Tuesday, January 05th
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On Jan. 5, 1914, Henry Ford, head of the Ford Motor Company, introduced a minimum wage scale of $5 per day. (Go to article.)
On Jan. 5, 1863, Constantin Sergeyevich Stanislavsky, one of the greatest masters of Russian drama and a founder of the Moscow Art Theatre, was born. Following his death on Aug. 7, 1938, his obituary appeared in The Times. (Go to obit. | Other Birthdays)
Editorial Cartoon of the Day
On January 5, 1878, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the Balkans. (See the cartoon and read an explanation.)
On this date in:
1589 Catherine de Medici of France died at age 69.
1781 A British naval expedition led by Benedict Arnold burned Richmond, Va.
1896 The Austrian newspaper Wiener Presse reported the discovery by German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen of a type of radiation that came to be known as an X-ray.
1925 Nellie T. Ross succeeded her late husband as governor of Wyoming, becoming the first female governor in U.S. history.
1933 Calvin Coolidge, the 30th president of the United States, died in Northampton, Mass., at age 60.
1943 Educator and scientist George Washington Carver died in Tuskegee, Ala., at age 81.
1949 In his State of the Union address, President Harry S. Truman labeled his domestic program the "Fair Deal."
1970 IThe soap opera "All My Children" premiered on ABC-TV.
1972 President Richard Nixon ordered development of the space shuttle.
1973 Bruce Springsteen's debut album, "Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J.," was released.
1981 Police in England arrested Peter Sutcliffe, a truck driver later convicted of the "Yorkshire Ripper" murders of 13 women.
1993 The state of Washington executed Westley Allan Dodd, an admitted child sex killer, in America's first legal hanging since 1965.
1994 Former House Speaker Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill died in Boston at age 81.
1998 Sonny Bono, the pop singer-turned-politician, was killed when he struck a tree while skiing in South Lake Tahoe, Calif., at age 62.
2004 After 14 years of denials, Pete Rose publicly admitted that he'd bet on baseball while manager of the Cincinnati Reds.
Current Birthdays
January Jones turns 32 years old today.
AP Photo/Katy Winn Actress January Jones ("Mad Men") turns 32 years old today.
85 Lou Carnesecca
Hall of Fame basketball coach
82 Walter F. Mondale
Former vice president
78 Chuck Noll
Hall of Fame football coach
72 King Juan Carlos
King of Spain
68 Charlie Rose
Broadcast journalist
66 Ed Rendell
Governor of Pennsylvania
64 Diane Keaton
Actress
62 Ted Lange
Actor ("The Love Boat")
61 George "Funky" Brown
R&B musician (Kool and the Gang)
60 Chris Stein
Rock musician (Blondie)
57 Pamela Sue Martin
Actress ("Dynasty")
57 George Tenet
Former CIA director
56 Alex English
Basketball Hall of Famer
41 Marilyn Manson
Rock singer
Historic Birthdays
Constantin Sergeyevich Stanislavsky
1/5/1863 (1/17/1863 N.S.) - 8/7/1938
Russian actor, producer, teacher and philosopher of theater
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69 Francisco Suárez
1/5/1548 - 9/25/1617
Spanish theologian
74 Shah Jahan
1/5/1592 - 1/22/1666
Mughal emperor of India and builder of the Taj Mahal
34 Zebulon Montgomery Pike
1/5/1779 - 4/27/1813
American army officer and explorer
41 Stephen Decatur
1/5/1779 - 3/22/1820
American naval officer
77 King Camp Gillette
1/5/1855 - 7/9/1932
American inventor and manufacturer
91 Konrad Adenauer
1/5/1876 - 4/19/1967
First chancellor of West Germany (1949-63)
77 Henry Sloane Coffin
1/5/1877 - 11/25/1954
American clergyman
76 Herbert Bayard Swope
1/5/1882 - 6/20/1958
American journalist and editor
55 Yves Tanguy
1/5/1900 - 1/15/1955
French Surrealist painter
87 Stella Gibbons
1/5/1902 - 12/19/1989
English novelist and poet
87 Hubert Beuve-Méry
1/5/1902 - 8/6/1989
French publisher and editor of "Le Monde"
72 Dame Kathleen Kenyon
1/5/1906 - 8/24/1978
English archaeologist
58 Alvin Ailey Jr.
1/5/1931 - 12/1/1989
American choreographer and dancer; founded Ailey American Dance Theater
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