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Events on the 5th of January in history

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05 Jan 1066 Edward the Confessor dies childless, sparking a succession crisis that will eventually lead to the Norman conquest of England.
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05 Jan 1349 Margaretha of Bavaria names her son Willem V Earl of Holland / Zealand
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05 Jan 1438 Pope Eugenius IV deallocated council of Basel to Ferrara
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05 Jan 1463 French Poet Francois Villon banished from Paris
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05 Jan 1477 Battle at Nancy, Burgundy vs. Switz, 7000+ killed
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05 Jan 1477 Battle of Nancy: Charles the Bold is killed and Burgundy becomes part of France.
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05 Jan 1500 Duke Ludovico Sforza conquers Milan.
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05 Jan 1527 Felix Manz, a leader of the Anabaptist congregation in Zurich, Switzerland, is executed by drowning.
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05 Jan 1531 Pope Clemens VII forbids English King Henry VIII to re-marry
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05 Jan 1554 Great fire in Eindhoven Neth
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05 Jan 1554 A great fire occurs in Eindhoven, Netherlands.
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05 Jan 1593 William Louis of Nassau becomes Governor / Viceroy of Drenthe
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05 Jan 1638 Petition in Recife Brazil leads to closing of their 2 synagogues
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05 Jan 1675 Battle at Turkheim (Colmar): French army beats Brandenburg
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05 Jan 1675 Battle of Colmar: the French army beats Brandenburg.
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05 Jan 1709 Sudden extreme cold kills 1000s of Europeans
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05 Jan 1717 Prussian King Frederik Willem I buys conscript for nobles
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05 Jan 1719 Engl / Hannover / Saxony-Poland / Austria sign anti-Prussian / Russian pact
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05 Jan 1757 Failed assassination attempt on French King Louis XV by Damiens
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05 Jan 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.
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05 Jan 1776 Assembly of New Hampshire adopts its 1st state constitution
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05 Jan 1781 British naval expedition led by Benedict Arnold burns Richmond, Virginia
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05 Jan 1781 American Revolutionary War: Richmond, Virginia, is burned by British naval forces led by Benedict Arnold.
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05 Jan 1800 1st Swedenborgian temple in US holds 1st service, Baltimore
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05 Jan 1804 Ohio legislature passes 1st laws restricting free blacks movement
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05 Jan 1809 Treaty of Dardanelles concluded between Britain and France
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05 Jan 1822 Central America proclaims annexation to Mexican Empire
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05 Jan 1828 1st edition of Amsterdam General Trade Journal (Algemeen Handelsblad)
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05 Jan 1834 Kiowa Indians record this as the night the stars fell
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05 Jan 1836 Davy Crockett arrives in Texas, just in time for the Alamo
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05 Jan 1840 Records show 95,820 licensed public houses in England on this date
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05 Jan 1841 James Clark Ross (UK) is 1st to enter pack ice near Ross Ice Shelf
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05 Jan 1846 The United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Territory with the United Kingdom.
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05 Jan 1850 California Exchange opens
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05 Jan 1854 Steamship San Francisco wrecked-300 die
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05 Jan 1859 1st steamboat sails, Red River
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05 Jan 1861 250 Federal troops are sent from New York to Ft Sumter
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05 Jan 1861 Alabama troops seize Forts Morgan and Gaines at Mobile Bay
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05 Jan 1875 President Grant sends federal troops to Vicksburg, Mississippi
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05 Jan 1875 The Palais Garnier, one of the most famous opera houses in the world, is inaugurated in Paris.
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05 Jan 1887 1st US school of librarianship opens at Columbia University
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05 Jan 1888 Dutch Heidemaatschappij established
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05 Jan 1892 1st successful auroral photograph made
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05 Jan 1895 French Captain Alfred Dreyfus, convicted of treason, publicly stripped of his rank; later declared innocent
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05 Jan 1895 Victor Trumper makes first-class debut for NSW 17 yrs 64 days
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05 Jan 1895 Dreyfus affair: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
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05 Jan 1896 An Austrian newspaper reports that Wilhelm Röntgen has discovered a type of radiation later known as X-rays.
