About January 5
January 5, 2025 is the 5th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 360 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 24 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.
- 1500 –Duke Ludovico Sforza conquers Milan.
- 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.
- 1781 –American Revolutionary War: Richmond, Virginia, is burned by British naval forces led by Benedict Arnold.
- 1895 –Dreyfus affair: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil’s Island.
- 1900 –Irish leader John Redmond calls for a revolt against British rule.
- 1911 –Kappa Alpha Psi, the world’s second oldest and largest black fraternity, is founded at Indiana University.
- 1914 –The Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day’s labor.
- 1918 –The Free Committee for a German Workers Peace, which would become the Nazi Party, is founded.
- 1940 –FM radio is demonstrated to the Federal Communications Commission for the first time.
- 1968 –Alexander Dubček comes to power: “Prague Spring” begins in Czechoslovakia.
- 1971 –The first One Day International cricket match is held between Australia and England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
- 1974 –An earthquake in Lima, Peru, kills six people, and damages hundreds of houses.
- 1975 –The Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier Lake Illawarra, killing twelve people.
- 1976 –Ten Protestant civilians are shot dead by a paramilitary group at Kingsmill in County Armagh, Northern Ireland (part of The Troubles).
- 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 last judicial hanging in America).
- 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.
- 2008 –Mikheil Saakashvili wins his second term as President of Georgia in the snap election.
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