| 2013 | County Wicklow, Ireland holds funeral services for Irish mountaineer, Ian McKeever, who was killed by lightning on Mount Kilimanjaro |
| 2013 | The air pollution in Beijing reaches levels deemed hazardous to human health |
| 2012 | A law banning Palestinians who marry Israeli's from gaining citizenship is upheld by Israel's Supreme Court |
| 2012 | A ceasefire is signed between the Burmese government and the Karen rebels |
| 2011 | Haiti commemorates the first anniversary of the 2010 earthquake |
| 2011 | A plan to prevent the spread of artemisinin-resistant malaria is launched by the World Health Organization (WHO) |
| 2010 | A 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti, devastating its capital city, Port-au-Prince, an estimated 150,000 were killed and buried later in mass graves |
| 2005 | Deep Impact spacecraft is launched from Cape Canaveral |
| 1997 | Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Tournament of Champions |
| 1997 | HAL became operational (2001: A Space Odyssey) |
| 1997 | Ice skater Oksana Baiul injured slightly whiled driving intoxicated |
| 1997 | Space Shuttle STS-81 (Atlantis 18), launches into space |
| 1997 | Tiger Woods wins Mercedes Championships |
| 1996 | Russian troops arrived in Bosnia (joint operation with U.S.) |
| 1995 | Major earthquake kills 5,092 in Kobe Japan |
| 1995 | Murder trial against OJ Simpson, begins in LA |
| 1995 | Pope John Paul II begins visit to SE Asia |
| 1994 | Malcolm X's daughter arrested for plotting Louis Farrakham's murder |
| 1994 | Steve Carlton (Phillies) elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
| 1993 | Doctors announce Pitts Penguin Mario Limeux has Hodgkin's disease |
| 1993 | MTV hostess Martha Quinn marries longtime boyfriend Jordan Tarlow |
| 1992 | 13th ACE Cable Awards: HBO wins 27 awards |
| 1992 | Last building in Gateway area in Cleveland is demolished |
| 1992 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Christopher Bowman |
| 1992 | Algeria's general elections canceled after strong gains by Islamic Salvation Front in the 1st round |
| 1991 | Largest crowd to watch Atlantic Coast Womens Basketball game (11,520) |
| 1991 | Melvin Stewart swims world record 200 m butterfly (1:55.69) |
| 1991 | U.S. Congress gives George Bush authority to wage war against Iraq |
| 1990 | Civil Rights activist Reverend Al Sharpton is stabbed in Bensonhurst Bkln |
| 1990 | Romania bans Communist party (1st Warsaw Pact member to do so) |
| 1989 | 6 claim to survive in rubble, 35 days after Armenian quake (hoax) |
| 1989 | Idi Amin expelled from Zaire |
| 1988 | Willie Stargell (Pittsburgh Pirate), elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
| 1987 | Britain's Prince Edward resigns from his Royal Marines training |
| 1986 | 24th space shuttle (61-C) mission-Columbia 7-launched |
| 1986 | Chicago Blackhawks Denis Savard scores at 4 seconds of 3rd period |
| 1983 | Brooks Robinson and Juan Marichal elected to Hall of Fame |
| 1983 | NCAA creates football Kickoff Classic to begin in August |
| 1981 | "Dynasty" with Joan Collins premieres on ABC-TV |
| 1981 | -35 degrees F (-37 degrees C), Chester, Massachusetts (state record) |
| 1981 | Dynasty, a prime time soap opera inspired by Dallas, premieres on ABC |
| 1980 | Mike Bratz (Phoenix) begins NBA free throw streak of 57 games |
| 1979 | 6th American Music Award: Barry Manilow, Linda Ronstadt win |
| 1979 | LA's Hillside Strangler, Kenneth Bianchi, arrested in Bellingham |
| 1979 | Record blizzard struck midwest killing over 100 |
| 1977 | "Ipi Tombi" opens at Harkness Theater New York City for 39 performances |
| 1977 | Anti-French demonstrations takes place in Israel after Paris released Abu Daoud, responsible 1972 Munich massacre of Israeli athletes |
| 1976 | U.N. Security Council votes 11-1 to seat Palestine Liberation Org |
