On This Day:
Sunday January 5, 2014 This is the 5th day of the year, with 360 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: red barns In the 1800s, the most popular color for barns in the United States was red. The tradition began in Europe and migrated with European farmers to America. Farmers painted their barns red because red paint was easy and inexpensive to make, dried quickly, and protected the wood. By combining milk, linseed, oil, lime, and ferrous oxide or rust, farmers were able to create a paint that hid dirt well and protected the wood by killing fungus, mold, and moss. The tradition continued after commercial paints became readily available because red paint was inexpensive to manufacture. White paint, also inexpensive to make, is another popular color for barns.
Holidays Feast day of St. Simeon Stylites, St. Gerlac, St. Dorotheus the Younger, St. Apollinaris, St. Convoyon, St. Syncletica, and St. John Nepomucene Neumann.
Twelfth Night/ Twelfth Eve.
Events 1477 - Charles the Bold, last of the great dukes of Burgundy, was killed at the Battle of Nancy.
1643 - The first legal divorce in the American colonies was granted, to Anne Clarke of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, from her absent and adulterous husband, Denis Clarke, by the Quarter Court of Boston, Massachusetts.
1781 - A British naval expedition led by Benedict Arnold burned Richmond, Virginia.
1815 - Federalists from all over New England, angered over the War of 1812, drew up the Hartford Convention, demanding several important changes in the Constitution of the United States of America.
1895 - French Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, convicted of treason, was publicly stripped of his rank. (He was eventually vindicated.)
1914 - Henry Ford announced that he would pay a minimum wage of $5 a day and would share with employees $10 million in the previous year's profits.
1919 - In Germany, the German Workers' Party (later the National Socialist German Workers' Party) was formed in Munich; Adolf Hitler attended.
1920 - GOP women demanded equal representation at the Republican National Convention.
1949 - In his State of the Union address, President Harry Truman called his administration's reform package the "Fair Deal."
1968 - A brief period of freedom known as "Prague Spring" began in Czechoslovakia under Alexander Dubcek, a Slovak supporting liberal reform.
1970 - The soap opera "All My Children" debuted on television.
1972 - President Richard Nixon ordered development of the space shuttle.
1979 - Vietnamese troops occupied Phnom Penh and the Cambodian ruler Pol Pot was ousted.
1997 - Russian troop withdrawal from the separatist Republic of Chechnya was completed.
2004 - Following 14 years of denials, Pete Rose publicly admitted that he'd bet on baseball while manager of the Cincinnati Reds.
Births 1779 - Stephen Decatur, American naval hero who fought against the Barbary pirates and in the War of 1812.
1855 - King Camp Gillette, U.S. inventor of safety razor.
1863 - Constantin Sergeyevich Stanislavsky, Russian founder of Moscow Art Theatre, actor, producer.
1928 - Walter "Fritz" Mondale, U.S. Senator, Vice President (1977-81), Democratic presidential nominee 1984.
1931 - Alvin Ailey, American choreographer, dancer, and founder of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
1932 - Umberto Eco, Italian novelist.
1938 - Juan Carlos, King of Spain.
1945 - Diane Keaton, American film actress, director, and producer.
1969 - Marilyn Manson, (born Brian Hugh Warner), American musician and the lead vocalist of the band Marilyn Manson.
Deaths 1922 - Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, at South Georgia, Antarctica, on his fourth expedition.
1933 - Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States (1923-1929).
1943 - George Washington Carver, American agricultural chemist.
1994 - Former US House Speaker Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill.
1998 - Sonny Bono, American record producer, singer, actor, and politician.
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