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

  • 1554 –
    A great fire occurs in Eindhoven, Netherlands.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1896 –
    An Austrian newspaper reports that Wilhelm Röntgen has discovered a type of radiation later known as X-rays.
  • 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.
  • 1940 –
    FM radio is demonstrated to the Federal Communications Commission for the first time.
  • 1944 –
    The Daily Mail becomes the first transoceanic newspaper.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1991 –
    Georgian forces enter Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, Georgia, opening the 1991–1992 South Ossetia War.
  • 2003 –
    Police arrest seven suspects in connection with Wood Green ricin plot.

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