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05 Jan 1899 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure-Charles Augustus Milverton (BG)
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05 Jan 1900 Irish leader John Redmond calls for a revolt against British rule.
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05 Jan 1903 SF-Hawaii telegraph cable opens for public use
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05 Jan 1904 England beat Australia at the MCG, Rhodes 7-56 and 8-68
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05 Jan 1905 National Association of Audubon Society incorporates
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05 Jan 1911 Portuguese expel Jesuits
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05 Jan 1911 San Francisco has its 1st air meet
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05 Jan 1911 Kappa Alpha Psi, the world's second oldest and largest black fraternity, is founded at Indiana University.
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05 Jan 1912 1st National Hockey Association game (Victoria)
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05 Jan 1912 The Prague Party Conference takes place.
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05 Jan 1913 First Balkan War: During the 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.
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05 Jan 1914 Ford Motor Co wages jump from $2.40 / 9-hr day to $5.00 / 8-hr day
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05 Jan 1914 The Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and that it would pay a "living wage" of at least $5 for a day's labor.
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05 Jan 1916 Austria-Hungary offensive against Montenegro
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05 Jan 1918 British Premier Lloyd George demand for unified peace
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05 Jan 1919 National Socialist Party (Nazi) forms as German Farmers Party
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05 Jan 1919 Spartacus uprising in Berlin: state of siege
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05 Jan 1919 The German Workers' Party, which would become the Nazi Party, is founded.
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05 Jan 1920 Boston Red Sox sell Babe Ruth to New York Yankees
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05 Jan 1920 New York Yankees announce purchase of Babe Ruth
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05 Jan 1925 French Baseball Federation awards silver medals to John McGraw, Charlie Comiskey, and Hugh Jennings
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05 Jan 1925 James Gleason and Richard Tabers "Is zat so?, " premieres in New York City
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05 Jan 1925 Nellie Taylor Ross became Governor of Wyoming, 1st woman gov in USA
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05 Jan 1925 Under Polish control, Danzig establishes Port Gdansk post office
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05 Jan 1925 Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes the first female governor in the United States.
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05 Jan 1926 James Cox of Ford Motors announces 8 hour day and $5 daily minimum wage
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05 Jan 1927 Fox Studios exhibits Movietone
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05 Jan 1927 Judge Landis begins 3-day public hearing on charges that 4 games played between Chicago and Detroit in 1917 had been thrown to White Sox
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05 Jan 1929 Coup by King Alexander in South Slavia
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05 Jan 1930 Mao Tse-tung writes "A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire"
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05 Jan 1931 1st woman to purchase a baseball team Lucille Thomas purchases Topeka franchise in the Western League
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05 Jan 1933 Work on Golden Gate Bridge begins, on Marin County side
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05 Jan 1933 Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay.
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05 Jan 1934 Fenway Park catches fire for 2nd time (May 8th 1926 also)
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05 Jan 1934 National and American baseball leagues select a uniform ball
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05 Jan 1937 Fingleton and Bradman make record stand of 346 for 6th wkt
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05 Jan 1937 Only unicameral state legislature in US opens 1st session (Nebr)
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05 Jan 1940 FCC hears 1st transmission of FM radio with clear, static-free signal
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05 Jan 1940 Finnish offensive at Suomossalmi against Russia
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05 Jan 1941 British / Australian troops conquer Bardia Lybia
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05 Jan 1942 55 German tanks reach North-Africa
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05 Jan 1943 Teams agrees to start season later due to WWII
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05 Jan 1943 William H Hastie, civilian aide to secretary of war, resigns to protest segregation in armed forces
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05 Jan 1944 The Daily Mail becomes the first transoceanic newspaper.
