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Title changes (Selection of important championships)
1948	NWA World Heavyweight Title: Won by Orville Brown
1966	All Asia Tag Team Titles: Championship vacant
1972	NWF World Heavyweight Title: Won by Waldo Von Erich
1996	ECW World Television Title: Won by Too Cold Scorpio
2004	NWF Heavyweight Title (NJPW-Version): Championship defunct
2014	GHC Heavyweight Title: Won by Takeshi Morishima
2015	WWE Intercontinental Title: Won by Bad News Barrett
2016	TNAW World Heavyweight Title: Won by Ethan Carter III.
2017	NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Titles: Won by Hiroshi Tanahashi & Manabu Nakanishi & Ryusuke Taguchi
2018	NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Titles: Won by Bad Luck Fale & Tama Tonga & Tanga Loa
2020	IWGP Heavyweight Title: Won by Tetsuya Naito
2020	NEVER Openweight Title: Won by Hirooki Goto
2020	GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Titles: Won by Masaaki Mochizuki & Naomichi Marufuji
2020	IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Titles: Won by SHO & YOH
2020	NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Titles: Won by BUSHI & EVIL & Shingo Takagi
2021	IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title: Won by Hiromu Takahashi
2021	NJPW King of Pro-Wrestling Title: Won by Toru Yano
2022	IWGP United States Heavyweight Title: Won by Hiroshi Tanahashi
2022	NJPW King of Pro-Wrestling Title: Won by Minoru Suzuki
2023	NJPW King of Pro-Wrestling Title: Won by Shingo Takagi
All in all, there are 160 title changes in our championships database which happened on a January 5th.

Tournament Finals
1990	NJPW New Year Tournament
1999	FMW Over the Top Tournament
2005	TEW Elite Title Tournament
2008	RCW Lethal Lottery Tag Team Tournament
2008	Vader Cup
2008	Resolution Rumble 2008
2010	XCW Mid-West Heavyweight Title Tournament
2013	NCW Tag Team Titles Tournament
2013	GBW Battle of Hanover 2013
2014	CMLL Los Pequeños Reyes del Aire 2014
2017	IWA Mid-South Heavyweight Title Tournament
2019	Trios Tag Tournament 2019
2022	AEW TBS Title Tournament

Pay-Per-Views (or similar)
1996	Confederate Wrestling Alliance Bodyguards vs. Bandits
2003	ZERO-ONE*U$A - Day 1
2020	NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 14 in Tokyo Dome - Day 2
2021	NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 15 in Tokyo Dome - Day 2
2022	NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 16 in Tokyo Dome - Day 2

Free TV Shows
1957	CWF Championship Wrestling from Florida
1963	Live Pittsburgh Studio Wrestling
1974	GCW Georgia Championship Wrestling
1980	Chattanooga Live TV - "NWA Championship Wrestling"
1980	Show @ Chattanooga
1980	Southeastern Championship Wrestling
1980	WWF Championship Wrestling
1988	NJPW New Year Golden Series 1988 - Day 2
1990	NJPW @ Tokyo
1990	WCW Power Hour
1991	WCW World Championship Wrestling
1991	WWF Superstars
1997	WCW WorldWide
1997	WWF Superstars #533
1998	WCW Monday Nitro #121 (Rating: 4.30)
1998	WWF RAW is WAR #241 (Rating: 3.30)
2002	NOAH First Navigation Of 2002 - Day 1
2002	NWA Wildside TV Show #118
2004	WWE RAW #554 (Rating: 3.50)
2005	BJW Death Match Wars #13
2006	ZERO1 on Samurai TV
2007	LLPW All Star Women's Pro-Wrestling Strongest Tournament Quarter Final ~ Soul of a Fight 2007
2007	WWE SmackDown #385 (Rating: 3.00)
2008	NWA Anarchy TV Show #102
2008	OVW TV Show #439
2009	Chigusa Nagayo Produce on GAORA
2009	WWE RAW #815 (Rating: 3.38)
2010	WWE ECW on Syfy #187 (Rating: 0.90)
2012	TNAW IMPACT WRESTLING #391 (Rating: 1.11)
2013	ROH on SBG #68 - Road Rage
2013	WWE Saturday Morning Slam #20
2013	OVW TV Show #698
2014	NJPW New Year Dash!! 2014
2014	NOAH New Year Navigation 2014
2015	NJPW New Year Dash!! 2015
2015	WWE RAW #1128 (Rating: 2.80/3762000)
2016	TNAW IMPACT WRESTLING #599 (Rating: 255000)
2017	TNAW IMPACT WRESTLING #651 (Rating: 290000)
2019	WRESTLE-1 2019 Tour Sunrise - Day 1
2019	NJPW New Year Dash!! 2019
2019	ROH on SBG #381
2020	NOAH Reboot 2020
2021	IW IMPACT #860 (Rating: 148000)
2021	OVW TV #1117
2022	AEW Dynamite #118 (Rating: 1010000)
2023	MLW Fusion #163
2023	IW IMPACT #964 (Rating: 101000)

