About January 5
January 5, 2023 is the 5th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 360 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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Capricorn is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Garnet is the modern birthstone for this month. Emerald is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 17 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On January 5
- 1066 –Edward the Confessor dies childless, sparking a succession crisis that will eventually lead to the Norman conquest of England.
- 1757 –Louis XV of France survives an assassination attempt by Robert-François Damiens, the last person to be executed in France by drawing and quartering, the traditional and gruesome form of capital punishment used for regicides.
- 1759 –George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Custis.
- 1782 –American Revolutionary War: French troops begin a siege of a British garrison on Brimstone Hill in Saint Kitts.
- 1846 –The United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Territory with the United Kingdom.
- 1895 –Dreyfus affair: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil’s Island.
- 1911 –Kappa Alpha Psi, the world’s second oldest and largest black fraternity, is founded at Indiana University.
- 1912 –The Prague Party Conference takes place.
- 1913 –First Balkan War: During the Naval Battle of Lemnos, Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it did not venture for the rest of the war.
- 1918 –The Free Committee for a German Workers Peace, which would become the Nazi Party, is founded.
- 1925 –Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes the first female governor in the United States.
- 1940 –FM radio is demonstrated to the Federal Communications Commission for the first time.
- 1944 –The Daily Mail becomes the first transoceanic newspaper.
- 1957 –In a speech given to the United States Congress, President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces the establishment of what will later be called the Eisenhower Doctrine.
- 1972 –U.S. President Richard Nixon orders the development of a Space Shuttle program.
- 1974 –An earthquake in Lima, Peru, kills six people, and damages hundreds of houses.
- 1974 –Warmest reliably measured temperature in Antarctica of +59°F (+15°C) recorded at Vanda Station
- 1993 –The oil tanker MV Braer runs aground on the coast of the Shetland Islands, spilling 84,700 tons of crude oil.
- 1996 –Hamas bombmaker Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone.
- 2003 –Police arrest seven suspects in connection with Wood Green ricin plot.
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