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05 Jan 1945 Pepe LePew debuts in Warner Bros cartoon "Odor-able Kitty"
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05 Jan 1945 Surprise attack on Liese-Aktion-office on Marnix St, Amsterdam
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05 Jan 1945 The Soviet Union recognizes the new pro-Soviet government of Poland.
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05 Jan 1946 "Show Boat" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 417 performances
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05 Jan 1949 General Spoor orders cease-fire on Sumatra
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05 Jan 1949 President Harry S Truman labels his administration the "Fair Deal"
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05 Jan 1949 United States President Harry S. Truman unveils his Fair Deal program.
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05 Jan 1952 Flying Enterprise sinks
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05 Jan 1955 KMSP TV channel 9 in Minneapolis-St Paul, MN (IND) 1st broadcast
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05 Jan 1956 Elvis Presley records "Heartbreak Hotel"
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05 Jan 1957 Eisenhower asks Congress to send troops to the Mid East
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05 Jan 1957 In a speech given to the United States Congress, United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces the establishment of what will later be called the Eisenhower Doctrine.
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05 Jan 1960 Continental League, a proposed third major league, gets an assurance of congressional support from New York Senator Kenneth Keating
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05 Jan 1962 Tony Sheridan and beatles produce "My Bonnie" and"The Saints"
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05 Jan 1963 "Camelot" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 873 performances
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05 Jan 1963 "Carnival!" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 719 performances
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05 Jan 1963 San Diego beats Boston 51-10 in AFL championship game
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05 Jan 1964 Pope Paul VI visits Jordan and Israel
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05 Jan 1964 San Diego Chargers win AFL-championship
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05 Jan 1967 KLXA (now KTBN) TV channel 40 in Fontana-San Ana, CA (IND) begins
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05 Jan 1968 Dr Benjamin Spock indicted for conspiring to violate draft law
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05 Jan 1968 Dubcek succeeds President Novotny as party leader of Czechoslovakia
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05 Jan 1968 Alexander Dubček comes to power: "Prague Spring" begins in Czechoslovakia.
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05 Jan 1969 "Maggie Flynn" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 82 performances
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05 Jan 1969 Bollingen prize for poetry presented to John Berryman and Karl Shapiro
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05 Jan 1969 USSR Venera 5 launched for 1st successful planet landing (Venus)
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05 Jan 1969 The Troubles: The Royal Ulster Constabulary raid the Bogside area of Derry, damaging property and beating residents. In response, residents erect barricades and establish Free Derry.
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05 Jan 1970 23,000 Belgian mine workers strike
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05 Jan 1970 KPTS TV channel 8 in Hutchinson-Wichita, KS (PBS) begins broadcasting
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05 Jan 1970 Soap Opera "All My Children, " premieres on ABC
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05 Jan 1971 1st one-day international, Australia vs. England at the MCG
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05 Jan 1971 Globetrotters lose 100-99 to New Jersey Reds, ending 2,495-game win streak
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05 Jan 1972 Largest crowd at Cleveland Arena (Cavs vs. Lakers - 11,178)
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05 Jan 1972 NASA announces development of space shuttle
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05 Jan 1972 New York City transit fare rises from 30 cents to 35 cents
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05 Jan 1972 President Nixon signs a bill for NASA to begin research on manned shuttle
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05 Jan 1972 West-Pakistani sheik Mujib ur-Rahman freed
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05 Jan 1972 United States President Richard Nixon orders the development of a Space Shuttle program.
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05 Jan 1973 Mali and Niger break diplomatic relations with Israel
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05 Jan 1973 Netherlands recognizes German DR
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05 Jan 1974 Raul Julia appears on Bob Newhart Show in "Oh, Brother"
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05 Jan 1974 Warmest reliably measured temperature in Antarctica of +59 °F (+15 °C) recorded at Vanda Station
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05 Jan 1974 An earthquake in Lima, Peru, kills six people, and damages hundreds of houses.
