Historical Events for 5th January 2024

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1919 - German Workers' Party forms, precursor to the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazi)
1927 - MLB Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis begins 3-day public hearing on charges that 4 games played between Chicago and Detroit in 1917 had been thrown to White Sox
1929 - Coup by King Alexander in South Slavia
1960 - Continental League, a proposed third baseball major league, gets an assurance of congressional support from NY Senator Kenneth Keating
1969 - "Maggie Flynn" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 82 performances
1976 - Cambodia is renamed "Democratic Kampuchea"
1992 - Revival of Arthur Miller's dramatic play "The Crucible" closes at Belasco Theater, NYC, after 32 performances
1993 - Washington state executes Westley Allan Dodd by hanging (first legal hanging in America since 1965)
1996 - Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone
2018 - Kitwe in Zambia bans shaking hands and the sale of fresh food in attempt to prevent a cholera outbreak

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