January 13th 1610 – Galileo Galilei discovers Ganymede, 4th moon of Jupiter.

January 13th 1993 – Space Shuttle program: Endeavour heads for space for the third time as STS-54 launches from the Kennedy Space Center.

January 13th 1893 – The Independent Labour Party of the UK has its first meeting.

January 13th 1893 – U.S. Marines land in Honolulu from the U.S.S. Boston to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution.

January 13th 1991 – Soviet Union military troops attack Lithuanian independence supporters in Vilnius.

January 13th 1992 – Japan apologizes for forcing Korean women into sexual slavery (Comfort women) during World War II.

January 13th 1993 – Space Shuttle program: Endeavour heads for space for the third time as STS-54 launches from the Kennedy Space Center.

That was also a "Wednesday, January 13th", just like in this year.

January 13th 1994 - Tonya Harding's bodyguard, Shawn Eric Eckardt & Derrick Brian Smith arrested & charged with conspiracy in attack of skater Nancy Kerrigan

January 13th 1989 - Computers across Britain hit by "Friday the 13th" virus

January 14th 1761 – The Afghans led by Ahmad Shah Abdali defeated the French-supplied and trained Maratha troops at the Third Battle of Panipat in Panipat, present-day Haryana, India.

January 14th 1900 – Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca, based on the play La Tosca by French dramatist Victorien Sardou, premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome.

January 14th 2004 – The Five Cross Flag (pictured) was restored to official use as the national flag of Georgia after a hiatus of some 500 years.January 14th 1301 – The Árpád dynasty, which ruled in Hungary since the late 9th century, ended with the death of King Andrew III.

January 14th 2004 – The Five Cross Flag (pictured) was restored to official use as the national flag of Georgia after a hiatus of some 500 years.January 14th 1301 – The Árpád dynasty, which ruled in Hungary since the late 9th century, ended with the death of King Andrew III.
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January 14th 1952 – Today, the world's first morning/breakfast television show, debuted on the American television network NBC.

January 14th 1943 – Japanese forces began their withdrawal from Guadalcanal at the conclusion of the Guadalcanal Campaign of World War II.

January 14th 1952 – Today, the world's first morning/breakfast television show, debuted on the American television network NBC.

And it still lives on, 58 years later! O0 8)

January 14th 1301 – The Árpád dynasty, which ruled in Hungary since the late 9th century, ended with the death of King Andrew III.

January 14th 1954 – The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with Nash-Kelvinator Corporation forming the American Motors Corporation.

January 14th 1943 – World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill begin the Casablanca Conference to discuss strategy and study the next phase of the war.

January 14th 1943 – World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to travel via airplane while in office when he travels from Miami, Florida to Morocco to meet with Winston Churchill.

January 14th 1950 – The first prototype of the MiG-17 makes its maiden flight.

January 14th 1990 - "Simpsons" premiered on Fox-TV

January 15th 1759 – The British Museum in London, today containing one of the largest and most comprehensive collections in the world, opened to the public in Montagu House, Bloomsbury.

January 15th 1777 – The Republic of New Connecticut declared its independence from several jurisdictions and land claims of the British colonies of New Hampshire and New York.

January 15th 1885 – American photographer Wilson Bentley took the first known photograph of a snowflake by attaching a bellows camera to a microscope.

January 15th 1908 – Alpha Kappa Alpha, the first Greek-lettered sorority established and incorporated by African American college women, was founded at Howard University in Washington, D.C. by nine students.

January 15th 1943 – The highest-capacity office building in the world, the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense known as the Pentagon, was dedicated.

January 15th 1993 – Salvatore "The Beast" Riina, one of the most powerful members of the Sicilian Mafia, was arrested after three decades as a fugitive.

January 15th 1936 – The first building to be completely covered in glass is completed in Toledo, Ohio (the building is built for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company).

January 15th 1889 – The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is originally incorporated in Atlanta, Georgia.

January 15th 1892 – James Naismith publishes the rules of basketball.

January 15th 2001 – Wikipedia, a free Wiki content encyclopedia, goes online.

January 15th 2009 – US Airways Flight 1549 makes an emergency landing into the Hudson River shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia Airport in New York City. All passengers and crew members survive.

