/ 05 January 2022

5 January 2022

19 NOV (38)

10.30am (AEDT) – The 4th Ashes Test kicks off between Australia and England – Sydney

National Cabinet meets

A birthday for actress and director Diane Keaton 

A wedding anniversary for actress Cameron Diaz and musician Benji Madden (2015)

Anniversary of:
• Pope Clement VII forbidding King Henry VIII to remarry. The warning was ignored, and Henry went on to marry Anne Boleyn (and 4 subsequent wives), leading to his ex-communication and his establishment of the English Reformation (1531)
• the publication of Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)
• construction began on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco
• Brian Lara scoring his maiden test century, 277 runs in a West Indies v Australia cricket match at the SCG (1993)
• 15yo Mumbai schoolboy Pranav Dhanawade becoming the first to ever score 1,000 runs in a single innings in cricket. He made 1,009 not out (2016)

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