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Month January 2005 Calendar

About Month of January Calendar

  • January is the first month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and one of seven months with the length of 31 days. The first day of the month is known as the day of New Year. It is, on average, the coldest month of the year within most of the Northern Hemisphere (where it is the second month of winter) and the warmest month of the year within most of the Southern Hemisphere (where it is the second month of summer).

    January symbols: The birthstone of January is the garnet which represents constancy. Its birth flower is the cottage pink Dianthus caryophyllus or galanthus. In Finnish, the month of tammikuu means the heart of the winter and because the name literally means Oak moon. The zodiac signs for the month of January are Capricorn (until January 19) and Aquarius (January 20 onwards). The traditional English birth month flower is the Carnation.

Historical Events for January, 2005

  • Day of Week 5th » Eris (dwarf planet) called Eris, the largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System, is discovered by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz using images originally taken on October 21, 2003, at the Palomar Observatory.
  • Day of Week 6th » African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955–1968) known as American Civil Rights Movement: Edgar Ray Killen is arrested as a suspect in the 1964 Mississippi civil rights workers murders called murders of three civil rights workers.
  • 6th » A Graniteville train disaster known as train collision in Graniteville, South Carolina, releases about 60 tons of chlorine gas.
  • Day of Week 7th » The St Lawrence Lime is blown over in high winds.
  • Day of Week 8th » The nuclear sub USS San Francisco SSN-711 6 collides at full speed with an undersea mountain south of Guam. One man is killed, but the sub surfaces and is repaired.
  • Day of Week 9th » Mahmoud Abbas wins the Palestinian presidential election, 2005 e.g election to replace Yasser Arafat as President of the Palestinian National Authority. He replaces interim president Rawhi Fattouh.
  • Day of Week 10th » A mudslide occurs in La Conchita, California, killing 10 people, injuring many more and closing U.S. Route 101 in California named U.S. Route 101, the main coastal corridor between Los Angeles and San Francisco for 10 days.
  • Day of Week 12th » Deep Impact (spacecraft) named Deep Impact launches from Cape Canaveral on a Delta II rocket.
  • Day of Week 16th » Romanian university lecturer and novelist Adriana Iliescu gives birth at 66 to her daughter Eliza, breaking the record for the oldest birth mother in the world
  • Day of Week 25th » A Mandher Devi temple stampede e.g stampede at the Mandhradevi temple in Maharashtra, India kills at least 258.
  • Day of Week 26th » Glendale train crash: Two trains derail killing 11 and injuring 200 in Glendale, California, near Los Angeles.
  • Day of Week 29th » The first direct commercial flights from mainland China (from Guangzhou) to Taiwan since 1949 arrived in Taipei. Shortly afterwards, a China Airlines flight lands in Beijing.