January 16th 27 BC – Gaius Octavianus was given the title Augustus by the Roman Senate.

January 16th 929 – Emir Abd-ar-Rahman III of Cordoba declared himself caliph, thereby establishing the Caliphate of Córdoba.

January 16th 1120 – The Council of Nablus was held, establishing the earliest surviving written laws of the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem.

January 16th 1809 – Peninsular War: French forces under Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult attacked the amphibious evacuation of the British under Sir John Moore in Corunna, Galicia, Spain.

January 16th 1919 – The Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified by thirty-six of the forty-eight states, establishing the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States.

January 16th 1992 – The Chapultepec Peace Accords were signed, ending the 12-year Salvadoran Civil War between the military-led government of El Salvador and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front.

January 16th 1556 – Philip II becomes King of Spain.

January 16th 1572 – Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk is tried for treason for his part in the Ridolfi plot to restore Catholicism in England.

January 16th 1581 – The English Parliament outlaws Roman Catholicism.

January 16th 1707 – The Scottish Parliament ratifies the Act of Union, paving the way for the creation of Great Britain.

January 16th 1979 – The Shah of Iran flees Iran with his family and relocates to Egypt.

January 16th 1954 - "South Pacific" closes at Majestic Theater New York City NY after 1928 performances

January 16th 1985 - "Playboy" announces end of stapling centerfolds

January 16th 1980 - Paul McCartney jailed in Tokyo for 10 days on marijuana possession

January 16th 1986 – First meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force.

January 16th 1950 - Belgium, Luxembourg & Netherlands recognize Israel

January 17th 1608 – Emperor Susenyos of Ethiopia and his troops surprised a raiding army of the Oromo at Ebenat, reportedly killing 12,000 Oromo at the cost of 400 men.

January 17th 1893 – The Citizens' Committee of Public Safety led by Lorrin A. Thurston overthrew the government of Queen Liliʻuokalani of the Kingdom of Hawaii.

January 17th 1966 – A U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress collided with a KC-135 Stratotanker during aerial refueling over the Mediterranean Sea, dropping three hydrogen bombs on land near Palomares in the municipality of Cuevas del Almanzora, Andalucía, Spain; and a fourth one into the sea.

January 17th 2002 – Mount Nyiragongo erupted in the Democratic Republic of the Congo 20 kilometres (12 mi) north of the town of Goma, destroying 4,500 buildings and leaving about 120,000 people homeless.

January 17th 1885 – Mahdist War: British troops defeated Mahdist Sudanese forces at the Battle of Abu Klea in Khartoum, Sudan.

January 17th 1605 – First publication of Don Quixote.

January 17th 1904 – Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard receives its premiere performance at the Moscow Art Theatre.

January 17th 1912 – Sir Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.

January 17th 1929 – Popeye the Sailor Man, a cartoon character created by Elzie Segar, first appears in the Thimble Theatre comic strip.

January 17th 1973 – Ferdinand Marcos becomes "President for Life" of the Philippines.

January 17th 1982 – "Cold Sunday" in the United States would see temperatures fall to their lowest levels in over 100 years in numerous cities.

Can't forget the 6.7 magnitude earthquake that struck the Los Angeles area in 1994 (specifically, the San Fernando Valley portion of the city, where it was centered and the most damage occurred). Has it been 16 years since then already?! :o Time sure does fly.

Can't forget the 6.7 magnitude earthquake that struck the Los Angeles area in 1994 (specifically, the San Fernando Valley portion of the city, where it was centered and the most damage occurred). Has it been 16 years since then already?! :o Time sure does fly.
Did you feel it back then?

January 17th 1994 - Elzabeth Taylor released from the hospital after hip treatment

Did you feel it back then?

Of course!! I was living about 8 or 10 miles from where it was centered in Northridge, and it struck at 4:30 in the morning (Pacific time) while we were sleeping. I jumped out of bed instantly and ran towards the doorway between my room and the family room; my mom did the same from her room; my dad couldn't quite do that, since an item fell down and pinned him underneath, but he was able to eventually get out of there. And since we were living in a mobile home, it shifted and fell off its foundation, so we couldn't live in it. (However, our insurance was able to fix it up so we could move back into it 3 months later.) We spent the next three months living mostly in hotels and motels.







