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Events
1066 – Edward the Confessor dies childless, sparking a succession crisis that will eventually lead to the Norman conquest of England.
1477 – Battle of Nancy: Charles the Bold is killed and Burgundy becomes part of France.
1500 – Duke Ludovico Sforza conquers Milan.
1527 – Felix Manz, a leader of the Anabaptist congregation in Zurich, Switzerland, is executed by drowning.
1554 – A great fire occurs in Eindhoven, Netherlands.
1675 – Battle of Colmar: the French army beats Brandenburg.
1757 – Louis XV of France survives an assassination attempt by Robert-François Damiens, the last person to be executed in France by drawing and quartering, the traditional and gruesome form of capital punishment used for regicides.
1781 – American Revolutionary War: Richmond, Virginia, is burned by British naval forces led by Benedict Arnold.
1836 – Davy Crockett arrives to aid the revolution in Nacogdoches, Texas.
1846 – The United States House of Representatives passed a resolution calling for an end to British-American joint ownership of the land known as the Oregon Territory, keeping in line with the prevailing doctrine of the day, Manifest Destiny.
1875 – The Palais Garnier, one of the most famous opera houses in the world, is inaugurated in Paris.
1895 – Dreyfus affair: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
1896 – An Austrian newspaper reports the discovery by physicist Wilhelm Roentgen of a type of radiation that came to be known as X-rays.
1900 – Irish leader John Redmond calls for a revolt against British rule.
1905: The National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals is incorporated in New York state.
1911 – Kappa Alpha Psi, the world's second oldest and largest black fraternity, is founded at Indiana University.
1912 – The Prague Party Conference takes place.
1913 – First Balkan War: During the Battle of Lemnos, Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it did not venture for the rest of the war.
1914 – The Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and that it would pay a "living wage" of at least $5 for a day's labor.
1919 – The German Workers' Party, which would become the Nazi Party, is founded.
1925 – Following a special election, Democrat Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes the first female governor in the United States, succeeding her late husband, William.
1933 – Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay.
1944 – The Daily Mail becomes the first transoceanic newspaper.
1945 – The Soviet Union recognizes the new pro-Soviet government of Poland.
1949 – United States President Harry S. Truman unveils his Fair Deal program.
1957 – In a speech given to the United States Congress, United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces the establishment of what will later be called the Eisenhower Doctrine.
1968 – Alexander Dubček comes to power: "Prague Spring" begins in Czechoslovakia.
1969 – The Troubles: The Royal Ulster Constabulary raid the Bogside area of Derry, damaging property and beating residents. In response, residents erect barricades and establish Free Derry.
1972 – United States President Richard Nixon orders the development of a Space Shuttle program.
1974 – An earthquake in Lima, Peru, kills six people, and damages hundreds of houses.
1974 – Warmest reliably measured temperature in Antarctica of +59 °F (+15 °C) recorded at Vanda Station.
1975 – The Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier Lake Illawarra, killing twelve people.
1976 – The Khmer Rouge proclaim the Constitution of Democratic Kampuchea.
1976 – The Troubles: In response to the killing of six Catholics the night before, gunmen shoot dead ten Protestant civilians after stopping their minibus at Kingsmill in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, UK.
1991 – Georgian forces enter Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, Georgia, opening the 1991–1992 South Ossetia War.
1991 – The United States Embassy to Somalia in Mogadishu is evacuated by helicopter airlift days after violence enveloped Mogadishu during the Somali Civil War.
1993 – The oil tanker MV Braer runs aground on the coast of the Shetland Islands, spilling 84,700 tons of crude oil.
2005 – Eris, the largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System, is discovered by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz using images originally taken on October 21, 2003, at the Palomar Observatory.
2014 – A launch of the communication satellite GSAT-14 aboard the GSLV MK.II D5 marks the first successful flight of an Indian cryogenic engine.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Octave of St. Thomas of Canterbury, Martyr. Double.
Commemoration of the Eve of the Epiphany and of St.Telesphorus, Pope of Rome, Martyr.
