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Events
378 General Siyaj K'ak', a Mayan warlord, conquers Tikal and increases the domain of Teotihuacan
1129 Formal approval of the Order of Templars at the Council of Troyes
1301 – Andrew III of Hungary dies, ending the Árpád dynasty in Hungary.
1343 – Arnošt of Pardubice becomes the last bishop of Prague and, subsequently, the first Archbishop of Prague.
1501 Martin Luther enters the University of Erfurt, aged 17
1514 Pope Leo X issues a papal bull against slavery
1526 Charles V and Francis I sign the Treaty of Madrid, forcing Francis to give up claims to Burgundy, Italy and Flanders
1539 – Spain annexes Cuba.
1601 Church authorities in Rome burn Hebrew books
1639 – The "Fundamental Orders", the first written constitution in the American Colonies that created a government, is adopted by representatives from the Connecticut towns of Hartford, Wethersfield, and Windsor, and published by Rodger Ludlow
1641 Dutch East India Company conquers the city of Malacca, 7,000 killed
1659 Battle at Elvas: Portuguese beat Spanish
1690 The musical instrument, the clarinet is invented in Nürnberg, Germany
1699 Massachusetts holds day of fasting for wrongly persecuting "witches"
1717 German mob leader and thief "Sjako" sentenced to death in Amsterdam
1724 – King Philip V of Spain abdicates the throne.
1739 Britain and Spain sign 2nd Convention of Pardo
1746 "Bonnie Prince Charlie", Prince Charles Edward Stuart's army leaves Glasgow, Scotland [OS=Jan 3]
1761 – Third Battle of Panipat: In one of the largest battles of the century, the mostly Muslim Afghani Durrani Empire defeats the mostly Hindu Maratha Empire in Northern India. An estimated 60,000–70,000 were killed in the fighting and about 40,000 Maratha prisoners massacred afterwards.
1784 – American Revolutionary War: Ratification Day, United States Congress of the Confederation ratifies the Treaty of Paris, signed September 3, 1783, ending the Revolutionary War, and forwards it to Great Britain.
1785 Amadeus Mozart completes his String Quartet No. 19 in C ("Dissonanzenquartett / "Dissonance quartet") the last of six quartet set dedicated to Joseph Haydn (Op. 10/6, K. 465)
1761 – Third Battle of Panipat: In one of the largest battles of the century, the mostly Muslim Afghani Durrani Empire defeats the mostly Hindu Maratha Empire in Northern India. An estimated 60,000–70,000 were killed in the fighting and about 40,000 Maratha prisoners massacred afterwards.
1784 – American Revolutionary War: Ratification Day, United States Congress of the Confederation ratifies the Treaty of Paris, signed September 3, 1783, ending the Revolutionary War, and forwards it to Great Britain.
1785 Amadeus Mozart completes his String Quartet No. 19 in C ("Dissonanzenquartett / "Dissonance quartet") the last of six quartet set dedicated to Joseph Haydn (Op. 10/6, K. 465)
1794 Dr Jessee Bennet of Edom, Virginia, performs 1st successful Cesarean section operation in the US on his wife
1799 Eli Whitney receives government contract for 10,000 muskets
1814 – Treaty of Kiel: Frederick VI of Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden in return for Pomerania.
1822 – Greek War of Independence: Acrocorinth is captured by Theodoros Kolokotronis and Demetrios Ypsilantis.
1858 – Napoleon III of France escapes an assassination attempt by Felice Orsini, an Italian patriot who was later executed.
1907 – An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than 1,000.
1911 – Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition makes landfall on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf.
1912 Raymond Poincaré becomes Premier of France
1914 The Gandhi-Smuts Agreement is reached between Gen. J.C. Smuts and Mahatma Gandhi, regarding voluntary registration, poll tax, recognition of Indian marriages and other matters
1933 George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind's musical political satire "Of Thee I Sing" closes at the Music Box Theatre, NYC, after for 441 performances; first musical to win Pulitzer Prize for Drama
1935 Iraq-Mediterranean oil pipeline goes into use
1936 L. M. (Mario) Giannini elected President of Bank of America
1939 – Norway claims Queen Maud Land in Antarctica.
1942 Japanese troops land at oil center Balikpapan in Borneo
1943 – World War II: Japan begins Operation Ke, the successful operation to evacuate its forces from Guadalcanal during the Guadalcanal Campaign.
