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January 5th, 2005	Event	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.
January 5th, 1996	Event	Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone.
January 5th, 1993	Event	The oil tanker MV Braer runs aground on the coast of the Shetland Islands, spilling 84,700 tons of crude oil.
January 5th, 1993	Event	Washington state executes Westley Allan Dodd by hanging (the first legal hanging in America since 1965).
January 5th, 1976	Event	Cambodia is renamed Democratic Kampuchea by the Khmer Rouge.
January 5th, 1975	Event	The Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier Lake Illawarra, killing twelve people.
January 5th, 1974	Event	An earthquake in Lima, Peru, kills six people, and damages hundreds of houses.
January 5th, 1972	Event	U.S. President Richard Nixon orders the development of a space shuttle program.
January 5th, 1968	Event	Alexander Dubcek comes to power: "Prague Spring" begins in Czechoslovakia.
January 5th, 1962	Event	A replica of the miraculous statue, the Holy Infant of Good Health, is presented to Blessed Pope John XXIII.

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