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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.

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Camille Jordan, Matemático francés (1838)
Konrad Adenauer, Político alemán (1876)
Jeannette Piccard, Aeronauta estadounidense (1895)
Yves Tanguy, Pintor francés (1900)
Stella Gibbons, Escritora inglesa (1902)
Jean-Pierre Aumont, Actor francés (1911)
Heinz Berggruen, Journalist and German art dealer (1914)
Nicolas de Staël, French painter (1914)
Jane Wyman, Actriz (1917)
Raissa Gorbacheva, esposa de Mijail Gorbachov (1932)
Umberto Eco, Escritor italiano (1932)
Juan Carlos Ier, Spanish monarch (1938)
Hayao Miyazaki, Réalisateur japonais (1941)
Diane Keaton, Directora de cine y actriz estadounidense (1946)
Ted Lange, Actor americano (1948)
Pamela Sue Martin, Actriz (1953)
Gérard Berliner, French composer and performer (1956)
Frédéric Taddeï, ournalist, columnist and French television host (1961)
Marilyn Manson, American singer (1969)
Bradley Cooper, Actor americano (1975)
Janica Kostelić, Esquiadora croata (1982)
Kristin Cavallari, Actriz americana (1987)

Charles dOrléans, French poet and politician (1465)
Catherine de Médicis, Queen of France (1589)
Calvin Coolidge, American president (1933)
Max Born, Físico alemán, Premio Nobel (1970)
Douglas Shearer, Diseñador de sonido canadiense (1971)
Charles Mingus, American bassist, pianist and songwriter (1979)
Harold Urey, Químico estadounidense, Premio Nobel de Química (1981)
Arthur Kennedy, American actor (1990)
André Franquin, Belgian comics writer (1997)
Raymond Forni, French politician (2008)