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• 532 Nika-revolt against Justianus & Theodora in Hippodrome Constantinople
• 1055 Theodora is crowned Empress of the Byzantine Empire.
• 1158 Vladislav II of Bohemia becomes king
• 1558 Westmunster Church in Middelburg destroyed by heavy storm
• 1569 1st recorded lottery in England is drawn in St Paul's Cathedral
• 1571 Emperor Maximilian II grants Austrian adel freedom of religion
• 1599 Jacob van Necks fleet leaves Bantam Java with pepper, clove & muskaat
• 1693 Mt Etna in Sicily erupts
• 1709 Colley Cibber's play "Rival Fools" premieres in London
• 1753 Ferdinand VI of Spain & Pope Benedictus XIV sign concord
• 1758 Russian troops occupy Königsberg, East-Prussia [NS=Jan 22]
• 1759 1st American life insurance company incorporated, Philadelphia
• 1774 Messier adds M51 (spiral galaxy in Canes Venatici) to his catalog
• 1775 Francis Salvador becomes 1st Jew elected to office in America (SC)
• 1779 Ching-Thang Khomba is crowned King of Manipur.
• 1785 Continental Congress convenes in NYC
• 1790 Statisten & Vonckisten unite as Belgium
• 1794 Robert Forsythe, a U.S. Marshal is killed in Augusta, Georgia when trying to serve court papers, the first US marshal to die while carrying out his duties.
• 1803 Monroe & Livingston sail for Paris to buy New Orleans; they buy La
• 1805 Michigan Territory organizes
• 1813 1st pineapples planted in Hawaii (or 1/21)
• 1861 Mexico City captured by Juarez (Lib) in War of Reform
• 1861 Alabama secedes from the Union (US Civil War)
• 1863 Naval engagement near Galveston between CSS Alabama & USS Hatteras
• 1863 Union forces capture Arkansas Post, or Ft Hindman, Arkansas
• 1864 Charing Cross Station opens in London
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• 1865 Battle of Beverly, West Virginia, Confederate forces attack Union post
• 1866 Steamship London sinks in storm off Land's End, England and kills 220
• 1867 Benito Juárez becomes the Mexican president again.
• 1873 1st livestock market newspaper published, Drover's Journal, Chicago
• 1879 Zulu war against British colonial rule in South Africa begins
• 1885 Henrik Ibsen's "Vildauden," premieres in Oslo
• 1892 Hawaiian Historical Society founded
• 1892 William D McCoy of Indiana appointed US minister to Liberia
• 1897 M H Cannon becomes 1st woman state senator in US (Utah)
• 1904 Herero people of South West Africa, now Namibia, begin uprising
• 1912 Bread & Roses Strike begins in Lawrence, Massachusetts
• 1913 1st sedan-type car (Hudson) goes on display at 13th Auto Show (NYC)
• 1915 Col Jacob Ruppert & Col Tillinghast Huston purchase Yanks for $460,000
• 1916 French troops capture/Serbian army flees to Corfu
• 1917 Guy Bolton & PG Wodehouse's "Have a Heart" premieres in NYC
• 1919 3 year old German communist party (Spartacus) crushed
• 1919 Romania annexes Transylvania
• 1920 French passenger ship Afrique sinks near La Rochelle; 553 die
• 1922 Insulin first used on humans to treat diabetes - Leonard Thompson, 14, of Canada
• 1923 1st Dutch Dada-evening (Theo Van Doesburg & Kurt Schwitters)
• 1923 French & Belgian troops occupy Ruhr to collect reparations
• 1924 A republic is proclaimed in Greece; King George II is deposed and Eleutherios Venizelo is named Prime Minister of the Greek National Assembly
• 1938 Frances Moulton elected 1st woman president of a US national bank
• 1940 Sergei Prokofiev's ballet "Romeo & Juliet" premieres in Leningrad
• 1941 Princess Irene Brigade established in Congleton
• 1942 -23°F (-31°C), Kingston, Rhode Island (state record)
• 1942 Japan conquers Kuala Lumpur, Malaya
• 1943 US & Britain relinquish extraterritorial rights in China
• 1944 Crakow-Plaszow Concentration Camp established
• 1946 Bert Bell becomes second NFL commissioner, moves Chicago headquarters to Philadelphia
• 1946 Enver Hoxha declares People's Rep of Albania with himself dictator
• 1949 Snowfall 1st recorded in Los Angeles
• 1952 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Marianne Moore
• 1954 2 ton locomotive swept into ravine by avalanche 10 die (Austria)
• 1957 The African Convention is founded in Dakar.
