January 5

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January 5 is the 5th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 360 days remaining until the end of the year (361 in leap years).

Table of contents

1 Events

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Holidays and observances

Events

1463 - Poet Fran�ois 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.
1759 - George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Curtis.
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 London 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.
1975 - The Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier Lake Illawarra, killing twelve people.
1976 - Cambodia is renamed Democratic Campuchea.
1980 - Hewlett-Packard announces release of its first personal computer.
1984 - Richard Stallman starts developing GNU.
1987 - President of the United States 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.

Births

1596 - Henry Lawes, composer (d. 1662)
1717 - William Wildman Shute Barrington, British statesman (d. 1793)
1779 - Stephen Decatur, American naval officer (d. 1820)
1779 - Zebulon Pike, American explorer (d. 1813)
1811 - Cyrus Hamlin, educator/inventor/architect/Christian missionary
1855 - King Camp Gillette, inventor (d. 1932)
1865 - Julio Garavito Armero, Colombian astronomer (d. 1920)
1876 - Konrad Adenauer, German chancellor 1949-1963 (d. 1967)
1880 - Nikolay Medtner, composer (d. 1951)
1893 - Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru (d. 1952)
1900 - Yves Tanguy, Surrealist painter (d. 1955)
1904 - Jeane Dixon, astrologer (d. 1997)
1909 - Stephen Kleene, mathematician (d. 1994)
1910 - Jack Lovelock, New Zealand athlete
1913 - Jean-Pierre Aumont, actor (d. 2001)
1914 - George Reeves, actor (d. 1959)
1920 - Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, pianist (d. 1995)
1921 - Friedrich D�rrenmatt, writer (d. 1990)
1923 - Sam Phillips, country music producer (d. 2003)
1926 - Maria Schell, actress
1928 - Walter Mondale, U.S. Senator, Democratic presidential nominee in 1984
1928 - Ali Bhutto, President and Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 1979)
1931 - Alvin Ailey, choreographer (d. 1989)
1931 - Alfred Brendel, pianist
1931 - Robert Duvall, actor and director
1932 - Umberto Eco, philologist and writer
1932 - Raisa Gorbachev, political consort (d. 1999)
1938 - King Juan Carlos of Spain
1941 - Miyazaki Hayao, film maker
1941 - Grady Thomas, singer (P-Funk)
1942 - Maurizio Pollini, pianist
1942 - Charlie Rose, talk show host
1946 - Diane Keaton, actress
1953 - George Tenet, Director of the CIA
1961 - Suzy Amis, actress
1962 - Joe Monzo, microtonal composer and tuning-theorist
1969 - Marilyn Manson, singer
1975 - Bradley Cooper, actor
1982 - Janica Kostelic, Croatian alpine skier

Deaths

842 - Al-Mu'tasim, Abbasid caliph
1066 - Edward the Confessor, King of England since 1042
1387 - Pedro IV of Aragon (b. 1320)
1589 - Catherine de Medici, Queen of France (b. 1519)
1655 - Pope Innocent X (b. 1574)
1740 - Antonio Lotti, composer (b. 1667)
1858 - Johann Radetzky, Austrian field marshal (b. 1769)
1891 - Emma Abbott, american opera singer (b. 1849)
1922 - Ernest Shackleton, explorer (b. 1874)
1929 - Nikolai Nikolaevich Romanov, Grand Duke of Russia
1933 - Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States (b. 1872)
1941 - Amy Johnson, aviator (1903)
1943 - George Washington Carver, educator, activist, botanist (1860)
1956 - Mistinguett (Jeanne Bourgeois), French singer (b. 1875)
1963 - Rogers Hornsby, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1896)
1970 - Max Born, physicist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics 1954 (b. 1882)
1970 - Roberto Gerhard, composer
1970 - Jock Yablonski, president of the United Mine Workers, is discovered dead with his family
1971 - Douglas Shearer, pioneer motion-picture sound engineer (b. 1899)
1979 - Charles Mingus, musician (b. 1922)
1981 - Lanza del Vasto, philosopher, poet and non-violent activist (b. 1901)
1988 - Pete Maravich, Basketball Hall of Famer (b. 1947)
1994 - Thomas P. 'Tip' O'Neill, Speaker of the House (b. 1912)
1996 - Yahya Ayyash, terrorist (b. 1966)
1998 - Sonny Bono, singer, actor, United States Representative (b. 1935)
2002 - Igor Cassini, gossip columnist ("Cholly Knickerbocker")
2003 - Roy Jenkins, British politician (b. 1920)
2004 - Tug McGraw, baseball pitcher (b. 1944)

Holidays and observances

The Twelfth Night of Christmas in Western Christianity.
Catholicism - Feast day of St. John Neumann.
Mungday (Discordianism)

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