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  • The corpse of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, is discovered after the Battle of Nancy

    Battle of Nancy

    1477 Battle of Nancy: Swiss Confederacy led by René II decisively defeats the Duchy of Burgundy, 7,000+ killed including the Duke of Burgundy Charles the Bold
  • 1781 British naval expedition led by Benedict Arnold burns Richmond, Virginia
  • 1919 German Workers' Party forms, precursor to the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazi)
  • 1930 Mao Zedong writes the essay "A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire" to criticize cadres not creating rural revolutionary base areas
  • 1949 US President Harry Truman labels his administration the "Fair Deal"
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  • 1933 "Cavalcade" based on the play by Noël Coward, directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Diana Wynyard and Clive Brook premieres in New York (Best Production/Picture 1934)
  • 1649 Francesco Cavalli's opera "Giasone" premieres in Venice (the most popular opera of the 17th century)
  • 1993 Brian Lara scores his maiden Test century with 277 for the West Indies v Australia in drawn 3rd Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground

FCC hears the 1st transmission of FM radio with clear, static-free signal

January 5, 1940

  • King C. Gillette

    1855 - 1932

  • Joseph Erlanger

    1874 - 1965

  • Konrad Adenauer

    1876 - 1967

  • Friedrich Dürrenmatt

    1921 - 1990

  • Walter Mondale

    1928 - 2021

  • Juan Carlos I

    88 Years Old
More Birthdays on January 5

  • George Reeves

    1914 - 1959

  • Robert Duvall

    95 Years Old

  • Hayao Miyazaki

    85 Years Old

  • Marilyn Manson

    57 Years Old

  • Bradley Cooper

    51 Years Old

  • January Jones

    48 Years Old

  • Chuck Noll

    1932 - 2014

  • Chuck McKinley

    1941 - 1986

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

January 5, 2016

  • 1808 Explorer William Clark (37) weds Julia Hancock in Fincastle, Virginia
  • 1911 British PM Neville Chamberlain (41) weds Anne de Vere Cole
  • 1985 Baseball player Darryl Strawberry (22) weds Lisa Andrews
  • 1967 Actor Lee Marvin (42) divorces Elizabeth Ebeling after 14 years of marriage
More January 5 Weddings

  • Catherine de' Medici

    1519 - 1589

  • Elizabeth of Russia

    1709 - 1762

  • Ernest Shackleton

    1874 - 1922

  • Amelia Earhart

    1897 - 1939

  • George Washington Carver

    1864 - 1943

  • Momofuku Ando

    1910 - 2007
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  • Le lagon gelé en 1709, painted by Gabriele Bella, showing part of a lagoon which froze in Venice in 1709

    Great Frost of 1709

    Le lagon gelé en 1709, painted by Gabriele Bella, showing part of a lagoon which froze in Venice in 1709 January 5, 1709
  • The original package: Every razor and packet of blades carried King Gillette's image and autograph

    Gillette, The Billionaire Shaving Pioneer

    Safety razor pioneer King Camp Gillette, a billionaire who offered a former President a million dollars to join him in a business venture, was born on this day. January 5, 1855
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  • Josiah Wedgwood and a collection of the beautiful, sought-after pottery that he created

    Master Potter Wedgwood Wows the World

    January 3, 1795
  • Cornelius Vanderbilt, at one time the richest man in the U.S.

    Rise and Fall of the Vanderbilt Empire

    January 4, 1877
  • Eleanor Roosevelt studies the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

    Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms

    January 6, 1941
  • A modern demonstration on how to use a distaff

    Getting In a Spin On Saint Distaff’s Day

    January 7, 1 AD
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