1066: Edward the Confessor, King of England, died without an heir, leading to the Norman Conquest later that year.
1477: Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, was killed during the Battle of Nancy, ending the independent existence of Burgundy.
1531: Pope Clement VII issued a papal bull excommunicating King Henry VIII of England for his defiance of the Catholic Church by divorcing Catherine of Aragon.
1757: Robert-François Damiens attempted to assassinate King Louis XV of France. He failed but was later brutally executed.
1896: An Austrian newspaper, "Die Presse," published the first public display of the X-ray, discovered by Wilhelm Röntgen.
1914: The Ford Motor Company announced an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day's labor, significantly improving workers' conditions and setting a precedent for labor practices.
1933: Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco began.
1945: During World War II, the Soviet Union recognized the new Polish Provisional Government of National Unity, which was communistic and installed by the Soviets.
1949: In one of the coldest days in U.S. history, temperatures plummeted across the Midwest with reports of -32°F in Omaha, Nebraska.
1972: President Richard Nixon announced that the United States would engage in peace talks in Paris to end the Vietnam War.
1993: The oil tanker MV Braer ran aground and spilled 85,000 metric tonnes of crude oil off the Shetland Islands, Scotland, leading to one of the UK's worst environmental disasters.
2005: The dwarf planet Eris was discovered by a team at Caltech led by Mike Brown, which initially led to debates about the definition of a planet and eventually contributed to Pluto's reclassification.
2015: The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the bombing of the al-Muallaq Mosque in Sana'a, Yemen, killing at least 45 people.

NEWS 1/5/2025 - On this day

17GEN4.com

On this day in 2024 - 1/5/2025

Recent Posts

Kommentare