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Events
475 Basiliscus becomes Byzantine Emperor, with a coronation ceremony in the Hebdomon palace in Constantinople
1493 Last day for all Jews to leave Sicily
1528 – Gustav I of Sweden crowned king of Sweden, rules for 37 years and becomes known as the "father of the nation".
1552 Dutch west coast hit by heavy storm, hundreds killed
1554 – Bayinnaung, who would go on to assemble the largest empire in the history of Southeast Asia, is crowned King of Burma.
1583 Holland begins use of Gregorian calendar (yesterday was 1/1/1583)
1598 Pope Clement VIII seizes duchy of Ferrara on death of Alfonso
1616 – The city of Belém is founded in Pará, Brazil by Francisco Caldeira Castelo Branco.
1773 First public museum established in north American colonies (Charlestown, SC)
1777 – General Hugh Mercer, one of the Continental Army’s most skilled and experienced leaders, died of wounds received at the Battle of Princeton.
1777 – Mission Santa Clara de Asís is founded in what is now Santa Clara, California.
1803 US Senate approves Thomas Jefferson's nomination of James Monroe and Robert Livingstone to negotiate purchase of New Orleans from France
1806 French evacuate Vienna
1807 Gunpowder-ship explodes in Leiden, Netherlands, 150 die
1808 – The organizational meeting that led to the creation of the Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is held in Edinburgh, Scotland.
1808 – John Rennie's scheme to defend St Mary's Church, Reculver, founded in 669, from coastal erosion was abandoned in favour of demolition, despite the church being an exemplar of Anglo-Saxon architecture and sculpture.
1809 British take Cayenne (French Guiana) from French (until 1814)
1812 1st cargo arrives in New Orleans by steam, from Natchez
1816 France decrees Bonaparte family excluded from the country forever
1820 Astronomical Society of London (now the Royal Astronomical Society) founded in England
1836 Battle of Wetumka, Fla
1836 HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin reaches Sydney, Australia
1839 Anthracite coal 1st used to smelt iron, Mauch Chunk, Penn
1842 Franciscan nuns begin missionary work on Netherland Antilles
1848 – The Palermo rising takes place in Sicily against the Bourbon Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
1861 Florida state troops demand surrender of Fort Pickens (US Civil War)
1863 President Davis delivers his "State of Confederacy" address
1866 – The Royal Aeronautical Society is formed in London.
1867 Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy's play "Smert Ioanna Groznogo" (The Death of Ivan the Terrible) premieres in St Petersburg
1872 – Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first imperial coronation in that city in over 200 years.
1875 Kwang-su becomes Emperor of China
1879 – The British-Zulu War begins as British troops under Lieutenant General Frederic Augustus invade Zululand from the southern African republic of Natal.
1895 – The National Trust is founded in the United Kingdom.
1895 The National Trust is founded in Britain.
1896 1st X-ray photo in US (Dr Henry Smith, Davidson NC)
1898 – Itō Hirobumi begins his third term as Prime Minister of Japan.
1899 – Thirteen crew members and five apprentices are rescued from the stricken schooner Forest Hall by the Lynmouth Lifeboat when the former founders off the coast of Devon.
1900 Freeland Colony founded in US
1902 – Uddevalla Suffrage Association is formally dissolved.
1904 Herero people of South West Africa, now Namibia, rebel against German colonial rule
1906 – Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's cabinet (which included amongst its members H. H. Asquith, David Lloyd George, and Winston Churchill) embarks on sweeping social reforms after a Liberal landslide in the British general election.
1906 – The Dow Jones closes above 100 for the first time.
1907 Britain grants responsible government to former colony of Transvaal
1908 – A long-distance radio message is sent from the Eiffel Tower for the first time.
1911 – The University of the Philippines College of Law is formally established; three future Philippine presidents are among the first enrollees.
