* Astronomy

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January 5th

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Befana is an old woman in Italian folklore who delivers gifts to children on Epiphany Eve
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t9779558/la-befana/

Twelfth Night is a festival in some branches of Christianity
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t52140936/twelfth-night/

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Venera 5 was launched on 5 January 1969
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera_5

NASA's Space Shuttle program was formally launched on January 5, 1972
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_program

GSLV-D5/GSAT 14 launch at 16:18 hrs (IST) on January 05, 2014
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSAT-14

On January 5, 1949, Charles Yeager performed the only conventional (runway) launch of the X-1 program
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_X-1#Mach_1_flight

On 5 January 1941, Amy Johnson drowned after bailing out into the Thames Estuary.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t43000531/amy-johnson/?r=332275

Aviator Joseph E. Carberry sets an altitude record of 3,560 m on January 05, 1915
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_E._Carberry

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Edward Galen Givens, Jr (January 5, 1930 - June 6, 1967) was a NASA astronaut
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Givens

Harold Charles Gatty (5 January 1903 - 30 August 1957) was an Australian aviation pioneer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Gatty

Jeannette Ridlon Piccard (January 5, 1895 - May 17, 1981) was an American high-altitude balloonist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeannette_Piccard

Julius Reichelt (1637 - 1717) was a German mathematician and astronomer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Reichelt

Julio Garavito Armero (January 5, 1865 - March 11, 1920) was a Colombian astronomer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julio_Garavito_Armero

Nicole-Reine Lepaute (née Etable; 5 January 1723 - 6 December 1788) was a French astronomer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicole-Reine_Lepaute

George H. Rieke (born January 5, 1943), a noted American infrared astronomer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H._Rieke

Dame Kathleen Mary Kenyon (5 January 1906 - 24 August 1978), was a leading archaeologist of Neolithic culture
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Kenyon

The Queen of Shebah is thought to have been born on January 5, sometime in the 10th century BC.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t52141076/the-queen-of-shebah/

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Star Trek: "The Galileo Seven" was broadcast by NBC on January 5, 1967.

Star Trek: "The Gamesters of Triskelion" was first broadcast on January 5, 1968
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gamesters_of_Triskelion

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NGC 2502 was discovered by John Herschel on the 5th January 1837
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56148383/ngc-2502/

NGC 2925 was discovered by John Herschel on the 5th January 1837
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56148387/ngc-2925/

NGC 3431 was discovered by Francis Preserved Leavenworth on the 5th January 1887
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56148399/ngc-3431/

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Transit of the magnitude 10.1 Eskimo nebula (NGC 2392) in the constellation Gemini at 00:35 UT, 5th January
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskimo_Nebula

On 5 January 2010, scientists announced the discovery of two planets orbiting around HD 9446
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD_9446

The dwarf planet Eris was discovered on January 5, 2005
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/space/brown-planet.html

8P/Tuttle (also known as Tuttle's Comet or Comet Tuttle) was discovered in 1858
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8P/Tuttle

The Morristown UFO hoax occurred on Monday, January 5, 2009
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morristown_UFO_hoax

The Beta Bootids is a weak shower that begins on January 5
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo%C3%B6tes#Meteor_showers

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Meteorites

No historical meteorite falls today, AFAIK