On this day in History - Jan. 05

• 0842 - Al-Mu'tasim dies (b. 0794). Abbasid caliph
• 1066 - Edward the Confessor dies. King of England.
• 1209 - Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall was born (d. 1272). Holy Roman Emperor.
• 1387 - Pedro IV of Aragon dies (b. 1320) .
• 1443 - D. Nuno Álvares Pereira dies in "Convento do Carmo". Portuguese noble.
• 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. Spanish philosopher/theologian .
• 1554 - Great fire in Eindhoven, Netherlands.
• 1587 - Xu Xiake was born (d. 1641). Chinese writer and geographer.
• 1589 - Catherine de Medici dies (b. 1519). Queen of France.
• 1589 - Manuel de Villegas was born. Spanish poet and writer.
• 1592 - Shah Jahan was born (d. 1666). Indian Mughal Emperor .
• 1596 - Henry Lawes was born (d. 1662). English composer.
• 1614 - Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria was born (d. 1662). Governor of the Spanish Netherlands.
• 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 was born. Spanish mathematicien and physicist.
• 1715 - US: Advertisement in Boston newspaper offered for sale Indian woman "fit for all manner of household work."
• 1717 - William Wildman Shute Barrington was born (d. 1793). British statesman.
• 1728 - Foundation of the Universidad de La Habana (Cuba)
• 1757 - France: Attempted assassin of Louis XV torn asunder in public by horses. In a near miss, Robert Damiens attempts to knife Louis XV. / 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 - Empress Elizabeth of Russia dies (b. 1709) and Pedro II assumes the throne of the Russian Imperium
• 1769 - Jean-Baptiste Say was born (15 Nov 1832). French economist ( Traite d’Economique Politique) .
• 1778 - A Companhia pombalina do Grão-Pará e Maranhão é extinta pelo governo de D. Maria I.
• 1779 - Zebulon Pike was born (d. 1813). American explorer.
• 1779 - Stephen Decatur was born (d. 1820). American naval officer.
• 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.
• 1801 - Passos Manuel was born (d. 16 Jan 1862). Portuguese politician.
• 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.
• 1844 - Manuel Gonzalez Prada was born in Lima (d. 1918). Peruvian poet and anarchist thinker
• 1846 - The United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Territory with the United Kingdom.
• 1846 - Rudolf Eucken was born (d. 1926). German philosopher, Nobel Prize for Literature laureate in 1908.
• 1848 - Khristo Botev was born (d. 2 Jun 1876). Hero of Bulgarian revolt against Turkey, poet .
• 1854 - The San Francisco steamer sinks, 300 dead.
• 1855 - King_Camp Gillette was born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin (d. 9 Jul 1932). American inventor and manufacturer of the safety razor.
• 1855 - Se inauguró el primer ferrocarril en Panamá, de 75 kilómetros de recorrido.
• 1858 - Josef Radetzky dies (b. 2 Nov 1766). Bohemian nobleman (Count) and soldier, immortalised by Johann Strauss I's Radetzky March.
• 1860 - St John Nepomucene Neumann, 1st male US saint, dies .
• 1862 - Joseph Frohlich dies at 81. Composer.
• 1863 - Constantin Stanislavsky was born, actor, producer, teacher.
• 1865 - Julio Garavito Armero was born (d. 1920). Colombian astronomer and economist.
• 1866 - Ramón Casas was born (d. 1932). Spanish painter.
• 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 (d. 1967). Chancellor of Germany.
• 1878 - Nelly Roussel lives was born (d. 18 Dec 1922). French free thinker, anarchist, feminist. Partner of the sculptor Henri Godet.
• 1880 - Nikolay Medtner was born (d. 1951). Russian composer.
• 1881 - Paris Commune leader Louis-Auguste Blanqui dies in Paris (b. 1805). A huge crowd attends his funeral.
• 1892 - Se crea, en Nueva York, el Partido Revolucionario Cubano, entre cuyos principales dirigentes están José Martí y Tomás Estrada Palma.
• 1893 - Paramahansa Yogananda was born (d. 1952). Indian guru.
