Surprising Events: January 5 Through The Historical Ages

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In this series, we'll be exploring some surprising events that happened on specific dates throughout history. From January 5 through the Historical Ages, be sure to check out our videos to learn about some of the unusual and interesting occurrences that happened on this particular day!

1709 The Great Frost begins during the night, a sudden cold snap that remains Europe's coldest ever winter. Thousands are killed across the continent and crops fail in France.
1776 Assembly of New Hampshire adopts its 1st state constitution
1781 British naval expedition led by Benedict Arnold burns Richmond, Virginia
1804 Ohio legislature passes 1st laws restricting free blacks movement
1822 Central America proclaims annexation to Mexican Empire
1836 Davy Crockett arrives in Nacogdoches, Texas, to aid the revolution
1846 The United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Territory with the United Kingdom
1859 1st steamboat the North Star sails up the northern Red River, America
1861 250 Federal troops are sent from New York to Ft Sumter
1892 1st successful auroral photograph made
1903 SF-Hawaii telegraph cable opens for public use
1905 Charles Perrine announces discovery of Jupiter's 7th satellite, Elara
1905 Incorporation of the National Association of Audubon Society, a nonprofit environmental organization dedicated to conservation
1914 Industrialist Henry Ford announces his $5 minimum per-day wage, doubling most workers pay from $2.40 for a 9hr day to $5 for an 8hr day
1925 Nellie Tayloe Ross sworn in as Governor of Wyoming, 1st woman governor in USA
1930 Bonnie Parker meets Clyde Barrow for the first time at Clarence Clay's house
1931 First woman to purchase a baseball team, Lucille Thomas buys Topeka Senators franchise in the Western League
1937 Only unicameral state legislature in US opens 1st session in Nebraska
1940 FCC hears the 1st transmission of FM radio with clear, static-free signal
1943 William H Hastie, civilian aide to secretary of war, resigns to protest segregation in armed forces
1945 Pepe LePew debuts in Warner Bros cartoon "Odor-able Kitty”
1949 US President Harry Truman labels his administration the "Fair Deal”
1952 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill makes an official visit to the US
1957 Dodgers' Jackie Robinson announces his retirement rather than be traded to the NY Giants
1959 "Bozo the Clown" live children's show premieres on TV
1968 Dr Benjamin Spock indicted for conspiring to violate draft law
1969 USSR Venera 5 launched for 1st successful planet landing (Venus)
1972 US President Nixon signs a bill for NASA to begin research on a manned space shuttle
1984 Greg Chappell scores 182* for Australia in his last Test innings
1993 Price is Right model Janice Pennington sues CBS for show accident
1993 Washington state executes Westley Allan Dodd by hanging (first legal hanging in America since 1965)
2005 Eris, the largest known dwarf planet in the solar system, is discovered by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz using images originally taken on October 21, 2003, at the Palomar Observatory.
2018 "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House" by Michael Wolff is published by Henry Holt and Company
2018 North Korea accepts South Korean invitation for high-level talks
2021 In Georgia Senate run-off elections Raphael Warnock (D) defeats Kelly Loeffler (R) and Jon Ossoff (D) defeats David Perdue (R) to give Democrats control of the US Senate
2022 Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards pardons Homer Plessy for buying whites-only train ticket in 1892 (resulted in U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson 1896)
2023 Funeral for Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI presided over by Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Basilica, Rome
2023 Pocahontas revealed as the 12th great-grandmother of actor Edward Norton on PBS's "Finding Your Roots"