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January 11 - Today in History

12:23 PM
  1. 2007 Vietnam becomes the 150th member of the World Trade Organization
  2. 2006 Alaska's Augustine volcano erupts
  3. 1998 "Proposals," closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 76 performances
  4. 1998 24th Annual People's Choice Awards - Seinfeld, Tim Allen win
  5. 1998 AFC Championship: Denver Broncos beat Pittsburgh Steelers 24-21
  6. 1998 NFC Championship: Green Bay Packers beat San Francisco 49'ers 23-10
  7. 1998 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Michelle Kwan
  8. 1997 23rd People's Choice Awards: Bill Cosby wins
  9. 1997 Martina Hingis beats Jennifer Capriati at Sydney Tennis International
  10. 1997 Telstar 401 Satellite FailsNumbered List
  11. 1996 Space Shuttle STS-72 (Endeavour 10), launches into space
  12. 1995 5th TV network (WB) Warner Brothers begins (WPIX-TV in New York City)
  13. 1995 Birmingham Barracudas granted CFL franchise
  14. 1995 DC-9 crashes near Maria La Baya, Colombia: 51 die, 9 yr old girl lives
  15. 1995 NHLPA and owners agree to end NHL strike
  16. 1994 Hyderabad score 6 for 944 against Andhra Pradesh in Ranji Trophy
  17. 1994 Irish government announces end of a 20-year broadcasting ban on IRA
  18. 1993 Howard Stern's radio show begins transmitting to Buffalo New York (WKBW)
  19. 1993 Independent President candidate Ross Perot publicly returns to politics
  20. 1992 Algeria's President Chadli announces his resignation
  21. 1992 Paul Simon opens a tour in South Africa
  22. 1992 U.S. female Figure Skating championship won by Kristi Yamaguchi.
  23. 1991 Congress empowers Bush to order attack on Iraq
  24. 1991 Ric Flair wins NWA/WCW wrestling title
  25. 1991 Soviets storm buildings in Vilnius to block Lithuania independence
  26. 1991 Ben Johnson 1st race after being stripped of his 1988 Olympic Gold medal for steroid use, he finished 2nd
  27. 1990 200,000 demand return of Lithuania's independence
  28. 1990 Actor Joseph Cotton undergoes vocal cancer operation at 84
  29. 1990 Bobby Knight becomes basketball's Big 10 winningest coach (229)
  30. 1990 Pat Lafontaine sets New York Islander record of scoring goals in 11 straight
  31. 1989 140 nations agree to ban chemical weapons (poison gas, etc)
  32. 1989 Denver Nuggets' rookie Jerome Lane misses 7 free throws in a game against Milwaukee, one missed by 2 feet
  33. 1989 Kindergarten student caught with loaded handgun at Bronx school
  34. 1988 Test debut of Phil Simmons, WI vs. India, Madras
  35. 1988 U.S.S.R. announces it will participate in Seoul Summer Olympics
  36. 1987 Largest crowd (76,633) at NFL New York Giant Stadium (beat Washington 17-0)
  37. 1986 1st black lt Governor since reconstruction sworn in (Douglas Wilder of Va)
  38. 1984 Denver Nuggets 163, San Antonio Spurs 155-highest-scoring NBA game
  39. 1984 STS-41-B vehicle moves to launch pad
  40. 1984 Supreme Court reinstated $10M award to Karen Silkwood's family
  41. 1983 Billy Martin named New York Yankee manager for 3rd time
  42. 1982 Atlanta Ga's temperature goes below zero F
  43. 1982 Honduras adopts constitution
  44. 1981 "Tintypes" closes at John Golden Theater New York City after 93 performances
  45. 1981 Palau adopts constitution
  46. 1981 British team led by Ranulph Fiennes completes longest and fastest crossing of Antarctica, reaching Scott base after 75 days (2,500 miles)
  47. 1980 Debut of Pretenders
  48. 1979 "Grand Tour" opens at Palace Theater New York City for 61 performances
  49. 1978 Governor Askew dedicates RCUC solar office building
  50. 1978 Soyuz 27 links with Salyut 6 and Soyuz 26 (1st time 3 spacecraft link)
  51. 1977 Bollingen Prize awarded to David Ignatow
  52. 1977 Cubs trade outfielder Rick Monday to Dodgers for Bill Buckner
  53. 1977 France releases Abu Daoud, a Palestinian suspected of involvement in massacre of Israeli athletes at 1972 Munich Olympics
  54. 1976 "Pacific Overtures" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 193 performances
  55. 1976 Dorothy Hamill wins her 3rd consec national figure skating champions
  56. 1976 Military coup in Ecuador, President Guillermo Lara leaves
  57. 1976 Stephen Sondheim's musical "Pacific Overtures," premieres in New York City
  58. 1976 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Dorothy Hamill
  59. 1976 U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Terry Kubicka
  60. 1975 Soyuz 17 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 4
  61. 1974 ABC airs final episode of "Love, American Style"
  62. 1973 American League adopts designated hitter rule
  63. 1973 Famous victory at the SCG Pakistan chasing 158 all out 106
  64. 1973 Trial of Watergate burglars begins in Washington D.C.
  65. 1972 East-Pakistan becomes independent state of Bangladesh
  66. 1972 Abu Sayeed Chudhury becomes president and sheik Mujib ur-Rahman premier
  67. 1971 1st "Quickie" Divorce granted in UK
  68. 1971 Tigers ace reliever John Hiller, 27, sufferes a heart attack, but later makes a remarkable comeback to record 38 saves
  69. 1970 Superbowl IV: Kansas City Chiefs beat Minnesota Vikings, 23-7 in New Orleans Superbowl MVP: Len Dawson, Kansas City, QB
  70. 1969 "Hooked on a Feeling" by BJ Thomas peaks at #5
  71. 1969 Jethro Tull's This Was Jethro Tull album debuts
  72. 1968 Explorer 36 (GEOS-B) launched into earth orbit (1080/1570 km)
  73. 1967 Romeinse Curie installs Council for Pontifical Study commission
  74. 1966 "Daktari" African adventure series premieres on CBS TV
  75. 1966 550 die in landslides in mountains behind Rio de Janeiro after rain
  76. 1964 "She Loves Me" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City after 302 performances
  77. 1964 1st government report warning smoking may be hazardous to one's health
  78. 1964 Beatles "I Want to Hold Your Hand" is #80 in U.S. (Cashbox)
  79. 1964 Panama ends diplomatic relations with U.S.
