January 5
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January 5
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January is:
Human Resources Month
Born on this Day
1548: Francisco Suİrez, Granada, Spain, philosopher, theologian
1592: Shah Jahan, Moghul emperor of India, builder of Taj Mahal
1779: Zebulon Pike, discoverer of Pike's Peak in Colorado
1779: Stephen Decatur, U.S. naval hero in the War of 1812.
1794: Agriculturist Edmund
Ruffin. He was one of the originators of crop rotation and fertilization
1855: King Camp Gillette, inventor of the safety razor
1877: American clergyman, author, and educator Henry Sloane Coffin
1880: The composer Nicolai Medtner
1895: Balloonist Jeannette
Piccard She was the first American woman to be a free balloon pilot. With her husband
she set a record for balloon ascent into stratosphere of 57,579 feet in 1934. She was also
one of first women to be Episcopalian priest.
1906: American jazz cornet player Wild Bill Davison
1921: Swiss playwright and novelist Friedrich Durrenmatt ( ``The Visit''
and ``The Physicists.'' )
1922: Sun Records founder Sam Phillips
1928: Walter
Mondale, 42nd Vice President of the U.S.
1931: American dancer and choreographer Alvin Ailey
1931: Actor Robert Duvall (Tender Mercies, A Family Thing, Stalin, A
Show of Force, Days of Thunder, Colors, The Natural, True Confessions, Apocalypse Now,
Network, The Godfather, M*A*S*H, True Grit, Countdown)
1932: Raisa Gorbachev.
1932: Football Hall-of-Fame coach Chuck Noll
1932: Singer Johnny Adams
1938: Juan Carlos I, King of Spain
1938: Football Hall of famer- Jim Otto
1942: Talk show host Charlie Rose
1946: Actress Diane Keaton
1947: Actor Ted Lange
1949: Rhythm-and-blues musician George "Funky" Brown (Kool and
the Gang)
1953: Actress Pamela Sue Martin
1960: Actress Suzy Amis
1965: Rock musician Kate Schellenbach (Luscious Jackson)
1969: Rock singer Marilyn Manson
1066: Death of Edward, "the Confessor," King of
England
1371: Acession of Pope Gregory XI
1531: Ferdinand of Hapsburg elected King of the Romans
1537: Alessandro de Medici, Duke of Florence, assassinated
1549: Elijah b. Asher Levita, author of 1st printed
Yiddish book, dies
1589: Death of Catherine de Medici, Queen of France at age
69.
1608: Captain John Smith is captured by the Indians. He is
later saved by the Indian princess Pocahontas.
1781: A British naval expedition led by Benedict Arnold
burned Richmond, Virginia.
1889: The hamburger first appears on a restaurant menu in
Walla Walla, Washington.
1895: French Captain Alfred Dreyfus, convicted of treason,
was publicly stripped of his rank. (He was ultimately vindicated.)
1896: An Austrian newspaper ("Wiener Presse")
reported the discovery by German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen of a type of radiation that
came to be known as "X-rays."
1904: American Marines arrive in Seoul, Korea to guard
U.S. legation there.
1909: The U.S. Navy asks Congress to fund the construction
of new battleships capable of carrying eight 14-inch guns.
1914: Ford Motor Co. increased its daily wage from $2.34
for a nine-hour day to $5.00 for eight hours of work.
1919: The National Socialist (Nazi) Party was formed in
Germany.
1920: George Herman ``Babe'' Ruth is traded to the New
York Yankees by the Boston Red Sox for a record $125,000.
1920: GOP women demand equal representation at the
Republican National Convention in June.
1921: Wagner’s "Die Walkyrie" opens in
Paris. This is the first German opera performed in Paris since the beginning of WWI.
1923: The Senate debates the benefits of Peyote for the
American Indian.
1925: Nellie T. Ross succeeded her late husband as
governor of Wyoming, becoming the first female governor in U-S history.
1931: Paul Wittgenstein rehearsed Ravel's left-handed
piano concerto on this day. The public premiere would be tomorrow. Wittgenstein lost his
right arm in World War One but was determined to continue his concertizing career anyway.
1933: The 30th president of the United States, Calvin
Coolidge, died in Northampton, Massachusetts, at age 60.
1933: In San Francisco, construction begins on the Golden
Gate Bridge.
1940: FM radio is first demonstrated.
1943: Educator and scientist George Washington Carver died
in Tuskegee, Alabama, at age 81.
1947: Great Britain nationalizes its coal mines.
1948: Alfred Kinsey's ``Sexual Behavior in the Human
Male'' is published.
1949: In his State of the Union address, President Truman
labeled his administration the "Fair Deal."
1952: Churchill arrives in Washington to confer with
Truman.
1969: President Nixon appoints Henry Cabot Lodge as
negotiator at the Paris Peace Talks.
1970: Joseph A. Yablonski, an unsuccessful candidate for
the presidency of the United Mine Workers, was found murdered with his wife and daughter
at their Clarksville, Pennsylvania, home.
1971: Nixon names Robert Dole as chairman of the
Republican National Party.
