🙏 Om Shri Ganeshaya Namah 🙏
🙏 Good morning 🙏
Main events until January 5, 2023, along with Panchang (Hindu calendar) highlights:
📝 Today’s Date:
📜 January 5, 2024
Friday
🏚 New Delhi Time Zone 🏚
🇮🇳 Shaka Samvat – 1945
🇮🇳 Vikram Samvat – 2080
🇮🇳 Month – Pausha
🌓 Phase – Krishna Paksha
🗒 Date – Navami – until 23:48
🗒 Afterwards – Dashami
🌠 Nakshatra – Chitra – until 19:50
🌠 Afterwards – Swati
💫 Karan – Taitil – until 11:03
💫 Afterwards – Gar
✨ Yoga – Sukarma – day/night
🌅 Sunrise – 07:14
🌄 Sunset – 17:38
🌙 Moonrise – 25:56
🌛 Moon Sign – Libra – day/night
🌞 Sun’s Declination – Uttarayan
🌞 Globe – Southern Hemisphere
💡 Abhijit – 12:05 to 12:47
🤖 Rahu Kalam – 11:08 to 12:26
🎑 Season – Hemant
⏳ Directional Influence – West
✍ Special:
🔅 Today, Friday: Pausha Badli Navami until 23:48, then Dashami begins. Join the “Haryana Educational Update” Facebook page. Alak Shri Nishankasagar Ji’s Samadhi (Jain, Paush Krishna Navami), Dharmaguru Paramahansa Yogananda Jayanti, Shri Kalyan Singh’s Birthday, Sushri Mamata Banerjee’s Birthday, and Shri Murli Manohar Joshi’s Birthday.
🔅 Tomorrow, Saturday: Paush Badli Dashami until 24:44, then Ekadashi begins.
🎯 Today’s Quote:
🌹
Gokulasya trishartasya
Jalarthe vasudhadhipa.
Utpadayati yo vighnam
tam vidyad brahmaghatinam.
★Mahabharat Anushasan Parva 24
Meaning:
O Lord of the Earth! Whoever creates obstacles in providing water to the thirsty cows, consider him a Brahmaghati (one who has committed the sin of killing a Brahmin).
Here are the important events that happened on January 5:
1477 – Battle of Nancy: Charles the Bold’s death. Involved in the Burgundian Wars in Burgundy, France.
1659 – Battle of Khajwa: Aurangzeb defeated Shah Shuja.
1671 – Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj captured the Salher fort from the Mughals.
1691 – The first paper currency in Europe was issued by the Bank of Sweden.
1781 – Benedict Arnold led British naval forces in the burning of Richmond, Virginia, during the American Revolutionary War.
1809 – Treaty of Dardanelles between Britain and Ottoman Empire.
1900 – Irish nationalist leader John Edward Redmond initiated a revolt against British rule.
1905 – Charles Perrine announced the discovery of Jupiter’s seventh satellite, Elara.
1909 – Colombia recognized the independence of Panama.
1914 – Ford Motor Company announced the introduction of a $5-per-day wage for its employees, setting a new minimum wage standard.
1933 – Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco began.
1939 – The Winter War: The Battle of Kelja began.
1947 – Britain nationalized its coal mines.
1957 – The Central Excise and Salt Act came into effect in India.
1970 – Yunnan earthquake in China with a magnitude of 7.7, resulting in the deaths of 15,000 people.
1971 – The first friendly cricket match between Australia and England was played in Melbourne.
1972 – U.S. President Richard Nixon announced the launch of the Space Shuttle program, which later launched satellites and conducted missions on space stations.
1981 – The Yorkshire Ripper, a serial killer, was arrested in England.
1993 – MV Braer, an oil tanker carrying about 85,000 tons of crude oil, ran aground in a storm in the Shetland Islands.
1993 – West Indies cricket legend Brian Lara scored his first Test century against Australia.
1999 – Viktor Yanukovych became the Prime Minister of Ukraine.
1999 – Australian captain Mark Taylor set a world record by taking 157 catches in Test cricket.
2000 – The International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) named Pelé as the Player of the Century.
2002 – The Doha Development Round began in Kathmandu, Nepal, where Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf extended a hand of friendship to India, but Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee expressed skepticism.
2003 – 43 soldiers were killed in a terrorist attack in Algeria.
2006 – India and Nepal extended the duration of the Mahakali Treaty by three months under the Gandak Canal project.
2007 – Asha-Rose Migiro of Tanzania was appointed Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations.
2008 – The European Union launched a full-fledged election monitoring campaign in Pakistan.
2008 – The Governor of Pakistan’s North-West Frontier Province resigned from his position.
2008 – The Uttar Pradesh Trade Tax Act, 1948, ceased to be in force after the implementation of the VAT Act.
2008 – The Research and Development Center of the Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) won the Golden Peacock Innovative Products and Services Award for 2008.
2009 – Omar Abdullah, the president of the National Conference, took the oath as the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir.
2010 – The Dungarpur district administration in Rajasthan set a Guinness World Record by planting over 600,000 saplings in the district as part of the Harit Rajasthan campaign.
2012 – U.S. President Barack Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act into law.