January 17th 1994 - Elzabeth Taylor released from the hospital after hip treatment

Same day as the Los Angeles earthquake??

Same day as the Los Angeles earthquake??
Oh er!!

Of course!! I was living about 8 or 10 miles from where it was centered in Northridge, and it struck at 4:30 in the morning (Pacific time) while we were sleeping. I jumped out of bed instantly and ran towards the doorway between my room and the family room; my mom did the same from her room; my dad couldn't quite do that, since an item fell down and pinned him underneath, but he was able to eventually get out of there. And since we were living in a mobile home, it shifted and fell off its foundation, so we couldn't live in it. (However, our insurance was able to fix it up so we could move back into it 3 months later.) We spent the next three months living mostly in hotels and motels.
I have never felt a real earthquake (and in one sense, I do not wish to), but felt a similated earthquake at the Geological Museum here in London.

I have never felt a real earthquake (and in one sense, I do not wish to), but felt a similated earthquake at the Geological Museum here in London.

I've experienced a simulated one too...at a museum. Later in 1994, my mom and I visited the Museum of Science & Industry in the south end of Downtown Los Angeles, and they had a full exhibit about earthquakes.

I've experienced a simulated one too...at a museum. Later in 1994, my mom and I visited the Museum of Science & Industry in the south end of Downtown Los Angeles, and they had a full exhibit about earthquakes.
The feeling is unnerving, the shakes of the ground is best described as random, not in any one direction.

January 17th 1648 – England's Long Parliament passes the Vote of No Addresses, breaking off negotiations with King Charles I and thereby setting the scene for the second phase of the English Civil War.

I have never felt a real earthquake (and in one sense, I do not wish to), but felt a similated earthquake at the Geological Museum here in London.



NYC has had an earthquake.

January 18th 1486 – Elizabeth of York married Henry VII of England, becoming Queen consort.

January 18th 1871 – A number of independent German states unified into the German Empire, with Prussian King Wilhelm I being proclaimed as its first Emperor.

January 18th 1915 – Japanese Prime Minister Ōkuma Shigenobu issued the Twenty-One Demands to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia.

January 18th 2003 – Bushfires burning out of control began blazing through residential areas of Canberra, Australia, eventually killing four people, and damaging or destroying more than 500 homes.

January 18th 1535 – Conquistador Francisco Pizarro founded Ciudad de los Reyes, present-day Lima, Peru, as the capital of the lands he conquered for the Spanish Crown.

January 18th 350 – Generallus Magnentius deposes Roman Emperor Constans and proclaims himself Emperor.

January 18th 1778 – James Cook is the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, which he names the "Sandwich Islands".

January 18th 1788 – The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from England to Australia arrives at Botany Bay.

January 18th 1884 – Dr. William Price attempts to cremate the body of his infant son, Jesus Christ Price, setting a legal precedent for cremation in the United Kingdom.

January 18th 1886 – Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England.

January 18th 1896 – The X-ray machine is exhibited for the first time.

January 18th 1903 – President Theodore Roosevelt sends a radio message to King Edward VII: the first transatlantic radio transmission originating in the United States.

January 18th 1998 – Lewinsky scandal: Matt Drudge breaks the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky affair story on his website The Drudge Report.

January 18th 2000 – The Tagish Lake meteorite impacts the Earth.

January 18th 1990 – Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting.

January 19th 1806 – The United Kingdom occupied the Cape of Good Hope for a second time after relinquishing control of the territory three years earlier.

January 19th 1817 – An army of over 5,400 soldiers led by General José de San Martín (pictured) crossed the Andes from Argentina to liberate Chile and then Peru from Spanish rule.

January 19th 1839 – The Royal Marines landed at Aden to occupy the territory and stop attacks by pirates against the British East India Company's shipping to India. The city in present-day Yemen remained under British control until 1967.

January 19th 1917 – Approximately 50 tons of TNT exploded at a munitions factory in Silvertown in West Ham, present-day Greater London, killing over 70 people and injuring over 400 others

January 19th 2006 – In the deadliest aviation accident in Slovak history, an Antonov An-24 aircraft operated by the Slovak Air Force crashed in northern Hungary, near Hejce and Telkibánya, killing 42 of the 43 people on board.

