00010101::Origin of Christian Era
00690101::Roman garrison of Mainz uprising
00890101::Gov Lucius Antonius Saturninus of Germany becomes emperor of Rome
03130101::Start of Roman (Pontifical) Indiction
04040101::Last gladiator competition in Rome
04140101::King Ataulf of Narbonne marries emperor Honorius sister Galle Placidia
07220101::Hofmeier Charles Martel flees from bishop Willibrord
09900101::Russia adopts Julian calendar
14300101::Jews of Sicily are no longer required to attend conversionist services
14380101::Albrecht II von Habsburg becomes king of Hungary
14940101::Juw Dekama elected potentate of Frisia
15020101::Portuguese navigators discover Rio de Janeiro
15040101::King Louis XII loses last bulwark in Naples, Caeta
15150101::Fran‡ois, Duke of Angoulˆme succeeds Louis XII as Fran‡ois I of France
15150101::Jews are expelled from Laibach Austria
15730101::Geuzen sets fire to Woudrichem
15830101::1st day of the Gregorian calendar in Holland & Flanders
16100101::German astronomer Simon Marius 1st discovers the Jupiter moons, but does not officially report it, Galileo does on July 1 1610
16220101::Papal Chancery adopts Jan 1 as beginning of the year (was Mar 25)
16510101::Charles II Stuart crowned king of Scotland
16600101::1st entry in Samuel Pepys' diary
16600101::General Moncks army battles with the Tweed on way to London
16600101::Thomas Fairfax' New Model-army occupies York
16720101::Jean Racine's "Bajazet," premieres in Paris
16730101::Regular mail delivery begins between NY & Boston
16750101::Don Carlos de Gurrea/Arag¢n becomes Spanish land guardian of S Neth
16890101::Pro-James II-earl of Danby occupies York
17000101::Protestant West-Europe (except England) begin using Gregorian calendar
17000101::Russia replaces Byzantines with Julian calendar
17010101::Great Britain & Ireland union is in effect, creating United Kingdom
17070101::Jacob V succeeds his father Pedro II as king of Portugal
17390101::J B C Bouvet de Lozier discovers Bouvet Island, near Antarctica
17700101::Date of action in the opera "Madeleine"
17720101::1st traveller's checks issued (London)
17760101::Gen George Washington hoists Continental Union Flag
17850101::"Daily Universal Register" (Times of London) publishes 1st issue
17880101::London's Daily Universal Registrar becomes the Times
17880101::Quakers in Pennsylvania emancipate their slaves
17970101::Albany replaces NYC as capital of NY
17980101::Russia appoints 1st Jewish censor to censor Hebrew books
18000101::Dutch East Indies Company dissolves
18010101::Ireland & Great Britain (England & Scotland) form United Kingdom
18040101::Haiti gains independence from France (National Day)
18070101::Cura‡ao is taken by English (until March, 1816)
18080101::African Benevolent Society (education) forms
18080101::Congress prohibits importation of slaves
18080101::Sierra Leone becomes a British colony
18090101::Holland Brigade under brig gen Chass‚ reaches Madrid
18140101::Field marshal Blcher's troops cross the Rhine at Kaub
18180101::Official reopening of the White House
18260101::Baron Van der Capellen resigns as governor of Dutch-Indies
18270101::Dutch Trade Company NHM gets opium monopoly on Java
18310101::William Lloyd Garrison publishes 1st issue of abolitionist journal
18330101::British government demands Falkland islands
18330101::Cura‡ao census: 2,602 whites, 6,531 free people & 5,894 slaves
18340101::German Tolunie goes into effect
18380101::1st official horse race in South Australia-Adelaide
18400101::1st recorded bowling match in US, Knickerbocker Alleys, NYC
18420101::1st illustrated weekly magazine in US publishes 1st issue, NYC
18440101::1st edition of New Rotterdam's Daily (3x per week)
18460101::Yucatan declares independence from M‚xico
18470101::Michigan is 1st state to abolish capital punishment
18470101::Neth's Haarlem's Current newspaper starts publishing
18480101::Britain takes Mosquito Coast from Nicaragua
18510101::City of Glasgow steamer inaugurates Philadelphia-Liverpool line
18520101::1st US public bath opens, in NYC
18520101::National debt of Britain & Ireland is œ765,126,582
18520101::Netherlands begins issuing postage stamps
18530101::1st practical fire engine (horse-drawn) in US enters service
18540101::Lincoln University, a black college, chartered (Oxford, Penn)
18580101::Canada begins using decimal currency system
18600101::Slavery ends of in Neth Indies
18610101::Porfirio Diaz conquers Mexico City
18610101::Pres Lincoln declares slavery in Confederate states unlawful
18620101::1st US income tax (3% of incomes > $600, 5% of incomes > $10,000)
18620101::Battle of Ft McRee, FL Battle of Port Royal, SC (Port Royal Ferry)
18630101::1st homestead under the Homestead Act claimed, near Beatrice, Nebr
18630101::Battle of Galveston, Texas-Confederates recapture the city
18630101::Battle of Helena, AK
18630101::Emancipation Proclamation (ending slavery) issued by Lincoln
18630101::Franz Schuberts "Missa Solemnis," premieres in Leipzig
18650101::-Apr 26th] Carolinas' campaign
18710101::Belgium disbands salt tax
18730101::Origin of Japanese Era
18740101::New York City annexes the Bronx
18770101::England's Queen Victoria proclaimed empress of India
18790101::John Brahms' Violin Concerto in D major premieres in Leipzig
18800101::Building of Panama Canal, begins
18810101::Dr John H Watson is introduced to Sherlock Holmes
18860101::1st Tournament of Roses (Pasadena Calif)
18910101::French troops occupy Nioro, West-Sudan, 3000 killed
18910101::King Pakketvaart sails to Neth Indies
18920101::Ellis Island becomes reception center for new immigrants
18930101::1st US college extension courses for credit, Univ of Chicago
18930101::Japan adopts the Gregorian calendar
18940101::Denmark adopts Mid-European time
18940101::Manchester Ship Canal in England opens to traffic
18950101::Norway adopts Mid-European time
18960101::Wilhelm R”ntgen announces his discovery of x-rays
18970101::1st football game between black colleges-Atlanta U 10, Tuskegee 0
18970101::Brooklyn merges with NY to form present City of NY
18980101::Lightship replaces whistling buoy at mouth of SF Bay
18980101::d'Annunzio's "Sogno d'un mattino di primavera," premieres in Rome
18990101::Cuba liberated from Spain by US (Natl Day) (US occupies till 1902)
19000101::1st date in John dos Passos' USA trilogy (The 42nd Parallel)
19000101::British protectorates of Northern & Southern Nigeria established
19000101::Compulsory education in Netherlands goes into effect
19010101::Australia declares independence from federation of UK colonies
19020101::1st Rose Bowl game (Pasadena, California) (U of Mich-49, Sanford-0)
19020101::Nathan Stubblefield makes 1st public demonstration of radio, Penn
19040101::Neth Indies colony begins opium production
19050101::9 hour work day for diamond miners
19060101::Dutch law makes driver's license mandatory
19070101::Pres Theodore Roosevelt shakes a record 8,513 hands in 1 day
19080101::1st time, ball signifying new year dropped at Times Square
19080101::Jack Hobbs makes his Test debut at the MCG (83 & 28)
19090101::Robert Fowler runs then world record marathon (2:52:45.4)
19100101::Simpson-Hayward (England) takes 6-43 on debut with underarm lobs
19110101::Belgian Mining law introduces 9«-hour work day
19110101::South Australia transfers Northern Territory to federal government
19120101::1st running of SF's famed "Bay to Breakers" race (7.63 miles/12.3 km)
19120101::Sun Yat-sen forms Chinese Republic
19130101::Post office begins parcel post deliveries
19140101::1st scheduled airline flight, St Petersburg-Tampa (Tony Jannus pilot)
19140101::Klaas ter Laan becomes Neth's 1st socialist mayor (Zaandam)
19140101::Northern & Southern Nigeria united in British colony of Nigeria
19150101::DW Griffith shows "Clansman" at a sneak preview
19150101::Jews of Laibach Austria expelled
19160101::1st football game in Rose Bowl (Washington State-Brown)
19160101::1st issue of "Journal of Negro History" published
19180101::Last day of the Julian calendar in Finland
19190101::Belorussian SSR established
19220101::Vancouver, BC starts driving on the right side of road
19230101::Union of Socialist Soviet Republics established
19240101::Grossdeutsche Volksgemeinschaft/V”lkische Block replaces NSDAP
19250101::Norway's capital Christiania changes name to Oslo
19260101::Flood in Rhine strikes Cologne
19270101::Communist uprising in West Java
19270101::Dodgers announce release of future Hall of Fame Zack Wheat
19280101::1st US air-conditioned office building opens, San Antonio
19280101::Algemeene Vereeniging Radio Omroep (AVRO) begins broadcasting (Neth)
19290101::Roy Riegels runs 60 yds the wrong way with Rose Bowl fumble recovery
19300101::Earl Claus von Stauffenberg promoted to 2nd lieutenant
19300101::Jurgens & Van den Berg merge with Lever Brothers to form Unilever
19320101::Jacob Cocey Sr chosen as mayor of Massillon Ohio
19320101::Rasse und Siedlungshauptamt publishes Himmler's wedding laws
19340101::Alcatraz officially becomes a federal prison
19340101::Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (US bank guarantor) effective
19340101::International Telecommunication Union established
19350101::1st Sugar Bowl & 1st Orange Bowl
19350101::Associated Press inaugurates Wirephoto
19350101::Eastern Airlines hires Eddie Rickenbacker as GM
19350101::Pres Mustapha Kemal Pasha names himself "Atatrk: Father of Turkey"
19360101::1st newspaper to microfilm its current issues, NY Herald Tribune
19370101::Anastasio Somoza becomes president of Nicaragua
19370101::Count Claus von Stauffenberg promoted to captain
19370101::US Army Air Corps physiological research laboratory completed, Ohio
19410101::Netherlands begins taxing wages
19410101::Russian general Zhukov appointed chief of general staff
19420101::Rose Bowl played in NC due to Japanese threat-Oregon 20, Duke 16
19420101::US & 25 other countries sign a united declaration against the Axis
19430101::Count Claus von Stauffenberg promoted to lt-colonel
19430101::Negro League star Josh Gibson suffers a nervous breakdown
19440101::1st feature-length foreign movie, African Journey, shown on TV, NYC
19440101::Army defeats Navy 10-7 in football "Arab Bowl," Oran, North Africa
19440101::Gen Clark replaces Gen Patton as commander of 7th Army
19450101::France joins the UN
19450101::German air raid on allied airports at Eindhoven/Saint-Trond/Brussels
19460101::ENIAC, US 1st computer finished by Mauchly/Eckert
19460101::Emperor Hirohito of Japan announces he is not a god
19460101::National Assembly proclaims Hungary a republic
19470101::Benelux agress to work related issues
19470101::Britain nationalizes its coal industry
19470101::WTTG TV channel 5 in Washington, DC (MET) begins broadcasting
19480101::1st color newsreel filmed (Pasadena Calif)]=
19480101::Bradman scores 132 in the 1st innings of the 3rd Test v India
19480101::Britain nationalizes its railways
19480101::General Agreement on Tariffs & Trade effective
19480101::Italy adopts constitution
19480101::Orissa province accedes to India
19490101::KPRC TV channel 2 in Houston, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
19490101::KTTV TV channel 11 in Los Angeles, CA (MET) begins broadcasting
19490101::Tokelau (Union) Islands declared part of New Zealand
19500101::Dutch Govt raises all wages 5%, minimally Ÿ 5 per week
19500101::Ho Chi Minh begins offensive against French troops in Indo China
19510101::Massive Chinese/North Korean assault on UN-lines
19520101::Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 5th string quartet
19530101::Ernest Blochs "Suite Hebraique," premieres
19530101::WBRE TV channel 28 in Wilkes-Barre Scranton, PA (NBC) 1st broadcast
19540101::KSLA TV channel 12 in Shreveport, LA (CBS) begins broadcasting
19540101::Rose & Cotton Bowl are 1st sport colorcasts
19540101::WWTV TV channel 9 in Cadillac-Traverse City, MI (CBS) 1st broadcast
19540101::Yugoslav parliament chairman/VP Milovan Djilas criticize communism
19550101::Bhutan issues its 1st postage stamps
19550101::WEAT (now WPEC) TV channel 12 in West Palm Beach, FL (CBS) begins
19560101::Elvis Presley records Heartbreak Hotel for RCA in Nashville
19560101::KHAS TV channel 5 in Hastings, NB (NBC) begins broadcasting
19560101::KOSA TV channel 7 in Odessa, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
19560101::Sudan (Anglo-Egyptian Sudan) declares independence from Egypt & UK
19560101::WREC (now WREG) TV channel 3 in Memphis, TN (CBS) begins broadcasting
19570101::Benjamin Britten's ballet "Prince & the Pauper," premieres in London
19570101::France returns Saar to becomes the 10th state of German Federal Rep
19570101::International Geophysical Year begins; ends 6/30/1958 (18-mo year)
19580101::BOAC Britannia flies London to NY in a record 7h57m
19580101::European Economic Community (Common Market) starts operation
19580101::Sammy Davis Jr marries Loray White
19580101::Treaties establish European Economic Community (Common Market)
19580101::WMBD TV channel 31 in Peoria, IL (CBS) begins broadcasting
19590101::Castro leads Cuba to victory as Fulgencio Batista flees to Dom Rep
19590101::Chad becomes autonomous republic in French Community
19590101::Rohan Kanhai completes 256 v India at Calcutta
19600101::Bank of France issues new franc, worth 20›
19600101::Cameroon (French Cameroon) gains independence from France
19600101::Johnny Cash plays 1st of many free concerts behind bars
19600101::Montserrat adopts constitution
19600101::US census at 179,245,000
19610101::Briggs Stadium is renamed Tigers Stadium
19610101::Houston Oilers beat LA Chargers 24-16 in AFL championship game
19610101::Largest check issued, Natl Bank of Chicago to Sears ($960.242 billion)
19610101::Russia introduces a new ruble worth $1.11
19620101::Beatles' Decca audition is unsuccessful
19620101::Rwanda granted internal self-government by Belgium
19620101::Western Samoa gains independence from New Zealand Susuga Malietoa Tanumafili II becomes co-chief of Western Samoa
19630101::G Woods succeeds Eugene Black as president of the World Bank
19630101::WTEV (now WLNE) TV channel 6 in Providence RI begins broadcasting
19640101::Federation of Rhodesia & Nyasaland dissolved
19640101::KNMT TV channel 12 in Walker, MN (CBS) begins broadcasting
19640101::KTVS TV channel 3 in Sterling, CO (CBS) begins broadcasting
19650101::International Cooperation Year begins
19650101::Palestinian al-Fatah organization forms
19660101::12 day transit worker strike shuts down NYC subway
19660101::Milt coup by Col Jean-B‚del Bokassa in Central African Republic
19660101::Simon & Garfunkel's "Sounds of Silence" reaches #1
19660101::All US cigarette packs have to carry "Caution Cigarette smoking may be hazardous to your health"
19670101::CRU becomes the CAFA & turns over the Grey Cup trophy to the CFL
19670101::Day's play in the Calcutta Test v W Indies cancelled by riots
19670101::FCC requires AM-FM sister stations to be at least 50% different
19670101::Green Bay Packers beat Dallas Cowboys 34-27 in NFL championship game
19670101::KC Chiefs beat Buffalo Bills 31-7 in AFL championship game
19670101::St Helena adopts constitution
19670101::Tonga revises constitution
19670101::WABW TV channel 14 in Pelham, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
19680101::ABC radio splits into 4 networks (Info, Entertainment, Contemp & FM)
19680101::Evel Knievel fails in his attempt to jump C‘sar's Palace Fountain
19680101::Netherlands gets color TV
19680101::WDCO TV channel 15 in Cochran, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
19690101::Jack Kent Cooke, owner of NHL's LA Kings, fines each player $100 for "NOT" arguing with the referee
19700101::"The Epoch" (Time 0 for UNIX systems, Midnight GMT)
19700101::Afro-American Historical Calendar Series Established
19700101::Charles "Chub" Feeney becomes president of baseball's National League
19700101::Neth Christian Workers Union (NCW) forms
19700101::Revised calendar for Western (RC) Church goes into effect
19710101::Cigarette advertisements banned on TV
19720101::"Company" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 690 performances
19720101::"On the Town" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 65 performances
19720101::"Promises Promises" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 1281 perfs
19720101::China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
19720101::International Book Year begins
19720101::KDSD TV channel 16 in Aberdeen, SD (PBS) begins broadcasting
19730101::47th Australian Women's Tennis: Margaret Court beats Goolagong (64 75)
19730101::Britain, Ireland & Denmark become 7th-9th members of Common Market
19730101::West African Economic Community formed (Benin, Ivory Coast, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Upper Volta)
19740101::Lee MacPhail takes over as AL president, succeeding Joe Cronin
19740101::NBC radio begins on the hour news 24 hours a day (following CBS lead)
19740101::World Population Year begins
19750101::Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell & Mardian convicted of Watergate crime
19750101::International Women's Year begins
19750101::Sweden adopts constitution
19760101::"Musical Jubilee" closes at St James Theater NYC after 92 performances
19760101::Liberty Bell moves to new home behind Independence Hall
19760101::NBC replaces the peacock logo
19760101::Venezuela nationalizes oil fields
19770101::1st woman formally ordained an Episcopal priest (Jacqueline Means)
19770101::Belgium reapportions 2,359 communities into 596
19770101::Czech intellects begin Human Rights Group Chapter 77
19770101::Tony Dorsett runs for record 202 yards in the Sugar Bowl
19780101::"Your Arm's Too Short..." closes at Lyceum NYC after 429 perfs
19780101::Air India B747 explodes near Bombay killing 213
19780101::Pres Ford signs 1st major revision of copyright law since 1909
19790101::International Year of the Child begins
19790101::Jura, 26th canton of Switzerland, established
19790101::US & China (Peoples Republic) begin diplomatic relations
19800101::54th Australian Womens Tennis: Barbara Jordan beats S Walsh (63 63)
19800101::Alabama beats Arkansas in Sugar Bowl for college football championship
19800101::Chrysler UK renamed Talbot
19800101::International Decade of Water & Sanitation begins
19800101::Mob storms Russian embassy in Teheran
19800101::Premier Adbou Diouf becomes president of Senegal
19800101::Sweden changes order of succession to throne
19810101::Georgia beats Notre Dame in Sugar Bowl for college football title
19810101::Greece is 10th country to join European Economic Community
19810101::International Year for the Disabled begins
19810101::Palau (Trust Territory of Pacific Is) becomes self-governing
19810101::Roger Smith becomes CEO of General Motors
19820101::30 Something stars Ken Olin & Patricia Wettig meet, later they marry
19820101::Clemson wins the Orange Bowl for college football championship
19820101::Javier P‚rez de Cuellar becomes sec-gen of UN
19820101::MTA launches a 5 year plan to upgrade the NYC subway system
19820101::Pope John Paul II prays for an end to martial law in Poland
19820101::TA launches 5 year capital program to overhaul NYC subway system
19830101::PGA inaugurates all-exempt tour
19830101::Penn State beats Georgia in Sugar Bowl for college football title
19830101::World Communications Year begins
19840101::AT&T's 22 owned Bell system companies divests into 8 companies
19840101::Brunei becomes independent of UK
19840101::NYC transit fare rises from 75› to 90›
19850101::Actress Judith Licht (Who's the Boss) gets married
19850101::International Youth Year begins
19850101::US's 1st manadatory seat belt law goes into effect (NY)
19850101::VH-1 made its broadcasting debut
19860101::Aruba becomes independent from neighbor island Cura‡ao
19860101::Barbra Striesand & Jon Peters relationship breaks up
19860101::International Peace Year begins
19860101::NYC transit fare rises from 90› to $1.00
19860101::Oklahoma wins Orange Bowl for college football championship
19860101::Spain & Portugal are 11th & 12th to join European Economic Community
19860101::Iowa's All-American running back, Ronnie Harmon, fumbles the ball 4 times in his last game-the Rose Bowl
19870101::60 bodies recovered in Dupont Plaza Hotel fire in Puerto Rico
19870101::China's rudimentary civil code in effect
19870101::International Year of Shelter for Homeless begins
19880101::Czech born tennis star Hana Mandikova becomes an Australian Citizen
19880101::Miami beats Oklahoma for college football championship
19880101::Year of the Reader begins
19890101::Actress Kelly McGillis gets married
19890101::NYC transit fare rises from $1.00 to $1.15
19890101::Year of the Young Reader begins
19900101::David Dinkins sworn in as 1st black mayor of NYC
19900101::Mitsuko Nishiwaki beats Nakano to become Japan Women wrestling champ
19900101::NYC MTA stops token redemption at subway stations
19900101::Sports News Network begins operation on cable TV
19900101::FCC implements "SYNDEX" giving independent stations more rights over cable TV outlets for exclusive syndicated programs
19910101::5% sales tax on consumer goods & services goes into effect in USSR
19910101::Iraq rejects peace proposal from Egyptian Pres Hosi Mubarak
19910101::Les Miserables opens at Festival Theatre, Adelaide
19920101::Bush is 1st US pres to address Australian Parliament
19920101::Cura‡ao becomes 1st in Dutch Antilles to have compulsory education
19920101::Europe breaks down trade barriers
19920101::International Space Year begins
19920101::NYC transit fare increases from $1.15 to $1.25
19930101::12 member European Economic Community set up vast free trade zone
19930101::Blockbuster Bowl 3: Stanford beats Penn State, 24-3
19930101::Cigarette advertisements are banned in NYC's MTA
19930101::Czechoslovakia separates into Czech Republic (Bohemia) & Slovakia
19930101::Harry Connick Jr arrested at a NY airport for gun possession
19940101::"Flying Karamzov Brothers" closes at Helen Hayes NYC after 50 perfs
19940101::"Grand Night after Singing" closes at Criterion NYC after 52 perfs
19940101::Aleksandr Popov swims world record 100m free style (47.83)
19940101::Carquest Bowl 4: Boston College beats Virginia, 32-13
19940101::Howard Stern's New Year's Eve Beauty Pageant
19940101::International Year of Family
19940101::Jacobs Field opens with "Gateway's New Year's Eve Countdown to '94"
19940101::Microsoft CEO Bill Gates (38) marries Melinda French (29)
19940101::North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect
19950101::"Glass Menagerie" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 57 perfs
19950101::"Shadow Box" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 49 performances
19950101::Austria, Finland & Sweden act to join European Union
19950101::Centennial of Canadian Mounties presence in Canada's Yukon Territory
19950101::Fernando Henrique Cardoso installed as president of Brazil
19950101::International Year of Tolerance
19950101::Last "Far Side" by cartoonist Gary Larson (started 1980)
19950101::Raman Lamba & Ravi Sehgal score 464 for 1st wicket for Delhi
19950101::for"Tuna Christmas" closes at Booth Theater NYC 20 performances
19960101::After 27 years, Betty Rubble debuts as a Flintstone vitamin
19960101::Cura‡ao gains limited form of self rule (Status Aparte)
19980101::All Calif bars, clubs & card rooms must be smoke-free
19980101::Mongolia switches from a 46 hour to 40 hour work week
19980101::US Census Bureau estimates population at 268,921,733
19990101::International Year of Elderly
23040101::Mid-CALENDAR day
60000101::1st reversible date since 11/11/1999
00690102::Roman Lower Rhine army proclaims its commander, Vitellius, emperor
05330102::John II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
12350102::Emperor Joseph II orders Jews of Galicia Austria to adopt family names
14920102::Spain recaptures Granada from the Moors (Granada Day)
15700102::Tsar Ivan the Terrible march to Novgorod begins
15850102::Spain & Catholic France sign Saint League of Joinville
16020102::Battle at Kinsale, Ireland: English army beats Spanish
16020102::Spanish force in Ireland surrender to the English at Kinsdale
16780102::Staatsoper Hamburg opens with Theiles "Adam und Eva"
17570102::British troops occupy Calcutta India
17760102::1st revolutionary flag displayed
17760102::Austria ends interregation torture
17880102::Georgia is 4th state to ratify US constitution
17900102::Mozart's opera "Cos fan tutti" premieres, Vienna
18000102::Free black community of Phila petitions Congress to abolish slave
18110102::US Sen Thomas Pickering is 1st senator censured (revealed confidential documents communicated by the president of the US)
18140102::Lord Byron completes "The Corsair"
18180102::Lord Byron completes "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" (4th canto)
18310102::Liberator, abolitionist newspaper, begins publishing in Boston
18320102::1st Curling club in US (Orchard Lake Curling Club) opens
18390102::1st photo of the Moon (French photographer Louis Daguerre)
18420102::1st US wire suspension bridge for general traffic opens in Penn
18430102::Wagner's opera "Der Fliegende Holl„nder" premieres, Dresden
18610102::SC seizes inactive Ft Johnson in Charleston Harbor
18610102::Colonel Charles Stone is put in charge of organizing DC militia
18630102::Battle of Murfreesboro (Stone's River) ends
18700102::Construction of Brooklyn Bridge begins
18710102::King Amadeus I of Spain inaugurated at 25
18790102::1st Test match hat-trick, Fred Spofforth at the MCG
18790102::British battleship Thunder explodes in Gulf of Ismid, 9 die
18790102::Dr Benjamin E Mays, named president of Atlanta Board of Education
18790102::Northwestern League (minor baseball league) organized, Rockford, Ill
18810102::Camille Saint-Sa‰ns' 3rd Concerto in B, premieres
18820102::Because of anti-monopoly laws, Standard Oil is organized as a trust
18850102::Gen Wolseley receives last distress signal of Gen Gordon in Khartoum
18900102::Alice Sanger becomes 1st female White House staffer
18900102::Record 19'2" alligator shot in Louisiana by E A McIlhenny
18930102::1st US commemoratives & 1st US stamp to picture a woman issued
18930102::World's Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago [or 0501]
18960102::Battle at Doornkop, South Africa (Boers beat Dr Jamesons troops)
19000102::E Verlinger begins manufacturing 7" single-sided records (Montreal)
19000102::Gustave Charpentiers opera "Louise," premieres in Paris
19030102::Pres T Roosevelt shuts down post office in Indianola Miss, for refusing to accept its appointed postmistress because she was black
19050102::Elara, a satellite of Jupiter, discovered by Perrine
19050102::Japanese troops capture Port Arthur
19080102::Canadian branch of the Royal Mint opens in Ottawa
19090102::1st official Dutch 11 city skate (Minne Hoekstra in 13:50)
19100102::1st junior high schools in US opens (Berkeley Calif)
19110102::Bkln Dodgers pres Charles Ebbets announces purchase of grounds to build a new concrete-and-steel stadium to seat 30,000
19130102::National Woman's Party forms
19140102::Philips installs research dept in Eindhoven
19170102::Royal Bank of Canada takes over Qu‚bec Bank
19180102::Dodgers trade Casey Stengel & Cutshaw to Pitts for Grimes & Mamaux
19180102::NHL Montreal Wanderers disband after Westmount arena burns down
19190102::Anti-British uprising in Ireland
19190102::Lithuania gains independence
19200102::10,000 US union & socialist organizers arrested (Palmer Raids)
19210102::1st religious service radio broadcast in US, KDKA-Pittsburgh
19210102::DeYoung Museum in Golden Gate Park opens
19230102::Ku Klux Klan surprise attack on black residential area Rosewood Fla, 8 killed (compensation awarded in 1995)
19250102::Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region established (now in Tadzhik SSR)
19290102::US & Canada agree to preserve Niagara Falls
19320102::Young gang shoot dead 6 police in Springfield Missouri
19330102::Bradman scores 103* against the Bodyline attack in the 2nd Test
19330102::Bruins beat Rangers in NY 13-3
19330102::Ijmuider fishing strike begins (till July 11th)
19330102::US troops leave Nicaragua
19340102::1st state liquor stores open, in Pennsylvania
19340102::Bradman scores 253 NSW v Queensland, 204 mins, 29 fours 4 sixes
19350102::Bruno R Hauptmann trial begins for kidnap-murder of Lindbergh baby
19360102::1st electron tube to enable night vision described, St Louis, Mo
19360102::Bradman scores 357 for SA v Vic, 424 minutes, 40 fours
19380102::Book publisher Simon and Schuster founded
19390102::Bradman scores 107 SA v Victoria, his 4th consecutive century
19420102::28 nations, at war with Axis, pledge no separate peace
19420102::German troops in Bardia surrender
19420102::Japanese troops occupy Manila Philippines
19440102::1st use of helicopters during warfare (British Atlantic patrol)
19450102::Allied air raid on Neurenberg
19450102::George Bush (pres 1989) & Barbara Pierce wed [or January 6]
19450102::Kentucky begins 130 home basketball game win streak, ends in 1955
19450102::Radio Orange ends cooperation at Liese-Aktion
19470102::Mahatma Gandhi begins march for peace in East-Bengali
19480102::WNDT (now WNET) TV channel 13 in New York-Newark, NY (PBS) begins
19490102::KDKA TV channel 2 in Pittsburgh, PA (CBS) begins broadcasting
19510102::Philip Barry's "Second Threshold," premieres in NYC
19520102::"Pal Joey" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 542 performances
19530102::NBA Baltimore Bullets begin a 32 game road losing streak
19540102::Herman Wouks "Caine Mutiny," premieres in NYC
19550102::1st "Bob Cummings Show" premieres on NBC (later on CBS)
19560102::Poujadists/communists win French parliamentary elections
19580102::Dmitri Shostakovitch' 2nd Piano concert, premieres in NY
19590102::Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista flees
19590102::USSR launches Mechta (Luna 1) for 1st lunar fly-by, 1st solar orbit
19600102::1st redshank old world shore bird reported in N America (Halifax)
19600102::John F Kennedy announces run for US Presidency
19600102::John Reynolds sets age of solar system at 4,950,000,000 years
19600102::Roger Sessions' 4th Symphony, premieres
19600102::Senator John F Kennedy, announces his candidacy for president
19610102::1st AFL Championship Game, Houston Oilers beat LA Chargers 24-16
19610102::Hawaii's, then all time low temperature, 14øF recorded atop Haleakale
19620102::Nighttime version of "Password" with Allen Ludden premieres on CBS
19640102::Ayub Khan elected president of Pakistan
19640102::Failed assassination attempt on president Nkrumah of Ghana
19650102::Martin Luther King Jr begins a drive to register black voters
19650102::NY Jets sign quarterback Joe Namath
19650102::Obverse design of all Canadian coins is changed to depict present-day
19660102::1st Jewish child born in Spain since 1492 expulsion
19660102::Green Bay Packers beat Cleve Browns 23-12 in NFL championship game
19680102::"Zizi" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 49 performances
19680102::Christian Barnard performs 2nd heart transplant
19680102::KBHK TV channel 44 in San Francisco, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
19690102::"Fig Leaves Are Falling" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 4 perfs
19690102::"Soviet Sport" calls Emile Zatopek a public enemy
19690102::Lorraine Hansberry's "To be Young, Gifted & Black," premieres in NYC
19700102::Dutch premiere of musical "Hair" in Amsterdam
19700102::US population is 293,200,000; Black population: 22,600,000 (11.1%)
19710102::A barrier collapses at Ibrox Park football ground at end of a soccer match in Glasgow Scotland, killing 66
19720102::"Rothschilds" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 505 perfs
19720102::Dallas Cowboys beat SF '49ers 14-3 in NFC championship game
19720102::Mariner 9 begins mapping Mars
19720102::Miami Dolphins beat Balt Colts 21-0 in AFC championship game
19740102::55 MPH speed limit imposed by Richard Nixon
19740102::Worst fire in Argentine history destroys 1.2 million acres
19750102::US Dept of Interior designates grizzly bear a threatened species
19770102::Bowie Kuhn suspends Braves owner Ted Turner for one year due to tampering charges in Gary Matthews free-agency signing
19780102::Blent Ecevit forms govt in Turkey
19780102::Rhino Records releases their 1st album "Wildmania"
19790102::30th Islander shut-out opponent-Glenn Resch 9-0 vs Vancouver
19790102::Gavaskar gets twin tons for India for the third time (v WI)
19790102::Sid Vicious' trial for murder of girlfriend Nancy Spungen begins
19800102::68th Australian Men Tennis: Guillermo Vilas beat John Sadri (76 63 62)
19810102::Mary Terstegge Meagher swims female record 200 m butterfly (2:05.65)
19810102::Sylvester Clarke knocks out spectator with brick, WI v Pakistan
19820102::"Camelot" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 48 performances
19820102::70th Australian Mens Tennis: Johan Kriek beats S Denton (62 76 67 64)
19820102::Islanders start 23 undefeated home streak (21-0-2) 14 straight wins
19820102::SD Chargers beat Miami Dolphins, 41-38 in 13:52 of OT
19830102::"Annie" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 2,377 performances
19830102::"Sophisticated Ladies" closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 767 perfs
19830102::Don Muraco beats Pedro Morales to become WWF Intercontinental Champ
19830102::Gary Trudeau takes a 20-month break from writing "Doonesbury"
19830102::Ken Anderson of Cincinnati completes record 20 consecutive passes
19840102::Darryl Cullinan, 16, scores his 1st first-class cricket century
19840102::Miami beats Nebraska in Orange Bowl for college football championship
19840102::Riot in Tunis kills over 100
19840102::Wilson Goode, sworn-in as Phila's 1st black mayor
19850102::90th hat trick in Islander history-Brent Sutter
19850102::Australia beat WI by innings at SCG, Bob Holland 10 match wkts
19850102::Egyptian Pres Mubarak reappoints Coptic pope Shenuda III
19850102::Nevada-Las Vegas beats Utah 142-140, highest college basketball score
19850102::Undefeated BYU becomes college football champions
19860102::191.66 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
19860102::NY Islander, Mike Bossy, scores his 500th goal
19870102::Penn State upsets Miami in Fiesta Bowl for college football champ
19870102::Troops of Chad Pres Habr‚ conquer Fada oasis
19880102::Ashland Oil storage tank spills 3.8 million gallons, Penn
19880102::Mulroney & Reagan sign Canada-US free trade agreement
19890102::Notre Dame beats West Virginia for college football championship
19890102::UCLA wins a record 7th consecutive bowl game
19900102::Dow Jones hits record 2,800 (2,810.15)
19900102::Sting joins wrestlings 4 Horsemen (Flair, Arn Anderson, Ole Anderson)
19910102::Colorado wins its 1st AP national title poll
19920102::Test debut of Shane Warne, v India at Sydney
19930102::"Gypsy Passion" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 55 performances
19940102::"Abe Lincoln in Illinois" closes at Beaumont NYC after 40 perfs
19940102::"Shakespeare after My Father" closes at Helen Hayes NYC after 266 perf
19940102::Battles between army & rebellious indians in South Mexico, kill 57
19950102::Bus crashes in Luzon Philippines, 29 killed
19950102::Carquest Bowl 5: South Carolina beats West Virginia, 24-21
19950102::Most distant galaxy yet discovered found by scientists using Keck telescope in Hawaii (est 15 billion light years away)
19970102::Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Columbus OH on WBZX 99.7 FM
19980102::Autopsy of Chris Farley shows he overdosed of opiates & cocaine
02360103::St Anterus ends his reign as Catholic Pope
02690103::St Felix I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
09360103::Duke Alberik II of Spoleto appoints his son Pope Leo VII
13380103::Jacob of Arteveld elected mayor of Ghent
14070103::Bloody battles between Hoeksen & Kabeljauwen in Dordrecht
14310103::Joan of Arc handed over to the bishop
15210103::Martin Luther excommunicated by Roman Catholic Church
16380103::Dutch Premier Van Joost speaks of "Hostage rights of Aemstel"
16380103::Schouwburg Theater, the 1st in Amsterdam, opens
16670103::Resistance of Androsovo in Russia-Poland
16670103::Russia & Poland sign Truce of Androsovo
17460103::Bonnie Prince Charlies army leaves Glasgow, [NS=1/14]
17500103::Tax revolt in Haarlem Neth
17520103::East Indies invasion "Geldermalsen" leaves at Malakka: 92 killed
17770103::Washington defeats British at Battle of Princeton, NJ
17800103::Danish national anthem "Kong Kristian...," 1st sung
18250103::Scottish factory owner Robert Owen buys 30,000 acres in Indiana as site for New Harmony utopian community
18310103::1st US building & loan association organized, Frankford, Penn
18330103::Britain seizes control of Falkland Islands in South Atlantic
18400103::1st deep sea sounding
18470103::California town of Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco
18520103::1st Chinese arrive in Hawaii
18610103::Delaware legislature rejects proposal to join Confederacy
18610103::US Ft Pulaski & Ft Jackson, Savannah, seized by Georgia
18620103::Romney Campaign-Stonewall Jackson moves north from Winchester
18650103::Con Orem & Hugh O'Neill box 193 rounds before darkness ends match
18680103::Meiji Restoration returns authority to Japan's emperors
18700103::Brooklyn Bridge construction begins; completed May 24, 1883
18710103::Oleomargarine patented by Henry Bradley, Binghamton, NY
18720103::1st patent list issued by US Patent Office
18760103::1st free kindergarten in US opens in Florence, Mass
18880103::1st wax drinking straw patented, by Marvin C Stone in Washington DC
18890103::Admissions convention meets in Ellensburg, WA, asks for statehood
18900103::1st US college-level dairy school opens at University of Wisconsin
18960103::Emperor Wilhelm congratulates Pres Kruger on the Jameson Raid
19000103::Gerhart Hauptmanns "Schluck und Jau," premieres in Berlin
19000103::Perihelion Passage
19020103::Reg Duff 104 on Test debut, v England at MCG
19100103::British miners strike for 8 hour working day
19110103::US postal savings bank inaugurated
19120103::South Pacific RR offers to bring Liberty Bell to Exposition, free
19140103::Kelman/Cushing/Heath' musical "Sari," premieres in NYC
19180103::US employment service opens as a unit of Dept of Labor
19200103::Arthur Honegger's "Chant de Nigamon," premieres
19200103::NY Yankees purchase Babe Ruth from Red Sox for $125,000
19210103::Turkey makes peace with Armenia
19220103::1st living person identified on a US coin (Thomas E Kirby) on the Alabama Centennial half-dollar
19240103::British egyptologist Howard Carter finds sarcophagus of Tutankhamun
19250103::Mussolini dissolves Italian parliament/becomes dictator
19260103::Greek gen Theodorus P ngulos names himself dictator
19290103::27 year old William S Paley becomes CBS pres
19290103::Bradman scores 112 v England at MCG - his 1st Test century
19310103::Nels Stewart of Montr‚al Maroons scores 2 goals in 4 sec (record)
19380103::March of Dimes established to fight polio
19390103::Gene Cox becomes 1st girl page in US House of Representatives
19400103::WPG-AM in Atlantic City NJ consolidates with WBIL & WOV as "new" WOV
19410103::Canada & US acquire air bases in Newfoundland (99 yr lease)
19410103::Italian counter offensive in Albania
19410103::Sergei Rachmaninov's "Symphonic Dances" premieres in Philadelphia
19420103::American-British-Dutch-Australian (ABDA) Command forms
19430103::1st missing persons telecast (NYC)
19430103::Canadian Army troops arrive in North Africa
19450103::Allies land on west coast of Burma, conquer Akyab
19450103::British Premier Winston Churchill visits France
19450103::Cato-Meridian School, NY, installs germicidal lamps in every room
19450103::Greek General Plastiras forms government
19450103::John Patrick's "Hasty Heart," premieres in NYC
19450103::US aircraft carriers attack Okinawa
19470103::1st opening session of Congress to be televised
19470103::William Dawson becomes 1st black to head congressional committee
19480103::Bradman completes dual Test tons (132 & 127*) v India MCG
19490103::"Colgate Theater" dramatic anthology series premieres on NBC TV
19510103::9 Jewish Kremlin physicians "exposed" as British/US agents
19510103::Fred Wilt wins AAU Sullivan Memorial Trophy (US athlete of 1950)
19520103::"Dragnet" with Jack Webb premieres on NBC TV
19520103::Australia beat W Indies by one wicket at the MCG, last stand 38
19550103::Jos‚ Ramon Guizado becomes president of Panama
19570103::1st electric watch introduced, Lancaster Pa
19580103::Edmund Hillary reaches South Pole overland
19580103::Lindsay Kline takes a hat-trick v South Africa at Cape Town
19590103::Alaska admitted as 49th US state
19610103::Adam Clayton Powell elected Chairman of House Education & Labor
19610103::US breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba
19620103::Ground is broken for the Houston Astrodome
19620103::Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro
19630103::WOUB TV channel 20 in Athens, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
19640103::Jack Paar Show, shows a clip of the Beatles singing "She Loves You"
19660103::Floyd B McKissick, named national director of CORE
19670103::"Tonight Show" is shortened from 105 to 90 minutes
19670103::Carl Wilson of the Beach Boys is indicted for draft evasion
19670103::WJAN TV channel 17 in Canton, OH (IND) begins broadcasting
19690103::John Lennon's "2 Virgins" album declared pornographic in NJ
19690103::Rep Adam Clayton Powell Jr seated by Congress
19700103::"Jimmy" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 84 performances
19700103::"Mame" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 1508 performances
19700103::Marxist government takes over in Congo
19700103::WHAG TV channel 25 in Hagerstown, MD (NBC) begins broadcasting
19710103::"President's Daughter" closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC after 72 perfs
19710103::Baltimore Colts beat Oakland Raiders 27-17 in AFC championship game
19710103::Dallas Cowboys beat SF '49ers 17-10 in NFC championship game
19730103::George Steinbrenner III buys Yankees from CBS for $12 million
19740103::Arias Navarro succeeds Carrero Blanco as premier of Spain
19740103::Burma accepts its constitution
19740103::Gold hits record $121.25 an ounce in London
19740103::Miguel Pi€ero's "Short Eyes," premieres in NYC
19740103::NY Yankees sign Bill Virdon as manager
19760103::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19770103::Apple Computers incorporate
19770103::Lindy McDaniel retires with 2nd most pitching appearances (987 games)
19780103::Chandrasekar takes 6-52 & 6-52 at MCG in Indian innings win
19800103::Gold hits record $634 an ounce
19810103::55th Australian Womens Tennis: H Mandlikova beats W Turnbull (60 75)
19810103::Cleveland Cavaliers retire jersey # 34, Austin Carr
19810103::Greg Chappell scores 204 v India at the SCG
19810103::Mary Terstegge Meagher swims female record 100 m butterfly (58.91)
19830103::Tony Dorsett sets NFL record with 99-yd rush, Dallas vs Minnesota
19840103::Syria frees captured US pilot after appeal from Jesse Jackson
19850103::Azharuddin scores 110 in 1st Test innings
19850103::Israel govt confirms resettlement of 10,000 Ethiopian Jews
19870103::"Oh Coward!" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 56 performances
19870103::"Smile" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 48 performances
19870103::Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducts 1st female artist Aretha Franklin
19870103::Singer/Miss America Vanessa Williams marries Ramon T Hervey in NYC
19880103::Israel orders 9 Palestinian "instigators" deported from W Beirut
19880103::Margaret Thatcher becomes longest-serving British PM this century
19890103::Jim & Tammy Bakker return to TV (Oy Vey!)
