Template:Selected anniversaries/January 5
1601: Submarine inventor Cornelius Drebbel warns The Eel "stay out of Dutch waters."
Joseph Marie Jacquard has dream which inspires him to build a new type of scrying engine.
Bergamot essential oil gives Charles Grey the strength to carry on against all opposition.
1895 – Dreyfus affair: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
1972 – United States President Richard Nixon orders the development of a Space Shuttle program.
1838 – Camille Jordan, French mathematician and academic (d. 1922)
1865 – Julio Garavito Armero, Colombian astronomer, mathematician, and engineer (d. 1920)
1886 – Markus Reiner, Israeli physicist and engineer (d. 1976)
1899 – Ezra Otis Kendall, American professor, astronomer and mathematician (b. 1818)
1970 – Max Born, German physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882)