SomeFacts | January 5

On this day - January 5

1477 — Battle of Nancy: Charles the Bold is defeated and killed in a ...

1675 — Battle of Colmar: The French army defeats forces from Austria ...

1757 — Louis XV of France survives an assassination attempt by ...

1781 — American Revolutionary War: Richmond, Virginia, is burned by ...

1822 — The government of Central America votes for total annexation ...

1875 — The Palais Garnier, one of the most famous opera houses in the ...

1895 — Dreyfus affair: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped ...

1900 — Irish nationalist leader John Edward Redmond calls for revolt ...

1911 — Kappa Alpha Psi, the world's third-oldest and largest ...

1912 — The sixth All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social ...

1913 — First Balkan War: The Battle of Lemnos begins; Greek admiral ...

1914 — The Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and ...

1919 — The German Workers' Party, which would become the Nazi ...

1925 — Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes the first female ...

1933 — Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco ...

1941 — Amy Johnson, a 37-year-old pilot and the first woman to fly ...

1944 — The Daily Mail becomes the first major London newspaper to be ...

1945 — The Soviet Union recognizes the new pro-Soviet Provisional ...

1948 — The Semiramis Hotel bombing kills at least 23 people.

1949 — In his State of the Union address, United States President ...

1953 — The play Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett receives its ...

1957 — In a speech given to the United States Congress, United States ...

1967 — Cultural Revolution: The Shanghai People's Commune is ...

1968 — Alexander Dubček comes to power in Czechoslovakia, effectively ...

1969 — Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 crashes in Fernhill, West ...

1969 — The Venera 5 space probe is launched at 06:28:08 UTC from ...

1970 — A Spantax Convair CV-990 Coronado crashes during takeoff from ...

1970 — The 7.1 Mw Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan ...

1972 — US President Richard Nixon announces the Space Shuttle program.

1975 — The Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the ...

1976 — The Troubles: Gunmen shoot dead ten Protestant civilians after ...

1976 — The Khmer Rouge announce that the new Constitution of ...

1991 — Somali Civil War: The United States Embassy to Somalia in ...

1991 — Georgian forces enter Tskhinvali, the capital of South ...

1993 — The oil tanker MV Braer runs aground on the coast of the ...

2003 — A suicide bombing at the Tel Aviv central bus station kills 23 ...

2005 — The dwarf planet Eris is discovered by Palomar ...

2014 — A launch of the communication satellite GSAT-14 aboard the ...

2022 — Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev dismisses Prime ...

2023 — The 2023 Sinaloa unrest begins.

2024 — Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 makes an emergency landing at ...