January 5
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 ).
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 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 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 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 100s 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 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
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 , American inventor (d. 1932 )
1865 - Julio Garavito Armero , Colombian astronomer (d. 1920 )
1876 - Konrad Adenauer , German chancellor 1949 -1963 (d. 1967 )
1880 - Nikolay Medtner , Russian composer (d. 1951 )
1893 - Paramahansa Yogananda , Indian guru (d. 1952 )
1900 - Yves Tanguy , French surrealist painter (d. 1955 )
1902 - Stella Gibbons , English novelist (d. 1989 )
1904 - Jeane Dixon , American astrologer (d. 1997 )
1909 - Stephen Kleene , American mathematician (d. 1994 )
1910 - Jack Lovelock , New Zealand athlete (d. 1949 )
1910 - Hugh Brannum (Mister Greenjeans), actor (d. 1987 )
1913 - Jean-Pierre Aumont , French actor (d. 2001 )
1914 - George Reeves , American actor (d. 1959 )
1915 - Arthur H. Robinson , Canadian-born American cartographer (d. 2004 )
1920 - Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli , Italian pianist (d. 1995 )
1921 - Friedrich Dürrenmatt , Swiss writer (d. 1990 )
1923 - Sam Phillips , American country music producer (d. 2003 )
1926 - Reverend Hosea Williams , American religious leader, civil rights activist (d. 2000 )
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 , American choreographer (d. 1989 )
1931 - Alfred Brendel , Austrian pianist
1931 - Robert Duvall , American actor and director
1932 - Umberto Eco , Italian philologist and writer
1932 - Raisa Gorbachev , wife of Mikhail Gorbachev (d. 1999 )
1932 - Chuck Noll , American football coach
1938 - King Juan Carlos of Spain
1938 - Jim Otto , American football player
1940 - Michael O'Donoghue , writer (d. 1994 )
1941 - Miyazaki Hayao , Japanese animated film maker
1941 - Grady Thomas , singer (P-Funk )
1942 - Maurizio Pollini , Italian pianist
1942 - Charlie Rose , American talk show host
1946 - Diane Keaton , American actress
1948 - Ted Lange , American actor
1953 - George Tenet , former director of the CIA
1953 - Pamela Sue Martin , American actress
1954 - Alex English , basketball player
1961 - Suzy Amis , actress
1962 - Joe Monzo , American microtonal composer and tuning -theorist
1968 - Ricky Paull Goldin , soap opera actor
1969 - Marilyn Manson , American singer
1975 - Bradley Cooper , American actor
1982 - Janica Kostelic , Croatian alpine skier
1985 - Michael Cuccione , Canadian actor, singer (d. 2001 )
Deaths
842 - Al-Mu'tasim , Abbasid caliph (b. 794 )
1066 - Edward the Confessor , King of England (or January 4 ).
1387 - Pedro IV of Aragon (b. 1320 )
1465 - Charles, Duke of Orléans , French poet (b. 1394 )
1477 - Charles, Duke of Burgundy , known as "the Bold" (b. 1433 )
1589 - Catherine de Medici , Queen of France (b. 1519 )
1655 - Pope Innocent X (b. 1574 )
1740 - Antonio Lotti , Italian composer (b. 1667 )
1858 - Johann Radetzky , Austrian field marshal (b. 1769 )
1891 - Emma Abbott , American opera singer (b. 1849 )
1922 - Ernest Shackleton , Irish explorer (b. 1874 )
1929 - Nikolai Nikolaevich Romanov , Grand Duke of Russia (b. 1856 )
1933 - Calvin Coolidge , President of the United States (b. 1872 )
1941 - Amy Johnson , English aviator (1903 )
1943 - George Washington Carver , American educator, activist, botanist (b. 1860 )
1956 - Mistinguett , French singer (b. 1875 )
1963 - Rogers Hornsby , American Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1896 )
1970 - Max Born , German physicist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics 1954 (b. 1882 )
1970 - Roberto Gerhard , composer (b. 1896 )
1970 - Jock Yablonski , president of the United Mine Workers
1971 - Douglas Shearer , Canadian pioneer motion-picture sound engineer (b. 1899 )
1979 - Charles Mingus , American musician (b. 1922 )
1981 - Lanza del Vasto , Italian philosopher, poet, and non-violent activist (b. 1901 )
1982 - Harvey Lembeck , American actor
1982 - Hans Conried , American actor
1988 - Pete Maravich , American Basketball Hall of Famer (b. 1947 )
1990 - Arthur Kennedy , American actor
1991 - Vasko Popa , Yugoslav poet
1994 - Thomas P. 'Tip' O'Neill , Speaker of the House (b. 1912 )
1996 - Yahya Ayyash , Palestinian terrorist (b. 1966 )
1998 - Sonny Bono , American singer, actor, United States Representative (skiing accident) (b. 1935 )
2001 - Nancy Parsons , American actress
2002 - Igor Cassini , gossip columnist ("Cholly Knickerbocker")
2003 - Roy Jenkins , British politician (b. 1920 )
2003 - Jean Kerr , author
2004 - Tug McGraw , American baseball pitcher (b. 1944 )
2005 - Danny Sugerman , manager for The Doors (b. 1954)
Holidays and observances
External links
January 4 - January 6 - December 5 - February 5 -- listing of all days
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