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Events on January 5

• 1477 Charles the Bold of Burgundy falls at the Battle of Nancy, the decisive battle of the Burgundian Wars, against Duke Réné of Lorraine and the Swiss. In 1482, his Burgundian lands are divided between France and Habsburg in the Treaty of Arras.
• 1769 James Watt files the patent application for his steam engine.
• 1902 At the Belle-Alliance Theatre in Berlin, Georg Büchner's drama Danton's Death, written in 1835 and long regarded as unplayable, has its premiere.
• 1933 Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge over San Francisco Bay begins under engineer Joseph B. Strauss. Construction of the suspension bridge, which connects San Francisco across the Golden Gate to Marin County, takes more than four years.
• 1938 Under the Law on the Change of Surnames and First Names, the National Socialists stipulate that Jewish men must additionally bear the name Israel and Jewish women the name Sara. Further details are provided later by the Regulation on Name Changes on August 17.
• 1951 The German Olympic Society is founded.
• 1959 The German federal government rejects the Soviet proposal to establish a Free City of West Berlin, recognize the GDR, and enter into a confederation with it.
• 1968 In Czechoslovakia, the reform politician Alexander Dubček ousts the Stalinist Antonín Novotný as First Secretary of the Communist Party. This marks the beginning of the Prague Spring.
• 1975 The blue elephant makes his first appearance in The Show with the Mouse.
• 1979 Prince gives his first live concert of his career at the Capri Theater in his hometown of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
• 1988 The US sitcom Alf is broadcast for the first time on German television by ZDF.
• 2023 Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI. is buried in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, with around 50,000 people taking part in the funeral service.

Born on January 5

• 1865 Bodo Ebhardt, German architect and castle expert
• 1874 Joseph Erlanger, American neurophysiologist, Nobel Prize winner
• 1921 Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss writer, playwright and painter
• 1931 Alvin Ailey, American dancer and choreographer
• 1931 Alfred Brendel, Austrian pianist and writer
• 1940 Veikko Kankkonen, Finnish ski jumper
• 1952 Uli Hoeneß, German football player, entrepreneur and sports official
• 1960 Bettina Tietjen, German television presenter
• 1970 Jens Todt, German football player and journalist
• 1980 Sebastian Deisler, German football player

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „5. Januar“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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