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 François_Villon is banned from Paris.

1500 - Duke Ludovico_Sforza conquers Milan.

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.

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.

'' debuts.

1968 - "Prague_Spring" begins in Czechoslovakia.

'' premieres.

1972 - President_of_the_United_States Richard_Nixon orders the development of a space_shuttle program.

1975 - The Tasman_Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier ''Lake Illawarra'', killing twelve people.

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.

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)

1876 - Konrad_Adenauer, German chancellor 1949-1963 (d. 1967)

1880 - Nikolay_Medtner, composer (d. 1951)

1893 - Paramahansa_Yogananda, Indian guru (d. 1952)

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_Dürrenmatt, 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

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

1589 - Catherine_de_Medici, Queen of France (b. 1519)

1655 - Pope_Innocent_X (b. 1574)

1740 - Antonio_Lotti, composer (b. 1667)

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)

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. ---- January_4 - January_6 - December_5 - February_5 -- listing of all days

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