January 19th 1419 – Hundred Years' War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England completing his reconquest of Normandy.

January 19th 1607 – San Agustin Church in Manila is officially completed; it is currently the oldest church in the Philippines.

January 19th 1937 – Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles, California to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds.

January 19th 1993 – On *Jeopardy!*, Air Force Lt. Colonel Darryl Scott wins $1 US Dollar in "Final Jeopardy," beating storyteller Kate Marciniad and reigning champion therapist Nancy Mellucci, which host Alex Trebek claims is "our smallest total ever!"

January 19th 1981 – Iran Hostage Crisis: United States and Iranian officials sign an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months of captivity.

January 19th 1983 – Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia.

January 19th 1993 – On *Jeopardy!*, Air Force Lt. Colonel Darryl Scott wins $1 US Dollar in "Final Jeopardy," beating storyteller Kate Marciniad and reigning champion therapist Nancy Mellucci, which host Alex Trebek claims is "our smallest total ever!"

Of course it would be! You can't win less than a dollar on that show.

According to what I read on Wiki, if all three contestants blow all their money in Final Jeopardy (that is, if they wager it all and get the question wrong), then they would all finish with nothing and could not come back the next day; three new players would need to appear.

1989 President Reagan pardons George Steinbrenner for washing illegal funds for Nixon

1993 Israel recognizes PLO as no longer criminal

1989 President Reagan pardons George Steinbrenner for washing illegal funds for Nixon




The very next day, when he left office (to make way for GHW Bush), he was the US's oldest president, at 77 years 11 1/2 months.

January 19th 1955 - "Scrabble" debuts on board game market

January 20th 250 – Pope Fabian became one of the first people to die during Roman Emperor Decius' widespread persecution of Christians

January 20th 1576 – León in Guanajuato, Mexico, was founded by order of Viceroy Martín Enríquez de Almanza of New Spain.

January 20th 1839 – Chilean troops decisively defeated the forces of the Peru-Bolivian Confederation at the Battle of Yungay in the Ancash Region of Peru, effectively ending the War of the Confederation.

January 20th 1840 – William II became King of the Netherlands after his father William I abdicated the throne.

January 20th 1942 – The Holocaust: SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich and other senior Nazi German officials met at the Wannsee Conference in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to discuss implementing of the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question".

January 20th 1990 – The Soviet Red Army violently cracked down on Azeri pro-independence demonstrations in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR.

January 20th 1502 – The present-day location of Rio de Janeiro is first explored.

January 20th 1649 – Charles I of England goes on trial for treason and other "high crimes".

January 20th 1841 – Hong Kong Island is occupied by the British.

January 20th 1885 – L.A. Thompson patents the roller coaster.

January 20th 1887 – The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base.

January 20th 1892 – At the YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts, the first official basketball game is played.

January 20th 1999 – The China News Service announces new government restrictions on Internet use aimed especially at Internet cafés.

January 21st 1793 – French Revolution: After being found guilty of treason by the National Convention, King Louis XVI was guillotined in front of a cheering crowd at the Place de la Révolution in Paris.

January 21st 1919 – The First Dáil Éireann first convened at the Mansion House in Dublin, adopting a Declaration of Independence calling for a new sovereign state: the Irish Republic.

January 21st 1948 – The Flag of Quebec featuring a white cross and four fleurs-de-lis on a blue field, was adopted and flown for the first time over the Quebec Parliament Building in Quebec City.

January 21st 1968 – Vietnam War: The Vietnam People's Army attacked Khe Sanh Combat Base, a U.S. Marines outpost in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, starting the Battle of Khe Sanh.

January 21st 2008 – The Eyak language in Alaska became extinct after Marie Smith Jones, the language's last native speaker, died, an event that became a symbol in the fight against language extinction.

January 21st 1189 – Philip II of France and Richard I of England begin to assemble troops to wage the Third Crusade.

January 21st 1643 – Abel Tasman is the first European to reach Tonga.

