Westminster Abbey Consecrated
1065 New church devoted to St Peter the Apostle built by Edward the Confessor - later called the 'west minister' consecrated in London (rebuilt mid 13th century) [1]
- 1308 The reign of Emperor Hanazono, Emperor of Japan, begins
Last Generals Before Revolution
1781 Comte de Rochambeau and Nicolas Luckner are the last generals to be made Marshal of France by Louis XVI before the Revolution
- 1816 American Colonization Society organizes
Rossini Moves to Bolongna
1821 Italian opera composer Gioachino Rossini moves to Bologna, Papal States
- 1828 6.8 earthquake strikes Echigo Japan, 30,000 killed
Calhoun First VP to Resign
1832 John C. Calhoun becomes 1st VP to resign (differences with President Jackson)
- 1835 Second Seminole War between United States and Native Americans begins with the Dade Massacre in Sumter County, Florida; Senminole fighters kill nearly all 110 of US Army troops under Major Francis Langhorne Dade [1] [2]
- 1836 Proclamation of South Australia as a British Province. Formal proclamation was read out near The Old Gum Tree, in what is now the Adelaide suburb of Glenelg North, by Captain (later Rear Admiral, Governor, Sir) John Hindmarsh
- 1836 Spain recognizes the independence of Mexico
- 1846 Iowa becomes 29th state of the United States of America
- 1849 Jean Baptiste Jolly opens “Teinturerier Jolly Belin”, 1st modern dry cleaning shop in Paris
- 1850 Rangoon, Burma, destroyed by fire
Tubmans' Last Mission
1860 Harriet Tubman arrives in Auburn, New York, on her last mission to free slaves, having evaded capture for 8 years on the Underground Railroad
- 1879 North British Railway's train falls as Tay bridge collapses (Scotland)
- 1886 American inventor Josephine Cochrane is granted a patent for the dishwasher [1]
- 1887 John Layton Jarvis becomes first British race horse trainer to be knighted for services to racing
- 1893 French lieutenant Boiteux annexes Tumbuktu
- 1895 Filmmakers the Lumiere brothers, hold the first commercial film screening at Salon Indien du Grand Café, Paris
- 1897 Edmond Rostand's play "Cyrano de Bergerac" premieres in Paris
- 1902 1st indoor pro football game, Syracuse beats Philadelphia 6-0 (Madison Square Garden, NYC)
- 1902 Trans-Pacific cable links Hawaii to US
"Glad of It"
1903 Clyde Fitch's play "Glad of It" premieres in NYC
- 1904 1st daily wireless weather forecasts published (London)
- 1905 NSW all out for 805 vs Victoria, win by innings & 253
- 1906 Ecuador adopts its second liberal constitution
- 1908 Earthquake strikes Messina in Italy, killing nearly 80,000
- 1910 Englebert Humperdink's opera "Konigskinder" premiers at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City
- 1912 1st municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco, California as SF Municipal Railway starts operation at Geary St (MUNI)
- 1912 National Council of Young Israel convenes
- 1914 Turks are repulsed by the Russians after fighting in Armenia for weeks
- 1915 San Francisco City Hall dedicated by Mayor James Rolph
- 1915 Today the British Cabinet recognizes the true nature of the war by deciding to institute compulsory military service, with single men to be conscripted before married ones
Vezina 1st Assist
1918 Montreal's Georges Vezina becomes the first NHL goalie to record an assist during the Canadiens’ 6-3 win over the Toronto Arenas
- 1921 The beginning of the Rand Rebellion in Southern Africa; the rebellion started as a strike by white mineworkers on and became an open armed rebellion against the state
"Saint Joan"
1923 George Bernard Shaw's play "Saint Joan" premieres at Garrick Theatre in NYC
"T"ip-Toes
1925 George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin's musical "Tip-Toes" opened at the Liberty Theatre, NYC; runs for 192 performances
- 1926 Arthur Mailey takes 4-362 off 64 overs (no maidens) NSW v Vic
- 1926 Imperial Airways begins England-India mail & passenger service
- 1926 Ponsford scores 352 & Ryder 295 against NSW
- 1926 Victoria all out for 1107 against NSW at the MCG Crowd 22,348
"Antigone"
1927 Arthur Honegger's opera "Antigone" premieres with a libretto by Jean Cocteau, sets by Pablo Picasso and costumes by Coco Chanel at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Brussels
- 1928 Ma Rainey, "Mother of the Blues" makes her last record - "Big Feelin' Blues"
Lin-Sen Succeeds Chiang Kai-shek
1931 Lin-Sen succeeds Chiang Kai-shek as President of Nanjing-China
"Bright Eyes"
1934 Film "Bright Eyes" premieres starring Shirley Temple and featuring the song "On the Good Ship Lollipop"
- 1934 First ever Women's cricket international begins England vs Australia in Australia
- 1935 Pravda publishes a letter by Pavel Postyshev, who revives New Year tree tradition in the Soviet Union
- 1935 W P A Federal Art Project Gallery opens in NYC
- 1937 Fascist Octavian Goga becomes Prime Minister of Romania
- 1938 Paul Gibb scores 106 on Test Cricket debut v South Africa
- 1940 Cricketer Arthur Morris scores 111 in 2nd innings of 1st game after 148
- 1941 State of siege goes into effect in Bohemia and Moravia
- 1942 Oberkommando Wehrmacht orders strategist flight out of Kaukasus
- 1942 Robert Sullivan becomes 1st pilot to fly Atlantic 100 times
- 1943 All Kalmyk inhabitants of the Republic of Kalmukkie deported by the Soviet Union to Central Asia and Siberia. Many die en route.
