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Events
350 – General Magnentius deposes Roman Emperor Constans and proclaims himself Emperor.
474 – Seven-year-old Leo II succeeds his maternal grandfather Leo I as Byzantine emperor. He dies ten months later.
532 – Nika riots in Constantinople fail.
1126 – Emperor Huizong abdicates the Chinese throne in favour of his son Emperor Qinzong.
1486 – King Henry VII of England marries Elizabeth of York, daughter of Edward IV.
1535 – Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro founds Lima, the capital of Peru.
1562 – Pope Pius IV reopens the Council of Trent for its third and final session.
1591 – King Naresuan of Siam kills Crown Prince Mingyi Swa of Burma in single combat, for which this date is now observed as Royal Thai Armed Forces day.
1670 – Henry Morgan captures Panama.
1701 – Frederick I crowns himself King of Prussia in Königsberg.
1778 – James Cook is the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, which he names the "Sandwich Islands."
1779 – Founding Father John Dickinson is appointed as a delegate for Delaware to the Continental Congress.
1788 – The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from England to Australia arrive at Botany Bay.
1866 – Wesley College, Melbourne, is established.
1871 – Wilhelm I of Germany is proclaimed the first German Emperor in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles (France) towards the end of the Franco-Prussian War. The empire is known as the Second Reich to Germans.
1884 – Dr. William Price attempts to cremate the body of his infant son, Jesus Christ Price, setting a legal precedent for cremation in the United Kingdom.
1886 – Modern hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England.
1896 – An X-ray generating machine is exhibited for the first time by H. L. Smith.
1903 – A Marconi station in Wellfleet, Massachusetts sends a message of greetings from U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt to King Edward VII of the United Kingdom, marking the first transatlantic radio transmission to originate in the United States.
1911 – Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania stationed in San Francisco Bay, the first time an aircraft landed on a ship.
1913 – First Balkan War: A Greek flotilla defeats the Ottoman Navy in the Naval Battle of Lemnos, securing the islands of the Northern Aegean Sea for Greece.
1915 – Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands" to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia.
1916 – A 611-gram chondrite type meteorite strikes a house near the village of Baxter in Stone County, Missouri.
1919 – World War I: The Paris Peace Conference opens in Versailles, France.
1919 – Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes Prime Minister of the newly independent Poland.
1919 – Bentley Motors Limited is founded.
1941 – World War II: British troops launch a general counter-offensive against Italian East Africa.
1943 – Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: The first uprising of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.
1944 – World War II: Siege of Leningrad: Soviet forces open a narrow land corridor to Leningrad. The siege is finally lifted on January 27, 872 days after it began.
1944 – The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City hosts a jazz concert for the first time. The performers are Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Artie Shaw, Roy Eldridge and Jack Teagarden.
1945 – World War II: Liberation of the Budapest Ghetto by the Red Army.
1945 – World War II: Liberation of Kraków, Poland by the Red Army.
1955 – Chinese Civil War: Battle of Yijiangshan Islands is fought.
1958 – Willie O'Ree, the first African Canadian National Hockey League player, makes his NHL debut with the Boston Bruins.
1960 – Capital Airlines Flight 20 crashes into a farm in Charles City County, Virginia, killing all 50 aboard, the third fatal Capital Airlines crash in as many years.
1967 – Albert DeSalvo, the "Boston Strangler", is convicted of numerous crimes and is sentenced to life imprisonment.
1969 – United Airlines Flight 266 crashes into Santa Monica Bay killing all 32 passengers and six crew members.
1974 – A Disengagement of Forces agreement is signed between the Israeli and Egyptian governments, ending conflict on the Egyptian front of the Yom Kippur War.
1976 – Lebanese Christian militias overrun Karantina, Beirut, killing at least 1,000.
1977 – Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease.
1977 – Australia's worst rail disaster occurs at Granville, Sydney killing 83.
1977 – SFR Yugoslavia's Prime minister, Džemal Bijedić, his wife and six others are killed in a plane crash in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1978 – The European Court of Human Rights finds the United Kingdom government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture.
1978 – The roof structure of the Hartford Civic Center collapses after a significant snowfall.
1981 – Phil Smith and Phil Mayfield parachute off a Houston skyscraper, becoming the first two people to BASE jump from objects in all four categories: buildings, antennae, spans (bridges), and earth (cliffs).
1983 – The International Olympic Committee restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals to his family.
1990 – Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting.
1993 – Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is officially observed for the first time in all 50 states.
1997 – In northwest Rwanda, Hutu militia members kill three Spanish aid workers, three soldiers and seriously wound one other.
1997 – Børge Ousland of Norway becomes the first person to cross Antarctica alone and unaided.
2000 – The Tagish Lake meteorite impacts the Earth.
2002 – Sierra Leone Civil War is declared over.
2003 – A bushfire kills four people and destroys more than 500 homes in Canberra, Australia.
2005 – The Airbus A380, the world's largest commercial jet, is unveiled at a ceremony in Toulouse, France
2007 – The strongest storm in the United Kingdom in 17 years kills 14 people and Germany sees the worst storm since 1999 with 13 deaths. Hurricane Kyrill causes at least 44 deaths across 20 countries in Western Europe.
2009 – Gaza War: Hamas announces they will accept Israel Defense Forces's offer of a ceasefire, ending the assault.
2012 – A series of coordinated actions take place in protest against Stop Online Piracy Act and PROTECT IP Act.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
The Chair of St. Peter at Rome. Greater Double.
