).
- 1996 – Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone.
- 1997 – Withdrawal of Russian forces from Chechnya.
- 2000 – The 1st day of the 2000 Al Qaeda Summit.
- 2002 – Charles Bishop, a 15-year-old student pilot, crashes a light aircraft into a Tampa, Florida building, evoking fear of a copycat 9/11 terrorist attack.
- 2005 – Scientists discover the dwarf planet Eris, near the edge of the Solar System.
[change] Births
- 1592 – Shah Jahan, Mughal Emperor of India (d. 1666)
- 1762 - Constanze Mozart, mother of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (d. 1842)
- 1838 - Camille Jordan, French mathematician (d. 1922)
- 1846 – Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German writer (d. 1926)
- 1874 – Joseph Erlanger, American doctor, won the 1944 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1965)
- 1876 – Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1967)
- 1893 - Pramahansa Yogananda, Indian philosopher and writer (d. 1952)
- 1897 - Theodor Mackeben, German pianist (d. 1953)
- 1910 – Jack Lovelock, New Zealand athlete (d. 1949)
- 1917 – Jane Wyman, American actress (d. 2007)
- 1921 – Former Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg
- 1921 – Friedrich Duerrenmatt, Swiss writer (d. 1990)
- 1928 – Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Pakistani politician (d. 1979)
- 1928 – Walter Mondale, American politician
- 1931 – Robert Duvall, American actor
- 1932 - Umberto Eco, Italian writer and columnist
- 1932 – Raisa Gorbachova, wife of Mikhail Gorbachev (d. 1999)
- 1938 – King Juan Carlos I of Spain
- 1938 - Ngugo wa Thiongo'o, Kenyan writer
- 1946 - Diane Keaton, American actress, film producer and director
- 1952 – Uli Hoeness, German footballer
- 1953 - George Tenet, American former CIA director
- 1956 – Frank-Walter Steinmeier, German politician
- 1963 - Ralf Loose, German footballer
- 1965 - Vinnie Jones, British footballer and actor
- 1969 – Marilyn Manson, American rock singer
- 1975 - Bradley Cooper, American actor
- 1978 – January Jones, American actress
- 1980 – Sebastian Deisler, German footballer
- 1982 – Janica Kostelic, Croatian skier
- 1982 – Darren Mackie, Scottish footballer
- 1982 - Jaroslav Plasil, Czech footballer
- 1984 – Ikechukwu Uche, Nigerian footballer
[change] Deaths
- 1448 - Christopher III of Bavaria, King of Denmark (b. 1416)
- 1762 – Elizabeth of Russia (b. 1709)
- 1816 - George Prevost, British officer and diplomat (b. 1767)
- 1858 – Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Austrian field marshal (b. 1766)
- 1904 – Karl Alfred von Zittel, German palaeontologist (b. 1839)
- 1922 – Ernest Shackleton, Irish Antarctic explorer (b. 1874)
- 1933 – Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States (b. 1872)
- 1941 – Amy Johnson, English aviatrix (b. 1903)
- 1943 – George Washington Carver, American scientist and educator (b. 1864)
- 1970 – Max Born, German physicist (b. 1882)
- 1976 – John A. Costello, Irish Taoiseach (b. 1891)
- 1976 – Mal Evans, English band manager (Beatles) (b. 1935)
- 1981 – Harold C. Urey, American chemist (b. 1893)
- 1985 – Robert L. Surtees, American cinematographer (b. 1906)
- 1987 – Herman Smith-Johannsen, Norwegian-Canadian cross country skier (b. 1875)
- 1998 – Sonny Bono, American musician, actor and politician (b. 1935)
- 2003 – Roy Jenkins, British politician (b. 1920)
- 2007 – Momofuko Ando, Taiwanese businessman (b. 1910)
- 2009 – Adolf Merckle, German industrialist (b. 1934)
- 2010 – Kenneth Noland, American painter (b. 1924)
- 2010 – Toni Tecuceanu, Romanian actor (b. 1972)
- 2012 - Frederica Sagor Maas, American screenwriter, playwright and author (b. 1900)