1943 – World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to travel by airplane while in office when he travels from Miami to Morocco to meet with Winston Churchill.
1943 – World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill begin the Casablanca Conference to discuss strategy and study the next phase of the war.
1950 – The first prototype of the MiG-17 makes its maiden flight.
1952 Rationing of coffee in Netherlands ends
1952 – NBC's long-running morning news program Today debuts, hosted by Dave Garroway and Jack Lescoulie.
1953 – Marshal Josip Broz Tito is inaugurated as the first President of Yugoslavia.
1954 – The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with Nash-Kelvinator Corporation forming the American Motors Corporation.
1954 – Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio are married at San Francisco City Hall. The marriage lasts about nine months.
1957 – Kripalu Maharaj was named fifth Jagadguru (world teacher) after giving seven days of speeches before 500 Hindu scholars.
1960 – The Reserve Bank of Australia, the country's central bank and banknote issuing authority, is established.
1960 Tuindorp-Oostzaan in Northern Amsterdam, flooded
1799 Eli Whitney receives government contract for 10,000 muskets
1799 King of Naples flees before advancing French armies
1813 Gideon Hawley becomes 1st state school superintendent in US (NY)
1814 – Treaty of Kiel: Frederick VI of Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden in return for Pomerania.
1822 – Greek War of Independence: Acrocorinth is captured by Theodoros Kolokotronis and Demetrios Ypsilantis.
1858 – Napoleon III of France escapes an assassination attempt by Felice Orsini, an Italian patriot who was later executed.
1863 Battle between gunboats at Bayou Teche, Louisiana
1864 Battle of Cosby Creek, Tennessee
1864 General Sherman begins his march to the South
1868 North Carolina constitutional convention meets in Raleigh
1868 South Carolina constitutional convention meets with a black majority
1873 "Celluloid" registered as a trademark by its inventor John Wesley Hyatt
1873 Prominent African American Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback elected to US Senate (though never seated due to state elections controversy)
1874 I. D. Shadd elected Speaker of lower house of Mississippi legislature
1878 US Supreme court rules race separation on trains unconstitutional
1900 Giacomo Puccini's opera "Tosca" premieres in Rome
1905 Raymond Hubbell, Sam Shubert & Robert Smith's musical "Fontana" opens at the Lyric Theatre, NYC; runs 298 for performances
1907 – An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than 1,000.
1911 – Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition makes landfall on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf.
1912 Raymond Poincaré becomes Premier of France
1914 The Gandhi-Smuts Agreement is reached between Gen. J.C. Smuts and Mahatma Gandhi, regarding voluntary registration, poll tax, recognition of Indian marriages and other matters
1916 Dutch Zuiderzee dyke cracks
1918 Finland and USSR adopt New Style (Gregorian) calendar
1925 Alban Berg's atonale opera "Wozzeck" premieres in Berlin
1929 Afghan King Amanullah forced to resign
1933 George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind's musical political satire "Of Thee I Sing" closes at the Music Box Theatre, NYC, after for 441 performances; first musical to win Pulitzer Prize for Drama
1935 Iraq-Mediterranean oil pipeline goes into use
1936 L. M. (Mario) Giannini elected President of Bank of America
1938 National Society for Legalization of Euthanasia forms (NY)
1939 All commercial ferry services between San Francisco and East Bay end
1939 – Norway claims Queen Maud Land in Antarctica.
1942 Japanese troops land at oil center Balikpapan in Borneo
1943 – World War II: Japan begins Operation Ke, the successful operation to evacuate its forces from Guadalcanal during the Guadalcanal Campaign.
1943 – World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to travel by airplane while in office when he travels from Miami to Morocco to meet with Winston Churchill.
1943 – World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill begin the Casablanca Conference to discuss strategy and study the next phase of the war.
1944 Soviet army begins offensive at Oranienbaum/Wolchow
1945 In Greece, Communists and the British agree to a cease-fire in the struggle to control Athens (and with it Greece)
1946 2 jetties collapse in Ganges, crushing 160 Hindu pilgrims
1949 Black and Indian race rebellion in Durban, South Africa; 142 die
1950 "As the Girls Go" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 420 performances
1950 US recalls all consular officials from China
1950 – The first prototype of the MiG-17 makes its maiden flight.
