January 05

Saturday 05, 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.

Wednesday 05, 2000:

The 1st day of the 2000 Al Qaeda Summit.

Sunday 05, 1997:

Withdrawal of Russian forces from Chechnya.

Friday 05, 1996:

Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone.

Tuesday 05, 1993:

Washington state executes Westley Allan Dodd by hanging (the first legal hanging in America since 1965).

Monday 05, 1987:

President of the United States Ronald Reagan undergoes prostate surgery causing worries about his health.

Thursday 05, 1984:

Richard Stallman starts developing GNU.

Saturday 05, 1980:

Hewlett-Packard announces release of its first personal computer.

Monday 05, 1976:

Cambodia is renamed Democratic Campuchea.

Sunday 05, 1975:

The Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier Lake Illawarra, killing twelve people.

Saturday 05, 1974:

An earthquake in Lima, Peru kills six, and damages 100s of houses.

Friday 05, 1973:

Netherlands recognizes East Germany.

Wednesday 05, 1972:

President of the United States Richard Nixon orders the development of a space shuttle program.

Monday 05, 1970:

Soap opera: All My Children premieres.

Friday 05, 1968:

Alexander Dubček comes to power, "Prague Spring" begins in Czechoslovakia.

Sunday 05, 1964:

Pope Paul VI meets the Greek patriarch Athenagoras I in Jerusalem, the first meeting of Catholic and Orthodox Christianity leaders since 1439.

Thursday 05, 1961:

Television: Mr. Ed debuts.

Saturday 05, 1957:

Major league baseballer Jackie Robinson retires.

Thursday 05, 1956:

Elvis Presley records "Heartbreak Hotel."

Monday 05, 1948:

Warner Brothers shows the first color newsreel (Tournament of Roses Parade and the Rose Bowl).

Friday 05, 1945:

The Soviet Union recognizes the new pro-Soviet government of Poland.

Wednesday 05, 1944:

The Daily Mail becomes the first transoceanic newspaper.

Friday 05, 1940:

FM radio is demonstrated to the FCC for the first time.

Thursday 05, 1933:

Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay.

Monday 05, 1925:

Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first female governor in the United States.

Monday 05, 1914:

Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day's labor.

Friday 05, 1912:

Prague Party Conference

Tuesday 05, 1909:

Colombia recognizes the independence of Panama.

Friday 05, 1900:

Irish leader John Edward Redmond calls for a revolt against British rule.

Sunday 05, 1896:

An Austrian newspaper reports that Wilhelm Roentgen discovered a type of radiation later known as X-rays.

Saturday 05, 1895:

Dreyfus Affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.

Thursday 05, 1854:

The San Francisco steamer sinks, 300 dead.

Monday 05, 1846:

The United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Territory with the United Kingdom.

Friday 05, 1781:

American Revolutionary War: Richmond, Virginia is burned by British naval forces led by Benedict Arnold.

Friday 05, 1759:

George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Custis.

Wednesday 05, 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 death penalty used for regicides.

Saturday 05, 1675:

Battle of Colmar, French army beats Brandenburg.

Tuesday 05, 1554:

Great fire in Eindhoven, Netherlands.

Wednesday 05, 1527:

Martyrdom of Felix Manz, a Swiss Anabaptist.

Friday 05, 1500:

Duke Ludovico Sforza conquers Milan.

Friday 05, 1477:

Battle of Nancy, Charles the Bold killed, Burgundy becomes part of France.

Monday 05, 1463:

Poet François Villon is banned from Paris.

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