Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 5
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January 5: Twelfth Night (Western Christianity)
- 1463 – French poet François Villon was banned from Paris by the Parlement after being commuted from a death sentence.
- 1925 – Nellie Tayloe Ross (pictured) was inaugurated as Governor of Wyoming, the first woman to serve as governor of a U.S. state.
- 1941 – World War II: Australian and British troops defeated Italian forces in Bardia, Libya, the first battle of the war in which an Australian Army formation took part.
- 1991 – Georgian troops attacked Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, opening the 1991–1992 South Ossetia War.
- 2003 – London police arrested six people in conjunction with an alleged terrorist plot to release ricin on the London Underground, although only one was eventually convicted.