Template:Selected anniversaries/January 5
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1601: Submarine inventor Cornelius Drebbel warns The Eel "stay out of Dutch waters."
1625: Astronomer Simon Marius (nonfiction) dies. He discovered the four largest moons of Jupiter, independently of Galileo Galilei.
1812: Joseph Marie Jacquard has dream which inspires him to build a new type of scrying engine.
1895: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
1932: Novelist, literary critic, and philosopher Umberto Eco born. He will cite James Joyce and Jorge Luis Borges as the two modern authors who will have influenced his work the most.