Wednesday, January 05th The 005th day of 2011. There are 360 days left in the year. | |
Today's Highlights in History | |||
See a larger version of this front page. | On Jan. 5, 1914, Henry Ford, head of the Ford Motor Company, introduced a minimum wage scale of $5 per day. (Go to article.) | ||
On January 5, 1878, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the Balkans. (See the cartoon and read an explanation.) |
On this date in: | |
1781 | A British naval expedition led by Benedict Arnold burned Richmond, Va. |
1896 | The Austrian newspaper Wiener Presse reported the discovery by German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen of a type of radiation that came to be known as an X-ray. |
1925 | Nellie T. Ross succeeded her late husband as governor of Wyoming, becoming the first female governor in U.S. history. |
1933 | Calvin Coolidge, the 30th president of the United States, died in Northampton, Mass., at age 60. |
1949 | In his State of the Union address, President Harry S. Truman labeled his domestic program the "Fair Deal." |
1970 | The soap opera "All My Children" premiered on ABC-TV. |
1972 | President Richard Nixon ordered development of the space shuttle. |
1973 | Bruce Springsteen's debut album, "Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J.," was released. |
1981 | Police in England arrested Peter Sutcliffe, a truck driver later convicted of the "Yorkshire Ripper" murders of 13 women. |
1994 | Former House Speaker Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill died in Boston at age 81. |
2004 | After 14 years of denials, Pete Rose publicly admitted that he'd bet on baseball while manager of the Cincinnati Reds. |
Current Birthdays | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Robert Duvall turns 80 years old today. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
AP Photo/Evan Agostini Actor Robert Duvall turns 80 years old today. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Historic Birthdays | |
Constantin Sergeyevich Stanislavsky | |
1/5/1863 (1/17/1863 N.S.) - 8/7/1938 Russian actor, producer, teacher and philosopher of theater (Go to obit.) | |
69 | Francisco Suárez 1/5/1548 - 9/25/1617 Spanish theologian |
74 | Shah Jahan 1/5/1592 - 1/22/1666 Mughal emperor of India and builder of the Taj Mahal |
34 | Zebulon Montgomery Pike 1/5/1779 - 4/27/1813 American army officer and explorer |
41 | Stephen Decatur 1/5/1779 - 3/22/1820 American naval officer |
77 | King Camp Gillette 1/5/1855 - 7/9/1932 American inventor and manufacturer |
91 | Konrad Adenauer 1/5/1876 - 4/19/1967 First chancellor of West Germany (1949-63) |
77 | Henry Sloane Coffin 1/5/1877 - 11/25/1954 American clergyman |
76 | Herbert Bayard Swope 1/5/1882 - 6/20/1958 American journalist and editor |
55 | Yves Tanguy 1/5/1900 - 1/15/1955 French Surrealist painter |
87 | Stella Gibbons 1/5/1902 - 12/19/1989 English novelist and poet |
87 | Hubert Beuve-Méry 1/5/1902 - 8/6/1989 French publisher and editor of "Le Monde" |
72 | Dame Kathleen Kenyon 1/5/1906 - 8/24/1978 English archaeologist |
58 | Alvin Ailey Jr. 1/5/1931 - 12/1/1989 American choreographer and dancer; founded Ailey American Dance Theater |
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