1066 English king Edward the Confessor died on January 5, 1066 at his new palace at Westminster. The palace was built so he could be close to his beloved Westminster Abbey. He passed away within ten days of the consecrating of the abbey and the Benedictine monks buried him within its walls. Edward disinherited William of Normandy on his deathbed and appointed Harold, the second son of Godwin, instead as his successor.
1589 Catherine de' Medici died at the age of sixty-nine on January 5, 1589 at her Château de Blois home, probably from pleurisy. When Catherine de' Medici was Queen of France she maintained about eighty alluring ladies-in-waiting at court, whom she used as tools to seduce courtiers for political ends. These women became known as her "flying squadron."
1617 The Virginia Company of London decided to bring the Native Indian princess Pocahontas to England as a symbol of the tamed New World "savage" and the success of the Jamestown settlement. On January 5, 1617, Pocahontas and a holy man named Tomocomo were brought before King James I at the old Banqueting House in the Palace of Whitehall. They were presented during a performance of Ben Jonson's masque The Vision of Delight.
1776 Of the 13 original colonies, New Hampshire was the first to declare its independence. On January 5, 1776 at Exeter, the Provincial Congress of New Hampshire ratified the first independent constitution in the Americas, free of British rule.
1855 King Camp Gillette was born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin on January 5, 1855 and brought up in Chicago. After working for several years as a traveling salesman for a hardware company Gillette decided he wanted to invent something disposable that would be in constant demand. After years of experimentation he developed a disposable steel blade and razor. He established the Gillette Safety Razor Company in 1901.
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| Edward's funeral depicted in scene 26 of the Bayeux Tapestry |
1589 Catherine de' Medici died at the age of sixty-nine on January 5, 1589 at her Château de Blois home, probably from pleurisy. When Catherine de' Medici was Queen of France she maintained about eighty alluring ladies-in-waiting at court, whom she used as tools to seduce courtiers for political ends. These women became known as her "flying squadron."
1617 The Virginia Company of London decided to bring the Native Indian princess Pocahontas to England as a symbol of the tamed New World "savage" and the success of the Jamestown settlement. On January 5, 1617, Pocahontas and a holy man named Tomocomo were brought before King James I at the old Banqueting House in the Palace of Whitehall. They were presented during a performance of Ben Jonson's masque The Vision of Delight.
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| A 19th-century depiction of Pocahontas |
1776 Of the 13 original colonies, New Hampshire was the first to declare its independence. On January 5, 1776 at Exeter, the Provincial Congress of New Hampshire ratified the first independent constitution in the Americas, free of British rule.
1855 King Camp Gillette was born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin on January 5, 1855 and brought up in Chicago. After working for several years as a traveling salesman for a hardware company Gillette decided he wanted to invent something disposable that would be in constant demand. After years of experimentation he developed a disposable steel blade and razor. He established the Gillette Safety Razor Company in 1901.
1855 English author Anthony Trollope is best known for his series of novels, The Barsetshire Chronicles. They concerned the social life of the clergy in the fictional Barsetshire, west England. The Warden, Anthony Trollope's first Barsetshire novel, was published on January 5, 1855. The story for The Warden came to Trollope while wandering around Salisbury Cathedral one midsummer evening.
1875 The Paris Opera was the primary opera company during the mid-19th century, when its artistic policies molded the conception of grand opera. Today, the Paris Opera mainly produces operas at its modern 2700-seat theater Opéra Bastille which opened in 1989, and ballets and some classical operas at the older 1970-seat Palais Garnier which was commissioned by Napoleon III and inaugurated on January 5, 1875.
1882 Dorothy Elizabeth Levitt, Britain’s first woman racing driver, was born on January 5, 1882.
In 1909 Levittt advised female drivers to use a hand mirror to see the road behind them — thus inventing the rear-view mirror — and also carry a handgun if they were travelling alone.