19890103::Russian newspaper Izvestia gets its 1st commercial advertisement
19900103::Panama's leader Gen Manuel Noriega surrenders to US authorities
19910103::Israel reopens consulate in USSR after 23 years
19910103::LA King Wayne Gretzky scores his 700th goal against NY Islanders
19920103::32 Cubans defect to the US via helicopter
19920103::Boon completes 11 Test Cricket century, 129* v India at Sydney
19930103::"Catskills on Broadway" closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 452 perfs
19930103::"Christmas Carol" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 22 perfs
19930103::"Lost in Yonkers" closes at Richard Rodgers NYC after 780 perfs
19930103::"Secret Garden" closes at St James Theater NYC after 706 performances
19930103::"Tommy Tune Tonite!" closes at Gershwin NYC after 10 performances
19930103::Junk bond king Michael Milkin is released from jail after 22 months
19940103::"Gray's Anatomy" closes at Beaumont Theater NYC after 13 performances
19940103::100s killed in Venezuela in prison revolt
19940103::Tupolev-154M crashes at Irkutsk, Siberia: 122 killed
19940103::35-foot-tall Chief Wahoo, trademark of Indians on top of Stadium since 1962, is taken down, to be moved to Jacob's Field
19970103::Bryant Gumbel co-hosted his final "Today" show on NBC-TV
19970103::Eddo Brandes takes ODI hat-trick v England at Harare
19970103::Zimbabwe clean-sweep ODI series v England 3-0
19980103::"Side Show," closes at Richard Rodgers NYC after 91 performances
19980103::Grandpa Jones suffers a stroke
02740104::St Eutychian begins his reign as Catholic Pope
08710104::Battle at Reading: Ethelred of Wessex beats Danish invasion army
13570104::Flemish earl Louis & Luxembourg Duke Wenceslaus sign peace treaty
14930104::Columbus left new world on return from 1st voyage
15190104::-6] 1st Altenburger sermon (Luther & Karl von Miltitz)
15700104::Spanish viceroy Alva banishes Zutphen City's only physician, Joost Sweiter, "because he is a Jew"
16420104::King Charles I with 400 soldiers attacks the English parliament
17170104::Netherlands, England & France sign Triple Alliance
17250104::Benjamin Franklin arrives in London [OS=Dec 24 1724]
17540104::Columbia University founded, as Kings College (NYC)
17620104::England declares war on Spain & Naples
17800104::Snowstorm hit Washington's army at Morristown, NJ
17810104::Andr‚ M‚chain discovers M80 (globular cluster in Scorpio)
17900104::Pres Washington delivers 1st "State of the Union"
18320104::Insurrection of Trinidad negroes
18430104::Gaetano Donizetti's opera "Don Pasquale," premieres in Paris
18430104::Royal Academy (Technical Hague court) Delft opens
18610104::Pres Buchanan appoints a fast on account of threatened succession
18610104::US Ft Morgan, Mobile, seized by Alabama
18620104::-Jan 17th) Battle of Ft Hindman, AK (Arkansas Post)
18620104::Battle of Helena, AK
18620104::Romney Campaign-Stonewall Jackson occupies Bath
18630104::4 wheeled roller skates patented by James Plimpton of NY
18810104::Johannes Brahms' "Academic Festival Overture" premieres, Breslau
18830104::Ontario Rugby Football Union (forerunner of CFL) forms
18840104::Last sighting of an eastern cougar (Ontario)
18850104::Dr W W Grant of Iowa, performs 1st appendectomy (on Mary Gartside, 22)
18870104::Thomas Stevens is 1st man to bicycle around the world (SF-SF)
18930104::US pres Cleveland grants amnesty to Mormon polygamy
18940104::France ratifies Duple Alliance with Russia
18960104::AFL charters Actors' National Protective Union, NYC
18960104::Following Mormon abandonment of polygamy, Utah admitted as 45th state
18980104::1st installment of William Dean Howell's "Life & Letters" appears
19020104::Hugh Trumble takes a hat-trick v England at the MCG
19040104::Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 beat Winnipeg Rowing Club, 2 games to 1
19040104::Supreme Court rules Puerto Ricans cannot be denied admission to US
19060104::South Africa beat England by one wicket, their 1st Test win
19070104::George Bernard Shaw's "Don Juan in Hell," premieres in London
19120104::Smallest earth-moon distance this century, 356,375 km center-to-ctr
19150104::1st elected Jewish governor, Moses Alexander, takes office in Idaho
19150104::Trans-Caucausus Russian defeat Turkish troops
19200104::1st Black baseball league, National Negro Baseball League, organizes
19200104::Amsterdam actors decide to strike for retirement benefits
19210104::Eugene O'Neill's "Diff'rent," premieres in NYC
19230104::1st broadcast of "Barn Dance Show" (WBAP - Ft Worth Texas)
19230104::Lenin's "Political Testament" calls for removal of Stalin
19250104::French psychologist Emil Cou‚ brings his self-esteem therapy to US "Every day in every way I am getting better & better"
19260104::Theodorus Pangalos resigns as Greek dictator
19320104::Bradman scores 167 for Australia v South Africa at the MCG
19320104::British East Indies Viceroy Willingdon arrests Gandhi & Nehru
19320104::State of siege proclaimed in Honduras
19340104::1st Dutch talkie movie, Jan Teunissen's "Willem of Orange," premieres
19350104::Bob Hope 1st heard on network radio as part of "The Intimate Revue"
19350104::Ft Jefferson National Monument, Fla established
19360104::Billboard magazine publishes its 1st music hit parade
19360104::Grimmett becomes world record wicket taker with no 190 v S Afr
19390104::Frieda Wunderlich elected 1st woman dean of a US graduate school
19390104::Hermann Goering appoints Reinhard Heydrich head of Jewish Emigration
19410104::Resistance fighters counter d'Estienne d'Orves/Jan Doornik, 1st meet
19410104::Sergey Rachmaninov's "Symphonie Dances," premieres in Philadelphia
19420104::NFL Pro Bowl: Chi Bears beats NFL All-Stars 35-24
19420104::Premier Churchill & General Marshall fly to Florida
19420104::Rogers Hornsby is 14th player selected to the Hall of Fame
19430104::Thomas Mann completes his tetralogy, "Joseph & His Brothers"
19440104::Ralph Bunche appointed 1st Negro official in US State Department
19450104::Germans execute resistance fighters in Amsterdam
19450104::US jeep-aircraft carrier Ommaney Bay sinks after kamikaze attack
19470104::"Park Avenue" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 72 performances
19470104::"Show Boat" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 417 performances
19480104::Burma declares independence from UK
19510104::During Korean conflict, Chinese forces capture Seoul
19530104::KTSM TV channel 9 in El Paso, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
19540104::Elvis Presley records a 10 minute demo in Nashville
19540104::Soap Opera "The Brighter Day" premieres
19570104::"Blondie" situation comedy premieres on NBC TV (later on CBS)
19570104::Dodgers buy 44 passenger twin-engine airplane for $775,000
19580104::Sputnik 1 reenters atmosphere & burns up
19590104::Luna 1 (Mechta) becomes 1st craft to leave Earth's gravity
19600104::European Free Trade Association forms in Stockholm
19610104::Longest recorded strike ends-33 yrs-Danish barbers' assistants
19620104::1st automated (unmanned) subway train (NYC)
19630104::Soviet Luna (4) reaches Earth orbit but fails to reach Moon
19650104::LBJ's "Great Society" State of the Union Address
19660104::Doug Walters scores second Test century in his second Test
19660104::WFLD TV channel 32 in Chicago, IL (IND) begins broadcasting
19680104::Duck hunter accidentally shoots endangered whooping crane in Texas
19680104::Leo Fender sells Fender Guitars for $13 million
19690104::"Fig Leaves Are Falling" closes at Broadhurst NYC after 4 perfs
19690104::France begins arms embargo against Israel
19700104::Beatles last recording session at EMI studios
19700104::KC Chiefs beat Oakland Raiders 17-7 in AFC championship game
19700104::Minn Vikings beat Cleve Browns 27-7 in NFC championship game
19700104::NYC transit fare rises from 20› to 30›, new larger tokens used
19700104::Walter Cronkite ends hosting weekly documentary
19710104::Congressional Black Caucus organizes
19710104::Dr Melvin H Evans inaugurated as 1st elected governor of Virgin Is
19710104::Ohio agrees to pay $675,000 to relatives of Kent State victims
19710104::Philadelphia's Veteran Stadium dedicated
19740104::Nixon refuses to hand over tapes subpoenaed by Watergate Committee
19750104::"Good News" closes at St James Theater NYC after 16 performances
19750104::"Gypsy" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 120 performances
19750104::"Over Here" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 341 performances
19750104::Ford Executive Order on CIA Activities within the US (No 11828)
19750104::Ice thickness measured at 4776 m, Wilkes Land, Antarctica
19750104::Montreal Canadiens shutout Washington Capitals 10-0
19760104::"Candide" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 740 performances
19760104::"Home Sweet Homer" opens & closes at Palace Theater NYC
19770104::Mary Shane hired by Chic White Sox as 1st woman TV play-by-play
19800104::President Carter announces US boycott of Moscow Olympics
19810104::"Frankenstein" opens & closes on Broadway
19810104::"Peter Pan" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 578 performances
19810104::69th Australian Mens Tennis: B Teacher beats Kim Warwick (75 76 63)
19810104::British police arrest Peter Sutcliffe, the "Yorkshire Ripper"
19820104::Bryant Gumbel became co-host of NBC's "Today Show"
19820104::Chris Wallace becomes co-anchor of the Today Show
19820104::Golden Gate Bridge closed for 3rd time by fierce storm
19820104::ABC Direction Network (57 affiliates) & ABC Rock Network (40 affiliates) become the 5th & 6th ABC radio network
19830104::US Football League holds its 1st player draft
19840104::"Night Court" starring Harry Anderson premieres on NBC TV
19840104::Edmonton beats Minnesota 12-8 highest-scoring modern NHL game
19860104::David Boon's second Test century, 131 v India at Adelaide
19860104::NCAA basketball's David Robinson blocks a record 14 shots
19870104::16 die in a train crash in Chase Md
19890104::Comet Tempel 1 at perihelion
19890104::US F-14s shoot down 2 Libyan jet fighters over Mediterranean
19890104::VP Bush is 1st since VP Van Buren to declare himself president
19910104::AT&T workers in Newark accidentally snap a cable
19910104::Fu Mingxia, 12, of China wins World Swimming Championships gold medal
19910104::Iraq agrees to send Aziz to Geneva to meet Baker on Jan 9th
19910104::Jan Krzystof Bielecki becomes premier of Poland
19920104::8th largest wrestling crowd (60,000-Tokyo Dome)
19930104::7th largest wrestling crowd (63,500-Tokyo Dome)
19940104::10th largest wrestling crowd (58,000-Tokyo Dome)
19950104::Newt Gingrich (R) becomes speaker of the House
19960104::"Father" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 52 performances
19980104::"Funny Thing Happened," closes at St James NYC after 715 perform
19980104::"Ivanov," closes at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC after 51 performances
19980104::"Triumph of Love," closes at Royale Theater NYC
13490105::Margaretha of Bavaria names her son Willem V earl of Holland/Zealand
14380105::Pope Eugenius IV deallocated council of Basel to Ferrara
14630105::French poet Fran‡ois Villon banished from Paris
14770105::Battle at Nancy, Burgundy vs Switz, 7000+ killed
15000105::Duke Ludovico Sforza's troops reconquer Milan
15310105::Pope Clemens VII forbids English king Henry VIII to re-marry
15540105::Great fire in Eindhoven Neth
15930105::William Louis of Nassau becomes governor/viceroy of Drenthe
16380105::Petition in Recife Brazil leads to closing of their 2 synagogues
16490105::Francesco Cavalli's opera "Giasone," premieres in Venice
16750105::Battle at Turkheim (Colmar): French army beats Brandenburg
17090105::Sudden extreme cold kills 1000s of Europeans
17170105::Prussian King Frederik Willem I buys conscript for nobles
17190105::Engl/Hannover/Saxony-Poland/Austria sign anti-Prussian/Russian pact
17570105::Failed assassination attempt on French king Louis XV by Damiens
17760105::Assembly of New Hampshire adopts its 1st state constitution
17810105::British naval expedition led by Benedict Arnold burns Richmond, Va
18000105::1st Swedenborgian temple in US holds 1st service, Baltimore
18040105::Ohio legislature passes 1st laws restricting free blacks movement
18090105::Treaty of Dardanelles concluded between Britain & France
18220105::Central America proclaims annexation to Mexican Empire
18280105::1st edition of Amsterdam General Trade Journal (Algemeen Handelsblad)
18340105::Kiowa Indians record this as the night the stars fell
18360105::Davy Crockett arrives in Texas, just in time for the Alamo
18400105::Records show 95,820 licensed public houses in England on this date
18410105::James Clark Ross (UK) is 1st to enter pack ice near Ross Ice Shelf
18500105::Calif Exchange opens
18540105::Steamship San Francisco wrecked-300 die
18590105::1st steamboat sails, Red River
18610105::250 Federal troops are sent from New York to Ft Sumter
18610105::Alabama troops seize Forts Morgan & Gaines at Mobile Bay
18750105::Charles Garnier's new Opera opens in Paris
18750105::President Grant sends federal troops to Vicksburg, Miss
18870105::1st US school of librarianship opens at Columbia University
18880105::Dutch Heidemaatschappij established
18920105::1st successful auroral photograph made
18950105::Henry James' play "Guy Domville" opens in London
18950105::Victor Trumper makes first-class debut for NSW 17 yrs 64 days
18950105::French Capt Alfred Dreyfus, convicted of treason, publicly stripped of his rank; later declared innocent
18960105::German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen's discovers x-rays
18960105::Isaac Albeniz' opera "Pepita Jiminez," premieres in Barcelona
18990105::Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure-Charles Augustus Milverton (BG)
19030105::SF-Hawaii telegraph cable opens for public use
19040105::-34øF (-36.7øC), River Vale, New Jersey (state record)
19040105::-42øF (-41.1øC), Smethport, Pennsylvania (state record)
19040105::England beat Australia at the MCG, Rhodes 7-56 & 8-68
19050105::Charles Perrine announces discovery of Jupiter's 7th satellite, Elara
19050105::National Association of Audubon Society incorporates
19090105::Colombia recognizes Panama's independence
19110105::Portuguese expel Jesuits
19110105::SF has it's 1st air meet
19120105::1st National Hockey Assn game (Victoria)
19140105::Ford Motor Co wages jump from $2.40/9-hr day to $5.00/8-hr day
19160105::Austria-Hungary offensive against Montenegro
19180105::British premier Lloyd George demand for unified peace
19190105::National Socialist Party (Nazi) forms as German Farmers Party
19190105::Spartacus uprising in Berlin: state of siege
19200105::Boston Red Sox sell Babe Ruth to NY Yankees
19200105::NY Yankees announce purchase of Babe Ruth
19250105::James Gleason & Richard Tabers "Is zat so?," premieres in NYC
19250105::Nellie Taylor Ross became governor of Wyoming, 1st woman gov in USA
19250105::Under Polish control, Danzig establishes Port Gdansk post office
19250105::French Baseball Federation awards silver medals to John McGraw, Charlie Comiskey, & Hugh Jennings
19260105::James Cox of Ford Motors announces 8 hr day & $5 daily minimum wage
19270105::Fox Studios exhibits Movietone
19270105::Judge Landis begins 3-day public hearing on charges that 4 games played between Chicago & Detroit in 1917 had been thrown to White Sox
19290105::Coup by King Alexander in South Slavia
19300105::Mao Tse-tung writes "A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire"
19310105::1st woman to purchase a baseball team Lucille Thomas purchases Topeka franchise in the Western League
19330105::Work on Golden Gate Bridge begins, on Marin County side
19340105::Fenway Park catches fire for 2nd time (May 8th 1926 also)
19340105::National & American baseball leagues select a uniform ball
19370105::Fingleton & Bradman make record stand of 346 for 6th wkt
19370105::Only unicameral state legislature in US opens 1st session (Nebr)
19400105::FCC hears 1st transmission of FM radio with clear, static-free signal
19400105::Finnish offensive at Suomossalmi against Russia
19410105::British/Australian troops conquer Bardia Lybia
19420105::55 German tanks reach North-Africa
19430105::Teams agrees to start season later due to WW II
19430105::William H Hastie, civilian aide to secretary of war, resigns to protest segregation in armed forces
19450105::Pepe LePew debuts in Warner Bros cartoon "Odor-able Kitty"
19450105::Surprise attack on Liese-Aktion-office on Marnix St, Amsterdam
19460105::"Show Boat" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 417 performances
19490105::General Spoor orders cease-fire on Sumatra
19490105::President Harry S Truman labels his administration the "Fair Deal"
19500105::Carson McCuller's "Member of the Wedding," premieres in NYC
19510105::Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Ponte Vedra Beach Women's Golf Open
19520105::Flying Enterprise sinks
19530105::-6] Passenger ships Willem Ruys & Orange collide in the Red Sea
19530105::Samuel Beckett's "En Attendant Godot," premieres in Paris
19550105::KMSP TV channel 9 in Minneapolis-St Paul, MN (IND) 1st broadcast
19560105::Elvis Presley records "Heartbreak Hotel"
19570105::Dodgers' Jackie Robinson retires rather than be traded to NY Giants
19570105::Eisenhower asks Congress to send troops to the Mid East
19590105::"Bozo the Clown" live children's show premieres on TV
19590105::Buddy Holly releases his last record "It Doesn't Matter"
19600105::Continental League, a proposed third major league, gets an assurance of congressional support from NY Senator Kenneth Keating
19610105::US breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba
19620105::Tony Sheridan & Beatles produce "My Bonnie" & "The Saints"
19630105::"Camelot" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 873 performances
19630105::"Carnival!" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 719 performances
19630105::San Diego beats Boston 51-10 in AFL championship game
19640105::Pope Paul VI visits Jordan & Israel
19640105::San Diego Chargers win AFL-championship
19670105::KLXA (now KTBN) TV channel 40 in Fontana-San Ana, CA (IND) begins
19680105::Dr Benjamin Spock indicted for conspiring to violate draft law
19680105::Dubcek succeeds pres Novotny as party leader of Czechoslovakia
19690105::"Maggie Flynn" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 82 performances
19690105::Bollingen prize for poetry presented to John Berryman & Karl Shapiro
19690105::Neville Williams' "Chronology of the Expanding World" completed
19690105::USSR Venera 5 launched for 1st successful planet landing (Venus)
19700105::23,000 Belgian mine workers strike
19700105::KPTS TV channel 8 in Hutchinson-Wichita, KS (PBS) begins broadcasting
19700105::Soap Opera "All My Children," premieres on ABC
19710105::1st one-day international, Australia v England at the MCG
19710105::Globetrotters lose 100-99 to NJ Reds, ending 2,495-game win streak
19710105::US heavyweight "Sonny" Liston's (36) corpse found
19720105::Largest crowd at Cleveland Arena (Cavs vs Lakers-11,178)
19720105::NASA announces development of space shuttle
19720105::NYC transit fare rises from 30› to 35›
19720105::Pres Nixon signs a bill for NASA to begin research on manned shuttle
19720105::West-Pakistani sheik Mujib ur-Rahman freed
19730105::Mali & Niger break diplomatic relations with Israel
19730105::Netherlands recognizes German DR
19740105::Raul Julia appears on Bob Newhart Show in "Oh, Brother"
19750105::"Wiz" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 1672 performances
19750105::Charlie Smalls' "Wiz," premieres in NYC
19750105::Salyut 4 with crew of 2 is launched for 30 days
19750105::14 die when British freighter "Lake Illawarra" rams pylon bridge between Derwent & Hobart, Tasmania & ship sinks
19760105::"MacNeil-Lehrer Report" premieres on PBS
19760105::Cambodia is renamed "Democratic Kampuchea"
19760105::Greg Chappell scores 182* at SCG against West Indies
19770105::Kenya president Jomo Kenyatta disbands parliament
19810105::"Nightline" with Ted Koppel extended from 20 mins to 30 mins
19810105::British police arrest Peter Sutcliffe, a truck driver later convicted of "Yorkshire Ripper" murders of 13 women
19820105::Arkansas judge rules against obligatory teaching of creation
19840105::Adrian Dantly (Utah), ties NBA record of 28 free throws
19840105::Greg Chappell scores 182* in his last Test innings
19850105::Bryan Trottier failed on 9th Islander penalty shot
19850105::Discovery moves to launch pad for STS 51-C mission
19870105::Surrogate Baby M case begins in Hackensack, NJ
19890105::2 French TV newsmen arrested for trying to plant fake bombs on 3 airlines at JFK airport in security test
19890105::Baseball signs $400M with ESPN, showing 175 games in 1990
19900105::J Donald Crump appointed 8th Commissioner of CFL
19910105::"Oh, Kay!" closes at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC after 77 performances
19910105::Edwin Jongejans of Neth wins 1-meter springboard diving title
19910105::Kevin Bradshaw of US Intl scores NCAA Div 1 record 72 pts
19920105::"6 Degrees of Separation" closes at Vivian Beaumont NYC after 496 perf
19920105::"Crucible" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 32 performances
19920105::"On Borrowed Time" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 99 perfs
19920105::"Peter Pan" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 48 performances
19920105::Ravi Shastri scores 206 at SCG before being Warne's 1st crick Test wkt
19930105::Brian Lara completes 277 v Australia at cricket SCG
19930105::Price is Right model Janice Pennington sues CBS for show accident
19930105::Reggie Jackson elected to Hall of Fame
19940105::Aleksandr Popov swims world record 100m free style (47.82)
19940105::Yat Weiju swims world record 100m butterfly stroke (58.71)
19940105::Zhong Weiju swims world record 25m pool record (58.71)
19950105::AFC beats NFC 41-13 in the pro bowl
19950105::Lockheed C-140 Jetstar crashes at Isfahan Persia, 18 killed
19960105::Miami Dolphin coach Don Shula announces his retirement
19960105::Muralitharan no-balled for throwing in ODI v WI at the Gabba
19970105::"Juan Darien-Carnival Mass" closes at Vivian Beaumont NYC
19970105::"Love Thy Neighbor," closes at Booth Theater NYC
19970105::"Show Boat," closes at Gershwin Theater NYC
19980105::Ice storm knocks out electricity in Quebec & Ontario
19980105::Vandals decapitate Copenhagen's Little Mermaid
10660106::King Harald of England crowned
10990106::Henry V crowned German king
12270106::Ferrand of Portugal freed from the Louvre
13520106::French king Jean II introduces Order of the Star
14530106::Emperor Frederik III becomes archduke of Austria
14960106::Moorish fortress Alhambra, near Grenada, surrenders to the Christi
14970106::Jews are expelled from Graz (Syria)
15350106::City of Lima Peru founded by Francisco Pizarro
15400106::King Henry VIII of England married his 4th wife, Anne of Cleves
15790106::Artois/Hainault/Dowaai sign pro-Spanish Union of Arras
16220106::Pope Gregory XV forms Congregatio the Propagande Fide
16390106::Virginia is 1st colony to order surplus crops (tobacco) destroyed
16630106::Great earthquake in New England
16810106::1st recorded boxing match (Duke of Albemarle's butler vs his butcher)
16900106::Emperor Leopold's son Jozef chosen Roman Catholic king
17450106::Bonnie Prince Charlies army draws to Glasgow
17590106::George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Curtis
17730106::Massachusetts slaves petition legislature for freedom
17810106::Battle of Jersey (Island in UK)
17840106::Turkey & Russia sign treaty in Constantinople
18320106::New England Anti-Slavery Society organizes (Boston)
18380106::Samuel Morse made 1st public demonstration of telegraph
18390106::2 day storm off Irish & English coast immortalized as "Big Wind"
18420106::4,500 British & Indian troops leave Kabul, massacred before India
18570106::Patent for reducing zinc ore granted to Samuel Wetherill, Penn
18610106::Florida troops seize Federal arsenal at Apalachicola
18610106::NYC mayor proposes NY become a free city, trading with N & S
18730106::Pope Pius IX encyclical "On the Church in Armenia"
18730106::US Congress begins investigating Cr‚dit Mobilier scandal
18800106::Record snow cover in Seattle-120 cm
18830106::Ontario Rugby Football Union forms
18930106::Great Northern Railway connects Seattle with east coast
18960106::1st US women's 6-day bicycle race starts, Madison Square Garden
18960106::Cecil Rhodes resigns as premier of Cape colony
18980106::1st telephone message from a submerged submarine, by Simon Lake
19000106::Boers attack at Ladysmith, about 1,000 killed or injured
19000106::Maurice Ravel's "Albaradode Gracioso," premieres in Paris
19030106::Dutch Press museum opens in Amsterdam
19060106::Maurice Ravel's "Miroirs," premieres in Paris
19070106::Maria Montessori opens her 1st (Montessori) school (Rome)
19120106::New Mexico becomes 47th state
19140106::Stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch founded
19220106::-13] Conference of Cannes concerning German retribution payments
19240106::Poulenc/Nijinska's ballet "Les Biches," premieres in Monte Carlo
19250106::Paavo Nurmi, sets indoor record, 4:13.6 mile & 14:44.6 5,000m
19260106::Kees Boeke opens 1st comprehensive school in Holland
19270106::US marines sent to Nicaragua
19280106::Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Mortalium animos (against oecumene)
19290106::Alexander I establishes a royal dictatorship in Yugoslavia
19300106::1st diesel engine automobile trip (in a Packard sedan) completed
19300106::Bradman scores 452* for NSW against Qld, 377 mins, 49 fours
19360106::Barbara Hanley became Canada's 1st woman mayor (Webbwood, Ontario)
19370106::Bradman scores 270 Aust v England at the MCG, incl 110 singles
19380106::Bronze memorial statue of Henry Hudson erected in Bronx
19410106::FDR's "4 Freedoms" speech (speech, worship, from want & from fear)
19420106::1st around world flight (Pan Am "Pacific Clipper")
19420106::Bob Feller, enlists in Navy & reports for duty to Norfolk Virginia
19450106::Future president George Bush marries Barbara Pierce in Rye NY
19460106::Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Quemadmodum
19470106::Ray Lindwall smashes 100 v England in MCG Test
19500106::"Happy as Larry" opens at Coronet Theater NYC for 3 performances
19500106::Britain recognizes Communist government of China
19510106::"Pardon Our French" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 100 perfs
19510106::Indianapolis beats Rochester 75-73 in NBA-record 6 overtimes
19530106::WKBN TV channel 27 in Youngstown, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting
19560106::KGNS TV channel 8 in Laredo, TX (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
19560106::Federal court bars former Little League Commissioner Carl Stotz from forming a rival group
19570106::Elvis Presley makes his 7th & final appearance on Ed Sullivan Show
19570106::Yeshiva Kol Ya'ackov opens in Moscow Russia
19580106::Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to ee cummings
19580106::Gibson patents Flying V Guitar
19580106::WIPR TV channel 6 in San Juan, PR (PBS) begins broadcasting
19630106::"Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom" with Marlin Perkins begins on NBC
19630106::"Oliver!" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 774 performances
19640106::Charlie Finlay announces he wants to move KC A's to Louisville
19640106::Rolling Stones' 1st tour as headline act (with Ronettes)
19650106::Geoff Boycott takes 3-47 against S Africa, his best Test bowling
19670106::"Milton Berle Show" last airs on ABC-TV
19670106::KHTV TV channel 39 in Houston, TX (IND) begins broadcasting
19670106::2 homemade buses collided on a mountain road in Terpate, Philippines plunging off a cliff, killing 84, injuring 140
19680106::Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 8 weeks
19680106::Dr N E Shumway performs 1st US adult cardiac transplant operation
19680106::Surveyor 7 (last of series) launched by US for soft-landing on Moon
19690106::Supremes release "I'm Livin' In Shame"
19690106::WLIW TV channel 21 in Garden City, NY (PBS) begins broadcasting
19710106::Berkeley chemists announces 1st synthetic growth hormones
19710106::Cecil Partee elected president pro tem of Illinois state senate
19720106::US female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn
19720106::US male Figure Skating championship won by Kenneth Shelley
19720106::Vladimir Bukovski is exiled from USSR
19730106::"Schoolhouse Rock," premieres on ABC-TV with Multiplication Rock
19740106::"CBS Mystery Theater," premieres on radio
19740106::England begins 3 day work week during mine strike
19750106::"AM America," premieres on ABC-TV with Bill Beutel as host
19750106::"Wheel Of Fortune," debuts on NBC-tv
19760106::China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
19760106::Ted Turner purchases Atlanta Braves for reported $12 million
19770106::EMI records drop punk rock group Sex Pistols
19780106::1st postage stamp copyrighted by US (Carl Sandburg stamp)
19780106::US hand over St Stephan crown to Hungary
19800106::"1940's Radio Hour" closes at St James Theater NYC after 105 perfs
19800106::Indira Gandhi's Congress Party wins elections in India
19800106::Phil Flyers set NHL record of 35 straight games without a defeat
19810106::50th hat trick in Islander history-John Tonelli scored 5 goals
19840106::Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 41 B mission
19840106::Last day of Test cricket for Chappell, Marsh & Lillee
19860106::British Defense Secretary Michael Heseltine resigns
19860106::Impala Platinum fires 20,000 black mine workers in Johannesburg
19860106::Last day in Test cricket for Bob Holland
19860106::STS 61-C scrubbed at T-31sec because of liquid oxygen valve problem
19870106::100th US Congress convenes
19870106::Astronomers at U of Calif see 1st sight of birth of a galaxy
19900106::NY Lotto pays $35 million to one winner (#s are 18-25-26-32-42-44)
19910106::"Gypsy" closes at St James Theater NYC after 477 performances
19910106::"Real Life With Jane Pauley" premieres on NBC-TV
19910106::Jorge Serrano El¡as elected president of Guatemala
19910106::Qian Hong swims female world record 50m butterfly (27.30 sec)
19920106::NY Yankees sign free agent Danny Tartabul
19920106::Robert Schenkkan's "Kentucky Cycle," premieres in LA
19920106::Sachin Tendulkar completes 148* v Australia at the SCG
19920106::Shane Warne takes 1-150 in his 1st Test innings
19930106::Bill Wyman announces he will leave Rolling Stones
19930106::Jean Mueller discovers comet Mueller/1993a
19930106::Last day of Test cricket for Greg Matthews
19940106::"Government Inspector" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 37 performances
19940106::Dow-Jones hits record 3803.88
19940106::Ice skater Nancy Kerrigan is attacked by Tonya Harding's bodyguard
19940106::Yat Weiju swims world record 50m butterfly stroke (26.44)
19940106::Zhong Weiju swims world record 25m pool (26.44)
19950106::Atlanta Hawks' Lenny Wilkens becomes NBA's winningest coach (939)
19960106::Record $65.2 million British lottery won by 3 people (2-3-4-13-42-44)
19970106::"It's a Slippery Slope," closes at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC
19980106::Barry Switzer resigns as Dallas Cowboy coach
19980106::Don Sutton selected to Baseball Hall of Fame
07540107::Pope Stefanus II arrives in Ponthion
13250107::Afonso IV succeeds Dionysius as king of Portugal
15580107::Calais, last English possession in France, retaken by French
15660107::Antonio "Michele" Ghislieri is elected Pope Pius V
15660107::Michaele Ghislieri is elected Pope Pius V
15790107::England signs an offensive & defensive alliance with Netherland
15840107::Last day of the Julian calendar in Bohemia & Holy Roman empire
15980107::Boris Godunov seizes Russian throne on death of Feodore I
16010107::Robert, Earl of Essex leads revolt in London against Queen Elizabeth
16080107::Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia
16100107::Galileo discovers 1st 3 Jupiter satellites, Io, Europa & Ganymede
16180107::Francis Bacon becomes English lord chancellor
16220107::Germany & Transylvania sign Peace of Nikolsburg
16300107::Composer Pier Cavalli marries rich widow Maria Sosomeno
16540107::Fire after heavy storm destroys 2/3 of De Rijp Neth, 1 dies
16980107::Russian Czar Peter the Great departs Neth to England
17140107::Typewriter patented by Englishman Henry Mill (built years later)
17610107::Battle at Panipat India: Afghan army beats Mahratten
17820107::1st US commercial bank, Bank of North America, opens in Philadelphia
17840107::1st US seed business established by David Landreth, Philadelphia
17850107::1st balloon flight across English Channel (Blanchard & Jeffries)
18170107::2nd Bank of US opens
18220107::1st printing in Hawaii
18220107::Liberia colonized by Americans
18300107::1st US Railroad Station opens (Baltimore)
18350107::HMS Beagle anchors off Chonos Archipelago
18420107::Gioacchino Rossini's opera "Stabat Mater" premieres in Paris
18610107::Florida troops takeover Ft Marion at St Augustine
18620107::Battle of Manassas Junction, VA
18620107::Romney Campaign-Stonewall Jackson march towards Romney, WV
18680107::Arkansas constitutional convention meets in Little Rock
18680107::Mississippi constitutional convention meets in Jackson
18790107::Dutch King Willem II marries Emma von Waldeck-Pyrmont
18880107::Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Valley of Fear" (BG)
18900107::W B Purvis patents fountain pen
18920107::Mine explosion kills 100, Krebs, Okla-blacks trying to help rescue white survivors, driven away with guns
18930107::Hermann Sudermanns "Heimat," premieres in Berlin
18940107::Motion picture experiment of comedian Fred Ott filmed sneezing
18960107::Fanny Farmer publishes her 1st cookbook
18990107::Walter Camp publishes his 1st All-American football team in Collier's
19030107::Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Blanched Soldier" (BG)
19030107::Vincent d'Indy's opera "L'etranger," premieres in Brussel
19040107::Marconi Co establishes "CQD" as 1st intl radio distress signal
19070107::Clyde Fitch' "Truth," premieres in NYC
19080107::England beat Australia by one wicket at the MCG
19100107::Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators sweep Galt (Ont) in 2 games
19110107::1st airplane bombing experiments with explosives, SF
19110107::Dutch Scouts Organization established in Amsterdam
19130107::William M Burton patents a process to "crack" petroleum
19140107::1st steamboat passes through Panama Canal
19160107::German troops conquer Fort Vaux at Verdun
19230107::Baltimore Sun warns of Ku Klux Klan
19250107::Musical "Big Boy" with Al Jolson premieres in NYC
19270107::Coml transatlantic telephone service inaugurated between NY & London
19270107::Harlem Globetrotters play 1st game (Hinckley, Ill)
19290107::"Buck Rogers," 1st sci-fi comic strip, premieres
19290107::"Tarzan," one of the 1st adventure comic strips, 1st appears
19290107::1st telephone connection between Netherlands & East Indies
19300107::Edwin Justus Mayer's "Children of Darkness," premieres in NYC
19320107::1st game played at Orchard Lake Curling Club, Mich
19330107::1st edition of People & Fatherland published in Netherlands
19340107::"Flash Gordon" comic strip (by Alex Raymond) debuts
19340107::Princess Juliana marries German prince Bernhard von Lippe-Biesterfeld
19350107::Z”e Akins' "Old Maid," premieres in NYC
19360107::Tennis champs Helen Moody & Howard Kinsley volley 2,001 times (1h18m)
19390107::US worker's union leader Tom Mooney freed (jailed since 1916)
19420107::WW II siege of Bataan starts
19440107::Air Force announces production of 1st US jet fighter, the Bell P-59
19450107::Lord Haw-Haw reports total German victory at Ardennen
19460107::Cambodia becomes autonomous state inside French Union
19470107::Aust v Eng at MCG drawn in 6 days, 1st cricket draw in Aust since 1882
19480107::US president Truman raises taxes for Marshall-plan
19490107::1st photo of genes taken at U of S Calif by Pease & Baker
19500107::"Happy as Larry" closes at Coronet Theater NYC after 3 performances
19500107::Hank Snow's 1st appearance on "Grand Ole Opry"
19500107::Mental health wing of Mercy Hospital burns, kills 41 (Davenport Ia)
19520107::French Plevin govt falls
19530107::Pres Truman announces development of hydrogen bomb
19550107::Marian Anderson becomes 1st black singer to perform at Met (NYC)
