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
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