  80. 1964 U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry reports that smoking may be hazardous
  81. 1963 1st discotheque opens, Whiskey-a-go-go in LA
  82. 1963 Beatles release "Please Please Me" and "Ask Me Why"
  83. 1962 Volcano Huascaran in Peru, erupts; 4,000 die
  84. 1961 Racial riot at University of Georgia
  85. 1960 Chad declares independence from France
  86. 1960 Lamar Clark sets pro boxing record of 44 consecutive knockouts
  87. 1959 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Theodore Roethke
  88. 1959 Hanif Mohammad completes 499 for Karachi, then 1st class world record
  89. 1959 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Mayfair Golf Open
  90. 1959 NFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 28-21
  91. 1954 2 ton locomotive swept into ravine by avalanche 10 die (Austria)
  92. 1953 J Edgar Hoover declines 6 figure offer to become president of International Boxing Club
  93. 1952 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Marianne Moore
  94. 1949 Snowfall 1st recorded in Los Angeles
  95. 1946 Bert Bell becomes 2nd NFL commissioner, moves Chicago headquarters to Philadelphia
  96. 1946 Enver Hoxha declares People's Rep of Albania with himself dictator
  97. 1944 Crakow-Plaszow Concentration Camp established
  98. 1943 U.S. and Britain relinquish extraterritorial rights in China
  99. 1942 -23 degrees F (-31 degrees C), Kingston, Rhode Island (state record)
  100. 1942 Japan conquers Kuala Lumpur, Malaya
  101. 1941 Princess Irene Brigade established in Congleton
  102. 1940 Sergei Prokofiev's ballet Romeo and Juliet premieres in Leningrad
  103. 1938 Bradman scores a second innings 113 vs. Qld after a ton in the 1st
  104. 1938 Frances Moulton elected 1st woman president of a U.S. national bank
  105. 1936 Charles Anderson enters Kentucky House of Representatives
  106. 1935 Amelia Earhart flies from Honolulu to Oakland California (non-stop, of course)
  107. 1927 Royale Theater (Golden, CBS Radio Playhouse) opens at 242 W 45th New York City
  108. 1925 Franc B. Kellogg replaces Charles Hughes on as U.S. Secretary of State
  109. 1923 1st Dutch Dada-evening (Theo Van Doesburg and Kurt Schwitters)
  110. 1923 French and Belgian troops occupy Ruhr to collect reparations
  111. 1922 Insulin 1st used to treat diabetes (Leonard Thompson, 14, of Canada)
  112. 1920 French passenger ship Afrique sinks near La Rochelle; 553 die
  113. 1919 3 year old German Communist Party (Spartacus) crushed
  114. 1919 Romania annexes Transylvania
  115. 1917 Guy Bolton and PG Wodehouse's "Have a Heart," premieres in New York City
  116. 1916 French troops capture/Serbian army flees to Corfu
  117. 1915 Col Jacob Ruppert and Col Tillinghast Huston purchase Yankees for $460,000
  118. 1913 1st sedan-type car (Hudson) goes on display at 13th Auto Show (New York City)
  119. 1913 Bread and Roses Strike begins
  120. 1904 Herero people of South West Africa, now Namibia, begin uprising
  121. 1897 M H Cannon becomes 1st woman state senator in U.S. (Utah)
  122. 1893 Jaap Eden skates world record 1500m (2:35)
  123. 1892 Hawaiian Historical Society founded
  124. 1892 Paul Gauguin marries a 13-year-old Tahitian girl
  125. 1892 William D McCoy of Indiana appointed U.S. minister to Liberia
  126. 1885 Henrik Ibsen's "Vildauden," premieres in Oslo
  127. 1879 Zulu war against British colonial rule in South Africa begins
  128. 1873 1st livestock market newspaper published, Drover's Journal, Chicago
  129. 1866 Steamship London sinks in storm off Land's End England, kills 220
  130. 1865 Battle of Beverly, WV
  131. 1864 Charing Cross Station opens in London
  132. 1863 Naval engagement near Galveston between CSS Alabama and USS Hatteras
  133. 1863 Union forces capture Arkansas Post, or Ft. Hindman, Arkansas
  134. 1861 Alabama becomes 4th state to secede
  135. 1861 Mexico City captured by Juarez (Lib) in War of Reform
  136. 1839 Earthquake at Martinique destroys half of Port Royal-700 die
  137. 1813 1st pineapples planted in Hawaii (or 1/21)
  138. 1805 Michigan Territory organizes
  139. 1803 Monroe and Livingston sail for Paris to buy New Orleans; they buy La
  140. 1790 Statisten and Vonckisten unite as Belgium
  141. 1787 Titania and Oberon, moons of Uranus, discovered by William Herschel
  142. 1785 Continental Congress convenes in New York City
  143. 1775 Francis Salvador becomes 1st Jew elected to office in America (SC)
  144. 1774 Messier adds M51 (spiral galaxy in Canes Venatici) to his catalog
  145. 1765 Frisia bans Voltaires "Traite sur la tolerance"
  146. 1759 1st American life insurance company incorporated, Philadelphia
  147. 1753 Ferdinand VI of Spain and Pope Benedictus XIV sign concord
  148. 1709 Colley Cibber's "Rival Fools," premieres in London
  149. 1693 Mount Etna erupts, Sicily
  150. 1642 Isaac Newton is elected a member of Royal Society
  151. 1599 Jacob van Necks fleet leaves Bantam Java with pepper, clove and muskaat
  152. 1571 Emperor Maximilian II grants Austrian adel freedom of religion
  153. 1569 1st recorded lottery in England is drawn in St. Paul's Cathedral
  154. 1558 Westmunster Church in Middelburg destroyed by heavy storm
  155. 1158 Vladislav II of Bohemia becomes king
  156. 532 Nika-revolt against Justianus and Theodora in Hippodrome Constantinople
  157. 314 St. Militiades ends his reign as Catholic Pope
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January 10 - Today in History

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  1. 1998 18th United Negro College Fund raises (rebroadcasted Jan 17th)
  2. 1997 "Rehersal," closes at Criterion Theater New York City
  3. 1997 1st Comet of 1997 Discovered: Comet 1997 A1
  4. 1997 4,000th episode of "Entertainment Tonight"
  5. 1997 Dow Corning provides $295 billion to settle breast implant suits
  6. 1997 Italy's new 1,000 lire coin shows divided Germany on map
  7. 1997 Right-winger Arnoldo Aleman sworn in as president of Nicaragua
  8. 1996 Israel frees hundreds of Palestinian prisoners
  9. 1996 Jimmy Johnson announced as new coach of Miami Dolphins
  10. 1995 "Late Late Show" with Tom Snyder premieres on CBS at 12:30 AM
  11. 1994 Ukraine says it will give up world's 3rd largest nuclear arsenal
  12. 1994 Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan agrees to abolish trade tariffs
  13. 1993 "My Favorite Year" closes at Vivian Beaumont New York City after 37 performances
  14. 1993 "Sea Gull" closes at Lyceum Theater New York City after 48 performances
  15. 1993 Maiden flight of Ultrair (Houston to LA)
  16. 1992 8th Soap Opera Digest Awards
  17. 1991 Japan ends routine fingerprinting of all adult ethnic Koreans
  18. 1991 U.S. Congress begins debate on Persian Gulf crisis
  19. 1990 "Les Miserables," opens at Mechanic Theatre, Baltimore
  20. 1990 China lifts martial law (imposed after Tiananmen Square massacre)
  21. 1990 NCAA approves random drug testing for college football players
  22. 1988 "Don't Get God Started" closes at Longacre Theater New York City after 86 performances
  23. 1986 Palau signs Compact of Free Association with U.S.
  24. 1986 STS-61-C mission scrubbed T -9m because of bad weather at Kennedy
  25. 1985 Daniel Ortega Saavedra inaugurated as president of Nicaragua
  26. 1984 Argentine ex-president/general Bignone arrested
  27. 1984 Bulgarian Tupolev 134 crashs at Sofia airport in Bulgaria, 50 die
  28. 1984 Clara Peller 1st asks, "Where's the Beef?"
  29. 1984 Luis Aparicio, Harmon Killebrew, and D Drysdale elected to Hall of Fame
  30. 1984 U.S. establishes full diplomatic relations with Vatican after 117 years
  31. 1983 NY Supreme Court issues a preliminary injunction barring New York Yankees from playing season-opening series against Tigers in Denver
  32. 1982 -17 degrees F (27.2 degrees C) in Braemar Grampian (equals U.K. record)
  33. 1982 Bengals beat Chargers in -59 degrees F (-51 degrees C) to win AFC championship
  34. 1982 Petra Schneider swims world record 1500 m freestyle (15:43.31)
  35. 1981 El Salvador guerrilla group FMLN opens "general offensive"
  36. 1981 John Severin sets 100-mi unicycle speed record, 9 h 21 m
  37. 1980 Last broadcast of "Rockford Files" on NBC
  38. 1980 Jim Stewart, Bruin's rookie goalie allows 3 goals in his 1st 4 minutes and a total of 5 in 1st period; he never again plays in NHL
  39. 1979 1st brother Billy Carter makes allegedly anti-Semitic remarks
  40. 1979 Entertainer of the Year Awards
  41. 1978 Soyuz 27 carring 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station, launched
  42. 1977 20th hat trick in Islander history - Bobby Nystrom
  43. 1973 Gas tank on Staten Island explodes, 40 die
  44. 1972 Los Angeles Lakers 33 straight win streak snapped, losing to Bucks 120-104
  45. 1972 Sheik Mujib ur-Rahman arrives in Dacca, East-Pakistan
  46. 1972 Triple album set "Concert for Bangladesh" released in UK
  47. 1971 "Light, Lively and Yiddish" closes at Belasco Theater New York City after 87 performances
  48. 1971 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Richard Wilbur
  49. 1970 Preview Center Opens
  50. 1969 Sweden (1st Western country) recognizes North Vietnam
  51. 1969 U.S.S.R.'s Venera 6 launched for parachute landing on Venus
  52. 1968 "Great Balls of Fire" reaches #1
  53. 1968 U.S. Surveyor 7 lands near lunar crater Tycho
  54. 1967 Dutch Princess Margret marries Pieter van Vollenhoven
  55. 1967 Lester Maddox inaugurated as governor of Georgia
  56. 1967 PBS (the National Educational TV) begins as a 70 station network
  57. 1967 Princess Margret marries Mr. Pieter van Vollenhoven
  58. 1966 India and Pakistan sign peace accord
  59. 1966 Julian Bond denied seat in Georgia legislature for opposing Vietnam War
  60. 1965 Bollingen prize for poetry awarded to Horace Gregory
  61. 1965 NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 34-14
  62. 1965 WKBD TV channel 50 in Detroit, MI (IND) begins broadcasting
  63. 1964 Battles between moslems and hindus in Calcutta
  64. 1964 Panama severs diplomatic relations with U.S.