19550107::WCIQ TV channel 7 in Mt Cheaha, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting
19560107::Vinoo Mankad scores 231 v NZ, 413 opening stand with Roy
19580107::USSR shrinks army to 300,000
19590107::US recognizes Fidel Castro's Cuban govt
19610107::1st NFL Playoff Bowl (runner-up bowl)-Detroit beats Cleveland 17-16
19610107::Trucial States (now UAE) issue their 1st postage stamps
19620107::AFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 47-27
19620107::Assassination attempt on Indonesian president Sukarno, fails
19620107::Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to John Hall Wheelock
19630107::1st class postage raised from 4› to 5›
19640107::Bahamas becomes self-governing
19640107::Dick Weber rolls highest bowling game in air (Boeing 707)
19650107::France announces it will convert $150 million of its currency to gold
19660107::Dance Theatre of Harlem debuts
19660107::Gene Kiniski beats Lou Thesz in St Louis, to become NWA champ
19670107::"Newlywed Game" premieres on ABC TV
19680107::"GE College Bowl" quiz show premieres on NBC TV
19680107::1st class postage raised from 5› to 6›
19690107::US Congress doubles president salary
19700107::Farmers sue Max Yasgur for $35,000 in damages caused by "Woodstock"
19710107::-40øF (-40øC), Hawley Lake, Ariz (state record)
19720107::Iberian Airlines crashes into 800' peak on island of Ibiza, 104 die
19720107::LA Lakers chalk up 33rd consecutive win (NBA record)
19720107::Lewis F Powell Jr becomes a Supreme Court Justice
19720107::William Hubbs Rehnquist, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
19730107::"Purlie" closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC after 14 performances
19730107::British Darts Organisation founded in North London
19730107::Jo Ann Prentice wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational
19730107::Johnny Watkins bowls six overs 0-21 v Pakistan Never again
19730107::US poet James Merrill wins Bollingen Prize
19730107::WNPB TV channel 13 in Marquette, MI (PBS) begins broadcasting
19740107::Dutch rations gasoline
19750107::"Shenandoah" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 1050 performances
19750107::Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to AR Ammons (Sphere)
19750107::Gary Geld & Peter Udell's musical "Shenandoah," premieres in NYC
19750107::Led Zeppelin fans riot before Boston concert, causing $30,000 damage
19770107::Huyman Rights Charta '77 established in Prague
19780107::Angola revises its constitution
19790107::Vietnamese forces capture Phnom Penh from Khmer Rouge
19800107::Minn ends Phila Flyers' NHL record 35 game unbeaten streak ends
19820107::"Fame" premieres on NBC TV
19820107::Islander's Bryan Trottier's 10th career hat trick
19830107::Australia regain the Ashes with a 2-1 series win v England
19830107::Reagan ends US arms embargo against Guatemala
19850107::"King & I" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 191 performances
19850107::Japanese space probe Sakigake launched to Halley's comet
19850107::KHQ-AM in Spokane WA changes call letters to KLSN (now KAQQ)
19850107::Lou Brock & Hoyt Wilhelm, elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame
19860107::Chicago Bears defeat New England Patriots 46-10 in Super Bowl XX
19860107::Netherlands Bank issues 250 guilder notes
19860107::STS 61-C mission scrubbed at T -9m because of weather problems
19860107::US president Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya
19870107::French airplanes harass Libyan positions in Duadi Doum
19870107::Kapil Dev takes his 300th Test wicket, at 28 the youngest
19890107::Akhito becomes emperor of Japan
19890107::Intl Conference on Limitation of Chemical Weapons opens in Paris
19890107::NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers longest win streak (11)
19890107::Cleve Cavs block 21 NY Knick shots tying NBA regulation game record
19900107::Lynn Jennings runs world record 5K indoor at 15:22.64
19900107::Tower Of Pisa closed to the public after leaning too far
19910107::"Nia Peeples Party Machine" premieres on TV
19920107::AT&T releases video-telephone ($1,499)
19920107::Last day of Test cricket for Imran Khan
19920107::Tom Seaver & Rollie Fingers elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame
19940107::South Africa beat Australia in the Sydney Test by 5 runs
19940107::US female Figure Skating championship won by Tonya Harding
19940107::United Express commuter plane crashes in Ohio, killing 5
19950107::"Christmas Carol" closes at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC after 18 perfs
19950107::"Passion" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 280 performances
19960107::"Crazy after You" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 1622 perfs
19960107::"Fool Moon" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after * performances
19960107::16th United Negro College Fund raises $12,600,000
19970107::Newt Gingrich, narrowly re-elected speaker of the House
06240108::Moslem army occupies Kurashitische Caravan
07940108::Vikings attacked Lindisfarne Island
08710108::Battle at Ashdown: Ethelred of Wessex beats Danish invasion army
11980108::Lotario di Segni elected Pope Innocentius III
12140108::Earl Ferrand of Flanders drops ties with France
14990108::Louis XII of France after papal divorce marries Anne, Duchess of Brittany to keep duchy for the crown
15580108::French troops under duke de Guise occupy Calais
15980108::Genoa Italy expels Jews
15980108::Jews are expelled from Genoa Italy
16560108::Oldest surviving commercial newspaper begins (Haarlem, Netherlands)
16750108::1st American commercial corporation chartered (NY Fishing Co)
17050108::Georg F H„ndels 1st opera "Almira," premieres in Hamburg
17160108::Dutch gang leader "Sjako" arrested
17450108::England, Austria, Neth & Saxon sign anti-Prussian Quadruple Alliance
17460108::Bonnie Prince Charlie's troops occupy Stirling [NS=Jan 19]
17600108::Comet C/1760 A1 (Great comet) approaches within 0.0682 AUs of Earth
17900108::George Washington delivers 1st state of union address (or Jan 4)
17980108::11th Amendment ratified, judicial powers construed
18000108::Austrians defeat French in 2nd battle of Novi
18000108::Wild Boy of Aveyron discovered in southern France
18060108::Cape colony becomes English colony
18060108::Lewis & Clark find skeleton of 105' blue whale in Oregon
18110108::Louisiana slave revolt by Charles Deslondes at German Coast
18150108::Battle of New Orleans-War of 1812 ended 12/24/1814 but nobody knew
18300108::Dutch King Willem I fires him displeasing parliament members
18330108::Boston Academy of Music, 1st US music school, established
18380108::1st telegraph message sent using dots & dashes (NJ)
18380108::Rebellion at Amherstburg, Ontario breaks out
18420108::Dutch King Willem II charters Technical College Delft
18480108::Austrian soldiers kill 10 students, Pavia
18530108::1st US bronze equestrian statue (of Andrew Jackson) unveiled, Wash
18560108::Dr John A Veatch discovers borax, Tuscan Springs, Calif
18570108::Dion Boucicauly's "Poor of NY," premieres in NYC
18650108::Sen Everett Dirksen introduces a bill to make marigold the natl flower
18670108::Legislation gives suffrage to DC blacks, despite Pres Johnson's veto
18700108::US mint at Carson City, Nevada begins issuing coins
18780108::Secret meeting of King Leopold II's agent & Henry Morton Stanley
18840108::Chrome tanning process for leather patented by Augustus Schultz
18890108::1st Computer patented
18890108::Dr Herman Hollerith receives 1st US patent for a tabulating machine
18940108::Columbus World's fair in Chicago destroyed by fire
18970108::Michael Eagan wins 1st US national amateur handball championship
19010108::NSW score 918 all out vs South Australia in 560 minutes
19020108::1st National Bowling Championship held (Chicago, Ill)
19040108::Pope Pius X banned low cut dresses in the presence of churchmen
19130108::Frank Chance becomes Yankee manager
19170108::Austria-Hungarian troops conquer Forlani Italy
19180108::Mississippi becomes 1st state to ratify 18th amendment (prohibition)
19180108::Pres Wilson outlines his 14 points for peace after WW I
19230108::Typography strike in Amsterdam
19250108::1st all-female US state supreme court appointed, Texas
19260108::Abdul-Aziz ibn Sa'ud becomes king of Hejaz; renames it Saudi Arabia
19290108::1st telephone connection between Netherlands & West-Indies
19290108::CBS radio network buys WABC in NYC
19300108::Belgium Princess Marie-Jos‚ marries Italian's crown prince Umberto
19310108::Phila Quakers set then NHL record of 15 straight loses
19320108::Ratification of present SF City Charter
19340108::Jaap Speyers "Bluejackets" premieres in Amsterdam
19350108::Spectrophotometer patented, AC Hardy
19370108::-50øF (-45.6øC), San Jacinto, Nevada (state record)
19380108::Bradman scores 107 for South Australia v Qld (1st innings)
19400108::Britain's 1st WW II rationing (bacon, butter & sugar)
19410108::British Air Marshal Richard Peirse resigns
19450108::"Youth for Christ" organizes
19470108::Gen George Marshall becomes Sect of State
19470108::Toronto Maple Leaf rookie Howie Meeker scores 5 goals in a game
19480108::Queen Wilhelmina signs death sentence against Ans van Dijk for treason
19490108::"Make Mine Manhattan" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 429 perfs
19490108::"My Romance" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 95 performances
19490108::"Small Wonder" closes at Coronet Theater NYC after 134 performances
19510108::Thought extinct since 1615, a Cahow is rediscovered in Bermuda
19520108::Jordan adopts constitution
19530108::Indians bar night games with Browns (who refuse to share TV receipts)
19530108::Ren‚ Mayer forms French govt
19540108::Elvis Presley pays $4 to a Memphis studio & records his 1st two songs, "Casual Love" & "I'll Never Stand in Your Way"
19550108::Furman sets NCAA basketball single-game scoring record with 154 pt
19550108::Georgia Tech ends Kentucky's 130-game home basketball win streak
19550108::Louise Sugg wins LPGA LA Golf Open
19550108::WUNC TV channel 4 in Chapel Hill, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting
19560108::Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Conrad Aiken
19560108::Elvis Presley's "Don't Be Cruel/Hound Dog," single goes to #1 & stays #1 for a record 11 weeks (for a single)
19580108::Cuban revolutionary forces capture Havana
19590108::Charles de Gaulle inaugurated as pres of France's 5th Republic
19610108::Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Yvor Winters
19620108::Dutch express train crashes into slow commuter train, 93 die (Neth)
19620108::Golfer Jack Nicklaus, 21, 1st pro appearance, he came in 50th
19630108::"Mona Lisa," on loan, unveiled in America's National Gallery of Art
19630108::Dmitri Shostakovitch' Katharina Ismailova, premieres in Riga
19640108::European Parliament accept Mansholt Plan
19640108::President Lyndon B Johnson declares "War on Poverty"
19650108::Sen Dirksen proposes marigold as national flower (didn't pass)
19650108::Star of India returned to American Museum of Natural History
19660108::Beatles' "Rubber Soul," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 6 weeks
19660108::Beatles' "We Can Work It Out," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 3 weeks
19660108::Georges Pompidou appointed French premier
19660108::Who & the Kinks perform on the last "Shindig" TV show on ABC
19680108::Jacques Cousteau's 1st undersea special on US network TV
19710108::29 pilot whales beach themselves & die at San Clemente Island, Calif
19710108::Voyageurs National Park, Minn established
19720108::Dmitri Shostakovitch' 15th Symphony, premieres in Moscow
19720108::NCAA announces freshman can play on teams starting in fall
19730108::"Tricks" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 8 performances
19730108::Greg Chappell's best Test bowling, 5-61 v Pakistan at SCG
19730108::Secret peace talks between US & North Vietnam resumed near Paris
19730108::USSR launches Luna 21 for Moon landing
19740108::E Wilson Jr's musical "Let My People Come," premieres in NYC
19740108::Gold hits record $126.50 an ounce in London
19740108::Loch Ness Monster photographed
19740108::Silver hits record $3.40 an ounce in New York
19750108::Judge Sirica orders release of Watergate's John W Dean III, Herbert W Kalmbach & Jeb Stuart Magruder from prison
19760108::Franklin Mint strikes 1st gold coins for Netherlands Antilles
19780108::Israeli govt votes to `strengthen' settlements in occupied Sinai
19790108::512 die as oil tanker Bantry Bay blows up
19790108::Argentina & Chile sign Beagle Canal accord
19790108::Today Show gets a new theme song
19790108::Vietnamese troops overtook Khmer Rouge & occupy Phnom Penh
19800108::Islander Glenn Resch's 20th shut-out opponent-Canucks 3-0
19800108::NCAA decides to sponsor women's championships in 5 sports
19810108::"Pirates of Penzance" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 772 performances
19810108::India all out 63 in one-day international v Australia
19810108::Reds become last team to sign a free agent (Larry Biitner)
19820108::AT&T agrees to divest itself of 22 Bell System companies
19820108::Johnny Cash Parkway opens in Hendersonville Tennessee
19820108::Justice Dept withdraws antitrust suit against IBM, pending since
19840108::NCAA announces that basketball tournament will have 64 teams
19840108::Wash Caps Bengt Gustafsson scores 5 goals to beat Phila 7-1
19850108::Japan launches Sakigake space probe to Halley's Comet
19860108::Willie McCovey is 16th elected to Hall of Fame in his 1st year
19870108::Dow Jones closes above 2,000 for 1st time (2,002.25)
19870108::Jack Sikma (Milwaukee) begins NBA free throw streak of 51 games
19880108::9th largest NBA crowd 38,873-Chicago at Detroit
19880108::Dow Jones down 140.58 points
19880108::Hewlett-Packard introduces HP-28S Advanced Scientific Calculator
19880108::US female Figure Skating championship won by Debi Thomas
19890108::"42nd Street" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 3,486 perfs
19890108::"Starlight Express" closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 761 perfs
19890108::Boeing 737-400 crashes in England, 46 die
19890108::Soviet Union promises to eliminate stockpiles of chemical weapons
19910108::"Davis Rules," with Jonathan Winters & Randy Quaid premieres on ABC-TV
19910108::Gaylord Perry, Ferguson Jenkins & Rod Carew elected to Hall of Fame
19910108::Rod Carew is 22nd player elected to Hall of Fame on 1st try
19910108::Tam s Darnyi swims world record 400m medley (4:12.36)
19920108::George Bush gets ill & vomits on Japanese prime minister's lap
19930108::Chicago Bull Michael Jordan scores his 20,000th career point
19930108::Elvis Presley Commemorative Postage Stamp goes on sale
19930108::Michael Jordan scores his 20,000th career point
19930108::NBC offers "Tonight Show" to David Letterman
19940108::Rintje Ritsma skates world record 1500m (1:51.60)
19940108::Russian manned space craft TM-18, launches into orbit
19940108::US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Davis
19950108::"Guys & Dolls" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 1143 perfs
19950108::15th United Negro College Fund raises $12,200,000
19950108::Mike Schmidt is elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame
19960108::Blizzard buries eastern US causing at least 50 deaths
19960108::For 1st time in 25 years no one is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
19980108::NY Giant GM George Young resigns to accept NFL position
19980108::Roseanne files for divorce from 3rd husband Ben Thomas
19980108::Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski asks to act as his own lawyer
19980108::World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Ahmed Yousef sentenced to life
12960109::Earl Floris V signs accord with French king
13170109::Phillips V, the Tall, crowned king of France
13490109::700 Jews of Basel Switzerland, burned alive in their houses
14280109::Pope Martinus V declares Jacoba van Beierens marriage invalid
14640109::1st meeting of States-General of Netherlands
14930109::1st sight of manatees (by Christopher Columbus)
15220109::Adriaan F Boeyens elected only Dutch pope (Adrian VI)
15580109::Geneva becomes independent from Berne canton, Switzerland
15700109::Tsar Ivan the terrible kills 1000-2000 residents of Novgorod
17180109::France declares war on Spain
17600109::Afghans defeat Marathas in battle of Barari Ghat
17880109::Connecticut becomes 5th state
17920109::Russia & Turkey sign Peace of Jassy
17930109::1st hot-air balloon flight in the US lifts off in Phila
17930109::Dutch Prince Willem V establishes 2 brigades Drive Artillery
17930109::Jean Pierre Blanchard makes 1st balloon flight in North America
17990109::Income Tax introduced in UK
18110109::1st Women's Golf Tournament held
18120109::Swedish Pomerania (Germany) seized by Napoleon
18340109::HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin arrives in Port San Julian, Patagonia
18390109::Daguerrotype photo process announced at French Academy of Science
18390109::Thomas Henderson measures 1st stellar parallax (Alpha Centauri)
18470109::1st SF newspaper published (California Star)
18480109::1st commercial bank in SF established
18480109::People's uprising in Palermo Sicily
18540109::Astor Library opens in NYC
18550109::Clipper Guiding Star disappears in Atlantic, 480 dies
18570109::7.9 earthquake shakes Fort Tejon Calif
18610109::1st hostile act of Civil War; Star of West fired on, Sumter, SC
18610109::Mississippi becomes 2nd state to secede
18630109::-Jan 11th] Battle of Arkansas Post, AK (Ft Hindman)
18660109::Fisk University establishes
18790109::Cheyenne prisoners led by Dull Knife revolt at Ft Robinson
18790109::Kirland Warbler discovered on Andros Island in Bahamas
18800109::6' (1.8 meters) of snow falls in Seattle in 5 days
18940109::"Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze" released in movie theaters
18940109::Georges Feydeau's "Un … la Patte," premieres in Paris
19010109::NSW (918) defeat S Australia (157 & 156) by innings & 605
19030109::2 NYers buy Baltimore baseball franchise for $18,000 & moved it to NY
19030109::Baseball's National & American Leagues make peace
19030109::Wind Cave National Park, SD established
19030109::Frank Farrell & Bill Devery purchase AL Balt franchise for $18,000 & move it to NYC (Yankees)
19050109::Bloody Sunday-demonstrators fired on by tsarist troops (1/22 NS)
19080109::Frans Schollaert succeeds De Trooz as premier of Belgium
19080109::Muir Woods National Monument, Calif established
19090109::Ernest Shackleton reaches 88ø23' south
19120109::US marines invade Honduras
19150109::Exposition (now Civic) Auditorium dedicated, SF
19220109::KQV-AM in Pittsburgh PA begins radio transmissions
19220109::Rotterdam metal strike ends
19230109::Juan de la Cierva makes 1st autogiro (helicopter) flight, Spain
19250109::German Postal Minister A H”fle resigns due to corruption
19270109::Dmitri Shostakovitch' Octet opus 11, premieres in Moscow
19270109::Fire in Laurier Palace cinema in Montreal, 78 children died
19280109::Eugene O'Neill's "Marco Millions," premieres in NYC
19290109::BG DeSylva & Lew Brown's musical "Follow Thru," premieres in NYC
19290109::KDB-AM in Santa Barbara CA begins radio transmissions
19300109::Boston Bruins wins then NHL record 14th straight game
19330109::Amsterdam confectionery worker go on strike against wage reduction
19360109::No‰l Coward's "Astonished Heart," premieres in London
19360109::Semi-automatic rifles adopted by US army
19370109::Italian regime bans marriages between Italians & Abyssinians
19370109::Maxwell Anderson's "High Tor" premieres in NYC
19400109::2 German officers make emergency landing in Belgium
19400109::J Thurber & E Nugent's "Male Animal," premieres in NYC
19410109::6,000 Jews exterminated in pogrom in Bucharest Romania
19410109::Maiden flight by Canada's Avro Lancaster military plane
19420109::Joe Louis KOs Buddy Baer in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
19420109::US Joint Chiefs of Staff created
19430109::Japanese govt in Java limits sale & use of motorcars
19450109::US soldiers led by Gen Douglas MacArthur invades Philippines
19460109::"Would-Be Gentleman" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 77 performances
19470109::"Street Scene" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 148 performances
19470109::Roger Sessions' 2nd Symphony, premieres in SF
19480109::Walter Piston's 3rd Symphony in E, premieres in Boston
19510109::Life After Tomorrow, 1st film to receive an "X" rating, premieres
19510109::Washington Capitals NBA club folds
19520109::Belgian Pholien govt resigns
19520109::Karel Sys wins European heavyweight boxing title
19520109::Marines give notice that they will recall Ted Williams to active duty
19530109::Bevo Francis, Rio Grande College, scores 116 pts in basketball game
19530109::Korean ferryboat "Chang Tyong-Ho" sank off Pusan killing 249
19540109::-87øF (-66øC), Northice Station, Greenland (Greenland record)
19540109::Bert Olmstead, Mont Canadiens, ties NHL record of 8 points in game
19540109::Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Louise Bogan & Leonie Adams
19560109::Abigail Van Buren's "Dear Abby" column 1st appears in newspapers
19560109::Samir el-Rifai forms govt in Jordan
19570109::British premier Anthony Eden resigns
19570109::Checheno-Ingush ASSR reformed in RSFSR
19570109::Dutch Newspaper Society expels communist daily paper "Truth"
19570109::Kalmyk Autonomous Region reformed in RSFSR
19570109::Karachayevo-Cherkess Autonomous Region reestablished in RSFSR
19580109::In basketball Oscar Robertson (Cin) scores 56, Seton Hall team 54
19590109::"Rawhide" with Clint Eastwood premieres on CBS TV
19590109::Dam across Tera River collapses after heavy winter rains, 135 die
19590109::Pat O'Connor beats Dick Hutton in St Louis, to become NWA champ
19600109::Building of Aswan dam in Egypt, begins
19610109::Twins agree on $500,000 payment to AA for Minn/St Paul territory
19620109::Mister M (Dr X) beats Verne Gagne in Minn, to become NWA champ
19620109::NFL prohibits grabbing of face masks
19620109::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19630109::Mao Tse-tung writes his poem "Reply to Comrade Kuo Mo-jo"
19640109::Anti-US rioting broke out in Panama Canal Zone
19650109::"Beatles' '65" album goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks
19660109::Polish govt denies exit visa to Cardinal Wyszynski revisionism
19670109::Georgia legislature seats Rep Julian Bond
19670109::NFL New Orleans' franchise takes name "Saints"
19680109::1st ABA All-Star Game: East 126 beats West 120 at Indiana
19680109::Surveyor 7 space probe soft lands on Moon
19690109::1st trial flight of Concorde
19690109::Concorde jetliner's 1st test flight (Bristol England)
19700109::Constitution of Singapore enacted
19710109::"Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen" closes at Majestic NYC after 19 perf
19720109::Billionaire Howard Hughes says Clifford Irving's bio is a fake
19720109::Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational
19720109::Passenger ship Queen Elizabeth destroyed by fire
19730109::Luna 21 launched, to Moon
19750109::600 employees of Royal Canadian Mint go on strike
19750109::Australia beat England by 171 runs in 4th Test to regain Ashes
19760109::Bryan Trottier failed in 4th Islander penalty shot
19760109::CW McCall CB song "Convoy" hit #1 on the country music charts
19760109::Ringo releases "Oh My My" in UK
19770109::"Porgy & Bess" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 122 performances
19770109::Superbowl XI: Oakland Raiders beat Minn Vikings, 32-14 in Pasadena Superbowl MVP: Fred Biletnikoff, Oakland, WR
19780109::Commonwealth of Northern Marianas established
19790109::Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to WS Merwin
19790109::High-school player Daryl Moreau makes 126th consecutive free throws
19790109::K-Mart pulls Steve Martin's "Let's Get Small" for being in "bad taste"
19790109::Supreme Court strikes down (6-3) PA law requiring doctors performing an abortion to try to preserve lives of potentially viable fetuses
19800109::63 beheaded in Mecca, Saudi Arabia
19810109::Francisco Balsamao elected pres of Portugal
19820109::5.9 earthquake in New England & Canada; 1st since 1855
19820109::Steve D'Innocenzo scores 3 hockey goals in 12 sec in Mass HS game
19830109::British PM Margaret Thatcher visits Falkland Islands
19840109::"TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes" premieres on NBC TV (Whoops)
19840109::Braves pitcher Pascual Perez is arrested for cocaine possession
19840109::EAA moves operations to Oshkosh
19840109::John Lennon releases "Nobody Told Me"
19850109::Flames set NHL record 264th regular season game without being shut-out
19860109::NY Islanders greatest shutout margin (9-0) vs Pittsburgh Penguins
19870109::Chinese/Vietnamese border fights, 1500 killed
19870109::New Nicaraguan constitution takes effect
19870109::Sir Rudolph Bing (of NY Met Opera) marries Lady Carroll Douglass
19880109::August Wilson's "Piano Lesson," premieres in Boston
19880109::English earl of St Andrews marries Sylvana Tomaselli
19880109::US male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano
19890109::"Pat Sajak Show" premieres on CBS
19890109::Johnny Bench & Carl Yastrzemski elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
19900109::64th US manned space mission STS 32 (Columbia 10) launches into orbit
19900109::Boston Celtics worst ¬ ever (6 pts in 2nd vs NJ Nets) & lose 87-78
19900109::Jim Palmer & Joe Morgan elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
19900109::Supreme Court strikes down Dallas' ordinance imposing strict zoning on sexually oriented businesses
19910109::Baker & Aziz meet in Geneva; talks fail to defuse gulf crisis
19910109::Baseball officially bans Pete Rose from being elected to Hall of Fame
19910109::Dean Smith of NC is 6th to win 700 career coaching basketball games
19930109::Franziska van Almsick swims world record 100 m free style (53.33)
19940109::14th United Negro College Fund raises $11,000,000
19940109::Gunda Niemann skates world record (167.282 pts)
19940109::Rintje Ritsma skates world record (156.201 points)
19950109::Ecuador & Peru involve in boundary fight
19950109::Worker accidentally cuts electrial wires at Newark Airport
19970109::Heart attacks sends Frank Sinatra back to hospital
19980109::Anatoly Karpov defeats Viswanathan Anand to retain chess title
19980109::Anatoly Solovyov & Pavel Vinogradov spacewalk record 3 hrs 8 mins
19980109::Boston Red Sox Mo Vaughn pleads not guilty to drunken driving
19980109::Decapitated head of Danish Little Mermaid is returned
19980109::Hockey News selects Wayne Gretzky best NHL player ever
00690110::Roman emperor Galba adopts Marcus Piso Licinianus as C‘sar
02360110::St Fabian begins his reign as Catholic Pope
10720110::Robert Guiscard conquers Palermo
13560110::German emperor Charles I delegates Golden Degree
14290110::Order of Golden Fleece established in Austria-Hungary & Spain
14300110::Duke Philip the Good marries Isabella of Portugal
14300110::Order of the Guilder forms
15140110::Complutensian New Testament in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek & Latin finished
15500110::1st sitting of "Vurige Chamber" in Paris
16420110::King Charles I & family flee London for Oxford
16630110::King Charles II affirms charter of Royal African Company
17310110::Charles Farnese becomes duke of Parma/Piacenza
17760110::"Common Sense" by Thomas Paine, published
17990110::Friedrich von Schiller's "Die Piccolomini," premieres in Weimar
18060110::Dutch in Capetown surrender to British
18080110::Herman Daendels succeeds A Wiese as gov-gen of Neth Indies
18100110::French church annuls marriage of Napoleon I & Jos‚phine
18110110::Louisiana slaves rebell in 2 parishes
18330110::Felix Mendelssohn's "Die erste Walpurgisnacht," premieres in Berlin
18390110::Tea from India 1st arrives in UK
18400110::Penny Post mail system is starts
18450110::Poets Elizabeth Barrett & Robert Browning begin corresponding
18530110::Charles Reade's "Gold," premieres in London
18610110::Florida becomes 3rd state to secede from US
18610110::Ft Jackson & Ft Philip are taken over by LA state troops
18610110::US forts & property seized by Mississippi
18620110::Battle of Big Sandy River, KY (Middle Creek)
18620110::Battle of Romney, WV
18630110::1st underground railway opens in London
18630110::General McClernand's Union troops surround Fort Hindman Ark
18630110::January-uprising begins in Poland
18630110::London's 1st subway opens
18700110::Georgia legislature reconvenes
18700110::John D Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil
18780110::US Senate proposes female suffrage
18830110::Fire at uninsured Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin kills 71. General Tom Thumb of P T Barnum fame, escapes unhurt
18890110::Ivory Coast declared a protectorate of France
18900110::Edward Macdowell's "Lancelot & Elaine," premieres
18900110::Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Sapientiae Christianae
18930110::Richard Drigo's ballet "Magic Flute" premieres, St Petersburg
18970110::Henrik Ibsen's "John Gabriel Borkman," premieres in Helsingfors
18970110::Vincent d'Indy's "Istar" premieres in Amsterdam & Brussels
19000110::Lord Roberts & Lord Kitchener reach Capetown
19010110::Oil discovered in Texas
19020110::Alphons Diepenbrock's "Te Deum" premieres (Amsterdam)
19100110::1st international air meet in US held, in LA
19100110::Lunt-Fontanne Theater (Globe) opens at 205 W 46th St NYC
19110110::1st photo in US taken from an airplane, San Diego
19110110::Honduras signs treaty turning over customs to US (not ratified)
19110110::Trumper scored double cricket ton v South Africa, goes on to get 214
19120110::Caillaux govt in France resigns
19120110::World's 1st flying boat's maiden flight, (Glenn Curtiss in NY)
19140110::1st edition of Hague's Post under SF van Oss, published
19140110::Oscar Mathisen skates world record 500 m in 43.7 sec in Oslo
19160110::Russian offensive in Kaukasus
19200110::League of Nations established
19200110::Mont Canadiens (14) & Tor St Patricks (7) score NHL record 21 goals
19200110::Silver reaches record $1.37 an ounce
19230110::Last US troops leave Rhineland (Germany)
19230110::Lithuania seizes & annexes country of Memel
19250110::France-Saarland forms
19250110::Miriam (Ma) Ferguson sworn in as TX gov, nation's 2nd woman governor
19270110::Fritz Lang's Metropolis premieres
19280110::G/I Gershwin/Romberg/Wodehouse's musical "Rosalie," premieres in NYC
19280110::Soviet Union orders exile of Leon Trotsky
19290110::Elmer Rice's "Street Scene," premieres in NYC
19300110::Commencement of NZ's 1st Test, v England Christchurch
19300110::Maurice Allom takes Test hat-trick England v NZ Christchurch
19300110::Mordovian Autonomous Region in RSFSR constituted
19310110::Phila Quakers defeat Montr‚al, ends NHL-record 15-game losing streak
19320110::"Mickey Mouse" & "Silly Symphony" comics syndicated
19320110::"Pete the Tramp" cartoon strip by C D Russell debuts
19350110::Actress Mary Pickford marries actor Douglas Fairbanks
19380110::Eduard van Beinum becomes world's 1st conductor at Concert Hall
19380110::Jean Anouilh's "La Sauvage," premieres in Paris
19380110::Paul Vincent Carroll's "White Seed," premieres in NYC
19390110::Bradman hits 186 SA v Qld before Christ catches him at short-leg
19410110::Joseph Kesselring's "Arsenic & Old Lace," premieres in NYC
19410110::Seyss-Inquart begins registration of Jews
19420110::Japan invades North-Celebes, Neth Indies
19430110::Russian offensive against German 6th/4th Armies near Stalingrad
19430110::1st US pres to visit a foreign country in wartime-FDR leaves for Casablanca, Morocco
19440110::1st mobile electric power plant delivered, Phila
19440110::British troops conquer Maungdaw, Burma
19450110::Baseball writers again fail to elect a new Hall of Famer
19450110::LA Railway (with 5 streetcar lines) forced to close
19450110::No one is elected to baseball's Hall of Fame
19460110::1st radar contact with Moon
19460110::UN General Assembly meets for 1st time (London)
19460110::US Army establishes 1st radar contact with Moon, Belmar, NJ
19470110::"Finian's Rainbow" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 725 performances
19470110::British stop ships Independence & In-Gathering from landing in Israel
19470110::Greek steamer "Himara" strikes a wartime mine in Saronic Gulf south of Athens with loss of 392 of 637 aboard
19480110::"Call Me Mister" closes at National Theater NYC after 734 performances
19490110::1st Jewish family show "Goldbergs" premieres on CBS
19490110::RCA introduces 45 RPM record
19510110::1st jet passenger trip made
19510110::UN headquarters opens in Manhattan NY
19520110::Jean Anouilh's "La valse des tor‚adors," premieres in Paris
19530110::"My Darlin' Aida" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 89 perfs
19530110::Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Archibald MacLeish
19530110::NFL Pro Bowl: N Conf beats A Conf 27-7
19540110::Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to W H Auden
19560110::Elvis records "Heartbreak Hotel"
19570110::Anthony Eden resigns & Harold Macmillan becomes PM Britain
19570110::Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick rules Bing Crosby can keep token stock in the Det Tigers, even though he owns part of Pitts Pirates
19580110::Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire" reaches #1
19600110::Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Delmore Schwartz
19620110::4,000 die in avalanche, Ranrahirca, Per£
19620110::Eruptions on Mount Huascaran in Peru destroy 7 villages & kill 3,500
19640110::Battles between moslems & hindus in Calcutta
19640110::Panama severs diplomatic relations with US
19640110::US version of "That Was The Week That Was," premieres
19650110::Bollingen prize for poetry awarded to Horace Gregory
19650110::NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 34-14
19650110::WKBD TV channel 50 in Detroit, MI (IND) begins broadcasting
19660110::India & Pakistan sign peace accord
19660110::Julian Bond denied seat in Ga legislature for opposing Vietnam War
19670110::Dutch Princess Margret marries Pieter van Vollenhoven
19670110::Edward Brooke, takes (Sen-R-Mass) seat as 1st popular elected black
19670110::Lester Maddox inaugurated as governor of Georgia
19670110::PBS (the National Educational TV) begins as a 70 station network
19670110::Princess Margret marries Mr Pieter van Vollenhoven
19680110::"Great Balls of Fire" reaches #1
19680110::US Surveyor 7 lands near lunar crater Tycho
19690110::Pirate Radio Station Free Derby begins operation by Northern Ireland
19690110::Sweden (1st Western country) recognizes North Vietnam
19690110::USSR's Venera 6 launched for parachute landing on Venus
19700110::Preview Center Opens
19710110::"Light, Lively & Yiddish" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 87 perfs
19710110::Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Richard Wilbur
19720110::LA Lakers 33 straight win streak snapped, losing to Bucks 120-104
19720110::Sheik Mujib ur-Rahman arrives in Dacca, East-Pakistan
19720110::Triple album set "Concert for Bangladesh" released in UK
19730110::Gas tank on Staten Island explodes, 40 die
19770110::20th hat trick in Islander history - Bobby Nystrom
19780110::Soyuz 27 carring 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station, launched
19790110::1st brother Billy Carter makes allegedly anti-Semitic remarks
19790110::Entertainer of the Year Awards
19800110::Last broadcast of "Rockford Files" on NBC
19800110::Jim Stewart, Bruin's rookie goalie allows 3 goals in his 1st 4 mins & a total of 5 in 1st period; he never again plays in NHL
19810110::El Salvador guerrilla group FMLN opens "general offensive"
19810110::John Severin sets 100-mi unicycle speed record, 9 h 21 m
19820110::-17øF (27.2øC) in Braemar Grampian (equals UK record)
19820110::Bengals beat Chargers in -59øF (-51øC) to win AFC championship
19820110::Petra Schneider swims world record 1500 m freestyle (15:43.31)
19830110::NY Supreme Court issues a preliminary injunction barring NY Yankees from playing season-opening series against Tigers in Denver
19840110::Argentine ex-president/general Bignone arrested
19840110::Bulgarian Tupolev 134 crashs at Sofia airport in Bulgaria, 50 die
19840110::Clara Peller 1st asks, "Where's the Beef?"
