About January 5
January 5, 2021 is the 5th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 360 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 38 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.
- 1527 –Felix Manz, a leader of the Anabaptist congregation in Zurich, Switzerland, is executed by drowning.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1914 –The Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day’s labor.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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