Historical Events on January 5.

1.  1659, 5th Jan: Aurangzegb defeated Shah Shuja in the Battle of Khajwah.

2.  1671, 5th Jan: Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj captured Salher from the Mughals.

3.  1919, 5th Jan: The German Workers’ Party formed. This party later transformed into the Nazi Party.

4.  1933, 5th Jan: Construction began on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.

5.  1948, 5th Jan: Warner Bros. released the world’s first color film of the Rose Bowl football tournament.

6.  1957, 5th Jan: The Central Sales Tax Act had introduced in India.

7.  1970, 5th Jan: A 7.7-magnitude earthquake on the Richter scale killed 15,000 people in China’s Yunnan province.

8.  1998, 5th Jan: The Mahatma Gandhi Peace Prize awarded to a German sociologist Gerhard Fischer by the President of India for his work in India in the field of leprosy and polio control.

9.  2014, 5th Jan: A launch of the communication satellite GSAT-14 aboard the GSLV MK II D5 marked the first successful flight of an Indian cryogenic engine.

Famous Birthdays & Birth Anniversaries on January 5.

1.  1592: Shah Jahan, the fifth Mughal emperor.

2.  1855: King Camp Gillette, an American businessman. He invented a best-selling version of the safety razor. 

3.  1880: Barindra Kumar Ghosh, an Indian revolutionary and journalist.

4.  1928: Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the 9th Prime Minister of Pakistan.

5.  1932: Kalyan Singh, former Governor of Rajasthan.

6.  1934: Murli Manohar Joshi, an Indian politician, and physicist.

7.  1941: Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, an Indian cricketer and former captain of the Indian cricket team.

8.  1955: Mamata Banerjee, an Indian politician, and 8th Chief Minister of West Bengal.

9.  1975: Bradley Cooper, an American actor, and filmmaker. 

10.  1986: Deepika Padukone, an Indian actress, and producer.

Death Anniversaries of famous people on January 5.

1.  1933: Calvin Coolidge, an American politician, lawyer, and the 30th president of the United States.

2.  1943: George Washington Carver, an American agricultural scientist, and inventor.

3.  1970: Max Born, a German physicist, and mathematician.

4.  1982: C. Ramchandra, an Indian music composer.

5.  1990: Ramesh Behl, an Indian film director, and producer.

6.  2007: Momofuku Ando, a Taiwanese-Japanese inventor, and businessman. He is known as the inventor of instant noodles.

5-January-1316

Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan was born.

5-January-1592

ShahJahan, Mughal emperor of India, was born at Lahore.

5-January-1659

Aurangzeb defeated Shah Shuja in the battle of Khawan near Allahabad.

5-January-1671

Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj captured the 'Salher' fort from Mughals.

5-January-1869

Venkatesh Tirko Kulkarni, famous Kannad novelist 'Galagnath', was born.

5-January-1890

Ganendra Mohan Tagore died.

5-January-1893

Paramahansa Yogananda (1893-1952), universalist Hindu, great saint, social reformer, writer and litterateur was born at Gorakhpur. He was the renaissance founder of Self Realization Fellowship (1925) in US, author of famed 'Autobiography of a Yogi' (1946), popular book globalizing India's spiritual traditions.

5-January-1934

Dr. Murli Manohar Manmohan Joshi was born in Delhi.

5-January-1941

Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, cricketer (Nawab of Pataudi jr., Indian batsman & youngest Indian Test Captain), was born in Bhopal.

5-January-1948

Parthasarathy Harishchandra Sharma, cricketer (Indian batsman of the mid-70's), was born in Alwar, Rajasthan.

5-January-1952

U.S. signs five-year accord to give India $ 50 mil. for economic development in New Delhi.

5-January-1952

Nawab of Pataudi Sr, cricketer (played polo 3 Tests for England 3 for India), died.

5-January-1952

John Hope Victor Alexander, Viceroy of India (1936-43), died at the age of 64.

5-January-1953

Andhra University celebrated its silver jubilee.

5-January-1955

Kumari Mamata Promileswar Banerjee was born in Calcutta (West Bengal).

5-January-1957

Adintrim Sales Tax Act was introduced and the Central Sales Tax Act of 1956 came into force.

5-January-1968

Government of India accepts the administrative reforms commission's recommendation to appoint a Lok Pal.

5-January-1974

Virendranath Dasgupta, great revolutionary, died.

5-January-1982

C. Ramchandra (Chitalkar), famous music director, died.

5-January-1985

Rajiv Gandhi promises to solve the Punjab problem without yielding to 'separatist ideologies.

5-January-1988

India's first indigenously built 'Braille' script released short hand machine for the blind.

5-January-1990

Mohammad Azharuddin was made captain of Indian cricket team.

5-January-1992

Ravi Shastri scores 206 at SCG before being Warne's 1st cricket Test wkt.

5-January-1994

Jnanpith Award was given to U. R. Anantha Murthy (Kannada).

5-January-1994

Jnanpith Award for Oriya Poet Sitakant Mahapatra.

5-January-1994

Tamil Nadu Assembly passes two bills making the Chief Minister, the Chancellor of all universities instead of the Governor.

5-January-1995

India receives first consignment of Chinese Low Enriched Uranium (LEU) for the 2 US built Tarapur nuclear plant with the approval of IAEA.

5-January-1995

Jitendra Prasad succeeds N.D. Tiwari as UPCC-I chief.

5-January-1995

PM gives valedictory address at the 8th World Tamil Conference in Madurai.

5-January-1998

60 are killed as the Bareilly-Varanasi passenger train rammed the Kashi Viswanath Express near Hardoiin, Uttar Pradesh.

5-January-1998

Laloo Yadav, RJD president, and BSP chief Kanshi Ram launch a seven-party "Jan Morcha".

5-January-2000

Tamil Nadu regains Subbiah Pillai Trophy one day cricket tournament.