19840110::Luis Aparicio, Harmon Killebrew, & D Drysdale elected to Hall of Fame
19840110::US establishes full diplomatic relations with Vatican after 117 years
19850110::Daniel Ortega Saavedra inaugurated as president of Nicaragua
19860110::Palau signs Compact of Free Association with US
19860110::STS 61-C mission scrubbed T -9m because of bad weather at Kennedy
19880110::"Don't Get God Started" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 86 perfs
19900110::"Les Miserables," opens at Mechanic Theatre, Baltimore
19900110::China lifts martial law (imposed after Tiananmen Square massacre)
19900110::NCAA approves random drug testing for college football players
19910110::Japan ends routine fingerprinting of all adult ethnic Koreans
19910110::US Congress begins debate on Persian Gulf crisis
19920110::8th Soap Opera Digest Awards
19930110::"My Favorite Year" closes at Vivian Beaumont NYC after 37 perfs
19930110::"Sea Gull" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 48 performances
19930110::Maiden flight of Ultrair (Houston to LA)
19940110::Trial of Lorena Bobbitt who cut off her husband's penis, begins
19940110::Ukraine says it will give up world's 3rd largest nuclear arsenal
19940110::Uzbekistan & Kazakhstan agrees to abolish trade tariffs
19950110::"Late Late Show" with Tom Snyder premieres on CBS at 12:30 AM
19960110::Israel frees hundreds of Palestinian prisoners
19960110::Jimmy Johnson announced as new coach of Miami Dolphins
19970110::"Rehersal," closes at Criterion Theater NYC
19970110::1st Comet of 1997 Discovered: Comet 1997 A1
19970110::4,000th episode of "Entertainment Tonight"
19970110::Dow Corning provides $295 billion to settle breast implant suits
19970110::Italy's new 1,000 lire coin shows divided Germany on map
19970110::Right-winger Arnoldo Aleman sworn in as president of Nicaragua
19980110::18th United Negro College Fund raises (rebroadcasted Jan 17th)
03140111::St Militiades ends his reign as Catholic Pope
05320111::Nika-revolt against Justianus & Theodora in Hippodrome Constantinople
11580111::Vladislav II of Bohemia becomes king
15580111::Westmunster Church in Middelburg destroyed by heavy storm
15690111::1st recorded lottery in England is drawn in St Paul's Cathedral
15710111::Emperor Maximilian II grants Austrian adel freedom of religion
15990111::Jacob van Necks fleet leaves Bantam Java with pepper, clove & muskaat
16420111::Isaac Newton is elected a member of Royal Society
16930111::Mt Etna erupts, Sicily
17090111::Colley Cibber's "Rival Fools," premieres in London
17530111::Ferdinand VI of Spain & Pope Benedictus XIV sign concord
17580111::Russian troops occupy K”nigsberg, East-Prussia [NS=Jan 22]
17590111::1st American life insurance company incorporated, Philadelphia
17650111::Frisia bans Voltaires "Trait‚ sur la tol‚rance"
17740111::Messier adds M51 (spiral galaxy in Canes Venatici) to his catalog
17750111::Francis Salvador becomes 1st Jew elected to office in America (SC)
17850111::Continental Congress convenes in NYC
17870111::Titania & Oberon, moons of Uranus, discovered by William Herschel
17900111::Statisten & Vonckisten unite as Belgium
18030111::Monroe & Livingston sail for Paris to buy New Orleans; they buy La
18050111::Michigan Territory organizes
18130111::1st pineapples planted in Hawaii (or 1/21)
18390111::Earthquake at Martinique destroys half of Port Royal-700 die
18610111::Alabama becomes 4th state to secede
18610111::Mexico City captured by Ju rez (Lib) in War of Reform
18630111::Naval engagement near Galveston between CSS Alabama & USS Hatteras
18630111::Union forces capture Arkansas Post, or Ft Hindman, Arkansas
18640111::Charing Cross Station opens in London
18650111::Battle of Beverly, WV
18660111::Steamship London sinks in storm off Land's End England, kills 220
18730111::1st livestock market newspaper published, Drover's Journal, Chicago
18790111::Zulu war against British colonial rule in South Africa begins
18850111::Henrik Ibsen's "Vildauden," premieres in Oslo
18920111::Hawaiian Historical Society founded
18920111::Paul Gauguin marries a 13-year-old Tahitian girl
18920111::William D McCoy of Indiana appointed US minister to Liberia
18930111::Jaap Eden skates world record 1500m (2:35)
18970111::M H Cannon becomes 1st woman state senator in US (Utah)
19040111::Herero people of South West Africa, now Namibia, begin uprising
19130111::1st sedan-type car (Hudson) goes on display at 13th Auto Show (NYC)
19130111::Bread & Roses Strike begins
19150111::Col Jacob Ruppert & Col Tillinghast Huston purchase Yanks for $460,000
19160111::French troops capture/Serbian army flees to Corfu
19170111::Guy Bolton & PG Wodehouse's "Have a Heart," premieres in NYC
19190111::3 year old German communist party (Spartacus) crushed
19190111::Romania annexes Transylvania
19200111::French passenger ship Afrique sinks near La Rochelle; 553 die
19220111::Insulin 1st used to treat diabetes (Leonard Thompson, 14, of Canada)
19230111::1st Dutch Dada-evening (Theo Van Doesburg & Kurt Schwitters)
19230111::French & Belgian troops occupy Ruhr to collect reparations
19250111::Franc B Kellogg replaces Charles Hughes on as US Sect of State
19270111::Royale Theater (Golden, CBS Radio Playhouse) opens at 242 W 45th NYC
19350111::Amelia Earhart flies from Honolulu to Oakland Ca (non-stop, of course)
19360111::Charles Anderson enters Kentucky House of Representatives
19380111::Bradman scores a second innings 113 v Qld after a ton in the 1st
19380111::Frances Moulton elected 1st woman president of a US national bank
19400111::Sergei Prokofiev's ballet Romeo & Juliet premieres in Leningrad
19410111::Princess Irene Brigade established in Congleton
19420111::-23øF (-31øC), Kingston, Rhode Island (state record)
19420111::Japan conquers Kuala Lumpur, Malaya
19430111::US & Britain relinquish extraterritorial rights in China
19440111::Crakow-Plaszow Concentration Camp established
19460111::Bert Bell becomes 2nd NFL commissioner, moves Chicago HQ to Phila
19460111::Enver Hoxha declares People's Rep of Albania with himself dictator
19490111::Snowfall 1st recorded in Los Angeles
19520111::Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Marianne Moore
19530111::J Edgar Hoover declines 6 figure offer to become president of International Boxing Club
19540111::2 ton locomotive swept into ravine by avalanche 10 die (Austria)
19590111::Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Theodore Roethke
19590111::Hanif Mohammad completes 499 for Karachi, then 1st class world record
19590111::Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Mayfair Golf Open
19590111::NFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 28-21
19600111::Chad declares independence from France
19600111::Lamar Clark sets pro boxing record of 44 consecutive knockouts
19610111::Racial riot at University of Georgia
19620111::Volcano Huascaran in Peru, erupts; 4,000 die
19630111::1st discotheque opens, Whiskey-a-go-go in LA
19630111::Beatles release "Please Please Me" & "Ask Me Why"
19640111::"She Loves Me" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 302 perfs
19640111::1st govt report warning smoking may be hazardous to one's health
19640111::Beatles "I Want to Hold Your Hand" is #80 in US (Cashbox)
19640111::Panama ends diplomatic relations with US
19640111::US Surgeon General Luther Terry reports that smoking may be hazardous
19660111::"Daktari" African adventure series premieres on CBS TV
19660111::550 die in landslides in mountains behind Rio de Janeiro after rain
19670111::Romeinse Curie installs Council for Pontifical Study commission
19680111::Explorer 36 (GEOS-B) launched into earth orbit (1080/1570 km)
19690111::"Hooked on a Feeling" by BJ Thomas peaks at #5
19690111::Jethro Tull's This Was Jethro Tull album debuts
19700111::Superbowl IV: KC Chiefs beat Minn Vikings, 23-7 in New Orleans Superbowl MVP: Len Dawson, Kansas City, QB
19710111::1st "Quickie" Divorce granted in UK
19710111::Tigers ace reliever John Hiller, 27, sufferes a heart attack, but later makes a remarkable comeback to record 38 saves
19720111::East-Pakistan becomes independent state of Bangladesh
19720111::Abu Sayeed Chudhury becomes president & sheik Mujib ur-Rahman premier
19730111::American League adopts designated hitter rule
19730111::Famous victory at the SCG Pakistan chasing 158 all out 106
19730111::Trial of Watergate burglars begins in Wash DC
19740111::ABC airs final episode of "Love, American Style"
19750111::Soyuz 17 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 4
19760111::"Pacific Overtures" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 193 perfs
19760111::Dorothy Hamill wins her 3rd consec natl figure skating champions
19760111::Military coup in Ecuador, Pres Guillermo Lara leaves
19760111::Stephen Sondheim's musical "Pacific Overtures," premieres in NYC
19760111::US female Figure Skating championship won by Dorothy Hamill
19760111::US male Figure Skating championship won by Terry Kubicka
19770111::Bollingen Prize awarded to David Ignatow
19770111::Cubs trade outfielder Rick Monday to Dodgers for Bill Buckner
19770111::France releases Abu Daoud, a Palestinian suspected of involvement in massacre of Israeli athletes at 1972 Munich Olympics
19780111::Gov Askew dedicates RCUC solar office building
19780111::Soyuz 27 links with Salyut 6 & Soyuz 26 (1st time 3 spacecraft link)
19790111::"Grand Tour" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 61 performances
19800111::Debut of Pretenders
19810111::"Tintypes" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 93 performances
19810111::Palau adopts constitution
19810111::Brit team led by Ranulph Fiennes completes longest & fastest crossing of Antarctica, reaching Scott base after 75 days (2,500 miles)
19820111::Atlanta Ga's temperature goes below zero F
19820111::Honduras adopts constitution
19830111::Billy Martin named NY Yankee manager for 3rd time
19840111::Denver Nuggets 163, San Antonio Spurs 155-highest-scoring NBA game
19840111::STS 41-B vehicle moves to launch pad
19840111::Supreme Court reinstated $10M award to Karen Silkwood's family
19860111::1st black lt gov since reconstruction sworn in (Douglas Wilder of Va)
19870111::Largest crowd (76,633) at NFL NY Giant Stadium (beat Wash 17-0)
19880111::Test debut of Phil Simmons, WI v India, Madras
19880111::USSR announces it will participate in Seoul Summer Olympics
19890111::140 nations agree to ban chemical weapons (poison gas, etc)
19890111::Denver Nuggets' rookie Jerome Lane misses 7 free throws in a game against Milwaukee, one missed by 2 feet
19890111::Kindergarten student caught with loaded handgun at Bronx school
19900111::200,000 demand return of Lithuania's independence
19900111::Actor Joseph Cotton undergoes vocal cancer operation at 84
19900111::Bobby Knight becomes basketball's Big 10 winningest coach (229)
19900111::Pat Lafontaine sets NY Islander record of scoring goals in 11 straight
19910111::Congress empowers Bush to order attack on Iraq
19910111::Ric Flair wins NWA/WCW wrestling title
19910111::Soviets storm buildings in Vilnius to block Lithuania independence
19910111::Ben Johnson 1st race after being stripped of his 1988 Olympic Gold medal for steroid use, he finished 2nd
19920111::Algeria's Pres Chadli announces his resignation
19920111::Paul Simon opens a tour in South Africa
19920111::US female Figure Skating championship won by Kristi Yamaguchi
19930111::Howard Stern's radio show begins transmitting to Buffalo NY (WKBW)
19930111::Independent pres candidate Ross Perot publicly returns to politics
19940111::Hyderabad score 6 for 944 against Andhra Pradesh in Ranji Trophy
19940111::Irish govt announces end of a 20-year broadcasting ban on IRA
19950111::5th TV network (WB) Warner Brothers begins (WPIX-TV in NYC)
19950111::Birmingham Barracudas granted CFL franchise
19950111::DC-9 crashes near Maria La Baya, Colombia: 51 die, 9 yr old girl lives
19950111::NHLPA & owners agree to end NHL strike
19960111::Space Shuttle STS 72 (Endeavour 10), launches into space
19970111::23rd People's Choice Awards: Bill Cosby wins
19970111::Martina Hingis beats Jennifer Capriati at Sydney Tennis Intl
19970111::Telstar 401 Satellite Fails
19980111::"Proposals," closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 76 performances
19980111::24th Annual People's Choice Awards - Seinfeld, Tim Allen win
19980111::AFC Championship: Denver Broncos beat Pitt Steelers 24-21
19980111::NFC Championship: Green Bay Packers beat SF 49'ers 23-10
19980111::US female Figure Skating championship won by Michelle Kwan
19980111::US male Figure Skating championship won by
14930112::Last day for all Jews to leave Sicily
15520112::Dutch west coast hit by heavy storm, 100s killed
15830112::Holland begins use of Gregorian calendar (yesterday was 1/1/1583)
15980112::Pope Clement VIII seizes duchy of Ferrara on death of Alfonso
16840112::French king Louis XIV marries Madame Maintenon
17010112::Frisia & Groningen begin use of Gregorian calendar
17010112::Parts of Netherlands adopt Gregorian calendar
17230112::Handel's opera "Ottone" premieres, London
17550112::Tsarina Elisabeth establishes 1st Russian University
17730112::1st US public museum established (Charlestown SC)
17770112::Mission Santa Clara de Asis founded in Calif
18060112::French evacuate Vienna
18070112::Gunpowder-ship explodes in Leiden Neth, 150 die
18090112::British take Cayenne (French Guiana) from French (until 1814)
18120112::1st cargo arrives in New Orleans by steam, from Natchez
18160112::France decrees Bonaparte family excluded from the country forever
18200112::Royal Astronomical Society founded in England
18360112::Battle of Wetumka, Fla
18360112::HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reach Sydney Australia
18390112::Anthracite coal 1st used to smelt iron, Mauch Chunk, Penn
18420112::Franciscan nuns begin missionary work on Netherland Antilles
18610112::FL state troops demand surrender of Ft Pickens
18630112::President Davis delivers his "State of Confederacy" address
18650112::-13] Union fleet bombs Fort Fisher NC
18670112::Leo Tolstoy's "Smert Ioonna Groznogo," premieres in St Petersburg
18790112::British Zulu War begins: Lt-General Chelmsford invades Zululand
18960112::1st X-ray photo in US (Dr Henry Smith, Davidson NC)
19000112::Freeland Colony founded in US
19030112::Harry Houdini performs at Rembrandt theater, Amsterdam
19030112::Rhodes Opera House burns in Boyertown Pa, killing 170
19040112::Southwest-Africa uprising under Samuel Maherero against German garison
19060112::1st time Dow Jones closes above 100 (100.26)
19060112::Football rules committee legalizes forward pass
19070112::Britain grants responsible govt to former colony of Transvaal
19120112::-47øF (-44øC), Washta, Iowa (state record)
19150112::House of Reps rejects proposal to give women right to vote
19160112::Britain proclaims Gilbert & Ellice Is colony in Pacific
19180112::Montreal Canadien Joe Malone scores 5 goals beating Ottawa 9-4
19200112::Annual drafting of baseball players from minor leagues to be done in inverse order of the final standings, agreed to
19210112::Kenesaw Mountain Landis becomes 1st commissioner of baseball
19240112::History of Science Society organized at Boston
19250112::John Howard Lawson's "Processional," premieres in NYC
19280112::Philip Barry & Elmer Rice's "Cock Robin," premieres in NYC
19290112::Seatrain (RR cars on ships) service begins, New Orleans-Havana
19300112::NHL's Boston Bruins win then-record 14th consecutive game
19320112::France's Laval govt falls
19320112::Hattie W Caraway elected 1st woman senator (D-Ark)
19320112::Philip Barry's "Animal Kingdom," premieres in NYC
19330112::US Congress recognize independence Philippines
19330112::Uprising of Guardia Civil in Spain, 25 dies
19370112::Plow for laying submarine cable patented
19420112::British troops reconquer Sollum
19420112::Dutch troops on Tarakan surrender
19420112::National War Labor Board created
19430112::Frankfurters replaced by Victory Sausages (mix of meat & soy meal)
19440112::Churchill & de Gaulle begin a 2-day wartime conference in Marrakesh
19440112::Failed resistance raid on distribution office of Borgerstraat Amsterd
19450112::German forces in Belgium retreat in Battle of Bulge
19450112::US Task Force 38 destroys 41 Jap ships in Battle of South China Sea
19460112::"Polonaise" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 113 performances
19460112::Edouardo de Filippo's "Questi Fantasmi!," premieres in Rome
19460112::NFL champs Cleveland Rams given permission to move to LA
19480112::1st Supermarket in UK opens
19480112::Mohandas Mahatma Gandhi begins his final fast
19480112::US Supreme Court decision (Sipuel v Oklahoma State Board of Regents)
19490112::"Arthur Godfrey & His Friends" premieres on CBS TV
19490112::Dutch court affirms death sentence against SS chief Hanns Rauter
19500112::Swedish tanker rams British submarine Truculent in Thames, 64 die
19500112::USSR re-introduces death penalty for treason, espionage & sabotage
19510112::Ezzard Charles TKOs Lee Oma in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
19520112::NFL Pro Bowl: N Conf beats A Conf 30-13
19520112::University of Tennessee admits it's 1st black student
19530112::9 "Jewish" physicians arrested for "terrorist activities" in Moscow
19540112::Austria's worst avalanche-kills 200; 9hrs later 2nd one-kills 115
19540112::Queen Elizabeth II opens NZ parliament
19570112::Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC) founded
19580112::Mickey Wright wins LPGA Sea Island Golf Open
19580112::NCAA adds 2 point conversion to football scoring
19580112::NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 26-7
19580112::Syracuse National Dolph Schayes sets NBA record at 11,770 points
19590112::KOED TV channel 11 in Tulsa, OK (PBS) begins broadcasting
19600112::Sobers & Worrell complete 399 stand for 4th wkt v England
19600112::Syracuse National Dolph Schayes is 1st NBA'er to score 15,000 points
19610112::"Show Girl" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 100 performances
19610112::UN genocide pact goes into effect
19630112::"Go Away Little Girl" by Steve Lawrence peaks at #1
19630112::Spin bowler Bobby Simpson takes 5-57 for Australia v England
19640112::NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 31-17
19640112::Revolution overthrows Sultan of Zanzibar, 1 month after independence
19650112::"Hullabaloo" premieres on NBC-TV
19650112::At 10:58 am PST burn up a nuclear rocket in Nevada
19660112::"Batman" with Adam West & Burt Ward premieres on ABC TV
19660112::12 day NYC transit strike ends
19660112::LBJ says US should stay in S Vietnam until communist aggression ends
19660112::Red Auerbach wins his 1,000th game as coach of NBA Boston Celtics
19670112::Louisville, Ky, draft board refuses exemption for boxer Muhammad Ali
19680112::Beatles Film Production Ltd changes name to Apple Film Production Ltd
19680112::Nighttime version of "Hollywood Squares" premieres on NBC TV
19690112::"Golden Rainbow" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 355 performances
19690112::Superbowl III: NY Jets beat Balt Colts, 16-7 in Miami Superbowl MVP: Joe Namath, NY Jets, QB
19700112::Biafran War ends, Biafra surrenders to Nigeria
19700112::Boeing 747 makes its maiden voyage
19710112::"All in the Family" premieres on CBS featuring 1st toilet flush on TV
19710112::"Soon" opens at Ritz Theater NYC for 3 performances
19710112::Congressional Black Caucus organizes
19710112::Fed grand jury indicts Rev Philip Berrigan & 5 others, including a nun & 2 priests, on charges of plotting to kidnap Henry Kissinger
19720112::Tigers sign a lease to build a $126M domed stadium (doesn't happen)
19740112::"Joker" by Steve Miller Band peaks at #1
19740112::Libya & Tunisia announces they are merging as "Islamic Arab Republic"
19750112::Chrysler Corp offers 1st car rebates
19750112::Superbowl IX: Pitts Steelers beat Minn Vikings, 16-6 in New Orleans Superbowl MVP: Franco Harris, Pittsburgh, RB
19760112::UN Security Council votes 11-1 to seat Palestine Liberation Org
19770112::"Ipi Tombi" opens at Harkness Theater NYC for 39 performances
19770112::Anti-French demonstrations takes place in Israel after Paris released Abu Daoud, responsible 1972 Munich massacre of Israeli athletes
19790112::6th American Music Award: Barry Manilow, Linda Ronstadt win
19790112::LA's Hillside Strangler, Kenneth Bianchi, arrested in Bellingham
19790112::Record blizzard struck midwest killing over 100
19800112::Mike Bratz (Phoenix) begins NBA free throw streak of 57 games
19810112::"Dynasty" with Joan Collins premieres on ABC-TV
19810112::-35øF (-37øC), Chester, Massachusetts (state record)
19810112::Dynasty, a prime time soap opera inspired by Dallas, premieres on ABC
19830112::Brooks Robinson & Juan Marichal elected to Hall of Fame
19830112::NCAA creates football Kickoff Classic to begin in August
19860112::24th space shuttle (61-C) mission-Columbia 7-launched
19860112::Chic Blackhawk Denis Savard scores at 4 seconds of 3rd period
19860112::Miami Dolphins win AFC football championship
19870112::Britain's Prince Edward resigns from his Royal Marines training
19880112::Willie Stargell (Pitts Pirate), elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
19890112::6 claim to survive in rubble, 35 days after Armenian quake (hoax)
19890112::Idi Amin expelled from Zaire
19900112::Civil Rights activist Rev Al Sharpton is stabbed in Bensonhurst Bkln
19900112::Romania bans Communist party (1st Warsaw Pact member to do so)
19910112::Largest crowd to watch Atlantic Coast Womens Basketball game (11,520)
19910112::Melvin Stewart swims world record 200 m butterfly (1:55.69)
19910112::US Congress gives George Bush authority to wage war against Iraq
19920112::13th ACE Cable Awards: HBO wins 27 awards
19920112::Last building in Gateway area in Cleveland is demolished
19920112::US male Figure Skating championship won by Christopher Bowman
19920112::Algeria's general elections canceled after strong gains by Islamic Salvation Front in the 1st round
19930112::Doctors announce Pitts Penguin Mario Limeux has Hodgkin's disease
19930112::MTV hostess Martha Quinn marries longtime boyfriend Jordan Tarlow
19940112::Malcolm X's daughter arrested for plotting Louis Farrakham's murder
19940112::Steve Carlton (Phillies) elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
19950112::Major earthquake kills 5,092 in Kobe Japan
19950112::Murder trial against OJ Simpson, begins in LA
19950112::Pope John Paul II begins visit to SE Asia
19960112::Russian troops arrived in Bosnia (joint operation with US)
19970112::17th United Negro College Fund raises
19970112::Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Tournament of Champions
19970112::Chrysler-Plymouth LPGA Tournament of Champions
19970112::HAL became operational (2001: A Space Odyssey)
19970112::Ice skater Oksana Baiul injured slightly whiled driving intoxicated
19970112::Space Shuttle STS 81 (Atlantis 18), launches into space
19970112::Tiger Woods wins Mercedes Championships
19970112::wins Chrysler-Plymouth Tournament Of Champions
08880113::Duke Odo becomes king of West-France
10990113::Crusaders set fire to Mara Syria
15470113::Earl Henry Howard of Surrey sentenced to death
15590113::Elizabeth I crowned queen of England in Westminster Abbey
16100113::Galileo Galilei discovers Callisto, 4th satellite of Jupiter
16210113::Jan Pieterszoon Coen's fleet sets sail to Moluccas (from Jacarta)
16300113::Patent to Plymouth Colony issued
16730113::Jean Racine's "Mithridate," premieres in Paris
16950113::Jonathan Swift ordained an Anglican priest in Ireland
17330113::James Oglethorpe & 130 English colonists arrive at Charleston, SC
17700113::De Beaumarchais' "Les Deux Amis," premieres in Paris
17850113::John Walter publishes 1st issue of London Times
17940113::Congress changes US flag to 15 stars & 15 stripes
18300113::Great fire in New Orleans thought to be set by rebel slaves
18490113::Vancouver Island granted to Hudson's Bay Co
18540113::Anthony Foss patents accordion
18630113::Chenille manufacturing machine patented by William Canter, NYC
18630113::Thomas Crapper pioneers one-piece pedestal flushing toilet
18650113::-Jan 15th] BBT & CPT Ft Fisher, NC
18690113::Colored National Labor Union, 1st Black labor convention
18690113::National convention of black leaders meets in Wash DC
18730113::P B S Pinchback relinquishes office at Louisiana governor
18740113::Battle between jobless & police in NYC, 100s injuried
18740113::US troops land in Honolulu to protect the king
18820113::Richard Wagner completes his opera "Parsifal"
18830113::Fire in circus Ferroni in Berditschoft Poland kills 430
18830113::Henrik Ibsen's "En Folkefiende," premieres in Oslo
18880113::National Geographic Society founded (Washington, DC)
18930113::British Independent Labor Party forms (Keir Hardie as its leader)
18940113::Revolution in Sicily crushed by government troops
18950113::Oscar Wilde's "Ideal Husband," premieres in London
18980113::Emile Zola publishes his open letter (J'accuse) in defense of Dreyfus
19020113::Textile workers strike in Enschede Neth till June 1
19060113::1st radio set advertised (Telimco for $7.50 in Scientific American) claimed to receive signals up to one mile
19080113::French pilot Henry Farman is 1st European to fly roundtrip
19080113::Stanley Cup: Montreal Wanderers sweep Ottawa Victorias in 2 games
19100113::JM Synge's "Deirdre of the Sorrows," premieres in Dublin
19110113::Gerhart Hauptmann's "Die Ratten," premieres in Berlin
19110113::Roald Amundsens anchors at Walvis Bay
19110113::South Africa's 1st win over Australia, at Adelaide
19120113::-40øF (-40øC), Oakland, Maryland (state record)
19140113::IWW-leader/songwriter Joe Hill arrested "Girl from Utah" East-Prussia
19150113::Earthquake in Avezzano Italy kills 29,800
19150113::W Churchill presents plan for assault on Dardanelles
19190113::Dutch Soccer team OSV forms
19200113::NY Times editorial (falsely) reports rockets can never fly
19220113::Buck Weaver, a Black Sox, applies unsuccessfully for reinstatement
19220113::Conference of Cannes concerning German retribution payments ended
19220113::WHA-AM in Madison WI begins radio transmissions
19240113::Nationalist Wafd-party wins Egyptian parliament elections
19270113::US & Mexico battle over oil interests
19290113::Humanist Society established, Hollywood Calif
19300113::"Mickey Mouse" comic strip 1st appears
19350113::Plebiscite in Saar, indicates a desire (90.3%) to join Nazi Germany
19390113::Belgian premier signs Burgos-treaty for trade relations with Franco
19420113::Allied Conference for war trials
19420113::German U-boats begin harassing shipping on US east coast
19420113::Henry Ford patents a method of constructing plastic auto bodies
19420113::Interallied war trial conference publishes St James Declaration
19430113::British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Casablanca
19430113::Hitler declares "Total War"
19430113::Russian offensive at Don under general Golikov
19430113::US infantry captures Galloping Horse-ridge Guadalcanal
19450113::Prokofchev's 5th Symphony premieres in Moscow
19480113::1st country music TV show, Midwestern Hayride, premieres on WLW Cin
19490113::"Along 5th Avenue" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 180 perfs
19510113::German general F Christian freed early from Dutch prison
19530113::Gas explosion in Belgium coal mine kills 14
19530113::KOLD TV channel 13 in Tucson, AZ (CBS) begins broadcasting
19530113::Marshal Josip Tito chosen president of Yugoslavia
19540113::Milt rule in Egypt; 318 Mohammedan Brotherhood arrested
19540113::WEAR TV channel 3 in Pensacola-Mobile, FL (ABC) begins broadcasting
19570113::Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Allen Tate
19570113::Mickey Wright wins Sea Island Golf Open
19570113::NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 19-10
19570113::Wham-O Company produces the 1st Frisbee
19580113::9,000 scientists of 43 nations petition UN for nuclear test ban
19580113::US newspaper "Daily Worker" ceases publication
19590113::De Gaulle grants amnesty to 130 to Algerian death row convicts
19590113::King Boudouin promises Belgian Congo independence
19620113::"Do Re Mi" closes at St James Theater NYC after 400 performances
19620113::Wilt Chamberlain of Warriors scores then NBA-record 73 pts vs Chicago
19630113::AFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 21-14
19630113::NFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 30-20
19640113::Karol Wojtyla becomes archbishop of Krakow
19660113::1st black selected for pres cabinet (LBJ selects Robert C Weaver-HUD)
19660113::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19670113::Coup in Togo
19670113::Rolling Stones appear on Ed Sullivan Show
19680113::"Hallelujah, Baby!" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 293 perfs
19680113::"Illya Darling" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 320 perfs
19680113::Beginning of Tet-offensive in Vietnam
19680113::Minn North Stars center Bill Masterton fatally injured (dies on 15th)
19690113::Beatles release "Yellow Submarine" album
19710113::"Soon" closes at Ritz Theater NYC after 3 performances
19720113::Former umpire, now housewife Bernice Gera wins her suit against baseball, initiated on March 15, 1971 to be allowed to umpire
19730113::"Tricks" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 8 performances
19730113::Efskind skates world record 1000m (1:17.6)
19740113::Superbowl VIII: Miami Dolphins beat Minn Vikings, 24-7 in Houston Superbowl MVP: Larry Csonka, Miami, RB
19760113::Sarah Caldwell is 1st woman to conduct at NY's Metropolitan Opera House as she led orchestra in a performance of "La Traviata"
19790113::Charlie Daniels hosts Volunteer Jam
19790113::YMCA files libel suit against Village People's YMCA song
19800113::"King of Schnorrers" closes at Playhouse Theater NYC after 63 perfs
19800113::Head of narcotic brigade arrested for drug smuggling in Belgium
19800113::Togo's constitution becomes effective
19810113::Barbara Sonntag, Colo, crochets record 147 stitches/min for 1/2 hour
19810113::Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to May Swenson & Howard Nemerov
19810113::Islander's Mike Bossy's 15th career hat trick-4 goals
19820113::Hank Aaron & Frank Robinson elected to Hall of Fame
19820113::Air Florida 737 took off in a snowstorm, crashes into 14th St Bridge in Washington, DC, & falls into Potomac River, killing 78
19830113::AMA urges ban on boxing sites Muhammad Ali's deteriorating condition
19830113::Qu‚bec Nordiques play 251st NHL game without being shut out
19840113::TV anchor Christine Craft wins $325,000 in her case against KMBC-TV
19850113::23rd Tennis Fed Cup: Czech beats USA in Nagoya Japan (2-1)
19850113::99-yr-old Otto Bucher scores a hole-in-one at Spanish golf course
19850113::Blackhawk Doug Wilson failed on 12th penalty shot against Islanders
19850113::Cerberal Palsy telethon raises $17,1000,000
19850113::Express train derails in Ethiopia, kills at least 428
19860113::NCCA institutes eligibility requirements based on college exams
19860113::South Yemen Pres Ali Nasser Mohammed's bodyguard shoots opponents
19870113::7 top NY Mafia bosses sentenced to 100 years in prison each
19870113::W German police arrest Mohammed Ali Hamadi, suspect in 1985 hijacking
19880113::LA Dodger/SD Padre Steve Garvey retires
19880113::Supreme Court rules (5-3) public school officials have broad powers to censor school newspapers, plays & other expressive activities
19890113::"Friday the 13th" virus strikes hundreds of IBM computers in Britain
19890113::"Ryan's Hope" ends 13« year run on ABC-TV
19890113::Computers across Britain hit by "Friday the 13th" virus
19890113::Jerry Parks, Okla defensive back, charged with shooting a teammate
19890113::Ruins of Mashkan-shapir (occupied 2050-1720 BC) found in Iraq
19890113::Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz begins 1-year jail sentence
19900113::1st elected US black governor inaugurated (Douglas Wilder-Virginia)
19910113::12th ACE Cable Awards: HBO wins 25 awards
19910113::42 killed in exhibition soccer match in Johannesburg South Africa
19910113::Phil Mickelson wins PGA Northern Telecom Golf Open
19910113::Pres Mario Soares of Portugal re-elected
19910113::Soccer stadium riot in Orkney South Africa, at least 40 die
19910113::UN Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar meets with Saddam
19920113::Excavation of new ballpark at Gateway (Jacobs Field) begins
19920113::US serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer pleads guilty but insane
19930113::STS-54 (Endeavour) launches into orbit
19930113::Super Bowl XXVII in Pasadena - Cowboys beat Bills
19940113::Italian govt of Ciampi resigns
19940113::Tonya Harding's bodyguard, Shawn Eric Eckardt & Derrick Brian Smith arrested & charged with conspiracy in attack of skater Nancy Kerrigan
19950113::26 HNL teams unanimously ratify agreement to end NHL strike
19950113::America3 becomes 1st all-female crew to win an America's Cup race
19980113::"Patti LaBelle On Broadway," opens at St James Theater NYC
19980113::CBS pays $4 billion to televise AFC games for 8-years
12360114::English king Henry III marries Eleonora of Provence
15260114::Charles V & Francis I sign Treaty of Madrid
15260114::Francis I forced to give up claims in Burgundy, Italy & Flanders
16010114::Church authorities burn hebrew books in Rome
16390114::1st Connecticut constitution (Fundamental Orders) adopted in Hartford
16390114::Rodger Ludlow publishes"Fundamental Orders of Connecticut"
16410114::United East Indian Company conquerors city of Malakka, 7,000 killed
16590114::Battle at Elvas: Portuguese beat Spanish
16900114::Clarinet invented, in Nrnberg, Germany
16990114::Massachusetts holds day of fasting for wrongly persecuting "witches"
17170114::German mob leader "Sjako" sentenced to death in Amsterdam
17240114::Spanish King Philip V abdicates throne
17390114::England & Spain signs 2nd Convention of Pardo
17460114::Bonnie Prince Charlie's army leaves Glasgow [OS=Jan 3]
17830114::Congress ratifies peace treaty between US & England
17840114::Revolutionary War ends; Congress ratifies Treaty of Paris
17850114::Mozart completes "Dissonantenkwartet" (opus 10)
17940114::Dr Jessee Bennet of Edom Va, performs 1st successful Cesarean section operation on his wife
17990114::Eli Whitney receives government contract for 10,000 muskets
17990114::King of Naples flees before advancing French armies
18130114::Gideon Hawley becomes 1st state school superintendent in US (NY)
18140114::King of Denmark cedes Norway to King of Sweden by treaty of Kiel
18470114::Conspiracy in New Mexico against US
18580114::French Emperor Napoleon III escapes attempt on his life by Felice Orsini, an Italian patriot who was later executed
18610114::Ft Pikens, FL falls into state hands
18630114::Battle between gunboats at Bayou Teche Louisiana
18640114::Battle of Cosby Creek, TN
18640114::General Sherman begins his march to the South
18680114::NC constitutional convention meets in Raleigh
18680114::SC constitutional convention, meets with a black majority
18730114::"Celluloid" registered as a trademark
18730114::P B S Pinchback elected to Senate
18740114::I D Shadd elected Speaker of lower house of Miss legislature
18780114::US Supreme court rules race separation on trains unconstitutional
18970114::6,960-m (22,834') Cerro Aconcagua (Argentina) 1st climbed
18980114::Joe Darling hits the 1st six in Tests (out of the ground)
19000114::Giacomo Puccini's opera "Tosca," premieres in Rome
19050114::Hubbell, Shubert & Smith's musical "Fontana," premieres in NYC
19080114::Roger Hartigan scores century on Test debut v Eng Adelaide (116)
19090114::Co”p. Far. Central Management forms
19120114::Raymond Poincar‚ becomes premier of France
19140114::Henry Ford introduces assembly line, for T-Fords
19160114::Dutch South Sea dike cracks
19180114::Finland & USSR adopts New Style (Gregorian) calendar
19190114::John McGraw, Charles A Stoneham, & Judge MCQuade buy NY Giants
19240114::Allies direct Fiume (Rijeka) in Italy
19250114::Alban Berg's atonale opera "Wozzeck," premieres in Berlin
19270114::Toronto Maple Leafs 1st hat trick (Hap Day) vs NY Rangers
19290114::Afghan King Amanullah forced to resign
19320114::1st totalisator (to record racetrack bets) in US installed, Hialeah
19320114::Horse racing legend Eddie Arcaro won his 1st race
19350114::Oil pipeline Iraq-Mediterranean goes into use
19360114::L M (Mario) Giannini elected president of Bank of America
19380114::National Society for Legalization of Euthanasia forms (NY)
19390114::All commercial ferry service to East Bay ends
19390114::Norway claims Queen Maud Land in Antarctica
19400114::Commissioner Kenesaw Landis gives free agency to 91 Detroit Tigers
19400114::NFL Pro Bowl: Green Bay beats NFL All-Stars 16-7
19420114::Japanese troops land at oil center Balikpapan in Borneo
19430114::Alex Smart (Mont) is 1st NHLer to score hat trick in his 1st game
19430114::FDR & Winston Churchill confer in Casablanca concerning WW II
19430114::Heinrich Himmler views Warsaw
19440114::Soviet army begins offensive at Oranienbaum/Wolchow
19460114::2 jetties collapse in Ganges-160 Hindu pilgrims are crushed
19490114::Black/Indian race rebellion in Durban, South Africa; 142 die
19500114::"As the Girls Go" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 420 perfs
19500114::US recalls all consular officials from China
19510114::NFL Pro Bowl: 1st since 1942, Americans beat Nationals 28-27
19520114::"Today Show" premieres with Dave Garroway & Jack Lescoulie on NBC-TV
19520114::Rationing of coffee in Netherlands ends
19520114::Snow storm in Sierra Nevada kills 26
19530114::Vaughan William's "Sinfonia Antartica," premieres in Manchester
19530114::WALA TV channel 10 in Mobile, AL (NBC) begins broadcasting
19530114::Yugoslavia elects it's 1st president (Marshal Tito)
19540114::NY Yankee Joe DiMaggio marries actress Marilyn Monroe
19540114::Sandy Wilson's musical "Boyfriend," premieres in London
19550114::Heitor Villa-Lobos' 8th Symphony, premieres in Phila
19560114::Jordan government refuses to join Pact of Baghdad
19560114::Little Richard releases "Tutti Frutti"
19600114::Tuindorp-Oostzaan in Northern Amsterdam, flooded
19600114::US Army promoted Elvis Presley to Sergeant
19610114::Chic Bear Willard Dewveall becomes 1st NFLer to join AFL
19620114::NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 31-30
19630114::George C Wallace sworn in as governor of Alabama, his address states "segregation now; segregation tomorrow; segregation forever!"
19640114::14th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 111-107 at Boston
19640114::Bapu Nadkarni 32-27-5-0 v England, 21 maiden overs in a row
19640114::Jacqueline Kennedy's 1st public appearance (TV) since assassination
19660114::David Bowie releases his 1st record (Can't Help Thinking About Me)
19670114::20,000 attend Human Be-In, SF
19670114::Earthquake in Sicily kills 231
19670114::NY Times reports Army is conducting secret germ warfare experiments
19670114::Sonny & Cher release "Beat Goes On"
19680114::Soyuz 4 launched
19680114::Superbowl II: Green Bay Packers beat Oakland Raiders, 33-14 in Miami Superbowl MVP: Bart Starr, Green Bay, QB
19690114::25 members of US aircraft carrier Enterprise die during maneuvers
19690114::Soyuz 4 launched; rendezvous with Soyuz 5 two days later
19710114::John Snow takes 7-40 for England to beat Australia by 299 runs
19720114::"Sanford & Son" starring Redd Foxx premieres on NBC TV
19720114::WMAH TV channel 19 in Biloxi, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting
19720114::WMAU TV channel 17 in Bude, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting
19720114::WMAW TV channel 14 in Meridian, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting
19730114::Grateful Dead bass player, Phil Lesh, busted on drugs in Calif
19730114::Superbowl VII: Miami Dolphins beat Wash Red Skins, 14-7 in LA
19730114::Tap dancer Ray Castle measured at 1440 taps/min on BBC TV
19730114::Superbowl MVP: Jake Scott, Miami, S
19740114::World Football League founded
19750114::Anita Wold (Norway) sets women's ski jump distance record-98 m
19750114::USSR breaks trade agreement with US
19760114::"Bionic Woman" with Lindsay Wagner debuts on ABC (later NBC)
19760114::Ted Turner becomes CEO of Atlanta Braves
19780114::Sex Pistols' final concert (Winterland, SF)
19790114::Pres Carter proposes Martin Luther King's birthday be a holiday
19800114::"Blues Brothers" movie with Dan Akwoyd & John Belushi opens
19800114::Shakuntala Devi, mentally multiplies 2 13-digit #s in 28 sec
19810114::FCC frees stations to air as many commercials an hour as they wish
19840114::Madonna 1st sings "Holiday" on American Bandstand
19850114::16 indicted by US for granting sanctuary to Central American refugees
19850114::M Navratilova is 3rd to win 100 tennis tournaments (Connors & Evert)
19850114::œ sinks to record low-$1.11
19860114::Constitution of Guatemala takes effect
19860114::Vinicio Cerezo becomes only 2nd freely elected president of Guatemala since CIA-sponsored coup in 1954
19870114::Catfish Hunter & Billy Williams are elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
19890114::"Romance/Romance" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 297 perfs
19890114::1,000 muslims burn Rushdies' "Satanic Verses" in Bradfort England
19890114::29 year old French woman gives birth to sextuplets in Paris
19890114::Former Belgian premier Paul Vanden Boeynants kidnapped
19900114::"Simpsons" premiered on Fox-TV
19900114::11th ACE Cable Awards
19900114::Perez de Cuellar says he has lost all hope for peace in Gulf
19910114::"Barbara DeAngelis Show" premieres on CBS-TV
19910114::Jorge Serrano El¡as sworn in as president of Guatemala
19910114::Tyne Daly arrested for drunk driving in Van Nuys Calif
19910114::Valentin Pavlov become new premier of USSR
19930114::"Anna Christie" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 54 performances
19930114::David Letterman announces his show is moving from NBC to CBS
19930114::Polish ferry boat capsizes in storm, 50 die
19940114::Inna Lassovskaya triple-jumps ladies world record (14.61m)
19940114::Kathleen Kinmont files for divorce from Lorenzo Lamas
19940114::Russian manned space craft TM-17, lands
19950114::10,000s South Africans attend state funeral of Joe Slovo
19950114::16th ACE Cable Awards: HBO wins 23 awards
19960114::"Holiday" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 49 performances
19960114::"Swinging On a Star" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 97 perfs
19960114::Liselotte Neumann wins Chrysler-Plymouth Tournament of Golf Champions
19980114::100th episode of "Ellen," airs
19980114::Charles Barkley pleads not guilty to an assault charge
07080115::Sisinnius begins his reign as Pope (dies 20 days later)
09460115::Caliph al-Mustaqfi blinded/ousted
13460115::Emperor Louis IV of Bavaria gives his wife Margaretha, Holland/Zealand
15350115::Henry VIII declares himself head of English Church
15520115::France signs secret treaty with German Protestants
15620115::3rd sitting of Council of Trente opens
15820115::Russia cedes Livonia & Estonia to Poland, loses access to Baltic
15860115::Battle at Boxum: Spanish troops under Tassis beat state army
17520115::Tobias Smollett publishes pamphlet accusing Fielding of plagiarism
17540115::Riot at burial of doelist Daniel Raap in Amsterdam
17590115::British Museum opens in Montague House, London
17620115::Fraunces Tavern opens in NYC
17770115::People of New Connecticut (Vermont) declare independence from England
17800115::Continental Congress establishes court of appeals
17850115::Mozarts string quartet opus 10 premieres
17970115::1st top hat worn (John Etherington of London)
18310115::1st US-built locomotive to pull a passenger train makes 1st run
18310115::1st US railroad honeymoon trip, Mr & Mrs Pierson, Charleston, SC
18330115::HMS Beagle anchors at Goeree Tierra del Fuego
18440115::U of Notre Dame receives its charter in Indiana
18470115::1st Swedish magazine in US, Skandinavia, published in NYC
18510115::Gen Arista replaces Mexican Pres Herrera
18570115::1st first-class game in Sydney, NSW v Vic at The Domain
18610115::Steam elevator patented by Elisha Otis
18630115::1st US newspaper printed on wood-pulp paper, Boston Morning Journal
18650115::Ft Fisher, NC falls to Union troops
18660115::Bedrich Smetana's opera "Branibori v Cechach," premieres in Prague
18700115::Donkey 1st used as symbol of Democratic Party, in Harper's Weekly
18770115::US Assay Office in Helena, Montana opens
18820115::1st US ski club forms (Berlin NH)
18860115::Weekly Herald, 1st Vancouver, BC newspaper, publishes 1st issue
18920115::Basketball rules published in Triangle Magazine, Mass
18950115::Albert Trott takes 8-43 on Test debut, then a record
18950115::French fleet reaches Majunga, Madagascar
18950115::Tchaikovsky's ballet "Swan Lake" premieres, St Petersburg (1/27 NS)
18960115::Henry Arthur Jones' "Michael & his Lost Angel," premieres in London
19000115::SCNEC soccer team forms
19050115::Coen de Koning becomes world champion all-round skater
19070115::3-element vacuum tube patented by Dr Lee De Forest
19070115::Gold dental inlays 1st described by Wm Taggart, who invented them
19080115::C Hill & R J Hartigan make 8th wkt partnership 243 for Aust
19150115::Japan claims economic control of China
19150115::Sydney, Kern & Smith's musical "Love o' Mike," premieres in NYC
19190115::2 million gallons of molasses flood Boston MA, drowning 21
19190115::Frank Wedekind's "Die letzten Tage der Menschheit," premieres
19190115::Pianist & statesman Ignace Paderewski becomes 1st premier of Poland
19190115::Semana Tragica (Tragic Week): Bloodbath in Buenos Aires
19190115::W Collison & O Harbach's "Up in Mabel's Room," premieres in NYC
19220115::Irish Free State forms; Michael Collins becomes 1st premier
19240115::3rd Dutch govt Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms
19250115::Hans Luther forms German govt, with DNVP
19300115::George Headley scores century on debut v England (made 176)
19340115::8.4 earthquake in India/Nepal, 10,700 die
19340115::Babe Ruth signs a 1934 contract for $35,000 ($17,000 cut)
19350115::300 Dutch ice cream salesmen protest against Italian competition
19350115::Clifford Odets' "Waiting for Lefty," premieres in NYC
19360115::1st all-glass windowless structure in US completed, Toledo, Ohio
19360115::Horace Stoneham elected president of NY Giants
19360115::Non-profit Ford Foundation incorporates
19390115::1st NFL pro bowl, NY Giants beat All Stars 13-10 in Wrigley Field
19390115::Municipal Railway & Market St RR begin service to Transbay Terminal
19400115::German U-Boot torpedoes Dutch trade ship Arendskerk (Eagle's Church)
19420115::Cubs, drop plans to install lights at Wrigley due to WW II
19420115::FDR asks commissioner to continue baseball during WW II
19430115::1st transport of Jews from Amsterdam to concentration camp Vught
19430115::World's largest office building, Pentagon, completed
19430115::1,000 workers complete air conditioning system for Pentagon
19440115::European Advisory Commission decides to divide Germany
19440115::General Eisenhower arrives in England
19440115::Vught Concentration Camp puts 74 women in 1 cell, 10 die
19450115::"Make Mine Manhattan" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 429 perfs
19450115::Every Amsterdammer gets 3 kg sugar beets
19450115::Red Army frees Crakow-Plaszow concentration camp
19490115::Mao's Red army conquers Ten-tsin
19500115::4,000 attend National Emergency Civil Rights Conference in Wash DC
19510115::"Cloud of Death" rolls down Mount Lamington, New Guinea kills 3-5,000
19510115::Supreme Court rule "clear & present danger" of incitement to riot is not protected speech & can be a cause for arrest
19530115::16 car Federal Express train loses brakes & crashes in Wash DC station
19530115::GDR Min of Foreign affairs Georg Dertingen arrested for "espionage"
19550115::1st official act of Princess Beatrice, launches tanker Vasum
19550115::D Shostakovitch' "From Jewish Folk Poetry," premieres in Leningrad
19550115::USSR ends state of war with German Federal Republic
19560115::Bauer Marlene wins LPGA Sea Island Golf Open
19560115::D Shostakovitch appointed honorary member of Academia Santa Cecilia
19560115::KWAB TV channel 4 in Big Spring, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
19560115::NFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 31-30
19570115::Brooklyn Dodgers sign a new 3 year lease for Ebbets Field
19580115::NY Yankees sign million dollar plus deal to show 140 games on WPIX TV
19610115::NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 35-31
19610115::Suggs wins LPGA Sea Island Women's Golf Invitational Open
19610115::Supremes signed with Motown Records
19620115::50th Australian Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats R Emerson (86 06 64 64)
19620115::Dutch & Indonesian navy encounter in Etna Bay New Guinea
19640115::Baseball agrees to hold a free-agent draft in NYC
19640115::Teamsters negotiate 1st national labor contract
19650115::Rock group Who releases 1st album "I Can't Explain"
19650115::Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor Mich forms
19660115::AFL Pro Bowl: All-Stars beats Buffalo 30-19
19660115::NFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 36-7
19670115::Superbowl I: Green Bay Packers beat KC Chiefs, 35-10 in LA Superbowl MVP: Bart Starr, Green Bay, QB
19680115::KDCD TV channel 18 in Midland, TX (IND) begins broadcasting
19690115::Nuclear test at Pacific Ocean
19690115::Soyuz 5 launched by Soviet Union
19700115::Milwaukee Brewers make their 1st trade (with Oakland A's)
19700115::Republic Biafra disbands/joins Nigeria
19710115::"Ari" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 19 performances
19710115::Aswan Dam official opens in Egypt
19710115::George Harrison releases "My Sweet Lord"
19720115::Heavyweight Joe Frazier KOs Terry Daniels
19730115::4 Watergate burglars plead guilty in federal court
19730115::Gene Shalit joins Today Show panel
19730115::Pope Paul VI has an audience with Golda Meir at Vatican
19730115::Pres Nixon suspends all US offensive action in N Vietnam
19740115::"Happy Days" begins an 11 year run on ABC
19740115::24th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 134-123 at Seattle
19740115::Expert panel reports 18«-m gap in Watergate tape, 5 separate erasures
19750115::Portugal signs accord for Angola's independence
19750115::Space Mountain opens (Disneyland)
19760115::Sara Jane Moore sentenced to life for attempting to shoot Pres Ford
19760115::US-German Helios B solar probe launched into solar orbit
19760115::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
19770115::Coneheads debut on "Saturday Night Live"
19770115::Jane Blalock wins LPGA Colgate Triple Crown Golf Tournament
19780115::Theodore Bundy kills Fla State U coeds Lisa Levy & Margaret Bowman
19780115::Superbowl XII: Dallas Cowboys beat Denver Broncos, 27-10 in N Orleans Superbowl MVP: Harvey Martin, Dallas, DE & Randy White, Dallas, DT
19800115::Pam Gems' "Piaf!," premieres in London
19810115::"Hill Street Blues" premieres on NBC-TV
19810115::Bob Gibson elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame
19820115::"Forbidden Broadway" by/with Gerard Alessandrini premieres in NYC
19830115::Dutch political party DS'70 disbands
19830115::Hartford Whalers smallest crowd 4,812 (beat Devils) during blizzard
19830115::Javed Miandad & Mudassar Nazar make 451 stand v India
19830115::Thom Syles keeps a life saver intact in his mouth for over 7 hours
19840115::Hana Mandlikova ends Martina Navratilova's 54-match winning streak
19840115::Sch”nbrun skates world record 5 km (7:39.44)
19850115::Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to John Ashbery & Fred Chapell
19850115::Civil rights activist Tancredo Neves elected president
19850115::Mike Gatting & Graeme Fowler both scores 200's v India
19850115::Tancredo Neves becomes 1st elected president of Brazil in 21 years
19860115::Living Seas opens (Disneyland)
19880115::Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder makes racist remarks about black athletes
19880115::Kiran More stumps five WI batsman at Madras, world Test record
19880115::Narendra Hirwani takes 16-136 (8-61 & 8-75) v WI on Test debut
19890115::"Ain't Misbehavin'" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 176 perfs
19890115::10th ACE Cable Awards: HBO wins 35 awards
19890115::Betsy King wins LPGA Jamaica Golf Classic
19890115::Big John Studd wins WWF's 1st Royal Rumble
19890115::Cerberal Palsy telethon raises 22,600,000
19900115::42 year old George Foreman KOs George Cooney in 2 rounds
19900115::6th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Knots Landing wins
19900115::AT&T experiences long distance problems due to a computer glitch
19900115::Blue Jay Cecil Fielder signs with Detroit as a free agent
19900115::NY Knicks Trent Tucker scores with 1/10 sec, beats Bulls, 109-106
19910115::Australia beat NZ 2-0 to win the World Series Cup
19910115::UN's deadline for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait (they don't)
19920115::Bulgaria recognizes Macedonia
19920115::Cleaning woman finds intimate photos of Sarah Ferguson with US man
19920115::Supreme Court rules 5-3 that Joseph Doherty isn't entitled to asylum
19930115::7.5 earthquake strikes northern Japan, 2 die
19930115::Soap opera "Santa Barbara" final show on NBC TV
19930115::Top mafia leader Salvatore "Tot•" Riina arrested in Palermo
19940115::15th ACE Cable Awards: HBO wins 34 awards, Showtime wins 10
19940115::Hague motorist with .51% alcohol in blood, breaks Dutch record (.47%)
19940115::Queen Elizabeth falls off her horse & breaks her left wrist
19950115::Dawn Coe-Jones wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Tournament of Golf Champion
19950115::SD Chargers beat Pitt Steelers 17-13 for AFC championship
19950115::SF 49ers beat Dallas Cowboys for NFC championship
19950115::Southern Alabama begins using new area code 334
19950115::Western Washington begins using new area code 360
19970115::Chicago Bull Dennis Rodman kicks cameraman, Eugene Amosin the groin
19970115::Space Shuttle Atlantis docks with Mir Space Station
19980115::NASA announces John Glenn, 76, may fly in space again
12190116::Floods in Northern Netherlands after storm, 1,000s killed
13250116::Laure de Noves, beloved of Petrarch, marries Hugues de Sade
14930116::Columbus returns to Spain on his 1st trip
15310116::English Reformation parliament's 2nd sitting
15470116::Ivan IV the Terrible (17) crowns himself 1st tsar of Moscow
15560116::Emperor Karel appoints his son Philip II, king of Spain
15810116::English parliament passes laws against Catholicism
17560116::England & Prussia sign Treaty of Westminster
17590116::British Museum opens in London
17650116::Charles Messier catalogs M41 (galactic cluster in Canis Major)
17760116::Continental Congress approves enlistment of free blacks
17770116::Vermont declares independence from NY
17800116::Battle at Cape St Vincent: admiral Rodney beats Spanish fleet
17950116::French army under Pichegru occupies Utrecht Neth
18190116::Godert baron van der de Capellen becomes governor of Dutch-Indies
18320116::Charles Darwin lands at San Tiago, Cape Verde
18630116::-Aug 23rd) Cruise of CSS Florida
18640116::Heavy fighting takes place near Dandridge, Tennessee
18650116::Confederate brig-gen John Pegram marries Hetty Cary
18650116::Drunken sailor attacks munitions at Ft Fisher NC, 40 die
18650116::Gen Wm Sherman issues Field Order #15 (land for blacks)
18650116::SF Dramatic Chronicle started
18680116::Refrigerator car patented by William Davis, a fish dealer in Detroit
18700116::Virginia becomes 8th state readmitted to US after Civil War
18710116::Jefferson Long of Georgia sworn in as 2nd black congressman
18770116::Color organ (for light shows) patented, by Bainbridge Bishop
18790116::January record 13" of snow falls in NYC (broken Jan 7, 1996)
18830116::Pendleton Act creates basis of US Civil Service system
18830116::Quebec Rugby Football Union forms
18870116::Cliff House damaged when schooner "Parallel"'s powder cargo explodes
18890116::128øF (53øC), Cloncurry, Queensland (Australian record)
18970116::John Dewey's essay "My Pedagogic Creed" appears in School Journal
19050116::Baseball outfielder Frank Huelsman traded for 6th time in 8 months
19050116::Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Dawson City (Yukon) in 2 games Ottawa Silver 7 beats Dawson City (Yukon) 23-2 for Stanley Cup, this is most lopsided playoff game, Frank McGee scores 14 goals
19060116::-13] Conference of Algeciras (about Morocco)
19060116::-Apr 13] Conference of Algeciras (about Morocco)
19080116::Pinnacles National Monument, Calif established
19090116::British explorer Ernest Shackleton finds magnetic south pole
19090116::David, Mawson & Mackay reach south magnetic pole
19110116::Pandora becomes 1st 2-man sailboat to round Cape Horn west to east
19130116::British House of Commons accepts Home-Rule for Ireland
19140116::Writer Maksim Gorki returns to Russia
19150116::Congress authorizes $1 & $50 Panama-Pacific Intl Expo gold coin
19190116::Prohibition ratified by 3/4 of states; Nebraska is 36th
19200116::18th Amendment, prohibition, goes into effect; repealed in 1933
19200116::1st assembly of League of Nations (Paris)
19200116::Georgia declares independence
19250116::Gen M Froense replaces Trotsky as People's Commissioner of Defense
19250116::Leon Trotsky dismissed as CEO of Russian Revolution Military Council
19310116::Bradman scores 223 Australia v WI, 297 mins, 26 fours
19330116::Bert Oldfield flattened by Larwood delivery in Adelaide Test
19360116::1st photo finish camera installed at Hialeah Race track in Hialeah Fla
19360116::Screen Actors Guild incorporates with King Vidor as president
19360116::Spanish socialists/communists/anarchists form Unidad Popular
19380116::Benny Goodman refuses to play Carnegie Hall when black members of his band were barred from performing
19390116::Comic strip "Superman" debuts
19410116::US vice admiral Bellinger warns of an assault on Pearl Harbor
19410116::War Dept forms 1st Army Air Corps squadron for black cadets
19420116::William Knudsen becomes 1st civilian appointed a general in US army
19430116::-60øF (-51øC), Island Park Dam, Idaho (state record)
19430116::1st US air raid on Ambon
19430116::German 2nd SS-Pantzer division evacuates Charkow
19430116::Red Army recaptures Pitomnik airport at Stalingrad
19440116::Gen Eisenhower took command of Allied Invasion Force in London
19450116::Scottish 52nd land division/1st Commando brigade-assault at Heinsberg
19450116::US 1st & 3rd army meet at Houffalise
19470116::Vincent Aurial elected president of France
19480116::35 Haganah members are ambushed & killed in Gush Etzyon
19490116::"Rape of Lucretia" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 23 perfs
19490116::KNBH (now KNBC) TV channel 4 in Los Angeles, CA (NBC) 1st broadcast
19490116::WTOP (now WUSA) TV channel 9 in Washington, DC (CBS) 1st broadcast
19500116::Belgium, Luxembourg & Netherlands recognize Israel
19510116::Viet Minh offensive against Hanoi
19510116::World's largest gas pipeline opens (Brownsville Tx, to 134th St, NYC)
19520116::New Dutch bible translation finished
19520116::US Standard Board clears Stan Musial to get an $85,000 salary
19530116::27th Australian Womens Tennis: Maureen Connolly beat J Sampson (63 62)
19530116::41st Australian Mens Tennis: Ken Rosewall beats Mervyn Rose (60 63 64)
19530116::Egyptian Premier Gen Naguib disbands all political parties
19530116::KXLY TV channel 4 in Spokane, WA (ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting
19540116::"South Pacific" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 1928 performances
19550116::Jackie Pung wins LPGA Sea Island Golf Open
19550116::NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 26-19
19560116::Egyptian pres Nasser pledges to reconquer Palestine
19570116::3 B-52s leave Calif for 1st non-stop round world flights
19570116::Cavern Club (Beatle's) opens on Matthews Street in England
19580116::William Gibson's "Two for the Seesaw," premieres in NYC
19610116::"Conquering Hero" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 8 performances
19610116::Russian espionage ring detected in Great Britain
19620116::Shooting begins on "Dr No"
19620116::Suit accuses NYC Board of Education uses "racial quotas"
19630116::Khrushchev claims to have a 100-megaton nuclear bomb
19630116::Tennessee Williams' "Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore," premieres
19640116::"Hello, Dolly!" opens at St James Theater NYC for 2,844 performances
19640116::AL owners vote 9-1 against Charlie Finley moving KC A's to Louisville
19650116::"Oh What a Lovely War" closes at Broadhurst NYC after 125 performances
19650116::"Outer Limits" last airs on ABC-TV
19650116::AFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 38-14
19650116::Searchers' "Love Potion #9" peaks at #3
19650116::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
19660116::Harold R Perry becomes 2nd black Roman Catholic bishop in US
19660116::Metropolitan Opera House opens in Lincoln Center
19670116::1st black government installed in Bahamas
19670116::Lucius Amerson, becomes 1st southern (Ala) black sheriff in 20th cent
19680116::21st NHL All-Star Game: Toronto beat All-Stars 4-3 at Toronto
19680116::Jay Allen's "Prime of Miss Jean Brodie," premieres in NYC
19690116::Soviet Soyuz 4 & Soyuz 5 perform 1st transfer of crew in space
19700116::Col Kadhaffi becomes premier of Libya
19700116::Curt Flood files a civil lawsuit challenging baseball's reserve clause
19700116::NFL realigns into 3 divisions (down from 4)
19700116::AAU player Steve Myers makes a basketball field goal of 92'3«" from out of bounds, Tacoma-it shouldn't have counted, but was allowed
19710116::Ard Schenk skates world record 1500m (1:58.7)
19720116::Atje Keulen-Deelstra becomes European all-round lady skating champ
19720116::Super Bowl VI: Dallas Cowboys-24, Miami-3 in New Orleans Superbowl MVP: Roger Staubach, Dallas, QB
19730116::NBC presents 440th & final showing of "Bonanza"
19730116::USSR's Lunakhod 2 begins radio-controlled exploration of Moon
19740116::"Jaws" by Peter Benchley is published
19740116::L A Landslide kills 9, Canyonville, Oregon
19740116::NY Yankees Mickey Mantle & Whitey Ford elected to Hall of Fame
19760116::"Donny & Marie" [Osmond] musical variety show premieres on ABC TV
19760116::Peter Frampton released platinum live album "Frampton Comes Alive"
19770116::Cap's H Monahan scored on 2nd penalty shot against Islanders
19780116::5th American Music Award: Stevie Wonder, Fleetwood Mac & C Twitty
19780116::Soyuz 27 returns to Earth
19790116::Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi of Iran flees Iran for Egypt
19800116::Paul McCartney jailed in Tokyo for 10 days on marijuana possession
19810116::Boxer Leon Spinks is mugged, his assailants even took his gold teeth
19810116::John Lennon releases "Woman" in UK
19810116::Protestant gunmen shoot & wound Bernadette Devlin McAliskey & husband
19810116::Ivan Lendl intentionally loses a match in Volvo Masters in order to avoid having to play Bjorn Borg
19840116::11th American Music Award: Michael Jackson
19840116::Paul & Linda McCartney arrested in Barbados-possession of cannabis
19850116::"Playboy" announces end of stapling centerfolds
19860116::Police arrested 3 IRA-terrorists in Amsterdam
19880116::4th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Live wins
19880116::Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder fired from CBS for racial remarks
19880116::NFL St Louis Cardinals announce move to Phoenix
19890116::Police arrest writer Vaclav Havel in Prague
19890116::USSR announces plan for 2-yr manned mission to Mars
19900116::2 Bank of Credit & Commerce members plea guilty to money laundering
19910116::7th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Live wins
19910116::US & 27 allies attack Iraq for occupying Kuwait (US time)
19920116::"2 Shakespearean Actors" opens at Cort Theater NYC for 29 performances
19940116::Scott skates world record 1000m (1:12.54)
19950116::UPN (Universal-Parmount Network) begins telecasting (WWOR in NYC)
19970116::Anthony Stuart takes ODI hat-trick, Aus v Pakistan, MCG
15010117::Cesare Borgia returns in triumph to Rome from Romagna
15360117::Fran‡ois Rabelais absolved of apostasy by Pope Paul III
15620117::Edict of St Germain recognizes Huguenots in France
15840117::Bohemia adopts Gregorian calendar
15950117::French king Henri IV declares war on Spain
16010117::France gains Bresse, Bugey, Valromey & Gex in treaty with Spain
16560117::Brandenburg & Sweden sign Treaty of K”nigsberg
17180117::Avalanche destroys every building in Leukerbad, Switz; kills 53
17460117::Battle of Falkirk, Scotland-Edward I defeats & massacres Scots
17570117::German Diet declares war on Prussia
17730117::Capt James Cook becomes 1st to cross Antarctic Circle (66ø 33' S)
17750117::9 old women burnt as witches for causing bad harvests, Kalisk, Pol
17750117::R B Sheridan's "Rivals," premieres in London
17790117::Capt Cooks last notation in ship's log Discovery
18210117::M‚xico permits Moses Austin & 300 US families to settle in Texas
18270117::Duke of Wellington appointed British supreme commander
18320117::Johannes van den Bosch appointed gov-gen of Dutch-Indies
18520117::British recognize independence of Transvaal (in South Africa)
18610117::Flush toilet patented by Mr Thomas Crapper (Honest!)
