January 5 is the fifth day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 360 days remaining until the end of the year (361 in leap years). This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Thursday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Sunday or Monday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Wednesday or Friday (56).
NATIONAL SCREENWRITERS DAY
1709 ― Sudden extreme cold (the Great Frost of 1709) kills thousands of Europeans. The severe cold occurred during the time of low sunspot activity known as the Maunder Minimum.
1776 ― The assembly of New Hampshire adopts its first state constitution.
1781 ― A British naval expedition led by American traitor Benedict Arnold burns Richmond, Virginia.
1825 ― Then 23-year-old Alexandre Dumas fights his first duel. He sustains no serious injury, although his pants fall down in the fight. He’ll later fill his romantic works, including The Three Musketeers, with duels, battles, and daring escapades.
NATIONAL SCREENWRITERS DAY
1709 ― Sudden extreme cold (the Great Frost of 1709) kills thousands of Europeans. The severe cold occurred during the time of low sunspot activity known as the Maunder Minimum.
1776 ― The assembly of New Hampshire adopts its first state constitution.
1781 ― A British naval expedition led by American traitor Benedict Arnold burns Richmond, Virginia.
1825 ― Then 23-year-old Alexandre Dumas fights his first duel. He sustains no serious injury, although his pants fall down in the fight. He’ll later fill his romantic works, including The Three Musketeers, with duels, battles, and daring escapades.
1834 ― The Kiowa Indians record this as the night the stars fell.
1841 ― British naval officer, James Clark Ross, is the first to enter pack ice near the Ross Ice Shelf.
1846 ― The United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Territory with the United Kingdom.
1846 ― The United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Territory with the United Kingdom.
1892 ― The first successful auroral photograph is made.
1895 ― French Captain Alfred Dreyfus, wrongly convicted of treason, publicly stripped of his rank and is later exonerated. It would be know as the Dreyfus Affair.
1904 ― Temperature reaches -34°F (-36.7°C) in River Vale, New Jersey (state record). Temperature reaches -42°F (-41.1°C), Smethport, Pennsylvania (state record).
1905 ― American astronomer, Charles Perrine, announces his discovery of Jupiter's 7th satellite, Elara.
1914 ― Ford Motor Company wages jump from $2.40/9-hr day to $5.00/8-hr day.
1919 ― National Socialist Party (Nazi) first forms as the German Farmers Party.
1933 ― Construction begins on the Golden Gate Bridge, as workers began excavating 3.25 million cubic feet of dirt for the structure’s huge anchorages.
1945 ― Japanese pilots received the first order to become kamikaze, meaning “divine wind” in Japanese. Thepilots would fly suicide missions in an attempt to sink American warships in WWII.
1905 ― American astronomer, Charles Perrine, announces his discovery of Jupiter's 7th satellite, Elara.
1914 ― Ford Motor Company wages jump from $2.40/9-hr day to $5.00/8-hr day.
1919 ― National Socialist Party (Nazi) first forms as the German Farmers Party.
1933 ― Construction begins on the Golden Gate Bridge, as workers began excavating 3.25 million cubic feet of dirt for the structure’s huge anchorages.
1945 ― Japanese pilots received the first order to become kamikaze, meaning “divine wind” in Japanese. Thepilots would fly suicide missions in an attempt to sink American warships in WWII.
1945 ― On the eve of a major offensive into Poland, the Soviet Union decides to recognize the pro-Soviet Lublin Committee as the Provisional Government of Poland instead of the government-in-exile that was temporarily being headquartered in London.
1949 ― U.S. President Harry Truman labels his administration the "Fair Deal".
1968 ― Alexander Dubček succeeds Antonín Novotný as communist party leader of Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic).
1970 ― The bodies of dissident UMW union leader Jock Yablonski, his wife, and daughter are discovered in their Clarksville, Pennsylvania, farmhouse by Yablonski’s son Kenneth.
1976 ― Communist Khmer Rouge leader, Pol Pot, announces a new constitution changing the name of Cambodia to Kampuchea and legalizing its Communist government.
1982 ― On this day in 1982, a series of landslides near San Francisco, California, kills up to 33 people and closes the Golden Gate Bridge.
1993 ― The oil tanker MV Braer runs aground on the coast of the Shetland Islands, spilling 84,700 tons of crude oil.
1993 ― The oil tanker MV Braer runs aground on the coast of the Shetland Islands, spilling 84,700 tons of crude oil.
1993 ― Washington state executes serial killer and pedophile, Westley Allan Dodd, by hanging (the first legal hanging in America since 1965).
2005 ― Eris, the largest known dwarf planet in the solar system, is discovered by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz using images originally taken on October 21, 2003, at the Palomar Observatory. Eris is the Greek goddess of chaos, strife, and discord. Her name is the equivalent of Latin Discordia, which means "discord".
TODAY'S BIRTHS
1679 – Pietro Filippo Scarlatti, Italian organist and composer (d. 1750)
1874 – Joseph Erlanger, American physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965)
1931 – Alvin Ailey, American dancer and choreographer, founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (d. 1989)
1932 – Umberto Eco, Italian philosopher and author (d. 2016)
FROM Wikipedia and Google, ex as noted.
TODAY'S BIRTHS
1679 – Pietro Filippo Scarlatti, Italian organist and composer (d. 1750)
1874 – Joseph Erlanger, American physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965)
1931 – Alvin Ailey, American dancer and choreographer, founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (d. 1989)
1932 – Umberto Eco, Italian philosopher and author (d. 2016)
FROM Wikipedia and Google, ex as noted.
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