January 21st 1908 – New York City passes the Sullivan Ordinance, making it illegal for women to smoke in public, only to have the measure vetoed by the mayor.

January 21st 1911 – The first Monte Carlo Rally.

January 21st 1950 – Alger Hiss is convicted of perjury.

January 21st 1977 – President Jimmy Carter pardons nearly all American Vietnam War draft evaders, some of whom had emigrated to Canada.

January 21st 2008 – Black Monday in worldwide stock markets. FTSE 100 had its biggest ever one-day points fall, European stocks closed with their worst result since 11 September 2001, and Asian stocks drop as much as 15%.

January 21st 1980 - Gold hits record $850 an ounce

January 21st 2002 – The Canadian Dollar sets all-time low against the US Dollar (US$0.6179).

January 22nd 565 – Justinian the Great deposed Eutychius, Patriarch of Constantinople, after he refused the Byzantine Emperor's order to adopt the tenets of the Aphthartodocetae, a sect of Monophysites.

January 22nd 1879 – Anglo-Zulu War: In the greatest British military defeat at the hands of native forces in history, Zulu forces of King Cetshwayo fought to a decisive victory at the Battle of Isandlwana.

January 22nd 1919 – The Ukrainian People's Republic and the West Ukrainian National Republic signed the Act Zluky in Kiev, an agreement aimed at creating a unified Ukrainian state, although both governments retained their own separate armies, administrations and government structure.

January 22nd 1946 – Iran Crisis: The Republic of Mahabad declared its independence, seeking autonomy for the Kurds within Iran.

January 22nd 1973 – The U.S. Supreme Court delivered its decision in the landmark case Roe v. Wade, striking down laws restricting abortion during the first six to seven months of pregnancy.

January 22nd 1899 – Leaders of six Australian colonies meet in Melbourne to discuss confederation.

January 22nd 1901 – Edward VII is proclaimed King after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.

January 22nd  1905 – Bloody Sunday in St. Petersburg, beginning of the 1905 revolution.

January 22nd  1924 – Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

January 22nd  1927 – First live radio commentary of a football match anywhere in the world, between Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United at Highbury.

January 22nd 1968 – Apollo 5 lifts off carrying the first Lunar module into space.

January 22nd 1984 – The Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to popularize the computer mouse and the graphical user interface, is introduced during Super Bowl XVIII with its famous "1984" television commercial.

January 22nd 1522  German Reformer Martin Luther wrote in a letter: 'Love cares for the problems of others as if they were one's own.'

January 22nd 1992 - Princess Sarah Ferguson wears paper bag over her head on airline ride

January 22nd 1992 - Princess Sarah Ferguson wears paper bag over her head on airline ride
Any pictures?

January 22nd 1990 - 17th American Music Award Milli Vanilli

January 22nd 1990 - 17th American Music Award Milli Vanilli
Oh yeah!

January 22nd 1990 - 17th American Music Award Milli Vanilli

I'm sure they will continue to win every year. We haven't heard the last of them!

January 23rd 1368 – Zhu Yuanzhang ascended to the throne of China as the Hongwu Emperor, initiating Ming Dynasty rule over China that would last for three centuries.

January 23rd 1556 – The deadliest earthquake in history killed about 830,000 people in Shaanxi Province, China.

January 23rd 1656 – Under the pseudonym Louis de Montalte, French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher Blaise Pascal published the first of his Lettres provinciales, attacking the Jesuits and their use of casuistic reasoning.

January 23rd 1960 – The bathyscaphe Trieste reached the record depth of 10,916 m (35,813 feet) in Challenger Deep of the Mariana Trench.

January 23rd 1968 – USS Pueblo was seized by North Korean forces, who claimed that it had violated their territorial waters while spying.

January 23rd 2001 – Five people attempted to set themselves on fire in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, an act that many people later claimed was staged by the Communist Party of China to frame Falun Gong and thus escalate their persecution.

January 23rd 393 – Roman Emperor Theodosius I proclaims his nine year old son Honorius co-emperor.

January 23rd 1570 – The assassination of regent James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray throws Scotland into civil war.

January 23rd 1571 – The Royal Exchange opens in London.

January 23rd 1579 – The Union of Utrecht forms a Protestant republic in the Netherlands.