18620117::-Jan 22nd) BBT Ft Henry, TN by USS Lexington
18630117::Civil War skirmish near Newtown, Virginia
18640117::General Longstreet's command ends heavy fighting at Dandridgem TN
18710117::1st cable car patented, by Andrew S Hallidie (begins service in 1873)
18740117::Armed Democrats seize Texas govt ending Radical Reconstruction
18820117::1st Dutch female physician Aletta Jacobs opens office
18850117::Brits beat Mahdists at Battle of Abu Klea in Sudan
18930117::-17øF (-27øC), Millsboro, Delaware (state record)
18930117::Queen Liliuokalani deposed, Kingdom of Hawaii becomes a republic
18950117::French president Casimir-Perier resigns
18950117::F‚lix Faure installed as president of France
18990117::US takes possession of Wake Island in Pacific
19040117::Anton Chekhov's "Cherry Orchard" opens at Moscow Art Theater
19050117::Punchboards patented by Charles Brewer & C G Scannell, Chicago
19110117::Failed assassination attempt on premier Briand in French Assembly
19110117::Percy Mackaye's "Scarecrow," premieres in NYC
19120117::Robert Scott expedition arrives at South Pole, 1 month after Amundsen
19130117::Raymond Poincar‚ elected president of France
19140117::Gerhart Hauptmann's "Der Bogen des Odysseus," premieres in Berlin
19150117::Antoni van Leeuwenhoek's Hospital in Amsterdam opens
19150117::Russia occupies Bukovina & Western Ukraine
19160117::1st PGA Championship: Jim Barnes at Siwanoy CC Bronxville NY
19160117::Professional Golfer Assn (PGA) forms in NYC
19170117::US pays Denmark $25 million for Virgin Islands (or 3/21)
19200117::Paul Deschanel elected president of France
19230117::Belgian Working people Party protest against occupied Ruhrgebied
19230117::Origin of Brown[?] lunation numbers
19260117::George Burns marries Gracie Allen
19280117::1st fully automatic photographic film developing machine patented
19290117::Popeye makes 1st appearance, in comic strip "Thimble Theater"
19330117::Bradman takes second Test wicket, Hammond, bowled
19340117::Carl Hubbell, NL MVP winner, gets $18,000 contract by the NY Giants
19340117::Electric Home & Farm Authority incorporated
19340117::NY Giants reward MVP pitcher Carl Hubbell with $18,000 contract
19380117::Supreme Soviet elects Michail Kalinin as presidium chairman
19390117::Ed Barrow is elected Yankee president succeeding deceased J Ruppert
19430117::Tin Can Drive Day
19440117::Korvet Violet sinks U-641 in Atlantic Ocean
19450117::Auschwitz concentration camp begins evacuation
19450117::Gilbert Dodds, record miler (4:05.3), retires to do gospel work
19450117::Liberation of Warsaw by Soviet troops (end of Nazi occupation)
19450117::Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, credited with saving tens of thousands of Jews from the Nazis, arrested by secret police in Hungary
19460117::United Nations Security Council holds its 1st meeting
19470117::Muiden Neth ammunition factory explodes, 16 die
19480117::Netherlands & Indonesia agree to a cease fire
19480117::Trial of 11 US Communist party members begins in NYC
19500117::"Alive & Kicking" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 46 perfs
19500117::11 men rob Brink's office in Boston of $1.2M cash & $1.5M securities
19510117::China refuses ceases-fire in Korea
19540117::Jacques Cousteau's 1st network telecast airs on "Omnibus" (CBS)
19540117::NFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 20-9
19540117::Suggs Louise wins LPGA Sea Island Golf Open (Cloister)
19550117::Submarine Nautilus begins 1st nuclear-powered test voyage
19570117::9-county commission recommends creation of BART
19570117::Cavern Club opens (home of Beatles' 1st appearance)
19590117::"Say, Darling" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 332 performances
19600117::Mickey Wright wins LPGA Sea Island Women's Golf Invitational
19600117::NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 38-21
19610117::Eisenhower allegedly orders assassination of Congo's Lumumba
19620117::A NASA civilian pilot Neil A Armstrong takes X-15 to 40,690 m
19620117::Roy Harris' 8th Symphony, premieres in SF
19630117::Joe Walker takes X-15 to altitude of 82 km
19630117::Wilt Chamberlain of NBA SF Warriors scores 67 points vs LA
19660117::B-52/KC-135 tankers crash near Spanish coast at Palomares, 7 die
19660117::Martin Luther King Jr opens campaign in Chicago
19680117::Soyuz 4 & 5 completed 1st docking of 2 manned spacecraft
19690117::Beatles release Yellow Submarine album in UK
19690117::Debut album of Led Zeppelin released in US
19690117::Soyuz 5 lands
19700117::357 baseball players are available in the free-agent draft
19700117::AFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 26-3
19700117::John M Burgess installed as bishop of Protestant Episcopals (Mass)
19700117::Sporting News names Willie Mays as Player of the Decade for the 1960s
19710117::Super Bowl V: Balt Colts-16, Dallas Cowboys-13 in Miami Superbowl MVP: Chuck Howley, Dallas, LB
19720117::Section of Memphis' Highway 51 South renamed Elvis Presley Blvd
19730117::City of Amsterdam decides to support Hanoi
19730117::New Philippine constitution names Marcos president for life
19740117::Styne, Comdem & Green's musical "Lorelei," premieres in NYC
19760117::"I Write the Songs" by Barry Manilow hits #1
19760117::Hermes rocket launched by European Space Agency
19770117::KC releases Tommy Davis, ends an 18-year career with 10 teams
19770117::NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 24-14
19770117::Zaire president Mobutu visits Belgium
19790117::NY Islanders didn't get a shot off in 1 period against NY Rangers
19790117::Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi flees Iran
19790117::USSR performs underground nuclear test
19800117::NASA launches Fltsatcom-3
19810117::Philippino president Marcos ends state of siege
19830117::10th American Music Award: Kenny Rogers
19830117::Alabama Gov George C Wallace, becomes governor for record 4th time
19830117::Nigeria expels 2 million illegal aliens, mostly Ghanaians
19840117::Supreme Court rules (5-4) oks private use of home VCRs to tape TV programs for later viewing does not violate federal copyright laws
19850117::Azharuddin scores second Test century in second Test (v England)
19860117::Tim Witherspoon beats Tony Tubbs in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
19870117::Pres Reagan signs secret order permitting covert sale of arms to Iran
19880117::"Teddy & Alice" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 77 performances
19880117::Leslie Manigay elected president of Haiti
19890117::Al Arbour wins his 600th NHL game as coach
19890117::Gunman opens fire in Calif schoolyard; 5 students slain, 30 wounded
19890117::Murden & Metz are 1st women to reach South Pole overland (on skis)
19890117::Phoenix Suns cancel game at Miami Heat, due to racial unrest in Miami
19900117::5th Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Awards: Bobby Darin
19900117::Dave Stewart signs record $3,500,000 per year Oak A's contract
19900117::Who, Simon & Garfunkel, 4 Seasons, 4 Tops, Hank Ballard, Platters &
19900117::Kinks inducted into Cleveland's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
19910117::Iraq fires 8 Scud missiles on Israel
19910117::Mountie Jacques Rougeau beats Hart for WWF intercontinental title
19910117::Operation Desert Storm begins-US led allies vs Iraq
19910117::Operation Desert Storm: 1st US pilot shot down (Jeffrey Zahn)
19920117::Sarah Ferguson attends dinner of Everglades club (club excludes Jews)
19930117::14th ACE Cable Awards: HBO wins 32 awards
19930117::Russian Irina Privalova cycles world record 300m indoor (35.45")
19940117::6.6 Earthquake hits Los Angeles killing 60, $30B in damage
19940117::Liz Taylor released from the hospital after hip treatment
19950117::"Carousel" closes at Beaumont Theater NYC after 322 performances
19950117::7.2 earthquake destroys Kobe Japan (5,372 die)
19950117::Australia beat Australia A 2-0 to win the World Series Cup
19950117::LA Rams announce that they are moving to St Louis
19970117::NBA suspends Dennis Rodman indefinitely/$25,000 for kicking cameraman
19980117::Pres Clinton faces sexual harrament charges from Paula Jones
03360118::St Mark elected Catholic Pope
03500118::General Maxentius drives out Western Roman emperor Constans
05320118::Nika uprising at Constantinople fails, 30-40,000 die
13070118::German king Albrecht I makes his son Rudolf king of Bohemia
14780118::Grand Duke Ivan II of Moscow occupies Novgorod
14860118::King Henry VII of England marries Elizabeth, daughter of Edward IV
15200118::Christian II of Denmark & Norway defeats Swedes at Lake Asunde
15350118::Francisco Pizarro founds Lima Peru
16440118::1st UFO sighting in America, by perplexed pilgrims in Boston
16440118::Perplexed Pilgrims in Boston reported America's 1st UFO sighting
16500118::French Prince Louis II of Cond‚ captured
16710118::Pirate Henry Morgan defeats Spanish defenders, captures Panam 
16910118::English king Willem III travels to The Hague
17010118::Frederik I/Sophie Charlotte van Hanover crowned king/queen of Prussia
17330118::1st polar bear exhibited in America (Boston)
17770118::San Jose California, founded
17780118::Capt James Cook stumbles over Sandwich Islands (Hawaiian Islands)
17880118::English settlers arrive in Aust's Botany Bay to setup penal colony
17950118::French admitted to Amsterdam without resistance
17950118::governor/viceroy Willem V flees Scheveningen to England
18170118::San Mart¡n leads a revolutionary army over Andes
18400118::Electro-Magnetic Intelligencer, 1st US electrical journal, appears
18500118::British blockade Pir‘us, Greece to enforce mercantile claims
18540118::Filibuster William Walker proclaims Republic of Sonora in NW M‚xico
18620118::Confederate Territory of Arizona forms
18650118::Battle of Ft Moultrie, SC
18690118::Elegant Calif Theater opens in SF
18710118::2nd German Empire proclaimed by Kaiser Wilhelm I & Bismarck
18840118::General Charles Gordon departs London for Khartoum
18950118::Amsterdam's AFC soccer team forms
18960118::1st demonstration of an X-ray machine in US (NYC)
18960118::British troops occupy Kumasi, West Africa
19000118::Jan Blockx's "T˜l Uilenspiegel" premieres in Brussels
19010118::Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Graves De Communi Re
19050118::French govt of Combes falls
19080118::Frederick Delius' "Brigg Fair," premieres
19110118::1st shipboard landing of a plane (Tanforan Park to USS Pennsylvania)
19120118::English explorer Robert F Scott & his expedition reach South Pole, only to discover that Roald Amundsen had gotten there before
19130118::Turkish-Greek sea battle near Troy
19150118::Train crashes at Colima-Guadalajara Mexico, about 600 die
19190118::WW I Peace Congress opens in Versailles, France
19210118::William Archer's "Green Goddess," premieres in NYC
19220118::Irish author Liam O'Flaherty & others occupy Rotunda in Dublin
19230118::1st radio telegraph message from Netherlands to Dutch East Indies
19290118::"NY Daily Mirror" columnist Walter Winchell debuts on radio
19290118::Stalin proposes to ban Trotsky from the Politburo
19300118::-27øF (-33øC), Watts, Oklahoma (state record)
19300118::Shostakovitch' opera "The Nose," premieres in Leningrad
19330118::White Sands National Monument, NM established
19340118::Eugene O'Neill's "Days Without End," premieres in NYC
19380118::Bradman scores 104* for South Australia v NSW at the SCG
19380118::Pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander is elected to Hall of Fame
19390118::SA wicketkeeper Bradman gets his 6th straight ton, 135* v NSW
19420118::Nazi's arrest Frans Goedhart & Wiardi Beckman
19430118::Jews in Warsaw Ghetto begin resistance of Nazis
19430118::Presliced bread sale banned to reduce bakery demand for metal parts
19430118::Soviets announce they broke long Nazi siege of Leningrad
19430118::US rations bread & metal
19430118::Uprising in Warsaw ghetto
19440118::1st Chinese naturalized US citizen since repeal of exclusion acts
19450118::Warsaw freed by Soviet army
19470118::"Red Mill" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 831 performances
19470118::Detroit Tigers sell Hank Greenberg to Pirates (for $25-35,000)
19470118::Small river steamer sank on Yangtze River, kills 400
19480118::1st courses begin at University of Ibadan, Nigeria
19480118::Ted Mack's "Original Amateur Hour" begins, DuMont (later NBC/ABC/CBS)
19490118::"They Stand Accused" courtroom drama premieres on CBS (later DuMont)
19490118::1st US Congressional standing committee headed by Negro (W Dawson)
19490118::South African Rev Andries P Treurnicht marries Engela Dreyer
19500118::Christopher Fry's "Venus Observed," premieres in London
19500118::Indians pitcher Bob Feller, after 15-14 season, takes $20,000 salary cut to $45,000, pay cut is Feller's own suggestion
19510118::1st use of lie detector in Netherlands
19510118::Hermann Flake sentenced to death due to "hate campaign against GDR"
19510118::NFL rules tackles, guards & centers ineligible for forward pass
19510118::NFL takes control of failing Baltimore Colts
19530118::Louise Suggs wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open
19540118::Fanfani forms Italian govt
19560118::German DR forms own army (National People's Army)
19570118::3 B-52's set record for around-the-world flight, 45 hr 19 min
19580118::1st black in NHL (William O'Ree, Boston Bruins)
19590118::Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open
19600118::US & Japan sign joint defense treaty
19610118::Zanzibar's Afro-Shirazi party wins 1 seat by a single vote & parliament by a single seat
19620118::Southern University closed due to demonstrations
19620118::US begins spraying foliage in Vietnam to reveal Viet Cong guerrillas
19620118::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19630118::Reinier Paping wins Dutch 11-Cities Skating Race (10:59)
19640118::Beatles 1st appear on Billboard Chart (I Want to Hold Your Hand-#35)
19640118::Plans for World Trade Center announced (NYC)
19650118::H L de Vries appointed Dutch governor of Suriname
19660118::Robert C Weaver, confirmed as 1st black cabinet member (HUD)
19670118::20th NHL All-Star Game: Montreal beat All-Stars 3-0 at Montreal
19670118::Albert DeSalvo (Boston Strangler) sentenced to life in prison
19670118::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19670118::Yellowknife replaces Ottawa as capital of NW Territories, Canada
19680118::"Happy Time" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 286 performances
19680118::Hester & Appolinar's musical "Your Own Thing," premieres in NYC
19680118::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
19690118::Expanded 4 party Vietnam peace talks began in Paris
19700118::Hasse B”rjes skates world record 500m in 38.9 sec
19700118::NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 16-13
19710118::Ivan Koloff beats Bruno Sammartino in NY, to become WWF champ
19730118::Boston Red Sox sign Orlando Cepeda as 1st player signed as a DH
19730118::Islanders break 12 game losing streak, 20 game road winless streak
19730118::John Cleese's final episode on "Monty Python's Flying Circus," on BBC
19740118::"$6 Million Man" starring Lee Majors premieres on ABC TV
19740118::Israel & Egypt sign weapons accord
19750118::"Jeffersons" spinoff from "All in the Family" premieres on CBS
19760118::Superbowl X: Pitts Steelers beat Dallas Cowboys, 21-17 in Miami Superbowl MVP: Lynn Swann, Pittsburgh, WR
19770118::Imran Khan takes 12 wickets in match for Pakistan win at the SCG
19780118::Geoff Boycott captains England for the 1st time, v Pak Karachi
19780118::Roof of 3-yr-old Civic Center in Hartford, Ct collapses (no injuries)
19780118::Thiokol conducts 2nd test firing of space shuttle's SRB
19790118::Peter Jenkins finishes "A Walk Across America," Florence Oregon
19800118::Gold reaches $1,000 an oz
19800118::Pink Floyd's "Wall" hits #1
19800118::Studio 54 owners Steve Rubell & Ian Schrager sentenced to 3« years in prison for tax evasion & fined $20,000
19810118::Iran accepts US offer of $7.9 billion in frozen assets
19810118::Wendy O Williams arrested in Milwaukee for on-stage obscenity
19830118::IOC restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals 70 years after they were taken from him for being paid $25 in semipro baseball
19840118::80th Islander & 3rd dual hat trick (Carroll & Bossy) 9-1 win
19850118::US renounces jurisdiction of World Court despite previous promise
19860118::24th Space Shuttle (61-C) Mission-Columbia 7-returns to Earth
19860118::AIDS charity record "That's What Friends are For," hits #1
19860118::NY Lotto pays $30.5 million to one winner (#s are 19-20-27-34-41-46)
19870118::11th Soap Opera Digest Poll Awards - Days of Our Live wins
19880118::Airliner crashes in SW China, killing all 108 on board
19890118::Astronomers discover pulsar in remnants of Supernova 1987A (LMC)
19890118::Candace Thomas marries Steve Garvey
19890118::IBM announces earnings up 10.4% in 1988
19890118::Otis Redding, Dion, Rolling Stones, Temptations & Stevie Wonder
19890118::West Indies beat Australia 2-1 to win the World Series Cup
19900118::South Africa says its reconsidering ban on African Natl Congress
19900118::Wash DC, Mayor Marion Barry arrested in drug enforcement sting
19910118::Iraq launches SCUD missiles against Israel
19910118::US acknowledges CIA & US Army paid Noriega $320,000 over his career
19910118::WLAF's NY Knights become NY-NJ Knights
19910118::Longest tennis match at the Australian Open, Boris Becker beats Italy's Omar Camporese in 5 hours & 11 mins
19920118::43rd NHL All-Star Game: Campbell beat Wales 10-6 at Phila
19920118::49th Golden Globes
19920118::Actress Joan Chen (Twin Peaks) marries Dr Peter Hui
19920118::Comedian Pat McCormick injured in a car accident
19920118::NHL All Star Game - Campbell-10, Wales-6 (Brett Hull, MVP) at Phila
19930118::Martin Luther King Jr holiday observed in all 50 states for 1st time
19930118::West Indies win the World Series Cup, beating Australia 2-0
19950118::Kumble takes 16-99 in match for Karnataka v Kerala
19950118::Pope John Paul II begins visit to Australia
19960118::Baseball owners unanimously approve interleague play in 1997
19960118::Lisa Marie Presley filed for divorce from Michael Jackson in NY
19970118::47th NHL All-Star Game: East beat West 11-7 at San Jose Arena
19980118::"Ragtime," opens at Ford Theater NYC
19980118::48th NHL All-Star Game: North America beats World 8-7 at Vancouver
19980118::55th Golden Globes Awards
19980118::ABL All-Star Game at Disney complex in Orlando
19980118::Boston Celtics retire Robert Parrish's #00
19980118::Kelly Robbins wins Healthsouth Golf Inaugural
19980118::UCP Telethon
03790119::Theodosius installed as co-emperor of East Roman Empire
09730119::Pope Benedictus VI elected
14190119::French city of Rouen surrenders to Henry V in Hundred Years War
14930119::France cedes Roussillon & Cerd gne to Spain by treaty of Barcelona
16680119::King Louis XIV & Emperor Leopold I sign treaty dividing Spain
17140119::Richard Steele publishes "Crisis," defending Hanoverian success
17460119::Bonnie Prince Charlies troops occupy Stirling [OS= Jan 8]
17700119::Battle of Golden Hill (Lower Manhattan)
17930119::French King Louis XVI sentenced to death
17950119::Democratic revolution in Amsterdam ends oligarchy
18060119::Britain occupies Cape of Good Hope
18080119::Louis Napoleon signs 1st Dutch aviation law
18100119::Overnight temp at Portsmouth NH drops 50øF (10øC)
18250119::Ezra Daggett & nephew Thomas Kensett patent food storage in tin cans
18290119::Johann von Goethe's "Faust, Part 1," premieres
18330119::Charles Darwin reaches Straits Ponsonby, Fireland
18390119::Aden conquered by British East India Company
18400119::Antarctica discovered, Charles Wilkes expedition (US claim)
18530119::Napoleon III marries Eug‚nie de Montijo
18530119::Verdi's opera "Il Trovatore," premieres in Rome
18610119::Georgia becomes 5th state to secede
18610119::MS troops take Ft Massachusetts an Ship Island
18620119::Battle of Mill Springs, KY (Fishing Creek, Logan's Crossroads)
18630119::General Mieroslawski appointed dictator of Poland
18650119::NV Suriname Bank established
18650119::Union occupies Fort Anderson, NC
18710119::1st Negro lodge of US Masons approved, New Jersey
18840119::Jules Massenet's opera "Manon," premieres in Paris
18850119::Battle at Abu Klea Sudan: 800-1000 killed
18860119::Aurora Ski Club, 1st in US, founded in Minnesota
18980119::Brown defeats Harvard 6-0 in 1st intercollegiate hockey game
18990119::Anglo-Egyptian Sudan forms
19030119::1st regular transatlantic radio broadcast between US & England
19030119::New bicycle race "Tour de France" announced
19060119::Gerhart Hauptmann's "Und Pippa Tanzt!," premieres in Berlin
19090119::Eugene Walter's "Easiest Way," premieres in NYC
19100119::Germany & Bolivia ends commerce/friendship treaty
19100119::National Institute of Arts & Letters incorporated by Congress
19130119::Raymond Poincar‚ installed as president of France
19150119::1st German Zeppelin attack over Great Britain, 4 die
19150119::Neon Tube sign patented by George Claude
19170119::Silvertown Essex's ammunition factory explodes; 300 die
19180119::Soviets disallows a Constitution Assembly
19190119::"Tidal wave" of molasses 15 m high x 25 m wide kills dozens, Boston
19200119::Alexandre Millerand forms French govt
19200119::US Senate votes against membership in League of Nations
19210119::Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras & El Salvador sign Pact of Union
19220119::Geological survey says US oil supply would be depleted in 20 years
19230119::WMC-AM in Memphis TN begins radio transmissions
19250119::-48øF (-44øC), Van Buren, Maine (state record)
19270119::British govt decides to send troops to China
19290119::Acadia National Park, Maine established
19290119::Clas Thunberg skates world record 500m in 42.8 sec
19320119::Charlie Conacher becomes 1st Toronto Maple Leaf to score 5 goals in a game, 1st coming at 7 seconds of game
19340119::Kenesaw Mountain Landis denies Joe Jackson's appeal for reinstatement
19350119::KLM begins flight path between Cura‡ao & Aruba
19370119::Cy Young, Tris Speaker & Nap Lajorie elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
19370119::Millionaire Howard Hughes sets transcontinental air record (7h28m25s)
19380119::GM began mass production of diesel engines
19390119::Ernest Hausen of Wisconsin sets chicken-plucking record-4.4 sec
19410119::British offensive in Eritrea
19410119::British troops occupies Kassalaf Sudan
19420119::Japanese forces invade Burma
19420119::Titus Brandsma arrested by German occupiers
19430119::Joint Chiefs of Staff decide on invasion in Sicily
19470119::SS Himera runs aground at Athens, kills 392
19500119::Maiden flight by Canada's Avro Canada CF-100 military plane
19520119::NFL takes control of NY Yanks
19520119::PGA approves allowing black participants
19530119::Jesse Owens named Illinois Athletic Commission secretary
19550119::"Millionaire" TV program premieres on CBS
19550119::"Scrabble" debuts on board game market
19550119::1st presidential news conference filmed for TV (Eisenhower)
19560119::Hoboken dedicates a plaque honoring achievements of Alexander Cartwright in organizing early baseball at Elysian Field
19570119::USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
19580119::Canadian Football Council renamed Canadian Football League
19600119::Eisenhower & Premier Kishi sign US-Japanese Security pact
19610119::1st episode for "Dick Van Dyke Show" is filmed
19640119::AFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 27-24
19640119::KFME TV channel 13 in Fargo, ND (PBS) begins broadcasting
19660119::Indira Gandhi elected India's 3rd prime minister
19660119::Neil Simons, Coleman & Fields' musical "Sweet Charity," premieres
19660119::Tippetts cantate "Vision of St Augustine," premieres in London
19670119::Herr Karl Tausch writes shortest will "Vse Zene" (All to wife)
19680119::WKBF TV channel 61 in Cleveland, OH (IND) begins broadcasting
19690119::AFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 38-25
19690119::Joanne Carner wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational
19690119::NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 10-7
19700119::Dutch bishops says he is in favor of married priest
19700119::Nixon nominates G Harold Carswell to Supreme Court (fails)
19700119::UCLA fires Angela Davis for being a communist
19710119::"No, No Nanette" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 861 performances
19710119::24th NHL All-Star Game: West beat East 2-1 at Boston
19710119::Beatles' "Helter Skelter" is played at Charles Manson trial
19710119::NHL Writers' Assn renamed Professional Hockey Writers' Assn
19720119::Sandy Koufax, Yogi Berra, & Early Wynn elected to Hall of Fame
19740119::Belgium govt of Leburton falls
19740119::Notre Dame beats UCLA, ends NCAA-record 88-game basketball win streak
19750119::4 mail truck assault on El Al B-747 in Paris, escape to Iraq
19750119::Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Colgate Golf Triple Crown
19770119::Ernie Banks elected to Hall of Fame
19770119::Pres Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (Tokyo Rose)
19770119::World's largest crowd-12.7 million-for Indian religious festival
19780119::Eddie Mathews elected to Hall of Fame
19780119::Judge William H Webster appointed head of FBI
19790119::John N Mitchell (former AG) released on parole from federal prison
19810119::Muhammad Ali talks a despondent 21 year old out of committing suicide
19810119::US & Iran sign agreement to release 52 American hostages
19820119::Aust-WI one-day game that produced a Privy Council libel case
19820119::Heater explodes at Star Elementary School-Okla, kills 6 kids & teacher
19830119::Klaus Barbie, SS chief of Lyon in Nazi-France, arrested in Bolivia
19840119::Francesco Moser bicycles world record time: 50,808 km
19840119::Calif Supreme Court rejects quadriplegic Elizabeth Bouvia, who wants to starve herself to death in a public hospital
19850119::"Born In The USA" by Bruce Springsteen peaked at #9
19850119::4 die in a car & train crash in Buda Ill
19860119::Cerebral Palsy telethon
19860119::Israeli premier Simon Peres visits Netherlands
19860119::Spain recognizes Israel
19870119::Guy Hunt becomes Alabama's 1st Republican governor since 1874
19880119::"48 Hours" premiers on CBS-TV
19890119::Pres Reagan pardons George Steinbrenner for illegal funds for Nixon
19900119::Test debut of Mushtaq Ahmed, v Australia at Adelaide
19910119::42nd NHL All-Star Game: Campbell beat Wales 11-5 at Chicago
19910119::48th Golden Globes: Dances with Wolves
19910119::Eastern Airlines shuts down operation
19910119::Jumbo Tsuruta beats Stan Hansen to win All Japan Triple Crown title
19910119::Sgt Slaughter defeats Ultimate Warrior for WWF championship belt
19920119::"City of Angels" closes at Virginia Theater NYC after 878 performances
19920119::Cerebral Palsy telethon raises 23,500,000
19920119::IBM announces a nearly $5B loss for 1992
19920119::Nature Boy Ric Flair becomes WWF champ at Royal Rumble
19920119::Rowdy Roddy Piper beats Mountie to become WWF Intercontinental Champ
19930119::Israel recognizes PLO as no longer criminal
19930119::Oakland A's unveil new elephant logo
19930119::Robert M Gates, ends term as 15th director of CIA
19930119::STS-54 (Endeavour) lands
19940119::-20øF (-29øC) (5:32 AM) coldest day ever recorded in Cleveland Ohio
19940119::-36øF (-38øC) in New Whiteland, Indiana (state record)
19950119::Jean-Claude Juncker (28) sworn in as premier of Luxembourg
19960119::NHL approves move of Winnipeg Jets to Phoenix
19970119::54th Golden Globes: English Patient, Brenda Blethyn & Geoffrey Rush
19970119::Cerebral Palsy telethon
19970119::Michelle McGann wins LPGA Healthsouth Inaugural
02500120::St Fabian ends his reign as Catholic Pope (236-50)
08200120::Book of mother, published
10450120::Giovanni di Sabina elected Pope Sylvester III
12650120::1st English Parliament called into session by Earl of Leicester
13200120::Duke Wladyslaw Lokietek becomes king of Poland
13560120::Scottish king Edward Baliol resigns
15030120::Casa Contratacion (Board of Trade) found (Spain) to deal with American affairs
15130120::Christian II succeeds Johan I as Danish/Norwegian king
16130120::Peace of Kn„rod ends War of Kalmar between Denmark & Sweden
16480120::Cornerstone of Amsterdam townhall laid
16670120::Treaty of Andrussovo-ends 13 year war between Poland & Russia
17780120::1st American military court martial trial begins, Cambridge, Mass
17810120::1st edition of Pieter It Hoens "Post of Neder-Rhijn" published
17830120::Hostilities cease in Revolutionary War
17850120::Samuel Ellis advertises to sell Oyster Island (Ellis Is), no takers
17880120::Pioneer African Baptist church organizes in Savannah, Ga
18000120::Napoleon I's sister Carolina marries King Joachim Murat of Naples
18010120::John Marshall appointed US chief justice
18070120::Napoleon convenes great Sanhedrin, Paris
18090120::1st US geology book published by William Maclure
18400120::Dumont D'Urville discovers Ad‚lie Land, Antarctica
18400120::Dutch King Willem II crowned
18410120::China cedes Hong Kong to British
18500120::Investigator, 1st ship to effect northwest passage, leaves England
18600120::Dutch troops conquer Watampone in Celebes
18660120::Prim's Insurrection in Spain ends
18680120::Florida constitutional convention meets in Tallahassee
18690120::Elizabeth Cady Stanton becomes 1st woman to testify before Congress
18700120::"City of Boston" vanishes at sea with all 177 aboard
18700120::Hiram R Revels elected to fill unexpired term of Jefferson Davis
18720120::Calif Stock Exchange Board organized
18790120::British troops under Lord Chelmsford set camp at Isandlwana
18830120::Billy Barnes takes a hat-trick, England v Aust MCG
18870120::US Senate approves naval base lease of Pearl Harbor
18920120::1st basketball game played (Mass)
19100120::Ottawa Senators sweep Edmonton in 2 for Stanley Cup (2nd of 1910)
19200120::Dutch 2nd Chamber passes school laws
19210120::British submarine K5 leaves with man & mouse
19210120::Dagestan ASSR forms in RSFSR
19210120::Mountain Autonomous Republic established in RSFSR
19210120::Turkey declared in remnants of Ottoman Empire
19220120::Arthur Honegger's ballet "Skating Rink" premieres, Paris
19250120::USSR & Japan sign treaty of Peking, Seychelles back to USSR
19260120::2nd German govt of Luther begins
19290120::1st feature talking motion picture taken outdoors, "In Old Arizona"
19300120::1st radio broadcast of "Lone Ranger" (WXYZ-Detroit)
19340120::Japan sends Henry Pu Yi as regent to emperor of Manchuria
19360120::Edward VIII succeeds British king George V
19370120::-45øF (-43øC), Boca, Calif (state record)
19370120::1st Inauguration day on Jan 20th, (held every 4th years there-after)
19390120::Charles Ives' 1st Sonate "Concord," premieres
19390120::Hitler proclaims to German parliament to exterminate all European Jews
19410120::B‚la Bart¢k's 6th string quartet, premieres in NYC
19420120::Japanese air raid on Rabaul New Britain
19420120::Japanese invade Burma
19420120::Nazi officials hold notorious Wannsee conference in Berlin deciding on "final solution" calling for extermination of Europe's Jews
19430120::Lead SD, temp is 52øF, while 1.5 miles away Deadwood SD records -16øF
19430120::Operation-Weiss: Assault of German, Italian, Bulgarian & Croatian
19440120::RAF drops 2300 ton bombs on Berlin
19450120::FDR sworn-in for an unprecedented 4th term as president
19460120::F Gouin follows De Gaulle as temporary leader of French govt
19470120::Brigadier General Edwin K Wright, USA, becomes deputy director of CIA
19490120::J Edgar Hoover gives Shirley Temple a tear gas fountain pen
19490120::Pres Truman announces his point 4 program
19500120::"Dance Me a Song" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 35 performances
19500120::Suriname becomes independent part in Realm of Netherlands
19520120::British army occupies Ismailiya, Suez Canal Zone
19520120::Louise Suggs wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open
19530120::1st US telecast transmitted to Canada-from Buffalo NY
19530120::1st live coast-to-coast inauguration address (Eisenhower)
19540120::-70øF (-57øC), Rogers Pass, Montana (US 48 state record)
19540120::Dmitri Sjostakovitsj' "Concertino opus 94," premieres
19550120::1st atomic sub, USS Nautilus, launched at Groton Conn
19560120::Buddy Holly records "Blue Days Black Night" in Nashville
19570120::Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open
19570120::Gomulka wins Poland's parliamentary election
19570120::Morton Gould's "Declaration," premieres in Washington, DC
19580120::Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open
19580120::KUED TV channel 7 in Salt Lake City, UT (PBS) begins broadcasting
19590120::Dmitri Sjostakovitsj' Moscow-Tsjerjomoesjki, premieres in Moscow
19600120::Patrice Lumumba sentenced to 6 months in Belgian Congo
19610120::Arthur M Ramsay becomes archbishop of Canterbury
19610120::Francis Poulenc's "Gloria," premieres in Boston
19610120::Robert Frost recites "Gift Outright" at JFK's inauguration
19610120::Yugoslav ex-vice-president Milovan Djilas flees
19620120::"Kean" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 92 performances
19640120::"Meet The Beatles" album released in US
19650120::Beatles appear on Shindig (ABC-TV)
19650120::Byrds record "Mr Tambourine Man"
19650120::JPL proposes modified Apollo flight to fly around Mars & return
19650120::Generalissimo Francisco Franco meets with Jewish representatives to discuss legitimizing Jewish communities in Spain
19680120::Houston ends UCLA's 47-game basketball winning streak, 71-69
19680120::US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming
19680120::US male Figure Skating championship won by Tim Wood
19690120::Richard M Nixon inaugurated as president
19690120::U of Az reports 1st optical id of pulsar (in Crab Nebula)
19700120::20th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 142-135 at Philadelphia
19700120::23rd NHL All-Star Game: East beat West 4-1 at St Louis
19700120::Super Fight, computer mock championship between Ali & Marciano
19710120::Ard Schenk skates world record 1000m (1:18.8)
19710120::John Lennon meets Yoko Ono's parents in Japan
19740120::4th NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 15-13
19740120::7th ABA All-Star Game: East 128 beats West 112 at Virginia
19740120::A college basketball game ends 210-67
19740120::Essex Comm College beats Englewood Cliffs 210-67 in basketball
19750120::5th NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 17-10
19750120::Terrence McNally's "Ritz," premieres in NYC
19760120::29th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 7-5 at Phila
19770120::George Bush, ends term as 11th director of CIA
19770120::Mr Knoche, serves as acting director of CIA
19780120::Columbia Pictures pays $9.5 million for movie rights to "Annie"
19800120::President Jimmy Carter announces US boycott of Olympics in Moscow
19800120::US female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne
19800120::US male Figure Skating championship won by Charles Tickner
19800120::Superbowl MVP: Terry Bradshaw, Pittsburgh, QB
19800120::Superbowl XIV: Pitts Steelers beat LA Rams, 31-19 in Pasadena
19810120::52 Americans held hostage in Iran for 444 days freed
19810120::Adm Stansfield Turner, USN (Ret), ends term as 12th director of CIA
19810120::Frank C Carlucci, ends term as deputy director of CIA
19810120::Islander Glenn Resch's 25th & last shut-out opponent-Flames 5-0
19810120::Ronald Reagan inaugurated as president
19820120::7 miners killed in an explosion in Craynor Ky
19820120::Honduras constitution goes into effect
19820120::Piet Dankert elected chairman of European Parliament
19840120::US female Figure Skating championship won by Rosalynn Sumners
19850120::Cold front strikes US, at least 40 die (-27øF (-33øC) in Chicago)
19850120::Superbowl XIX: SF 49ers beat Miami Dolphins, 38-16 in Stanford Superbowl MVP: Joe Montana, San Francisco, QB
19860120::1st federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr
19860120::Chunnel announced (railroad tunnel under Canal)
19860120::Milt coup in Lesotho under gen-mjr Lekhanya & premier Leabua Jonathan
19870120::Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite taken hostage in Beirut, Lebanon
19870120::Rhino Records 1st #1-Billy Vera & Beaters' "At This Moment"
19880120::Andr‚ Hoffman skates world record 1500m (1:52.06)
19880120::Arizona committee opens hearing on impeachment of Gov Evan Mecham
19890120::Bush inaugurated as 41st president & Quayle becomes 44th vice pres
19890120::Wayne Holdsworth takes a wicket 1st ball in 1st-class cricket
19890120::Reagan becomes 1st pres elected in a "0" year, since 1840, to leave office alive
19900120::47th Golden Globes: Born on 4th of July, Driving Miss Daisy win
19900120::US 64th manned space mission STS 32 (Columbia 10) returns from space
19910120::"Black & Blue" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 829 performances
19910120::"Les Miserables," opens at Pantages Theatre, LA
19910120::"Peter Pan" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC or 45 performances
19910120::"Shogun - The Musical" closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 72 perfs
19910120::13th UCP Telethon
19910120::Buffalo Bills beat LA Raiders 51-3 for AFC title
19910120::Jane Geddes wins LPGA Jamaica Golf Classic
19910120::US Patriot missiles begins shooting down Iraqi missiles
19910120::Matt Barr's field goal with no time left gives NY Giant 15-13 Victory over defending champs SF 49ers, for NFC title
19920120::Australia beat India 2-0 to win the World Series Cup
19920120::Score begins selling international soccer cards
19930120::Adm Studeman, serves as acting director of CIA
19930120::Bill Clinton inaugurated as 42nd president
19950120::"Love! Valor! Compassion!" opens at Walter Kerr NYC for 276 perfs
19950120::1994-95 NHL Season begin after a lengthy strike
19950120::Russian ruble drops to 3,947 per dollar (record)
19960120::46th NHL All-Star Game: East beat West 5-4 at Fleet Center Boston
19960120::Australia defeat Sri Lanka 2-0 to win World Series Cup
19960120::US female Figure Skating championship won by Michelle Kwan
19960120::WPAT FM NYC radio station switches to English-Spanish format
19970120::Comet Hale-Bopp crosses Mars' orbit
19970120::Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in New Orleans LA on KKND 106.7 FM
19970120::Pakistan defeat West Indies 2-0 to win Aust one-day Series
19980120::Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducts Mama & Papas & Eagles
19980120::Warner Brothers TV Network begins Tueday night programming
10770121::German King Heinrich IV petitions Pope Gregory VII for forgiveness
11890121::Philip II, Henry II & Richard Lion hearted initiate 3rd Crusade
12760121::Pierre de Tarantaise elected Pope Innocence V
13240121::Zen Buddhist religious debate between Tendai & Shingon
15220121::Head inquisitor Adrian Florisz Boeyens elected pope
15420121::Parliament passes bill of attainder against Queen Katherine Howard
16040121::Tsar Ivan IV defeats False Dmitri, who claims to be the true tsar
16640121::Count Mikl¢s of Zrinyi sets out to battle Turkish invasion army
16770121::1st medical publication in America (pamphlet on smallpox), Boston
