Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 5
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January 5: Twelfth Night (Western Christianity)
- 1477 - Charles the Bold (pictured) died at the Battle of Nancy, leading to the annexation of Burgundy by France.
- 1527 - Felix Manz, a leader of the Anabaptist congregation in Zürich, was executed by drowning.
- 1968 - Alexander Dubček came to power in Czechoslovakia, beginning a political reform known as "Socialism with a human face".
- 2005 - Eris, the largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System, was discovered by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz using images originally taken in 2003 at the Palomar Observatory.
