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05 January, 2007
Taiwan High Speed Rail open between Taipei and Kaohsiung.
05 January, 2006
Independence Air ceases operations.
05 January, 2005
Eris, the largest known dwarf planet in the solar system, was discovered by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz using images originally taken on October 21, 2003, at the Palomar Observatory.
05 January, 2000
The first day of the 2000 Al Qaeda Summit.
05 January, 1997
Russian forces withdraw from Chechnya.
05 January, 1996
Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone.
05 January, 1993
The oil tanker MV Braer runs aground on the coast of the Shetland Islands, spilling 84,700 tons of crude oil.
05 January, 1993
Washington state executes Westley Allan Dodd by hanging (the first legal hanging in America since 1965).
05 January, 1976
Cambodia is renamed Democratic Kampuchea by the Khmer Rouge.
05 January, 1975
The Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier Lake Illawarra, killing twelve people.
05 January, 1974
An earthquake in Lima, Peru, kills six people, and damages hundreds of houses.
05 January, 1972
President of the United States Richard Nixon orders the development of a space shuttle program.
05 January, 1970
Soap opera: All My Children premieres.
05 January, 1968
Alexander Dubcek comes to power: "Prague Spring" begins in Czechoslovakia.
05 January, 1962
A replica of the miraculous statue, the Holy Infant of Good Health, is presented to Blessed Pope John XXIII.
05 January, 1948
Warner Brothers shows the first color newsreel (Tournament of Roses Parade and the Rose Bowl).
05 January, 1945
The Soviet Union recognizes the new pro-Soviet government of Poland.
05 January, 1944
The Daily Mail becomes the first transoceanic newspaper.
05 January, 1940
FM radio is demonstrated to the FCC for the first time.
05 January, 1933
Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay.
05 January, 1925
Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first female governor in the United States.
05 January, 1919
Free Committee for a German Workers Peace founded, which would become the Nazi party.
05 January, 1914
Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a days labor.
05 January, 1913
First Balkan War: During the Naval Battle of Lemnos Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it did not venture for the rest of the war.
05 January, 1912
Prague Party Conference.
05 January, 1911
Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. founded.
05 January, 1909
Colombia recognizes the independence of Panama.
05 January, 1900
Irish leader John Edward Redmond calls for a revolt against British rule.
05 January, 1896
An Austrian newspaper reports that Wilhelm Roentgen discovered a type of radiation later known as X-rays.
05 January, 1895
Dreyfus Affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devils Island.
05 January, 1854
The San Francisco steamer sinks, killing 300 people.
05 January, 1846
The United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Territory with the United Kingdom.
05 January, 1781
American Revolutionary War: Richmond, Virginia, is burned by British naval forces led by Benedict Arnold.
05 January, 1759
George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Custis.
05 January, 1757
Louis XV of France survives the assassination attempt by Robert–François Damiens, the last person to be executed in France with the traditional and gruesome form of Capital punishment used for regicides.
05 January, 1675
Battle of Colmar: the French army beats Brandenburg.
05 January, 1554
A great fire occurs in Eindhoven, Netherlands.
05 January, 1527
Felix Manz, a leader of the Anabaptist congregation in Zürich, was executed by drowning.
05 January, 1500
Duke Ludovico Sforza conquers Milan.
05 January, 1477
Battle of Nancy: Charles the Bold is killed and Burgundy becomes part of France.
05 January, 1463
Poet François Villon is banned from Paris.
05 January, 1066
Edward the Confessor, King of England dies.

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