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Events
46 BC – Julius Caesar defeats Titus Labienus in the Battle of Ruspina.
871 – Battle of Reading: Æthelred of Wessex fights, and is defeated by, a Danish invasion army.
1490 – Anne of Brittany announces that all those who would ally with the King of France will be considered guilty of the crime of lèse-majesté.
1642 – King Charles I of England sends soldiers to arrest members of Parliament, commencing England's slide into civil war.
1649 – English Civil War: The Rump Parliament votes to put Charles I on trial.
1717 – The Netherlands, Great Britain, and France sign the Triple Alliance.
1762 – Great Britain declares war on Spain and Naples.
1780 – In Morristown, NJ a snowstorm hits George Washington's army.
1798 – Constantine Hangerli arrives in Bucharest, Wallachia, as its new Prince, invested by the Ottoman Empire.
1847 – Weapons inventor Samuel Colt was awarded his first contract to supply the United States government. with firearms.
1853 – After having been kidnapped and sold into slavery in the American South, Solomon Northup regains his freedom; his memoir 12 Years a Slave later becomes a national bestseller.
1854 – The McDonald Islands are discovered by Captain William McDonald aboard the Samarang.
1863 – The New Apostolic Church, a Christian and chiliastic church, is established in Hamburg, Germany.
1865 – The New York Stock Exchange opens its first permanent headquarters at 10-12 Broad near Wall Street in New York City.
1878 – Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878): Sofia is liberated from Ottoman rule and becomes capital Liberated Bulgaria a few months later.
1884 – The Fabian Society is founded in London, England, United Kingdom.
1889 – The Oklahoma Land Run opens two million acres of unused Oklahoma Territory to first serve first come settlers on April 22.
1896 – Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.
1903 – Topsy, an elephant, is electrocuted by the owners of Luna Park, Coney Island. Thomas Edison's movie company shoots the film Electrocuting an Elephant of the execution.
1912 – The Scout Association is incorporated throughout the British Empire by royal charter.
1936 – Billboard magazine publishes its first Music Hit Parade.
1944 – World War II: Operation Carpetbagger, involving the dropping of arms and supplies to resistance fighters in Europe, begins.
1948 – Burma gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
1951 – Korean War: Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul.
1955 – The Greek National Radical Union is formed by Konstantinos Karamanlis.
1958 – Sputnik 1 falls to Earth from orbit.
1959 – Luna 1 becomes the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon.
1965 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson proclaims his "Great Society" during his State of the Union address.
1965: Poet T.S. Eliot dies at age 76. Eliot's The Waste Land, published in 1922, often is cited as the single most influential work of poetry of the twentieth century.
1966 – A military coup takes place in Upper Volta (later Burkina Faso), dissolving the National Parliament and leading to a new national constitution.
1970 – A magnitude 7.7 earthquake strikes Tonghai County, China, killing at least 15,000 people.
1972 – Rose Heilbron becomes the first female judge to sit at the Old Bailey in London, England.
1974 – United States President Richard Nixon refuses to hand over materials subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee.
1976 – The Troubles: The Ulster Volunteer Force shoots dead six Irish Catholic civilians in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. The next day, gunmen shoot dead ten Protestant civilians nearby in retaliation.
1987 – The Maryland train collision: An Amtrak train en route to Boston from Washington, D.C., collides with Conrail engines in Chase, Maryland, killing 16 people.
1989 – Second Gulf of Sidra incident: A pair of Libyan MiG-23 "Floggers" are shot down by a pair of US Navy F-14 Tomcats during an air-to-air confrontation.
1990 – In Pakistan's deadliest train accident an overloaded passenger train collides with an empty freight train, resulting in 307 deaths and 700 injuries.
1998 – Wilaya of Relizane massacres in Algeria: Over 170 are killed in three remote villages.
1998 – A massive ice storm hits eastern Canada and the northeastern United States, continuing through January 10 and causing widespread destruction.
1999 – Former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura is sworn in as governor of Minnesota.
2000 – Two trains on the Røros Line collide in Åsta, Norway, resulting in an explosive fire and 19 deaths.
2004 – Spirit, a NASA Mars rover, lands successfully on Mars at 04:35 UTC.
2004 – Mikheil Saakashvili is elected President of Georgia following the November 2003 Rose Revolution.
2006 – Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel suffers a second, apparently more serious stroke. His authority is transferred to acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
2007 – The 110th United States Congress convenes, electing Nancy Pelosi as the first female Speaker of the House in U.S. history.
2010 – Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, is officially opened.
2013 – A gunman kills eight people in a house-to-house rampage in Kawit, the Philippines.
Octave of the Holy Innocents, Martyrs. Double.
Commemoration of the Octave of St. Thomas of Canterbury.
1912 – The Scout Association is incorporated throughout the British Empire by royal charter.
1936 – Billboard magazine publishes its first Music Hit Parade.
1944 – World War II: Operation Carpetbagger, involving the dropping of arms and supplies to resistance fighters in Europe, begins.