| 1975 | Chrysler Corp offers 1st car rebates |
| 1975 | Superbowl IX: Pittsburgh Steelers beat Minnesota Vikings, 16-6 in New Orleans Superbowl MVP: Franco Harris, Pittsburgh, RB |
| 1974 | "Joker" by Steve Miller Band peaks at #1 |
| 1974 | Libya and Tunisia announces they are merging as "Islamic Arab Republic" |
| 1972 | Tigers sign a lease to build a $126M domed stadium (doesn't happen) |
| 1971 | "All in the Family" premieres on CBS featuring 1st toilet flush on TV |
| 1971 | "Soon" opens at Ritz Theater New York City for 3 performances |
| 1971 | Congressional Black Caucus organizes |
| 1971 | Federal grand jury indicts Reverend Philip Berrigan and 5 others, including a nun and 2 priests, on charges of plotting to kidnap Henry Kissinger |
| 1970 | Biafran War ends, Biafra surrenders to Nigeria |
| 1970 | Boeing 747 makes its maiden voyage |
| 1969 | "Golden Rainbow" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 355 performances |
| 1969 | Superbowl III: New York Jets beat Baltimore Colts, 16-7 in Miami Superbowl MVP: Joe Namath, New York Jets, quarterback |
| 1968 | Beatles Film Production Ltd changes name to Apple Film Production Ltd |
| 1968 | Nighttime version of "Hollywood Squares" premieres on NBC TV |
| 1967 | Louisville, Kentucky, draft board refuses exemption for boxer Muhammad Ali |
| 1966 | "Batman" with Adam West and Burt Ward premieres on ABC TV |
| 1966 | 12 day New York City transit strike ends |
| 1966 | Lyndon Baines Johnson says U.S. should stay in South Vietnam until communist aggression ends |
| 1966 | Red Auerbach wins his 1,000th game as coach of NBA Boston Celtics |
| 1965 | "Hullabaloo" premieres on NBC-TV |
| 1965 | At 10:58 am PST burn up a nuclear rocket in Nevada |
| 1964 | NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 31-17 |
| 1964 | Revolution overthrows Sultan of Zanzibar, 1 month after independence |
| 1963 | "Go Away Little Girl" by Steve Lawrence peaks at #1 |
| 1963 | Spin bowler Bobby Simpson takes 5-57 for Australia vs. England |
| 1961 | "Show Girl" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City for 100 performances |
| 1961 | U.N. genocide pact goes into effect |
| 1960 | Sobers and Worrell complete 399 stand for 4th wkt vs. England |
| 1960 | Syracuse National Dolph Schayes is 1st NBA'er to score 15,000 points |
| 1959 | KOED TV channel 11 in Tulsa, OK (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1958 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Sea Island Golf Open |
| 1958 | NCAA adds 2 point conversion to football scoring |
| 1958 | NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 26-7 |
| 1958 | Syracuse National Dolph Schayes sets NBA record at 11,770 points |
| 1957 | Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC) founded |
| 1954 | Austria's worst avalanche-kills 200; 9hrs later 2nd one-kills 115 |
| 1954 | Queen Elizabeth II opens New Zealand parliament |
| 1953 | 9 "Jewish" physicians arrested for "terrorist activities" in Moscow |
| 1952 | NFL Pro Bowl: National Conference beats American Conference 30-13 |
| 1952 | University of Tennessee admits it's 1st black student |
| 1951 | Ezzard Charles TKOs Lee Oma in 10 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1950 | Swedish tanker rams British submarine Truculent in Thames, 64 die |
| 1950 | U.S.S.R. re-introduces death penalty for treason, espionage and sabotage |
| 1949 | "Arthur Godfrey and His Friends" premieres on CBS TV |
| 1949 | Dutch court affirms death sentence against SS chief Hanns Rauter |
| 1948 | 1st Supermarket in U.K. opens |
| 1948 | Mohandas Mahatma Gandhi begins his final fast |
| 1948 | U.S. Supreme Court decision (Sipuel vs. Oklahoma State Board of Regents) |
| 1946 | "Polonaise" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 113 performances |
