What day of the week was January 5, 1895?

The day of the week January 5th, 1895 fell on was a Saturday.

Elizabeth Cotten the American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1987) was born on 05 January in 1895. As was Jeannette Piccard the American priest, and scientist (d. 1981) .

Dreyfus affair: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.