1912 -47°F (-44°C), Washta, Iowa (state record)
1913 After using other pseudonyms over the years, Josef Dzhugashvili signs himself as Stalin ("man of steel") in a letter to the newspaper Social Democrat
1915 – The US House of Representatives rejects a proposal to give women the right to vote.
1915 – The Rocky Mountain National Park is formed by an act of U.S. Congress.
1916 Britain proclaims Gilbert & Ellice Islands as a colony in Pacific
1916 – Both Oswald Boelcke and Max Immelmann, for achieving eight aerial victories each over Allied aircraft, receive the German Empire's highest military award, the Pour le Mérite as the first German aviators to earn it.
1918 – Finland's "Mosaic Confessors" law goes into effect, making Finnish Jews full citizens.
1921 – Acting to restore confidence in baseball after the Black Sox Scandal, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis is elected as Major League Baseball's first commissioner.
1924 History of Science Society organized at Boston
1925 John Howard Lawson's "Processional" premieres in NYC
1926 – Original Sam 'n' Henry aired on Chicago radio later renamed Amos 'n' Andy in 1928.
1928 Philip Barry and Elmer Rice's play "Cock Robin" premieres in NYC
1928 Philip Barry and Elmer Rice's play "Cock Robin" premieres in NYC
1929 Seatrain (RR cars on ships) service begins, New Orleans-Havana
1932 – Hattie Caraway (D-Ark) becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate.
1932 Philip Barry's "Animal Kingdom" premieres in NYC.
1933 Uprising of Guardia Civil in Spain, 25 die.
1933 US Congress recognizes the Philippines' independence.
1937 Plough for laying submarine cable patented.
1939 – In New York, Publisher Martin Goodman founds Timely Comics, which would later become Marvel.
1940 World War II: Soviets bombs cities in Finland.
1942 British troops reconquer Sollum
1942 Dutch troops on Tarakan surrender
1942 – World War II: United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt creates the National War Labor Board.
1943 Frankfurters replaced by Victory Sausages (mix of meat & soy meal)
1944 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill & French General Charles de Gaulle begin a 2-day wartime conference in Marrakesh
1944 Failed resistance raid on distribution office of Borgerstraat, Amsterdam
1945 German forces in Belgium retreat in Battle of Bulge
1945 The Soviets begin a large offensive against the Nazis in Eastern Europe
1945 US Task Force 38 destroys 41 Japanese ships in Battle of South China Sea
1948 First Supermarket in UK opens
1948 Mahatma Gandhi begins his final fast
1948 US Supreme Court in Sipuel v Oklahoma State Board of Regents ruled unanimously (9–0) to force the University of Oklahoma law school to admit Ada Lois Sipuel, the school's first African American student.
1949 "Arthur Godfrey & his Friends" premieres on CBS TV
1949 Dutch court affirms death sentence against SS chief Hanns Rauter
1950 Swedish tanker rams British submarine Truculent in Thames, 64 die
1950 USSR re-introduces death penalty for treason, espionage & sabotage
1952 University of Tennessee admits its 1st black student, Gene Mitchell Gray, as a graduate student in chemistry
1953 9 "Jewish" physicians arrested for "terrorist activities" in Moscow
1954 Austria's worst avalanche-kills 200; 9hrs later 2nd one-kills 115
1954 Queen Elizabeth II opens New Zealand parliament
1956 FBi arrests 6 members of the Great Brink's robbery gang, 6 days before statute of limitations runs out
1957 Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC) founded with Martin Luther King Jr. as leader at Ebenezer Church in Atlanta
1959 American record company Motown is founded by Berry Gordy Jr. as Tamla Records
1959 – The Caves of Nerja are rediscovered in Spain.
1961 "Show Girl" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 100 performances
1961 UN genocide pact goes into effect
1962 – Vietnam War: Operation Chopper, the first American combat mission in the war, begins.
1962 Operation Ranch Hand begins, a US Air Force operation to spray South Vietnamese forests with defoliants such as Agent Orange
1963 "Go Away Little Girl" by Steve Lawrence peaks at #1
1964 – Rebels in Zanzibar begin a revolt known as the Zanzibar Revolution, overthrow the Sultan of Zanzibar one month after independence, and proclaim a republic.