1952 Rationing of coffee in Netherlands ends
1952 – NBC's long-running morning news program Today debuts, hosted by Dave Garroway and Jack Lescoulie.
1952 Snowstorm in Sierra Nevada kills 26
1953 Vaughan William's "Sinfonia Antartica" premieres in Manchester
1953 – Marshal Josip Broz Tito is inaugurated as the first President of Yugoslavia.
1954 – The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with Nash-Kelvinator Corporation forming the American Motors Corporation.
1954 – Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio are married at San Francisco City Hall. The marriage lasts about nine months.
1954 Sandy Wilson's musical "The Boy Friend" opens at Wyndham's Theatre, in London's West End
1955 Heitor Villa-Lobos' 8th Symphony premieres by the Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by the composer, in Carnegie Hall, New York City
1956 Jordan government refuses to join Pact of Baghdad
1956 Little Richard releases single "Tutti Frutti"
1957 – Kripalu Maharaj was named fifth Jagadguru (world teacher) after giving seven days of speeches before 500 Hindu scholars.
1960 – The Reserve Bank of Australia, the country's central bank and banknote issuing authority, is established.
1960 Tuindorp-Oostzaan in Northern Amsterdam, flooded
1960 US Army promotes Elvis Presley to Sergeant
1963 "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath is published by Heinemann in the UK, the author commits suicide a month later
1963 George Wallace sworn in as Governor of Alabama, his address states "segregation now; segregation tomorrow; segregation forever!"
1964 Jacqueline Kennedy's 1st public appearance (TV) since US President JFK's assassination
1966 David Bowie releases his 1st single "Can't Help Thinking About Me"
1967 20,000 attend Human Be-In, San Francisco
1967 Earthquake in Sicily kills 231
1967 New York Times reports Army is conducting secret germ warfare experiments
1967 Sonny & Cher release single "Beat Goes On"
1969 – An accidental explosion aboard the USS Enterprise near Hawaii kills 27 people.
1969 Soyuz 4 launched; rendezvous with Soyuz 5 two days later
1970 Royal Ulster Constabulary officers patrol the Falls Road area of Belfast for the first time since 1969
1972 "Sanford & Son" starring Redd Foxx and Demond Wilson premieres on NBC TV
1972 – Queen Margrethe II of Denmark ascends the throne, the first Queen of Denmark since 1412 and the first Danish monarch not named Frederick or Christian since 1513.
1973 – Elvis Presley's concert Aloha from Hawaii is broadcast live via satellite, and sets the record as the most watched broadcast by an individual entertainer in television history.
1973 2 Royal Ulster Constabulary officers are killed in Derry by a booby-trap bomb attached to their car by the Irish Republican Army
1973 Dancer Roy Castle is measured at 1,440 taps/min on BBC TV
1973 Grateful Dead bass player, Phil Lesh, busted on drugs in California
1975 USSR breaks trade agreement with US
1976 "The Bionic Woman" with Lindsay Wagner debuts on ABC (later NBC)
1977 "Fantasy Island" starring Ricardo Montalbán and Hervé Villechaize premieres on ABC TV
1977 RCA releases David Bowie's 11th studio album, "Low"; the album is the first collaboration with Brian Eno, in what becomes known as his 'Berlin trilogy'
1979 US President Jimmy Carter proposes Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday be a federal holiday
1981 US Federal Communications Commission frees stations to air as many commercials an hour as they wish
1985 16 indicted by US for granting sanctuary to Central American refugees
1985 British pound sinks to record low $US1.11
1986 Constitution of Guatemala takes effect
1986 Vinicio Cerezo becomes only the second freely elected President of Guatemala since CIA-sponsored coup in 1954
1989 "Romance/Romance" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 297 performances
1989 1,000 Muslims burn Salman Rushdies' "Satanic Verses" in Bradford, England
1989 29 year old French woman gives birth to sextuplets in Paris
1989 Former Belgian premier Paul Vanden Boeynants kidnapped
1990 Un Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar says he has lost all hope for peace in Gulf
1991 Jorge Serrano Elias sworn in as President of Guatemala
1991 Tyne Daly arrested for drunk driving in Van Nuys, California
1991 Valentin Pavlov become new premier of USSR
1993 – In Poland's worst peacetime maritime disaster, ferry MS Jan Heweliusz sinks off the coast of Rügen, drowning 55 passengers and crew; nine crewmembers are saved.