| 1946 | Edouardo de Filippo's "Questi Fantasmi!," premieres in Rome |
| 1946 | NFL champs Cleveland Rams given permission to move to LA |
| 1945 | German forces in Belgium retreat in Battle of Bulge |
| 1945 | U.S. Task Force 38 destroys 41 Japanese ships in Battle of South China Sea |
| 1944 | Churchill and de Gaulle begin a 2-day wartime conference in Marrakesh |
| 1944 | Failed resistance raid on distribution office of Borgerstraat Amsterd |
| 1943 | Frankfurters replaced by Victory Sausages (mix of meat and soy meal) |
| 1942 | British troops reconquer Sollum |
| 1942 | Dutch troops on Tarakan surrender |
| 1942 | National War Labor Board created |
| 1937 | Plow for laying submarine cable patented |
| 1933 | U.S. Congress recognize independence Philippines |
| 1933 | Uprising of Guardia Civil in Spain, 25 dies |
| 1932 | France's Laval government falls |
| 1932 | Hattie W Caraway elected 1st woman senator (D-Ark) |
| 1932 | Philip Barry's "Animal Kingdom," premieres in New York City |
| 1930 | NHL's Boston Bruins win then-record 14th consecutive game |
| 1929 | Seatrain (RR cars on ships) service begins, New Orleans-Havana |
| 1928 | Philip Barry and Elmer Rice's "Cock Robin," premieres in New York City |
| 1925 | John Howard Lawson's "Processional," premieres in New York City |
| 1924 | History of Science Society organized at Boston |
| 1921 | Kenesaw Mountain Landis becomes 1st commissioner of baseball |
| 1920 | Annual drafting of baseball players from minor leagues to be done in inverse order of the final standings, agreed to |
| 1918 | Montreal Canadien Joe Malone scores 5 goals beating Ottawa 9-4 |
| 1916 | Britain proclaims Gilbert and Ellice Is colony in Pacific |
| 1915 | House of Representatives rejects proposal to give women right to vote |
| 1912 | -47 degrees F (-44 degrees C), Washta, Iowa (state record) |
| 1907 | Britain grants responsible government to former colony of Transvaal |
| 1906 | 1st time Dow Jones closes above 100 |
| 1906 | Football rules committee legalizes forward pass |
| 1904 | Southwest-Africa uprising under Samuel Maherero against German garison |
| 1903 | Harry Houdini performs at Rembrandt theater, Amsterdam |
| 1900 | Freeland Colony founded in US |
| 1896 | 1st X-ray photo in U.S. (Dr. Henry Smith, Davidson NC) |
| 1879 | British Zulu War begins: Lieutenant-General Chelmsford invades Zululand |
| 1867 | Leo Tolstoy's "Smert Ioonna Groznogo," premieres in St. Petersburg |
| 1865 | Union fleet bombs Fort Fisher NC |
| 1863 | President Davis delivers his "State of Confederacy" address |
| 1842 | Franciscan nuns begin missionary work on Netherland Antilles |
| 1839 | Anthracite coal 1st used to smelt iron, Mauch Chunk, Penn |
| 1836 | Battle of Wetumka, Florida |
| 1836 | HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin reach Sydney, Australia |
| 1820 | Royal Astronomical Society founded in England |
| 1816 | France decrees Bonaparte family excluded from the country forever |
| 1812 | 1st cargo arrives in New Orleans by steam, from Natchez |
| 1809 | British take Cayenne (French Guiana) from French (until 1814) |
| 1807 | Gunpowder-ship explodes in Leiden, Netherlands, 150 die |
| 1806 | French evacuate Vienna |
| 1777 | Mission Santa Clara de Asis founded in California |
| 1755 | Tsarina Elisabeth establishes 1st Russian University |
| 1723 | Handel's opera "Ottone" premieres, London |
| 1701 | Frisia and Groningen begin use of Gregorian calendar |
| 1701 | Parts of Netherlands adopt Gregorian calendar |
| 1684 | French king Louis XIV marries Madame Maintenon |
| 1598 | Pope Clement VIII seizes duchy of Ferrara on death of Alfonso |
| 1583 | Holland begins use of Gregorian calendar (yesterday was 1/1/1583) |
| 1552 | Dutch west coast hit by heavy storm, 100s killed |
| 1493 | Last day for all Jews to leave Sicily |
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