January 5th
1759 – George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Custis.
1895 – Dreyfus Affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
1914 – The Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day's labor.
1972 – U.S. President Richard Nixon orders the development of a space shuttle program.
1996 – Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone.
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