Notable Historical Events on January 5th
January 5th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1349 |
Margaretha of Bavaria names her son Willem V earl of Holland/Zealand |
1438 |
Pope Eugenius IV deallocated council of Basel to Ferrara |
1463 |
French poet Francois Villon banished from Paris |
1477 |
Battle at Nancy, Burgundy vs Switz, 7000 + killed including their leader Charles Duke of Burgundy |
1500 |
Duke Ludovico Sforza's troops reconquer Milan |
1527 |
Felix Manz, a leader of the Anabaptist congregation in Zürich, is executed by drowning. (b. 1498) |
1554 |
Great fire in Eindhoven Neth |
1593 |
William Louis of Nassau becomes governor/viceroy of Drenthe |
1638 |
Petition in Recife Brazil leads to closing of their 2 synagogues |
1649 |
Francesco Cavalli's opera "Giasone," premieres in Venice |
1675 |
Battle at Turkheim (Colmar): French army beats Brandenburg |
1709 |
Sudden extreme cold kills 1000s of Europeans |
1717 |
Prussian King Frederik Willem I buys conscript for nobles |
1719 |
Engl/Hannover/Saxony-Poland/Austria sign anti-Prussian/Russian pact |
1757 |
Failed assassination attempt on French King Louis XV by Damiens |
1776 |
Assembly of New Hampshire adopts its 1st state constitution |
1781 |
British naval expedition led by Benedict Arnold burns Richmond, Virginia |
1800 |
1st Swedenborgian temple in US holds 1st service, Baltimore |
1804 |
Ohio legislature passes 1st laws restricting free blacks movement |
1809 |
Treaty of Dardanelles concluded between Britain & France |
1822 |
Central America proclaims annexation to Mexican Empire |
1828 |
1st edition of Amsterdam General Trade Journal (Algemeen Handelsblad) |
1834 |
Kiowa Indians record this as the night the stars fell |
1836 |
Davy Crockett arrives in Texas, just in time for the Alamo |
1840 |
Records show 95,820 licensed public houses in England on this date |
1841 |
James Clark Ross (UK) is 1st to enter pack ice near Ross Ice Shelf |
1846 |
The United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Territory with the United Kingdom. |
1850 |
California Exchange opens |
1854 |
Steamship San Francisco wrecked-300 die |
1859 |
1st steamboat sails, Red River |
1861 |
250 Federal troops are sent from New York to Ft Sumter |
1861 |
Alabama troops seize Forts Morgan & Gaines at Mobile Bay |
1875 |
Charles Garnier's new Opera opens in Paris |
1875 |
President Grant sends federal troops to Vicksburg, Miss |
1887 |
1st US school of librarianship opens at Columbia University |
1888 |
Dutch Heidemaatschappij established |
1892 |
1st successful auroral photograph made |
1895 |
Henry James' play "Guy Domville" opens in London |
1895 |
Victor Trumper makes first-class debut for NSW 17 yrs 64 days |
1895 |
French Capt Alfred Dreyfus, convicted of treason, publicly stripped of his rank; later declared innocent |
1896 |
Isaac Albeniz' opera "Pepita Jiminez," premieres in Barcelona |
1896 |
The Die Presse newspaper (Germany) publicly announces Wilhelm Röntgen's discovery of X-rays and their potential for new methods of medical diagnoses in a front-page article |
1899 |
Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure-Charles Augustus Milverton (BG) |
1900 |
Irish leader John Edward Redmond calls for a revolt against British rule. |
1903 |
SF-Hawaii telegraph cable opens for public use |
1904 |
-34°F (-36.7°C), River Vale, New Jersey (state record) |
1904 |
-42°F (-41.1°C), Smethport, Pennsylvania (state record) |
1904 |
England beat Australia at the MCG, Rhodes 7-56 & 8-68 |
1905 |
Charles Perrine announces discovery of Jupiter's 7th satellite, Elara |
1905 |
National Association of Audubon Society, a non-profit, environmental organization dedicated to conservation, incorporates |
1909 |
Colombia recognizes Panama's independence |
1911 |
Portuguese expel Jesuits |
1911 |
San Francisco has its first air meet |
1912 |
1st National Hockey Association game (Victoria) |
1912 |
The Prague Party Conference takes place. |
1914 |
Ford Motor Co wages jump from $2.40/9-hr day to $5.00/8-hr day |
1916 |
Austria-Hungary offensive against Montenegro |
1918 |
British premier Lloyd George demand for unified peace |
1919 |
National Socialist Party (Nazi) forms as German Farmers Party |
1919 |
Spartacus uprising in Berlin: state of siege |
1925 |
James Gleason & Richard Tabers "Is zat so?" premieres in NYC |
1925 |
