Ephemeris, 05 January

It happened one 05 January

1914 : Minimum wage of $5 per day at Ford Henry Ford announced that his workers would receive a minimum wage of $5 per day and instituted the eight-hour workday. When asked, he said he wanted his employees to earn enough to buy Ford cars.
1968 : Beginning of the Prague Spring On January 5, 1968, Alexander Dubcek came to power in Czechoslovakia and proposed a range of political and economic reforms. In the country, it was the beginning of a period of freedom which is known as the Prague Spring, until the Soviet invasion of August 20.
1982 : 18,000 landslides in the San Francisco On January 5, 1982, heavy rainfall caused more than 18,000 landslides in the San Francisco area, California. Nearly 8,000 houses were destroyed or severely damaged and 33 people were killed.
1993 : Shetland Isle Ecological Disaster On January 5, 1993, the Liberian tanker MV Braer, carrying 85,000 tonnes of crude oil, is caught in a hurricane off the Shetland Islands and ran aground allowing the escape of large quantities of oil.

Proverbe chinois
Mieux vaut les critiques d'un seul que l'assentiment de mille.

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Jeannette Piccard, American balloonist (1895)
Yves Tanguy, French painter (1900)
Stella Gibbons, English writer (1902)
Jean-Pierre Aumont, French actor (1911)
Nicolas de Staël, French painter (1914)
Heinz Berggruen, Journalist and German art dealer (1914)
Jane Wyman, Actress (1917)
Raissa Gorbacheva, wife of Mikhail Gorbachev (1932)
Umberto Eco, Italian writer (1932)
Juan Carlos Ier, Spanish monarch (1938)
Hayao Miyazaki, Réalisateur japonais (1941)
Diane Keaton, American actress and director (1946)
Ted Lange, American actor (1948)
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Gérard Berliner, French composer and performer (1956)
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Marilyn Manson, American singer (1969)
Bradley Cooper, American actor (1975)
Janica Kostelić, Croatian skier (1982)
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Max Born, German physicist, Nobel Prize (1970)
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Raymond Forni, French politician (2008)