2014 – India successfully placed the GSAT-14 communication satellite into orbit, using an indigenous cryogenic engine in the GSLV-D5 launch vehicle.
2015 – Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Ujala (Unnat Jyoti by Affordable LEDs for All) and SLNP (Street Lighting National Programme) schemes.
2016 – Indian cricketer Pranav Dhanawade became the first player to score 1,000 runs in a single innings in school cricket.
2019 – During his visit to Jharkhand, Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation for completing six incomplete irrigation projects.
2019 – The 27th New Delhi World Book Fair started at Pragati Maidan.
2020 – New Zealand batsman Leo Carter became the seventh cricketer in the world to hit six sixes in an over, following the footsteps of Ravi Shastri and Yuvraj Singh.
2021 – Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicated the Kochi-Mangaluru Natural Gas Pipeline to the nation.
2021 – Britain’s strategy specialist Alex Ellis was appointed as the new High Commissioner to India.
2021 – The World Bank signed a $510.5 million project with the Indian government and the West Bengal government to improve the foundational structure of inter-state water transport in Kolkata, West Bengal.
2021 – Uttarakhand was chosen to represent at the Republic Day Parade 2021 during the Central government’s ‘Kedarkhand’ tableau.
2022 – A collision between a truck and a bus in the Pakur district of Jharkhand resulted in the deaths of 16 people and injuries to 26 others.
2022 – A security lapse occurred during the Prime Minister’s Punjab tour in India.
2022 – The 19th meeting of the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) was organized.
2023 – A jeep carrying devotees collided with a tree in Chinchurur, Karnataka, resulting in the death of 6 people and injuries to around 16 others.
2023 – The world’s first palm-leaf manuscript museum, the Pandulipi Sangrahlaya, opened in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
2023 – The Indian government declared Lashkar commander Mohammad Amin as a terrorist.
2023 – The
36th meeting between India and France on important issues took place.
Individuals born on January 5:
1592 – Mughal Emperor Shahab-ud-din Muhammad Shah Jahan was born in Lahore.
1805 – Birth of French historian Augustin Thierry.
1812 – Birth of early Marathi journalist Balshastri Gangadhar Shastri Jambhekar.
1880 – Birth of renowned Indian freedom fighter and journalist Barindra Kumar Ghosh.
1893 – Birth of yoga and spiritual guru Paramahansa Yogananda.
1905 – Birth of prominent Buddhist scholar, social reformer, author, and Pali language scholar Bhadant Anand Kausalyayan.
1928 – Birth of Giri Chand ‘Gairi’ Saxena, the Governor of Jammu and Kashmir.
1930 – Birth of Indian nuclear scientist and engineer M. R. Srinivasan.
1932 – Birth of former Governor of Rajasthan and Himachal Pradesh, and former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Kalyan Singh.
1934 – Birth of senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Murli Manohar Joshi.
1938 – Birth of Juan Carlos I, President of Spain.
1941 – Birth of renowned Indian cricketer Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi.
1955 – Birth of Mamata Banerjee, Chief Minister of West Bengal.
1964 – Birth of Renuka Singh Saruta, BJP politician.
1967 – Birth of poet and writer Ashok Kumar Shukla.
1981 – Birth of Indian rower Bajrang Lal Thakkar.
1986 – Birth of Indian model and actress Deepika Padukone.
1994 – Birth of Indian female shooter Anjum Moudgil.
Individuals who passed away on January 5:
1890 – Death of prominent lawyer Gnanendramohan Tagore.
1919 – Death of Irish navigator Ernest Henry Shackleton.
1946 – Death of Indian author, translator, and Kannada literature scholar Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar (B. K. S. Iyengar).
1952 – Death of British politician Lord Linlithgow.
1959 – Death of Mirza Ismail, Assistant Secretary to the Maharaja of Mysore in 1908.
1982 – Death of Hindi film music director, singer, and producer C. Ramachandra.
1990 – Death of Indian film director and producer Ramesh Behl.
2020 – Death of Kamal Bahadur Singh, the first Member of Parliament in India.
2020 – Death of T. N. Chaturvedi, former Governor of Karnataka.
2021 – Death of former New Zealand cricketer Alan Thomas Burgess.
2021 – Death of Sadhu Kottary, a famous artist of Assam’s traditional art form “Yakshagana.”
2022 – Death of Neil Nongkynrih, founder of the Shillong Chamber Choir and Padma Shri awardee.
2023 – Death of Andrea Thompson, mother of Khloé Kardashian and Tristan Thompson’s child.
2023 – Death of American actor Earl Boen, known for his role as a criminal psychologist in the Terminator film franchise.
Significant events and festivals on January 5:
🔅 Ailak Shri Nishankasagar Ji Samadhi (Jain, Paush Krishna Navami).
🔅 Birth anniversary of Dharma Guru Paramahansa Yogananda.
🔅 Birth anniversary of Sushri Mamata Banerjee.
🔅 Birth anniversary of Shri Kalyan Singh.
🔅 Birth anniversary of Shri Murli Manohar Joshi.
🔅 National Bird Day (United States).
Please note that although efforts have been made to prepare this with caution, I am not responsible for any inaccuracies regarding events, dates, or other errors.
🌻May your day be auspicious!🌻