Nellie Taylor Ross became governor of Wyoming, 1st woman gov in USA |
1925 |
Under Polish control, Danzig establishes Port Gdansk post office |
1925 |
French Baseball Federation awards silver medals to John McGraw, Charlie Comiskey, & Hugh Jennings |
1927 |
Fox Studios exhibits Movietone |
1927 |
Judge Landis begins 3-day public hearing on charges that 4 games played between Chicago & Detroit in 1917 had been thrown to White Sox |
1929 |
Coup by King Alexander in South Slavia |
1930 |
Mao Zedong writes "A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire" |
1930 |
Bonnie Parker meets Clyde Barrow for the first time at Clarence Clay's house |
1931 |
1st woman to purchase a baseball team Lucille Thomas purchases Topeka franchise in the Western League |
1933 |
Work on Golden Gate Bridge begins, on Marin County side |
1934 |
Fenway Park catches fire for 2nd time (May 8th 1926 also) |
1934 |
National & American baseball leagues select a uniform ball |
1937 |
Fingleton & Bradman make record stand of 346 for 6th wkt |
1937 |
Only unicameral state legislature in US opens 1st session (Nebr) |
1940 |
FCC hears 1st transmission of FM radio with clear, static-free signal |
1940 |
Finnish offensive at Suomossalmi against Russia |
1941 |
British/Australian troops conquer Bardia Lybia |
1942 |
55 German tanks reach North-Africa |
1943 |
Teams agrees to start season later due to WW II |
1943 |
William H Hastie, civilian aide to secretary of war, resigns to protest segregation in armed forces |
1944 |
The Daily Mail becomes the first transoceanic newspaper. |
1945 |
Pepe LePew debuts in Warner Bros cartoon "Odor-able Kitty" |
1945 |
Surprise attack on Liese-Aktion-office on Marnix St, Amsterdam |
1946 |
"Show Boat" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 417 performances |
1949 |
General Spoor orders cease-fire on Sumatra |
1949 |
President Harry Truman labels his administration the "Fair Deal" |
1950 |
Carson McCuller's "Member of the Wedding," premieres in NYC |
1951 |
Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Ponte Vedra Beach Women's Golf Open |
1952 |
Flying Enterprise sinks |
1953 |
-6] Passenger ships Willem Ruys & Orange collide in the Red Sea |
1953 |
Samuel Beckett's "En Attendant Godot," premieres in Paris |
1955 |
KMSP TV channel 9 in Minneapolis-St Paul, MN (IND) 1st broadcast |
1957 |
Dodgers' Jackie Robinson retires rather than be traded to NY Giants |
1957 |
Eisenhower asks Congress to send troops to the Mid East |
1959 |
"Bozo the Clown" live children's show premieres on TV |
1959 |
Buddy Holly releases his last record "It Doesn't Matter" |
1960 |
Continental League, a proposed third major league, gets an assurance of congressional support from NY Senator Kenneth Keating |
1961 |
US breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba |
1962 |
Tony Sheridan & Beatles produce "My Bonnie" & "The Saints" |
1963 |
"Camelot" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 873 performances |
1963 |
"Carnival!" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 719 performances |
1963 |
San Diego beats Boston 51-10 in AFL championship game |
1964 |
Pope Paul VI visits Jordan & Israel |
1964 |
San Diego Chargers win AFL-championship |
1967 |
KLXA (now KTBN) TV channel 40 in Fontana-San Ana, CA (IND) begins |
1968 |
Dr Benjamin Spock indicted for conspiring to violate draft law |
1968 |
Alexander Dubček succeeds Antonín Novotný as communist party leader of Czechoslovakia |
1969 |
"Maggie Flynn" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 82 performances |
1969 |
Bollingen prize for poetry presented to John Berryman & Karl Shapiro |
1969 |
Neville Williams' "Chronology of the Expanding World" completed |
1969 |
USSR Venera 5 launched for 1st successful planet landing (Venus) |
1970 |
23,000 Belgian mine workers strike |
1970 |
KPTS TV channel 8 in Hutchinson-Wichita, KS (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1970 |
Soap Opera "All My Children," premieres on ABC |
1971 |
1st one-day international, Australia v England at the MCG |
1971 |
Globetrotters lose 100-99 to NJ Reds, ending 2,495-game win streak |
1971 |
US heavyweight "Sonny" Liston's (36) corpse found |
1972 |
Largest crowd at Cleveland Arena (Cavs vs Lakers-11,178) |
1972 |
NYC transit fare rises from 30 cents to 35 cents |
1972 |
US President Nixon signs a bill for NASA to begin research on a manned space shuttle |