1966 – Lyndon B. Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended.
1966 12 day NYC transit strike ends
1966 3 British Members of Parliament are attacked in a hotel in Salisbury, Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe)
1966 "Batman", starring Adam West as Batman, Burt Ward as Robin, and Cesar Romero as The Joker, debuts on ABC
1967 – Dr. James Bedford becomes the first person to be cryonically preserved with intent of future resuscitation; remains preserved at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation
1967 NBC revival of Jack Webb's police drama "Dragnet", now broadcast in color, debuts; runs through 1970
1968 Beatles Film Production Ltd changes name to Apple Film Production Ltd
1968 Nighttime version of "Hollywood Squares" premieres on NBC TV
1969 "Golden Rainbow" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 355 performances
1969 Atlantic Records releases eponymous debut album of Led Zeppelin in US
1969 – The New York Jets of the American Football League defeat the Baltimore Colts of the National Football League to win Super Bowl III in what is considered to be one of the greatest upsets in sports history.
1970 – Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian Civil War.
1971 – The Harrisburg Seven: Rev. Philip Berrigan and five other activists are indicted on charges of conspiring to kidnap Henry Kissinger and of plotting to blow up the heating tunnels of federal buildings in Washington, D.C.
1971 "All in the Family" premieres on CBS featuring 1st toilet flush on TV
1971 "Soon" opens at Ritz Theater NYC for 3 performances
1971 Two bombs explode at UK Employment Secretary Robert Carr's home
1971 Congressional Black Caucus organizes
1971 Negotiations over price of petroleum begin in Tehran between 6 OPEC Persian Gulf states and 22 oil companies
1972 Abu Sayeed Chudhury becomes President of Bangladesh and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Prime Minister
1974 "Joker" by Steve Miller Band peaks at #1
1974 Libya & Tunisia announces they are merging as "Islamic Arab Republic"
1975 Chrysler Corp offers 1st car rebates
1976 – The UN Security Council votes 11-1 to allow the Palestine Liberation Organization to participate in a Security Council debate (without voting rights).
1977 "Ipi Tombi" opens at Harkness Theater NYC for 39 performances
1977 Anti-French demonstrations takes place in Israel after Paris released Abu Daoud, responsible 1972 Munich massacre of Israeli athletes
1979 LA's Hillside Strangler, Kenneth Bianchi, arrested in Bellingham
1979 Record blizzard strikes the US midwest killing over 100
1981 -35°F (-37°C), Chester, Massachusetts (state record)
1981 Soap opera "Dynasty" produced by Aaron Spelling and starring John Forsythe, Linda Evans and Joan Collins premieres on ABC-TV
1987 Britain's Prince Edward resigns from his Royal Marines training
1989 Ex-dictator of Uganda Idi Amin expelled from Zaire
1990 Civil rights activist Reverend Al Sharpton is stabbed in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn
1990 Romania bans Communist party (1st Warsaw Pact member to do so)
1992 A new constitution, providing for freedom to form political parties, is approved by a referendum in Mali.
1992 Algeria's general elections canceled after strong gains by Islamic Salvation Front in the 1st round
1992 Highest scoring NCAA basketball game; Troy State Trojans defeat DeVry Hoyas 258-149 in Troy, Alabama
1992 Last building in Gateway area in Cleveland is demolished
1994 Malcolm X's daughter arrested for plotting Louis Farrakham's murder
1995 Major earthquake kills 5,092 in Kobe Japan
1995 Murder trial against O.J. Simpson, begins in LA
1995 Pope John Paul II begins visit to SE Asia
1996 Russian troops arrived in Bosnia (joint operation with US)
1997 Space Shuttle STS 81 (Atlantis 18), launches into space
1998 – Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning.