1993 "Anna Christie" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 54 performances, starring Natasha Richardson and Liam Neeson,
1993 David Letterman announces his show is moving from NBC to CBS
1994 Russian manned space craft TM-17, lands
1994 The Duchess of Kent converts to Catholicism, the first member of the Royal Family to do so in more than 300 years
1995 10,000 South Africans attend state funeral of Joe Slovo
1995 Mexico pledges profits from state-owned Pemex's $7-billion-per-year oil revenues in an effort to secure US congressional approval of loan guarantees; President Clinton approves a $20-billion U.S. aid package for Mexico
1996 "Holiday" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 49 performances
1996 "Swinging On a Star" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 97 performances
1998 Researchers in Dallas, Texas present findings about an enzyme that slows aging and cell death (apoptosis)
1999 – Toronto Mayor Mel Lastman becomes the first mayor in Canada to call in the Army to help with emergency medical evacuations and snow removal after more than one meter of snow paralyzes the city.
2000 – A United Nations tribunal sentences five Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years for the 1993 killing of over 100 Muslims in a Bosnian village.
2002 UK declared free of foot-and-mouth cattle disease
2004 – The national flag of the Republic of Georgia, the so-called "five cross flag", is restored to official use after a hiatus of some 500 years.
2005 – The Huygens probe lands on Saturn's moon Titan.
2007 Legendary Russian test pilot Marina Popovich is awarded the honorary title "The Hero of the Nation" by the Russian Federation
2008 MESSENGER spacecraft performs a Mercury flyby
2010 – Yemen declares an open war against the terrorist group al-Qaeda.
2011 – Former president of Tunisia, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali flees his country to Saudi Arabia after a series of street demonstrations against his regime and corrupt policies, asking for freedom, rights and democracy, considered as the anniversary of the Tunisian Revolution and the birth of the Arab Spring.
2011 Stampede near Sabarimala in Kerala, India kills 104 devotees and injures 100 more
2012 Ma Ying-jeou wins re-election as President of the Republic of China with 51% of the vote
2012 Suicide bomber kills 53 and injures 130 in Basra, Iraq
2013 Mike Pence sworn in as 50th governor of Indiana
2014 American journalist David Satter is expelled from Russia
2015 63 people are killed and 70,000 are left homeless after floods devastate Mozambique and Malawi
2016 Sixth republican presidential candidates debate hosted by Fox, held in North Charleston, South Carolina
2019 Americans chance of dying from an accidental opioid overdose higher than a car accident for the first time, according to US National Safety Council
2019 China posts shock drop in trade figures with a 4.4% fall in exports for December and a 7.6% fall in imports
2019 Pawel Adamowicz, Mayor of Gdańsk, Poland, stabbed on stage at charity event. Dies two days later.
2019 Spinning disk of ice 300m wide, resembling the moon, forms in the Presumpscot river, Westbrook, Maine
2019 US President Donald Trump denies he is a Russian agent after NY Times article states the FBI started an investigation and the Washington Post raised issues over a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin
2019 US Republican leaders strip Congressman Steve King from House committees after series of racist comments
2020 US game show Jeopardy "greatest of all time" tournament won by Ken Jennings
2021 Brazilian governor of Amazonas state Wilson Lima says their COVID-19 surge is now as bad as April 2020, with hospitals running out of oxygen and patients ventilated manually
2021 Former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder charged and pleads not guilty to two counts of willful neglect of duty over the Flint water scandal that killed 12 people
2021 Pope Francis, 84, and Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI receive their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine
2021 Uganda elections re-elect President Museveni (in power since 1986), with main opposition presidential candidate Bobi Wine disputing the result
2021 Uganda elections re-elect President Museveni (in power since 1986), with main opposition presidential candidate Bobi Wine disputing the result
2021 US Secret Service takes control of Joe Biden's inauguration as 20,000 troops authorized to guard Washington D.C., more than those stationed in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Somalia
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Confessor, and Doctor of the Church. Double.
Commemoration of St. Felix, Priest and Martyr.