1948 – Burma gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
1951 – Korean War: Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul.
1955 – The Greek National Radical Union is formed by Konstantinos Karamanlis.
1958 – Sputnik 1 falls to Earth from orbit.
1959 – Luna 1 becomes the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon.
1965 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson proclaims his "Great Society" during his State of the Union address.
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| 1953: T.S. Eliot and others North Street, Saint Andrews, Scotland from whatwasthere.com, |
1966 – A military coup takes place in Upper Volta (later Burkina Faso), dissolving the National Parliament and leading to a new national constitution.
1970 – A magnitude 7.7 earthquake strikes Tonghai County, China, killing at least 15,000 people.
1972 – Rose Heilbron becomes the first female judge to sit at the Old Bailey in London, England.
1974 – United States President Richard Nixon refuses to hand over materials subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee.
1976 – The Troubles: The Ulster Volunteer Force shoots dead six Irish Catholic civilians in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. The next day, gunmen shoot dead ten Protestant civilians nearby in retaliation.
1987 – The Maryland train collision: An Amtrak train en route to Boston from Washington, D.C., collides with Conrail engines in Chase, Maryland, killing 16 people.
1989 – Second Gulf of Sidra incident: A pair of Libyan MiG-23 "Floggers" are shot down by a pair of US Navy F-14 Tomcats during an air-to-air confrontation.
1990 – In Pakistan's deadliest train accident an overloaded passenger train collides with an empty freight train, resulting in 307 deaths and 700 injuries.
1998 – Wilaya of Relizane massacres in Algeria: Over 170 are killed in three remote villages.
1998 – A massive ice storm hits eastern Canada and the northeastern United States, continuing through January 10 and causing widespread destruction.
1999 – Former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura is sworn in as governor of Minnesota.
2000 – Two trains on the Røros Line collide in Åsta, Norway, resulting in an explosive fire and 19 deaths.
2004 – Spirit, a NASA Mars rover, lands successfully on Mars at 04:35 UTC.
2004 – Mikheil Saakashvili is elected President of Georgia following the November 2003 Rose Revolution.
2006 – Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel suffers a second, apparently more serious stroke. His authority is transferred to acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
2007 – The 110th United States Congress convenes, electing Nancy Pelosi as the first female Speaker of the House in U.S. history.
2010 – Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, is officially opened.
2013 – A gunman kills eight people in a house-to-house rampage in Kawit, the Philippines.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Octave of the Holy Innocents, Martyrs. Double.
Commemoration of the Octave of St. Thomas of Canterbury.
Contemporary Western
Angela of Foligno
Elizabeth Ann Seton
Elizabeth Ann Seton
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
Saints
Synaxis of the Seventy Apostles
Martyr Djan Darada, the Ethiopian eunuch of Queen Candace (1st century)
Martyrs Chrysanthus and Euthymia
Martyrs Zosimas the Hermit and Athanasius the Commentarisius (prison warden),
anchorites of Cilicia (3rd-4th century)
Venerable Theoprobus of Karpasia, Bishop of Karpasia in Cyprus (4th century)
Venerable Apollinaria the Senator (5th century)
Venerable Evagrius (fellow-ascetic of St. Shio of Mgvime), with St. Elias the Deacon,
and other Disciples of the Thirteen Syrian Fathers, of the Shio-Mgvime Monastery
in Georgia (6th century)
The Holy Six Martyrs
Saint Euthymius the Younger of Thessalonica (Euthymius the New), monk
Venerable Timothy the Stylite (872)
Hieromartyr Alexander, Bishop
Martyr Uvelicius
Martyr Amma
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Saint Linus, the first Pope of Rome (c. 76)
Saint Clement I, one of the Seventy Apostles, he was the third Pope of Rome (c. 101)
Saint Mavilus (Majulus), a martyr in Hadrumetum in North Africa, thrown to wild
beasts at the time of Caracalla (212)
Martyrs Priscus, Priscillian and Benedicta, in Rome (c. 361 - 363)
Martyr Dafrosa (Affrosa), the mother of St Bibiana, was martyred in Rome
under Julian the Apostate (c. 361 - 363)
Martyrs Aquilinus, Geminus, Eugene, Marcian, Quintus, Theodotus and Tryphon,
in North Africa under the Arian Hunneric, King of the Vandals (c. 484)
