About January 5
January 5, 2024 is the 5th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 361 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 36 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On January 5
- 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.
- 1846 –The United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Territory with the United Kingdom.
- 1854 –The San Francisco steamer sinks, killing 300 people.
- 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.
- 1925 –Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes the first female governor in the United States.
- 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.
- 1974 –Warmest reliably measured temperature in Antarctica of +59°F (+15°C) recorded at Vanda Station
- 1975 –The Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier Lake Illawarra, killing twelve people.
- 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.
- 1996 –Hamas bombmaker Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone.
- 2003 –Police arrest seven suspects in connection with Wood Green ricin plot.
- 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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