- 1944 Dutch Resistance fighter Corrie ten Boom is accidentally released from the Ravensbrück concentration camp, living to speak and educate of her experience in "The Hiding Place"
Eisenhower, Montgomery Meeting
1944 Eisenhower & Montgomery meet in Hasselt, Belgium
- 1944 Former Wash 3rd baseman Buddy Lewis wins Distinguished Flying Cross
"On the Town"
1944 Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden and Adolf Green's musical "On the Town", with choreography by Jerome Robbins, opens at the Adelphi Theater, NYC; runs for 462 performances
Richard 8 Point Game First
1944 Montreal right wing Maurice 'Rocket' Richard becomes first player in NHL history to score 8 points in one game with 5 goals and 3 assists in the Canadiens' 9-1 win over the Detroit Red Wings
- 1945 Congress officially recognizes "Pledge of Allegiance"
- 1948 IDF crosses Egyptian border
- 1948 Middel-Java as a whole in Dutch hands
- 1948 The DC-3 airliner NC16002 disappears 50 miles south of Miami, Florida.
- 1948 US announced a study to launch an Earth satellite
- 1949 20th Century Fox announces it will produce TV programs
- 1950 Chinese troops cross 38th Parallel, into South Korea
- 1950 The Peak District becomes the United Kingdom's 1st National Park
- 1953 WLBT TV channel 3 in Jackson, MS (NBC) begins broadcasting
- 1954 KEPR TV channel 19 in Pasco-Kennewick-Richl, WA (CBS) 1st broadcast
- 1956 Miss Frances [Horwich], last Ding Dong School on NBC-TV
- 1957 CBS states it won't broadcast baseball where minor league games are on
- 1957 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
- 1958 "The Chipmunk Song" by the Chipmunks (Alvin, Simon & Theodore with David Seville) hits #1
- 1958 "The Greatest Game Ever Played": Baltimore Colts win the 26th NFL championship against the New York Giants 23-17 at Yankee Stadium, in the first ever sudden-death overtime game in NFL history. 17 future members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame were involved in the game.
"Night of the Iguana"
1961 Tennessee Williams' play "Night of the Iguana" premieres in NYC
- 1962 UN troops occupies Elizabethstad Katanga
"Sing a Sad Song"
1963 Merle Haggard's 1st appearance on country music chart with "Sing a Sad Song"
Clark 1st Scot to Win
1963 Scottish Lotus driver Jim Clark wins his record 7th Grand Prix of the F1 season, the South African event at Prince George Circuit; first Scotsman to win the World Drivers Championship
The Execution of Stepan Razin
1964 Premiere of Dmitri Shostakovich's cantata "The Execution of Stepan Razin"
"Doctor Zhivago" Filming Begins
1964 Principal filming on film "Doctor Zhivago" begins
- 1965 Ballon d'Or: Benfica striker Eusébio wins award for best European football player; first Portuguese national to win, and still only Benfica player
- 1966 13 die in a train crash in Everett, Massachusetts
- 1966 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
- 1967 KTSB (now KSNT) TV channel 27 in Topeka, KS (NBC) begins broadcasting
- 1967 Muriel Siebert is 1st woman to own a seat on New York Stock Exchange
Miami Pop Festival
1968 100,000 attend Miami Pop Festival in Florida; performers included: The Jimi Hendrix Experience; The Mothers of Invention; Chuck Berry; John Lee Hooker; The Crazy World of Arthur Brown; and Blues Image
- 1968 Israeli assault on Beirut Airport
- 1968 KVOF (KUDO, now KWBB) TV channel 38 in San Francisco, California (IND) 1st broadcast
- 1968 The Beatles' "The Beatles" aka "The White Album" goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks
- 1969 Dallas Cowboy kicker Mike Clark, attempting an on-side kick against Cleveland, missed the ball
"Last of the Red Hot Lovers"
1969 Neil Simon's play "Last of the Red Hot Lovers" premieres in NYC
- 1969 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
- 1970 Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) adopts constitution
Ballon d'Or
1971 Ballon d'Or: Ajax forward Johan Cruyff wins award for best European football player ahead of Inter forward Sandro Mazzola and Manchester United winger George Best; first Dutch national and Ajax player to win award
