On this day in History - Jan. 05

• 842 - Al-Mu'tasim, Abbasid caliph dies (b. 794).
• 1066 - Edward the Confessor, King of England , dies .
• 1387 - Pedro IV of Aragon dies (b. 1320) .
• 1443 - Morte de D. Nuno Álvares Pereira, no Convento do Carmo.
• 1463 - Poet François Villon is banned from Paris.
• 1477 - Battle of Nancy, Charles the Bold killed, Burgundy becomes part of France (+7.000 killed) .
• 1500 - Duke Ludovico Sforza conquers Milan.
• 1527 - Martyrdom of Felix Manz, a Swiss Anabaptist.
• 1531 Pope Clemens VII forbids English king Henry VIII to re-marry .
• 1548 - Francisco Suárez, was born in Granada, Spain, philosopher/theologian .
• 1554 - Great fire in Eindhoven, Netherlands.
• 1589 - Catherine de Medici, Queen of France, dies (b. 1519).
• 1589 - Manuel de Villegas, nacimiento de, poeta y escritor español.
• 1592 - Shah Jahan was born, Indian Mughal Emperor .
• 1596 - Henry Lawes, English composer (d. 1662).
• 1634. Começo da actividade da primeira tipografia no Brasil.
• 1655 - Pope Innocent X dies, (b. 1574) .
• 1668- É assinado o Tratado de Madrid, que estabelece a paz entre a Espanha e Portugal, pondo fim às Guerras da Restauração.
• 1675 - Battle of Colmar, French army beats Brandenburg.
• 1713 - Jorge Juan y Santacilia, nacimiento deste matemático y físico español.
• 1728 - Se funda la Universidad de La Habana (Cuba).
• 1757 - Jean-Francois Damiens tenta assassinar Luis XV da França. Ele foi posteriormente executado por ter tentado matar o monarca.
• 1759 - George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Custis.
• 1762 - Pedro II asume el trono del imperio Ruso.
• 1769 -Jean Baptiste Say, was born, French economist (Political Economics) .
• 1778- A Companhia pombalina do Grão-Pará e Maranhão é extinta pelo governo de D. Maria I.
• 1779 - Zebulon Pike was born, explorer.
• 1781 - American Revolutionary War: Richmond, Virginia is burned by British naval forces led by Benedict Arnold.
• 1786 - Thomas Nuttall, was born [d.1859]; English naturalist and botanist known for his discoveries of North American plants.
• 1787 - John Burke, was born, Irish genealogist (Burke's Peerage) .
• 1794 - Edmund Ruffin, was born [d.1865]; The father of soil chemistry in the U.S., who showed how to restore fertility to depleted soil.
• 1809 - Treaty of Dardanelles concluded between Britain and the Ottoman Empire (Turkey) also called the Treaty of Canak. Its main provision was to decree that no warship of any power should enter the Dardanelles or Bosphorus .
• 1813 - El Tribunal de la Inquisición es suprimido por las Cortes de Cádiz, tanto en España como en América.
• 1814 - La Regencia del Reino de España es trasladada desde Cádiz a Madrid.
• 1822 - Los ayuntamientos de Guatemala votan la anexión del país al Imperio de México, recientemente proclamado por Agustín Itúrbide.
• 1838 - Camille Jordan, was born , (d. 1922); French mathematician whose work on substitution groups (groups of permutations) and the theory of equations first brought full understanding of the importance of the theories of the eminent mathematician Évariste Galois, who had died in 1832.
• 1846 - The United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Territory with the United Kingdom.
• 1846 - Rudolf Eucken, was born, German philosopher Nobel de Literatura 1908.
• 1848 - Khristo Botev, was born, hero of Bulgarian revolt against Turkey, poet .
• 1854 - The San Francisco steamer sinks, 300 dead.
• 1855 - King Camp Gillett was born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, U. States (d. 1932). Inventor and manufacturer of the safety razor.
• 1855 - Se inauguró el primer ferrocarril en Panamá, de 75 kilómetros de recorrido.
• 1860 - St John Nepomucene Neumann, 1st male US saint, dies .
• 1862 - Joseph Frohlich composer, dies at 81.
• 1863 - Constantin Stanislavsky was born, actor, producer, teacher.
• 1865 - Julio Garavito Armero, astrónomo y economista colombiano.