  65. 1964 U.S. version of "That Was The Week That Was," premieres
  66. 1962 4,000 die in avalanche, Ranrahirca, Peru
  67. 1962 Eruptions on Mount Huascaran in Peru destroy 7 villages and kill 3,500
  68. 1960 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Delmore Schwartz
  69. 1958 Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire" reaches #1
  70. 1957 Anthony Eden resigns and Harold Macmillan becomes Prime Minister Britain
  71. 1957 Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick rules Bing Crosby can keep token stock in the Det Tigers, even though he owns part of Pittsburgh Pirates
  72. 1956 Elvis records "Heartbreak Hotel"
  73. 1954 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to W H Auden
  74. 1953 "My Darlin' Aida" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 89 performances
  75. 1953 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Archibald MacLeish
  76. 1953 NFL Pro Bowl: National Conference beats American Conference 27-7
  77. 1952 Jean Anouilh's "La valse des toreadors," premieres in Paris
  78. 1951 1st jet passenger trip made
  79. 1951 U.N. headquarters opens in Manhattan NY
  80. 1949 1st Jewish family show "Goldbergs" premieres on CBS
  81. 1949 RCA introduces 45 RPM record
  82. 1948 "Call Me Mister" closes at National Theater New York City after 734 performances
  83. 1947 "Finian's Rainbow" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 725 performances
  84. 1947 British stop ships Independence and In-Gathering from landing in Israel
  85. 1947 Greek steamer "Himara" strikes a wartime mine in Saronic Gulf south of Athens with loss of 392 of 637 aboard
  86. 1946 U.N. General Assembly meets for 1st time in London
  87. 1946 U.S. Army establishes 1st radar contact with Moon, Belmar, NJ
  88. 1945 Baseball writers again fail to elect a new Hall of Famer
  89. 1945 LA Railway (with 5 streetcar lines) forced to close
  90. 1945 No one is elected to baseball's Hall of Fame
  91. 1944 1st mobile electric power plant delivered, Philadelphia
  92. 1944 British troops conquer Maungdaw, Burma
  93. 1943 Russian offensive against German 6th/4th Armies near Stalingrad
  94. 1943 1st U.S. President to visit a foreign country in wartime-FDR leaves for Casablanca, Morocco
  95. 1942 Japan invades North-Celebes, Netherlands Indies
  96. 1941 Joseph Kesselring's "Arsenic and Old Lace," premieres in New York City
  97. 1941 Seyss-Inquart begins registration of Jews
  98. 1939 Bradman hits 186 SA vs. Qld before Christ catches him at short-leg
  99. 1938 Eduard van Beinum becomes world's 1st conductor at Concert Hall
  100. 1938 Jean Anouilh's "La Sauvage," premieres in Paris
  101. 1938 Paul Vincent Carroll's "White Seed," premieres in New York City
  102. 1935 Actress Mary Pickford marries actor Douglas Fairbanks
  103. 1932 "Mickey Mouse" and "Silly Symphony" comics syndicated
  104. 1932 "Pete the Tramp" cartoon strip by C D Russell debuts
  105. 1931 Philadelphia Quakers defeat Montreal, ends NHL-record 15-game losing streak
  106. 1930 Commencement of New Zealand's 1st Test, vs. England Christchurch
  107. 1930 Maurice Allom takes Test hat-trick England vs. New Zealand Christchurch
  108. 1930 Mordovian Autonomous Region in RSFSR constituted
  109. 1929 Elmer Rice's "Street Scene," premieres in New York City
  110. 1928 G/I Gershwin/Romberg/Wodehouse's musical "Rosalie," premieres in New York City
  111. 1928 Soviet Union orders exile of Leon Trotsky
  112. 1927 Fritz Lang's Metropolis premieres
  113. 1925 France-Saarland forms
  114. 1925 Miriam (Ma) Ferguson sworn in as Texas gov, nation's 2nd woman governor
  115. 1923 Last U.S. troops leave Rhineland (Germany)
  116. 1923 Lithuania seizes and annexes country of Memel
  117. 1920 League of Nations established
  118. 1920 Mont Canadiens (14) and Tor St. Patricks (7) score NHL record 21 goals
  119. 1920 Silver reaches record $1.37 an ounce
  120. 1916 Russian offensive in Kaukasus
  121. 1914 1st edition of Hague's Post under San Francisco van Oss, published
  122. 1914 Oscar Mathisen skates world record 500 m in 43.7 sec in Oslo
  123. 1912 Caillaux government in France resigns
  124. 1912 World's 1st flying boat's maiden flight, (Glenn Curtiss in New York)
  125. 1911 1st photo in U.S. taken from an airplane, San Diego
  126. 1911 Honduras signs treaty turning over customs to U.S. (not ratified)
  127. 1911 Trumper scored double cricket ton vs. South Africa, goes on to get 214
  128. 1910 1st international air meet in U.S. held, in LA
  129. 1910 Lunt-Fontanne Theater (Globe) opens at 205 W 46th St. New York City
  130. 1902 Alphons Diepenbrock's "Te Deum" premieres (Amsterdam)
  131. 1901 Oil discovered in Texas
  132. 1900 Lord Roberts and Lord Kitchener reach Capetown
  133. 1897 Henrik Ibsen's "John Gabriel Borkman," premieres in Helsingfors
  134. 1897 Vincent d'Indy's "Istar" premieres in Amsterdam and Brussels
  135. 1893 Richard Drigo's ballet "Magic Flute" premieres, St. Petersburg
  136. 1890 Edward Macdowell's "Lancelot and Elaine," premieres
  137. 1890 Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Sapientiae Christianae
  138. 1889 Ivory Coast declared a protectorate of France
  139. 1883 Fire at uninsured Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin kills 71. General Tom Thumb of P T Barnum fame, escapes unhurt
  140. 1878 U.S. Senate proposes female suffrage
  141. 1870 Georgia legislature reconvenes
  142. 1870 John D Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil
  143. 1863 1st underground railway opens in London
  144. 1863 General McClernand's Union troops surround Fort Hindman Ark
  145. 1863 January-uprising begins in Poland
  146. 1863 London's 1st subway opens
  147. 1862 Battle of Big Sandy River, Kentucky (Middle Creek)
  148. 1862 Battle of Romney, WV
  149. 1861 Florida becomes 3rd state to secede from US
  150. 1861 Ft. Jackson and Ft. Philip are taken over by LA state troops
  151. 1861 U.S. forts and property seized by Mississippi
  152. 1853 Charles Reade's "Gold," premieres in London
  153. 1845 Poets Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning begin corresponding
  154. 1840 Penny Post mail system is starts
  155. 1839 Tea from India 1st arrives in UK
  156. 1833 Felix Mendelssohn's "Die erste Walpurgisnacht," premieres in Berlin
  157. 1811 Louisiana slaves rebell in 2 parishes
  158. 1810 French church annuls marriage of Napoleon I and Josephine
  159. 1808 Herman Daendels succeeds A Wiese as Governor-General of Netherlands Indies
  160. 1806 Dutch in Capetown surrender to British
  161. 1799 Friedrich von Schiller's "Die Piccolomini," premieres in Weimar
  162. 1776 "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine, published
  163. 1731 Charles Farnese becomes duke of Parma/Piacenza
  164. 1663 King Charles II affirms charter of Royal African Company
  165. 1642 King Charles I and family flee London for Oxford
  166. 1550 1st sitting of "Vurige Chamber" in Paris
  167. 1514 Complutensian New Testament in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek and Latin finished
  168. 1430 Duke Philip the Good marries Isabella of Portugal
  169. 1430 Order of the Guilder forms
  170. 1429 Order of Golden Fleece established in Austria-Hungary and Spain
  171. 1356 German emperor Charles I delegates Golden Degree
  172. 1072 Robert Guiscard conquers Palermo
  173. 236 St. Fabian begins his reign as Catholic Pope
  174. 69 Roman emperor Galba adopts Marcus Piso Licinianus as
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January 9 - Today in History

12:20 PM
  1. 2007 Apple Computer unveils the revolutionary iPhone
  2. 2005 Mahmoud Abbas is elected as Palestinian Authority President
  3. 1998 Anatoly Karpov defeats Viswanathan Anand to retain chess title
  4. 1998 Anatoly Solovyov and Pavel Vinogradov spacewalk record 3 hours 8 minutes
  5. 1998 Decapitated head of Danish Little Mermaid is returned
  6. 1998 Hockey News selects Wayne Gretzky best NHL player ever
  7. 1997 Heart attacks sends Frank Sinatra back to hospital
  8. 1995 Ecuador and Peru involve in boundary fight
  9. 1995 Worker accidentally cuts electrial wires at Newark Airport
  10. 1994 14th United NegrNumbered Listo College Fund raises $11,000,000
  11. 1994 Gunda Niemann skates world record (167.282 pts)
  12. 1994 Rintje Ritsma skates world record (156.201 points)
  13. 1993 Franziska van Almsick swims world record 100 m free style (53.33)
  14. 1991 Baker and Aziz meet in Geneva; talks fail to defuse gulf crisis
  15. 1991 Baseball officially bans Pete Rose from being elected to Hall of Fame
  16. 1991 Dean Smith of North Carolina is 6th to win 700 career coaching basketball games
  17. 1990 64th U.S. manned space mission STS-32 (Columbia 10) launches into orbit
  18. 1990 Boston Celtics worst ever (6 pts in 2nd vs New Jersey Nets) and lose 87-78
