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.
- 1477 –Battle of Nancy: Charles the Bold is killed and Burgundy becomes part of France.
- 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.
- 1782 –American Revolutionary War: French troops begin a siege of a British garrison on Brimstone Hill in Saint Kitts.
- 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.
- 1909 –Colombia recognizes the independence of Panama.
- 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.
- 1914 –The Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day’s labor.
- 1940 –FM radio is demonstrated to the Federal Communications Commission for the first time.
- 1944 –The Daily Mail becomes the first transoceanic newspaper.
- 1968 –Alexander Dubček comes to power: “Prague Spring” begins in Czechoslovakia.
- 1969 –Members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary damage property and assault occupants in the Bogside in Derry, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. In response, residents erect barricades and establish Free Derry.
- 1975 –The Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier Lake Illawarra, killing twelve people.
- 1991 –Georgian forces enter Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, Georgia, opening the 1991–1992 South Ossetia War.
- 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.
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