A few of the great historical events that happened today in history, January 5th!
| 1477 | Swiss troops defeat the forces under Charles the Bold of Burgundy at the Battle of Nancy. |
| 1781 | A British naval expedition led by Benedict Arnold burned Richmond, Va.  |
| 1815 | Federalists from all over New England, angered over the War of 1812, draw up the Hartford Convention, demanding several important changes in the U.S. Constitution. |
| 1861 | The merchant vessel Star of the West sets sail from New York to Fort Sumter, in response to rebel attack, carrying supplies and 250 troops. |
| 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. |
| 1904 | American Marines arrive in Seoul, Korea, to guard the U.S. legation there. |
| 1914 | Henry Ford astounds the world as he announces that he will pay a minimum wage of $5 a day and will share with employees $10 million in the previous year’s profits.  |
| 1917 | Bulgarian and German troops occupy the Port of Braila. |
| 1919 | British ships shell the Bolshevik headquarters in Riga. |
| 1920 | GOP women demand equal representation at the Republican National Convention in June. |
| 1921 | Wagner’s “Die Walkyrie” opens in Paris. This is the first German opera performed in Paris since the beginning of World War I. |
| 1923 | The U.S. Senate debates the benefits of Peyote for the American Indian. |
| 1925 | Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is sworn in as the first woman governor in the United States.  |
| 1933 | Calvin Coolidge, the 30th president of the United States, died in Northampton, Mass., at age 60. |
| 1936 | Daggha Bur, Ethiopia, is bombed by the Italians. |
| 1942 | U.S. and Filipino troops complete their withdrawal to a new defensive line along the base of the Bataan peninsula. |
| 1947 | Great Britain nationalizes its coal mines. |
| 1951 | Inchon, South Korea, the sight of General Douglas MacArthur’s amphibious flanking maneuver, is abandoned by United Nations force to the advancing Chinese Army. |
| 1952 | Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in Washington to confer with President Harry S. Truman. |
| 1968 | U.S. forces in Vietnam launch Operation Niagara I to locate enemy units around the Marine base at Khe Sanh. |
| 1969 | President Richard M. Nixon appoints Henry Cabot Lodge as negotiator at the Paris Peace Talks. |
| 1970 | The soap opera “All My Children” premiered on ABC-TV. |
| 1971 | President Richard M. Nixon names Robert Dole as chairman of the Republican National Party. |
| 1972 | President Richard Nixon ordered development of the space shuttle. |
| 1973 | Bruce Springsteen’s debut album, “Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J.,” was released.  |
| 1982 | A Federal judge voids a state law requiring balanced classroom treatment of evolution and creationism. |
| 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. |
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