1886 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was written in three days by Robert Louis Stevenson in his Bournemouth Villa while the author was wracked by coughing fits and drinking himself into stupors to try to counteract this. The plot was outlined by a nightmare during which one man was pressed into a cabinet where he swallowed a drug and changed into another being. Published on January 5, 1886, it was an immediate best-seller.
1914 Ford Motor Company proudly announced on January 5, 1914 that it would pay a "living wage" of at least US$5 for a day's labor and a (shortened) eight-hour work day. In 1914, the production line for Model T Ford cars took only 93 minutes to assemble a car.
1919 The German Workers' Party (Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, DAP) was founded on January 5, 1919. The term National Socialist—or Nazi, for short—was added to the name of the German Workers' Party a year later. On the day it was renamed, swiftly-rising new member Adolf Hitler outlined the party's official platform before 2,000 people, its largest audience yet.
1930 Clyde Barrow (1909–34) first met Bonnie Parker (1911–34) at the West Dallas, Texas home of Clyde’s friend Clarence Clay on January 5, 1930. Two months after he first met Parker, Barrow was arrested on seven accounts of burglary and car theft, convicted, and sentenced to two years in jail. Parker smuggled a gun to him and he escaped. Bonnie and Clyde then embarked on a crime spree with their gang until the pair were betrayed by a friend.
1933 Former US president Calvin Coolidge died suddenly aged 60 from coronary thrombosis at "The Beeches," at 12:45 p.m., January 5, 1933. His will was one sentence long. Coolidge is buried beneath a simple headstone in Plymouth Notch Cemetery, Plymouth Notch, Vermont, where the nearby family home is maintained as one of the original buildings on the Calvin Coolidge Homestead District site.
1939 Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first equatorial round-the-world flight on July 2, 1937. Earhart was declared dead on January 5, 1939. It is believed Earhart and Noonan landed safely on an uninhabited atoll in the southwestern Pacific republic of Kiribati and ultimately died as castaways.
1944 The Daily Mail became a transoceanic newspaper on January 5, 1944 with the launch of the Transatlantic Daily Mail. It was a digest of the London edition, printed in New York for circulation in the United States. It didn't achieve commercial success, and was quietly shelved in 1947.
1956 On January 5. 1956, Prince Rainier of Monaco announced his engagement to the Hollywood actress Grace Kelly — the same day she topped the U.S. Best-Dressed list. They married 15 weeks later in a brief civil ceremony at the royal palace, then in a large formal ceremony at Monaco's Cathedral of St. Nicholas.
1964 Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung, which was also known as the Little Red Book was first given to delegates of a conference on January 5, 1964. A book of selected statements from speeches and writings by Mao Zedong it was half the size of a normal paperback. Party members were encouraged to carry a copy with them and possession was almost mandatory as a criterion for membership. As a result it is one of the top selling books in the world.
1971 The first one-day cricket international took place on January 5, 1971, between Australia and England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground after a Test match was abandoned because of rain.. This match marked the beginning of a new format in international cricket, with each team facing a limited number of overs. Australia emerged victorious in that historic beating England by 5 wickets.
1875 The Paris Opera was the primary opera company during the mid-19th century, when its artistic policies molded the conception of grand opera. Today, the Paris Opera mainly produces operas at its modern 2700-seat theater Opéra Bastille which opened in 1989, and ballets and some classical operas at the older 1970-seat Palais Garnier which was commissioned by Napoleon III and inaugurated on January 5, 1875.
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| The Palais Garnier opera house hall, Paris |
1882 Dorothy Elizabeth Levitt, Britain’s first woman racing driver, was born on January 5, 1882.
In 1909 Levittt advised female drivers to use a hand mirror to see the road behind them — thus inventing the rear-view mirror — and also carry a handgun if they were travelling alone.
1886 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was written in three days by Robert Louis Stevenson in his Bournemouth Villa while the author was wracked by coughing fits and drinking himself into stupors to try to counteract this. The plot was outlined by a nightmare during which one man was pressed into a cabinet where he swallowed a drug and changed into another being. Published on January 5, 1886, it was an immediate best-seller.