• 1895 - Dreyfus Affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
• 1895 - Henry James's play Guy Domville opens at the St. James's Theatre in London.
• 1895 - Elizabet Cotten was born near Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Singer and songwriter.
• 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.
• 1900 - Yves Tanguy was born (d. 1995). French surrealist painter.
• 1902 - Stella Gibbons was born (d. 1989). English novelist.
• 1903 - Práxedes Mateo Sagasta dies. Spanish politician, president of Govern
• 1905 - László Papp was born. Hungarian 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.
• 1909 - Stephen Kleene was born (d. 1994). American mathematician.
• 1910 - Hugh Brannum was born (d. 1987). American actor.
• 1910 - Jack Lovelock was born (d. 1949). New Zealand athlete.
• 1912 - Prague Party Conference
• 1913 - Jean-Pierre Aumont was born (d. 2001). French actor.
• 1914 - Following the great success of the Model T, American automobile maker Henry Ford raised his workers' pay from $2.40 to $5.00 a day and reduced to an eight-hour workday.
• 1914 - George Reeves, was born (d. 1959). American actor (Superman) .
• 1915 - Arthur H. Robinson was born (d. 2004). Canadian-born American cartographer
• 1915 - Humberto Teixeira was born. Brazilian musician and composer.
• 1917 - Islandia obtiene de Dinamarca una limitada autonomía administrativa.
• 1919 - Anton Drexler founded the German Workers' Party, the forerunner of the Nazi Party, in Munich, Germany.
• 1919 - Germany: Spartacists, led by Karl Liebknecht & Rosa Luxemburg, head a revolt to renew the November revolution — which lasts 6 days (in Berlin); both are murdered by the so-called "democratic" left on the 15th.
• 1920 - Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli was born (d. 1995). Italian pianist.
• 1920 - Carmem Costa was born. Brazilian singer.
• 1921 - Friedrich Dürrenmatt was born in Konolfingen, Bern (d. 1990). Swiss novelist and dramatist (The Visit).
• 1921 - Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg was born.
• 1922 - Ernest Shackleton dies. British explorer of Antarctide.
• 1923 - Sam Phillips was born (d. 2003). American country music producer.
• 1925 - Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first female governor in the United States (Wyoming).
• 1926 - [William DeWitt] W. D. Snodgrass was born. Poet (Heart’s Needle, The Fuhrer Bunker, The Complete Cycle, April Inventory .
• 1926 - Hosea Williams was born (d. 2000). American religious leader and civil rights activist.
• 1928 - Walter Mondale, was born, U.S. Senator, Democratic presidential nominee in 1984 .
• 1928 - Ali Bhutto was born (d. 1979). President and Prime Minister of Pakistan.
• 1929 - Nikolai Nikolaevich Romanov dies. Grand Duke of Russia .
• 1931 - Alvin Ailey, was born (d. 1989). American dancer and choreographer
• 1931 - Alfred Brendel was born. Austrian pianist.
• 1931 - Robert Duvall was born. Academy Award-winning actor.
• 1931 - Alvin Ailey, Jr. was born in Rogers, Texas.American dancer and choreographer
• 1932 - Umberto Eco was born. Italian philologist and writer. A renowned critic and semiotician (student of signs and symbols), he is perhaps better known as the author of the best-selling murder mystery and fantasy novel The Name of the Rose (1981).
• 1932 - Raïssa Gorbachev was born (d. 1999). Wife of Mikhail Gorbachev.
• 1932 - Chuck Noll was born. American football coach
• 1933 - Calvin Coolidge dies (d. 1872). President of the United States.
• 1933 - Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay. Bridge opens May 27, 1937
• 1938 - King Juan Carlos of Spain, (João Carlos de Bourbon) was born in Rome.
• 1938 - Jim Otto was born. American football player.
• 1938 - Ngugi wa Thiongo was born. Kenyan writer.
• 1939 - Lisandro de la Torre dies (suicide). Argentine journalist and politician. Founder, in Argentine, of the "Partido Demócrata Progresista".
• 1940 - FM radio is demonstrated to the FCC for the first time.