1972: President Nixon ordered development of the space
shuttle. 1981. Basketball star "Pistol" Pete Maravich died of a heart attack
during a pickup game in Pasadena, California, at age 40.
1982: A Federal judge voids a state law requiring balanced
classroom treatment of evolution and creationism.
1987: President Ronald Reagan underwent prostate surgery
at Bethesda Naval Hospital, one day after four small polyps were removed from his colon.
Doctors reported no signs of cancer.
1988: The UN Security Council voted unanimously to ask
Israel not to deport Palestinians from the occupied territories in the first US council
vote against Israel since 1992: President George Bush arrived in Seoul, South Korea, on
the third stop of a 12-day tour focusing on international trade issues.
1989: Lawrence E. Walsh, the special prosecutor in the
Iran-Contra case, asked for a dismissal of two charges against Oliver North, citing the
Reagan administration's refusal to release material sought by North.
1990: President Bush told a news conference the United
States had a "strong" case against deposed Panamanian leader Manuel
Noriega, and
said he was convinced Noriega would receive a fair trial in the US on drug-trafficking
charges.
1991: President Bush met at Camp David,
Maryland, with UN Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar to discuss the
Persian Gulf crisis. The same day, a pretaped radio address by Bush was
broadcast in which the president warned Iraq: "Time is running
out."
1993: The state of Washington executed Westley Allan Dodd,
an admitted child sex killer, in America's first legal hanging since 1965.
1993: "Canzona," by the Polish composer Tadeusz
Baird, was played by the Chicago Symphony for the first time. Daniel Barenboim led the
orchestra in the Tchaikovsky Fifth Symphony and Scirabin's Piano Concerto in F-sharp
minor. The soloist was Dmitri Bashkirov.
1993: A Liberian-registered tanker ran aground in
Scotland's Shetland Islands, spilling more than 24 million gallons of light crude oil.
1993: The 103rd Congress convened.
1994: Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill, former speaker of
the US House of Representatives, died in Boston at age 81.
1994: The Clinton administration said North Korea had
agreed to allow renewed international inspections of seven nuclear sites.
1995: President Clinton received Republican congressional
leaders at the White House, declaring that "we can do a lot of business
together" on reforming the way government works
1996: Lawyers for Hillary Rodham Clinton released
sought-after billing records that were discovered the day before in a White House office.
1996: Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama resigned.
1996: The longest government shutdown ends after 21 days
when Congress passed a stopgap spending measure that would allow federal employees to
return to work. President Clinton signed the bill the next day.
1997: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat held a secret, predawn summit, but fell short of
agreement on the issues holding up an Israeli troop withdrawal from Hebron.
1998: Sonny Bono, the 1960's pop star-turned-politician,
was killed when he struck a tree while skiing in South Lake Tahoe, California; he was 62.
1998: The jury considering a sentence for Terry Nichols in
the Oklahoma City bombing trial ended its first day of deliberations without reaching a
decision on the fate of the convicted conspirator. The jury convicted Nichols of
conspiracy and involuntary manslaughter for the April 19, 1995 the previous month.
Nichols's attorneys implored the jury the sentence not be based upon vengeance. The
government called for his execution.
1998: An Australian cancer specialist said there might be
a link between brain tumors and mobile phones, but the country's major telephone company
Telstra rejected his offer of a detailed study. In a letter in Monday's Medical Journal of
Australia, Dr. Andrew Davidson said statistics charted a 50% rise in the incidence of
brain tumors in Western Australia state between 1982 and 1992.
1988: China said a new round of tests indicated the
Chinese mainland was free of the deadly "bird flu" virus that has sparked a mass
slaughter of poultry in Hong Kong.
1998: American millionaire Steve Fossett abandoned his
third attempt to become the first man to fly round the world non-stop in a balloon and
landed safely in the southern Russian region of Krasnodar. "I decided I needed to
land because my equipment was not going to make it round the world," the lone
53-year-old adventurer said after he had brought his towering balloon Solo Spirit down to
earth.
1998: Bangladesh's coldest weather in 5 years killed at 58
or more people, many of them street sleepers, and threatened thousands of other homeless.
Most of the deaths were reported from northern districts where temperatures dropped to 4
degrees Celsius, the lowest in 5 years. Unofficial sources put the death toll at nearly
150 in less than 2 weeks.
1999: Four US Air Force and Navy jets fired on — and missed — four Iraqi MiGs testing the "no-fly" zone over southern Iraq in the first such air confrontation in more than six years
2000: Touching off angry protests by Cuban-Americans in Miami, the US government decided to send six-year-old Elian Gonzalez back to Cuba. (After a legal battle, and the seizure of Elian from the home of his US relatives, the boy was returned to Cuba in June.)
2000: Democratic presidential candidates Al Gore and Bill Bradley engaged in a feisty debate in Durham, New Hampshire.
2001: Charles Bishop, a 15-year-old student
pilot, deliberately crashed a small plane into a skyscraper in Tampa, Florida,
killing himself.
2001: Italy's foreign minister, Renato
Ruggiero, resigned after a spat with Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi over
the government's lukewarm reception of the euro.
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