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Day Of The Week: January 5
January 5, 2025 is the 5th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 360 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Sunday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Capricorn is your zodiac sign. Garnet is your modern birthstone. Emerald is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: January 5
- 1477 –Battle of Nancy: Charles the Bold is killed and Burgundy becomes part of France.
- 1759 –George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Custis.
- 1782 –American Revolutionary War: French troops begin a siege of a British garrison on Brimstone Hill in Saint Kitts.
- 1933 –Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay.
- 1945 –The Soviet Union recognizes the new pro-Soviet government of Poland.
- 1974 –An earthquake in Lima, Peru, kills six people, and damages hundreds of houses.
- 1976 –Ten Protestant civilians are shot dead by a paramilitary group at Kingsmill in County Armagh, Northern Ireland (part of The Troubles).
- 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.
- 2008 –Mikheil Saakashvili wins his second term as President of Georgia in the snap election.
Who were born on January 5?
- 1834 –William John Wills, English explorer (d. 1861)
- 1855 –King Camp Gillette, American inventor (d. 1932)
- 1866 –Dimitrios Gounaris, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1922)
- 1880 –Nikolay Medtner, Russian composer (d. 1951)
- 1953 –George Tenet, American civil servant, university professor and 18th Director of Central Intelligence
- 1961 –Iris DeMent, American songwriter and singer
- 1971 –Jayne Middlemiss, British TV presenter and celebrity chef
- 1975 –Bradley Cooper, American actor
- 1981 –Joel Thomas Zimmerman, Canadian musician
- 1982 –Darren Mackie, Scottish footballer
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