Page 4: Historical Events In January - 05

1859  The first steamboat sails, Red River on this day in history.   

1859  1st steamboat sails, Red River on this day in history.   

1859  On January - 05 deWitt B Brace, inventor (spectrophotometer)   

1860  St John Nepomucene Neumann, 1st male US saint, dies on this day in history.   

1861  On January - 05 250 Federal troops are sent from New York to Fort Sumter   

1861  Alabama troops seize Forts Morgan & Gaines at Mobile Bay on this day in history.   

1861  On January - 05 250 Federal troops are sent from New York to Ft Sumter   

1862  On January - 05 joseph Frohlich, composer, dies at 81   

1871  On this day in history a group of Chinese find a nugget at Dunolly, Victoria, called The Precious, which yields 50.418 kg of pure gold.   

1871  On this day in history frederick Shepherd Converse, Newton Mass, composer   

1874  The city of Winnipeg holds first civic election. Only 304 voters were registered, but 331 ballots are cast. go figure on January - 05.   

1874  On this day in history joseph Erlanger, doctor (shock therapy-Nobel 1944)   

1875  CDR Edward Lull begins expedition to locate best ship canal route across Panama on January - 05.   

1875  Charles Garnier's new Opera opens in Paris on January - 05.   

1875  On this day in history president Grant sends federal troops to Vicksburg MS   

1876  On this day in history konrad Adenauer, Cologne Germany, chancellor of Germany (BRD, 1949)   

1880  Nicolai Karlovich Medtner, composer on January - 05.   

1881  Nikolay Andreyevich Roslavets, composer on January - 05.   

1887  1st US school of librarianship opens at Columbia University on January - 05.   

1888  On January - 05 dutch Heidemaatschappij established   

1888  Henri Herz, composer, dies at a day before 85th birthday on January - 05.   

1889  Albert van Dalsum, Dutch actor/director (Little Rascal) [or 1899] on January - 05.   

1890  Cora Witherspoon, New Orleans LA, actress (Bank Dick), dies on January - 05.   

1891  On January - 05 johan Boskamp, Dutch actor/singer (Potasch & Perlemoer) [or 1893]   

1891  Guillaume L Baud, Dutch minister of Colonies (1848-49), dies at 89 on this day in history.   

1892  On January - 05 1st successful auroral photograph made   

1892  Francesca Bertini, Florence Italy, actress (Odette, Assunta Spina) on January - 05.   

1893  On January - 05 friedrich Blume, German musicologist (Das Rassenproblem in der Musik)   

1895  French Captain Alfred Dreyfus, convicted of treason, publicly stripped of his rank in anti-semitic trial; later declared innocent on this day in history.   

1895  French Captain Alfred Dreyfus, convicted of treason, publicly stripped of his rank; later declared innocent on January - 05.   

1895  Henry James' play "Guy Domville" opens in London on January - 05.   

1895  Jeannette Piccard, balloonist/Episcopal priest on this day in history.   

1896  German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen's discovers x-rays on January - 05.   

1896  On this day in history hendrik Algra, Dutch MP (ARP)   

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1209  On January - 05 birth of richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1272)   

1548  Francisco Suarez, Spanish theologian (d. 1617) was born on January - 05.   

1560  William Cobbold, composer was born on January - 05.   

1587  On this day in history birth of xu Xiake, Chinese geographer (d. 1641)   

1592  On January - 05 birth of shah Jahan, Mughal emperor of India (1628-58), built Taj Mahal   

1596  On January - 05 birth of henry Lawes, English composer   

1614  Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (d. 1662) was born on this day in history.   

1661  On January - 05 birth of jacob Balthasar Schutz, composer   

0842  On January - 05 death of al-Mu'tasim, Abbasid caliph (b. 794)   

1066  On this day in history edward de Belijder, the Confessor, king of England (1043-66), dies   

1387  Pedro IV, king of Aragon/conqueror of Sicily, dies at 67 on this day in history.   

1400  Death of John Montacute, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, English politician (executed) (b. ca. 1350) on January - 05.   

1425  Death of John of Bavaria/Bayern, liege of Holland/Zealand/Dordrecht, poisoned on this day in history.   

1448  On this day in history death of christopher of Bavaria (b. 1416)   

1465  Death of Charles, Duke of Orléans, French poet (b. 1394) on this day in history.   

1477  Charles, the Bold, duke of Burgundy/writer, dies at 43 on this day in history.