Memory of the day: Egypt’s Zamalek Sports Club is founded under the name Qasr El-Nile Club in 1911

CAIRO – 5 January 2022: In the following lines, ET sheds light on the most important world events that took place on January 5.

1477 - The Battle of Nancy takes place and Charles the Bold is killed. Burgundy becomes part of France.

1895 - French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island, after the Dreyfus Affair.

1896 - An Austrian newspaper reports that Wilhelm Konrad Röntgen has discovered a type of radiation later known as X-rays.

1909 - Colombia recognizes the independence of Panama.

1911 - Founding of the Zamalek Sports Club in Cairo under the name "Qasr El-Nil Club".

1919 - The German Nazi Party is founded.

1925 - Nellie Tilley Ross is elected governor of Wyoming, becoming the first woman governor in the United States.

1933 - Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge over the San Francisco Strait begins.

1940 - The first experience of FM radio.

1945 - The Soviet Union recognizes the Soviet government in Poland.

1948 - Warner Bros. produces the first colored documentary film.

1964 - Pope Paul VI meets with the Greek Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras I in Jerusalem in the first meeting that brings together leaders of the Orthodox and Catholic Churches since 1439.

1968 - Alexander Dubcek takes power in Czechoslovakia, beginning of the Prague Spring.

1972 - US President Richard Nixon orders the beginning of development of the Space Shuttle program.

1976 - Cambodia changes its name to "Democratic Kombucha".

1984 - Richard Stallman begins developing GNU.

1991 - Georgian forces attack Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, starting the 1991-1992 South Ossetian War.