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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
- 1066 –Edward the Confessor dies childless, sparking a succession crisis that will eventually lead to the Norman conquest of England.
- 1500 –Duke Ludovico Sforza conquers Milan.
- 1675 –Battle of Colmar: the French army beats Brandenburg.
- 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.
- 1912 –The Prague Party Conference takes place.
- 1925 –Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes the first female governor in the United States.
- 1940 –FM radio is demonstrated to the Federal Communications Commission for the first time.
- 1944 –The Daily Mail becomes the first transoceanic newspaper.
- 1945 –The Soviet Union recognizes the new pro-Soviet government of Poland.
- 1996 –Hamas bombmaker Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone.
Who were born on January 5?
- 1779 –Stephen Decatur, American naval officer (d. 1820)
- 1882 –Herbert Bayard Swope, American journalist (d. 1958)
- 1903 –Harold Gatty, Australian aviator (d. 1957)
- 1921 –Paul Governali, American professional football player (d. 1978)
- 1931 –Joan Coxsedge, Australian politician
- 1947 –Mike Dewine, American politician
- 1952 –Uli Hoeneß, German footballer/manager
- 1962 –Perry Fenwick, English actor
- 1968 –Ricky Paull Goldin, American actor
- 1989 –Krisztián Németh, Hungarian footballer
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