  19. 1990 Jim Palmer and Joe Morgan elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
  20. 1990 Supreme Court strikes down Dallas' ordinance imposing strict zoning on sexually oriented businesses
  21. 1989 "Pat Sajak Show" premieres on CBS
  22. 1989 Johnny Bench and Carl Yastrzemski elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
  23. 1988 August Wilson's "Piano Lesson," premieres in Boston
  24. 1988 English earl of St. Andrews marries Sylvana Tomaselli
  25. 1988 U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano
  26. 1987 Chinese/Vietnamese border fights, 1500 killed
  27. 1987 New Nicaraguan constitution takes effect
  28. 1987 Sir Rudolph Bing (of New York Met Opera) marries Lady Carroll Douglass
  29. 1986 New York Islanders greatest shutout margin (9-0) vs Pittsburgh Penguins
  30. 1985 Flames set NHL record 264th regular season game without being shut-out
  31. 1984 Braves pitcher Pascual Perez is arrested for cocaine possession
  32. 1984 EAA moves operations to Oshkosh
  33. 1984 John Lennon releases "Nobody Told Me"
  34. 1983 British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher visits Falkland Islands
  35. 1982 5.9 earthquake in New England and Canada; 1st since 1855
  36. 1982 Steve D'Innocenzo scores 3 hockey goals in 12 sec in Mass HS game
  37. 1981 Francisco Balsamao elected President of Portugal
  38. 1980 63 beheaded in Mecca, Saudi Arabia
  39. 1979 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to WS Merwin
  40. 1979 High-school player Daryl Moreau makes 126th consecutive free throws
  41. 1979 K-Mart pulls Steve Martin's "Let's Get Small" for being in "bad taste"
  42. 1979 Supreme Court strikes down (6-3) Pennsylvania law requiring doctors performing an abortion to try to preserve lives of potentially viable fetuses
  43. 1978 Commonwealth of Northern Marianas established
  44. 1977 "Porgy and Bess" closes at Uris Theater New York City after 122 performances
  45. 1977 Superbowl XI: Oakland Raiders beat Minnesota Vikings, 32-14 in Pasadena Superbowl MVP: Fred Biletnikoff, Oakland, WR
  46. 1976 Bryan Trottier failed in 4th Islander penalty shot
  47. 1976 CW McCall CB song "Convoy" hit #1 on the country music charts
  48. 1976 Ringo releases "Oh My My" in UK
  49. 1975 600 employees of Royal Canadian Mint go on strike
  50. 1975 Australia beat England by 171 runs in 4th Test to regain Ashes
  51. 1973 Luna 21 launched, to Moon
  52. 1972 Billionaire Howard Hughes says Clifford Irving's bio is a fake
  53. 1972 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational
  54. 1972 Passenger ship Queen Elizabeth destroyed by fire
  55. 1971 "Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen" closes at Majestic New York City after 19 perf
  56. 1970 Constitution of Singapore enacted
  57. 1969 Concorde jetliner's 1st test flight from Bristol England
  58. 1968 1st ABA All-Star Game: East 126 beats West 120 at Indiana
  59. 1968 Surveyor 7 space probe soft lands on Moon
  60. 1967 Georgia legislature seats Rep. Julian Bond
  61. 1967 NFL New Orleans' franchise takes name "Saints"
  62. 1966 Polish government denies exit visa to Cardinal Wyszynski revisionism
  63. 1965 "Beatles' '65" album goes #1 and stays #1 for 9 weeks
  64. 1964 Anti-U.S. rioting broke out in Panama Canal Zone
  65. 1963 Mao Tse-tung writes his poem "Reply to Comrade Kuo Mo-jo"
  66. 1962 Mister M (Dr. X) beats Verne Gagne in Minn, to become NWA champ
  67. 1962 NFL prohibits grabbing of face masks
  68. 1962 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
  69. 1961 Twins agree on $500,000 payment to AA for Minn/St. Paul territory
  70. 1960 Building of Aswan dam in Egypt, begins
  71. 1959 "Rawhide" with Clint Eastwood premieres on CBS TV
  72. 1959 Dam across Tera River collapses after heavy winter rains, 135 die
  73. 1959 Pat O'Connor beats Dick Hutton in St. Louis, to become NWA champ
  74. 1958 In basketball Oscar Robertson (Cin) scores 56, Seton Hall team 54
  75. 1957 British premier Anthony Eden resigns
  76. 1957 Checheno-Ingush ASSR reformed in RSFSR
  77. 1957 Dutch Newspaper Society expels communist daily paper "Truth"
  78. 1957 Kalmyk Autonomous Region reformed in RSFSR
  79. 1957 Karachayevo-Cherkess Autonomous Region reestablished in RSFSR
  80. 1956 Abigail Van Buren's "Dear Abby" column 1st appears in newspapers
  81. 1956 Samir el-Rifai forms government in Jordan
  82. 1954 -87 degrees F (-66 degrees C), Northice Station, Greenland (Greenland record)
  83. 1954 Bert Olmstead, Mont Canadiens, ties NHL record of 8 points in game
  84. 1954 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Louise Bogan and Leonie Adams
  85. 1953 Bevo Francis, Rio Grande College, scores 116 pts in basketball game
  86. 1953 Korean ferryboat "Chang Tyong-Ho" sank off Pusan killing 249
  87. 1952 Belgian Pholien government resigns
  88. 1952 Karel Sys wins European heavyweight boxing title
  89. 1952 Marines give notice that they will recall Ted Williams to active duty
  90. 1951 Life After Tomorrow, 1st film to receive an "X" rating, premieres
  91. 1951 Washington Capitals NBA club folds
  92. 1948 Walter Piston's 3rd Symphony in E, premieres in Boston
  93. 1947 "Street Scene" opens at Adelphi Theater New York City for 148 performances
  94. 1947 Roger Sessions' 2nd Symphony, premieres in SF
  95. 1946 "Would-Be Gentleman" opens at Booth Theater New York City for 77 performances
  96. 1945 U.S. soldiers led by General Douglas MacArthur invades Philippines
  97. 1943 Japanese government in Java limits sale and use of motorcars
  98. 1942 Joe Louis KOs Buddy Baer in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
  99. 1942 U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff created
  100. 1941 6,000 Jews exterminated in pogrom in Bucharest Romania
  101. 1941 Maiden flight by Canada's Avro Lancaster military plane
  102. 1940 2 German officers make emergency landing in Belgium
  103. 1940 J Thurber and E Nugent's "Male Animal," premieres in New York City
  104. 1937 Italian regime bans marriages between Italians and Abyssinians
  105. 1937 Maxwell Anderson's "High Tor" premieres in New York City
  106. 1936 Noel Coward's "Astonished Heart," premieres in London
  107. 1936 Semi-automatic rifles adopted by U.S. army
  108. 1933 Amsterdam confectionery worker go on strike against wage reduction
  109. 1930 Boston Bruins wins then NHL record 14th straight game
  110. 1929 BG DeSylva and Lew Brown's musical "Follow Thru," premieres in New York City
  111. 1929 KDB-AM in Santa Barbara, California begins radio transmissions
  112. 1928 Eugene O'Neill's "Marco Millions," premieres in New York City
  113. 1927 Dmitri Shostakovich' Octet opus 11, premieres in Moscow
  114. 1927 Fire in Laurier Palace cinema in Montreal, 78 children died
  115. 1925 German Postal Minister A Hofle resigns due to corruption
  116. 1923 Juan de la Cierva makes 1st autogiro (helicopter) flight, Spain
  117. 1922 KQV-AM in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania begins radio transmissions
  118. 1922 Rotterdam metal strike ends
  119. 1915 Exposition (now Civic) Auditorium dedicated, SF
  120. 1912 U.S. Marines invade Honduras
  121. 1909 Ernest Shackleton reaches 88 degrees 23' south
  122. 1908 Frans Schollaert succeeds De Trooz as premier of Belgium
  123. 1908 Muir Woods National Monument, California established
  124. 1905 Bloody Sunday-demonstrators fired on by tsarist troops
  125. 1903 2 NYers buy Baltimore baseball franchise for $18,000 and moved it to NY
  126. 1903 Baseball's National and American Leagues make peace
  127. 1903 Wind Cave National Park, SD established
  128. 1903 Frank Farrell and Bill Devery purchase AL Baltimore franchise for $18,000 and move it to New York City (Yankees)
  129. 1901 NSW (918) defeat S Australia (157 and 156) by innings and 605
  130. 1894 "Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze" released in movie theaters
  131. 1894 Georges Feydeau's "Un la Patte," premieres in Paris
  132. 1880 6' (1.8 meters) of snow falls in Seattle in 5 days
  133. 1879 Cheyenne prisoners led by Dull Knife revolt at Fort Robinson
  134. 1879 Kirland Warbler discovered on Andros Island in Bahamas
  135. 1866 Fisk University establishes
  136. 1861 1st hostile act of Civil War; Star of West fired on, Sumter, SC
  137. 1861 Mississippi becomes 2nd state to secede
  138. 1857 7.9 earthquake shakes Fort Tejon California
  139. 1855 Clipper Guiding Star disappears in Atlantic, 480 dies
  140. 1854 Astor Library opens in New York City
  141. 1848 1st commercial bank in San Francisco established
  142. 1848 People's uprising in Palermo Sicily
  143. 1847 1st San Francisco newspaper published (California Star)
  144. 1839 Daguerrotype photo process announced at French Academy of Science
