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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.

Citazione del giorno : 05 Gennaio

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Compleanni : 05 Gennaio

Camille Jordan, Matematico francese (1838)
Konrad Adenauer, Uomo politico tedesco (1876)
Jeannette Piccard, Aeronauta americana (1895)
Yves Tanguy, Pittore francese (1900)
Stella Gibbons, Scrittrice inglese (1902)
Jean-Pierre Aumont, Attore francese (1911)
Heinz Berggruen, Journalist and German art dealer (1914)
Nicolas de Staël, French painter (1914)
Jane Wyman, Attrice (1917)
Raissa Gorbacheva, moglie di Mikhail Gorbaciov (1932)
Umberto Eco, Scrittore italiano (1932)
Juan Carlos Ier, Spanish monarch (1938)
Hayao Miyazaki, Réalisateur japonais (1941)
Diane Keaton, Regista e attrice americana (1946)
Ted Lange, Attore americano (1948)
Pamela Sue Martin, Attrice (1953)
Gérard Berliner, French composer and performer (1956)
Frédéric Taddeï, ournalist, columnist and French television host (1961)
Marilyn Manson, American singer (1969)
Bradley Cooper, Attore americano (1975)
Janica Kostelić, Sciatore croata (1982)
Kristin Cavallari, Attrice americana (1987)

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Charles d’Orléans, French poet and politician (1465)
Catherine de Médicis, Queen of France (1589)
Calvin Coolidge, American president (1933)
Max Born, Fisico tedesco, premio Nobel (1970)
Douglas Shearer, Sound designer canadese (1971)
Charles Mingus, American bassist, pianist and songwriter (1979)
Harold Urey, Chimico americano, Premio Nobel (1981)
Arthur Kennedy, American actor (1990)
André Franquin, Belgian comics writer (1997)
Raymond Forni, French politician (2008)
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