On January 5th these people were born ...
1592 Shah Jahan, Moghul Emperor of India(1628-58), built the Taj Mahal
1779 Stephen Decatur, early American Naval hero
1846 Rudolf Eucken, German Idealist philosopher (Nobel 1908)
1855 King Camp Gillette, inventor of the safety razor
1876 Konrad Adenauer, German Chancellor
1895 Jeannette Piccard, balloonist, Episcopal priest
1902 Stella Gibbons, English poet and novelist.
1931 Alfred Brendel, Austrian concert pianist.
1931 Robert Duvall, US film actor.
1938 Juan Carlos of Spain, King.
1942 Jan Leeming, newscaster.
1946 Diane Keaton, US film actress.
1950 Chris Stein, musician. (Blondie)
1953 Pamela Sue Martin, actress.
1965 Vinnie Jones, footballer and actor.
1978 January Jones, American actress..
1981 Brooklyn Sudano, American actress
1987 Kristin Cavallari, American reality television personality and actress.
... and these people died ...
1066 Edward the Confessor, English king.
1477 Charles the Bold, King of France, killed at the Battle of Nancy.
1589 Catherine de'Medici, Queen of France.
1858 Count Radetsky, Austrian soldier.
1922 Sir Ernest Shackleton, British polar explorer.
1933 Calvin Coolidge, former US president.
1941 Amy Johnson, English aviator.
2007 Monofuku Ando, Japanese inventor of instant noodles in 1958. (96)
2011 Dick King-Smith, OBE, Best-selling children's author. (88)
2011 Gerry Rafferty, Scottish singer-songwriter. (63)
2012 Eve Arnold, photographer, went on the road with Malcolm X, photographed every American president for four decades. (99)
... and these things happened - On January 5th
Twelfth Night, end of Christmas season
1809 Treaty of Dardanelles was concluded between Britain & France
1896 German physicist Rontgen gave the first demonstration of X-rays.
1919 The National Socialist (Nazi) Party was founded in Germany.
1935 Forerunner of LaGuardia, Municipal Airport 2, opened in New York.
1938 Billie Holiday recorded 'When you're Smiling' in New York.
1940 FM radio was demonstrated for the first time in the USA.
1964 London Underground's first automatic barrier installed.
1969 USSR Venera 5 launched. 1st successful planet landing - Venus
1972 NASA announces development of Space Shuttle
1975 Salyut 4 with crew of 2 is launched for 30 days
1981 The Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe, was charged with murder.
2000 Catherine Hartley & Fiona Thornwill became the first British
women to walk 700 miles to the South Pole.
2001 Australia & NZ ban beef from EU because of 'Mad Cow Disease'.
2001 India test flew it's first home produced fighter aircraft.
2002 Bushfires around Sydney officially described as Australia's worst
2002 Mobile phones in Latin America now outnumber fixed phones.
2002 Website with 1901 census data closed down as millions logged on.
2003 Amsterdam Raelian Society announced the second cloned baby birth.
2003 Nuevo Leon Mexicans baked world record xmas cake - 13400 kilos.
2004 Google no 1 $ 2 2003 searches - Britney Spears and Harry Potter.
2004 UK's first black chief constable, Mike Fuller, of Kent Police.
2004 US customs began photographing and fingerprinting all arrivals.
2005 EU countries held a 3 minute silence at midday for the Asian tsunami dead.
2005 Samsung 102in TV was on show at Las Vegas Electronics show - cost $100k.
2006 Average cost of running the 8 mil cars under 3 years old in the UK was £5000 pa.
2006 China reported a record 21 surviving pandas were born in 2005.
2007 England lost the ashes tour of Australia 5-0, the first whitewash since 1921.
2007 Moira Cameron from Argyll became the first female Beefeater since Henry VII created the post in 1485.
2007 The UK govt was advertising for a new Chairman of the BBC Trust - salary £140k pa.
2008 China sent 5k tons of food aid to Zimbabwe where 25% of people depend on UN food aid.
2008 Dane Cook broke the comedy act endurance record telling jokes for 7 hours at the LA Laugh Factory.
2009 First no1 single of the year was Alexandra Burke's cover of Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah'.
2009 Pub chain JD Wetherspoon to cut the price of beer to just 99 pence a pint.
2009 The 250-year old china and glassmaker Waterford Wedgewood went into receivership.
2010 It was one of the world's smelliest tourist attractions - but San Francisco's 1500+ sea lions mysteriously departed for the unknown after 20 years.
2010 President Barack Obama escaped the cold weather after attending the Global Warming Conference in Copenhagen with a holiday in Hawaii with his family.
2011 A small earthquake hit northern England, the 3.6-magnitude quake struck 9km north-west of Ripon in North Yorkshire just after 2100 GMT.
2011 The top rate of VAT went up from 17.5% to 20% as the government tried to boost tax revenue to cut the budget deficit.
2012 A bluefin tuna was sold for a record $736,000 (£1,755 per kilogram) to a sushi restaurant chain at Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market in their first auction of the year.
2012 Two of the murders of Stephen Lawrence were jailed for life after an investigation lasting 19 years, three others are still under investigation.
2013 Toyota demonstrated its' zero collisions (self driving) technology fitted to a Lexus LS, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
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