  145. 1839 Thomas Henderson measures 1st stellar parallax (Alpha Centauri)
  146. 1834 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin arrives in Port San Julian, Patagonia
  147. 1812 Swedish Pomerania (Germany) seized by Napoleon
  148. 1811 1st Women's Golf Tournament held
  149. 1799 Income Tax introduced in UK
  150. 1793 1st hot-air balloon flight in the U.S. lifts off in Philadelphia
  151. 1793 Dutch Prince Willem V establishes 2 brigades Drive Artillery
  152. 1793 Jean Pierre Blanchard makes 1st balloon flight in North America
  153. 1792 Russia and Turkey sign Peace of Jassy
  154. 1788 Connecticut becomes 5th state
  155. 1760 Afghans defeat Marathas in battle of Barari Ghat
  156. 1718 France declares war on Spain
  157. 1570 Tsar Ivan the terrible kills 1000-2000 residents of Novgorod
  158. 1558 Geneva becomes independent from Berne canton, Switzerland
  159. 1522 Adriaan F Boeyens elected only Dutch pope (Adrian VI)
  160. 1493 1st sight of manatees (by Christopher Columbus)
  161. 1464 1st meeting of States-General of Netherlands
  162. 1428 Pope Martinus V declares Jacoba van Beierens marriage invalid
  163. 1349 700 Jews of Basel Switzerland, burned alive in their houses
  164. 1317 Phillips V, the Tall, crowned king of France
  165. 1296 Earl Floris V signs accord with French king
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January 8 - Today in History

12:19 PM
  1. 1998 New York Giant General Manager George Young resigns to accept NFL position
  2. 1998 Roseanne files for divorce from 3rd husband Ben Thomas
  3. 1998 Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski asks to act as his own lawyer
  4. 1998 World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Ahmed Yousef sentenced to life
  5. 1996 Blizzard buries eastern U.S. causing at least 50 deaths
  6. 1996 For 1st time in 25 years no one is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
  7. 1995 "Guys and Dolls" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 1143 performances
  8. 1995 15th United Negro College Fund raises $12,200,000
  9. 1995 Mike Schmidt is elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame
  10. 1994 Rintje Ritsma skates world record 1500m (1:51.60)
  11. 1994 Russian manned space craft TM-18, launches into orbit
  12. 1994 U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Davis
  13. 1993 Chicago Bull Michael Jordan scores his 20,000th career point
  14. 1993 Elvis Presley Commemorative Postage Stamp goes on sale
  15. 1993 NBC offers "Tonight Show" to David Letterman
  16. 1992 George Bush gets ill and vomits on Japanese prime minister's lap
  17. 1991 "Davis Rules," with Jonathan Winters and Randy Quaid premieres on ABC-TV
  18. 1991 Gaylord Perry, Ferguson Jenkins and Rod Carew elected to Hall of Fame
  19. 1991 Rod Carew is 22nd player elected to Hall of Fame on 1st try
  20. 1991 Tamas Darnyi swims world record 400m medley (4:12.36)
  21. 1989 "42nd Street" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 3,486 performances
  22. 1989 "Starlight Express" closes at Gershwin Theater New York City after 761 performances
  23. 1989 Boeing 737-400 crashes in England, 46 die
  24. 1989 Soviet Union promises to eliminate stockpiles of chemical weapons
  25. 1988 9th largest NBA crowd 38,873-Chicago at Detroit
  26. 1988 Dow Jones down 140.58 points
  27. 1988 Hewlett-Packard introduces HP-28S Advanced Scientific Calculator
  28. 1988 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Debi Thomas
  29. 1987 Dow Jones closes above 2,000 for 1st time (2,002.25)
  30. 1987 Jack Sikma (Milwaukee) begins NBA free throw streak of 51 games
  31. 1986 Willie McCovey is 16th elected to Hall of Fame in his 1st year
  32. 1985 Japan launches Sakigake space probe to Halley's Comet
  33. 1984 NCAA announces that basketball tournament will have 64 teams
  34. 1984 Washington Caps Bengt Gustafsson scores 5 goals to beat Philadelphia 7-1
  35. 1982 AT&T agrees to divest itself of 22 Bell System companies
  36. 1982 Johnny Cash Parkway opens in Hendersonville Tennessee
  37. 1982 Justice Department withdraws antitrust suit against IBM
  38. 1981 "Pirates of Penzance" opens at Uris Theater New York City for 772 performances
  39. 1981 India all out 63 in one-day international vs. Australia
  40. 1981 Reds become last team to sign a free agent (Larry Biitner)
  41. 1980 Islander Glenn Resch's 20th shut-out opponent-Canucks 3-0
  42. 1980 NCAA decides to sponsor women's championships in 5 sports
  43. 1979 512 die as oil tanker Bantry Bay blows up
  44. 1979 Argentina and Chile sign Beagle Canal accord
  45. 1979 Today Show gets a new theme song
  46. 1979 Vietnamese troops overtook Khmer Rouge and occupy Phnom Penh
  47. 1978 Israeli government votes to 'strengthen' settlements in occupied Sinai
  48. 1976 Franklin Mint strikes 1st gold coins for Netherlands Antilles
  49. 1975 Judge Sirica orders release of Watergate's John W Dean III, Herbert W Kalmbach and Jeb Stuart Magruder from prison
  50. 1974 E Wilson Jr's musical "Let My People Come," premieres in New York City
  51. 1974 Gold hits record $126.50 an ounce in London
  52. 1974 Loch Ness Monster photographed
  53. 1974 Silver hits record $3.40 an ounce in New York
  54. 1973 "Tricks" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 8 performances
  55. 1973 Greg Chappell's best Test bowling, 5-61 vs. Pakistan at SCG
  56. 1973 Secret peace talks between U.S. and North Vietnam resumed near Paris
  57. 1973 U.S.S.R. launches Luna 21 for Moon landing
  58. 1972 Dmitri Shostakovich' 15th Symphony, premieres in Moscow
  59. 1972 NCAA announces freshman can play on teams starting in fall
  60. 1971 29 pilot whales beach themselves and die at San Clemente Island, California
  61. 1971 Voyageurs National Park, Minnesota established
  62. 1968 Jacques Cousteau's 1st undersea special on U.S. network TV
  63. 1966 Beatles' "Rubber Soul," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 6 weeks
  64. 1966 Beatles' "We Can Work It Out," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 3 weeks
  65. 1966 Georges Pompidou appointed French premier
  66. 1966 Who and the Kinks perform on the last "Shindig" TV show on ABC
  67. 1965 Star of India returned to American Museum of Natural History
  68. 1964 European Parliament accept Mansholt Plan
  69. 1964 President Lyndon B Johnson declares "War on Poverty"
  70. 1963 "Mona Lisa," on loan, unveiled in America's National Gallery of Art
  71. 1963 Dmitri Shostakovich' Katharina Ismailova, premieres in Riga
  72. 1962 Dutch express train crashes into slow commuter train, 93 die (Netherlands)
  73. 1962 Golfer Jack Nicklaus, 21, 1st pro appearance, he came in 50th
  74. 1961 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Yvor Winters
  75. 1959 Charles de Gaulle inaugurated as President of France's 5th Republic
  76. 1958 Cuban revolutionary forces capture Havana
  77. 1956 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Conrad Aiken
  78. 1956 Elvis Presley's "Don't Be Cruel/Hound Dog," single goes to #1 and stays #1 for a record 11 weeks (for a single)
  79. 1955 Furman sets NCAA basketball single-game scoring record with 154 pt
  80. 1955 Georgia Tech ends Kentucky's 130-game home basketball win streak
  81. 1955 Louise Sugg wins LPGA LA Golf Open
  82. 1955 WUNorth Carolina TV channel 4 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting
  83. 1954 Elvis Presley pays $4 to a Memphis studio and records his 1st two songs, "Casual Love" and "I'll Never Stand in Your Way"
  84. 1953 Indians bar night games with Browns (who refuse to share TV receipts)
  85. 1953 Rene Mayer forms French government
  86. 1952 Jordan adopts constitution
  87. 1951 Thought extinct since 1615, a Cahow is rediscovered in Bermuda
  88. 1949 "Make Mine Manhattan" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 429 performances
  89. 1949 "My Romance" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 95 performances
  90. 1949 "Small Wonder" closes at Coronet Theater New York City after 134 performances
  91. 1948 Queen Wilhelmina signs death sentence against Ans van Dijk for treason
  92. 1947 General George Marshall becomes Secretary of State
  93. 1947 Toronto Maple Leaf rookie Howie Meeker scores 5 goals in a game
  94. 1945 "Youth for Christ" organizes
  95. 1941 British Air Marshal Richard Peirse resigns
  96. 1940 Britain's 1st WW II rationing (bacon, butter and sugar)
  97. 1938 Bradman scores 107 for South Australia vs. Qld (1st innings)
  98. 1937 -50 degrees F (-45.6 degrees C), San Jacinto, Nevada (state record)
  99. 1935 Spectrophotometer patented, AC Hardy
  100. 1934 Jaap Speyers "Bluejackets" premieres in Amsterdam
  101. 1932 Ratification of present San Francisco City Charter
  102. 1931 Philadelphia Quakers set then NHL record of 15 straight loses