2000 – In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Illinois v. Wardlow, gave police broad authority to stop and question people who run at the sight of an officer.
2001 – Downtown Disney opens to the public as part of the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California.
2004 – The world's largest ocean liner, RMS Queen Mary 2, makes its maiden voyage.
2005 – Deep Impact launches from Cape Canaveral on a Delta II rocket.
2006 – A stampede during the Stoning of the Devil ritual on the last day at the Hajj in Mina, Saudi Arabia, kills at least 362 Muslim pilgrims.
2006 – The French warship Clemenceau reaches Egypt and is barred access to the Suez Canal. Greenpeace activists board the ship.
2006 French warship Clemenceau reaches Egypt and is barred access to the Suez Canal. Greenpeace activists board the ship.
2006 The foreign ministers of the United Kingdom, France, and Germany declare that negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program have reached a dead end and recommend that Iran be referred to the United Nations Security Council.
2006 Turkey releases Mehmet Ali Ağca from jail after he served 25 years for shooting Pope John Paul II
2007 – Comet C/2006 P1 (McNaught) reaches perihelion becoming the brightest comet in more than 40 years.
2010 Colombia officially leaves the recession after achieving 2% economic growth in the last quarter of 2009
2010 – An earthquake in Haiti kills an estimated 160,000 and destroys much of the capital Port-au-Prince.
2012 – Violent protests occur in Bucharest, Romania, as two-day-old demonstrations continue against President Traian Băsescu's economic austerity measures. Clashes are reported in numerous Romanian cities between protesters and law enforcement officers.
2013 A failed attempt to rescue a French hostage in Bulo Marer, Somalia, results in 18 deaths
2013 Beijing’s level of air pollution is declared to be at levels that are hazardous to human health
2015 – Cameroon kills 143 Boko Haram fighters in clashes.
2015 – A serviceman stationed at the Russian 102nd Military Base, kills seven people in Gyumri, Armenia.
2017 US President Barack Obama in surprise presentation awards Vice President Joe Biden with the Presidential Medal of Freedom
2019 18 year-old Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun arrives in Toronto, Canada, as a refugee, via Thailand, after escaping family abuse in Saudi Arabia
2020 Taal volcano, 70km (45 miles) south of Manila in the Philippines begins erupting prompting evacuations
2021 India's Supreme Court puts on hold three controversial new farm laws that ignited weeks of protests by farmers in Delhi
2022 UK PM Boris Johnson admits he attended a "bring your own booze" staff party in May 2020 during the country's first lockdown
2023 Special counsel to investigate President Joe Biden's handling of classified documents appointed by US Attorney General Merrick Garland
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Within the Octave of the Epiphany.
Contemporary Western
Aelred of Rievaulx
Benedict Biscop
Bernard of Corleone
Marguerite Bourgeoys
Tatiana
Benedict Biscop
Bernard of Corleone
Marguerite Bourgeoys
Tatiana
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
Feasts
Saints
Martyr Tatiana of Rome, and those who suffered with her (c. 222 - 235)
Martyr Mertius of Mauretania (284-305)
Martyr Philotheus of Antioch (c. 305)
Martyr Peter Apselamus of Eleutheropolis in Palestine (309)
Venerable Eupraxia of Tabenna in Egypt (393)
Saints Tygrius the Presbyter, and Eutropius the Lector, at Constantinople (c. 395 - 408)
Holy Eight Martyrs of Nicaea, by the sword
Virgin-Martyr Euthasia, by the sword
Venerable Elias the Wonderworker of Egypt, Desert Father (4th c.)
Venerable Theodora of Alexandria, instructress of nuns (5th c.)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Saint Probus, Bishop of Verona in Italy (c. 59)
Saint Arcadius of Mauretania, a prominent citizen of Caesarea in Mauretania
Caesariensis, barbarously martyred under Maximianus Herculeus (c. 302)
Martyrs Zoticus, Rogatus, Modestus, Casutlus, between forty and fifty soldiers, in Africa
Saint John of Ravenna (Giovanni I Angelopte), Bishop of Ravenna and Confessor (494)
Saint Caesaria, the gifted sister of St Caesarius of Arles and Abbess of the convent
founded there by her brother (c. 530)
Saint Victorian of Asan, founder and abbot of the monastery of Asan
(now called San Vitorián) (c. 560)
Saint Eilian of Rome (Eilian of Anglesey), (6th c.)
