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.
- 1759 –George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Custis.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1918 –The Free Committee for a German Workers Peace, which would become the Nazi Party, is founded.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1968 –Alexander Dubček comes to power: “Prague Spring” begins in Czechoslovakia.
- 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.
- 1974 –Warmest reliably measured temperature in Antarctica of +59°F (+15°C) recorded at Vanda Station
- 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 –Washington state executes Westley Allan Dodd by hanging (the last judicial hanging in America).
- 2008 –Mikheil Saakashvili wins his second term as President of Georgia in the snap election.
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