Historical Events on January 5.

1659: Aurangzegb defeated Shah Shuja in the Battle of Khajwah.

1671: Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj captured Salher from the Mughals.

1919: The German Workers’ Party formed. This party later transformed into the Nazi Party.

1933: Construction began on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.

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

1957: The Central Sales Tax Act had introduced in India.

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

1998: 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.

2014: 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 and Birth Anniversaries– January 5.

1592: Shah Jahan, the fifth Mughal emperor.

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

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

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

1932: Kalyan Singh, former Governor of Rajasthan.

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

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

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

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

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

 

Death Anniversaries of Famous People– January 5.

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

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

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

1982: C. Ramchandra, an Indian music composer.

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

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