Saint Salvius (Sauve), Bishop of Amiens, his relics were enshrined
in Montreuil in Picardy (c. 625)
Saint Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth and Confessor (690)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Saint Sava I, Enlightener and first Archbishop of Serbia (1235)
Venerable Martinian of White Lake, Abbot (1483)
Venerable Galacteon, disciple of St. Martinian of White Lake, Fool for Christ (1506)
Venerable Archimandrite Theodosius of Tisman and Sophroniev Monasteries,
fellow-struggler of St. Paisius Velichkovsky (1802)
Saint John of Tula, Fool-for-Christ (1850)
Other commemorations
Synaxis of the Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "The Milk-giver"
(Panagia Galaktotrofoussa; Mlekopitatelnica)
Synaxis of the Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Akathist"
Synaxis of the Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Mesopantitissis" in Crete
(Theotokos of Mesopantitissis)
Icon of the Mother of God "Priestly" (Popskaya)
Commemoration of the Church of St. Alexander, near the Church of the Holy
Apostles, in Constantinople
Martyr Tatiana of Rome, and those who suffered with her (c. 222 - 235)
Martyr Mertius of Mauretania (284-305)
Martyr Philotheus of Antioch (c. 305)
Martyr Peter Apselamus of Eleutheropolis in Palestine (309)
Venerable Eupraxia of Tabenna in Egypt (393)
Saints Tygrius the Presbyter, and Eutropius the Lector, at Constantinople (c. 395 - 408)
Holy Eight Martyrs of Nicaea, by the sword
Virgin-Martyr Euthasia, by the sword
Venerable Elias the Wonderworker of Egypt, Desert Father (4th c.)
Venerable Theodora of Alexandria, instructress of nuns (5th c.)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Saint Probus, Bishop of Verona in Italy (c. 59)
Saint Arcadius of Mauretania, a prominent citizen of Caesarea in Mauretania
Caesariensis, barbarously martyred under Maximianus Herculeus (c. 302)
Martyrs Zoticus, Rogatus, Modestus, Casutlus, between forty and fifty soldiers, in Africa
Saint John of Ravenna (Giovanni I Angelopte), Bishop of Ravenna and Confessor (494)
Saint Caesaria, the gifted sister of St Caesarius of Arles and Abbess of the convent
founded there by her brother (c. 530)
Saint Victorian of Asan, founder and abbot of the monastery of Asan
(now called San Vitorián) (c. 560)
Saint Eilian of Rome (Eilian of Anglesey), (6th c.)
Saint Salvius (Sauve), Bishop of Amiens, his relics were enshrined
in Montreuil in Picardy (c. 625)
Saint Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth and Confessor (690)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Saint Sava I, Enlightener and first Archbishop of Serbia (1235)
Venerable Martinian of White Lake, Abbot (1483)
Venerable Galacteon, disciple of St. Martinian of White Lake, Fool for Christ (1506)
Venerable Archimandrite Theodosius of Tisman and Sophroniev Monasteries,
fellow-struggler of St. Paisius Velichkovsky (1802)
Saint John of Tula, Fool-for-Christ (1850)
Other commemorations
Synaxis of the Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "The Milk-giver"
(Panagia Galaktotrofoussa; Mlekopitatelnica)
Synaxis of the Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Akathist"
Synaxis of the Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Mesopantitissis" in Crete
(Theotokos of Mesopantitissis)
Icon of the Mother of God "Priestly" (Popskaya)
Commemoration of the Church of St. Alexander, near the Church of the Holy
Apostles, in Constantinople
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