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05 Jan 1975 "Wiz" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 1672 performances
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05 Jan 1975 14 die when British freighter "Lake Illawarra" rams pylon bridge between Derwent and Hobart, Tasmania and ship sinks
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05 Jan 1975 Salyut 4 with crew of 2 is launched for 30 days
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05 Jan 1975 The Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier Lake Illawarra, killing twelve people.
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05 Jan 1976 "MacNeil-Lehrer Report" premieres on PBS
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05 Jan 1976 Cambodia is renamed "Democratic Kampuchea"
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05 Jan 1976 The Troubles: In response to the killing of six Catholics the night before, gunmen shoot dead ten Protestant civilians after stopping their minibus at Kingsmill in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, UK.
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05 Jan 1976 The Khmer Rouge proclaim the Constitution of Democratic Kampuchea.
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05 Jan 1977 Kenya President Jomo Kenyatta disbands parliament
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05 Jan 1981 "Nightline" with Ted Koppel extended from 20 minutes to 30 minutes
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05 Jan 1981 British police arrest Peter Sutcliffe, a truck driver later convicted of "Yorkshire Ripper" murders of 13 women
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05 Jan 1982 Arkansas judge rules against obligatory teaching of creation
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05 Jan 1984 Adrian Dantly (Utah), ties NBA record of 28 free throws
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05 Jan 1985 Bryan Trottier failed on 9th Islander penalty shot
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05 Jan 1985 Discovery moves to launch pad for STS 51-C mission
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05 Jan 1987 Surrogate Baby M case begins in Hackensack, New Jersey
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05 Jan 1989 2 French TV newsmen arrested for trying to plant fake bombs on 3 airlines at JFK airport in security test
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05 Jan 1989 Baseball signs $400M with ESPN, showing 175 games in 1990
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05 Jan 1990 J Donald Crump appointed 8th Commissioner of CFL
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05 Jan 1991 "Oh, Kay!" closes at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC after 77 performances
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05 Jan 1991 Edwin Jongejans of the Netherlands wins 1-meter springboard diving title
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05 Jan 1991 Kevin Bradshaw of US International scores NCAA Division 1 record 72 pts
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05 Jan 1991 The United States Embassy to Somalia in Mogadishu is evacuated by helicopter airlift days after violence enveloped Mogadishu during the Somali Civil War
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05 Jan 1991 Georgian forces enter Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, Georgia, opening the 1991–1992 South Ossetia War.
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05 Jan 1992 "6 Degrees of Separation" closes at Vivian Beaumont NYC after 496 performances
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05 Jan 1992 "Crucible" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 32 performances
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05 Jan 1992 "On Borrowed Time" closes at Circle in the Square Theater NYC after 99 performances
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05 Jan 1992 "Peter Pan" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 48 performances
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05 Jan 1993 Price is Right model Janice Pennington sues CBS for show accident
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05 Jan 1993 Reggie Jackson elected to Hall of Fame
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05 Jan 1993 The oil tanker MV Braer runs aground on the coast of the Shetland Islands, spilling 84,700 tons of crude oil.
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05 Jan 1994 Yat Weiju swims world record 100m butterfly stroke (58.71)
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05 Jan 1994 Zhong Weiju swims world record 25m pool record (58.71)
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05 Jan 1995 AFC beats NFC 41-13 in the pro bowl
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05 Jan 1995 Lockheed C-140 Jetstar crashes at Isfahan Persia, 18 killed
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05 Jan 1996 Miami Dolphin coach Don Shula announces his retirement
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05 Jan 1996 Muralitharan no-balled for throwing in ODI vs. WI at the Gabba
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05 Jan 1997 "Juan Darien-Carnival Mass" closes at Vivian Beaumont, New York City
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05 Jan 1997 "Love Thy Neighbor, " closes at Booth Theater, New York City
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05 Jan 1997 "Show Boat, " closes at Gershwin Theater, New York City
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05 Jan 1998 Ice storm knocks out electricity in Quebec and Ontario
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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.
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05 Jan 2014 A launch of the communication satellite GSAT-14 aboard the GSLV MK.II D5 marks the first successful flight of an Indian cryogenic engine.
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