Page 4: Historical Events In January - 05

1859  The first steamboat sails, Red River on January - 05.   

1859  1st steamboat sails, Red River on January - 05.   

1859  On this day in history deWitt B Brace, inventor (spectrophotometer)   

1860  On January - 05 st John Nepomucene Neumann, 1st male US saint, dies   

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  250 Federal troops are sent from New York to Ft Sumter on January - 05.   

1862  On this day in history joseph Frohlich, composer, dies at 81   

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

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  Joseph Erlanger, doctor (shock therapy-Nobel 1944) on January - 05.   

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

1875  On January - 05 charles Garnier's new Opera opens in Paris   

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

1876  Konrad Adenauer, Cologne Germany, chancellor of Germany (BRD, 1949) on January - 05.   

1880  On January - 05 nicolai Karlovich Medtner, composer   

1881  On January - 05 nikolay Andreyevich Roslavets, composer   

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

1888  Dutch Heidemaatschappij established on this day in history.   

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  On this day in history cora Witherspoon, New Orleans LA, actress (Bank Dick), dies   

1891  Johan Boskamp, Dutch actor/singer (Potasch & Perlemoer) [or 1893] on this day in history.   

1891  Guillaume L Baud, Dutch minister of Colonies (1848-49), dies at 89 on January - 05.   

1892  1st successful auroral photograph made on January - 05.   

1892  Francesca Bertini, Florence Italy, actress (Odette, Assunta Spina) on this day in history.   

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

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

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

1895  Henry James' play "Guy Domville" opens in London on this day in history.   

1895  Jeannette Piccard, balloonist/Episcopal priest on January - 05.   

1896  On January - 05 german physicist Wilhelm Roentgen's discovers x-rays   

1896  On January - 05 hendrik Algra, Dutch MP (ARP)   

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1209  Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1272) was born on January - 05.   

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

1560  On this day in history birth of william Cobbold, composer   

1587  Xu Xiake, Chinese geographer (d. 1641) was born on this day in history.   

1592  On this day in history 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 January - 05.   

1661  On this day in history birth of jacob Balthasar Schutz, composer   

0842  Death of Al-Mu'tasim, Abbasid caliph (b. 794) on this day in history.   

1066  On January - 05 edward de Belijder, the Confessor, king of England (1043-66), dies   

1387  On January - 05 pedro IV, king of Aragon/conqueror of Sicily, dies at 67   

1400  Death of John Montacute, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, English politician (executed) (b. ca. 1350) on this day in history.   

1425  On this day in history death of john of Bavaria/Bayern, liege of Holland/Zealand/Dordrecht, poisoned   

1448  On January - 05 death of christopher of Bavaria (b. 1416)   

1465  On this day in history death of charles, Duke of Orléans, French poet (b. 1394)   

1477  On January - 05 charles, the Bold, duke of Burgundy/writer, dies at 43