This Day, That Year – January 5

Otto Rudolf Martin Brendel took the first successful auroral photograph on this day in 1892.

Did you know that:

• King Camp Gillette, inventor of the best-selling safety razor, was born on this day in 1855
• The “Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde” by Robert Louis Stevenson was published by Longmans, Green & Co on this day in 1886
• Elara, a satellite of Jupiter, was discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine on this day in 1905