433 Historic Events for January 5
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| 1925 |
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French Baseball Federation awards silver medals to John McGraw, Charlie Comiskey, and Hugh Jennings
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| 1926 |
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James Cox of Ford Motors announces 8 hr day and $5 daily minimum wage
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| 1926 |
Birth |
Robert Earle, Baldwin NY, TV host (GE College Bowl)
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| 1926 |
Birth |
Claude (Buddy) Young, NFL running back (Yankees, Texans, Colts)
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| 1927 |
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Fox Studios exhibits Movietone
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| 1927 |
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Judge Landis begins 3-day public hearing on charges that 4 games played between Chicago and Detroit in 1917 had been thrown to White Sox
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| 1928 |
Birth |
Walter Fritz Mondale, (Sen-D-Minn)/42nd VP (1977-81)
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| 1928 |
Birth |
Zulfikar Ali Khan Bhutto, president/premier (Pakistan)
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| 1928 |
Birth |
Imtiaz Ahmed, cricketer (Pakistan wicket-keeper in 41 Tests 1952-62)
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| 1929 |
Birth |
Wilbert Harrison, singer
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| 1929 |
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Coup by King Alexander in South Slavia
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| 1930 |
Birth |
Richard Hayes, Passaic NJ, singer/emcee (Name That Tune)
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| 1930 |
Birth |
Frederick Charles Tillis, composer
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| 1930 |
Birth |
Edward Galven Givens Jr, Quanah Texas, Major USAF/astronaut
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| 1930 |
Event |
Mao Tse-tung writes "A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire"
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| 1931 |
Birth |
Walter Davis, US, running high jumper (Olympic-gold-1952)
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| 1931 |
Birth |
Robert Duvall, San Diego Calif, actor (Great Santini, Taxi Driver)
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| 1931 |
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1st woman to purchase a baseball team Lucille Thomas purchases Topeka franchise in the Western League
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| 1931 |
Birth |
Alfred Brendel, Wiesenberg Moravia, Austrian pianist
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| 1931 |
Birth |
Alvin Ailey, choreographer (American Dance Theater)
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| 1932 |
Birth |
Umberto Eco, author (Name of the Rose)
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| 1932 |
Birth |
Ra‹sa Maximovna Titorenko Gorbachev, Russia's 1st lady (1982-1991)
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| 1932 |
Birth |
Chuck Noll, Cleveland, NFL coach (Pittsburgh Steelers)
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| 1933 |
Event |
Work on Golden Gate Bridge begins, on Marin County side
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| 1933 |
Death |
Calvin Coolidge, 30th President (1923-29), dies in Mass at 60
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