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05 Jan 1349
Margaretha of Bavaria names her son Willem V Earl of Holland and Zealand
05 Jan 1438
Pope Eugenius IV deallocated council of Basel to Ferrara
05 Jan 1463
French poet Francois Villon banished from Paris
05 Jan 1477
Battle of Nancy Burgundy vs Switzerland 7000 killed including their leader Charles Duke of Burgundy
05 Jan 1527
Felix Manz a leader of the Anabaptist congregation in Zrich is executed by drowning. (b. 1498)
05 Jan 1593
William Louis of Nassau becomes governorviceroy of Drenthe
05 Jan 1638
Petition in Recife Brazil leads to closing of their 2 synagogues
05 Jan 1649
Francesco Cavallis opera Giasone premieres in Venice (the most popular opera of the 17th century)
05 Jan 1675
Battle at Turkheim (Colmar) French army beats Brandenburg
05 Jan 1709
Sudden extreme cold kills thousands of Europeans
05 Jan 1717
Prussian King Frederik Willem I buys conscript for nobles
05 Jan 1719
Britain Hannover Saxony-Poland and Austria sign anti-Prussian Russian pact
05 Jan 1757
Failed assassination attempt on French King Louis XV by Damiens
05 Jan 1776
Assembly of New Hampshire adopts its 1st state constitution
05 Jan 1800
1st Swedenborgian temple in US holds 1st service in Baltimore
05 Jan 1804
Ohio legislature passes 1st laws restricting free blacks movement
05 Jan 1809
Treaty of Dardanelles concluded between Britain & France
05 Jan 1822
Central America proclaims annexation to Mexican Empire
05 Jan 1828
1st edition of Amsterdam General Trade Journal (Algemeen Handelsblad)
05 Jan 1834
Kiowa Indians record this as the night the stars fell
05 Jan 1840
Records show 95820 licensed public houses in England on this date
05 Jan 1841
James Clark Ross (UK) is 1st to enter pack ice near Ross Ice Shelf
05 Jan 1846
The United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Territory with the United Kingdom
05 Jan 1854
Steamship San Francisco wrecked off US eastern seaboard 300 die
05 Jan 1861
250 Federal troops are sent from New York to Ft Sumter
05 Jan 1861
Alabama troops seize Forts Morgan & Gaines at Mobile Bay
05 Jan 1875
President Grant sends federal troops to Vicksburg Mississippi
05 Jan 1887
1st US school of librarianship opens at Columbia University
05 Jan 1888
Dutch Heidemaatschappij (land reclamation) established
05 Jan 1895
Henry James play Guy Domville opens in London
05 Jan 1895
Victor Trumper makes first-class debut for NSW 17 yrs 64 days
05 Jan 1895
French Captain Alfred Dreyfus convicted of treason publicly stripped of his rank later exonerated
05 Jan 1896
Isaac Albniz opera Pepita Jiminez premieres in Barcelona
05 Jan 1899
Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure-Charles Augustus Milverton (BG)
05 Jan 1900
Irish leader John Edward Redmond calls for a revolt against British rule
05 Jan 1903
SF-Hawaii telegraph cable opens for public use
05 Jan 1904
-34F (-36.7C) River Vale New Jersey (state record)
05 Jan 1904
-42F (-41.1C) Smethport Pennsylvania (state record)
05 Jan 1904
England beat Australia at the MCG Rhodes 7-56 & 8-68
05 Jan 1905
Charles Perrine announces discovery of Jupiters 7th satellite Elara
05 Jan 1905
National Association of Audubon Society a non-profit environmental organization dedicated to conservation incorporates
05 Jan 1912
1st National Hockey Association game (Victoria)
05 Jan 1914
Ford Motor Co wages jump from 2.409-hr day to 5.008-hr day
05 Jan 1918
British premier Lloyd George demand for unified peace
05 Jan 1919
National Socialist Party (Nazi) forms as German Farmers Party
05 Jan 1919
Left-wing Spartacus organization instigates a revolt in Berlin terrified by the spread of Bolshevism German troops brutally suppress the uprising
05 Jan 1925
James Gleason & Richard Tabers Is zat so premieres in NYC
05 Jan 1925
Nellie Taylor Ross became governor of Wyoming 1st woman governor in USA
05 Jan 1925
Under Polish control Danzig establishes Port Gdansk post office
05 Jan 1925
French Baseball Federation awards silver medals to John McGraw Charlie Comiskey & Hugh Jennings
05 Jan 1925
England cricket openers Herbert Sutcliffe (176) and Jack Hobbs (154) display heroics in their 1st innings but the tourists sink to an 81 run defeat in the 2nd Test against Australia in Melbourne Sutcliffe also adds 127 in the England 2nd innings
05 Jan 1927
Judge Landis begins 3-day public hearing on charges that 4 games played between Chicago & Detroit in 1917 had been thrown to White Sox
05 Jan 1931
1st woman to purchase a baseball team Lucille Thomas purchases Topeka franchise in the Western League
05 Jan 1933
Work on Golden Gate Bridge begins starting on the Marin County side
05 Jan 1933
Cavalcade based on the play by Noel Coward directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Diana Wynyard and Clive Brook premieres in New York (Best ProductionPicture 1934)
05 Jan 1934
Fenway Park catches fire for 2nd time (May 8th 1926 also)
05 Jan 1934
National & American baseball leagues select a uniform ball
05 Jan 1937
Only unicameral state legislature in US opens 1st session in Nebraska
05 Jan 1940
FCC hears 1st transmission of FM radio with clear static-free signal
05 Jan 1940
Finnish offensive at Suomossalmi against Russia
05 Jan 1941
British Australian troops conquer Bardia Libya
05 Jan 1943
Teams agrees to start season later due to WW II
05 Jan 1943
William H Hastie civilian aide to secretary of war resigns to protest segregation in armed forces
05 Jan 1944
The Daily Mail becomes the first transoceanic newspaper.
