January 5

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

Events:

• 1463 - Poet Francois Villon is banned from Paris
• 1500 - Duke Ludovico Sforza conquers Milan
• 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
• 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).
• 1957 - Major league baseballer Jackie Robinson retires.
• 1961 - Television: Mr. Ed debuts.
• 1968 - "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.
• 1980 - Hewlett-Packard announces release of its first personal computer
• 1987 - President of the United States Ronald Reagan undergoes prostate surgery causing worries about his health.
• 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.
• 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:

• 1717 - William Wildman Shute Barrington, British statesman (+ 1793)
• 1779 - Stephen Decatur, American naval officer
• 1855 - King Camp Gillette, inventor (+ 1932)
• 1876 - Konrad Adenauer, German chancellor 1949-1963 (+ 1967)
• 1893 - Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru
• 1904 - Jeane Dixon, astrologer (+ 1997)
• 1909 - Stephen Kleene, mathematician
• 1913 - Jean-Pierre Aumont, actor
• 1914 - George Reeves, actor (+ 1959)
• 1921 - Friedrich Dürrenmatt, writer (+ 1990)
• 1923 - Sam Phillips, county music producer
• 1926 - Maria Schell, actress
• 1928 - Walter Mondale, U.S. Senator, Democratic presidential nominee in 1984
• 1928 - Ali Bhutto, President and Prime Minister of Pakistan (+ 1979)
• 1931 - Alvin Ailey, choreographer (+ 1989)
  • - Alfred Brendel, pianist
• 1931 - Robert Duvall, actor and director
• 1932 - Umberto Eco, philologist and writer
• 1932 - Raisa Gorbachev, political consort, (+ 1999)
• 1938 - King Juan Carlos of Spain
• 1941 - Miyazaki Hayao, film maker
  • - Grady Thomas, singer (P-Funk)
• 1942 - Charlie Rose, talk show host
• 1946 - Diane Keaton, actress
• 1961 - Suzy Amis, actress
• 1969 - Marilyn Manson, singer

Deaths:

• 1589 - Catherine de Medici, Queen of France
• 1922 - Ernest Shackleton, explorer
• 1929 - Nikolai Nikolaevich Romanov, Grand Duke of Russia
• 1933 - Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States
• 1943 - George Washington Carver, educator, activist, botanist
• 1956 - Mistinguett (Jeanne Bourgeois), French singer
• 1963 - Rogers Hornsby, Baseball Hall of Famer
• 1970 - Max Born, physicist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics 1954
  • (death discovered) - Jock Yablonski, President of the [[United Mine Workers} (and his family)
• 1979 - Charles Mingus, musician
• 1988 - Pete Maravich, baseball star
• 1994 - Thomas P. 'Tip' O'Neill, Speaker of the House
• 1996 - Yahya Ayyash, terrorist
• 1998 - Sonny Bono, singer, actor, United States Representative
• 2002 - Igor Cassini, gossip columnist ("Cholly Knickerbocker")
• 2003 - Roy Jenkins, British politician

Holidays and observances:

• Catholicism - Feast day of St. John Neumann.

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See Also: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December

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