• 1866 - Ramón Casas, pintor español.
• 1869 - Representantes de potencias occidentales son recibidos por el emperador de Japón, iniciándose una nueva era para ese país.
• 1874- Joseph Erlanger, was born [d. 1965] American physiologist, who discovered that fibres within the same nerve cord possess different functions. With Herbert Gasser, he shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1944;
• 1876 - Konrad Adenauer, was born, German politician (d. 1967) .
• 1892 - Se crea, en Nueva York, el Partido Revolucionario Cubano, entre cuyos principales dirigentes están José Martí y Tomás Estrada Palma.
• 1895 - Dreyfus Affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
• 1896 German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen discovered a type of radiation later known as X-rays.
• 1900 - Irish leader John Edward Redmond calls for a revolt against British rule.
• 1903 - Práxedes Mateo Sagasta, fallecimiento de, político, presidente del Gobierno español.
• 1905 László Papp Hungary, was born, middleweight boxer (Olympics-gold-1948, 52, 56)
• 1905 - Fundación del Central Español Fútbol Club, de Montevideo, Uruguay.
• 1906 - Dame Kathleen Kenyon was born [d.1978]; English archaeologist who excavated Jericho to its Stone Age foundation and showed it to be the oldest known continuously occupied human settlement.
• 1906 - Un violento terremoto destruye la ciudad nicaragüense de Masaya.
• 1908 -Joseph von Mering dies [b.1849] German physician, physiologist, pharmacologist, and experimental pathologist.
• 1909 - Colombia recognizes the independence of Panama.
• 1909 - Stephen Cole Kleene was born [d. 1994];American mathematician and logician whose work on recursion theory helped lay the foundations of theoretical computer science.
• 1914 - Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day's labor.
• 1914 - George Reeves, was born [d.1959] American actor (Superman) .
• 1915 - Arthur H. Robinson, Canadian-born American cartographer (d. 2004).
• 1917 - Islandia obtiene de Dinamarca una limitada autonomía administrativa.
• 1919 - Se funda el Partido Nacional Socialista Alemán (NSDAP), cuyo militante numero 7 fue Adolf Hitler.
• 1920 - Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Italian pianist (d. 1995)
• 1922 - Morre Ernest Shackleton, explorador britânico da Antártica.
• 1925 - Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first female governor in the United States (Wyoming).
• 1926 - Born this day, [William DeWitt] W.D. Snodgrass, poet, (Heart’s Needle, The Fuhrer Bunker, The Complete Cycle, April Inventory .
• 1928 - Walter Mondale, was born, U.S. Senator, Democratic presidential nominee in 1984 .
• 1928 - Ali Bhutto, was born, President and Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 1979) .
• 1929 - Nikolai Nikolaevich Romanov, dies, Grand Duke of Russia .
• 1931 - Alvin Ailey, was born (d. 1989) American dancer and choreographer (d. 1989)
• Alfred Brendel, was born, Austrian pianist .
• 1931 - Robert Duvall was born , Academy Award-winning actor.
• 1932 - Umberto Eco, was born, Italian philologist and writer .
• 1932 - Raisa Gorbachev, wife of Mikhail Gorbachev (d. 1999) .
• 1933 - Calvin Coolidge, dies, [b. 1872] President of the United States.
• 1933 - Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay.
• 1938 - King Juan Carlos of Spain, (João Carlos de Bourbon) was born in Rome .
• 1939 - Lisandro de la Torre, fallecimiento de (suicidio), político y periodista argentino.fundador del Partido Demócrata Progresista en Argentina.
• 1940 - FM radio is demonstrated to the FCC for the first time.
• 1941- World War II: North Africa Bardia, Libya, falls to a British assault - 25,000 Italian troops, including 6 generals, are captured.
• 1944 - The Daily Mail becomes the first transoceanic newspaper.
• 1945 - The Soviet Union recognizes the new pro-Soviet government of Poland.
• 1945 - Alfredo Luis Conde Cid, nacimiento de, escritor español.
• 1945 - Jimmy Page, was born, American musician ( Led Zeppelin ).
• 1945 - La URSS reconoce oficialmente al Gobierno polaco de Lublin.
• 1946 - Diane Keaton, was bornin Los Angeles, California, Academy Award-winning actress, producer, director and screenwriterAmerican actress .