January 23rd 1943 – Duke Ellington plays at Carnegie Hall in New York City for the first time.

January 23rd 1941 – Charles Lindbergh testifies before the U.S. Congress and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler.

January 23rd 1533 – Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII of England, discovers herself pregnant.

January 23rd 1546 – Having published nothing for eleven years, Francois Rabelais publishes the Tiers Livre, his sequel to Gargantua and Pantagruel.

January 23rd 11985 – O.J. Simpson becomes the first Heisman Trophy winner elected to the Football Hall of Fame.

January 23rd 1986 – The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts its first members: Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, the Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley.

January 24th 41 – Roman Emperor Caligula was murdered by Cassius Chaerea and the disgruntled Praetorian Guards. Caligula's uncle Claudius was proclaimed emperor in his place.

January 24th 1848 – James W. Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California, USA, leading to the California Gold Rush.

January 24th 1848 – James W. Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California, USA, leading to the California Gold Rush.
'49's ?

January 24th 1857 – The University of Calcutta, the first modern university in the Indian subcontinent, was established in Calcutta, India.

January 24th 1972 – Japanese soldier Shoichi Yokoi was found hiding in a Guam jungle, where he had been since the end of World War II.

January 24th 1984 – The first Apple Macintosh, today known as the Macintosh 128K, went on sale, becoming the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a graphical user interface rather than a command line interface.

January 24th 1993 – Turkish journalist and writer Uğur Mumcu was assassinated by a car bomb outside his home in Ankara.

January 24th 1679 – King Charles II of England disbands Parliament.

January 24th 1943 – World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill conclude a conference in Casablanca.

January 24th 1776 – Henry Knox arrives at Cambridge, Massachusetts with the artillery that he has transported from Fort Ticonderoga.

January 24th 1826 – Mississippi College is founded in Clinton, becoming the first college in the state of Mississippi.

January 24th 1918 – The Gregorian calendar introduced in Russia by decree of the Council of People's Commissars effective from February 14(NS)

January 24th 1994 - Dow Jones closes above 3,900 for 1st time (3,914.48)

January 24th 1722  In Cambridge, Mass., Edward Wigglesworth was named to fill the newly created Thomas Hollis chair at Harvard College. Mr. Wigglesworth thereby became the first divinity professor commissioned in the American colonies.

January 24th 1975 Rev. F. Donald Coggan, 66, was consecrated the 101st Archbishop of Canterbury (primate of Anglicanism). In the audience was Johannes Cardinal Willebrands Ä the first Vatican representative to attend this Anglican ceremony since the time of the Reformation.

January 24th 1962 - Brian Epstein signs management contract with the Beatles

January 24th 1848 – James W. Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California, USA, leading to the California Gold Rush.

A very historical event in the pre-statheood history of California.


'49's ?

Well, those who took part in the Gold Rush firsthand were dubbed the "48-ers"; those who stuck around into 1849 were the 49-ers. I think that's how it went. If I remember my history well. (I learned all about it 20 years ago.)

January 25th 1554 – Jesuit missionaries José de Anchieta and Manoel da Nóbrega established a mission at São Paulo dos Campos de Piratininga, which grew to become São Paulo, Brazil.

January 25th 1755 – Russian Empress Elizabeth issued a decree ordering the establishment of what is now Lomonosov Moscow State University today the largest university in Russia.

January 25th 1924 – The first Winter Olympic Games opened at the foot of Mont Blanc in Chamonix, Haute-Savoie, France, attracting more than 200 athletes from 16 nations.

January 25th 1971 – Idi Amin Dada seized power in a military coup d'état from President Milton Obote, beginning eight years of military rule in Uganda.

January 25th 2006 – Three independent observing campaigns announced the discovery of OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb, a super-Earth extrasolar planet 21,500 ± 3,300 light years away from Earth near the center of the Milky Way.

January 25th 1327 – Edward III becomes King of England.

January 25th 1533 – Henry VIII of England secretly marries his second wife Anne Boleyn.

January 25th 1791 – The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791 and splits the old province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada.

January 25th 1919 – The League of Nations is founded.

