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January 5 - Today in History

  1. 1998 Ice storm knocks out electricity in Quebec and Ontario
  2. 1998 Vandals decapitate Copenhagen's Little Mermaid
  3. 1997 "Juan Darien-Carnival Mass" closes at Vivian Beaumont New York City
  4. 1997 "Love Thy Neighbor," closes at Booth Theater New York City
  5. 1997 "Show Boat," closes at Gershwin Theater New York City
  6. 1996 Miami Dolphin coach Don Shula announces his retirement
  7. 1996 Muralitharan no-balled for throwing in ODI vs. WI at the Gabba
  8. 1995 AFC beats NFC 41-13 in the pro bowl
  9. 1995 Lockheed C-140 Jetstar crashes at Isfahan Persia, 18 killed
  10. 1994 Aleksandr Popov swims world record 100m free style (47.82)
  11. 1994 Yat Weiju swiNumbered Listms world record 100m butterfly stroke (58.71)
  12. 1994 Zhong Weiju swims world record 25m pool record (58.71)
  13. 1993 Brian Lara completes 277 vs. Australia at cricket SCG
  14. 1993 Price is Right model Janice Pennington sues CBS for show accident
  15. 1993 Reggie Jackson elected to Hall of Fame
  16. 1992 "6 Degrees of Separation" closes at Vivian Beaumont New York City after 496 perf
  17. 1992 "Crucible" closes at Belasco Theater New York City after 32 performances
  18. 1992 "On Borrowed Time" closes at Circle in Sq Theater New York City after 99 performances
  19. 1992 "Peter Pan" closes at Minskoff Theater New York City after 48 performances
  20. 1992 Ravi Shastri scores 206 at SCG before being Warne's 1st crick Test wkt
  21. 1991 "Oh, Kay!" closes at Richard Rodgers Theater New York City after 77 performances
  22. 1991 Edwin Jongejans of Netherlands wins 1-meter springboard diving title
  23. 1991 Kevin Bradshaw of U.S. International scores NCAA Div 1 record 72 pts
  24. 1990 J Donald Crump appointed 8th Commissioner of CFL
  25. 1989 2 French TV newsmen arrested for trying to plant fake bombs on 3 airlines at JFK airport in security test
  26. 1989 Baseball signs $400M with ESPN, showing 175 games in 1990
  27. 1987 Surrogate Baby M case begins in Hackensack, NJ
  28. 1985 Bryan Trottier failed on 9th Islander penalty shot
  29. 1985 Discovery moves to launch pad for STS-51-C mission
  30. 1984 Adrian Dantly (Utah), ties NBA record of 28 free throws
  31. 1984 Greg Chappell scores 182* in his last Test innings
  32. 1982 Arkansas judge rules against obligatory teaching of creation
  33. 1981 "Nightline" with Ted Koppel extended from 20 minutes to 30 minutes
  34. 1981 British police arrest Peter Sutcliffe, a truck driver later convicted of "Yorkshire Ripper" murders of 13 women
  35. 1977 Kenya president Jomo Kenyatta disbands parliament
  36. 1976 MacNeil-Lehrer Report premieres on PBS
  37. 1976 Cambodia is renamed "Democratic Kampuchea"
  38. 1976 Greg Chappell scores 182* at SCG against West Indies
  39. 1975 "Wiz" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 1672 performances
  40. 1975 Charlie Smalls' "Wiz," premieres in New York City
  41. 1975 Salyut 4 with crew of 2 is launched for 30 days
  42. 1975 14 die when British freighter "Lake Illawarra" rams pylon bridge between Derwent and Hobart, Tasmania and ship sinks
  43. 1974 Raul Julia appears on Bob Newhart Show in "Oh, Brother"
  44. 1973 Mali and Niger break diplomatic relations with Israel
  45. 1973 Netherlands recognizes East Germany
  46. 1972 Largest crowd at Cleveland Arena (Cavs vs Lakers-11,178)
  47. 1972 NASA announces development of space shuttle
  48. 1972 New York City transit fare rises from 30 cents to 35 cents
  49. 1972 President Nixon signs a bill for NASA to begin research on manned shuttle
  50. 1972 West-Pakistani sheik Mujib ur-Rahman freed
  51. 1971 1st one-day international, Australia vs. England at the MCG
  52. 1971 Globetrotters lose 100-99 to New Jersey Reds, ending 2,495-game win streak
  53. 1971 U.S. heavyweight "Sonny" Liston's (36) corpse found
  54. 1970 23,000 Belgian mine workers strike
  55. 1970 KPTS TV channel 8 in Hutchinson-Wichita, KS (PBS) begins broadcasting
  56. 1970 Soap Opera "All My Children," premieres on ABC
