- 2007 Nancy Pelosi is elected Speaker of the House, by a vote of 233-202
- 2006 Ehud Olmert becomes Prime Minister of Israel after Ariel Sharon suffers a stroke
- 1998 "Funny Thing Happened," closes at St. James New York City after 715 perform
- 1998 "Ivanov," closes at Vivian Beaumont Theater New York City after 51 performances
- 1998 "Triumph of Love," closes at Royale Theater New York City
- 1996 "Father" opens at Criterion Theater New York City for 52 performances
- 1995 Newt Gingrich becomes speaker of the House
- 1994 10th largest wrestling crowd (58,000-Tokyo Dome)
- 1993 7th largest wrestling crowd (63,500-Tokyo Dome)
- 1992 8th largest wrestling crowd (60,000-Tokyo Dome)
- 1991 AT&T workers in Newark accidentally snap a cable
- 1991 Fu Mingxia, 12, of China wins World Swimming Championships gold medal
- 1991 Iraq agrees to send Aziz to Geneva to meet Baker on Jan 9th
- 1991 Jan Krzystof Bielecki becomes premier of Poland
- 1989 Comet Tempel 1 at perihelion
- 1989 U.S. F-14s shoot down 2 Libyan jet fighters over Mediterranean
- 1989 Vice President Bush is 1st since Vice President Van Buren to declare himself president
- 1987 16 die in a train crash in Chase Md
- 1986 David Boon's second Test century, 131 vs. India at Adelaide
- 1986 NCAA basketball's David Robinson blocks a record 14 shots
- 1984 "Night Court" starring Harry Anderson premieres on NBC TV
- 1984 Edmonton beats Minnesota 12-8 highest-scoring modern NHL game
- 1983 U.S. Football League holds its 1st player draft
- 1982 Bryant Gumbel became co-host of NBC's "Today Show"
- 1982 Chris Wallace becomes co-anchor of the Today Show
- 1982 Golden Gate Bridge closed for 3rd time by fierce storm
- 1982 ABC Direction Network (57 affiliates) and ABC Rock Network (40 affiliates) become the 5th and 6th ABC radio network
- 1981 "Frankenstein" opens and closes on Broadway
- 1981 "Peter Pan" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City after 578 performances
- 1981 69th Australian Mens Tennis: B Teacher beats Kim Warwick (75 76 63)
- 1981 British police arrest Peter Sutcliffe, the "Yorkshire Ripper"
- 1980 President Carter announces U.S. boycott of Moscow Olympics
- 1977 Mary Shane hired by Chicago White Sox as 1st woman TV play-by-play
- 1976 "Candide" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 740 performances
- 1976 "Home Sweet Homer" opens and closes at Palace Theater New York City
- 1975 "Good News" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 16 performances
- 1975 "Gypsy" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 120 performances
- 1975 "Over Here" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 341 performances
- 1975 Ford Executive Order on CIA Activities within the U.S. (No 11828)
- 1975 Ice thickness measured at 4776 m, Wilkes Land, Antarctica
- 1975 Montreal Canadiens shutout Washington Capitals 10-0
- 1974 Nixon refuses to hand over tapes subpoenaed by Watergate Committee
- 1971 Congressional Black Caucus organizes
- 1971 Dr. Melvin H Evans inaugurated as 1st elected governor of Virgin Is
- 1971 Philadelphia's Veteran Stadium dedicated
- 1970 Beatles last recording session at EMI studios
- 1970 New York City transit fare rises from 20 cents to 30 cents, new larger tokens used
- 1970 Walter Cronkite ends hosting weekly documentary
- 1969 "Fig Leaves Are Falling" closes at Broadhurst New York City after 4 performances
- 1969 France begins arms embargo against Israel
- 1968 Duck hunter accidentally shoots endangered whooping crane in Texas
- 1968 Leo Fender sells Fender Guitars for $13 million
- 1966 Doug Walters scores second Test century in his second Test
- 1966 WFLD TV channel 32 in Chicago, IL (IND) begins broadcasting
- 1965 Lyndon Baines Johnson's "Great Society" State of the Union Address
- 1963 Soviet Luna (4) reaches Earth orbit but fails to reach Moon
- 1962 1st automated (unmanned) subway train (New York City)
- 1961 Longest recorded strike ends-33 yrs-Danish barbers' assistants
- 1960 European Free Trade Association forms in Stockholm
- 1959 Luna 1, Mechta, becomes 1st craft to leave Earth's gravity
- 1958 Sputnik 1 reenters atmosphere and burns up
- 1957 "Blondie" situation comedy premieres on NBC TV (later on CBS)
- 1957 Dodgers buy 44 passenger twin-engine airplane for $775,000
- 1954 Elvis Presley records a 10 minute demo in Nashville
- 1954 Soap Opera "The Brighter Day" premieres
- 1953 KTSM TV channel 9 in El Paso, Texas (NBC) begins broadcasting
- 1951 During Korean conflict, Chinese forces capture Seoul