Contemporary Western
Charles of Mount Argus
John Neumann
Pope Telesphorus
Simeon Stylites
John Neumann
Pope Telesphorus
Simeon Stylites
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
Feasts
Saints
Prophet Micah (9th century BC)
Martyr Theopemptus, Bishop of Nicomedia and Martyr Theonas,
former sorcerer (303)
Martyr Sais
Martyr Theoidus
Saint Syncletica of Alexandria, nun (c. 350 or c. 460)
Venerable Domnina (Domna)
Venerable Tatiana, nun
Saint Apollinaris, Virgin, of Egypt (c. 470)
Venerable Phosterius the Hermit (6th century)
Saint Menas of Sinai (6th century)
Venerable Gregory of Crete, monk (c. 820)
Venerable Dorotheos the Younger, restorer of the ancient Monastery
of the Holy Trinity at Chiliokomon in Amaseia, Pontus.
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Hieromartyr Saint Telesphorus, a Greek who was Pope of Rome for ten years (c. 136)
Saint Emiliana, a Roman lady and the paternal aunt of Pope St Gregory the Great (6th century)
Saint Kiara (Chier), a spiritual daughter of St Fintan Munnu; she lived in Ireland
near Nenagh in Co. Tipperary, at a place now called Kilkeary after her (c. 680)
Venerable Cera of Ireland (Ciar, Cyra, Cior, Ceara), Abbess (7th century)
Venerable Conwoïon (Convoyon), a Breton saint and Abbot (868)
Saint Gaudentius of Gnesen (Radim Gaudentius), first Archbishop of Gnesen in Poland (1004)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
New Monk-martyr Romanus of Carpenision and Kapsokalyvia, at Constantinople (1694)
Venerable Symeon of the Pskov-Caves Monastery, Hiero-Schemamonk (1960)
Schema-Archimandrite Venerable Theophan (Rikhlovsky) of Nizhyn (1977)
New Martyrs and Confessors
New Hieromartyr Joseph Bespalov, and with him 37 Martyrs (1921)
Hieromartyr Stephen Ponomarev, Protopresbyter, at Alma-Ata (1933)
Virgin-martyr Eugenia Domozhirova, at Alma-Ata (1933)
New Hieromartyr Sergius Lavrov, Priest (1934)
Martyr Matthew Gusev (1938)
Other commemorations
Prophet Micah (9th century BC)
Martyr Theopemptus, Bishop of Nicomedia and Martyr Theonas,
former sorcerer (303)
Martyr Sais
Martyr Theoidus
Saint Syncletica of Alexandria, nun (c. 350 or c. 460)
Venerable Domnina (Domna)
Venerable Tatiana, nun
Saint Apollinaris, Virgin, of Egypt (c. 470)
Venerable Phosterius the Hermit (6th century)
Saint Menas of Sinai (6th century)
Venerable Gregory of Crete, monk (c. 820)
Venerable Dorotheos the Younger, restorer of the ancient Monastery
of the Holy Trinity at Chiliokomon in Amaseia, Pontus.
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Hieromartyr Saint Telesphorus, a Greek who was Pope of Rome for ten years (c. 136)
Saint Emiliana, a Roman lady and the paternal aunt of Pope St Gregory the Great (6th century)
Saint Kiara (Chier), a spiritual daughter of St Fintan Munnu; she lived in Ireland
near Nenagh in Co. Tipperary, at a place now called Kilkeary after her (c. 680)
Venerable Cera of Ireland (Ciar, Cyra, Cior, Ceara), Abbess (7th century)
Venerable Conwoïon (Convoyon), a Breton saint and Abbot (868)
Saint Gaudentius of Gnesen (Radim Gaudentius), first Archbishop of Gnesen in Poland (1004)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
New Monk-martyr Romanus of Carpenision and Kapsokalyvia, at Constantinople (1694)
Venerable Symeon of the Pskov-Caves Monastery, Hiero-Schemamonk (1960)
Schema-Archimandrite Venerable Theophan (Rikhlovsky) of Nizhyn (1977)
New Martyrs and Confessors
New Hieromartyr Joseph Bespalov, and with him 37 Martyrs (1921)
Hieromartyr Stephen Ponomarev, Protopresbyter, at Alma-Ata (1933)
Virgin-martyr Eugenia Domozhirova, at Alma-Ata (1933)
New Hieromartyr Sergius Lavrov, Priest (1934)
Martyr Matthew Gusev (1938)
Other commemorations
Translation of the relics of St. Rumon, Bishop, to Tavistock Abbey
Repose of Monk Alexander of Valaam Monastery (1810)
Repose of Monk Alexander of Valaam Monastery (1810)
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