About January 5
January 5, 2024 is the 5th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 361 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 36 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.
- 1554 –A great fire occurs in Eindhoven, Netherlands.
- 1675 –Battle of Colmar: the French army beats Brandenburg.
- 1781 –American Revolutionary War: Richmond, Virginia, is burned by British naval forces led by Benedict Arnold.
- 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.
- 1900 –Irish leader John Redmond calls for a revolt against British rule.
- 1912 –The Prague Party Conference takes place.
- 1933 –Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay.
- 1940 –FM radio is demonstrated to the Federal Communications Commission for the first time.
- 1945 –The Soviet Union recognizes the new pro-Soviet government of Poland.
- 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
- 1976 –Ten Protestant civilians are shot dead by a paramilitary group at Kingsmill in County Armagh, Northern Ireland (part of The Troubles).
- 1976 –The Khmer Rouge proclaim the Constitution of Democratic Kampuchea.
- 1991 –Georgian forces enter Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, Georgia, opening the 1991–1992 South Ossetia War.
- 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).
- 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.
- 2008 –Mikheil Saakashvili wins his second term as President of Georgia in the snap election.
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