  103. 1930 Belgium Princess Marie-Jose marries Italian's crown prince Umberto
  104. 1929 1st telephone connection between Netherlands and West-Indies
  105. 1929 CBS radio network buys WABC in New York City
  106. 1926 Abdul-Aziz ibn Sa'ud becomes king of Hejaz; renames it Saudi Arabia
  107. 1925 1st all-female U.S. state supreme court appointed, Texas
  108. 1923 Typography strike in Amsterdam
  109. 1918 Mississippi becomes 1st state to ratify 18th amendment (prohibition)
  110. 1918 President Wilson outlines his 14 points for peace after WW I
  111. 1917 Austria-Hungarian troops conquer Forlani Italy
  112. 1913 Frank Chance becomes Yankee manager
  113. 1904 Pope Pius X banned low cut dresses in the presence of churchmen
  114. 1902 1st National Bowling Championship held (Chicago, Ill)
  115. 1901 NSW score 918 all out vs South Australia in 560 minutes
  116. 1897 Michael Eagan wins 1st U.S. national amateur handball championship
  117. 1894 Columbus World's fair in Chicago destroyed by fire
  118. 1889 1st Computer patented
  119. 1889 Dr. Herman Hollerith receives 1st U.S. patent for a tabulating machine
  120. 1884 Chrome tanning process for leather patented by Augustus Schultz
  121. 1878 Secret meeting of King Leopold II's agent and Henry Morton Stanley
  122. 1870 U.S. mint at Carson City, Nevada begins issuing coins
  123. 1867 Legislation gives suffrage to DC blacks, despite President Johnson's veto
  124. 1865 Senator Everett Dirksen introduces a bill to make marigold the national flower
  125. 1857 Dion Boucicauly's "Poor of NY," premieres in New York City
  126. 1856 Dr. John A Veatch discovers borax, Tuscan Springs, California
  127. 1853 1st U.S. bronze equestrian statue (of Andrew Jackson) unveiled, Wash
  128. 1848 Austrian soldiers kill 10 students, Pavia
  129. 1842 Dutch King Willem II charters Technical College Delft
  130. 1838 1st telegraph message sent using dots and dashes (NJ)
  131. 1838 Rebellion at Amherstburg, Ontario breaks out
  132. 1833 Boston Academy of Music, 1st U.S. music school, established
  133. 1830 Dutch King Willem I fires him displeasing parliament members
  134. 1815 Battle of New Orleans-War of 1812 ended 12/24/1814 but nobody knew
  135. 1806 Cape colony becomes English colony
  136. 1806 Lewis and Clark find skeleton of 105' blue whale in Oregon
  137. 1800 Austrians defeat French in 2nd battle of Novi
  138. 1800 Wild Boy of Aveyron discovered in southern France
  139. 1798 11th Amendment ratified, judicial powers construed
  140. 1790 George Washington delivers 1st state of union address (or Jan 4)
  141. 1760 Comet C/1760 A1 (Great comet) approaches within 0.0682 AUs of Earth
  142. 1746 Bonnie Prince Charlie's troops occupy Stirling
  143. 1745 England, Austria, Netherlands and Saxon sign anti-Prussian Quadruple Alliance
  144. 1716 Dutch gang leader "Sjako" arrested
  145. 1705 Georg F Handels 1st opera "Almira," premieres in Hamburg
  146. 1675 1st American commercial corporation chartered (New York Fishing Co)
  147. 1656 Oldest surviving commercial newspaper begins (Haarlem, Netherlands)
  148. 1598 Genoa Italy expels Jews
  149. 1598 Jews are expelled from Genoa Italy
  150. 1558 French troops under duke de Guise occupy Calais
  151. 1499 Louis XII of France after papal divorce marries Anne, Duchess of Brittany to keep duchy for the crown
  152. 1214 Earl Ferrand of Flanders drops ties with France
  153. 1198 Lotario di Segni elected Pope Innocentius III
  154. 871 Battle at Ashdown: Ethelred of Wessex beats Danish invasion army
  155. 794 Vikings attacked Lindisfarne Island
  156. 624 Moslem army occupies Kurashitische Caravan
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January 7 - Today in History

12:17 PM
  1. 2009 Russian Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, endorses Russia's decision to turn off gas supplies to Europe through Ukraine
  2. 1999 Senate begins to try President Clinton on lying under oath and obstruction of justice in the Lewisnky case
  3. 1997 Newt Gingrich, narrowly re-elected speaker of the House
  4. 1996 "Crazy after You" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 1622 performances
  5. 1996 16th United Negro College Fund raises $12,600,000
  6. 1995 "Christmas Carol" closes at Richard Rodgers Theater New York City after 18 performances
  7. 1995 "Passion" closes at Plymouth Theater New York City after 280 performances
  8. 1994 South Africa beat Australia in the Sydney Test by 5 runs
  9. 1994 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Tonya Harding
  10. 1994 United Express commuter plane crashes in Ohio, killing 5
  11. 1992 AT&T releases video-telephone ($1,499)
  12. 1992 Last day of Test cricket for Imran Khan
  13. 1992 Tom Seaver and Rollie Fingers elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame
  14. 1991 "Nia Peeples Party Machine" premieres on TV
  15. 1990 Lynn Jennings runs world record 5K indoor at 15:22.64
  16. 1990 Tower Of Pisa closed to the public after leaning too far
  17. 1989 Akhito becomes emperor of Japan
  18. 1989 International Conference on Limitation of Chemical Weapons opens in Paris
  19. 1989 NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers longest win streak (11)
  20. 1989 Cleveland Cavaliers block 21 New York Knick shots tying NBA regulation game record
  21. 1987 French airplanes harass Libyan positions in Duadi Doum
  22. 1987 Kapil Dev takes his 300th Test wicket, at 28 the youngest
  23. 1986 Chicago Bears defeat New England Patriots 46-10 in Super Bowl XX
  24. 1986 Netherlands Bank issues 250 guilder notes
  25. 1986 STS-61-C mission scrubbed at T -9m because of weather problems
  26. 1986 U.S. president Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya
  27. 1985 "King and I" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 191 performances
  28. 1985 Japanese space probe Sakigake launched to Halley's comet
  29. 1985 KHQ-AM in Spokane WA changes call letters to KLSN (now KAQQ)
  30. 1985 Lou Brock and Hoyt Wilhelm, elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame
  31. 1983 Australia regain the Ashes with a 2-1 series win vs. England
  32. 1983 Reagan ends U.S. arms embargo against Guatemala
  33. 1982 "Fame" premieres on NBC TV
  34. 1982 Islander's Bryan Trottier's 10th career hat trick
  35. 1980 Minn ends Philadelphia Flyers' NHL record 35 game unbeaten streak ends
  36. 1979 Vietnamese forces capture Phnom Penh from Khmer Rouge
  37. 1978 Angola revises its constitution
  38. 1977 Huyman Rights Charta '77 established in Prague
  39. 1975 "Shenandoah" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 1050 performances
  40. 1975 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to AR Ammons (Sphere)
  41. 1975 Gary Geld and Peter Udell's musical "Shenandoah," premieres in New York City
  42. 1975 Led Zeppelin fans riot before Boston concert, causing $30,000 damage
  43. 1974 Dutch rations gasoline
  44. 1973 "Purlie" closes at Billy Rose Theater New York City after 14 performances
  45. 1973 British Darts Organisation founded in North London
  46. 1973 Jo Ann Prentice wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational
  47. 1973 Johnny Watkins bowls six overs 0-21 vs. Pakistan Never again
  48. 1973 U.S. poet James Merrill wins Bollingen Prize
  49. 1973 WNPB TV channel 13 in Marquette, MI (PBS) begins broadcasting
  50. 1972 Iberian Airlines crashes into 800' peak on island of Ibiza, 104 die
  51. 1972 Los Angeles Lakers chalk up 33rd consecutive win (NBA record)
  52. 1972 Lewis F. Powell, Jr. becomes a Supreme Court Justice
  53. 1972 William Hubbs Rehnquist, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
  54. 1971 -40 degrees F (-40 degrees C), Hawley Lake, Ariz (state record)
  55. 1970 Farmers sue Max Yasgur for $35,000 in damages caused by "Woodstock"
  56. 1969 U.S. Congress doubles president salary
  57. 1968 "GE College Bowl" quiz show premieres on NBC TV
  58. 1968 1st class postage raised from 5 cents to 6 cents
  59. 1967 "Newlywed Game" premieres on ABC TV
  60. 1966 Dance Theatre of Harlem debuts
  61. 1966 Gene Kiniski beats Lou Thesz in St. Louis, to become NWA champ
  62. 1965 France announces it will convert $150 million of its currency to gold
  63. 1964 Bahamas becomes self-governing
  64. 1964 Dick Weber rolls highest bowling game in air (Boeing 707)
  65. 1963 1st class postage raised from 4 cents to 5 cents
  66. 1962 AFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 47-27
  67. 1962 Assassination attempt on Indonesian president Sukarno, fails
  68. 1962 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to John Hall Wheelock
  69. 1961 1st NFL Playoff Bowl (runner-up bowl)-Detroit beats Cleveland 17-16
  70. 1961 Trucial States (now UAE) issue their 1st postage stamps
  71. 1959 U.S. recognizes Fidel Castro's Cuban government