• 1948 - Ted Lange, was born, American actor.
• 1948 - Terroristas judíos destruyen con explosivos un ala del Hotel King David de Jerusalén, atentado en el que mueren 20 personas.
• 1950 - Gran Bretaña rompe sus relaciones diplomáticas con la China nacionalista y, al día siguiente, reconoce el régimen de Mao Tse-Tung.
• 1955 - É inaugurado o último trecho, de 650 quilômetros, da ferrovia amazônica que une Brasil e Bolívia.
• 1956 - A atriz cinematográfica Grace Kelly anuncia o seu noivado com o príncipe de Mônaco, Ranier III.
• 1964 - Pope Paul VI meets the Greek patriarch Athenagoras I in Jerusalem, the first meeting of Catholic and Orthodox Christianity leaders since 1439.
• 1967 - Anastasio Somoza Debayle era elegido presidente de Nicaragua.
• 1968 - Alexander Dubček comes to power, succeeds President Novotny ; "Prague Spring" begins in Czechoslovakia.
• 1969 - Marilyn Manson, American singer, born this day
• 1970 - Max Born dies [b. 1882];German physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1954, with Walther Bothe of Germany, for his statistical formulation of the behaviour of subatomic particles.
• 1971 - Chile's socialist government led by Salvador Allende agreed to establish diplomatic relations with China.
• 1972 - President of the United States Richard Nixon orders the development of a space shuttle program.
• 1973 - Mali & Niger break diplomatic relations with Israel .
• 1973 - Netherlands recognizes East Germany.
• 1975 - The Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier Lake Illawarra, killing twelve people.
• 1976 - Cambodia is renamed Democratic Campuchea after The Khmer Rouge to have promulgated a new constitution. During this comunist regimen that survived until 1979 , about 1.000.000 people died.
• 1977 - Kenya President Jomo Kenyatta disbands parliament.
• 1979 - Charles Mingus US jazz bassist/composer/orchestra leader, dies at 56 .
• 1980 - Hewlett-Packard announces release of its first personal computer.
• 1981 - Harold C. Urey, dies [b. 1893];American scientist awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1934 for his discovery of deuterium, the heavy form of hydrogen (1932).
• 1982 - Janica Kostelic, was born Croatian alpine skier .
• 1982 - A sociedade dos Críticos de Cinema dos Estados Unidos elege Marília Pêra, de Pixote, a melhor atriz de 1981.
• 1984 - Richard Stallman starts developing GNU.
• 1984 - Comienza a funcionar en Quito (Ecuador) el Tribunal de Justicia del Acuerdo de Cartagena (Pacto Andino).
• 1985 - Nacen en un hospital de París los dos primeros trillizos europeos concebidos por medio de la fecundación "in vitro .
• 1993 - The oil tanker MV Braer runs aground on the coast of the Shetland Islands spilling 84,700 tonnes of oil.
• 1993 - Washington state executes Westley Allan Dodd by hanging (the first legal hanging in America since 1965).
• 1994 -Aleksandr Popov swims world record 100m free style (47.82) .
• 1995 - Mass celebration in the streets of Lilongwe, Malawi, following the arrest of former president Hastings Kamuzu Banda.
• 1996 - Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone.
• 1996 - Japan's Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama announced his resignation in a surprise move.
• 1997 - Withdrawal of Russian forces from Chechnya.
• 1998 - João Acácio Pereira da Costa, o Bandido da Luz Vermelha, famoso criminoso dos anos 60, é assassinado (Brasil).
• 2000 - The 1st day of the 2000 Al Qaeda Summit.
• 2000 -INS Commissioner Doris Meissner ruled that 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez must be returned to Cuba.
• 2002 - Charles Bishop, a 15-year-old student pilot, crashes a light aircraft into a Tampa, Florida building, evoking fear of a copycat 9/11 terrorist attack.
• 2003 - Roy Jenkins, dies, British politician (b. 1920) .
• 2004 - John Toland, dies in Connecticut, historian. He was awarded the 1971 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction for his book The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945 which tells the story of the Pacific War mainly from the Japanese viewpoint.
• 2004 -Norman Heatley, dies [b. 1911]: Norman George Heatley solved problems in the extraction of penicillin from its mould and paved the way for mass production