17320121::Russia & Persia sign Treaty of Riascha
17890121::1st American novel, WH Brown's "Power of Sympathy," is published
17930121::Prussia & Russia sign partition treaty (Poland divided)
17990121::Edward Jenner's smallpox vaccination is introduced
18130121::Pineapple introduced to Hawaii (or 01/111)
18180121::Keats writes his poem "On a Lock of Milton's Hair"
18210121::Paramaribo Suriname catches fire, 4 die
18240121::Ashantees defeat British at Accra, West Africa
18270121::Freedom Journal, 1st Black paper, begins publishing
18300121::Portsmouth (Ohio) blacks forcibly deported
18460121::1st edition of Charles Dickens' "Daily News"
18530121::Envelope-folding machine patented by Russell Hawes, Worcester, Mass
18610121::Jefferson Davis of Mississippi & 4 other southern senators resign
18630121::City of Dublin leases part of Cattle Market for 100,000 years
18740121::Franz Grillparzer's "Libussa," premieres in Vienna
18790121::Henrik Ibsen's "Et Dukkehjem," premieres in Copenhagen
18800121::1st US sewage disposal system separate from storm drains, Memphis
18870121::Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) forms
18900121::1st issue of Propria Cures, Amsterdam student-weekly newspaper
18940121::Oscar Fredriksen skates world record 500m in 47.8 sec
19010121::Clyde Fitch's "Climbers," premieres in NYC
19030121::"Wizard of Oz," premieres in NYC
19030121::Harry Houdini escapes police station Halvemaansteeg in Amsterdam
19030121::International Theater (Majestic, Park) opens at 5 Columbus Circle NYC
19040121::Leos Janacek's opera "Jenufa," premieres in Brno
19070121::Kenora Thistles sweep Mont Wanderers in 2 for Stanley Cup
19080121::August Strindberg's "Spoksonaten," premieres in Stockholm
19080121::NYC regulation makes it illegal for a woman to smoke in public
19100121::British-Russian military intervention in Persia
19130121::Aristide Briand forms French govt
19150121::Kiwanis International founded in Detroit
19190121::Sinn Fein proclaims parliament of Free Ireland
19220121::1st slalom ski race run, Mrren, Switzerland
19250121::Albanian parliament announces itself a republic; Ahmed Zogoe pres
19260121::Belgian parliament accepts Locarno treaties
19270121::1st national opera broadcast from a US opera house (Faust, Chicago)
19290121::Robert Sherriff's "Journey's End," premieres in London
19320121::USSR & Finland stop non-attack treaty
19350121::12.0" (30.5 cm) of rain falls, Quinault RS, Wash (state record)
19350121::WFI-AM in Philadelphia Penn merges with WLIT as WFIL (now WEAZ)
19350121::Wilderness Society forms
19380121::Dutch govt starts obligatory unemployment insurance
19390121::George Kaufman & Moss Hart's "American Way," premieres in NYC
19390121::US female Figure Skating championship won by Joan Tozzer
19390121::US male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee
19400121::Foreign correspondents in Netherlands under censorship
19410121::1st anti-Jewish measures in Bulgaria
19410121::1st commercial extraction of magnesium from seawater, Freeport, TX
19410121::Australia & Britain attack Tobruk Libya
19410121::British communist newspaper "Daily Worker" banned
19420121::Bronx magistrate rules all pinball machines illegal
19420121::Count Basie records "One O'Clock Jump"
19420121::Japanese air raid on Rabaul New Britain
19420121::Tito's partisans occupy Foca
19430121::Soviet forces reconquer Worosjilowsk
19430121::Soviet forces reconquer Gumrak airport near Stalingrad
19430121::Vice-admiral Cunningham appointed Brit adm of fleet
19440121::447 German bombers attack London
19440121::649 British bombers attack Magdeburg
19450121::British troops land on Ramree, near coast of Burma
19460121::"Nellie Bly" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 16 performances
19470121::"Sweethearts" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 288 performances
19470121::Arthur Honegger's 4th Symphony premieres in Basel
19480121::W Indies v England, Test debut Walcott, Weekes & Jim Laker
19490121::1st inaugural parade televised (Harry Truman)
19500121::"Lend an Ear" closes at National Theater NYC after 460 performances
19500121::NY jury finds former State Dept official Alger Hiss guilty of perjury
19500121::T S Eliot's "Cocktail Party," premieres in NYC
19510121::Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Tampa Women's Golf Open
19520121::Nehru's Congress party wins general election in India
19530121::John Foster Dulles appointed as Secretary of State
19540121::1st gas turbine automobile exhibited (NYC)
19560121::"Comedy in Music (Victor Borge)" closes at Golden NYC after 849 perfs
19560121::William Shawn succeeds Harold Ross as editor of New Yorker
19570121::KSAT TV channel 12 in San Antonio, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
19580121::KMOT TV channel 10 in Minot, ND (NBC) begins broadcasting
19580121::Phillies agree to televise 78 games into NYC (doesn't happen)
19600121::Little Joe 4 suborbital Mercury test reaches 16 km
19600121::Rock falls traps 437 at Coalbrook S Afr, 417 die of methane poisoning
19610121::"Conquering Hero" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 8 performances
19610121::KIFI TV channel 8 in Idaho Falls, ID (NBC) begins broadcasting
19610121::Portuguese rebels seize cruise ship Santa Maria
19620121::JFK arrives in Uruguay
19620121::Mickey Wright wins LPGA Sea Island Women's Golf Invitational
19620121::Snow falls in SF
19640121::Carl T Rowan named director of US Information Agency
19650121::Persians premier Ali Mansoer injured
19660121::Beatle George Harrison marries model Patti Boyd
19670121::AFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 30-23
19670121::US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming
19670121::US male Figure Skating championship won by Gary Visconti
19680121::AFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 25-24
19680121::NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 38-20
19680121::US B-52 bombers with nuclear bomb crashes in Greenland
19690121::22nd NHL All-Star Game: West beat East 3-3 at Montreal
19700121::Panama Boeing 747 1st flight NY-London
19710121::"Alias Smith & Jones" premieres on ABC TV
19720121::Assam's North East Frontier Agency becomes Arunachal Pradesh terr
19720121::Belgium govt of Eyskens-Cools forms
19720121::Manipur, Meghalaya & Tripura become separate states of Indian union
19720121::Mizoram, formerly part of Assam, creates an Indian union territory
19730121::3rd NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 33-28
19730121::Leslie Nielson appears on M*A*S*H in "Ringbanger"
19740121::Gold hits record $161.31/silver hits record $3.97 an ounce in London
19750121::28th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 7-1 at Montreal
19760121::Supersonic Concorde, 1st commercial flights, by Britain & France
19770121::Italy legalizes abortion
19770121::Pres Jimmy Carter pardons almost all Vietnam War draft evaders
19780121::Bee Gees' "Saturday Night Fever" album goes #1 for 24 weeks
19790121::Neptune becomes outermost planet (Pluto moves closer)
19790121::Price of gold increases to record $875 troy oz
19790121::Superbowl XIII: Pitts Steelers beat Dallas Cowboys, 35-31 in Miami Superbowl MVP: Terry Bradshaw, Pittsburgh, QB
19800121::Gold hits record $850 an ounce
19800121::Les Henson, Virginia Tech, makes 89' 3" basketball field goal
19810121::"Shakespeare's Cabaret" opens at Bijou Theater NYC for 54 performances
19810121::Bernhard Goetz is assault for 1st time on a NY subway train
19820121::"Little Me" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 36 performances
19820121::NY Islanders begin then NHL record 15 game winning streak
19830121::Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Anthony E Hecht
19830121::Reagan certifies El Salvador human-rights abuses have decreased making country eligible for US military aid
19840121::US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Hamilton
19850121::-19øF (-28øC), Caesar's Head, South Carolina (state record)
19850121::-34øF (-37øC), Mt Mitchell, North Carolina (state record)
19850121::Bomb attack on Borobudur temple in Java
19850121::Dennis Potvin ties Bobby Orr's career record of 270 NHL goals
19860121::100 participate in Nude Olympics race in 38øF (3øC), Indiana
19860121::Allison J Brown, 17, of Oklahoma, crowned 4th Miss Teen USA
19860121::Bomb attack in East-Beirut, 27 killed
19870121::BB King donates his 7,000 record collection to U of Mississippi
19880121::US accept immigration of 30,000 US-Vietnamese children
19890121::A woman is assaulted & raped in room of an Okla football player
19890121::Wayne Gretzky passes Marcel Dionne to become NHL's 2nd all time scorer
19900121::41st NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 12-7 at Pittsburgh
19900121::Bob Goodenow succeeds Alan Eagleson as NHL players assn exec director
19900121::John McEnroe becomes 1st ever expelled from Australian Open; for
19900121::Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Jamaica Golf Classic
19910121::CBS News correspondant Bob Simon captured by Iraqis in Persian Gulf
19930121::Johan Koss skates world record 5 km in 6:38.77
19930121::Nigerian singer Fela Kuti arrested on suspicion of murder
19940121::Dow Jones passes 3900 (record 3,914.20)
19940121::Lorena Bobbitt found temporarily insane of chopping off spouse's penis
19950121::52th Golden Globes: Forrest Gump, Tom Hanks, Jessica Lange
19960121::53th Golden Globes: Mel Gibson, Nicole Kidman, John Travolta
19960121::Karrie Webb wins LPGA HealthSouth Inaugural Golf Tournament
19960121::US male Figure Skating championship won by Rudy Galindo
19980121::Pope John Paul II visits Cuba
08710122::Battle at Basing: Danish invasion army beats Ethelred of Wessex
13710122::King Robert II Stuart of Scotland crowned
15100122::Jews are expelled from Colmar Germany
15170122::Turks conquer Cairo
15280122::England & France declare war on Emperor Charles V
15750122::English queen Elizabeth I grants Thomas Tallis & William Byrd music press monopoly
15840122::Parts of Switzerland adopt Gregorian calendar (& parts in 1812)
15880122::Pope Sixtus V decrees "Immense aeterni" (Reformed curia)
16730122::Postal service between New York & Boston inaugurated
16890122::Lord Halifax becomes Speaker of English House of Lords
16890122::Prince Willem III calls English parliament together
16900122::Iroquois tribes renew allegiance to British against French
17580122::Russian troops occupy K”nigsberg, East Prussia [OS=Jan 11]
17600122::Battle at Wandewash India: British troops beat French
17710122::Spain cedes Falkland Islands to Britain
17750122::Marshal Oscar von Lubomirski expels Jews from Warsaw Poland
17980122::Coup of Midderigh
18130122::Americans capture Frenchtown, Canada
18140122::1st Knights Templar grand encampment in US held, NYC
18160122::Lord Byron completes "Parisina" & "Siege of Corinth"
18170122::English freighter Diana sinks off Malaysia
18310122::Charles Darwin takes his Bachelors of Art exam
18370122::Earthquake in southern Syria kills thousands
18500122::Alta California becomes a daily paper, 1st such in Calif
18570122::National Association of Baseball Players founded, NY
18590122::Brahms' 1st piano concerto (in D minor) premieres, Hanover
18620122::Confederate govt raises premium for volunteers from $10 to $20
18630122::Union Gen Burnside's "Mud March"
18730122::Britains SS Northfleet sinks at Dungeness England, 300 die
18790122::Zulus attack British Army camp in Isandhlwana South Africa
18790122::James Shields (D) elected US senator from Missouri after previously serving as US senator from Illinois & Minnesota
18810122::Ancient Egyptian obelisk "Cleopatra's Needle" erected in Central Park
18830122::England complete 1st innings victory in Tests v Aust MCG
18900122::Jos‚ Marti forms La Liga (Union of Cuban exiles) in NYC
18950122::National Association of Manufacturers organized in Cincinnati
19010122::After 63 years England stops sale of Queen Victoria postage stamps series & begins King Edward VII series
19050122::Bloody Sunday: Russian demonstrators fired on by tsarist troops
19090122::Vassily Kandinsky forms Knstlerverein in Munich
19100122::Opera "Germania," premieres in NYC
19140122::Paul Claudel's "L'‚change," premieres in Paris
19180122::Ukraine proclaimed a free republic (German puppet)
19240122::Baldwin govt resigns in England
19240122::Dutch Blast Furnace & Steel Factory opens
19240122::KGO-AM in San Francisco CA begins radio transmissions
19250122::Albania Republic proclaimed under Pres Achmed Zogu
19260122::Belgian chief of staff Gen Maglinse quits
19300122::-35øF (-37øC), Mount Carroll, Illinois (state record)
19310122::French govt of Steeg falls
19310122::VARA begins experimental TV broadcast in Diamantbeurs Amsterdam
19320122::British Anglicans & Old-Catholic church merge
19340122::Dmitri Sjostakovitsj' opera "Lady MacBeth," premieres in Leningrad
19360122::French Laval govt falls
19380122::"Our Town," Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer-winner of small-town life in Grover's Corners, NH, premieres (NJ)
19390122::Aquatic Park, near Fisherman's Wharf, SF, is dedicated
19390122::Uranium atom 1st split, Columbia University
19400122::1st radio broadcast of "Road to Happiness" on CBS
19410122::1st mass killing of Jews in Romania
19410122::British/Australian troops capture Tobruk from Italians
19420122::Japanese air raid on Rabaul, New Britain
19420122::Sietze de Groot wins 8th Dutch 11 city skate (8:44:06)
19430122::66.3 cm precipitation at Hoegees Camp, Calif (state record)
19430122::Battle of Anzio: Italy; Allies stopped on beach[1944]-
19430122::Joint Chiefs of Staff determine invasion in Sicily for July 10th
19430122::Temperature rises 49øF (9øC) in 2 minutes in Spearfish, SD
19440122::During World War II, Allied forces begin landing at Anzio Italy
19450122::Burma highway reopens
19450122::Heavy US air raid on Okinawa
19460122::US president sets up CIA, Central Intelligence Agency
19470122::1st commercial TV station west of Mississippi opens, Hollywood CA
19470122::KTLA TV channel 5 in Los Angeles, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
19480122::Jim Laker takes 7-103 in his 1st Test Cricket innings v WI Barbados
19490122::"All for Love" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 121 perfs
19490122::Chinatown telephone exchange closed
19500122::Polly Riley wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open
19510122::Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Johncrowe Ransom
19510122::Fidel Castro ejected from a Winter League game after beaning batter
19530122::Arthur Miller's "Crucible," premieres in NYC
19550122::Norwegian government of Einar Gerhardsen forms
19560122::30 die in a train crash in Los Angeles
19560122::Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open
19560122::Canadian Football Council forms
19570122::Israeli forces withdraw from Sinai Peninsula
19570122::Mad Bomber (George P Metesky) accused of 30 explosions, arrested
19580122::KRSD (now KEVN) TV channel 7 in Rapid City, SD (ABC) 1st broadcast
19590122::USAF concludes less than 1% of UFO's are unknown objects
19600122::10th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 125-115 at Philadelphia
19600122::Coal mine of Johnburg caves-in, 417 die
19600122::French president De Gaulle escape attempt by general Massu
19600122::Paul Pender beats Sugar Ray Robinson for middleweight boxing title
19630122::Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Naples Professional Golf Tournament
19640122::Kenneth Kaunda becomes premier of North-Rhodesia (Zambia)
19640122::World's largest cheese (15,723 kg) manufactured, Wisconsin
19650122::US launches TIROS 9 weather satellite
19670122::NFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 20-10
19680122::"Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" premieres on NBC
19680122::Apollo 5 launched to Moon; unmanned lunar module tests made
19680122::NBA announces it will expand to Milwaukee & Phoenix
19690122::"Celebration" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 110 performances
19690122::Billy Preston becomes 5th Beatle
19690122::Orbiting Solar Observatory 5 launched into earth orbit
19690122::Roy Campanella & Stan Musial elected to baseball Hall of Fame
19700122::1st commercial Boeing 747 flight, NY to London in 6« hours
19700122::Test debut of Barry Richards, S Africa v Australia, Cape Town
19710122::John & Yoko record "Power to the People"
19720122::"Emergency" with Robert Fuller premieres on NBC TV
19720122::22nd NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 112-110 at LA
19730122::George Foreman TKOs Joe Frazier in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
19730122::Roe vs Wade: US Supreme Court legalizes some abortions
19730122::US, North & South Vietnam & Vietcong sign boundary accord
19750122::Landsat 2, an Earth Resources Technology Satellite, launched
19760122::Bank robbery in Beirut nets $20-50 million (record)
19800122::Dissidents Andrei Sacharov & Jelena Bonner banished to Gorki
19800122::PGA begins a senior golf tour
19800122::West Indies beat England 2-0 to win 1st World Series Cup
19810122::40th Islander shut-out opponent-3-0 vs Red Wings-Billy Smith 15th
19810122::O A "Bum" Phillips becomes head coach of New Orleans Saints
19820122::75% of North America is covered by snow
19830122::2nd flight readiness firing of Challenger's main engines; 22 seconds
19830122::Houston is 1st NBA team to be held scoreless in an overtime Portland Trail Blazers out score them 17-0 & win 113-96
19840122::Annette Kennedy of SUNY sets women's basketball record with 70 pts
19840122::Hilbert van de Thumb becomes European all-round skates
19840122::Superbowl XVIII: LA Raiders beat Wash Red Skins, 38-9 in Tampa Superbowl MVP: Marcus Allen, LA Raiders, RB
19850122::-30øF (-34øC), Mountain Lake Bio Station, Virginia (state record)
19850122::Cold wave damages 90% of Florida's citrus crop
19850122::Kelly Hu, 16, of Hawaii, crowned 3rd Miss Teen USA
19850122::Zak Starkey (Ringo's son) marries Sarah Menikides
19860122::Ghorbanifar 1st suggests diversion of cash to contras, says North
19870122::Blizzard in NJ, as 334 attend Devils-Flame NHL game, NJ wins 7-5
19880122::1st-class cricket debut of Brian Lara, Trinidad & Tobago v Leeward Is
19880122::1st-class cricket debut of Hansie Cronje, OFS v Transvaal
19880122::Mike Tyson TKOs Larry Holmes in 4 for heavyweight boxing title
19890122::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
19890122::Superbowl XXIII: SF 49ers beat Cin Bengals, 20-16 in Miami Superbowl MVP: Jerry Rice, San Francisco, WR
19900122::17th American Music Award: Milli Vanilli
19900122::Wasim Akram scores Test century (123) at Adelaide
19900122::Will Clark, NL's MVP signs a $15M 4-year contract with SF Giants
19920122::Princess Sarah Ferguson wears paper bag over her head on airline ride
19920122::Space Shuttle STS-42 (Discovery 15) launches into space
19930122::Johan Koss skates world record 5 km in 6:38.77
19940122::45th NHL All-Star Game: East beat West 9-8 at NY Rangers
19940122::5.5 earthquake strikes Sumatra
19940122::51st Golden Globes: Schlinder's List, Steven Speilberg
19940122::East beats West 9-8 in 45th NHL All Star Game at MSG in NYC
19950122::Palestinian bomb attack in Beit Lid Israel, 21-22 killed
19950122::Pat Bradley wins LPGA HealthSouth Inaugural Golf Tournament
19970122::Space Shuttle Atlantis Returns to Earth, Successful
19980122::NHL's Minnesota franchise selects the nickname Wild
19980122::Rickey Henderson, rejoins Oakland A's for 4th time
19980122::STS 89 (Endeavour 12) launches into orbit
19980122::World League of American Football becomes NFL East
06380123::Start of Islamic calendar
12650123::1st English Parliament formally convened (some authorities)
14900123::1st printing of Ramban's Sha'ar ha-Gemul
14920123::"Pentateuch" (Jewish holy book) 1st printed
15520123::2nd version of Book of Common Prayer becomes manditory in England
15560123::Most deadly earthquake kills 830,000 in Shensi Province, China
15700123::Earl of Moray, regent of Scotland, assassinated; civil war breaks out
15710123::Queen Elizabeth I opens Royal Exchange in London
15790123::Union of Utrecht signed, forming protestant Dutch Republic
16310123::France & Sweden sign anti-German Treaty of B„rwald
16370123::Dutch governor Johan Mauritius lands in Pernambuco Brazil
16430123::Sir Thomas Fairfax takes Leeds for Parliamentarians
16470123::Scottish Presbyterians sell captured Charles I to English parliament
16630123::King Louis XIV affirms covenant with R˜nstaten
16680123::England, Netherlands & Sweden signs Triple Alliance against French
17190123::Principality of Liechtenstein created within Holy Roman Empire
17230123::Georg Friedrich H„ndel's opera "Ottone," premieres in London
17790123::Charles Messier catalogs M56 (globular cluster in Lyra)
17890123::Georgetown, 1st US Catholic college, founded
17930123::2nd partition of Poland, between Prussia & Russia
17930123::Humane Society of Philadelphia (1st aid society) organized
17960123::Armand-Gaston Camus becomes chairman of Council of 500
18120123::7.8 earthquake shakes New Madrid, Missouri
18330123::Joseph Pease, a Quaker, admitted to Parliament on his affirmation
18450123::Uniform US election day for president & VP authorized
18490123::Mrs Elizabeth Blackwell becomes 1st woman physician in US
18490123::Patent granted for an envelope-making machine
18560123::Steamer Pacific lost
18620123::Agoston Haraszthy, 1st vintner in Sonoma Valley, imports 10,000
18650123::-Jan 25th) Battle of City Point, VA (James River, Trent's Reach)
18700123::173 Blackfoot (140 women & children) killed in Montana by US Army
18790123::National Archery Association forms (Crawfordsville Ind)
18890123::Dr Daniel Hale Williams forms Provident Hospital in Chicago
18940123::G W Bunbury of Dublin sets shorthand record of 250 wpm for 10 min
18960123::Edward Macdowell's 2nd Suite in E, premieres
18970123::Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Abbey Grange" (BG)
19020123::Winnipeg Victorias sweep Toronto Wellingtons in 2 for Stanley Cup
19070123::Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes 1st Native American US senator
19080123::US & Great-Britain demand end of abuses in Congo
19090123::1st radio rescue at sea
19160123::Temp falls from 44øF (7øC) to -56øF (49øC) night of 23-24, Browning MT
19200123::Dutch refuse to turn over ex-kaiser Wilhelm I of Germany to allies
19230123::Taxi strike in Amsterdam begins (through March 9th)
19240123::Ramsey MacDonald forms 1st Labour govt in Britain
19260123::Eugene O'Neill's "Great God Brown," premieres in NYC
19280123::"Abenteuer of brave Soldier Schwejk" premieres in Berlin
19300123::Clyde Tombaugh photographs planet Pluto
19300123::George Washington Birthplace National Monument, Va established
19300123::WIS-AM (now WOMG) in Columbia SC begins radio transmissions
19320123::El Salvador army kills 4,000 protesting farmers
19330123::20th amendment changes date of presidential inaugurations to 1/20
19360123::Catholic People's Party (KVP) of Cura‡ao forms
19370123::Karl Radek & 16 others go on trial in Stalin's great purge
19400123::Pianist Ignaz Paderewski becomes premier of Polish govt in exile
19410123::Ground breaking for NACA (now NASA) Lewis Research Center
19410123::WOR-AM in Newark NJ moves to NYC
19420123::Japanese troops occupy Rabaul New Britain
19420123::Tank battle at Adzjedabia, African corps vs British army
19430123::66.34 cm (26.12"), Hoegees Camp, California (state record)
19430123::British 8th army marches into Tripoli
19430123::Detroit Red Wings scores NHL record 8 goals in 1 period
19430123::Japanese Mount Austen on Guadalcanal captured
19440123::Arnold Schoenberg's "Ode to Napoleon," premieres in NYC
19440123::Det Red Wings score 15 goals against NY Rangers & NHL record 37 points, also most consecutive goals & most lopsided game 15-0
19450123::Dutch Premier Gerbrandy, exiled in London, offers his resignation
19460123::Rear Admiral Sidney W Souers, USNR, becomes 1st director of CIA
19480123::Bradman scores 201 in 272 mins v India, 21 fours 1 six
19480123::Huston's "Treasure of Sierra Madre" starring Humphrey Bogart opens
19480123::Test debut of Neil Harvey, v India at Adelaide
19500123::3rd edition of Joseph Kane's Famous 1st Facts published
19500123::AP picks "Miracle Braves" of 1914 as greatest sports upset
19500123::Israeli Knesset resolves Jerusalem is capital of Israel
19500123::NFL rule changes open way for 2-platoon system (offense & defense)
19500123::Rebel army of cap Raymond Westerner occupies Bandung
19510123::3rd Emmy Awards: Alan Young Show, Alan Young & Gertrude Berg
19530123::Bobby Simpson makes 1st-class debut for NSW 16 yrs 357 days
19530123::NFL Dallas Texans become Baltimore Colts (now Indianapolis Colts)
19530123::NFL's National & American conference become Eastern & Western conf
19540123::Harry van Thorn chosen chairman of Dutch KVP
19540123::Longest undefeated streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (18 games)
19550123::Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open
19550123::KORK (now KVBC) TV channel 3 in Las Vegas, NV (NBC) 1st broadcast
19580123::"Body Beautiful" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 60 performances
19580123::Dictator Marcos P‚rez Jim‚nez flees Venezuela, Larraz bal takes power
19580123::Hanif Mohammad completes 337 in 970 minutes v West Indies
19600123::Bathosphere "Trieste" reach bottom of Pacific (10,900 m)
19610123::Supreme Court rules cities & states have right to censor films
19610123::Venezuela adopts constitution
19620123::Bob Feller & Jackie Robinson elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
19620123::British spy Kim Philby defects to USSR
19620123::Libya, Morocco, Algeria & Tunisia plan to form United Arab Maghreb
19640123::24th Amendment ratified, barring poll tax in federal elections
19640123::Arthur Miller's "After the Fall," premieres in NYC
19650123::"King Family Show" (musical variety) premieres on ABC TV
19650123::BPAA All-Star Tournament won by Dick Weber
19650123::Boston Celtic center Bill Russell misses all 14 shots in loss to Philadelphia Warriors led by Wilt Chamberlain
19670123::Stan Musial is named GM of Cards
19680123::Joe Medwick elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
19680123::Spy ship USS Pueblo & 83-man crew seized in Sea of Japan by N Korea
19690123::Cream releases their last album "Goodbye"
19700123::Australia's 1st amateur radio satellite (Oscar 5) launched (Calif)
19700123::Dolle Mina's burns her bra in Amsterdam
19700123::US launches 2nd generation weather satellite, ITOS 1
19700123::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19710123::-80øF (-62øC) in Prospect Creek Camp, Alaska (US record)
19710123::4th ABA All-Star Game: East 126 beats West 122 at Carolina
19710123::UCLA loses to Notre Dame, UCLA then wins next 88 games in a row
19720123::2nd AFC-NFC pro bowl, AFC wins 26-13
19720123::Ard Schenk becomes European all-round skating champ
19720123::Bootlegger sells wood alcohol to wedding party-100 die-New Delhi
19720123::Entire population of Istanbul under 24 hour house arrest
19720123::NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 26-13
19730123::23rd NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 104-84 at Chicago
19730123::Helgafell, island of Heimaey Iceland erupts for 1st time in 7,000 yrs
19730123::Jordan Air crash at Kano, Nigeria kills 176 Moslem pilgrims
19730123::Pres Nixon announces an accord has been reached to end Vietnam War
19740123::1st edition of women's magazine "Story"
19750123::"Barney Miller" premieres on ABC TV
19750123::Ralph Kiner elected to baseball's Hall of Fame
19760123::Ian Redpath hits his only 2 sixes in Cricket Tests, v WI Adelaide
19760123::Wash Caps end 25 game winless streak (0-22-3) beat NY Rangers 7-5
19770123::$1.5-million Serge Lepage dress exhibited, Paris
19770123::Miniseries "Roots" premieres on ABC
19780123::Belgian industrial Haron Empain kidnapped in Paris
19780123::NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 14-13
19790123::Willie Mays elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
19810123::1st Richard Nixon museum opens (San Clemente Calif)
19810123::Jochem Bird elected mayor of West Berlin
19810123::Mike Bossy becomes 1st in NHL to score 50 goals in 50 games
19810123::Red Sox trade Fred Lynn to Angels for Frank Tanana & Joe Rudi
19820123::Urbe Blanca (cow) produces record 110 kg of milk, Cuba (approx date)
19820123::World Airways DC-10 skids at Boston Logan Airport killing 2
19830123::"A-Team" with Mr T premieres on NBC
19830123::Bjorn Borg announces his retirement from tennis
19830123::Cerebral Palsy telethon raises $14,700,000
19830123::In NBA, Portland scores all 17 pts in overtime to beat Houston 113-96
19830123::Russian radioactive satellite falls into Indian Ocean
19830123::Sch”ne skates ladies world record 5 km (7:40.97)
19840123::Buffalo Sabres win NHL record 10th straight road game
19840123::Greatest unpaced 1-hr bicycle distance, F Moser (Italy), 51.15 km
19840123::Hulk Hogan defeats Iron Sheik to become WWF champ
19850123::Britains House of Lords debate 1st televised
19860123::"Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood" opens at Ritz Theater NYC for 13 perfs
19860123::Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center via Davis-Monthan AFB
19860123::1st induction of Rock 'N' Roll Hall of Fame (Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Domino, Everly Bros, B Holly, J L Lewis & Elvis Presley)
19870123::Dow Jones rises 64 points then drops 110 points (44.15 pt loss)
19870123::Japan 1st exceeds military spending cap of 1% of GNP ($23 billion)
19880123::45th Golden Globes: Last Emperor, Sally Kirkland, Michael Douglas
19880123::62nd Australian Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Chris Evert (61 76)
19880123::Bob Benoit bowls 1st 300-pt game in a televised title match
19880123::Experimental airplane Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan & Jeana Yeager, complete 1st nonstop, round-the-world flight without refueling lands
19890123::Challenge to "who is a Jew" law filed in Israeli Supreme Court
19890123::NBA New Jersey Nets begin a 32+ game road losing streak
19900123::Dean Jones scores twin Test tons v Pakistan at Adelaide Oval
19910123::"Seinfeld" debuts on NBC-TV
19910123::World's largest oil spill, caused by embattled Iraqi forces in Kuwait
19920123::"Visit" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 45 performances
19930123::50th Golden Globes: Scent of a Woman, wins
19930123::Graham Gooch scores his 100th 100, on tour at Cuttack
19930123::Indian Airlines B737 crashes art Aurangabad, 61 die
19930123::NY Newsday reports Ore Sen Bob Packwood sexually harassed 23 women
19930123::US female Figure Skating championship won by Nancy Kerrigan
19940123::Bernie Kosar is 2nd QB to throw TD passes in AFC & NFC Champ games
19940123::Worldwide Day for peace in Bosnia-Hercegovina
19960123::Chris Cairns scores 120, 96 balls, 10x4, 9x6 in Test NZ v Zim
19980123::Pope John Paul II condemns US embargo against Cuba
32680123::Beginning of 2nd Julian Period (1/1 OS)
07720124::Stephen III ends his reign as Catholic Pope
08170124::St Paschal I begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Stephen IV
10760124::Synod of Worms: German King Henry IV fires Pope Gregory VII
11180124::Giovanni Caetani elected Pope Gelasius II
13280124::King Edward III of England marries Philippa of Henegouwen
14580124::Matthias I Corvinus chosen king of Hungary
15340124::Fran‡ois I signs classified treaty with evangelical German monarchy
15560124::Heavy earthquake strikes Shaaxi China, kills 830,000
15680124::Abdij Church in Middelburg destroyed by fire
15680124::In Netherlands, Duke of Alva declares William of Orange an outlaw
16130124::Amsterdams merchant Hans Bontemantel baptized
16160124::Jacques Le Maire discovers Street Lemaire/Cape Receiver
16340124::Emperor Ferdinand II declares Albrecht von Wallenstein a traitor
16390124::Connecticut colony organizes under Fundamental Orders
16440124::Battle at Nantwich Cheshire: Parliamentary armies win
16520124::Duke of Orl‚ans joins Fronde rebels
16560124::1st Jewish doctor in US, Jacob Lumbrozo, arrives in Maryland
16590124::Pierre Corneille's "Oedipe," premieres in Paris
16790124::King Charles II disbands English parliament
17220124::Czar Peter the Great begins civil system
17220124::Edward Wigglesworth appointed 1st US divinity professor (Harvard)
17420124::German leaders elect Charles VII Albert Emperor
17640124::Gov Winthrop Telescope, is destroyed in a Harvard fire
18390124::Charles Darwin elected member of Royal Society
18470124::1,500 New Mexican Indians & Mexicans defeated by US Col Price
18480124::James Marshall finds gold in Sutter's Mill in Coloma, Calif
18610124::Arsenal at Augusta, Ga seized by Confederacy
18610124::Federal troops from Ft Monroe are sent to Ft Pikens
18620124::Romania principality arises under King Alexander Cuza
18740124::Gen J van Swieten conquerors Kraton Atjeh, after 1000's die
18740124::Mussorgsky's opera "Boris Godunov," premieres in St Petersburg
18750124::Camille Saint-Sa‰ns' "Danse Macabre," premieres
18920124::battle at Mengo, Uganda: French missionaries attack Brit missionaries
18990124::Belgium govt of Vandenpeereboom forms
18990124::Rubber heel patented by Humphrey O'Sullivan
19000124::Battle at Tugela-Spionkop, South Africa (Boers vs British army)
19000124::Newcastle Badminton Club, world's oldest, forms in England
19010124::1st games played in baseball's American League
19010124::Emily Hobhouse view lord Kitcheners concentration camp at Bloemfontein
19020124::Denmark sells Virgin Islands to USA
19080124::Gen Baden-Powell starts Boy-Scouts
19130124::Franz Kafka stops working on "Amerika"; it will never be finished
19140124::Opera "Madeleine," premieres in NYC
19150124::German-British sea battle at Doggersbank & Helgoland
19220124::-54øF (-48øC), Danbury, Wisconsin (state record)
19220124::Eskimo Pie patented by Christian K Nelson of Iowa (not an Eskimo)
19220124::Lehman Caves National Monument established
19230124::Aztec Ruins National Monument, NM established
19240124::Mussolini disallows non-fascists work union
19240124::Russian city of St Petersburg renamed Leningrad
19250124::Moving picture of a solar eclipse taken from dirigible over Long Is
19250124::Sandler follows Branting as premier of Sweden
19300124::J E Mills scores 117 on Test Cricket debut, NZ v England, Wellington
19300124::Stewie Dempster scores New Zealand's 1st Test century
19330124::No‰l Coward's "Design for Living," premieres in NYC
19350124::1st canned beer, "Krueger Cream Ale," is sold by Kruger Brewing Co
19360124::Benny Goodman & orch record "Stompin' at the Savoy" on Victor Records
19390124::30,000 killed by earthquake in Concepcion Chile
19390124::Eddie Collins, Willie Keeler & George Sisler elected to Hall of Fame
19390124::Spanish govt moves to Figueras
19410124::British troops march into Abyssinia
19420124::Musical "Star & Garter," premieres in NYC
19430124::Hitler orders nazi troops at Stalingrad to fight to death
19430124::Jewish patients/nurses/doctors incinerated at Auschwitz-Birkenau
19440124::Allied troops occupy Nettuno Italy
19450124::Scottish 52nd Lowland division occupies Heinsberg
19470124::NFL adds 5th official (back judge) & allows sudden death in playoffs
19480124::"Music in My Heart" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 124 perfs
19480124::Australia all out 674 v India (Bradman 201, Hassett 198*)
19480124::Dutch Liberal Party forms-People's party for Freedom & Democracy (VVD)
19500124::Jackie Robinson signs highest contract ($35,000) in Dodger history
19510124::Dutch govt Drees-van Schaik resigns
19520124::1st NFL team in Texas, Dallas Texans formerly NY Yanks
19520124::Fire in main building of French Port Martin Antarctic base
19540124::BPAA All-Star Tournament won by Don Carter
19540124::Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Tampa Women's Golf Open
19560124::96.5 cm precipitation at Kilauea Plantation, Hawaii (state record)
19580124::After warming to 100,000,000ø, 2 light atoms are bashed together to create a heavier atom, resulting in 1st man-made nuclear fusion
19590124::"Party with Comden & Green" closes at John Golden NYC after 38 perfs
19590124::Dmitri Shostakovitch's comedy "Cheryomushk," premieres in Moscow
19590124::WHCT TV channel 18 in Hartford, CT (IND) begins broadcasting
19600124::Algeria uprises against French president De Gaulle
19610124::Edward Albee's "American Dream," premieres in NYC
19610124::Lazard Brothers Ltd draw a check for $334,867,807.68
19620124::28 refugees escape from East to West Germany
19620124::Brian Epstein signs management contract with the Beatles
19620124::Jackie Robinson is 1st Black elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
19620124::Mickey Wright/Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Naples Pro-Am Golf Tournament
19630124::Buddy Rogers & Lou Thesz wrestle in Toronto, Rogers becomes WWF wrestling champ & Thesz becomes NWA champ
19640124::CBS purchases 1964 & 1965 NFL TV rights for $28.2 million
19640124::Martin Kresses final comic strip of Eric the Viking
19640124::24th Amendment to US Constitution goes into effect & states voting rights could not be denied due to failure to pay taxes
19660124::WDIO TV channel 10 in Duluth, MN (ABC) begins broadcasting
19690124::Queen Juliana appointed honorary citizen of Addis Ababa
19690124::Spanish Gen Franco announces state of emergency
19700124::3rd ABA All-Star Game: West 128 beats East 98 at Indiana
19700124::Valeri Muratov skates world record 500m (38.99 sec)
19710124::NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 27-6
19720124::WRIP (now WDSI) TV channel 61 in Chattanooga, TN (IND) 1st broadcast
19730124::Warren Spahn is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
19750124::"Hot l Baltimore" situation comedy premieres on ABC TV
19750124::Fastest Earth-bound object, 7200 kph, in vacuum centrifuge, England
19760124::Cleve Cavaliers biggest margin victory-43 pts (beat Milwaukee 132-89)
19760124::George Foreman KOs Ron Lyle in 5th round of a real slugfest
19770124::5 lawyers murdered by fascist in Madrid
19780124::31st NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 3-2 (OT) at Buffalo
19780124::Carter Executive Order on Intelligence (# 12036)
19790124::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19810124::Islanders scored 5 power play goals against Nordiques
19810124::Kim Hughes scores 213 v India at Adelaide
19820124::Superbowl MVP: Joe Montana, San Francisco, QB
19820124::Superbowl XVI: SF 49ers beat Cin Bengals, 26-21 in Pontiac Mich
19830124::Hulk Hogan pins Iron Sheik for World Wrestling Federation title
19840124::Apple Computer Inc unveila its Macintosh personal computer
19850124::15th Space Shuttle (51-C) Mission-Discovery 3 is launched
19860124::43th Golden Globes: Whoopi Goldberg, Color Purple win
19860124::NY Islander Mike Bossy scores his 1,000th point
19860124::South Yemen Premier Haydar Bakr al-Attas becomes interim-president
19860124::Voyager 2 makes 1st fly-by of Uranus (81,593 km), finds new moons
19870124::61st Australian Womens Tennis: H Mandlikova beat M Navratilova (75 76)
19880124::1st WWF Royal Rumble - Jim Duggan wins