  72. 1958 U.S.S.R. shrinks army to 300,000
  73. 1956 Vinoo Mankad scores 231 vs. New Zealand, 413 opening stand with Roy
  74. 1955 Marian Anderson becomes 1st black singer to perform at Met (New York City)
  75. 1955 WCIQ TV channel 7 in Mount Cheaha, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting
  76. 1953 President Truman announces development of hydrogen bomb
  77. 1952 French Plevin government falls
  78. 1950 "Happy as Larry" closes at Coronet Theater New York City after 3 performances
  79. 1950 Hank Snow's 1st appearance on "Grand Ole Opry"
  80. 1950 Mental health wing of Mercy Hospital burns, kills 41 (Davenport Ia)
  81. 1949 1st photo of genes taken at University of South California by Pease and Baker
  82. 1948 U.S. president Truman raises taxes for Marshall-plan
  83. 1947 Australia vs. England at MCG drawn in 6 days, 1st cricket draw in Australia since 1882
  84. 1946 Cambodia becomes autonomous state inside French Union
  85. 1945 Lord Haw-Haw reports total German victory at Ardennen
  86. 1944 Air Force announces production of 1st U.S. jet fighter, the Bell P-59
  87. 1942 WW II siege of Bataan starts
  88. 1939 U.S. worker's union leader Tom Mooney freed (jailed since 1916)
  89. 1936 Tennis champs Helen Moody and Howard Kinsley volley 2,001 times (1h18m)
  90. 1935 Zoe Akins' "Old Maid," premieres in New York City
  91. 1934 "Flash Gordon" comic strip (by Alex Raymond) debuts
  92. 1934 Princess Juliana marries German prince Bernhard von Lippe-Biesterfeld
  93. 1933 1st edition of People and Fatherland published in Netherlands
  94. 1932 1st game played at Orchard Lake Curling Club, Michigan
  95. 1930 Edwin Justus Mayer's "Children of Darkness," premieres in New York City
  96. 1929 "Buck Rogers," 1st sci-fi comic strip, premieres
  97. 1929 "Tarzan," one of the 1st adventure comic strips, 1st appears
  98. 1929 1st telephone connection between Netherlands and East Indies
  99. 1927 Commercial transatlantic telephone service inaugurated between New York and London
  100. 1927 Harlem Globetrotters play 1st game (Hinckley, Ill)
  101. 1925 Musical "Big Boy" with Al Jolson premieres in New York City
  102. 1923 Baltimore Sun warns of Ku Klux Klan
  103. 1916 German troops conquer Fort Vaux at Verdun
  104. 1914 1st steamboat passes through Panama Canal
  105. 1913 William M Burton patents a process to "crack" petroleum
  106. 1911 1st airplane bombing experiments with explosives, SF
  107. 1911 Dutch Scouts Organization established in Amsterdam
  108. 1910 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators sweep Galt (Ont) in 2 games
  109. 1908 England beat Australia by one wicket at the MCG
  110. 1907 Clyde Fitch' "Truth," premieres in New York City
  111. 1904 Marconi Co establishes "CQD" as 1st International radio distress signal
  112. 1903 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Blanched Soldier"
  113. 1903 Vincent d'Indy's opera "L'etranger," premieres in Brussel
  114. 1899 Walter Camp publishes his 1st All-American football team in Collier's
  115. 1896 Fanny Farmer publishes her 1st cookbook
  116. 1894 Motion picture experiment of comedian Fred Ott filmed sneezing
  117. 1893 Hermann Sudermanns "Heimat," premieres in Berlin
  118. 1892 Mine explosion kills 100, Krebs, Okla-blacks trying to help rescue white survivors, driven away with guns
  119. 1890 W B Purvis patents fountain pen
  120. 1888 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Valley of Fear"
  121. 1879 Dutch King Willem II marries Emma von Waldeck-Pyrmont
  122. 1868 Arkansas constitutional convention meets in Little Rock
  123. 1868 Mississippi constitutional convention meets in Jackson
  124. 1862 Battle of Manassas Junction, VA
  125. 1862 Romney Campaign-Stonewall Jackson march towards Romney, WV
  126. 1861 Florida troops takeover Ft. Marion at St. Augustine
  127. 1842 Gioacchino Rossini's opera "Stabat Mater" premieres in Paris
  128. 1835 HMS Beagle anchors off Chonos Archipelago
  129. 1830 1st U.S. Railroad Station opens (Baltimore)
  130. 1822 1st printing in Hawaii
  131. 1822 Liberia colonized by Americans
  132. 1817 2nd Bank of U.S. opens
  133. 1785 1st balloon flight across English Channel (Blanchard and Jeffries)
  134. 1784 1st U.S. seed business established by David Landreth, Philadelphia
  135. 1782 1st U.S. commercial bank, Bank of North America, opens in Philadelphia
  136. 1761 Battle at Panipat India: Afghan army beats Mahratten
  137. 1714 Typewriter patented by Englishman Henry Mill (built years later)
  138. 1698 Russian Czar Peter the Great departs Netherlands to England
  139. 1654 Fire after heavy storm destroys 2/3 of De Rijp, Netherlands, 1 dies
  140. 1630 Composer Pier Cavalli marries rich widow Maria Sosomeno
  141. 1622 Germany and Transylvania sign Peace of Nikolsburg
  142. 1618 Francis Bacon becomes English lord chancellor
  143. 1610 Galileo discovers 1st 3 Jupiter satellites, Io, Europa and Ganymede
  144. 1608 Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia
  145. 1601 Robert, Earl of Essex leads revolt in London against Queen Elizabeth
  146. 1598 Boris Godunov seizes Russian throne on death of Feodore I
  147. 1584 Last day of the Julian calendar in Bohemia and Holy Roman empire
  148. 1579 England signs an offensive and defensive alliance with Netherland
  149. 1566 Antonio "Michele" Ghislieri is elected Pope Pius V
  150. 1566 Michaele Ghislieri is elected Pope Pius V
  151. 1558 Calais, last English possession in France, retaken by French
  152. 1325 Afonso IV succeeds Dionysius as king of Portugal
  153. 754 Pope Stefanus II arrives in Ponthion
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January 6 - Today in History

12:15 PM
  1. 1998 Barry Switzer resigns as Dallas Cowboy coach
  2. 1998 Don Sutton selected to Baseball Hall of Fame
  3. 1997 "It's a Slippery Slope," closes at Vivian Beaumont Theater New York City
  4. 1996 Record $65.2 million British lottery won by 3 people (2-3-4-13-42-44)
  5. 1995 Atlanta Hawks' Lenny Wilkens becomes NBA's winningest coach (939)
  6. 1994 "Government Inspector" opens at Lyceum Theater New York City for 37 performances
  7. 1994 Dow-Jones hits record 3803.88
  8. 1994 Ice skater Nancy Kerrigan is attacked by Tonya Harding's bodyguard
  9. 1994 Yat Weiju swims world record 50m butterfly stroke (26.44)
  10. 1994 Zhong Weiju swims world record 25m pool (26.44)
  11. 1993 Bill Wyman announces he will leave Rolling Stones
  12. 1993 Jean Mueller discovers comet Mueller/1993a
  13. 1993 Last day of Test cricket for Greg Matthews
  14. 1992 New York Yankees sign free agent Danny Tartabul
  15. 1992 Robert Schenkkan's "Kentucky Cycle," premieres in LA
  16. 1992 Sachin Tendulkar completes 148* vs. Australia at the SCG
  17. 1992 Shane Warne takes 1-150 in his 1st Test innings
  18. 1991 "Gypsy" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 477 performances
  19. 1991 "Real Life With Jane Pauley" premieres on NBC-TV
  20. 1991 Jorge Serrano Elias elected president of Guatemala
  21. 1991 Qian Hong swims female world record 50m butterfly (27.30 sec)
  22. 1990 New York Lotto pays $35 million to one winner (18-25-26-32-42-44)
  23. 1987 100th U.S. Congress convenes
  24. 1987 Astronomers at University of California see 1st sight of birth of a galaxy
  25. 1986 British Defense Secretary Michael Heseltine resigns
  26. 1986 Impala Platinum fires 20,000 black mine workers in Johannesburg
  27. 1986 Last day in Test cricket for Bob Holland
  28. 1986 STS-61-C scrubbed at T-31sec because of liquid oxygen valve problem
  29. 1984 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS-41 B mission
  30. 1984 Last day of Test cricket for Chappell, Marsh and Lillee
  31. 1981 50th hat trick in Islander history - John Tonelli scored 5 goals
  32. 1980 "1940's Radio Hour" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 105 performances
  33. 1980 Indira Gandhi's Congress Party wins elections in India
  34. 1980 Phil Flyers set NHL record of 35 straight games without a defeat
  35. 1978 1st postage stamp copyrighted by U.S. (Carl Sandburg stamp)
  36. 1978 U.S. hand over St. Stephan crown to Hungary
  37. 1977 EMI records drop punk rock group Sex Pistols
  38. 1976 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
  39. 1976 Ted Turner purchases Atlanta Braves for reported $12 million
  40. 1975 "AM America," premieres on ABC-TV with Bill Beutel as host
  41. 1975 "Wheel Of Fortune," debuts on NBC-TV
  42. 1974 "CBS Mystery Theater," premieres on radio
  43. 1974 England begins 3 day work week during mine strike
  44. 1973 "Schoolhouse Rock," premieres on ABC-TV with Multiplication Rock
  45. 1972 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn
  46. 1972 U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Kenneth Shelley
  47. 1972 Vladimir Bukovski is exiled from U.S.S.R.