05 Jan 1945
Pepe LePew debuts in Warner Bros cartoon Odor-able Kitty
05 Jan 1945
Surprise attack on Liese-Aktion-office on Marnix St Amsterdam
05 Jan 1946
Show Boat opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 417 performances
05 Jan 1950
Carson McCullers Member of the Wedding premieres in NYC
05 Jan 1953
-6] Passenger ships Willem Ruys & Orange collide in the Red Sea
05 Jan 1955
KMSP TV channel 9 in Minneapolis-St Paul MN (IND) 1st broadcast
05 Jan 1959
Bozo the Clown live childrens show premieres on TV
05 Jan 1960
Continental League a proposed third major league gets an assurance of congressional support from NY Senator Kenneth Keating
05 Jan 1963
Camelot closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 873 performances
05 Jan 1963
Carnival closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 719 performances
05 Jan 1963
San Diego beats Boston 51-10 in AFL championship game
05 Jan 1964
AFL Championship Balboa Stadium San Diego San Diego Chargers beat Boston Patriots 51-10 Chargers RB Keith Lincoln rushes for 206 yards 2 TDs
05 Jan 1967
KLXA (now KTBN) TV channel 40 in Fontana-San Ana CA (IND) begins
05 Jan 1968
Alexander Dubek succeeds Antonn Novotn as communist party leader of Czechoslovakia
05 Jan 1969
Maggie Flynn closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 82 performances
05 Jan 1969
Bollingen prize for poetry presented to John Berryman & Karl Shapiro
05 Jan 1969
Neville Williams Chronology of the Expanding World completed
05 Jan 1969
USSR Venera 5 launched for 1st successful planet landing (Venus)
05 Jan 1989
2 French TV newsmen arrested for trying to plant fake bombs on 3 airlines at JFK airport in security test
05 Jan 1989
Baseball signs 400M with ESPN showing 175 games in 1990
05 Jan 1990
J Donald Crump appointed 8th Commissioner of CFL
05 Jan 1970
KPTS TV channel 8 in Hutchinson-Wichita KS (PBS) begins broadcasting
05 Jan 1971
1st one-day international Australia v England at the MCG
05 Jan 1971
Globetrotters lose 100-99 to NJ Reds ending 2495-game win streak
05 Jan 1972
Largest crowd at Cleveland Arena (Cavs vs Lakers-11178)
05 Jan 1972
NYC transit fare rises from 30 cents to 35 cents
05 Jan 1972
US President Nixon signs a bill for NASA to begin research on a manned space shuttle
05 Jan 1973
Mali & Niger break diplomatic relations with Israel
05 Jan 1974
An earthquake in Lima Peru kills six people and damages hundreds of houses
05 Jan 1975
Charlie Smalls Wiz opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 1672 performances
05 Jan 1975
Salyut 4 with crew of 2 is launched for 30 days
05 Jan 1975
14 die when British freighter Lake Illawarra rams pylon bridge between Derwent & Hobart Tasmania & ship sinks
05 Jan 1976
Greg Chappell scores 182 for Australia at SCG against West Indies
05 Jan 1976
In retaliation for the Reavey and ODowd killings the South Armagh Republican Action Force shoot dead 10 Protestant civilians after stopping their minibus in County Armagh
05 Jan 1978
Blent Ecevit becomes Prime Minister of Turkey for the 3rd time
05 Jan 1981
Nightline with Ted Koppel extended from 20 mins to 30 mins
05 Jan 1981
British police arrest Peter Sutcliffe a truck driver later convicted of Yorkshire Ripper murders of 13 women
05 Jan 1982
Arkansas judge rules against obligatory teaching of creation
05 Jan 1984
Adrian Dantley (Utah) ties NBA record of 28 free throws
05 Jan 1984
Greg Chappell scores 182 for Australia in his last Test innings
05 Jan 1985
Discovery moves to launch pad for STS 51-C mission
05 Jan 1985
Thousands of Jewish refugees are airlifted from Sudan to Israel
05 Jan 1987
Surrogate Baby M case begins in Hackensack New Jersey
05 Jan 1991
Oh Kay closes at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC after 77 performances
05 Jan 1991
Edwin Jongejans of Netherlands wins 1-metre springboard diving title
05 Jan 1991
Kevin Bradshaw of US Intl scores NCAA Div 1 record 72 pts
05 Jan 1992
6 Degrees of Separation closes at Vivian Beaumont NYC after 496 performances
05 Jan 1992
Crucible closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 32 performances
05 Jan 1992
On Borrowed Time closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 99 performances
