Are you asking the question “What day of the week was I born?” Continue reading to find out what day of the week you were born.
Day Of The Week: January 5
January 5, 2025 is the 5th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 360 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Sunday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Capricorn is your zodiac sign. Garnet is your modern birthstone. Emerald is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: January 5
- 1675 –Battle of Colmar: the French army beats Brandenburg.
- 1782 –American Revolutionary War: French troops begin a siege of a British garrison on Brimstone Hill in Saint Kitts.
- 1909 –Colombia recognizes the independence of Panama.
- 1911 –Kappa Alpha Psi, the world’s second oldest and largest black fraternity, is founded at Indiana University.
- 1933 –Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay.
- 1944 –The Daily Mail becomes the first transoceanic newspaper.
- 1968 –Alexander Dubček comes to power: “Prague Spring” begins in Czechoslovakia.
- 1976 –The Khmer Rouge proclaim the Constitution of Democratic Kampuchea.
- 1993 –Washington state executes Westley Allan Dodd by hanging (the last judicial hanging in America).
- 2003 –Police arrest seven suspects in connection with Wood Green ricin plot.
Who were born on January 5?
- 1779 –Stephen Decatur, American naval officer (d. 1820)
- 1874 –Joseph Erlanger, American physiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1965)
- 1950 –Ioan Petru Culianu, Romanian educator (d. 1991)
- 1954 –László Krasznahorkai, Hungarian writer
- 1958 –Ron Kittle, American baseball player
- 1960 –Steve Jones, British aviator (Red Bull Air Race World Series)
- 1978 –Franck Montagny, French Formula One driver
- 1978 –Marcus Trick, German rugby player
- 1980 –Bennie Joppru, American football player
- 1982 –Janica Kostelić, Croatian skier
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