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Today in History ~ January 5
Events
1463 - French poet Francois Villon banished from Paris
1531 - Pope Clemens VII forbids English king Henry VIII to re-marry
1638 - Petition in Recife, Brazil leads to closing of their two synagogues
1709 - Sudden extreme cold kills 1000s of Europeans
1757 - Failed assassination attempt on French king Louis XV by Damiens
1776 - Assembly of New Hampshire adopts its 1st state constitution
1781 - British naval expedition led by Benedict Arnold burns Richmond, Va
1804 - Ohio legislature passes 1st laws restricting free blacks movement
1825 - Alexandre Dumas fights a duel [H]
1836 - Davy Crockett arrives in Texas (just in time to die at the Alamo)
1854 - Steamship San Francisco wrecked, 300 die
1861 - 250 Federal troops are sent from New York to Ft Sumter aboard the "Star of the West". [H]
1861 - Alabama troops seize Forts Morgan & Gaines at Mobile Bay
1892 - 1st successful auroral photograph made
1895 - French Capt Alfred Dreyfus, convicted of treason, publicly stripped of his rank, later declared innocent [H]
1896 - German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen discovers x-rays
1905 - National Association of Audubon Society incorporates
1911 - Portuguese expel Jesuits
1914 - Ford announced $5-a-day minimum wage more than double existing wages.
1919 - National Socialist Party (Nazi) forms.
1927 - Judge Landis begins 3-day public hearing on charges that 4 games played between Chicago & Detroit in 1917 had been thrown to White Sox
1930 - Mao Tse-tung writes "A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire"
1933 - Work on Golden Gate Bridge begins, on Marin County side
1942 - 55 German tanks reach North-Africa
1945 - Soviets recognize pro-Soviet Polish Provisional Government
1945 - Pepe LePew debuts in Warner Bros cartoon "Odor-able Kitty"
1950 - Carson McCuller's "Member of the Wedding," premieres in NYC
1957 - Dodgers' Jackie Robinson retires rather than be traded to NY Giants
1959 - Buddy Holly's last record released [H]
1959 - "Bozo the Clown" live children's show premieres on TV
1963 - "Camelot" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 873 performances
1963 - "Carnival!" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 719 performances
1968 - Dr Benjamin Spock indicted for conspiring to violate draft law
1975 - "Wiz" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 1672 performances
1976 - "MacNeil-Lehrer Report" premieres on PBS
1982 - Arkansas judge rules against obligatory teaching of creation
1987 - Surrogate Baby M case begins in Hackensack, NJ
1996 - Miami Dolphin coach Don Shula announces his retirement
1998 - Ice storm knocks out electricity in Quebec & Ontario
1998 - Vandals decapitate Copenhagen's Little Mermaid
Birthdays Today
1592 - Shah Jahan, Mughal emperor of India (1628-58), built Taj Mahal
1779 - Stephen Decatur, US naval hero (War of 1812)
1779 - Zebulon Montgomery Pike, explorer (Pike's Peak)
1855 - King Camp Gillette, inventor (safety razor)
1874 - Joseph Erlanger, doctor (shock therapy - Nobel 1944)
1876 - Konrad Adenauer, Cologne Germany, chancellor of Germany (BRD, 1949)
1900 - Dennis Gabor, Hung/Brit physicist (holography-Nobel 1971)
1913 - Jean-Pierre Aumont (actor)
1917 - Wieland Wagner, German opera director (grandson of Richard Wagner)
1919 - Erica Morini (violinist)
1923 - Sam Phillips (record executive: Sun Records: The [Memphis] Million Dollar Quartet: Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Charlie Rich)
1926 - Buddy Young (football)
1928 - Fred Glover (hockey coach)
1928 - Walter 'Fritz' Mondale (U.S. Senator, Vice President [1977-81) Democratic presidential nominee [1984])
1931 - Alvin Ailey (choreographer: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater: 79 ballets in repertoire - establishing a place for blacks in modern dance)
1932 - Chuck Noll (NFL football coach w/most Super Bowl wins: Pittsburgh Steelers, Super Bowls: IX, X, XIII, XIV)
1932 - Raisa Maximovna Titorenko Gorbachev, Russia's 1st lady (1982-1991)
1935 - Earl Battey (baseball)
1938 - Juan Carlos I, king of Spain (1975- )
1938 - Lindsay Crosby (entertainer)
1942 - Wayne Rutledge (hockey)
1945 - Jimmy Page (musician: group: Led Zeppelin: Stairway to Heaven)
1946 - Diane Keaton (Hall) (Academy Award-winning actress: Annie Hall [1977], Sleeper, Hair, Love and Death)
1947 - Mercury (Eugene) Morris (football: running back: Miami Dolphins: Super Bowls VI, VII, VIII)
1951 - Don Gullett (baseball)
1953 - Pamela Sue Martin (actress: The Poseidon Adventure, Dynasty, The Nancy Drew Mysteries)
Famous deaths
1066 - Edward the Confessor, king of England (1043-66), dies
1589 - Catherine de' Medici, Queen mother of France, dies at 69
1856 - Pierre J David, [David d'Angers], French sculptor, dies at 67
1796 - Samuel Huntington, US judge (signed Declaration of Independence), dies at 64
1933 - Calvin Coolidge, 30th President (1923-29), dies in Mass at 60
1943 - George Washington Carver, famous black scientist, dies at 81
1970 - Joseph A Yablonski, candidate for United Mine Workers pres, murdered
1971 - Sonny Liston, World Champ hw boxer (1962-64), found dead at 36
1981 - Harold C Urey, US chemist (Deuterium, Nobel 1934), dies at 87
1994 - Thomas P "Tip" O'Neill, (D-Ma)/Speaker of House (1977-86), dies at 81
1998 - Sonny Bono, (Rep-R-Ca)/singer (Sonny & Cher), dies skiing at 62
If you have other Birthdays or events to add for this day please E-mail me
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