Contemporary Western
Barba'shmin
Blessed Devasahayam Pillai
Divina Pastora (Barquisimeto)
Felix of Nola
Macrina the Elder
Blessed Devasahayam Pillai
Divina Pastora (Barquisimeto)
Felix of Nola
Macrina the Elder
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eivind Berggrav (Lutheran)
Eastern Orthodox
Feasts
Saints
Virgin-martyr Agnes, in dark solitary confinement
Saint Nina (Nino), Equal-to-the-Apostles, Enlightener of Georgia (335)
Saint Joseph Analytinus of Raithu Monastery (4th c.)
The Holy Fathers slain at Mt. Sinai and Raithu (4th-5th century), including the
Holy 38 Fathers slain at Mt. Sinai, and the Holy 33 Fathers slain at Raithu:
Hieromartyrs Isaiah, Sabbas, Moses and his disciple Moses, Jeremiah,
Paul, Adam, Sergius, Domnus, Proclus, Hypatius, Isaac, Macarius, Mark,
Benjamin, Eusebius, Elias, and others.
Saint Theodoulos, son of St. Nilus of Sinai (5th c.)
Venerable Stephen, Abbot of Chenolakkos Monastery in Triglia, near Chalcedon (716)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Saint Felix of Nola, a presbyter at Nola near Naples in Italy, sometimes referred
to as a martyr (c. 250)
Saint Euphrasius, a bishop martyred in North Africa by the Arian Vandals
Saint Dacius (Datius), Bishop of Milan (552)
Saint Kentigern (Kentigern Mungo, Kentigern of Glasgow), first Bishop
of Strathclyde (Glasgow), Scotland (614)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Saint Sava I, Enlightener and First Archbishop of Serbia (1235)
Saint Joannicius of Tarnovo, Metropolitan of Tarnovo in Bulgaria (13th c.)
Saint Acacius, Bishop of Tver (1567)
Saint Meletius (Yakimov), Bishop of Ryazan, Missionary to Yakutia (1900)
New Hiero-Confessor John (Kevroletin), Hiero-Schemamonk, of Verkhoturye (1961)
New Martyrs and Confessors
New Martyrs slain at Raithu Monastery near Kazan (c. 1933)
New Martyr Ambrose (Gudko), Bishop of Sarapul and Yelabug (1918)
New-Martyr Platon (Kulbush), Archbishop of Reval (Estonia) (1919)
Other commemorations
Virgin-martyr Agnes, in dark solitary confinement
Saint Nina (Nino), Equal-to-the-Apostles, Enlightener of Georgia (335)
Saint Joseph Analytinus of Raithu Monastery (4th c.)
The Holy Fathers slain at Mt. Sinai and Raithu (4th-5th century), including the
Holy 38 Fathers slain at Mt. Sinai, and the Holy 33 Fathers slain at Raithu:
Hieromartyrs Isaiah, Sabbas, Moses and his disciple Moses, Jeremiah,
Paul, Adam, Sergius, Domnus, Proclus, Hypatius, Isaac, Macarius, Mark,
Benjamin, Eusebius, Elias, and others.
Saint Theodoulos, son of St. Nilus of Sinai (5th c.)
Venerable Stephen, Abbot of Chenolakkos Monastery in Triglia, near Chalcedon (716)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Saint Felix of Nola, a presbyter at Nola near Naples in Italy, sometimes referred
to as a martyr (c. 250)
Saint Euphrasius, a bishop martyred in North Africa by the Arian Vandals
Saint Dacius (Datius), Bishop of Milan (552)
Saint Kentigern (Kentigern Mungo, Kentigern of Glasgow), first Bishop
of Strathclyde (Glasgow), Scotland (614)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Saint Sava I, Enlightener and First Archbishop of Serbia (1235)
Saint Joannicius of Tarnovo, Metropolitan of Tarnovo in Bulgaria (13th c.)
Saint Acacius, Bishop of Tver (1567)
Saint Meletius (Yakimov), Bishop of Ryazan, Missionary to Yakutia (1900)
New Hiero-Confessor John (Kevroletin), Hiero-Schemamonk, of Verkhoturye (1961)
New Martyrs and Confessors
New Martyrs slain at Raithu Monastery near Kazan (c. 1933)
New Martyr Ambrose (Gudko), Bishop of Sarapul and Yelabug (1918)
New-Martyr Platon (Kulbush), Archbishop of Reval (Estonia) (1919)
Other commemorations
Repose of Nicholas Motovilov (1879), disciple of St. Seraphim of Sarov
Repose of Hieromonk Cosmas of Grigoriou, Missionary to Zaire (1989)
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