Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 5

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  Palais Garnier
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  Charles the Bold
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  Tasman Bridge
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  Mikheil Saakashvili
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  US Embassy in Mogadishu
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  Nellie Tayloe Ross
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  Eris and its moon, Dysnomia
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  Australian troops at the Battle of Bardia
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  Execution of Robert-François Damiens
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  Ernest Shackleton

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1463 – French poet François Villon was banned from Paris by the Parlement after being commuted from a death sentence.	needs more footnotes
1477 – Burgundian Wars: Charles the Bold, the Duke of Burgundy, was killed at the Battle of Nancy, eventually leading to the partition of Burgundy between France and the House of Habsburg.	Charles: unreferenced section; Battle: refimprove
1527 – Felix Manz, co-founder of the original Swiss Brethren Anabaptist congregation in Zürich, was executed by drowning, becoming one of the first martyrs of the Radical Reformation.	Manz: refimprove; Radical Reformation: fact not in article
1875 – The Palais Garnier opera house in Paris was formally inaugurated.	unreferenced section
1895 – Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer in the French military wrongly accused of treason, was stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.	appears on October 15
1933 – Construction began on the Golden Gate Bridge across the Straits of the Golden Gate, the entrance to San Francisco Bay.	appears on May 27
1968 – Alexander Dubček came to power in Czechoslovakia, beginning a period of political liberalization known as the Prague Spring that ended with a military intervention by the Warsaw Pact nations to halt reform.	section should be summarized
1971 – The first One Day International cricket match was held between Australia and England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.	unreferenced section
1996 – Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash was assassinated by a bomb-laden cell phone, planted by Israel's Shin Bet.	refimprove section
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• 1675 – Franco-Dutch War: French troops defeated Austrian and Brandenburg forces at the Battle of Turckheim in Alsace.
• 1922 – Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton (pictured) died of a heart attack during his final expedition.
• 1925 – Nellie Tayloe Ross was inaugurated as Governor of Wyoming, the first woman to serve as governor of a U.S. state.
• 1941 – Second World War: Australian and British troops defeated Italian forces in Bardia, Libya, the first battle of the war in which an Australian Army formation took part.
• 1953 – Waiting for Godot by Irish playwright Samuel Beckett, termed the "most significant English language play of the 20th century", premiered in Paris.
• 1970 – A magnitude-7.1 earthquake struck Tonghai County in southern China, killing at least 10,000 people and eventually spurring the creation of the nation's largest earthquake monitoring system.
• 1975 – The bulk carrier Lake Illawarra struck a bridge over the River Derwent in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, causing the deaths of seven of the ship's crewmen and five motorists on the bridge.
• 1976 – The Troubles: In response to the killings of six Catholics the night before, South Armagh Republican Action Force gunmen killed ten Protestants in County Armagh, Northern Ireland.
• 1991 – The United States Embassy to Somalia in Mogadishu was evacuated by helicopter airlift days after violence enveloped Mogadishu during the Somali Civil War.
• 1991 – Georgian troops attacked Tskhinvali, the South Ossetian capital, beginning the First South Ossetia War.
• 2000 – Sri Lankan Tamil politician Kumar Ponnambalam was killed in an assassination suspected to have been sanctioned by President Chandrika Kumaratunga.
• 2005 – The dwarf planet Eris was discovered by a team using images from the Samuel Oschin telescope at Palomar Observatory.
• 2007 – The Taiwan High Speed Rail opened, connecting Taipei and Kaohsiung.
• 2008 – Mikheil Saakashvili was decisively re-elected as President of Georgia in "the first genuinely competitive presidential election" in the history of the country.
• 2009 – In Eng Foong Ho v Attorney-General, the Court of Appeal of Singapore held that equality before the law was satisfied by a "reasonable nexus" between state action and the object of the law.
• Born/died: | Philippa of England |d|1430| Simon Marius |d|1625| Elizabeth of Russia |d|1762| George Johnston |d|1823| Konrad Adenauer |b|1876| Herbert Swope |b|1882| Henri Herz |d|1888| Hayao Miyazaki|b|1941| Diane Keaton|b|1946| John Manley |b|1950| Bradley Cooper |b|1975| Deepika Padukone |b|1986|

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• 1757 – King Louis XV survived an assassination attempt by Robert-François Damiens, who later became the last person in France to be executed by drawing and quartering.
• 1869 – Te Kooti's War: After surviving a five-day siege in the pā at Ngātapa, Māori leader Te Kooti escaped from New Zealand's Armed Constabulary.
• 1919 – The German Workers' Party, the precursor of the Nazi Party, was founded by Anton Drexler.
• 1949 – In his State of the Union speech, U.S. president Harry S. Truman (pictured) announced: "Every segment of our population, and every individual, has a right to expect from his government a fair deal."
• 2003 – The Metropolitan Police arrested six people in conjunction with an alleged terrorist plot to release ricin on the London Underground, although no toxin was found.