- 1971 Hashish now falls under the Dutch Opium Law (Opiumwet)
- 1972 2 people are killed in a Loyalist bomb attack on the village of Belturbet, County Cavan, Republic of Ireland
- 1972 Kim Il-song becomes president of North Korea
Nazi Leader Remains Found
1972 Nazi leader Martin Bormann's skeleton and remains are found in Berlin
- 1972 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
- 1973 Akron Ohio's Chamber of Commerce terminates itself from Soap Box Derby
"Gulag Archipelago"
1973 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn publishes "Gulag Archipelago" - a literary investigation of the police-state system in the Soviet Union
- 1973 Comet Kohoutek at perihelion
- 1973 US President Nixon signs Endangered Species Act into law
- 1974 6.3 earthquake strikes Pakistan: 5200 killed
- 1974 Senegalese marxist group Reenu-Rew founds the political movement And-Jëf at a clandestine congress.
- 1975 "The Hail Mary", with 32 seconds left in the NFC Divisional Playoff Game, Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach throws a legendary 50-yard winning touchdown pass to Drew Pearson to defeat the Minnesota Vikings, and the "Hail Mary" play gains national recognition
- 1975 1st broadcast of Dutch public radio service Hilversum IV; programming chiefly classical music
- 1975 Earthquake in Pakistan, 4,000 die
- 1975 Gary Cosier scores 109 v West Indies at MCG on Test Cricket debut
- 1975 In the aftermath of the Cold War, the New York Rangers become first team in NHL history to face a touring Soviet hockey squad; Soviet Army beats the Rangers, 7-3 at Madison Square Garden
Ballon d'Or
1976 Ballon d'Or: Bayern Munich defender Franz Beckenbauer wins title of Europe's best football player for a 2nd time; beats Anderlecht winger Rob Rensenbrink and Dukla Prague goalkeeper Ivo Viktor
- 1976 Genie Francis joins "General Hospital" as Laura Vining
- 1976 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Winnie Mandela Banished
1976 Winnie Mandela banished in South Africa
Islander's 30th Hat Trick
1978 30th hat trick in NHL New York Islander franchise history, scored by Mike Bossy
- 1980 Mexico terminated fishing agreements with US
- 1981 1st American test-tube baby, Elizabeth Jordan Carr is born in Norfolk, Virginia
- 1981 Cleveland Metroparks Administrative offices move from downtown to Zoo (Cleveland, Ohio)
- 1981 Warner-Elektra-Atlantic raises price of 45 records from $1.68 to $1.98
- 1982 Ballon d'Or: Juventus striker Paolo Rossi is named best European football player; beats Bordeaux midfielder Alain Giresse and Juventus' Polish midfielder Zbigniew Boniek
- 1983 US threatens to leave UNESCO after objecting to its domination by a coalition of third world and Soviet bloc nations
- 1983 Warren Cromartie signs 3 year $2.5M contract with Yomiuri Giants
- 1984 Creosote bush determined to be 11,700 years old
Rajiv Gandhi Wins Election
1984 Rajiv Gandhi's Congress party wins the general election in India
Hughes Poet Laureate
1984 Ted Hughes is appointed British Poet Laureate by Queen Elizabeth II
- 1984 TV soap "Edge of Night" ends 28 year run
- 1984 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh, Semipalitinsk USSR
- 1985 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 1985 Warring Lebanese Muslim & Christian leaders sign peace agreement
- 1987 Ronald Gene Simmons kills 2 former employers and wounds 4 in a shooting spree and surrenders to police; later bodies of 14 of his relatives he had murdered are found at his home near Dover, Arkansas
- 1988 John Tarrant, 1st Australian born Zen teacher, receives Dharma Transmission
- 1988 US 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals affirms Yonkers is guilty of racism
- 1988 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
Dubček Elected
1989 Alexander Dubček elected Chairman of the Federal Assembly (Parliament) of Czechslovakia
- 1989 Earthquake at Newcastle Australia, 11 die
- 1990 2 die and 188 injured in a NYC subway electrical fire in tunnel near Clark Street, Brooklyn
- 1990 Blockbuster Bowl 1: Florida State beats Penn State, 24-17