The ten oldest shows in our database
1888	Show @ Atlanta
1901	Show @ Hamburg
1905	Show @ Hamburg
1905	Show @ Lyon
1906	Show @ Bremen
1907	Show @ Wien
1909	Show @ Moskwa - Tournament Day 42
1910	Show @ Williamsport
1911	Show @ Hannover
1912	Show @ Toledo
All in all, there are 160 shows in our events database which happened on a January 5th.

Birthdays
1866	Anton Zaremba
1890	Sam Clapham
1900	Tom Dennebaum
1904	Lem Stecklin
1905	Jimmy Coffield
1908	Hoyle Portwood
1909	Lyle Hightman
1917	Umenosuke Kiyomigawa
1920	Chuck Sample
1929	Jack Daniels
1950	Bobby Kay
1954	Dean Hill
1957	Ultimate Solution
1958	Awesome Kong
1964	Mark Vance
1965	Guerrero Estelar
1968	Kurokage
1968	Kimo Leopoldo
1968	Noboru Asahi
1970	Ruben Villareal
1971	La Flecha
1971	Monje Negro Jr.
1972	SHINOBI
1973	Masato Yakushiji
1974	Yutaka Yoshie
1974	Baisen TAGAI
1974	Arhgo
1976	Pamela Paulshock
1977	Daisuke Watanabe
1979	Masayuki Okude
1979	Mike Bronzoulis
1981	Trevor Smith
1981	Fuego Rudo
1982	Joey Silvia
1982	Slinky
1983	Bryce Remsburg
1984	Soy Raymunda
1985	Carnage
1986	Jim Freeman
1987	Willie Mack
1987	Alicia
1987	Demonio Extremo
1988	Douglas Lima
1988	Seiki Yoshioka
1989	Andy Brown
1989	David Rickels
1989	Misaki Ohata
1993	Goiti Yamauchi
1996	Crimson the Butcher
1999	Tiffany Stratton
2003	Sloane Jacobs
???	Man Like DeReiss

Deaths
1994	Muhammad the Butcher
1998	George Kidd
1999	Bert Farino
2005	Buddy Porter
2006	Great Mephisto
2016	Farmer Miller
2017	Crazy Joe
2019	Alexis Smirnoff
2020	Charlie Cook

Debuts
1992	Yuji Yasuraoka
2002	Brandon Wolff
2005	Bobby Lashley
2007	Francoise
2008	Luis Alberto Nogueira
2013	Veronica Rothenhausler
2013	Matt Majestic
2013	Zakk Sinizter
2019	Dylan Derringer

Mask Matches
1938	The Bat Man lost the mask at an event against Ernie Dusek.
1991	Askari el Gringo lost the mask at an event against Black Shadow Jr..

Hair Matches
2001	Linda Star lost the hair at an event against PIKO.
2013	León Dorado lost the hair at an event against Súper Tarín.
2014	Rock Spirit lost the hair at an event against Mini Multifacético.
2014	Eros lost the hair at an event against Brole Extreme.
2019	The Spiritual Adviser lost the hair at an event against David Arquette and Tim Storm.
2019	Jocephus lost the hair at an event against David Arquette and Tim Storm.

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