• 1940 - Michael O'Donoghue was born (d. 1994). American writer.
• 1941 - Miyazaki Hayao was born. Japanese animated film maker.
• 1941 - World War II: North Africa Bardia, Libya, falls to a British assault - 25,000 Italian troops, including 6 generals, are captured.
• 1942 - Maurizio Pollini was born. Italian pianist.
• 1942 - Charlie Rose was born. American talk show host
• 1942 - Tina Modotti dies in Mexico (b. 1896). Italian photographer, actress and model.
• 1943 - George Washington Carver dies. American botanist
• 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 was born. Spanish writer.
• 1945 - Jimmy Page was born. American musician ( Led Zeppelin ).
• 1946 - Diane Keaton was born in Los Angeles, California. Academy Award-winning actress, producer, director and screenwriter .
• 1948 - Warner Brothers shows the first color newsreel (Tournament of Roses Parade and the Rose Bowl).
• 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.
• 1950 - Chris Stein was born. American guitarist (Blondie)
• 1953 - Pamela Sue Martin was born. American actress.
• 1954 - Alex English was born. American basketball player.
• 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 Mónaco, Ranier III.
• 1956 - Elvis Presley records "Heartbreak Hotel."
• 1956 - Chen Kenichi was born. Japanese-born chef
• 1957 - Major league baseball player Jackie Robinson retires.
• 1957 - Eisenhower Doctrine : U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower requested Congress to approve his plans for military cooperation with the Middle East on this day in 1957. The Eisenhower Doctrine assured Middle Eastern countries military and economic aid in the event of Soviet attack.
• 1960 - Spain: Anarchist guerilla Francisco Sabate dies after a shoot-out with fasciste garde civile. Wounded yesterday, he escaped & was killed today in San Celoni by a sometén Catalan militia
• 1960 - Phil Thornalley was born. English bass guitarist (The Cure).
• 1961 - Suzy Amis was born. American actress.
• 1962 - Joe Monzo was born. American composer
• 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 is elected President of Nicaragua.
• 1968 - Alexander Dubček comes to power, succeeds President Novotny ; "Prague Spring" begins in Czechoslovakia.
• 1968 - Ricky Paull Goldin was born. American actor
• 1969 - Marilyn Manson was born. American singer, rocker.
• 1970 - Soap opera: All My Children premieres.
• 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.
• 1970 - 20,000 miners in West Virginia go on wildcat strike to protest the murder of Jack Yablonski, reform miners leader
• 1971 - US: 19 arrested in "Homes Not War" protest, Tucson, Arizona
• 1971 - Chile's socialist government led by Salvador Allende agreed to establish diplomatic relations with China.
• 1971 - Sonny Liston World Champ heavyweight boxer (1962-64), found dead at 36.
• 1972 - President of the United States Richard Nixon orders the development of a space shuttle program.
• 1972 - Sakis Rouvas was born. Greek singer
• 1973 - Mali & Niger break diplomatic relations with Israel .
• 1973 - Netherlands recognizes East Germany.
• 1974 - An earthquake in Lima, Peru kills six, and damages 100s of houses.
• 1975 - The Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier Lake Illawarra, killing twelve people.
• 1975 - Bradley Cooper was born. American actor
• 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 dies in Cuernavaca, Mexico. American jazz bassist, composer and orchestra leader (Beneath the Underdog).
• 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).
• 1981 - Portugal : Toma posse o VII Governo Constitucional, liderado pelo primeiro-ministro Pinto Balsemão.
• 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).
• 1989 - Tommy Hutchinson was born. Australian actress
• 1990 - Lola Iturbe dies (b. 1902). Anarchist. Pseudonym, Kyra Kyralina (Kiralina).Edited the collection, La mujer en la Lucha Social y en la Guerra Civil de España, 220p. (Editores Mexicanos Unidos, S.A. México D.F., 1974).
• 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).
• 1998 - Daniel arap Moi was sworn in as president of Kenya for his fifth consecutive term.
• 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.
• 2001 - Aldo César dies. Brazilian actor.
• 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.
• 2006 - Expected activation of Sober worm.