About January 5

January 5, 2022 is the 5th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 360 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

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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 27 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.
  • 1477 –
    Battle of Nancy: Charles the Bold is killed and Burgundy becomes part of France.
  • 1675 –
    Battle of Colmar: the French army beats Brandenburg.
  • 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.
  • 1854 –
    The San Francisco steamer sinks, killing 300 people.
  • 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.
  • 1912 –
    The Prague Party Conference takes place.
  • 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.
  • 1933 –
    Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay.
  • 1945 –
    The Soviet Union recognizes the new pro-Soviet government of Poland.
  • 1971 –
    The first One Day International cricket match is held between Australia and England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1996 –
    Hamas bombmaker Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone.

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