- 1991 8 are crushed to death at a RAP basketball game at City College, NYC
- 1991 Irene the Icon of Greek Orthodox church returns after being stolen
Ted Turner Man of the Year
1991 Ted Turner is named Time Magazine Man of Year
Bocelli's Debut
1993 Andrea Bocelli makes his classical debut singing at a concert at Teatro Romolo Valli in Reggio Emilia, Italy
- 1993 Ballon d'Or: Juventus' Italian striker Roberto Baggio is named Europe's best football player ahead of Inter forward Dennis Bergkamp and Manchester United striker Eric Cantona
- 1993 Dow-Jones hits record 3793.49
- 1993 Dutch Antilles government of Yandi Paula forms
"The Madness of King George"
1994 "The Madness of King George" film based on the play by Alan Bennett, directed by Nicholas Hytner, starring Nigel Hawthorne and Helen Mirren premieres in the US
Tammy Wynette Hospitalized
1994 American country singer Tammy Wynette admitted to the hospital with bile duct infection
Boon Makes It 20
1994 David Boon completes his 20th Test Cricket century (131 v England, MCG)
- 1996 India all out for 66 at Durban after making 100 in cricket 1st innings
- 1997 Sting beats Hollywood Hogan for WCW Championship
- 1999 Saparmurat Niyazov is proclaimed President for Life in Turkmenistan
- 2000 U.S. retail giant Montgomery Ward announces it is going out of business after 128 years.
- 2001 OPEC oil ministers meeting in Cairo agree to reduce their crude oil output quotas by a combined 1.5 million barrels per day
LinkedIn Founded
2002 LinkedIn is founded by Reid Hoffman and others in Mountain View, California
- 2005 A U.S. immigration judge orders John Demjanjuk deported to Ukraine for crimes against humanity committed during World War II.
- 2007 Nepal declared a federal democratic Republic by interim parliament, abolishing the monarchy.
- 2008 Detroit Lions crash to a 31-21 loss to Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field; first team in NFL history to go winless in a 16-game season
- 2009 43 people die in a suicide bombing in Karachi, Pakistan, where Shia Muslims were observing the Day of Ashura.
Johansson Debuts on Broadway
2009 Scarlett Johansson makes her debut on Broadway in the Arthur Miller play "A View from the Bridge"
- 2012 13 people are killed and 19 are injured after a bus plunges into a river in western Nepal
Ban on US Adoptions
2012 Vladimir Putin signs into law a ban on US adoption of Russian children
- 2013 Chris Weidman defeats Anderson Silva to retain the UFC Middleweight Championship
- 2013 Early signs of Ebola epidemic: 2-year-old child in Guinea dies of an unidentified hemorrhagic fever; mother, sister and grandmother soon follow
- 2014 Indonesia AirAsia Flight QZ8501 crashes in bad weather in the Java Sea, killing all 162 people on board
- 2015 Japan and South Korea reach agreement over WWII "comfort women", Japan apologies and pays 1bn yen compensation
- 2017 Iranian woman Vida Mohaved arrested for protesting against policy of compulsory hijab, sparking other protests
- 2017 Protests in Mashhad, Iran against price rises and corruption
Pullman, Palin, Twiggy Knighted
2018 British New Year's honours list include Knights for author Philip Pullman and comedian Michael Palin, a Dame for Twiggy and a Order of the Companions of Honour for Margaret Atwood
- 2018 UFC bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes of Brazil moves up in weight and KOs dominant featherweight Cris "Cyborg" Justino just 51 seconds into the opening round at the Forum, Inglewood, CA; first female to win UFC titles in multiple weight classes
- 2019 52nd Peach Bowl (College Football Playoff semi final): #1 LSU beats #4 Oklahoma, 63-28
- 2019 Jihadist fundamentalist group al-Shabaab sets off a truck bomb in Mogadishu, Somalia, killing at least 84 people and wounding over 150
- 2021 Test cricket debutant Scott Boland takes 6 for 7 as Australia retain the Ashes (3-0) with an innings & 14 run win against England in the 3rd Test in Melbourne
- 2023 L’Oréal heiress and businesswoman Françoise Bettencourt Meyers is the first woman to be worth $100 billion, after a rise in the company's share price [1]
