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| January 5th |
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| About January 5th is the 5th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 360 days remaining until the end of the calendar year (361 in leap years). January 5th is the Twelfth day of Christmas in Western Christianity. Births 1779 - Stephen Decatur, naval officer, American hero 1917 - Jane Wyman, actress (Johnny Belinda, Falcon Crest) 1919 - Herb Peterson, McDonald's executive (invented the Egg McMuffin) 1928 - Walter Mondale, 42nd U.S. Vice President 1931 - Robert Duvall, actor, director (The Godfather) 1932 - Chuck Noll, Hall of Fame football coach 1938 - Jim Otto, Hall of Fame football center 1946 - Diane Keaton, actress, director, producer (Annie Hall) 1969 - Marilyn Manson, singer, musician, artist 1978 - January Jones, actress (Mad Men) Deaths 1933 - Calvin Coolidge, 30th U.S. President 1998 - Sonny Bono, singer, actor, Congressman 2003 - Jean Kerr, author, playwright (Please Don't Eat the Daisies) Events 1643 - Anne Clarke and Denis Clarke have the first legal recorded divorce in the American colonies. 1914 - The Ford Motor Company declares their workers with have a minimum wage of $5 and an 8 hour workday. 1920 - The New York Yankees announce that they purchased Babe Ruth from the Boston Redsox for $125,000. 1925 - Nellie Ross becomes the first female governor as she succeeds her late husband as Wyoming's governor. 1933 - Construction begins on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California. 1993 - Westley Allan Dodd is executed by hanging in Washington State, the first legal hanging in America since 1965. 2005 - The largest known dwarf planet in the solar system, Eris, is discovered. |
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