Today is Thursday, Jan. 5, the fifth day of 2023 with 360 to follow.

The moon is waxing. Morning stars are Mars and Uranus. Evening stars are Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Venus.

Those born on this date are under the sign of Capricorn. They include Zebulon Pike, discoverer of Pike's Peak in Colorado in 1779; U.S. baseball executive/Baseball Hall of Fame member Ban Johnson in 1864; artist Yves Tanguy in 1900; actor George Reeves in 1914; actor Jane Wyman in 1917; Walter Mondale, former U.S. vice president/1984 Democratic presidential candidate, in 1928; actor Robert Duvall in 1931 (age 92); Italian writer Umberto Eco in 1932; U.S. football Hall of Fame member Chuck Noll in 1932; football Hall of Fame member Jim Otto in 1938 (age 85); filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki in 1941 (age 82); talk show host Charlie Rose in 1942 (age 81); actor Diane Keaton in 1946 (age 77); actor Pamela Sue Martin in 1953 (age 70); actor Clancy Brown in 1959 (age 64); singer Iris DeMent in 1961 (age 62); actor Suzy Amis in 1962 (age 61); actor Vinnie Jones in 1965 (age 58); dancer/TV personality Carrie Ann Inaba in 1968 (age 55); rock singer Marilyn Manson in 1969 (age 54); actor Bradley Cooper in 1975 (age 48); actor January Jones in 1978 (age 45); DJ Deadmau5, born Joel Thomas Zimmerman, in 1981 (age 42); actor Jason Mitchell in 1987 (age 36); actor Mike Faist in 1992 (age 31); model/actor Suki Waterhouse in 1992 (age 31).On this date in history:

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In 1914, the Ford Motor Co. increased its pay from $2.34 for a 9-hour day to $5 for 8 hours of work.

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

In 1933, construction began on the Golden Gate Bridge over San Francisco Bay.

In 1933, former President Calvin Coolidge died of coronary thrombosis at his Northampton, Mass., home at the age of 60.

In 1948, the first color newsreel, filmed at the Tournament of Roses in Pasadena, Calif., was released by Warner Brothers-Pathe.

In 1982, a series of landslides killed up to 33 people after heavy rain in the San Francisco Bay area.

In 1993, the state of Washington hanged serial child-killer Westley Allan Dodd in the nation's first gallows execution in 28 years.

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In 1996, a U.S. government shutdown ended after 21 days when Congress passed a stopgap spending measure that would allow federal employees to return to work. President Bill Clinton signed the bill the next day.

In 1998, U.S. Rep. Sonny Bono, R-Calif., of Sonny and Cher fame, was killed when he hit a tree while skiing at South Lake Tahoe, Calif.

In 2002, a 15-year-old student pilot, flying alone, was killed in the crash of his single-engine Cessna into the 28th floor of the Bank of America building in Tampa, Fla.

In 2005, Eris, the largest known dwarf planet in the solar system, was discovered.

In 2008, tribal violence following a disputed Kenya presidential election claimed almost 500 lives, officials said. Turmoil exploded after incumbent President Mwai Kibaki was declared the winner over opposition candidate Raila Odinga, who had a wide early lead.

In 2013, a cold wave that sent temperatures far below average in northern India was blamed for at least 129 deaths. Many of the victims were homeless.

In 2019, Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople granted independence to the Orthodox Church in Ukraine, formally separating it from Moscow for the first time since the 17th century.

In 2022, a fire at a row house in Philadelphia's Fairmount neighborhood killed 12 people, including eight children.

A thought for the day: Women "get more glory than men for comparable feats. But also, women get more notoriety when they crash." -- American aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart