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This is a list of selected January 5 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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Blurb Reason
1463 – French poet François Villon was banned from Paris by the Parlement after being commuted from a death sentence. needs more footnotes
1477Burgundian 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
1527Felix 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: multiple issues; Radical Reformation: fact not in article
1895Alfred 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
1971 – The first One Day International cricket match was held between Australia and England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. unreferenced section
1996Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash was assassinated by a bomb-laden cell phone, planted by Israel's Shin Bet. refimprove section

Eligible

January 5: Earth at perihelion (07:48 UTC, 2020); Twelfth Night (Western Christianity)

Eris and its moon, Dysnomia
Eris and its moon, Dysnomia

George Johnston (d. 1823) · Konrad Adenauer (b. 1876) · Bradley Cooper (b. 1975)

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