  57. 1969 "Maggie Flynn" closes at ANTA Theater New York City after 82 performances
  58. 1969 Bollingen prize for poetry presented to John Berryman and Karl Shapiro
  59. 1969 Neville Williams' "Chronology of the Expanding World" completed
  60. 1969 U.S.S.R. Venera 5 launched for 1st successful planet landing (Venus)
  61. 1968 Dr. Benjamin Spock indicted for conspiring to violate draft law
  62. 1968 Dubcek succeeds President Novotny as party leader of Czechoslovakia
  63. 1967 KLXA (now KTBN) TV channel 40 in Fontana-San Ana, California (IND) begins
  64. 1964 Pope Paul VI visits Jordan and Israel
  65. 1964 San Diego Chargers win AFL-championship
  66. 1963 "Camelot" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 873 performances
  67. 1963 "Carnival!" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 719 performances
  68. 1963 San Diego beats Boston 51-10 in AFL championship game
  69. 1962 Tony Sheridan and Beatles produce "My Bonnie" and "The Saints"
  70. 1961 U.S. breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba
  71. 1960 Continental League, a proposed third major league, gets an assurance of congressional support from New York Senator Kenneth Keating
  72. 1959 "Bozo the Clown" live children's show premieres on TV
  73. 1959 Buddy Holly releases his last record "It Doesn't Matter"
  74. 1957 Dodgers' Jackie Robinson retires rather than be traded to New York Giants
  75. 1957 Eisenhower asks Congress to send troops to the Mid East
  76. 1956 Elvis Presley records "Heartbreak Hotel"
  77. 1955 KMSP TV channel 9 in Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN (IND) 1st broadcast
  78. 1953 Passenger ships Willem Ruys and Orange collide in the Red Sea
  79. 1953 Samuel Beckett's "En Attendant Godot," premieres in Paris
  80. 1952 Flying Enterprise sinks
  81. 1951 Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins LPGA Ponte Vedra Beach Women's Golf Open
  82. 1950 Carson McCuller's "Member of the Wedding," premieres in New York City
  83. 1949 General Spoor orders cease-fire on Sumatra
  84. 1949 President Harry S Truman labels his administration the "Fair Deal"
  85. 1946 "Show Boat" opens at Ziegfeld Theater New York City for 417 performances
  86. 1945 Pepe LePew debuts in Warner Bros cartoon "Odor-able Kitty"
  87. 1945 Surprise attack on Liese-Aktion-office on Marnix St, Amsterdam
  88. 1943 Teams agrees to start season later due to WW II
  89. 1943 William H. Hastie, civilian aide to secretary of war, resigns to protest segregation in armed forces
  90. 1942 55 German tanks reach North-Africa
  91. 1941 British/Australian troops conquer Bardia Lybia
  92. 1940 FCC hears 1st transmission of FM radio with clear, static-free signal
  93. 1940 Finnish offensive at Suomossalmi against Russia
  94. 1937 Fingleton and Bradman make record stand of 346 for 6th wkt
  95. 1937 Only unicameral state legislature in U.S. opens 1st session (Nebr)
  96. 1934 Fenway Park catches fire for 2nd time (May 8th 1926 also)
  97. 1934 National and American baseball leagues select a uniform ball
  98. 1933 Work on Golden Gate Bridge begins, on Marin County side
  99. 1931 1st woman to purchase a baseball team Lucille Thomas purchases Topeka franchise in the Western League
  100. 1930 Mao Tse-tung writes "A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire"
  101. 1929 Coup by King Alexander in South Slavia
  102. 1927 Fox Studios exhibits Movietone
  103. 1927 Judge Landis begins 3-day public hearing on charges that 4 games played between Chicago and Detroit in 1917 had been thrown to White Sox
  104. 1926 James Cox of Ford Motors announces 8 hr day and $5 daily minimum wage
  105. 1925 James Gleason and Richard Tabers "Is zat so?," premieres in New York City
  106. 1925 Nellie Taylor Ross became governor of Wyoming, 1st woman Governor in USA
  107. 1925 Under Polish control, Danzig establishes Port Gdansk post office
  108. 1925 French Baseball Federation awards silver medals to John McGraw, Charlie Comiskey, and Hugh Jennings
