5 January special day in India
Important Events-
Birth & Death
5 January special day in India - Important Events :
- 1671: Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj captured Salher from the Mughals.
- 1832: The first issue of the Marathi newspaper Darpan was published.
- 1999: The German Workers Party was founded, which later transformed into the Nazi Party.
- 1924: Mahad Municipal Corporation opened Chavdar Lake to untouchables.
- 1933: Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge began in San Francisco.
- 1949: National Defence Academy (NDA) was started in Pune.
- 1957: Sales Tax Act came into force.
- 1974: The highest temperature recorded in Antarctica (15º Celsius) was 15º Celsius.
- 1998: Senior German sociologist Gerhard Fischer was awarded the Mahatma Gandhi Peace Prize by the President for his work in the field of leprosy and polio control in India.
- 2005: Astronomers at Palomar Observatory discover dwarf planet Eris.
- 2022: Kazakhstan declares nationwide state of emergency to stop unrest in the country.
- 5 January special day in India
5 January special day in India - Birth :
- 1592: Birth of ‘Shah Jahan’ – 5th Mughal Emperor. (Died: January 22, 1666)
- 1855: Birth of ‘King Camp Gillette’ – American explorer and industrialist. (Died: July 9, 1932)
- 1868: Birth of ‘Ganesh Dattatreya Sahasrabuddhe’ – Marathi saint poet.
- 1869: Birth of ‘Venkatesh Tirko Kulkarni’ – Kannada writer.
- 1883: Birth of ‘Dom Szathója’ – 35th Prime Minister of Hungary. (Died: 22 August 1946)
- 1892: Birth of ‘Krishnaji Pandurang Kulkarni’ – Writer and Marathi linguist. (Died: 12 June 1964 – Mumbai)
- 1903: Birth of ‘Harold Gatti’ – Australian navigator and the first person to circumnavigate the globe in a single-engine monoplane with Willie Post. (Died: 30 August 1957)
- 1913: Birth of ‘Shripad Narayan Pendse’ – Marathi writer. (Died: 24 March 2007)
- 1922: Birth of ‘Mohammad Umar Mukri’ – Comedian and character actor. (Died: 4 September 2000)
- 1925: Birth of ‘Ramesh Mantri’ – Marathi writer.
- 1928: Birth of ‘Vijay Tendulkar’ – Marathi writer.
- 1928: Birth of ‘Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’ – 4th President of Pakistan. (Died: 4 April 1979)
- 1934: Birth of ‘Murli Manohar Joshi’ – Indian politician.
- 1941: Birth of ‘Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi’ – Indian cricket captain and 9th and last Nawab of Pataudi. (Died: 22 September 2011)
- 1948: Birth of ‘Parthasarathy Sharma’ – Indian cricketer. (Died: 20 October 2010)
- 1948: Birth of ‘Fayyaz’ – Actress and singer.
- 1955: Birth of ‘Mamta Banerjee’ – 8th and first female Chief Minister of West Bengal.
- 1972: Birth of ‘Manish Sisodia’ – Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi, founder of Aam Aadmi Party.
- 5 January special day in India
5 January special day in India - Death :
- 1847: ‘Tyagaraj’ – Carnatic music composer, musicologist and singer passed away.
- 1933: ‘Calvin Coolidge’ – 30th President of the United States passed away. (Born: 4 July 1872)
- 1939: ‘Amelia Earhart’ – First female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean passed away. (Born: 24 July 1897)
- 1943: ‘George Washington Carver’ – American botanist, educationist, explorer and scientist passed away. (Born: 1 February 1864)
- 1952: ‘Nawab Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi’ – 8th Pataudi passed away. (Born: 16 March 1910)
- 1961: ‘Narayan Tamhankar’ – Children’s writer passed away. (Born: 30 August 1813)
- 1982: ‘Ramchandra Chitalkar’ – Indian musician passed away. (Born: 12 January 1918)
- 1990: ‘Ramesh Bahl’ – Film producer and director passed away.
- 1992: ‘Dattatray Ganesh Godse’ – Historian, playwright, art director, costume designer passed away. (Born: 3 July 1914)