• 1957 Mass-murderer Jack Gilbert Graham is executed via the Gas Chamber.
• 1959 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Theodore Roethke
• 1959 Hanif Mohammad completes 499 runs for Karachi, then 1st class cricket world record
• 1959 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Mayfair Golf Open
• 1959 NFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 28-21
• 1960 Lamar Clark sets pro boxing record of 44 consecutive knockouts
• 1961 Racial riot at University of Georgia
• 1962 Volcano Huascaran in Peru, erupts; 4,000 die
• 1963 1st discotheque opens, Whiskey-a-go-go in LA
• 1963 Beatles release "Please Please Me" & "Ask Me Why"
• 1964 "She Loves Me" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 302 performances
• 1964 Beatles "I Want to Hold Your Hand" is #80 in US (Cashbox)
• 1964 Panama ends diplomatic relations with US
• 1964 1st government report warning by US Surgeon General Luther Terry reports that smoking may be hazardous
• 1966 "Daktari" African adventure series premieres on CBS TV
• 1966 550 die in landslides in mountains behind Rio de Janeiro after rain
• 1966 16th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 137-94 at Cincinnati
• 1967 Romeinse Curie installs Council for Pontifical Study commission
• 1968 Explorer 36 (GEOS-B) launched into earth orbit (1080/1570 km)
• 1969 "Hooked on a Feeling" by BJ Thomas peaks at #5
• 1969 Jethro Tull's This Was Jethro Tull album debuts
• 1970 Super Bowl IV: KC Chiefs beat Minnesota Vikings, 23-7 in New Orleans Super Bowl MVP: Len Dawson, Kansas City, QB
• 1970 Irish republican political party Sinn Féin party splits between those in favor of abstentionism (of not taking any seats won in the parliaments) and those where against
• 1971 Tigers ace reliever John Hiller, 27, sufferes a heart attack, but later makes a remarkable comeback to record 38 saves
• 1972 East-Pakistan becomes independent state of Bangladesh
• 1973 American League adopts designated hitter rule
• 1973 Famous victory at the SCG Pakistan chasing 158 all out 106
• 1973 Trial of Watergate burglars begins in Washington, D.C.
• 1974 ABC airs final episode of "Love, American Style"
• 1975 Soyuz 17 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 4
• 1976 "Pacific Overtures" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 193 performances
• 1976 Dorothy Hamill wins her 3rd consecutive national figure skating championship
• 1976 Military coup in Ecuador, Pres Guillermo Lara leaves
• 1976 Stephen Sondheim's musical "Pacific Overtures" premieres in NYC
• 1976 US male Figure Skating championship won by Terry Kubicka
• 1977 Bollingen Prize awarded to David Ignatow
• 1977 Cubs trade outfielder Rick Monday to Dodgers for Bill Buckner
• 1977 France releases Abu Daoud, a Palestinian suspected of involvement in massacre of Israeli athletes at 1972 Munich Olympics
• 1978 Gov Askew dedicates RCUC solar office building
• 1978 Soyuz 27 links with Salyut 6 & Soyuz 26 (1st time 3 spacecraft link)
• 1979 "Grand Tour" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 61 performances
• 1980 Debut of first Pretenders album "Pretenders"
• 1981 "Tintypes" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 93 performances
• 1981 Palau adopts constitution
• 1981 British team led by Ranulph Fiennes completes longest & fastest crossing of Antarctica, reaching Scott base after 75 days (2,500 miles)
• 1981 AFC Championship Game: Oakland Raiders beat San Diego Chargers 34-27
• 1981 NFC Championship Game: Philadelphia Eagles beat Dallas Cowboys 20-7