19880124::76th Australian Mens Tennis: M Wilander beats P Cash (63 67 36 61 86)
19880124::9th ACE Cable Awards
19880124::Australia beat New Zealand 2-0 to win the World Series Cup
19880124::Cerebral Palsy telethon
19890124::1st reported case of AIDS transmitted by heterosexual oral sex
19900124::Japanese MUSES-A (Hiten) launched towards moon
19910124::"Les Miserables," opens at Theatre St Denis, Montreal
19930124::14th annual star-athon $24,000,000
19930124::Polish ferry boat John Heweliusz sinks, 52 killed
19930124::Soyuz TM-16 launches
19930124::US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Davis
19940124::Dow Jones closes above 3,900 for 1st time (3,914.48)
08440125::Gregory IV begins & ends his reign as Catholic Pope
11390125::Godfried II the Young becomes duke of Brabant
13270125::King Edward III accedes to British throne
13480125::Earthquake destroys Villach, killing 5,000
14940125::Alfonso II replaces his father as king of Naples
15330125::England's King Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn (approximate date)
15540125::Sir Thomas Wyatt gathers an army in Kent, rebels against Queen Mary
15650125::Battle at Talikota India: Moslems destroy Vijayanagar's army
15790125::Treaty of Utrecht signed, marks beginning of Dutch Republic
17210125::Czar Peter the Great ends Russian-orthodox patriarchy
17750125::Americans drag cannon up hill to fight British (Gun Hill Road, Bronx)
17870125::Shays' Rebellion suffers a setback when debt-ridden farmers, led by Capt Daniel Shays, fail to capture an arsenal at Springfield, Mass
17990125::1st US patent for a seeding machine, Eliakim Spooner, Vermont
18020125::Napoleon elected president of Italian (Cisalpine) Republic
18170125::Rossini's opera "La Cenerentola" premieres in Rome
18250125::1st US engineering college opens, Rensselaer Polytechnic, Troy, NY
18350125::Opera "I Puritani," premieres in Paris
18350125::Vincenzo Bellini's opera "I Puritani," premieres in Paris
18440125::Recontre between Reps Weller & Shriver, US House of Representative
18510125::Sojourner Truth addresses 1st Black Women's Rights Convention (Akron)
18540125::Aleksandr Ostrovsky's "Bednost ne Porok," premieres in Moscow
18560125::Battle of Seattle; skirmish between settlers & Indians
18580125::Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" 1st played, at wedding of Queen Victoria's daughter Princess Victoria, to crown prince of Prussia
18630125::Battle of Kinston, NC
18630125::General Joseph Hooker replaces Burnside as head of Army of Potomac
18650125::CSS Shenandoah arrives in Melbourne, Australia
18700125::Soda fountain patented by Gustavus Dows
18750125::Anti-slavery society forms (NY)
18770125::Congress determines presidential election between Hayes-Tilden
18820125::Bilu, a Russian Zionist organization, forms
18850125::Vincent d'Indy's "Saugefleurie," premieres
18900125::National Afro-American League forms in Chicago
18900125::Nellie Bly beats Phileas Fogg's time around world by 8 days (72 days)
18900125::United Mine Workers of America forms
18940125::James J Corbett KOs Charley Mitchell in 3 for heavyweight boxing title
19020125::Aleksandr Skriabin's 2nd Symphony in C premieres in St Petersburg
19040125::179 die in coal mine explosion at Cheswick, Pennsylvania
19040125::J M Synge's "Ruders to the Sea," premieres in Dublin
19050125::Largest diamond, Cullinan (3106 carets), found in South Africa
19060125::Del Valle Inclans "El Marqu‚s de Bradomin," premieres in Madrid
19070125::Julia Ward Howe is 1st woman elected to Natl Inst of Arts & Letters
19080125::John Blockx' opera "Baldie" premieres in Antwerp
19090125::Richard Strauss' premier of "Electricity" in Dresden
19100125::1st stumping by a 12th man in Tests (N C Tufnell, SAf v Eng)
19100125::Children initiate idea of planting trees in Jerusalem
19150125::Alexander Graham Bell in NY calls Thomas Watson in SF
19150125::Giordano, Sardou & Moreau's opera "Madame Sans Gˆne" premieres in NYC
19150125::Transcontinental telephone service inaugurated (NY to SF)
19160125::Montenegro surrenders to Austria-Hungary
19180125::Russia declared a republic of Soviets
19190125::Founding of League of Nations, 1st meeting 1 year later
19210125::Karel Cap‚k's "RUR," premieres in Prague
19230125::NVV donates Ÿ100,000 to mine workers of Ruhrgebied
19240125::1st Winter Olympic games open in Chamonix, France
19290125::Bradman scores 340* for NSW v Victoria, 488 mins, 38 fours
19320125::1st commencement exercises at Hebrew U in Jerusalem
19320125::Bradman scores 167 NSW v Victoria, 224 mins, 22 fours
19370125::1st broadcast of "Guiding Light" on NBC radio
19370125::Miami-to-Tampa bus overturned in a canal, kills 13
19370125::Soap Opera "Guiding Light" premieres on radio
19380125::Ian Hay's "Bachelor Born," premieres in NYC
19390125::Earthquake hits Chill n Chile, 10,000 killed
19390125::Joe Louis KOs John Henry Lewis in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
19400125::Nazi decrees establishment of Jewish ghetto in Lodz Poland
19420125::Lt General Rommels African corps reaches Msus
19450125::Dan Topping, Del Webb & Larry MacPhail purchase NY Yanks for $2.8 mil
19450125::Grand Rapids, Michigan becomes 1st US city to fluoridate its water
19450125::Japanese occupiers of Batavia arrest Indo-European youths
19450125::NY Yankees sold by Ruppert estate to Larry MacPhail, Dan Topping, &
19450125::West Africa 82nd division occupies Myohaung, Burma
19460125::Richard Strauss' "Metamorphosis," premieres in Zurich
19460125::United Mine Workers union rejoins American Federation of Labor
19490125::1st Emmy Awards: Shirley Dinsdale & Pantomime Quiz (KTLA) win
19490125::1st Israeli election - Ben-Gurion's Mapai party wins
19500125::73øF (23øC) highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in January
19510125::UN begins counter offensive in Korea
19520125::Test debut of Richie Benaud, v West Indies at the SCG
19530125::WABI TV channel 5 in Bangor, ME (CBS) begins broadcasting
19530125::Yuri Sergejev skates world record 500m in 40.9 sec
19550125::Jill Kinmont hits a tree & breaks her back in Snow Cup Ski Race
19550125::Russia ends state of war with Germany
19550125::US & Panama sign canal treaty
19550125::Columbia U scientists develope an atomic clock accurate to within one second in 300 years
19560125::96.5 cm (38.0") of rainfall, Kilauea Plantation, HI (state record)
19570125::FBI arrests Jack & Myra Sobel, charged with spying for USSR
19590125::1st transcontinental coml jet flight (American) (LA to NY for $301)
19590125::Pope John XXIII proclaims 2nd Vatican council
19610125::1st live, nationally televised presidential news conference (JFK)
19610125::Louise Suggs wins LPGA Naples Pro-Am Golf Tournament
19610125::Military coup in El Salvador
19610125::Walt Disney's "101 Dalmations" released
19640125::Beatles 1st US #1, "I Want to Hold your Hand" (Cashbox)
19640125::Echo 2, US communications satellite launched
19660125::WCMC (now WMGM) TV channel 40 in Wildwood, NJ (NBC) 1st broadcast
19680125::Risse St in Bronx named
19680125::Robert Anderson's "I Never Sang for My Father," premieres in NYC
19690125::US-North Vietnamese peace talks begin in Paris
19700125::Robert Altman's "M*A*S*H," premieres
19710125::Charles Manson & 3 women followers convicted of Tate-LaBianca murders
19710125::Himachal Pradesh becomes 18th Indian state
19710125::Military coup in Uganda under Gen Idi Amin Dada
19710125::Phila mint's 1st trial strike of Eisenhower dollar
19710125::WHMB TV channel 40 in Indianapolis, IN (IND) begins broadcasting
19720125::25th NHL All-Star Game: East beats West 3-2 at Minnesota
19720125::7' Ohio State center Luke Witte is stomped in face during a brawl in a game with Minnesota
19740125::Blent Ecevit forms govt in Turkey
19740125::Christian Barnard transplants 1st human heart without removal of old
19740125::Ray Kroc, CEO (McDonald's), buys SD Padres for $12 million
19750125::10th hat trick in Islander history-Denis Potvin's 1st
19750125::Parliament disposes of premier sheik Mujib ur-Rahman
19760125::Surinder Amarnath scores 124 on Test debut Ind v NZ Auckland
19780125::Muriel Humphrey (D-Mn) appointed to fill late husband's Senate seat
19780125::Padres trade pitcher Dave Tomlin & $125,000 to Rangers for Gaylord Perry (He wins 1978 Cy Young Award)
19790125::22.2-km Oshimizu railroad tunnel holed through, central Honshu, Japan
19790125::Pope John Paul II's 1st overseas trip as supreme pontiff
19800125::Bani Sadr elected president of Iran
19800125::Dutch Govt demands boycott of Olympics
19800125::Highest speed attained by a warship, 167 kph, USN hovercraft
19800125::Paul McCartney is released from Tokyo jail & deported
19810125::52 Americans held hostage by Iran for 444 days arrived back in US
19810125::Mao's widow Jiang Qing sentenced to death
19810125::Superbowl XV: Oakland Raiders beat Phila Eagles, 27-10 in New Orleans Superbowl MVP: Jim Plunkett, Oakland, QB
19820125::9th American Music Award: Kenny Rogers win
19830125::China's supreme court commutes Chiang Ch'ing's death sentence to life
19830125::Infrared telescope satellite launched into polar orbit
19830125::Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie arrested in Bolivia
19850125::"Black & Blue," premieres in Paris
19850125::"We are the World" is recorded
19850125::Test debut of Wasim Akram, v New Zealand at Auckland (2-105)
19860125::General Tito Okello's govt flees Kampala Uganda
19870125::75th Australian Mens Tennis: S Edberg beats Pat Cash (63 64 36 57 63)
19870125::Superbowl XXI: NY Giants beat Denver Broncos, 39-20 in Pasadena Superbowl MVP: Phil Simms, NY Giants, QB
19880125::15th American Music Award: Anita Baker, Paul Simon & Whitney Houston
19880125::George Harrison releases "When We Was Fab"
19880125::Longest winless streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (15 games)
19880125::Ramsewak Shankar sworn in as pres of Suriname
19880125::VP Bush & Dan Rather clash on "CBS Evening News" as Rather attempts to question Bush about his role in Iran-Contra affair
19890125::Augusto Alcalde, 1st S Amer Zen teacher, receives Dharma Transmission
19890125::Michael Jordan scores his 10,000th NBA point in his 5th season
19890125::Yank owner George Steinbrenner meets with Pope John Paul II
19900125::Avianca Flight 52, runs out of fuel & crashes in Cove Neck NY, 73 die
19900125::Former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is transferred to a Miami jail
19900125::West-Europe's strongest hurricane
19910125::Brett Hull is 3rd NHLer to score 50 goals in less than 50 games (49)
19910125::Manuel Noriega is given access to assets frozen by US govt
19910125::Mark Waugh scores ton in 1st Test Cricket innings, v England Adelaide
19910125::Soap opera "Generation's" last episode after a 2« year run
19920125::66th Australian Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats M Fernandez (62 63)
19920125::Dan Jansen skates world record 500m in 36.41"
19920125::Hubble space telescope optics finds NGC3862/3C264
19930125::20th American Music Award: Michael Jackson, Mariah Carey win
19930125::Puerto Rico adds English as its 2nd official language
19930125::Sears announces it is closing its catalog sales dept after 97 years
19940125::Australia beat South Africa 2-1 to win the World Series Cup
19940125::Mine fire at Asansol India, kills 55
19940125::US space probe Clementine launched
19940125::Accused of molesting a 13-year-old boy, Michael Jackson settles a civil lawsuit out of court
19950125::Jacques Santer succeeds Jacques Delors as chairman of Euro Committee
19970125::71st Australian Womens Tennis: Martina Hingis beat Mary Pierce (62 62)
19980125::"Grease," closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 1,503 performance
19980125::"Patti LaBelle On Broadway," closes at St James Theater NYC
19980125::Britain's Queen Mother, 97, gets an emergency hip replacement
19980125::Helen Alfredsson wins Office Depot LPGA tournament
19980125::Spice Girl Victoria Adams (Posh) & soccer David Beckham gets engaged
19980125::Superbowl XXXII: Denver Broncos beat Green Bay Packers 31-24
00660126::5th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
13400126::English king Edward III proclaimed king of France
15310126::Lisbon hit by Earthquake; about 30,000 die
16540126::Portuguese troops conquer last Dutch base on Recife
16660126::France declares war on England & Mnster
16890126::Jean Racine's "Esther," premieres in Saint-Cyr
16970126::Isaac Newton receives Jean Bernoulli's 6 month time-limit problem, solves problem before going to bed that same night
16990126::Venice, Poland & Austria sign peace treaty with Turkey
17360126::Stanislaw Lesczynski flees Polish throne
17480126::England, Netherlands, Austria & Sardinia sign anti-French treaty
17840126::Ben Franklin expresses unhappiness over eagle as America's symbol
17880126::Capt Arthur Phillip hoists English flag on Botany Bay, New South Wales
17890126::John Odell signs contract for œ336 to build St Peter's church (Bronx)
17900126::Mozart's opera "Cosi Fan Tutte" premieres in Vienna
17970126::Russia, Prussia & Austria sign treaty
18020126::Congress passes an act calling for a US Capitol library
18330126::Gaetano Dinozetti's opera "Lucrezia Borgia," premieres in Milan
18370126::Michigan admitted as 26th US state
18380126::Tennessee becomes 1st state to prohibit alcohol
18410126::Hong Kong proclaimed a sovereign territory of Britain
18500126::1st German-language daily newspaper in US published, NYC
18610126::Louisiana becomes 6th state to secede
18620126::Lincoln issues General War Order #1, calling for a Union offensive McClellan ignores order
18630126::54th Regiment (Black) infantry forms
18630126::War Dept authorizes Mass governor to recruit black troops
18700126::Virginia rejoins US
18710126::British Rugby Union forms
18710126::US income tax repealed
18750126::Electric dental drill is patented by George F Green
18810126::Union of Baptists Communities forms in Foxholl
18820126::France govt of Gambetta falls
18840126::1st Dutch Wagner version of Elizabeth aria
18850126::Muhammad Ahmed ("Mahdi") rebels conquer Khartoum
18860126::Karl Benz patents 1st auto with burning motor
18870126::Battle of Dogali: Abyssinian Emperor John IV defeats Italians
18910126::Oscar Wilde's "Duchess of Padua," premieres in NYC
18970126::Battle at Bida Gold Coast: British troops beat Nupe's army
19000126::Henrik Ibsen's "Naar vi Dode Vaaguer," premieres in Stuttgart
19050126::Arnold Sch”nberg's "Pelleas und Melissande," premieres in Vienna
19050126::Han Yong-woon [Bongwan, Manhae] (1879-1944) ordained a monk in Korea
19050126::World's largest diamond, the 3,106-carat Cullinan, is found
19070126::1st federal corrupt election practices law passed
19070126::J M Synge's "Playboy of Western World" opens; police are called
19100126::Heavy rains cause floods in Paris
19110126::Glenn Curtiss pilots 1st successful hydroplane, San Diego
19110126::Richard Strauss's opera "Die Rosenkavalier" premieres, Dresden
19130126::Jim Thorpe relinquishes his 1912 Olympic medals for being a pro
19140126::600 Dutch textile workers go on strike
19140126::Vatican puts Belgian Nobel winner Maeterlinck's works in their index
19150126::Rocky Mountain National Park, Colo established
19180126::Pres Hoover calls for "wheatless" & "meatless" days for war effort
19200126::Amadeo Modigliani's mistress jumps out of a window
19210126::Soccer team GVAV of Groningen Neth forms
19210126::Toronto St Pat Corb Denneny scores 6 goals vs Hamilton Tigers
19220126::Ralph Vaughan Williams' "Pastoral Symphony," premieres in London
19240126::Charles Jewtraw, US 500m skater, takes 1st Winter Olympics gold medal
19260126::Television 1st demonstrated (J L Baird, London)
19270126::Maxwell Anderson's "Saturday's Children," premieres in NYC
19290126::Indian National Congress proclaims goal for India's independence
19300126::Cleveland's Terminal Tower opens (52 stories)
19310126::Hungary-Austria sign peace treaty
19310126::Lynn Riggs' "Green Grow the Lilacs," premieres in NYC
19320126::British submarine M-2 sinks in Channel (60 dead)
19320126::KUT-AM in Austin Texas changes call letters to KNOW
19340126::Bradman scores 128 NSW v Victoria, 96 mins, 17 fours 4 sixes
19340126::Nazi Germany & Poland sign non-attack treaty for 10 years
19390126::Federal Hall National Monument established
19390126::Filming begins on "Gone With the Wind"
19390126::Franco conquers Barcelona
19400126::Nazi's forbid Polish Jews to travel on trains
19420126::1st US force in Europe during WW II go ashore in Northern Ireland
19420126::Italian supreme command demands dismissal of German marshal Rommel
19450126::Soviet forces reach Auschwitz concentration camp
19470126::KLM Dakota crashes near Copenhagen, 22 die
19480126::Executive Order 9981, end segregation in US Armed Forces signed
19490126::WHIO TV channel 7 in Dayton, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting
19500126::India becomes a republic ceaseing to be a British dominion
19510126::Mel Ott & Jimmie Foxx elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
19540126::Ground breaking begins on Disneyland
19560126::7th Winter Olympic games open in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy
19560126::Buddy Holly's 1st formal recording session
19560126::Hank Greenberg & Joe Cronin are elected to Hall of Fame
19560126::Porkkala military base returned to Finland by USSR
19570126::Bernanos & Poulenc's opera "Dialogue des Carmelites," premieres
19570126::Dutch PSP, Pacifist Socialistic Party, forms
19570126::India annexes Kashmir
19570126::Joseph F Cairnes succeeds Lou Perini as Pres of Milwaukee Braves
19580126::H Laskow replaces Moshe Dayan on as Israeli minister of Defense
19580126::Jack Smith takes over for Art Baker as TV host of "You Asked for It"
19580126::Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Lake Worth Open Golf Invitational
19590126::Italy govt of Fanfani resigns
19590126::KOKH TV channel 25 in Oklahoma City, OK (IND/PBS) begins broadcasting
19600126::Danny Heater scores 135 pts in basketball game (Boys' HS)
19600126::High-school basketball sensation Danny Heater scores 135 points
19600126::Oakland enters AFL
19600126::Pete Rozelle elected NFL commissioner on 23rd ballot
19610126::"Are You Lonesome Tonight?" by Elvis Presley peaks to #1
19610126::1st woman "personal physician to president"-JG Travell
19620126::Bishop Burke of Buffalo Catholic dioceses declares Chubby Checker's
19620126::Canadian Marine Service renamed Coast Guard
19620126::David Diamond's 7th Symphony, premieres in Philadelphia
19620126::US launches Ranger 3, misses Moon by 22,000-mi (37,000-km)
19620126::"Twist" is impure & bans it from all Catholic schools
19630126::"Milk & Honey" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 543 perfs
19630126::Major League Rules Committee votes to expand strike zone
19650126::South Vietnam milt coup under general Nguyen Khanh
19660126::Ard Schenk skates world record 1500m (2:06.2)
19670126::USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
19680126::Israeli submarine Dakar crashes in Mediterranean Sea, 69 die
19690126::"Red, White, & Maddox" opens at Cort Theater NYC for 41 performances
19700126::Pendleton, Ford & Cryer's "Last Sweet Days of Isaac," premieres in NYC
19710126::Charles Manson convicted of murder
19710126::Dutch 2nd Chamber accept law against limitation of war crimes
19720126::Stewardess Vesna Vulovic survives 10,160m fall without parachute
19730126::Belgium govt of Leburton forms
19750126::Edward Albee's "Seascape," premieres in NYC
19760126::6th AFC-NFC pro bowl, NFC wins 23-20
19760126::Belgium catholic elite start amnesty campaign for war criminals
19760126::David Mamet's "American Buffalo," premieres in NYC
19760126::Israel opens "Good Fence" to Lebanon
19760126::NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 23-20
19770126::Soviet figure skaters Sergei Shakrai & Marine Tcherkasova are 1st to perform a quadruple twist lift, Helsinki
19780126::Frank Herbert completes his novel "Destination: Void"
19780126::International Ultraviolet Explorer placed in Earth orbit
19780126::Mario Soares forms Portuguese govt
19780126::Strikers riot in Tunisia, killing about 40
19790126::"Dukes of Hazzard" premieres on CBS's vast wasteland
19790126::Music Center Vredenburg opens in Utrecht Neth
19800126::175,000 pay to hear FRANK SINATRA sing in Rio de Janeiro!
19800126::Islanders & Whalers play a NHL penalty-free game
19800126::Israel & Egypt establish diplomatic relations
19800126::Mary Decker became 1st woman to run a mile in under 4« minutes
19810126::Sandeep Patil scores memorable 174 v Australia at Adelaide Oval
19820126::Islanders score 4 goals within 1:38, 5 within 2:37 vs Penguins
19820126::Mauno Koivisto elected president of Finland
19830126::Dutch/British infrared satellite IRAS launched from Calif
19840126::Nordiques' Michel Goulet scored on 9th penalty shot against Islanders
19840126::US navy exhibits Piasecki helistat-4 helicopters & a blimp able to lift 26 tons-Lakehurst, NJ
19850126::42th Golden Globes: Amadeus wins
19850126::Edmonton Oiler Wayne Gretzky scores 50th goal in 49th game of season
19860126::Hein Vergeer becomes European skating champ
19860126::Val Skinner wins LPGA Mazda Golf Classic
19860126::Yoweri Museveni's rebel army conquerors Kampala Uganda
19860126::Superbowl XX: Chicago Bears beat NE Patriots, 46-10 in New Orleans Superbowl MVP: Richard Dent, Chicago, DE
19870126::14th American Music Award: Whitney Houston, Lionel Richie & Alabama
19870126::Hart Foundation beat British Bulldogs for WWF tag team title
19880126::"Phantom of the Opera" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 4,000+ perfs
19880126::Australia's 200th anniversary-parade of tall ships in Sydney Harbor
19890126::"Black & Blue" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 829 performances
19890126::AT&T reports 1st loss in 103 years; $1.67 B in 1988
19890126::Allan Border takes 7-46 against the West Indies at the SCG
19890126::Madison Sq Garden announces 2-year $100 M renovation plan
19890126::Test debut of Mark Taylor, Australia v West Indies, Sydney
19890126::US computer security expert warns of catastrophic virus
19900126::Annular eclipse visible over Antarctica & South Atlantic
19900126::Boston Red Sox hires Elaine Weddington as asst GM (highest-ranking black female in a major-league front office)
19910126::"Few Good Men" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 497 performances
19910126::65th Australian Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats J Novotna (57 63 61)
19910126::Alfaro Vive guerrilla group of Ecuador gives arms to Catholic church
19910126::Houston guard Vernon Maxwell is 4th NBAer to score 30 pts in a quarter
19910126::Jan Stenerud becomes 1st pure placekicker to make NFL Hall of Fame
19910126::NY Lotto pays $90 million to nine winner (#s are 5-15-30-35-46-50)
19920126::"Little Hotel on the Side" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 41 perfs
19920126::80th Australian Mens Tennis: Jim Courier beats S Edberg (63 36 64 62)
19920126::Americans with Disabilities Act went into effect
19920126::Superbowl XXVI: Wash Red Skins beat Buffalo Bills, 37-24 in Minn Superbowl MVP: Mark Rypien, Washington, QB
19930126::West Indies defeat Australia by one run in 4th Test at Adelaide
19950126::NJ Governor Christine Whitman, dedicates a rest stop to Howard Stern
19960126::"Les Miserables," opens at Musichall Theatre, Duisburg
19970126::"Ideal Husband" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 308 performances
19970126::85th Australian Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Carlos Moya (62 63 63)
19970126::Brunswick World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by John Gant
19970126::Superbowl XXXI: Green Bay Packers beat NE Patriots, 35-21 in Pasadena
19980126::25th American Music Award: Spice Girls & Babyface win
19980126::Intel launches 333 MHz Pentium II chip
19980126::Pres Clinton says "I want to say one thing to the American people I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky"
06720127::St Vitalian ends his reign as Catholic Pope
08470127::Sergius II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
13020127::Dante becomes a Florentine political exile
15380127::States of Gelderland accepts Willem van Kleef as viceroy
15560127::Willem of Orange becomes knight of Guilder Flies
15930127::Vatican opens 7 year trial against scholar Giordano Bruno
16620127::1st American lime kiln begins operation (Providence RI)
16710127::Pirate Henry Morgen lands at Panama City
17100127::Czar Peter the Great sets 1st Russian state budget
17360127::Abdication of Stanislas, last king of Poland
17780127::Piccinni's opera "Roland" premieres, Paris
17850127::1st US state university chartered, Athens Georgia
18230127::Pres Monroe appoints 1st US ambassadors to South America
18640127::Battle of Fair Gardens, TN
18640127::Civil War skirmish at Kelly's Ford, Va
18700127::1st sorority (Kappa Alpha Theta) (DePauw U in Greencastle, Indiana)
18700127::After accepting 15th amendment, VA is readmitted to Union
18700127::Manitoba & Northwest Territories incorporated
18800127::Thomas Edison patents electric incandescent lamp
18860127::1st British govt of Salisbury resigns
18880127::National Geographic Society organizes (Wash DC)
18910127::Mine explosion kills 109 at Mount Pleasant Pennsylvania
18940127::1st college basketball game, U of Chicago beats Chicago YMCA 19-11
18940127::Midwinter Fair opens in Golden Gate Park
18960127::Tasmania bowl out Victoria for 65 for their 1st ever innings victory
18970127::British troops occupy Bida Gold Coast (Ghana)
19000127::Social Democrat Party of America (Debs' party) holds 1st convention
19020127::5 workers killed on explosion during IRT subway construction (NYC)
19050127::Maurice Rouvier forms govt in France
19060127::Rudolf Gundersen skates world record 500m at 44.8 sec
19080127::Pasipha‰, a satellite of Jupiter, discovered by Melotte
19150127::US Marines occupy Haiti
19160127::Communist party "Spartacus Letters" 1st published in Berlin
19170127::Coen de Koning wins 2nd official 11 cities race (9:53) (record)
19180127::"Tarzan of the Apes," 1st Tarzan film, premieres at Broadway Theater
19240127::Egyptian king Foead nominates Saad Zaghloel Pasja premier
19240127::Lenin placed in Mausoleum in Red Square
19260127::1st public demonstration of television, John L Baird, London
19260127::US Senate agrees to join World Court
19270127::Harlem Globetrotters play their 1st game
19330127::Otto Meisnner dines with British ambassador Rumbold
19340127::27th Australian Men's Tennis Open: Fred Perry beat Crawford (63 75 61)
19340127::French govt of Chautemps falls (Stavisky Affair)
19340127::VARA refuses to hire after commemoration of Marinus Van de Lubbe
19400127::-17øF (-27øC), CCC Camp F-16, Georgia (state record)
19410127::Peruvian agent Rivera-Schreib‚r warns of Jap assault on Pearl Harbor
19420127::-19øF (-27.4øC), Netherland's coldest day since 1850
19430127::1st US air attack on Germany (Wilhelmshafen)
19440127::Leningrad liberated from Germany in 880 days with 600,000 killed
19440127::Casey Stengel, manager of the Boston Braves since 1938, resigns Lou Perini, Guido Rugo, & Joseph Maney buy control of Boston Braves
19450127::Nazi occupiers forbid food transport to West (The Netherlands)
19450127::Russia liberates Auschwitz & Birkenau Concentration Camp (Poland)
19450127::S Romberg, H&D Fields' musical premieres in NYC
19450127::Wally van Hall, "banker in defiance," arrested
19480127::1st locomotive to carry 1,000,000 pounds (450,000 kg) operates
19480127::1st tape recorder sold
19490127::Chinese liner "Taiping" collides with a collier off south China
19500127::2nd Emmy Awards: Ed Wynn Show & Texaco Star Theater win
19510127::"Peter Pan" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 320 performances
19510127::US begins 126 nuclear tests at Nevada Test Site
19530127::Netherlands end Marshall aid
19550127::"Plain & Fancy" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 476 perfs
19560127::NFL's NY Giants switches games from Polo Grounds to Yankee Stadium
19570127::Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Lake Worth Golf Open
19580127::Ferenc Mnnich follows K d r as premier of Hungary
19610127::"Sing Along with Mitch" [Miller] premieres on NBC TV
19620127::"Family Affair" opens at Billy Rose Theater NYC for 65 performances
19630127::Jevgeni Grishin skates world record 500m in 39.6 sec
19630127::Sam Rice, Eppa Rixey, Elmer Flick, & John Clarkson elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
19640127::"Introducing the Beatles" album released in US
19640127::Barlow & Graeme Pollock complete 341 stand at Adelaide Oval
19640127::Margaret Chase Smith (Sen-R-Maine) tries for Republican Pres bid
19650127::1st ground station-to-aircraft radio communication via satellite
19650127::Ground breaking for "Dragon Gateway" at Grant Avenue
19660127::Wisc State Circuit Court Judge Elmer W Roller rules either the Braves stay in Milwaukee or NL must promise Wisc an expansion team for 1966
19670127::Apollo 1 fire kills astronauts Grissom, White & Chaffee
19670127::Beatles sign a 9 year worldwide contract with EMI records
19670127::New Orleans Saints sign their 1st player (Paige Cothren-kicker)
19670127::Treaty banning military use of nuclear weapons in space, signed
19680127::"Darling of the Day" opens at George Abbott Theater NYC for 31 perfs
19690127::14 spies hung in Baghdad
19690127::9 Jews publically executed in Damascus Syria
19690127::Actress Thelma Ritter suffers a heart attack (she dies Feb 5th)
19690127::Noordiers vicar Ian Paisley sentenced to 3 years
19700127::Movie rating system  modifies "M" rating to "PG"
19710127::Montgomery St Station, last link in BART, `holed thru'
19730127::UCLA's basketball team wins 61st consecutive game (NCAA record)
19730127::US & Vietnam sign cease-fire, ending longest US war & milt draft
19730127::US female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn
19730127::US male Figure Skating championship won by Gordon McKellen Jr
19730127::William Rogers & Nguyen Duy Trinh sign US-N Vietnam treaty
19740127::"Lorelei" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 320 performances
19760127::"Laverne & Shirley" spinoff from "Happy Days" premieres on ABC TV
19760127::9th ABA All-Star Game: Denver 144 beats ABA 138 at Denver
19760127::Morocco-Algeria battles in Westerly Sahara
19760127::Viv Richards scores his 1st Test century against Australia
19770127::1st broadcast of "Roots" mini-series on ABC TV
19770127::Pres Carter pardons most Vietnam War draft evaders (10,000)
19790127::36th Golden Globes: Midnight Express, Jon Voight & Jane Fonda
19790127::Islanders ends 23 undefeated games at home streak (15-0-8)
19800127::"Comin' Uptown" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 45 perfs
19800127::NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 37-27
19820127::"Joseph & the Amazing Dreamcoat" opens at Royale NYC for 747 perfs
19820127::Mauno Koivisto installed as president of Finland
19820127::Phila trades Larry Bowa & Ryne Sandberg to Cubs for Ivan DeJesus
19820127::Roberto S Cordova installed as president of Honduras
19820127::West Indies beat Australia 3-1 to win World Series Cup
19830127::World's longest subaqueous tunnel (53.90 km) opens, Honshu-Hokkaid
19840127::John & Yoko release "Milk & Honey" album
19840127::LA Kings end Wayne Gretzky's NHL-record 51-game scoring streak
19840127::Michael Jackson is burned during filming for Pepsi commercial
19850127::"Doug Henning & His World..." closes at Lunt-Fontanne NY after 60 perf
19850127::15th Space Shuttle (51-C) Mission-Discovery 3 returns to Earth
19850127::Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Mazda Golf Classic
19850127::Mark Mckoy cycles world record 50m hurdles indoor (5.25)
19850127::NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 22-14
19860127::13th American Music Award: Whitney Houston, Huey Lewis & C Gayle
19870127::Midnight Rockers beat Buddy Rose & Doug Somers for AWA World Tag Team
19880127::Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves nomination of Judge Anthony M Kennedy to US Supreme Court
19890127::German war criminals Fischer & Aus der Fnten freed
19890127::Kevin Johnson (Phoenix) begins NBA free throw streak of 57 games
19890127::Okla's linebacker, Mark VanKeirsblilck assaults an Ok grad student
19900127::64th Australian Women's Tennis Steffi Graf beats MJ Fernandez (63 64)
19910127::79th Australian Mens Tennis: Boris Becker beats I Lendl (16 64 64 64)
19910127::Dutch PSP, Pacifist Socialistic Party, disbands
19910127::Nadine Strossen is 1st female president of the ACLU
19910127::Superbowl XXV: NY Giants beat Buffalo Bills, 20-19 in Tampa Superbowl MVP: Ottis Anderson, NY Giants, RB
19920127::"Crazy He Calls Me" opens at Walter Kerr Theater NYC for 7 perfs
19920127::19th American Music Award: C & C Music Factory, Michael Bolton win
19920127::Jane Fonda undergoes arthroscopic surgery on her right knee
19920127::Mike Tyson goes on trial for rape (he is found guilty)
19920127::Pres candidate Bill Clinton (D) & Genifer Flowers accuse each other of lying over her assertion they had a 12-year affair
19930127::DC-3 crashes in Kinshasa, killing 12
19940127::"No Man's Land" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 61 performances
19940127::Carlos Reina succeeds pres Callejas in Honduras
19940127::Romanian social-democrats form government with anti-Semites
19950127::69th Australian Womens Tennis: Mary Pierce beats A S Vicario (63 62)
19960127::15 day old siamese twins separated-Sarah Morales survives, Sarahi dies
19960127::70th Australian Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats Anke Huber (64 61)
19960127::Catherine Roskam becomes the 1st NY female Episcopal bishop
19960127::France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
19960127::Germany celebrates it's 1st Holocaust Rememberance Day
19960127::Monica Seles beats Anke Huber to win Australian Open
19960127::Shiv Chanderpaul scores 303* for Guyana v Jamaica at Kingston
19970127::"Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus," opens at Gershwin NYC
19970127::24th American Music Award: Toni Braxton & Alanis Morissette win
19980127::Crane crashes into Roosevelt Is (NYC) Tram, injuring 10
19980127::Roland Clarkson discovers 2^3021377-1 (37th known Mersenne prime)
19980127::WNBA begins filling rosters of Washington Mystics & Detroit Shock
10770128::German king Henry IV petitions Pope Gregory VII for forgiveness
10770128::Pope Gregory VII pardons German emperor Heinrich IV
10990128::1st Crusaders begins siege of Hosn-el-Akrad Syria
12620128::Flemish/Dutch coast ravaged by north western storm
13930128::Fire during Royal Ball at Paris, 4 die (Ball of the Ardents)
14950128::Pope gives his son Cesare Borgia as hostage to Charles VIII of France
15470128::9-year-old Edward VI succeeds Henry VIII as king of England
15610128::By Edict of Orleans persecution of French Huguenots is suspended
15810128::James VI signs 2nd Confession of Faith in Scotland
16130128::Galileo may have unknowingly viewed undiscovered planet Neptune
16890128::English parliament ends king Charles II reign
17870128::Philadelphia's Free Africa Society organizes
17880128::Capt Arthur Phillip forms English colony at Sydney, Botany Bay NSW
17880128::Lord Gordon found guilty of libel of queen of France
18070128::London's Pall Mall is 1st street lit by gaslight
18140128::Stendahl's 1st book is published
18190128::Sir Stamford Raffles 1st lands in Singapore
18210128::Bellingshausen discovers Alexander Island off Antarctica
18240128::William Kneass becomes 3rd US chief engraver (1824-40)
18300128::Opera "Fra Diavolo," premieres in Paris
18460128::Battle of Allwal, Brits beat Sikhs in Punjab (India)
18480128::King of Naples grants his subjects a constitution
18510128::Northwestern University (Chicago) chartered
18580128::John Brown organized raid on Arsenal at Harper's Ferry
18600128::Britain formally returns Mosquito Coast to Nicaragua
18640128::Battle of New Bern, NC
18650128::Pres Jefferson Davis names 3 peace commissioners
18710128::Paris surrenders to Prussians
18780128::1st telephone exchange (New Haven, CT)
18780128::George W Coy hired as 1st full-time telephone operator
18780128::Yale Daily News published, 1st college daily newspaper
18810128::Battle at Laing's Neck Natal: Boers beat superior powered British
18870128::England all out for 45 v Aust SCG, their lowest total ever
18930128::Edward Mcdowell's "Hamlet & Ophelia," premieres in Boston
18990128::American Social Science Association incorporated by Congress
19020128::Carnegie Institute founded in Wash DC
19040128::1st college sports letters given to Seniors who played on U of Chicago's football team are awarded blankets with letter "C" on them
19090128::US milt forces leave Cuba for 2nd time
19110128::Frenchman Henri Rougier wins 1st Rally of Monte Carlo
19140128::1st Millrose Games (athletics) held (NYC)
19140128::Beverly Hills, Ca, is incorporated
19150128::1st US ship lost in WW I, William P Frye (carrying wheat to UK)
19150128::US Coast Guard created from Life Saving & Revenue Cutter services
19150128::US Pres Wilson refuses to prohibit immigration of illiterates
19160128::1st Jewish Supreme Court justice, Louis Brandeis, appointed by Wilson
19160128::German colony of Cameroon surrenders to Britain & France
19160128::Opera "Goyescas," premieres (NYC)
19180128::Strike on Berlin ammunition's factory
19180128::Trotsky becomes leader of Reds
19220128::American Pro Football Association renamed "National Football League"
19220128::J E Clair turns Green Bay franchise back to NFL
19230128::1st "Reichs Party" (NSDAP) forms in Munich
19230128::Demonstration against a Dutch University in Ghent
19230128::NSDAP 1st election in Munich
19250128::-46øF (-43øC), Pittsburgh, New Hampshire (state record)
19270128::Serbian-Croatian-Slavic govt of Oezonowitsj falls
19280128::Christopher Hornsrud chosen PM of Norway at age 101
19310128::Bradman scores 220 NSW v Victoria, 308 mins, 13 fours
19320128::1st US state unemployment insurance act enacted (Wisconsin)
19320128::Japan occupies Shanghai
19330128::French govt of Paul Boncour falls
19330128::German govt of Von Schleicher falls
19340128::1st US ski tow (rope) begins operation (Woodstock Vermont)
19350128::Iceland becomes 1st country to legalize abortion
19360128::Pravda criticizes Sjostakovitsj' "Lady Macbeth" opera
19420128::General Timoshenko's troops move into Ukraine
19420128::German troops occupy Benghazi Libya
19430128::Chic Blackhawks beats NY Rangers 10-1, Max Bentley scores 4 goals
19430128::Forward Doug Bentley sets NHL record with 5 points in a game
19440128::683 British bombers attack Berlin
19440128::Leonard Bernstein's "Jeremiah," premieres in Pittsburgh
19440128::U-271 & U-571 sunk off Ireland
19450128::Dutch airplanes dump pamphlets on Java
19450128::Gen "Vinegar Joe" Stillwell & truck convoy reopen Burma Road to China
19450128::Swedish ships bring food to starving Netherlands
19470128::"Bay Psalm" book auctioned for a record $151,000
19490128::NY Giants sign their 1st black players, Monte Irvin & Ford Smith
19490128::UN Security council convicts Dutch aggression in Indonesia
19500128::Preston Tucker, auto maker, found not guilty of mail fraud