- 1948 Burma declares independence from UK
- 1947 "Park Avenue" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 72 performances
- 1947 "Show Boat" closes at Ziegfeld Theater New York City after 417 performances
- 1945 Germans execute resistance fighters in Amsterdam
- 1945 U.S. jeep-aircraft carrier Ommaney Bay sinks after kamikaze attack
- 1943 Thomas Mann completes his tetralogy, "Joseph and His Brothers"
- 1942 NFL Pro Bowl: Chi Bears beats NFL All-Stars 35-24
- 1942 Premier Churchill and General Marshall fly to Florida
- 1942 Rogers Hornsby is 14th player selected to the Hall of Fame
- 1941 Resistance fighters counter d'Estienne d'Orves/Jan Doornik, 1st meet
- 1941 Sergey Rachmaninov's "Symphonie Dances," premieres in Philadelphia
- 1939 Frieda Wunderlich elected 1st woman dean of a U.S. graduate school
- 1939 Hermann Goering appoints Reinhard Heydrich head of Jewish Emigration
- 1936 Billboard magazine publishes its 1st music hit parade
- 1936 Grimmett becomes world record wicket taker with no 190 vs. South Africa
- 1935 Bob Hope 1st heard on network radio as part of "The Intimate Revue"
- 1935 Fort Jefferson National Monument in Florida established
- 1934 1st Dutch talkie movie, Jan Teunissen's "Willem of Orange," premieres
- 1932 Bradman scores 167 for Australia vs. South Africa at the MCG
- 1932 British East Indies Viceroy Willingdon arrests Gandhi and Nehru
- 1932 State of siege proclaimed in Honduras
- 1926 Theodorus Pangalos resigns as Greek dictator
- 1925 French psychologist Emil Coue brings his self-esteem therapy to U.S. "Every day in every way I am getting better and better"
- 1923 1st broadcast of "Barn Dance Show" (WBAP - Ft. Worth Texas)
- 1923 Lenin's "Political Testament" calls for removal of Stalin
- 1921 Eugene O'Neill's "Diff'rent," premieres in New York City
- 1920 Amsterdam actors decide to strike for retirement benefits
- 1915 1st elected Jewish governor, Moses Alexander, takes office in Idaho
- 1915 Trans-Caucausus Russian defeat Turkish troops
- 1912 Smallest earth-moon distance this century, 356,375 km center-to-ctr
- 1907 George Bernard Shaw's "Don Juan in Hell," premieres in London
- 1906 South Africa beat England by one wicket, their 1st Test win
- 1904 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 beat Winnipeg Rowing Club, 2 games to 1
- 1904 Supreme Court rules Puerto Ricans cannot be denied admission to US
- 1902 Hugh Trumble takes a hat-trick vs. England at the MCG
- 1898 1st installment of William Dean Howell's "Life and Letters" appears
- 1896 AFL charters Actors' National Protective Union, New York City
- 1896 Following Mormon abandonment of polygamy, Utah admitted as 45th state
- 1894 France ratifies Duple Alliance with Russia
- 1893 U.S. President Cleveland grants amnesty to Mormon polygamy
- 1887 Thomas Stevens is 1st man to bicycle around the world (SF-SF)
- 1885 Dr. W W Grant of Iowa, performs 1st appendectomy (on Mary Gartside, 22)
- 1884 Last sighting of an eastern cougar (Ontario)
- 1883 Ontario Rugby Football Union (forerunner of CFL) forms
- 1881 Johannes Brahms' "Academic Festival Overture" premieres, Breslau
- 1863 4 wheeled roller skates patented by James Plimpton of NY
- 1862 Battle of Helena, AK
- 1862 Romney Campaign-Stonewall Jackson occupies Bath
- 1861 President Buchanan appoints a fast on account of threatened succession
- 1861 U.S. Ft. Morgan, Mobile, seized by Alabama
- 1843 Gaetano Donizetti's opera "Don Pasquale," premieres in Paris
- 1843 Royal Academy (Technical Hague court) Delft opens
- 1790 President Washington delivers 1st State of the Union address
- 1781 Andre Mechain discovers M80 (globular cluster in Scorpio)
- 1780 Snowstorm hit Washington's army at Morristown, NJ
- 1762 England declares war on Spain and Naples
- 1754 Columbia University founded, as Kings College (New York City)
- 1725 Benjamin Franklin arrives in London
- 1717 Netherlands, England and France sign Triple Alliance
- 1642 King Charles I with 400 soldiers attacks the English parliament
- 1570 Spanish viceroy Alva banishes Zutphen City's only physician, Joost Sweiter, "because he is a Jew"
- 1519 1st Altenburger sermon (Luther and Karl von Miltitz)
- 1493 Columbus left new world on return from 1st voyage
- 1357 Flemish earl Louis and Luxembourg Duke Wenceslaus sign peace treaty
- 871 Battle at Reading: Ethelred of Wessex beats Danish invasion army
- 274 St. Eutychian begins his reign as Catholic Pope
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