Commemoration of St. Paul and of St. Prisca, Virgin and Martyr.
Contemporary Western
Cyril of Alexandria
Deicolus
Margaret of Hungary
Prisca
Volusianus of Tours
Deicolus
Margaret of Hungary
Prisca
Volusianus of Tours
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
Saints
Martyr Theodoula of Anazarbus in Cilicia (c. 304)
Martyrs Helladius, Theodoulos, Boethius, Evagrius, and Macarius,
of Anazarbus in Cilicia (c. 304)
Martyr Xenia, by fire
Saint Athanasius the Great, Archbishop of Alexandria (373)
Venerable Marcian of Cyrrhus, monk, in Syria (c. 388)
Saint Cyril of Alexandria, Archbishop of Alexandria (444)
Venerable Ephraimios, Bishop of Mylasa, in Caria (5th century)
Venerbale Sylvanus of Palestine, the ascetic.
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Virgin-martyr Prisca, venerated from ancient times in Rome, where a church
is dedicated to her on the Aventine (1st or 3rd century)
Martyrs Archelais, Thecla and Susanna, three holy virgins, at Salerno (293)
Saint Volusianus of Tours, a married senator who was chosen Bishop of Tours
in France and shortly after driven out by Arian Visigoths (496)
Saint Liberata of Como, a holy virgin in Como in Italy where with her sister
St Faustina she founded the convent of Santa Margarita (580)
Saint Leobardus of Marmoutier in Gaul, hermit (593)
Saint Ninnidh of Inismacsaint (Ireland) (6th century)
Saint Deicolus, one of the twelve disciples to accompany St. Columbanus
in his missionary enterprise (625)
Saint Ulfrid (Wolfred, Wulfrid, Wilfrid), missionary in Germany and Sweden,
martyred for destroying an image of Thor (1028)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Venerable Ephraim the Lesser (the Philosopher) of Georgia (1101)
Venerable Cyril, Igumen at Kiev (1146)
Saint Joachim, Patriarch of Turnovo (1248)
Saints Cyril, Schemamonk, and Maria, Schemanun (both c. 1337),
parents of St. Sergius of Radonezh
Saint Maximus of Serbia, Archbishop of Wallachia (1516)
Venerable Athanasius of Syandemsk, Abbot of Syandemsk
(Valaam and Vologda) (1550)
Venerable Athanasius of Navolotsk, Fool-for-Christ (16th-17th c.)
Saint Alexis (Shushania), Hieromonk of Teklati, Georgia (1923)
New Martyrs and Confessors
New Hieromartyr Michael Kargopolov, Priest (1919)
New Hieromartyr Eugene Isadsky, Priest (1930)
New Hieromartyr Vladimir Zubkovich, Archpriest of Smolevichi
(Belorussia) (1937)
New Hieromartyrs Nicholas Krasovsky, Sergius Lebedev,
Alexander Rousinov, Priests (1938)
Martyr Theodoula of Anazarbus in Cilicia (c. 304)
Martyrs Helladius, Theodoulos, Boethius, Evagrius, and Macarius,
of Anazarbus in Cilicia (c. 304)
Martyr Xenia, by fire
Saint Athanasius the Great, Archbishop of Alexandria (373)
Venerable Marcian of Cyrrhus, monk, in Syria (c. 388)
Saint Cyril of Alexandria, Archbishop of Alexandria (444)
Venerable Ephraimios, Bishop of Mylasa, in Caria (5th century)
Venerbale Sylvanus of Palestine, the ascetic.
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Virgin-martyr Prisca, venerated from ancient times in Rome, where a church
is dedicated to her on the Aventine (1st or 3rd century)
Martyrs Archelais, Thecla and Susanna, three holy virgins, at Salerno (293)
Saint Volusianus of Tours, a married senator who was chosen Bishop of Tours
in France and shortly after driven out by Arian Visigoths (496)
Saint Liberata of Como, a holy virgin in Como in Italy where with her sister
St Faustina she founded the convent of Santa Margarita (580)
Saint Leobardus of Marmoutier in Gaul, hermit (593)
Saint Ninnidh of Inismacsaint (Ireland) (6th century)
Saint Deicolus, one of the twelve disciples to accompany St. Columbanus
in his missionary enterprise (625)
Saint Ulfrid (Wolfred, Wulfrid, Wilfrid), missionary in Germany and Sweden,
martyred for destroying an image of Thor (1028)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Venerable Ephraim the Lesser (the Philosopher) of Georgia (1101)
Venerable Cyril, Igumen at Kiev (1146)
Saint Joachim, Patriarch of Turnovo (1248)
Saints Cyril, Schemamonk, and Maria, Schemanun (both c. 1337),
parents of St. Sergius of Radonezh
Saint Maximus of Serbia, Archbishop of Wallachia (1516)
Venerable Athanasius of Syandemsk, Abbot of Syandemsk
(Valaam and Vologda) (1550)
Venerable Athanasius of Navolotsk, Fool-for-Christ (16th-17th c.)
Saint Alexis (Shushania), Hieromonk of Teklati, Georgia (1923)
New Martyrs and Confessors
New Hieromartyr Michael Kargopolov, Priest (1919)
New Hieromartyr Eugene Isadsky, Priest (1930)
New Hieromartyr Vladimir Zubkovich, Archpriest of Smolevichi
(Belorussia) (1937)
New Hieromartyrs Nicholas Krasovsky, Sergius Lebedev,
Alexander Rousinov, Priests (1938)
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