05 Jan 1992
Peter Pan closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 48 performances
05 Jan 1992
Ravi Shastri scores 206 at SCG before being Warnes 1st cricket Test wicket
05 Jan 1993
Brian Lara scores his maiden test century 277 runs West Indies v Australia at cricket at the Sydney Cricket Ground
05 Jan 1993
Price is Right model Janice Pennington sues CBS for show accident
05 Jan 1993
Oil tanker MV Braer runs aground on the coast of the Shetland Islands spilling 84700 tons of crude oil
05 Jan 1993
Washington state executes Westley Allan Dodd by hanging (first legal hanging in America since 1965)
05 Jan 1994
Aleksandr Popov swims world record 100m free style (47.82)
05 Jan 1994
Yat Weiju swims world record 100m butterfly stroke (58.71)
05 Jan 1994
Zhong Weiju swims world record 25m pool record (58.71)
05 Jan 1994
26th NAACP Image Awards Sister Act wins Outstanding Motion Picture
05 Jan 1995
Lockheed C-140 Jetstar crashes at Isfahan Iran killing 18
05 Jan 1996
Muralitharan no-balled for throwing in ODI v WI at the Gabba
05 Jan 1996
Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone.
05 Jan 1997
Juan Darien-Carnival Mass closes at Vivian Beaumont NYC
05 Jan 1997
Love Thy Neighbor closes at Booth Theater NYC
05 Jan 1998
Ice storm knocks out electricity in Quebec & Ontario
05 Jan 1998
Vandals decapitate Copenhagens Little Mermaid
05 Jan 2001
A report reveals that former General Practioner Harold Shipman has potentially killed hundreds of patients
05 Jan 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.
05 Jan 2016
First batsman to ever score 1000 runs in a single innings in cricket - 15 year-old Mumbai schoolboy Pranav Dhanawade is 1009 not out
05 Jan 2018
North Korea accepts South Korean invitation for high-level talks
05 Jan 2018
Kitwe in Zambia bans shaking hands and the sale of fresh food in attempt to prevent a cholera outbreak
05 Jan 2018
Fire and Fury Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff is published by Henry Holt and Company
05 Jan 1709
The Great Frost begins during the night a sudden cold snap that remains Europes coldest ever winter. Thousands are killed across the continent and crops fail in France.
05 Jan 1919
German Workers Party forms precursor to the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi)
05 Jan 1925
Under Polish control Danzig establishes Port Gdask post office
05 Jan 1971
Globetrotters lose 100-99 to NJ Reds ending 2495-game winning streak
05 Jan 1992
Indian cricket all-rounder Ravi Shastri scores 206 in 3rd Test in Sydney before being Shane Warnes first Test wicket the first of 708 for Australia
05 Jan 1995
Bill Fitch becomes the 5th coach in NBA history to register 850 career victories with the LA Clippers 95-93 home win over Philadelphia 76ers at the LA Memorial Sports Arena
05 Jan 2007
Hopman Cup Tennis Perth Dmitry Tursunov beats Spaniard Tommy Robredo 6-4 7-5 to give Russia an unassailable 2-0 lead and first title
05 Jan 2019
Orthodox Church of Ukraine granted independence from the Russian Orthodox Church by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew
05 Jan 2019
Chinese government report predicts Chinas population will peak at 1.44 billion in 2029 before declining
05 Jan 1859
1st steamboat the North Star sails up the northern Red River America
05 Jan 1981
Peter Sutcliffe a truck driver confesses that he is the Yorkshire Ripper and murdered 13 women
05 Jan 2001
A report reveals that doctor and former GP Harold Shipman has potentially killed hundreds of patients
05 Jan 2020
Iran pulls out of the 2015 nuclear deal will not limit its uranium enrichment
05 Jan 2020
Chinese professor Zhang Yongzhen publishes the first SARS-CoV-2 genome map online allowing health professionals worldwide to identify COVID-19
05 Jan 1866
Bedich Smetanas first opera Branibori v Cechach (The Brandenburgers in Bohemia) premieres in Prague
05 Jan 1992
Musical Peter Pan starring Cathy Rigby closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 48 performances
05 Jan 2021
Six Gulf states including Saudi Arabia sign an agreement to ease the blockage with Qatar in place since 2017
05 Jan 2021