1972 |
West-Pakistani sheik Mujib ur-Rahman freed |
1973 |
Mali & Niger break diplomatic relations with Israel |
1973 |
Netherlands recognizes German DR |
1974 |
Raul Julia appears on Bob Newhart Show in "Oh, Brother" |
1974 |
An earthquake in Lima, Peru, kills six people, and damages hundreds of houses. |
1975 |
"Wiz" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 1672 performances |
1975 |
Charlie Smalls' "Wiz," premieres in NYC |
1975 |
Salyut 4 with crew of 2 is launched for 30 days |
1975 |
14 die when British freighter "Lake Illawarra" rams pylon bridge between Derwent & Hobart, Tasmania & ship sinks |
1976 |
"MacNeil-Lehrer Report" premieres on PBS |
1976 |
Cambodia is renamed "Democratic Kampuchea" |
1976 |
Greg Chappell scores 182* at SCG against West Indies |
1976 |
Kingsmill massacre: in retaliation for the Reavey and O'Dowd killings, the South Armagh Republican Action Force shoot dead 10 Protestant civilians after stopping their minibus at Kingsmill, County Armagh |
1981 |
"Nightline" with Ted Koppel extended from 20 mins to 30 mins |
1981 |
British police arrest Peter Sutcliffe, a truck driver later convicted of "Yorkshire Ripper" murders of 13 women |
1982 |
Arkansas judge rules against obligatory teaching of creation |
1982 |
Darryl Sittler, on advice from his doctor, leaves the Toronto Maple Leafs because of mental depression |
1984 |
Adrian Dantly (Utah), ties NBA record of 28 free throws |
1984 |
Greg Chappell scores 182* in his last Test innings |
1985 |
Bryan Trottier failed on 9th Islander penalty shot |
1985 |
Discovery moves to launch pad for STS 51-C mission |
1987 |
Surrogate Baby M case begins in Hackensack, NJ |
1989 |
2 French TV newsmen arrested for trying to plant fake bombs on 3 airlines at JFK airport in security test |
1989 |
Baseball signs $400M with ESPN, showing 175 games in 1990 |
1990 |
J Donald Crump appointed 8th Commissioner of CFL |
1991 |
"Oh, Kay!" closes at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC after 77 performances |
1991 |
Edwin Jongejans of Neth wins 1-meter springboard diving title |
1991 |
Kevin Bradshaw of US Intl scores NCAA Div 1 record 72 pts |
1992 |
"6 Degrees of Separation" closes at Vivian Beaumont NYC after 496 perf |
1992 |
"Crucible" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 32 performances |
1992 |
"On Borrowed Time" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 99 perfs |
1992 |
"Peter Pan" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 48 performances |
1992 |
Ravi Shastri scores 206 at SCG before being Warne's 1st crick Test wkt |
1993 |
Brian Lara completes 277 v Australia at cricket SCG |
1993 |
Price is Right model Janice Pennington sues CBS for show accident |
1993 |
Reggie Jackson elected to Hall of Fame |
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 Westley Allan Dodd by hanging (the first legal hanging in America since 1965). |
1994 |
Aleksandr Popov swims world record 100m free style (47.82) |
1994 |
Yat Weiju swims world record 100m butterfly stroke (58.71) |
1994 |
Zhong Weiju swims world record 25m pool record (58.71) |
1995 |
NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 41-13 |
1995 |
Lockheed C-140 Jetstar crashes at Isfahan Persia, 18 killed |
1996 |
Miami Dolphin coach Don Shula announces his retirement |
1996 |
Muralitharan no-balled for throwing in ODI v WI at the Gabba |
1996 |
Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone. |
1997 |
"Juan Darien-Carnival Mass" closes at Vivian Beaumont NYC |
1997 |
"Love Thy Neighbor," closes at Booth Theater NYC |
1997 |
"Show Boat," closes at Gershwin Theater NYC |
1998 |
Ice storm knocks out electricity in Quebec & Ontario |
1998 |
Vandals decapitate Copenhagen's Little Mermaid |
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. |
2007 |
Bill Cowher resigns as head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers |
2010 |
Mike Shanahan is formally introduced as head coach of the Washington Redskins |
2016 |
North Korea says it successfully conducts hydrogen bomb test |
2016 |
World's largest blue star sapphire -- worth $100M -- discovered |
2018 |
North Korea accepts January 9 talks offer from South Korea |
2018 |
Trump administration drops Obama-era easing of marijuana prosecutions |
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