5 World-Changing Events That Happened on January 5

5 World-Changing Events That Happened on January 5

By Michelle Carr Crowe, Silicon Valley real estate guide selling homes in San Jose

Do you enjoy learning new things daily? If you’ve read my blog, you know one of the pastimes I enjoy is discovering new facts and interesting pieces of history.

I like to share intriguing stories from our local newspaper the San Jose Mercury News, as well as from some of my favorite print and online magazines Mental Floss, the National Geographic Society or  Smithsonian Magazine. Other times I find articles or facts online at  The History Place, Brainy History,orDates In History.These events for today’s blog post are primarily from Wikipedia.

While these interesting items are intriguing, they have nothing to do with my real estate business, helping people like you buy and sell homes in Silicon Valley, Calif. and beyond. I admit, they just add fun and fascination to life.

Here are today’s events that happened in history on today’s date, January 4. I hope you find them interesting, too.

5 World-Changing Events That Happened on January 5

• 1896 –Wilhelm Röntgen reportedly discovers a type of radiation that would commonly be later known as X-rays.
• 1914 – The Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day's labor.
• 1919 – The German Workers' Party, which would become the Nazi Party, is founded.
• 1940 – FM radio is demonstrated to the Federal Communications Commission for the first time.
• 1944 – The Daily Mail becomes the first transoceanic newspaper.

Locally in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area, Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay in 1933.

Thank you for reading. You may want to read my blog at www.activerain.com/results for more fun facts on history, real estate, home, life and other topics. I hope you learned something new from reading about these 5 World-Changing Events That Happened on January 5

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