• 1982 Atlanta Ga's temperature goes below zero F
• 1982 Honduras adopts constitution
• 1983 Billy Martin named NY Yankee manager for 3rd time
• 1984 Denver Nuggets 163, San Antonio Spurs 155-highest-scoring NBA game
• 1984 STS 41-B vehicle moves to launch pad
• 1984 Supreme Court reinstated $10M award to Karen Silkwood's family
• 1985 CDC MMWR publishes guidelines for screening U.S. blood supply for AIDS antibodies with ELISA test that would be available later that year
• 1986 1st African American Lieutenant Governor since reconstruction sworn in - Douglas Wilder of Virginia
• 1987 Largest crowd (76,633) at NFL NY Giant Stadium (beat Wash 17-0)
• 1987 AFC Championship Game: Denver Broncos beat Cleveland Browns 23-20 (OT)
• 1987 NFC Championship Game: New York Giants beat Washington Redskins 17-0
• 1988 Test debut of Phil Simmons, WI v India, Madras
• 1988 USSR announces it will participate in Seoul Summer Olympics
• 1988 ABC premiere of fact-based "Evil in Clear River"
• 1989 140 nations agree to ban chemical weapons (poison gas, etc)
• 1989 Denver Nuggets' rookie Jerome Lane misses 7 free throws in a game against Milwaukee, one missed by 2 feet
• 1989 Kindergarten student caught with loaded handgun at Bronx school
• 1990 200,000 demand return of Lithuania's independence
• 1990 Actor Joseph Cotton undergoes vocal cancer operation at 84
• 1990 Bobby Knight becomes basketball's Big 10 winningest coach (229)
• 1991 Congress empowers Bush to order attack on Iraq
• 1991 Ric Flair wins NWA/WCW wrestling title
• 1991 Soviets storm buildings in Vilnius to block Lithuania independence
• 1991 Ben Johnson 1st race after being stripped of his 1988 Olympic Gold medal for steroid use, he finished 2nd
• 1992 Algeria's Pres Chadli announces his resignation
• 1992 Paul Simon opens a tour in South Africa
• 1992 US female Figure Skating championship won by Kristi Yamaguchi
• 1993 Howard Stern's radio show begins transmitting to Buffalo NY (WKBW)
• 1993 Independent presidential candidate Ross Perot publicly returns to politics
• 1993 British Airways ends one of the longest libel actions in its history
• 1994 Hyderabad score 6 for 944 against Andhra Pradesh in Ranji Trophy
• 1994 Irish government announces end of a 20-year broadcasting ban on IRA
• 1995 5th TV network (WB) Warner Brothers begins (WPIX-TV in NYC)
• 1995 Birmingham Barracudas granted CFL franchise
• 1995 DC-9 crashes near Maria La Baya, Colombia: 51 die, 9 yr old girl lives
• 1995 NHLPA & owners agree to end NHL strike
• 1996 Space Shuttle STS 72 (Endeavour 10), launches into space
• 1996 Haiti becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
• 1997 Telstar 401 Satellite Fails
• 1998 "Proposals" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 76 performances
• 1998 AFC Championship Game: Denver Broncos beat Pittsburgh Steelers 24-21
• 1998 NFC Championship Game: Green Bay Packers beat San Francisco 49ers 23-10
• 1998 US female Figure Skating championship won by Michelle Kwan
• 1998 US male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldredge
• 1998 Sidi-Hamed massacre takes place in Algeria, over 100 people are killed
• 2013 46 people are killed and 12 are missing after a landslide buries a village in the Yunnan province, China
• 2013 29 people are killed and 12 are injured after a bus veers off a mountain road in Doti, Nepal
• 2015 Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović is elected as the first female Prime Minister of Croatia
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