  109. 1920 Boston Red Sox sell Babe Ruth to New York Yankees
  110. 1920 New York Yankees announce purchase of Babe Ruth
  111. 1919 National Socialist Party (Nazi) forms as German Farmers Party
  112. 1919 Spartacus uprising in Berlin: state of siege
  113. 1918 British premier Lloyd George demand for unified peace
  114. 1916 Austria-Hungary offensive against Montenegro
  115. 1914 Ford Motor Co wages jump from $2.40/9-hr day to $5.00/8-hr day
  116. 1912 1st National Hockey Association game (Victoria)
  117. 1911 Portuguese expel Jesuits
  118. 1911 SF has it's 1st air meet
  119. 1909 Colombia recognizes Panama's independence
  120. 1905 Charles Perrine announces discovery of Jupiter's 7th satellite, Elara
  121. 1905 National Association of Audubon Society incorporates
  122. 1904 -34 degrees F (-36.7 degrees C), River Vale, New Jersey (state record)
  123. 1904 -42 degrees F (-41.1 degrees C), Smethport, Pennsylvania (state record)
  124. 1904 England beat Australia at the MCG, Rhodes 7-56 and 8-68
  125. 1903 San Francisco - Hawaii telegraph cable opens for public use
  126. 1899 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure-Charles Augustus Milverton
  127. 1896 German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen's discovers x-rays
  128. 1896 Isaac Albeniz' opera "Pepita Jiminez," premieres in Barcelona
  129. 1895 Henry James' play "Guy Domville" opens in London
  130. 1895 Victor Trumper makes first-class debut for NSW 17 years 64 days
  131. 1895 French Captain Alfred Dreyfus, convicted of treason, publicly stripped of his rank; later declared innocent
  132. 1892 1st successful auroral photograph made
  133. 1888 Dutch Heidemaatschappij established
  134. 1887 1st U.S. school of librarianship opens at Columbia University
  135. 1875 Charles Garnier's new Opera opens in Paris
  136. 1875 President Grant sends federal troops to Vicksburg, Mississippi
  137. 1861 250 Federal troops are sent from New York to Ft. Sumter
  138. 1861 Alabama troops seize Forts Morgan and Gaines at Mobile Bay
  139. 1859 1st steamboat sails, Red River
  140. 1854 Steamship San Francisco wrecked - 300 die
  141. 1850 California Exchange opens
  142. 1841 James Clark Ross (UK) is 1st to enter pack ice near Ross Ice Shelf
  143. 1840 Records show 95,820 licensed public houses in England on this date
  144. 1836 Davy Crockett arrives in Texas, just in time for the Alamo
  145. 1834 Kiowa Indians record this as the night the stars fell
  146. 1828 1st edition of Amsterdam General Trade Journal (Algemeen Handelsblad)
  147. 1822 Central America proclaims annexation to Mexican Empire
  148. 1809 Treaty of Dardanelles concluded between Britain and France
  149. 1804 Ohio legislature passes 1st laws restricting free blacks movement
  150. 1800 1st Swedenborgian temple in U.S. holds 1st service, Baltimore
  151. 1781 British naval expedition led by Benedict Arnold burns Richmond, Va
  152. 1776 Assembly of New Hampshire adopts its 1st state constitution
  153. 1757 Failed assassination attempt on French king Louis XV by Damiens
  154. 1719 Engl/Hannover/Saxony-Poland/Austria sign anti-Prussian/Russian pact
  155. 1717 Prussian King Frederik Willem I buys conscript for nobles
  156. 1709 Sudden extreme cold kills 1000s of Europeans
  157. 1675 Battle at Turkheim (Colmar): French army beats Brandenburg
  158. 1649 Francesco Cavalli's opera "Giasone," premieres in Venice
  159. 1638 Petition in Recife Brazil leads to closing of their 2 synagogues
  160. 1593 William Louis of Nassau becomes governor/viceroy of Drenthe
  161. 1554 Great fire in Eindhoven, Netherlands
  162. 1531 Pope Clemens VII forbids English king Henry VIII to re-marry
  163. 1500 Duke Ludovico Sforza's troops reconquer Milan
  164. 1477 Battle at Nancy, Burgundy vs Switzerland, 7000+ killed
  165. 1463 French poet Francois Villon banished from Paris
  166. 1438 Pope Eugenius IV deallocated council of Basel to Ferrara
  167. 1349 Margaretha of Bavaria names her son Willem V earl of Holland/Zealand
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