Famous Birthdays on January in 2005

  • 30th » Prince Hashem bin Al Abdullah of Jordan

Famous Deaths for January 2005

  • 1st » Shirley Chisholm, American educator, politician, and author (b. 1924)
  • 1st » Eugene J. Martin, American painter (b. 1938)
  • 2nd » Frank Kelly Freas, American illustrator (b. 1922)
  • 2nd » Maclyn McCarty, American geneticist (b. 1911)
  • 2nd » Edo Murtić, Croatian painter (b. 1921)
  • 3rd » Koo Chen-fu, Taiwanese businessman and diplomat (b. 1917)
  • 3rd » Jyotindra Nath Dixit, Indian diplomat (b. 1936)
  • 3rd » Will Eisner, American author and illustrator (b. 1917)
  • 4th » Ali al-Haidari, Iraqi politician
  • 4th » Humphrey Carpenter, English author (b. 1946)
  • 4th » Guy Davenport, American author and scholar (b. 1927)
  • 4th » Frank Harary, American mathematician (b. 1921)
  • 4th » Robert Heilbroner, American economist (b. 1919)
  • 4th » Bud Poile, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1924)
  • 4th » Alton Tobey, American painter and illustrator (b. 1914)
  • 5th » Danny Sugerman, American manager and author (b. 1954)
  • 6th » Lois Hole, Canadian politician, 15th Lieutenant Governor of Alberta (b. 1933)
  • 6th » Louis Robichaud, Canadian politician, 25th Premier of New Brunswick (b. 1925)
  • 7th » Pierre Daninos, French author (b. 1913)
  • 7th » Eileen Desmond, Irish politician (b. 1932)
  • 8th » Campbell McComas, Australian comedian and actor (b. 1952)
  • 8th » Warren Spears, American choreographer and dancer (b. 1954)
  • 8th » Michel Thomas, Polish linguist (b. 1914)
  • 9th » Gonzalo Gavira, Mexican sound technician (b. 1925)
  • 10th » Basil (Fedak) e.g Basil, Ukrainian-Canadian bishop (b. 1909)
  • 10th » Gene Baylos, American comedian (b. 1906)
  • 10th » Margherita Carosio, Italian soprano (b. 1908)
  • 10th » James Forman, American activist (b. 1928)
  • 10th » Kalevi Hämäläinen, Finnish skier (b. 1932)
  • 10th » Erwin Hillier, German-English cinematographer (b. 1911)
  • 10th » Jack Horner (journalist) called Jack Horner, American journalist (b. 1912)
  • 10th » Princess Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium (b. 1927)
  • 10th » Arthur Walworth, American author (b. 1903)
  • 12th » Alessia di Matteo, Italian organ transplant patient (b. 2003)
  • 12th » Amrish Puri, Indian actor (b. 1932)
  • 12th » Edmund S. Valtman, Estonian-American cartoonist (b. 1914)
  • 13th » Earl Cameron (broadcaster) known as Earl Cameron, Canadian journalist and broadcaster (b. 1915)
  • 13th » Nell Rankin, American soprano (b. 1924)
  • 14th » Charlotte MacLeod, Canadian-American author (b. 1922)
  • 14th » Conroy Maddox, English painter (b. 1912)
  • 14th » Rudolph Moshammer, German fashion designer (b. 1940)
  • 14th » Jesús Rafael Soto, Venezuelan sculptor and painter (b. 1923)
  • 15th » Victoria de los Ángeles, Catalan soprano (b. 1923)
  • 15th » Walter Ernsting, German author (b. 1920)
  • 15th » Elizabeth Janeway, American author (b. 1913)
  • 15th » Dan Lee, Canadian animator (b. 1969)
  • 15th » Ruth Warrick, American actress (b. 1915)
  • 16th » Marjorie Williams, American journalist (b. 1958)
  • 17th » Charlie Bell (businessman) called Charlie Bell, Australian businessman (b. 1960)
  • 17th » Virginia Mayo, American actress (b. 1920)
  • 17th » Albert Schatz (scientist) named Albert Schatz, American microbiologist (b. 1920)
  • 18th » Lamont Bentley, American actor (b. 1973)
  • 18th » Pez Whatley, American wrestler (b. 1951)
  • 19th » Bill Andersen, New Zealand union leader (b. 1924)
  • 19th » K. Sello Duiker, South African author (b. 1974)
  • 19th » Anita Kulcsár, Hungarian handball player (b. 1976)
  • 20th » Parveen Babi, Indian model and actress (b. 1949)
  • 20th » Per Borten, Norwegian politician, 18th Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1913)
  • 20th » Roland Frye, American theologian and critic (b. 1921)
  • 20th » Jan Nowak-Jeziorański, Polish journalist and politician (b. 1913)
  • 20th » Miriam Rothschild, English zoologist, entomologist, and author (b. 1908)
  • 21st » Theun de Vries, Dutch poet (b. 1907)
  • 21st » John L. Hess, American journalist (b. 1917)
  • 21st » Kaljo Raid, Estonian cellist, composer, and pastor (b. 1921)
  • 22nd » César Gutiérrez, Venezuelan baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1943)
  • 22nd » Carlo Orelli, Italian soldier (b. 1894)
  • 22nd » Consuelo Velázquez, Mexican pianist and songwriter (b. 1924)
  • 22nd » Rose Mary Woods, American secretary (b. 1917)
  • 23rd » Morys Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare, English politician (b. 1921)
  • 23rd » Johnny Carson, American talk show host (b. 1925)
  • 24th » June Bronhill, Australian soprano (b. 1929)
  • 24th » Volodymyr Ivanovych Savchenko, Ukrainian author (b. 1933)
  • 24th » Chalkie White (rugby player) e.g Chalkie White, English rugby player and coach (b. 1929)
  • 25th » Stanisław Albinowski, Polish economist and journalist (b. 1923)
  • 25th » William Augustus Bootle, American lawyer and judge (b. 1902)
  • 25th » Philip Johnson, American architect, designed the PPG Place and Crystal Cathedral (b. 1906)
  • 25th » Manuel Lopes, Cape Verdean author and poet (b. 1907)
  • 25th » Ray Peterson, American singer (b. 1935)
  • 25th » Netti Witziers-Timmer, Dutch runner (b. 1923)
  • 27th » Shah A M S Kibria, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1931)
  • 28th » Jim Capaldi, English singer-songwriter and drummer (Traffic (band) e.g Traffic) (b. 1944)
  • 28th » Karen Lancaume, French actress (b. 1973)
  • 28th » Ronnie Paris, American child abuse victim (b. 2001)
  • 28th » Jacques Villeret, French actor (b. 1951)
  • 29th » Eric Griffiths, Welsh-Scottish guitarist (The Quarrymen) (b. 1940)
  • 29th » Ephraim Kishon, Israeli author, screenwriter, and director (b. 1924)
  • 30th » Martyn Bennett, Canadian-Scottish violinist (b. 1971)
  • 30th » Wes Wehmiller, American bass player (Missing Persons (band) named Missing Persons) (b. 1971)

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