19510128::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19510128::"La Vie Commence Demain," which depicted artificial insemination & is the 1st X-rated movie, opened in London
19530128::J Fred Muggs (the chimp) joins NBC's "Today Show"
19530128::WJTV TV channel 12 in Jackson, MS (CBS) begins broadcasting
19560128::Elvis Presley's 1st TV appearance (Dorsey Bros Stage Show)
19570128::"Tonight! America After Dark" premieres, with Jack Lescoulie & Al (Jazzbo) Collins on NBC (between Steve Allen & Jack Paar)
19580128::Construction began on 1st private thorium-uranium nuclear reactor
19580128::Dodger catcher Roy Campanella is paralyzed in an automobile wreck
19590128::Soviet Union wins 62-37 for 1st international basketball loss by US
19600128::1st photograph bounced off Moon, Washington DC
19600128::Goon Show's final episode on BBC
19600128::NFL announces Dallas Cowboys (1960) & Minn Vikings (1961) franchises
19610128::Republic of Rwanda proclaimed
19620128::Johanne Relleke gets stung by bees 2,443 times in Rhodesia & survives
19630128::-34øF (-37øC), Cynthiana, Kentucky (state record)
19650128::The Who make their 1st appearance on British TV
19670128::Rolling Stones release "Let's Spend the Night Together"
19680128::29th PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Chandler Harper
19680128::Goose Goslin & Kiki Cuyler elected to baseball Hall of Fame
19690128::2nd ABA All-Star Game: West 133 beats East 127 at Louisville
19690128::Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st woman jockey to win in N America
19700128::Lubom¡r Strougal succeeds Cernik as premier of Czechoslovakia
19720128::Oral Roberts' Eddie Woods grabs 30 rebounds for 2nd consecutive game
19730128::"Barnaby Jones" premieres on CBS TV
19730128::Henry Boucha, Detroit Red Wings, scores 6 sec into a game vs Mont
19730128::Mickey Welch, George Kelly & Billy Evans elected to Hall of Fame
19730128::Ron Howard appears on M*A*S*H in "Sometimes You Hear the Bullet"
19740128::Sam Thompson, Jim Bottomley, & Jocko Conlan elected to Hall of Fame
19750128::8th ABA All-Star Game: East 151 beats West 124 at San Antonio
19760128::Erapalli Prasanna takes 8-76 to rip through NZ at Eden Park
19760128::NBA Atlanta Hawks begin a 28 game road losing streak
19780128::"Fantasy Island" starring Ricardo Montalban premieres on ABC TV
19780128::"We Are the World" is recorded
19780128::Ranger's Don Murdoch failed on 4th penalty shot against Islanders
19780128::Ted Nugent autographs a fan's arm with his knife
19790128::"Wiz" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 1672 performances
19790128::Arthur Kopit's "Wings," premieres in NYC
19800128::37th Golden Globes: Dustin Hoffman & Sally Field wins
19810128::"5 O'Clock Girl" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 12 performances
19810128::William J Casey becomes 13th director of CIA (until 1987)
19810128::Olympic Glory tanker at Galveston Bay, Texas, spills 1 million gallons of oil in a ship collision
19820128::US Gen Dozier freed from Red Brigade of Padua Italy
19820128::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19840128::41th Golden Globes: Thornbirds wins
19840128::LA Kings stop Wayne Gretzky 51 game scoring streak
19840128::Mr Glynn Wolfe marries for non-bigamous record 26th time, Las Vegas
19840128::Record 295,000 dominoes toppled, Fuerth, W Germany
19850128::12th American Music Award
19860128::"Uptown... It's Hot!" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 24 perfs
19860128::25th Space Shuttle (51L)-Challenger 10 explodes 73 sec after liftoff
19860128::Angolan Unity Leader Jonas Savimbi visits Washington, DC
19870128::US Foreign minister George Shultz meets ANC-leader Oliver Tambo
19870128::Wrestler Jim Neidhart indicted for assaulting a flight attendant
19880128::"Saratina!" opens at Cort Theater NYC for 597 performances
19880128::Canada's Supreme court declares anti-abortion law unconstitutional
19890128::46th Golden Globes: Rainman, Working Girl
19890128::63rd Australian Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Helena Sukova (64 64)
19890128::Boon completes 7th Test century, 149 v WI at SCG
19900128::"Independent on Sunday" begins publishing in London
19900128::78th Australian Mens Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats S Edberg (46 76 52-ret)
19900128::Superbowl XXIV: SF 49ers beat Denver Broncos, 55-10 in New Orleans Superbowl MVP: Joe Montana, San Francisco, QB
19910128::"A Closer Look" with Faith Daniels premieres on NBC-TV
19910128::18th American Music Award: M C Hammer & Janet Jackson
19910128::Boon completes ninth Test century, 121 v England at Adelaide
19910128::Dictator Siad Barre flees Somalia ending 22 year rule
19920128::Boon completes twelfth Test century, 135 v India at Adelaide
19920128::Stan Hansen beats Jumbo Tsuruta to win All Japan Triple Crown
19940128::Actress Lorraine Bracco (39) weds actor Edward James Olmos (46)
19940128::Helicopter crashes into office building in San Jose Calif, 1 dead
19940128::Inna Lassovskaja jumps ladies world record (14.78m)
19950128::69th Australian Women's Tennis Open: Mary Pierce beats Vicario (63 62)
19950128::83rd Australian Mens Tennis: Andre Agassi beats Sampras (46 61 76 64)
19950128::Memphis Mad Dogs granted CFL's 13th franchise
19960128::"Hello Dolly!" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 118 perfs
19960128::84th Australian Mens Tennis: Boris Becker beats M Chang (62 64 26 62)
19960128::Superbowl XXX: Dallas Cowboys beat Pitts Steelers, 27-17 in Tempe Superbowl MVP:
19980128::Michelangelo, "Christ & the Woman of Samaria," sold for $7.4 million
15230129::Sermon of Constanz: Zwingli defends 67 Schlussreden
15740129::Sea battle of Reimerswaal - Admiral Boisot beats Spanish fleet
15870129::Deventer & Zutphen surrender to Spain
16130129::Galileo observes Neptune but fails to recognize what he sees
16760129::Fjodor Aleksejevitsj becomes czar of Russia
17280129::John Gays' "Beggar's Opera," premieres in London [NS=Feb 9]
17320129::Paris churchyard Saint-M‚dard closed after Jansenistic ritual
17810129::Mozart's opera "Idomeneo" premieres, Munich
17880129::Australia Day
18020129::John Beckley of Virginia appointed 1st Librarian of Congress
18340129::Pres Jackson orders 1st use of US troops to suppress a labor dispute
18390129::Charles Darwin marries Emma Wedgwood
18450129::Edgar Allen Poe's "Raven" 1st published (NYC)
18480129::Sicily accepts new Constitution (choose parliament/freedom of press)
18500129::Henry Clay introduces a comprise bill on slavery to US Senate
18560129::Victoria Cross established to acknowledge bravery
18600129::American College established in Rome by Pope Pius IX
18610129::Kansas becomes 34th state
18630129::Battle at Bear River, Washington: US army vs indians
18640129::Battle of Moorefield, WV (Rosser's Raid)
18720129::Francis L Cardoza elected State Treasurer of South Carolina
18790129::Custer Battlefield National Monument, Mont established
18860129::1st successful gasoline-driven car patented, Karl Benz, Karlsruhe
18950129::King Koko's Kopermannen assault on Akassa Niger, 100's killed
18960129::Emile Grubbe is 1st dr to use radiation treatment for breast cancer
19000129::Boers under Joubert beat English at Spionkop Natal, 2,000 killed
19000129::American League organized in Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Milwaukee & Minneapolis
19030129::Dutch railroad workers strike
19040129::1st athletic letters given (Univ of Chicago football team)
19060129::Coen de King skates world record time: 32,370 km
19080129::Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, at Cornell University, incorporates
19120129::Martial law declared in textile strike in Lawrence, MA
19130129::Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, at Howard University, incorporates
19160129::1st bombings of Paris by German Zeppelins takes place
19170129::English submarine K13 leaves Gaire Loch
19190129::Secretary of state proclaims 18th amendment (prohibition)
19200129::Walt Disney starts 1st job as an artist; $40 week with KC Slide Co
19210129::Hurricane hits Washington & Oregon
19220129::Union of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras & El Salvador dissolved
19230129::1st flight of autogiro (Juan de la Cierva, Madrid Spain)
19240129::Ice cream cone rolling machine patented by Carl Taylor, Cleveland
19250129::British Liberals choose David Lloyd George as party leader
19270129::4th German govt of Marx forms
19290129::Seeing Eye Guide Dog Organization forms
19320129::Test debut of Bill O'Reilly, vs South Africa at Adelaide
19330129::German president von Hindenburg appoints Hitler chancellor
19360129::1st players elected to Baseball Hall of Fame-Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson & Walter Johnson
19420129::1st broadcast of Roy Plomley's "Desert Island Discs" on BBC
19420129::German & Italian troops occupy Banghazi
19420129::Peru & Ecuador sign Protocol of Rio (boundary determiniation)
19430129::New Zealand's Kiwi cruiser collides with Jap sub I-1 at Guadalcanal
19430129::Sidney Kingsley's "Patriots," premieres in NYC
19440129::285 German bombers attack London
19470129::Arthur Miller's "All My Sons," premieres in NYC
19480129::"Look Ma, I'm Dancin'" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 188 perfs
19480129::Commissioner Happy Chandler fines the Yankees, Cubs, & Phillies $500 each for signing high school players
19490129::Brit, Belgium, Lux, Neth, NZ & Switz recognize Israel
19510129::"Where's Charley?" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 56 performances
19510129::Baseball signs 6 year All-Star pact for TV-radio rights for $6 million
19510129::Liz Taylor's 1st divorce (Conrad Hilton Jr)
19530129::1st movie in Cinemascope (The Robe) premieres
19540129::Arnold Schoenberg's "De Profundis," premieres in Cologne
19550129::John Williams Cox buys Yankee Stadium, sells grounds to Knights of Columbus, later leaves structure to Rice University (1962)
19560129::F Drrenmatt's "Der Besuch der Alten Dame," premieres in Zrich
19570129::Graham Greene's "Potting Shed," premieres in NYC
19580129::Murderer, Charles Starkweather, captured by police in Wyoming
19580129::Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward wed
19590129::Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" released
19610129::US female Figure Skating championship won by Laurence Owen
19610129::US male Figure Skating championship won by Bradley Lord
19630129::Jim Thorpe, Red Grange & George Halas elected to football hall of fame
19640129::9th Winter Olympic games open in Innsbruck, Austria
19640129::Beatles record in German "Komm, Gib Mir Diene Hand" & "Sie Leibt Dich"
19640129::Most lopsided high-school basketball score 211-29 (Louisiana)
19640129::NBC purchases AFL 5 year (1965-69) TV rights for $36 million
19640129::Stanley Kubrick's"Dr Strangelove," premieres
19640129::Unmanned Apollo 1 Saturn launcher test attains Earth orbit
19660129::"Sweet Charity" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 608 performances
19660129::Lawry & Simpson complete 244 opening stand v England, Adelaide
19660129::Snow storm in north east US kills 165
19660129::US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming
19660129::US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Allen
19670129::"Let's Sing Yiddish" closes at Brooks Atkinson NYC after 107 perfs
19670129::Branch Rickey & Lloyd Waner elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
19670129::Kees Verkerk becomes European skating champ
19670129::WDAZ TV channel 8 in Devils Lake, ND (ABC) begins broadcasting
19680129::Nauru adopts constitution
19690129::Jimi Hendrix & Peter Townshend wage a battle of guitars
19690129::Sheahan & Connolly hang on for exciting draw Aust v W Indies
19700129::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
19710129::Test debut of Dennis Keith Lillee, v England at Adelaide
19720129::5th ABA All-Star Game: East 142 beats West 115 at Louisville
19740129::27th NHL All-Star Game: West beat East 6-4 at Chicago
19750129::"Men on the Moon" opens at Little Theater NYC for 5 performances
19750129::1st Annual Comedy Awards of the Year hosted by Alan King
19750129::W I win Fifth Test against India to take exciting series 3-2
19760129::Zeiss planetarium in Hague destroyed by fire
19780129::Joanne Carner wins Colgate Triple Crown Match-Play Golf Championship
19790129::9th AFC-NFC pro bowl, NFC wins 13-7
19790129::Brenda Spencer kills 2, inspires Boomtown Rats "I Don't Like Mondays"
19790129::Chinese vice-premier Deng Xiaoping visits Washington, DC
19790129::Emerson, Lake & Palmer disband after 10 years together
19790129::NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 13-7
19790129::Pres Carter commuted Patricia Hearst's 7 year sentence to 2 years
19800129::6 Iranian held US hostages escape with help of Canadians
19800129::Cleve Cavaliers beat LA Lakers 154-153 in quadruple OT
19810129::AL approves sale of White Sox to Jerry Reinsdorf & Eddie Einhorn for $20 million, & 80% of Mariners to George Argyros for $104 million
19820129::Old Dominion ends La Tech's women's basketball rec 54-game win streak
19820129::Wayne Garland, baseball 1st millionaire free agent, waived by Indians
19830129::"Down Under" by Men At Work hit #1 on UK pop chart
19830129::40th Golden Globes: Gandhi, ET & Tootsie win
19840129::34th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 154-145 (OT) at Denver
19840129::Actress Lynda Carter (Wonder Woman) marries Robert Altman
19840129::NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 45-3
19840129::Pres Reagan formally announces he will seek a 2nd term
19840129::Silvia Bertolaccini wins LPGA Mazda Golf Classic of Deer Creek
19840129::Space Shuttle 41-B (STS-11) Challenger launched
19850129::Jari Kurri of Edmonton Oilers scores 100th pt of season in game 39
19850129::pop stars in LA record "We Are The World"
19860129::193.8 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
19860129::Yoweri Museveni sworn in as president of Uganda
19870129::Lisa files for separation from husband NY Met Darryl Strawberry
19870129::William J Casey, ends term as 13th director of CIA
19880129::Canadian Ben Johnson breaks own 50-yard dash world record at 5.15
19880129::Detroit's Kirk Gibson signs a 3-year contract with Dodgers
19880129::Largest NBA crowd-Boston Celtics at Detroit (61,938)
19880129::United Airlines Boeing 747SP, circles world in 36h54m15s
19890129::77th Australian Men Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats Miloslav Mecir (62 62 62)
19890129::Cleveland's Chris Dudley misses 5 free throws during 1 foul attempt
19890129::Dottie Mochrie wins Oldsmobile LPGA Golf Classic
19890129::Dow jumps 38.06 recoups 508-pt loss since Oct 1987; index at 2,256.43
19890129::Episcopal church appoints 1st female bishop
19890129::L I preacher Gene Profeta pleads guilty to tax-evasion
19890129::NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 34-3
19890129::Orlando Arena opens
19890129::USSR's Phobos II enters Martian orbit
19890129::Game-winning RBI, official statistic dropped after 9 years of use NY Mets Keith Hernandez is the all-time leader with 129
19900129::Exxon Valdez capt Joseph Hazelwood goes on trial due to oil spill
19910129::"Piano Lesson" closes at Walter Kerr Theater NYC after 320 perfs
19910129::Nelson Mandela & Mangosuthu Buthelezi meet after 28 years
19930129::Test debut of Vinod Kambli, prolific Indian batsman
19950129::Andre Agassi defeats Pete Sampras to win Australian Open
19950129::Greg Blewett scores century on Test debut vs England, Adelaide
19950129::Superbowl XXIX: SF 49ers beat SD Chargers, 49-26 in Miami
19950129::Superbowl MVP: Steve Young, San Francisco, QB
19960129::23rd American Music Award: Garth Brooks wins
19960129::Last day of Test cricket for David Boon
19960129::6,138th performance of "Cats" is held in London, surpassing record of Broadway's longest-running musical, "A Chorus Line"
19980129::"Capeman," opens at Marquis Theater NYC
19980129::Singers Bobby Brown found guiilty of DWI in Ft Lauderdale Fla
19980129::Soyuz TM-27 launches to MIR
19980129::Thick Fog causes highway carnage in Belgium & Netherlands, 6 die
19980129::Woman's Clinic in Birmingham Ala bombed, 1 killed
10770130::Pope Gregory VII pardons German emperor Henry IV
13490130::Gnther of Schwarzburg chosen German anti-king
13490130::Jews of Freilsburg Germany are massacred
14670130::Battle at Velke Kostolany: Hung king M ty s Corvinus beats Bratr¡ci
14870130::Bell chimes invented
15220130::Duke of Albany takes captured French back to Scotland
15440130::Adrian van Goes becomes land advocate of Holland
15920130::Ippolito Aldobrandini elected Pope Clement VIII
16470130::King Charles I handed over to English parliament
16470130::Scots agree to sell King Charles I to English Parliament for œ400,
16480130::Spain & Netherlands sign Peace of Mnster, ending Tachtigjarige War
16670130::Treaty of Andrussovo: Russia & Poland sign peace treaty
17130130::England & Netherlands sign 2nd anti-French boundary treaty
17740130::Capt Cook reaches 71ø 10' S, 1820 km from S pole (record)
17810130::Articles of Confederation ratified by 13th state, Maryland
17900130::Lifeboat 1st tested at sea, by Mr Greathead, the inventor
17970130::Congress refuses to accept 1st petitions from American blacks
17980130::Rep Matthew Lyon (Vt) spits in face of Rep Roger Griswold (Ct) in US House of Representatives, after an argument
18000130::US population: 5,308,483; Black population 1,002,037 (18.9%)
18040130::Mungo Park leaves England seeking source of Niger River
18060130::Prussia takes possession of Hanover
18150130::Burned Library of Congress reestablished with Jefferson's 6500 vols
18180130::Keats composes his sonnet, "When I Have Fears"
18200130::Edward Bransfield aboard Williams discovers Antarctica (UK claim)
18350130::Richard Lawrence misfires at Pres Andrew Jackson in Washington DC
18470130::Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco
18530130::Emperor Napoleon III marries Eug‚nie Maria de Montijo y de Guzman
18540130::1st election in Washington Territory; 1,682 votes cast
18580130::Charles Hall‚ founds Hall‚ Orchestra in Manchester
18580130::William Wells Brown published 1st Black drama, "Leap to Freedom"
18620130::US Navy's 1st ironclad warship (Monitor) launched
18770130::Storm flood ravages Dutch coastal provinces
18790130::French President MacMahon resigns
18830130::England team presented with ashes of a bail after Sydney Test
18880130::Harry Moses 297 not out for NSW against Victoria
18890130::John Herschel uses camera obscura to photograph 48" (120cm) telescope
18890130::Victoria beat NSW after following on (NSW all out 63 needed 76)
18920130::Bobby Abel carries his bat for 132* for England in SCG Test
18920130::Capt Lugard occupies Uganda's King Mwanga's hide out
18940130::Pneumatic hammer patented by Charles King of Detroit
18940130::US flag fired on in Rio; prompt satisfaction exacted by Adm Benham
18950130::C J Eady (Tas) 1st Australian to score twin centuries (v Vic)
18950130::SS Elbe sinks after collision in North Sea, 332 killed
18950130::Tasmania beat Victoria for 1st F-C victory in 41 years
19110130::1st rescue of an air passenger by a ship, near Havana, Cuba
19130130::House of Lords rejects Irish Home Rule Bill
19150130::German submarine attack on Le Havre
19150130::No 10 batsman F W Hyett scores century on debut, Vic v Tas
19170130::1st jazz record recorded (Dark Town Strutters Ball)
19190130::Reds hire Pat Moran as manager as Christy Mathewson, is still in France with US Army
19200130::Qu‚bec's Joe Malone sets NHL record of 7 goals in a game
19210130::French rapist-murderer Henri-D‚sir‚ Landru sentenced to death
19220130::Ted McDonald takes 8-58 in big Victorian win over NSW
19220130::World Law Day, 1st celebrated
19240130::Ponsford scores second 110 of the game in Vic win over NSW
19250130::Turkish govt throws out Constantine VI of Constantinople
19270130::Left wins national election in Thringen
19280130::1st radio telephone connection between Netherlands & US
19280130::Bradman scores 134 not out (225 mins, 13 fours) NSW v Vic
19280130::Eugene O'Neill's "Strange Interlude," premieres in NYC
19300130::Vladimir Mayakovsky's "Banya," premieres in Leningrad
19310130::Charlie Chaplin's "City Lights" premieres at Los Angeles Theater
19320130::Grimmett 7-116 in South Africa 1st innings at Adelaide Oval
19330130::"Lone Ranger" begins a 21-year run on ABC radio
19330130::Adolph Hitler named German Chancellor, forms govt with Von Papen
19330130::Grimmett takes 7-86 for SA in Qld 2nd inn, 13-135 for match
19340130::1st theatrical presentation sponsored by US government, NYC
19340130::Bert Ironmonger ends Sheffield Shield career age 51 yrs 298 days
19340130::Hitler proclamation on German unified states
19350130::Ezra Pound meets Mussolini, reads from a draft of "Cantos"
19360130::New owners of Boston Braves ask newspapermen to pick a new nickname
19360130::Victoria need 442 to win against NSW, but lose, all out for 415 They pick "The Bees" it doesn't catch on & is scrapped by 1940 season
19370130::2nd of Stalin's purge trials; Pyatakov & 16 others sentenced to death
19390130::Heavy after shocks destroy some of Chile
19390130::Hitler calls for extermination of European Jews
19400130::Benjamin Britten's "Lesson Illuminations" premieres in London
19400130::Cor Jongert wins 6th Dutch 11 Cities Skating Race
19400130::Hassett's second 122 of the game for Vic can't stop a NSW win
19410130::Australian troops conquer Derna Libya
19420130::Japanese troops land on Ambon
19430130::6 British Mosquito's daylight bomb Berlin
19430130::German assault on French in Tunisia
19430130::German under officers shot down in Haarlem Neth
19430130::Hitler promotes Friedrich von Paul to general-fieldmarshal
19430130::Illegal opposition newspaper Loyal begins publishing
19430130::USS Chicago sinks in Pacific Ocean
19440130::US invades Majuro, Marshall Islands
19450130::"Wilhelm Gustloff" torpedoed off Danzig by Soviet sub-c 7,700 die
19450130::German ship "Wilhelm Gustloff" torpedoed, 4,800 killed
19460130::1st issue of Franklin Roosevelt dime
19480130::5th Winter Olympic games open in St Moritz, Switzerland
19500130::"Robert Montgomery Presents" dramatic anthology premieres on NBC TV
19500130::Pres Truman orders development of H-bomb [or 0131?]
19510130::Belgium refuses to allow communists to make speeches on radio
19520130::Lehmer verifies: 2^521-1 & 2^607-1 (183 ciphers) Mersenne-prime #
19520130::Paul Creston's 4th Symphony, premieres
19540130::Belgium ends trade agreement with USSR
19540130::Italy's Fanfani govt resigns
19560130::Elvis Presley records his version of "Blue Suede Shoes"
19560130::KRMA TV channel 6 in Denver, CO (PBS) begins broadcasting
19560130::KTXS TV channel 12 in Sweetwater-Abilene, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
19560130::Martin Luther King Jr's home bombed
19570130::US Congress accepts "Eisenhower-doctrine"
19580130::1st 2-way moving sidewalk in service, Dallas Tx
19580130::Baseball announces players & coaches rather than fans pick all stars
19580130::Dore Schary's "Sunrise at Campobello," premieres in NYC
19580130::House of Lords passes bill allowing women in
19590130::Australia 1-200 1st day 4th Test v England, Adelaide Oval
19590130::Paul Hindemith's symphony "Pittsburgh," premieres
19600130::CIA OKs Lockheed to produce a new U-2 aircraft (Oxcart)
19600130::Dutch communist trade union EVC'58 disbands
19600130::Riot curtails third days play at Port-Of-Spain WI v England
19600130::US female Figure Skating championship won by Carol Heiss
19600130::US male Figure Skating championship won by David Jenkins
19610130::Bobby Darin is youngest performer to headline a TV special on NBC
19610130::JFK asks for an Alliance for Progress & Peace Corp
19610130::KAET TV channel 8 in Phoenix, AZ (PBS) begins broadcasting
19610130::Lance Gibbs takes hat-trick (Mackay, Grout, Misson) at Adelaide
19620130::UN General Assembly censures Portugal (because of Angola)
19620130::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19620130::2 members of Flying Wallendas' high-wire act killed when their 7-person pyramid collapsed during a performance in Detroit
19640130::Military coup of Gen Nguyen Khanh in South Vietnam
19640130::Ranger 6 launched; makes perfect flight to Moon, but cameras fail
19650130::"The Name Game" by Shirley Ellis hits #3
19650130::State funeral of Winston Churchill
19660130::-19øF (-28øC), Corinth, Mississippi (state record)
19660130::-27øF (-33øC), New Market, Alabama (state record)
19660130::Ard Schenk skates world record 1500m (2:05.2)
19660130::Dmitri Sjostakovitsj completes his 11th string quartet
19680130::Bobby Goldsboro records his biggest hit, "Honey"
19680130::Vietcong launch Tet-offensive on US embassy in Saigon
19690130::Beatles perform their last gig together, a free concert
19690130::US/Canada ISIS 1 launched to study ionosphere
19710130::"Ari" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 19 performances
19710130::Dennis Lillee takes 5-84 in his 1st Test bowl, v England
19710130::UCLA starts 88 basketball game win streak
19720130::Bloody Sunday: Brit soldiers shoot on catholics in Londonderry, 13 die
19720130::Pakistan withdraws from Commonwealth
19730130::1st Kiss concert (Queens NY)
19730130::26th NHL All-Star Game: East beat West 5-4 at NY Rangers
19730130::Jury finds Watergate defendants Liddy & McCord guilty on all counts
19730130::KISS plays their 1st show (Coventry Club in Queens NY)
19740130::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
19760130::1st-class debut of Dav Whatmore, in Johannesburg
19760130::George Bush becomes 11th director of CIA (until 1977)
19760130::William E Colby, ends term as 10th director of CIA
19770130::8th (final) part of "Roots" is most-watched entertainment show ever
19770130::Allan Border scores 36 in his 1st-class innings (NSW v Qld)
19770130::Edward W Stack replaces Paul Kerr president of Hall of Fame
19780130::Addie Joss & Larry MacPhail elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
19780130::Mutual Broadcasting Network begins airing Larry King Show on radio
19790130::Rhodesia agrees to new constitution
19800130::Edward Albee's "Lady from Dubuque," premieres in NYC
19810130::8th American Music Award: Kenny Rogers wins
19820130::US female Figure Skating championship won by Rosalynn Sumners
19830130::Hilbert van Thumb becomes European skating champ
19830130::Pat Bradley wins LPGA Mazda of Deer Creek Golf Classic
19830130::Superbowl XVII: Wash Red Skins beat Miami Dolphins, 27-17 in Pasadena Superbowl MVP: John Riggins, Washington, RB
19880130::Hansie Cronje gets a pair in 2nd 1st-class game (OFS v N Tvl)
19890130::16th American Music Award: Randy Travis & George Michael wins
19890130::5 pharoah sculptures from 1470 BC found at temple of Luxor
19890130::Joel Steinberg found guilty of 1st degree manslaughter of daughter
19890130::Last day of 1st class cricket for Dav Whatmore
19890130::Olympian, Bruce Kimball, is sentenced to 17 years in prison for killing 2 teenagers in a drunk driving accident
19920130::Space Shuttle STS-42 (Discovery 15) lands
19930130::100,000n Europeans demonstrate against fascism & racism
19930130::67th Australian Women's Tennis Open: Monica Seles beat Graf (46 63 62)
19940130::68th Australian Women's Tennis Open: S Graf beats A S Vicario (60 62)
19940130::82nd Australian Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Todd Martin (76 64 64)
19940130::Dan Jansen skates world record 500m (35.76)
19940130::Kapil Dev equals Richard Hadlee's world record of 431 Test wkts
19940130::Superbowl XXVIII: Dallas Cowboys beat Buffalo Bills, 30-13 in Atlanta Superbowl MVP: Emmitt Smith, Dallas, RB
19950130::22nd American Music Award: Boyz II Men & Ace of Base win
19950130::Belgium's TV channel 2 in Flanders goes on the air
19950130::Car bomb explodes in Algiers, 42 killed/296 injured
19950130::Kevin Eubanks officially becomes band leader of "Tonight Show"
19970130::Minuteman III launches
19980130::All-Star Fla Marlin catcher Darren Daulton, retires
19980130::Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Indianapolis IN on WNAP 93.1 FM
19980130::Paul Simon's "The Capeman," premieres
20000130::NFL Pro Bowl
03140131::St Silvester I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
08760131::Charles becomes king of Italy
15040131::By treaty of Lyons, French cede Naples to Ferdinand of Aragon
15310131::Kings Ferdinand of Austria/J nos Z polyai of Hungary accept each other
15600131::Spanish king Philip II marries Elisabeth van Valois
15780131::Battle of Gembloers
15960131::Catholic League disjoins
16090131::Wisselbank of Amsterdam established
16270131::Spanish government goes bankrupt
16750131::Cornelia/Dina Olfaarts found not guilty of witchcraft
16790131::Jean-Baptiste Lully's opera "Bell‚rophon," premieres in Paris
16960131::Revolt of undertakers after funeral reforms (Amsterdam)
17790131::Charles Messier adds M57 (Ring Nebula in Lyra) to his catalog
18040131::British vice-admiral William Blighs fleet reaches Cura‡ao
18170131::Franz Grillparzer's "Die Ahnfrau," premieres in Vienna
18420131::John Tyler's daughter Elizabeth marries in White House
18490131::Corn Laws abolished in Britain
18510131::Gail Borden announces invention of evaporated milk
18510131::SF Orphan's Asylum, 1st in Calif, founded
18540131::Dutch KNMI established (Royal Meteorological Institute)
18550131::Western railroads blocked by snow
18610131::Friedrich Hebbel's "Siegfrieds Tod," premieres in Weimar
18610131::State of Louisiana takes over US Mint at New Orleans
18620131::Telescope maker Alvin Clark discovers dwarf companion of Sirius
18630131::1st black Civil War regiment, SC Volunteers, mustered into US army
18650131::Congress passes 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery in America (121-24)
18650131::Gen Robert E Lee named Commander-in-Chief of Confederate Armies
18710131::Millions of birds fly over western SF, darkens sky
18740131::Jesse James gang robs train at Gads Hill, Missouri
18930131::"Westminster Gazette" begins publishing
18950131::Jos‚ Mart¡ & others leave NYC for invasion of Spanish Cuba
19010131::Boer general John Smuts & De la Rey conqueror Mud river Transvaal
19010131::Chekhov's "Three Sisters" opens at Moscow Art Theater
19010131::Winnipeg Victorias sweep Montr‚al Shamrocks in 2 for Stanley Cup
19040131::B‚la Bart¢k's symphony "Kossuth," premieres
19050131::1st auto to exceed 100 mph (161 kph), A G MacDonald, Daytona Beach
19050131::Carroll Wright appointed 1st US Commissioner of Labor
19060131::Strongest instrumentally recorded earthquake, Colombia, 8.6 Richter
19110131::Congress names SF as Panama Canal opening celebration site
19150131::1st (German) poison gas attack, against Russians
19160131::Dutch Girl Guides form
19170131::Germany notifies US that U-boats will attack neutral merchant ship
19200131::1st Ukrainian daily newspaper in US (NYC) begins publication
19200131::Joe Malone, Qu‚bec Bulldogs, sets NHL record with 7 goals in a game
19200131::Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, at Howard University, incorporates
19250131::Premier Ahmed Zogu becomes president of Angola
19270131::Intl allies military command in Germany disbands
19270131::NL Pres John Heydler rules Rogers Hornsby can't hold stock in the Cardinals & play for the Giants
19280131::Scotch tape 1st marketed by 3-M Company
19290131::Erich Maria Remarques publishes "Im West nieces Neues" in Berlin
19290131::Leon Trotsky expelled from Russia to Turkey
19300131::1st US glider flight from a dirigible, Lakehurst, NJ
19310131::NHL's Quebec Bulldogs' Joseph Malone scores a record 7 goals
19310131::Philip Barry's "Tomorrow & Tomorrow," premieres in NYC
19320131::US railway unions accept 10% wage reduction
19330131::French govt of Daladier takes power
19330131::Hitler promises parliamentary democracy
19340131::FDR devalus dollar in relation to gold at $35 per ounce
19360131::"Green Hornet" radio show is 1st heard on WXYZ Radio in Detroit
19400131::40 U boats sunk this month (111,000 ton)
19400131::C Turney & J Horwin's "My Dear Children," premieres in NYC
19410131::21 U boats sunk this month (127,000 ton)
19410131::Anti-German demonstration in Haarlem Netherlands
19410131::Joe Louis KOs Red Burman in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
19420131::62 U boats sunk this month (327,000 ton)
19430131::39 U boats sunk this month (203,100 ton)
19430131::Chile breaks contact with Germany & Japan
19430131::Gen Friedrich von Paul surrenders to Russian troops at Stalingrad
19440131::Operation-Overlord (D-Day) postponed until June
19440131::U-592 sunk off Ireland
19440131::US forces invade Kwajalein Atoll
19450131::US 4th Infantry division occupies Elcherrath
19460131::Yugoslavia adopts new constitution, becomes a federal republic
19480131::J D Salinger's "A Perfect Day for Banana Fish" appears in NY
19480131::Magnetic tape recorder developed by Wireway
19490131::1st daytime soap on TV "These Are My Children" (NBC in Chicago)
19500131::Pres Truman OKs building of hydrogen bomb
19520131::Dutch Lutheran Church reunites after 1« centuries
19520131::Harry Heilmann & Paul Waner elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
19530131::"Princess Victoria" capsized off Stanraer Scotland; 133 die
19530131::Hurricane-like winds flood Netherlands drowning 1,835
19530131::NY, Cleveland, & Boston retaliate at Bill Veeck, forcing the Browns to play afternoon games to avoid sharing TV revenues
19550131::RCA demonstrates 1st music synthesizer
19560131::French govt of Mollet forms
19560131::Juscelino Kubitschek becomes president of Brazil
19570131::Liz Taylor's 2nd divorce (Michael Wilding)
19570131::Trans-Iranian oil pipe line finished
19580131::"Jackpot Bowling" premieres on NBC with Leo Durocher as host
19580131::James van Allen discovers radiation belt
19580131::US launches their 1st artificial satellite, Explorer 1
19590131::Joe Cronin signs 7 year pact to become head of AL
19600131::Songwriter Adolph Green marries actress/singer Phyllis Newman in NYC
19610131::David Ben-Gurion resigns as premier of Israel
19610131::Ham is 1st primate in space (158 miles) aboard Mercury/Redstone 2
19610131::Houston voters approve bond to finance luxury domed stadium
19610131::Kanhai completes twin tons (117 & 115) v Aust at Adelaide
19610131::NATO secretary-general Paul-Henri Spaak says he'll resign
19610131::USAF launches Samos spy satellite to replace U-2 flights
19620131::Gen Charles P Cabell, USAF, ends term as deputy director of CIA
19620131::Samuel Gravely assumes command of destroyer escort "USS Falgout"
19630131::Tony Sheridan & Beat Brothers record "What'd I Say" & "Ruby Baby"
19640131::US report "Smoking & Health" connects smoking to lung cancer
19650131::Pud Galvin elected to baseball Hall of Fame
19660131::Belgian state police kills 2 striking mine workers
19660131::USSR launches Luna 9 towards Moon
19680131::Bobby Simpson takes 5-59 v India in his last Test for ten years
19680131::Nauru (formerly Pleasant Island) declares independence from Australia
19680131::Record high barometric pressure (1083.8 mb, 32"), at Agata, USSR
19680131::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19680131::Viet Cong's Tet offensive begins
19690131::Beatles perform last live gig (42-min concert on roof of Apple HQs)
19690131::Vice Admiral Rufus L Taylor, USN, ends term as deputy director of CIA
19700131::Grateful Dead members busted on LSD charges
19710131::"My Sweet Lord" by George Harrison hit #1 on UK pop chart
19710131::Apollo 14 launched, 1st landing in lunar highlands
19710131::Jake Beckley, Joe Kelley, Harry Hooper, Rube Marquard, Chick Hafey
19710131::US female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn
19710131::US male Figure Skating championship won by John Misha Petkevich
19710131::& Dave Bancroft & George Weiss elected to baseball Hall of Fame
19720131::Aretha Franklin sings at Mahalia Jackson's funeral
19720131::Birenda, becomes leader of Nepal
19720131::Military coup ousts civilian government of Ghana
19720131::US launches HEOS A-2 for interplanetary observations (396/244,998)
19740131::MacDonald's founder Ray Kroc buys San Diego Padres
19750131::Barry Manilow's "Mandy" goes gold
19750131::John Lennon releases "#9 Dream"
19750131::UCLA wins NCAA basketball championship
19760131::"Love Rollercoaster" by Ohio Players hits #1
19760131::Lance Gibbs becomes highest Test wicket-taker at 308
19770131::Frenchman Fran‡ois Claustre freed, after 33 months as hostage in Chad
19770131::Joe Sewell, Amos Rusie, & Al Lopez elected to baseball Hall of Fame
19780131::"Elvis: The Legend Lives!" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 101 perfs
19780131::Israel turns 3 milt outposts in West Bank into civilian settlements
19800131::Police storm occupied Spanish embassy in Guatemala City, killing 41
19810131::"The Tide Is High" by Blondie hits #1
19810131::38th Golden Globes: Ordinary People, Coal Miner's Daughter
19810131::Gaetan Boucher skates world record 1000m (1:13.39)
19820131::10 Arabian oryx (extinct except in zoos) released in Oman
19820131::12th AFC-NFC pro bowl, AFC wins 16-13
19820131::32nd NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 120-118 at New Jersey
19820131::Gustafson skates world record 10 km (14:26.59)
19820131::Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Whirlpool Golf Championship of Deer Creek
19820131::NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 16-13
19820131::US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Hamilton
19840131::36th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 7-6 at NJ
19840131::Edwin Newman retires from NBC News after 35 years with the network
19840131::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19850131::"Harrigan 'n Hart" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 5 performances
19850131::S Afr pres PW Botha offers to free Mandela if he denounces violence
19860131::Mary Lund of Minn, is 1st female recipient of an artificial heart
19870131::44th Golden Globes: Platoon, Marlee Matlin win
19870131::United Steel workers union ratified a concessionary with USX Corp
19880131::Barge sinks near Anacortes, WA, spills 70,000 gallons of oil
19880131::Superbowl XXII: Wash Redskins beat Denver Broncos, 42-10 in San Diego Superbowl MVP: Doug Williams, Washington, QB
19900131::1st McDonalds in Russia opens in Moscow, world's biggest McDonalds
19900131::1st ever all-sports daily "National" begins publishing
19900131::Jushin "Thunder" Liger beats Naoki Sano to become New Japan IWGP champ
19910131::Nugget's Michael Adams becomes shortest NBAer to get a triple-double
19910131::Robert Gibson flies record 27,040 feet altitude
19920131::MTA raised tolls on most NYC bridges from $2.50 to $3.00
19920131::Sportscaster Howard Cosell retires
19930131::"St Joan" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 49 performances
19930131::81st Australian Mens Tennis: Jim Courier beats S Edberg (62 61 26 75)
19930131::Superbowl XXVII: Dallas Cowboys beat Buffalo Bills, 52-17 in Pasadena Superbowl MVP: Troy Aikman, Dallas, QB
19940131::Barcelona opera theater "Gran Teatro del Liceo" burns down
19940131::Dow Jones hits a record 3,978.36
19980131::72nd Australian Womens Tennis: Martina Hingis beats C Martinez (63 63)
19980131::STS 89 (Endeavour 12) lands
19990131::NFL Pro Bowl