What are the important events that happened on January 5? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
January 5: Facts & Myths About This Day
January 5 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is December 23, 2023 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 473,448 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘pentagon’ day.
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Capricorn is the zodiac 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.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,032 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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January 5 Historical Events
- 1675 –Battle of Colmar: the French army beats Brandenburg.
- 1846 –The United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Territory with the United Kingdom.
- 1912 –The Prague Party Conference takes place.
- 1914 –The Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day’s labor.
- 1945 –The Soviet Union recognizes the new pro-Soviet government of Poland.
- 1968 –Alexander Dubček comes to power: “Prague Spring” begins in Czechoslovakia.
- 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.
- 1996 –Hamas bombmaker Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone.
- 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.
Who were born on January 5?
- 1548 –Francisco Suarez, Spanish theologian (d. 1617)
- 1866 –Dimitrios Gounaris, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1922)
- 1885 –Humbert Wolfe, Italian-born British poet (d. 1940)
- 1900 –Yves Tanguy, French painter (d. 1955)
- 1921 –Paul Governali, American professional football player (d. 1978)
- 1957 –Kevin Hastings, Australian rugby league footballer
- 1969 –Marilyn Manson, American singer
- 1981 –Joel Thomas Zimmerman, Canadian musician
- 1989 –Krisztián Németh, Hungarian footballer
- 1991 –Denis Alibec, Romanian footballer
Who died on January 5?
- 1465 –Charles, Duke of Orléans, French poet (b. 1394)
- 1589 –Catherine de' Medici, queen of Henry II of France (b. 1519)
- 1846 –Alfred Thomas Agate, American artist (b. 1812)
- 1919 –Sumako Matsui, Japanese actress and singer (b. 1886)
- 1922 –Sir Ernest Shackleton, Irish explorer (b. 1874)
- 1940 –Humbert Wolfe, Italian-British poet (b. 1885)
- 1976 –John A. Costello, Taoiseach of Ireland (b. 1891)
- 1982 –Sir Edmund Herring, Australian military commander, Lieutenant Governor of Victoria (b. 1892)
- 1994 –Brian Johnston, English cricket commentator (b. 1912)
- 2009 –Ned Tanen, American movie executive (b. 1931)
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