  48. 1971 Berkeley chemists announces 1st synthetic growth hormones
  49. 1971 Cecil Partee elected president pro tem of Illinois state senate
  50. 1969 Supremes release "I'm Livin' In Shame"
  51. 1969 WLIW TV channel 21 in Garden City, New York (PBS) begins broadcasting
  52. 1968 Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 8 weeks
  53. 1968 Dr. N E Shumway performs 1st U.S. adult cardiac transplant operation
  54. 1968 Surveyor 7 (last of series) launched by U.S. for soft-landing on Moon
  55. 1967 "Milton Berle Show" last airs on ABC-TV
  56. 1967 KHTV TV channel 39 in Houston, Texas (IND) begins broadcasting
  57. 1967 2 homemade buses collided on a mountain road in Terpate, Philippines plunging off a cliff, killing 84, injuring 140
  58. 1965 Geoff Boycott takes 3-47 against South Africa, his best Test bowling
  59. 1964 Charlie Finlay announces he wants to move Kansas City A's to Louisville
  60. 1964 Rolling Stones' 1st tour as headline act (with Ronettes)
  61. 1963 "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom" with Marlin Perkins begins on NBC
  62. 1963 "Oliver!" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 774 performances
  63. 1958 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to ee cummings
  64. 1958 Gibson patents Flying V Guitar
  65. 1958 WIPR TV channel 6 in San Juan, Puerto Rico (PBS) begins broadcasting
  66. 1957 Elvis Presley makes his 7th and final appearance on Ed Sullivan Show
  67. 1957 Yeshiva Kol Ya'ackov opens in Moscow, Russia
  68. 1956 KGNS TV channel 8 in Laredo, Texas (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
  69. 1956 Federal court bars former Little League Commissioner Carl Stotz from forming a rival group
  70. 1953 WKBN TV channel 27 in Youngstown, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting
  71. 1951 "Pardon Our French" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 100 performances
  72. 1951 Indianapolis beats Rochester 75-73 in NBA-record 6 overtimes
  73. 1950 "Happy as Larry" opens at Coronet Theater New York City for 3 performances
  74. 1950 Britain recognizes Communist government of China
  75. 1947 Ray Lindwall smashes 100 vs. England in MCG Test
  76. 1946 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Quemadmodum
  77. 1945 Future president George Bush marries Barbara Pierce in Rye NY
  78. 1942 1st around world flight, Pan Am "Pacific Clipper"
  79. 1942 Bob Feller, enlists in Navy and reports for duty to Norfolk Virginia
  80. 1941 FDR's "4 Freedoms" speech (speech, worship, from want and from fear)
  81. 1938 Bronze memorial statue of Henry Hudson erected in Bronx
  82. 1937 Bradman scores 270 Australia vs. England at the MCG, incl 110 singles
  83. 1936 Barbara Hanley became Canada's 1st woman mayor (Webbwood, Ontario)
  84. 1930 1st diesel engine automobile trip (in a Packard sedan) completed
  85. 1930 Bradman scores 452* for NSW against Qld, 377 minutes, 49 fours
  86. 1929 Alexander I establishes a royal dictatorship in Yugoslavia
  87. 1928 Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Mortalium animos (against oecumene)
  88. 1927 U.S. Marines sent to Nicaragua
  89. 1926 Kees Boeke opens 1st comprehensive school in Holland
  90. 1925 Paavo Nurmi, sets indoor record, 4:13.6 mile and 14:44.6 5,000m
  91. 1924 Poulenc/Nijinska's ballet "Les Biches," premieres in Monte Carlo
  92. 1922 Conference of Cannes concerning German retribution payments
  93. 1914 Stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch founded
  94. 1912 New Mexico becomes 47th state
  95. 1907 Maria Montessori opens her 1st (Montessori) school (Rome)
  96. 1906 Maurice Ravel's "Miroirs," premieres in Paris
  97. 1903 Dutch Press museum opens in Amsterdam
  98. 1900 Boers attack at Ladysmith, about 1,000 killed or injured
  99. 1900 Maurice Ravel's "Albaradode Gracioso," premieres in Paris
  100. 1898 1st telephone message from a submerged submarine, by Simon Lake
  101. 1896 1st U.S. women's 6-day bicycle race starts, Madison Square Garden
  102. 1896 Cecil Rhodes resigns as premier of Cape colony
  103. 1893 Great Northern Railway connects Seattle with east coast
  104. 1883 Ontario Rugby Football Union forms
  105. 1880 Record snow cover in Seattle-120 cm
  106. 1873 Pope Pius IX encyclical "On the Church in Armenia"
  107. 1873 U.S. Congress begins investigating Credit Mobilier scandal
  108. 1861 Florida troops seize Federal arsenal at Apalachicola
  109. 1861 New York City mayor proposes New York become a free city, trading with N and S
  110. 1857 Patent for reducing zinc ore granted to Samuel Wetherill, Penn
  111. 1842 4,500 British and Indian troops leave Kabul, massacred before India
  112. 1839 2 day storm off Irish and English coast immortalized as "Big Wind"
  113. 1838 Samuel Morse made 1st public demonstration of telegraph
  114. 1832 New England Anti-Slavery Society organizes (Boston)
  115. 1784 Turkey and Russia sign treaty in Constantinople
  116. 1781 Battle of Jersey (Island in UK)
  117. 1773 Massachusetts slaves petition legislature for freedom
  118. 1759 George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Curtis
  119. 1745 Bonnie Prince Charlies army draws to Glasgow
  120. 1690 Emperor Leopold's son Jozef chosen Roman Catholic king
  121. 1681 1st recorded boxing match (Duke of Albemarle's butler vs his butcher)
  122. 1663 Great earthquake in New England
  123. 1639 Virginia is 1st colony to order surplus crops (tobacco) destroyed
  124. 1622 Pope Gregory XV forms Congregatio the Propagande Fide
  125. 1579 Artois/Hainault/Dowaai sign pro-Spanish Union of Arras
  126. 1540 King Henry VIII of England married his 4th wife, Anne of Cleves
  127. 1535 City of Lima Peru founded by Francisco Pizarro
  128. 1497 Jews are expelled from Graz (Syria)
  129. 1496 Moorish fortress Alhambra, near Grenada, surrenders to the Christi
  130. 1453 Emperor Frederik III becomes archduke of Austria
  131. 1352 French king Jean II introduces Order of the Star
  132. 1227 Ferrand of Portugal freed from the Louvre
  133. 1099 Henry V crowned German king
  134. 1066 King Harald of England crowned
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