Daily new cases of COVID-19 top 60000 in the UK as data reveals one in fifty in England had COVID-19 within the last week
05 Jan 2021
In Georgia Senate run-off elections Raphael Warnock (D) defeats Kelly Loeffler (R) and Jon Ossoff (D) defeats David Perdue (R) to give Democrats control of the US Senate
05 Jan 2021
86th Heisman Trophy Award DeVonta Smith Alabama (WR)
05 Jan 1905
Incorporation of the National Association of Audubon Society a nonprofit environmental organization dedicated to conservation
05 Jan 1931
First woman to purchase a baseball team Lucille Thomas buys Topeka Senators franchise in the Western League
05 Jan 1934
Bostons Fenway Park catches fire for 2nd time (May 8th 1926 also)
05 Jan 1940
FCC hears the 1st transmission of FM radio with clear static-free signal
05 Jan 1970
American daytime soap opera All My Children premieres on ABC
05 Jan 1975
Charlie Smalls musical The Wiz an updated take on The Wizard of Oz starring Stephanie Mills Stu Gilliam and Dee Dee Bridgewater opens at Majestic Theater NYC runs for 1672 performances winning 7 Tony and 6 Drama Desk Awards
05 Jan 1981
Late night television news program Nightline with Ted Koppel extended from 20 mins to 30 mins
05 Jan 1992
Revival of Leigh Charlap Styne Comden and Greens musical Peter Pan starring Cathy Rigby closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 48 performances
05 Jan 2022
Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards pardons Homer Plessy for buying whites-only train ticket in 1892 (resulted in U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson 1896) [1]
05 Jan 2022
State of emergency declared across Kazakhstan amid unrest and protests against fuel price rises 164 killed in three days
05 Jan 1925
Nellie Tayloe Ross sworn in as Governor of Wyoming 1st woman governor in USA
05 Jan 1952
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill makes an official visit to the US
05 Jan 1960
Continental League a proposed third baseball major league gets an assurance of congressional support from NY Senator Kenneth Keating
05 Jan 1970
KPTS TV channel 8 in Hutchinson-Wichita Kansas (PBS) begins broadcasting
05 Jan 1998
Vandals decapitate Copenhagens Little Mermaid statue in Langelinie Park
05 Jan 2013
25th Hopman Cup Tennis Perth Spain wins 4th title Anabel Medina Garrigues & Fernando Verdasco beat high profile Serbian pair Ana Ivanovi & Novak okovi 6-4 7-5 to clinch 2-1 victory
05 Jan 2019
Hopman Cup Tennis Perth Swiss pair Roger Federer & Belinda Bencic clinch 2-1 win over Germany beat Angelique Kerber & Alexander Zverev 4-0 1-4 4-3 Switzerlands 4th event success
05 Jan 1985
Operation Moses covert airlifting of about 8000 Ethiopian Jews from war-torn Sudan to Israel via Belgium ends
05 Jan 1997
Elliot Goldenthals musical Juan Darin - A Carnival Mass closes at the Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC after 49 performances
05 Jan 1997
Revival of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein IIs musical Show Boat closes at the Gershwin Theater NYC after 947 performances
05 Jan 2024
An Alaskan Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 makes emergency landing in Portland after a fuselage section blows out midair with US regulator then grounding hundreds of planes [1]
05 Jan 2024
Nigerian film A Tribe Called Judah created by Funke Akindele becomes the first Nollywood film to earn more than 1bn naira (1.1m) domestically [1]
05 Jan 1859
First steamboat the North Star sails up the northern Red River America
05 Jan 1887
First US school of librarianship opens at Columbia University
05 Jan 1912
First National Hockey Association game in Victoria
05 Jan 1969
Bollingen prize for poetry presented to John Berryman and Karl Shapiro
05 Jan 1969
USSR Venera 5 launches for 1st successful planet landing (Venus)
05 Jan 1974
Raul Julia appears on The Bob Newhart Show in the episode Oh Brother
05 Jan 2016
Fifteen-year-old Mumbai schoolboy Pranav Dhanawade becomes the first batsman to ever score 1000 runs in a single innings in cricket finishing 1009 not out
05 Jan 2025
New York becomes the first US city to introduce a congestion charge of 9 for Manhattans central business district [1]