Saint Gregory of Langres, Bishop of Langres in Gaul, renowned for miracles (539-540)
Saint Ferreolus of Uzès, Bishop of Uzès (581)
Saint Pharäildis (Vareide, Verylde, Veerle), one of the patron-saints of Ghent (c. 740)
Saint Rigobert, Archbishop of Rheims and Confessor (c. 745)
Venerable Theoctistus of Sicily, Abbot at Cucomo (Coucouma, Coucoumis) in Sicily (800)
Saint Libentius (Liäwizo I), born in Swabia in Germany, he became Archbishop
of Hamburg in 988 (1013)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Venerable Hieromartyr Abbot Euthymius, and twelve Monk-martyrs of Vatopedi
Monastery, on Mt. Athos, who suffered martyrdom for denouncing the
Latinizing rulers Michael Paleologos and John Bekkos as heretics (1285)
Repose of St. Eustathius I of Serbia (Eustace of Serbia, Jevstatije I),
Archbishop of Serbia (1286)
Saint Aquila (Aquilae, Achillios), Deacon of the Kiev Caves Monastery (14th century)
Venerable Symeon of Smolensk, Metropolitan of Smolensk (1699)
New Monk-martyr Onuphrius Manassias of Gabrovo and Chilandar Monastery,
Mt. Athos, on Chios (1818)
Saint Nikiphoros the Leper (1964)
New Martyrs and Confessors
New Hieromartyr Alexander Yuzefovitch, Priest, at Alma-Ata (1921)
New Hieromartyr Philip Gregoriev, Protopresbyter, at Alma-Ata (1933)
New Hieromartyr Stephen Ponomarev, Priest (1933)
New Hieromartyr Nicholas Maslov, Priest, at Alma-Ata (1939)
New Hieromartyr Paul Felitsyn, Priest (1941)
Other commemorations
Synaxis of the Seventy Apostles
Martyr Djan Darada, the Ethiopian eunuch of Queen Candace (1st century)
Martyrs Chrysanthus and Euthymia
Martyrs Zosimas the Hermit and Athanasius the Commentarisius (prison warden),
anchorites of Cilicia (3rd-4th century)
Venerable Theoprobus of Karpasia, Bishop of Karpasia in Cyprus (4th century)
Venerable Apollinaria the Senator (5th century)
Venerable Evagrius (fellow-ascetic of St. Shio of Mgvime), with St. Elias the Deacon,
and other Disciples of the Thirteen Syrian Fathers, of the Shio-Mgvime Monastery
in Georgia (6th century)
The Holy Six Martyrs
Saint Euthymius the Younger of Thessalonica (Euthymius the New), monk
Venerable Timothy the Stylite (872)
Hieromartyr Alexander, Bishop
Martyr Uvelicius
Martyr Amma
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Saint Linus, the first Pope of Rome (c. 76)
Saint Clement I, one of the Seventy Apostles, he was the third Pope of Rome (c. 101)
Saint Mavilus (Majulus), a martyr in Hadrumetum in North Africa, thrown to wild
beasts at the time of Caracalla (212)
Martyrs Priscus, Priscillian and Benedicta, in Rome (c. 361 - 363)
Martyr Dafrosa (Affrosa), the mother of St Bibiana, was martyred in Rome
under Julian the Apostate (c. 361 - 363)
Martyrs Aquilinus, Geminus, Eugene, Marcian, Quintus, Theodotus and Tryphon,
in North Africa under the Arian Hunneric, King of the Vandals (c. 484)
Saint Gregory of Langres, Bishop of Langres in Gaul, renowned for miracles (539-540)
Saint Ferreolus of Uzès, Bishop of Uzès (581)
Saint Pharäildis (Vareide, Verylde, Veerle), one of the patron-saints of Ghent (c. 740)
Saint Rigobert, Archbishop of Rheims and Confessor (c. 745)
Venerable Theoctistus of Sicily, Abbot at Cucomo (Coucouma, Coucoumis) in Sicily (800)
Saint Libentius (Liäwizo I), born in Swabia in Germany, he became Archbishop
of Hamburg in 988 (1013)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Venerable Hieromartyr Abbot Euthymius, and twelve Monk-martyrs of Vatopedi
Monastery, on Mt. Athos, who suffered martyrdom for denouncing the
Latinizing rulers Michael Paleologos and John Bekkos as heretics (1285)
Repose of St. Eustathius I of Serbia (Eustace of Serbia, Jevstatije I),
Archbishop of Serbia (1286)
Saint Aquila (Aquilae, Achillios), Deacon of the Kiev Caves Monastery (14th century)
Venerable Symeon of Smolensk, Metropolitan of Smolensk (1699)
New Monk-martyr Onuphrius Manassias of Gabrovo and Chilandar Monastery,
Mt. Athos, on Chios (1818)
Saint Nikiphoros the Leper (1964)
New Martyrs and Confessors
New Hieromartyr Alexander Yuzefovitch, Priest, at Alma-Ata (1921)
New Hieromartyr Philip Gregoriev, Protopresbyter, at Alma-Ata (1933)
New Hieromartyr Stephen Ponomarev, Priest (1933)
New Hieromartyr Nicholas Maslov, Priest, at Alma-Ata (1939)
New Hieromartyr Paul Felitsyn, Priest (1941)
Other commemorations
Finding of the holy relics (January 4, 1974) of New Martyr John the ex-Muslim
of Konitsa (John of Ioannina) (September 23, 1814), in the Holy Monastery
of Prousou in Evrytania, Greece.
of Konitsa (John of Ioannina) (September 23, 1814), in the Holy Monastery
of Prousou in Evrytania, Greece.
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