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Today in History: January 5

1477 Battle of Nancy: Swiss Confederacy led by René II decisively defeats the Duchy of Burgundy, 7,000+ killed including the Duke of Burgundy Charles the Bold

1709 The Great Frost begins during the night, a sudden cold snap that remains Europe's coldest ever winter. Thousands are killed across the continent and crops fail in France.

1815 Federalists from all over New England, angered over the War of 1812, draw up the Hartford Convention, demanding several important changes in the U.S. Constitution.

1914 Henry Ford astounds the world as he announces that he will pay a minimum wage of $5 a day and will share with employees $10 million in the previous year's profits.

1923 The U.S. Senate debates the benefits of Peyote for the American Indian.

1925 Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is sworn in as the first woman governor in the United States.

1942 U.S. and Filipino troops complete their withdrawal to a new defensive line along the base of the Bataan peninsula.

1951 Inchon, South Korea, the site of General Douglas MacArthur's amphibious flanking maneuver, is abandoned by United Nations force to the advancing Chinese Army.

1968 U.S. forces in Vietnam launch Operation Niagara I to locate enemy units around the Marine base at Khe Sanh.

1982 A Federal judge voids a state law requiring balanced classroom treatment of evolution and creationism.

2005 Eris, largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System is discovered in images taken Oct. 21, 2003, at Palomar Observatory.

2020 Chinese professor Zhang Yongzhen publishes the first SARS-CoV-2 genome map online, allowing health professionals worldwide to identify COVID-19

2021 Daily new cases of COVID-19 top 60,000 in the UK as data reveals one in fifty in England had COVID-19 within the last week

2022 Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards pardons Homer Plessy for buying whites-only train ticket in 1892 (resulted in U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson 1896)

Born on January 5

1779 Stephen Decatur, American naval hero during actions against the Barbay pirates and the War of 1812.

1928 Walter Mondale, 42nd Vice President of the United States, Democratic presidential nominee who lost to Ronald Reagan in 1984, and Ambassador to Japan.

JOTD
A young man moved out from home and into a new apartment complex on his own. He proudly went down to the foyer to put his name on his mailbox.

While he was there, a stunning young blonde came out of the apartment and walked down to the mailboxes, wearing only a bathrobe.
The young man smiled at the woman and she started up a conversation with him.
As they talked......her robe slipped open, and it was obvious that she had nothing else on. The poor kid broke into a sweat trying with all his effort to maintain eye contact.
After a few minutes, she placed her hand on his arm and said, 'Let's go to my apartment, I hear someone coming.'
Nervously he followed her into her apartment; she closed the door and leaned against it, allowing her bathrobe to fall off completely.
Now nude, she purred at him......... 'What would you say is my best feature?'
Flustered and embarrassed, he finally squeaked, 'It's got to be your ears!!!'
Astounded, and a little hurt she asked, 'My ears?!?!?'
'Look at these breasts; they are a full 39 inches and 100% natural...... I work out every day and my arse is firm and solid.......i have a 28 inch waist....... Look at my skin - not a blemish anywhere!!!!'
How can you think that the best part of my body is my ears!?!'
Clearing his throat, he stammered ....
'Outside, when you said you heard someone coming that was me.'