January 25th 1946 – The United Mine Workers rejoins the American Federation of Labor.

January 25th 1998 – During a historic visit to Cuba Pope John Paul II demands the release of political prisoners and political reforms while condemning US attempts to isolate the country.

120 years ago, on January 25, 1890, Nellie Bly completed her round-the-world journey in 72 days.

On January 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy held the first presidential news conference carried live on radio and television.

Next year it'll be "50 years ago"!

On January 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy held the first presidential news conference carried live on radio and television.

Next year it'll be "50 years ago"!
When was that speech made by John F. Kennedy in Berlin?

January 26th 1500 – Spanish navigator, explorer, and conquistador Vicente Yáñez Pinzón reached the north coast of what today is Brazil.

January 26th 1788 – Captain Arthur Phillip and the British First Fleet landed at Sydney Cove on the shore of Port Jackson in present-day Sydney, establishing the first permanent European settlement in Australia.

January 26th 1808 – Governor of New South Wales William Bligh was deposed by the New South Wales Corps in the only successful armed takeover of government in Australia's recorded history.

January 26th 1905 – The Cullinan Diamond, the largest rough gem-quality diamond ever found at 3,106.75 carats (621.35 g), was discovered at the Premier Mine in Cullinan, Gauteng, South Africa.

January 26th 1950 – Indian independence movement: India officially became a republic under a new constitution, with Rajendra Prasad as its first president.

January 26th 1911 – Richard Strauss' opera Der Rosenkavalier receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.

January 26th 1920 – Former Ford Motor Company executive Henry Leland launches the Lincoln Motor Company which he later sold to his former employer.

January 26th 1924 – St.Petersburg is renamed Leningrad.

January 26th 1961 – John F. Kennedy appoints Janet G. Travell to be his physician. This is the first time a woman holds this appointment.

January 26th 1962 – Ranger program: Ranger 3 is launched to study the moon. The space probe later misses the moon by 22,000 miles (35,400 km).

January 26th 1992 – Boris Yeltsin announces that Russia will stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons.

January 26th 1998 – Lewinsky scandal: On American television, U.S. President Bill Clinton denies having had "sexual relations" with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

January 26th 1998 - Intel launches 333 MHz Pentium II chip

January 26th 1998 – Lewinsky scandal: On American television, U.S. President Bill Clinton denies having had "sexual relations" with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
What he actually said was "I want to say one thing to the American people, I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky"

January 27th 661 – The Rashidun Caliphate, the first Arab caliphate founded after Muhammad's death in 632, effectively ended with the death of Ali.

January 27th 1343 – Pope Clement VI issued the papal bull Unigenitus to justify the power of the pope and the use of indulgences.

January 27th 1918 – The first hostilities in the Finnish Civil War began when White Guards attacked trains carrying a large shipment of weapons from Bolshevist Russia to the Red Guards.

January 27th 1967 – The Apollo 1 spacecraft was destroyed by fire at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, U.S., killing astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee.

January 27th 1996 – Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposed Mahamane Ousmane, the first democratically elected president of Niger, in a military coup d'état.

January 27th 1939 – First flight of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning.

January 27th 1984 – Pop singer Michael Jackson suffer second and third degree burn on his scalp during the filming of a Pepsi commercial in the Shrine Auditorium.

January 27th 1967 – Apollo program: Apollo 1 – Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of the spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center.

January 27th 1974 – The Brisbane River floods causing the largest flood to affect Brisbane City in the 20th Century

January 27th 2006 – Western Union discontinues its Telegram and Commercial Messaging services.

January 27th 1606 – Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins, ending with their execution on January 31.

January 27th 1984 – Pop singer Michael Jackson suffer second and third degree burn on his scalp during the filming of a Pepsi commercial in the Shrine Auditorium.



and was scarred for life.

January 28th 1077 – Walk to Canossa: Pope Gregory VII lifted the excommunication of Henry IV after the Holy Roman Emperor made his trek from Speyer to Canossa Castle to beg the pope for forgiveness for his actions in the Investiture Controversy.

January 28th 1754 – Horace Walpole first coined the word "serendipity" in a letter he wrote to a friend, saying that he derived the term from the Persian fairy tale The Three Princes of Serendip.