1914 Ford Motor Company proudly announced on January 5, 1914 that it would pay a "living wage" of at least US$5 for a day's labor and a (shortened) eight-hour work day. In 1914, the production line for Model T Ford cars took only 93 minutes to assemble a car.
1919 The German Workers' Party (Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, DAP) was founded on January 5, 1919. The term National Socialist—or Nazi, for short—was added to the name of the German Workers' Party a year later. On the day it was renamed, swiftly-rising new member Adolf Hitler outlined the party's official platform before 2,000 people, its largest audience yet.
1930 Clyde Barrow (1909–34) first met Bonnie Parker (1911–34) at the West Dallas, Texas home of Clyde’s friend Clarence Clay on January 5, 1930. Two months after he first met Parker, Barrow was arrested on seven accounts of burglary and car theft, convicted, and sentenced to two years in jail. Parker smuggled a gun to him and he escaped. Bonnie and Clyde then embarked on a crime spree with their gang until the pair were betrayed by a friend.
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| Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, sometime between 1932 and 1934 |
1933 Former US president Calvin Coolidge died suddenly aged 60 from coronary thrombosis at "The Beeches," at 12:45 p.m., January 5, 1933. His will was one sentence long. Coolidge is buried beneath a simple headstone in Plymouth Notch Cemetery, Plymouth Notch, Vermont, where the nearby family home is maintained as one of the original buildings on the Calvin Coolidge Homestead District site.
1939 Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first equatorial round-the-world flight on July 2, 1937. Earhart was declared dead on January 5, 1939. It is believed Earhart and Noonan landed safely on an uninhabited atoll in the southwestern Pacific republic of Kiribati and ultimately died as castaways.
1944 The Daily Mail became a transoceanic newspaper on January 5, 1944 with the launch of the Transatlantic Daily Mail. It was a digest of the London edition, printed in New York for circulation in the United States. It didn't achieve commercial success, and was quietly shelved in 1947.
1956 On January 5. 1956, Prince Rainier of Monaco announced his engagement to the Hollywood actress Grace Kelly — the same day she topped the U.S. Best-Dressed list. They married 15 weeks later in a brief civil ceremony at the royal palace, then in a large formal ceremony at Monaco's Cathedral of St. Nicholas.
1964 Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung, which was also known as the Little Red Book was first given to delegates of a conference on January 5, 1964. A book of selected statements from speeches and writings by Mao Zedong it was half the size of a normal paperback. Party members were encouraged to carry a copy with them and possession was almost mandatory as a criterion for membership. As a result it is one of the top selling books in the world.
1971 The first one-day cricket international took place on January 5, 1971, between Australia and England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground after a Test match was abandoned because of rain.. This match marked the beginning of a new format in international cricket, with each team facing a limited number of overs. Australia emerged victorious in that historic beating England by 5 wickets.
1973 Bruce Springsteen released his debut album Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. on January 5, 1973. Recorded in a single week at the budget-priced 914 Sound Studios. the LP only sold about 25,000 copies in the first year of its release.
1973 On January 5, 1973 the British band Queen taped their first radio session for BBC Radio 1, performing four songs including "Keep Yourself Alive." They were only signed by EMI two months later and released "Keep Yourself Alive" as their debut single in July 1973.
1988 Margaret Thatcher was Great Britain's first female prime minister. She overtook H H Asquith on January 5, 1988 to become the longest continuously serving prime minister in the 20th century. She resigned as prime minister 35 months later, after a challenge was launched to her leadership.
1998 Sonny Bono died aged 62 when he skied into a tree at Heavenly Ski Resort on January 5, 1998. Sonny Bono was well-known for his music career, particularly as part of the duo Sonny & Cher, and later he also became involved in politics, serving as a U.S. Congressman from 1995 until his death in 1998.
2005 Eris is the most massive and second-largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System. It was discovered through image analysis on January 5, 2005 by a team of astronomers at the Palomar Observatory in California. In September 2006 it was named after the Greek goddess of strife and discord,
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