January 28th 1820 – A Russian expedition led by naval officers Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev approached the coast of Antarctica.

January 28th 1855 – A train on the Panama Railway made the world's first transcontinental crossing by rail, a 48-mile (77 km) trip from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean across the Isthmus of Panama.

January 28th 1986 – The NASA Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrated 73 seconds into its tenth mission, killing all seven crew members.

January 28th 1986 – The NASA Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrated 73 seconds into its tenth mission, killing all seven crew members.
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January 28th 1624 – Sir Thomas Warner founds the first British colony in the Caribbean, on the island of Saint Kitts.

January 28th 1724 – The Russian Academy of Sciences is founded in St. Petersburg by Peter the Great, and implemented in the Senate decree. It is called the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences until 1917.

January 28th 1855 – The first locomotive runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean on the Panama Railway.

January 28th 1896 – Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent became the first person to be convicted of speeding. He was fined 1 shilling plus costs for speeding at 8 mph (13 km/h), thus exceeding the contemporary speed limit of 2 mph (3.2 km/h).

January 28th 1977 – The first day of the Great Lakes Blizzard of 1977, which severely affected and crippled much of Upstate New York, but Buffalo, NY, Syracuse, NY, Watertown, NY, and surrounding areas are most affected, each area accumulating close to 10 feet of snow on this one day.

January 28th 1986 – The NASA Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrated 73 seconds into its tenth mission, killing all seven crew members.


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I don't actually remember that event, since I was only 5 1/2 and in kindergarten at the time, but I do know about it in general. A year from now it'll be a quarter of a century since then. :\'( :\'(

I don't actually remember that event, since I was only 5 1/2 and in kindergarten at the time, but I do know about it in general. A year from now it'll be a quarter of a century since then. :\'( :\'(
This is one event I truly remember, watching the images on tv, shortly after it happened.

January 28th 1958 – The Lego company patented their design of Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today.

I don't actually remember that event, since I was only 5 1/2 and in kindergarten at the time, but I do know about it in general. A year from now it'll be a quarter of a century since then. :\'( :\'(


I was home sick from work and saw it as it happened.  I also saw Jack Ruby shoot Lee Harvey Oswald live on tv.  I guess I am pretty much a witness to history.

January 29th 904 – Sergius III, whose pontificate was marked with feudal violence and disorder in central Italy, came out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher.

January 29th 1845 – "The Raven", a narrative poem by American poet Edgar Allan Poe about a talking raven's mysterious visit to a distraught lover, was first published in the New York Evening Mirror.

January 29th 1856 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom issued a Warrant under the Royal sign-manual that established the Victoria Cross, originally to recognise acts of valour by British military personnel during the Crimean War.

January 29th 1943 – The Battle of Rennell Island, the last major naval engagement between the United States Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Guadalcanal campaign, began.

January 29th 2002 – In his State of the Union Address, U.S. President George W. Bush described governments he accused of sponsoring terrorism and seeking weapons of mass destruction as an "axis of evil", specifically naming Iran, Iraq, and North Korea.

January 29th 1886 – Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.

January 29th 1916 – World War I: Paris is first bombed by German zeppelins.

January 29th 1996 – President Jacques Chirac announces a "definitive end" to French nuclear weapons testing.

January 29th 1944 – USS Missouri (BB-63) the last battleship commissioned by the US Navy is launched.

January 29th 1936 – The first inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame are announced.

January 29th 1861 – Kansas is admitted as the 34th U.S. state.

January 29th 1967 Pope Paul VI and Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny conferred at the Vatican in the first meeting in history between a Roman Catholic pontiff and the head of a Communist state.

January 29th 1998 - Singer Bobby Brown found guilty of DWI in Fort Lauderdale FL

January 29th 1991 - Nelson Mandela & Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi meet in Durban after 28 years

January 29th 1964 - Beatles record in German "Komm, Gib Mir Diene Hand" & "Sie Leibt Dich"

January 29th 1728 - John Gays' "Beggar's Opera" premieres in London

January 30th 1649 – English Civil War: King Charles I, who was defeated in both the First and the Second Civil War, was beheaded for high treason in front of the Banqueting House in London.