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Events
1131 – Canute Lavard was murdered at Haraldsted, Denmark by his cousin Magnus, which led to the civil war in Denmark (1131–34)
1325 – Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal.
1558 – France takes Calais, the last continental possession of England.
1566 – Pope Pius V is elected.
1608 – Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia.
1610 – Galileo Galilei makes his first observation of the four Galilean moons: Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa, although he is not able to distinguish the last two until the following day.
1782 – The first chartered commercial bank in the United States, the Bank of North America, opens.
1785 – Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon.
1797 – The modern Italian flag is first used.
1835 – HMS Beagle drops anchor off the Chonos Archipelago.
1894 – William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.
1896 – Fannie Farmer’s first cookbook, "The Boston Cooking-School Cookbook", is published.
1904 – The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".
1919 – Montenegrin guerrilla fighters rebel against the planned annexation of Montenegro by Serbia, but fail.
1920 – The New York State Assembly refuses to seat five duly elected Socialist assemblymen.
1922 – Dáil Éireann ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by a 64–57 vote.
1927 – The first transatlantic telephone service is established from New York, New York to London, United Kingdom.
1931 – Guy Menzies flies the first solo non-stop trans-Tasman flight (from Australia to New Zealand) in 11 hours and 45 minutes, crash-landing on New Zealand's west coast.
1935 – Benito Mussolini and French Foreign minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco-Italian Agreement.
1940 – Winter War: The Finnish 9th Division stops and completely destroys the overwhelming Soviet forces on the Raate-Suomussalmi road.
1942 – World War II: The Battle of Bataan begins on Luzon Island in the Philippines.
1945 – World War II: British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference in which he claims credit for victory in the Battle of the Bulge.
1948 – Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of a supposed UFO.
1948 – President Harry Truman raises taxes to fund the Marshall Plan.
1953 – In his final State of the Union address before Congress, President Harry S. Truman told the world that that the United States had developed a hydrogen bomb. It was just three years earlier on January 31, 1950, that Truman publicly announced that had directed the Atomic Energy Commission to proceed with the development of the hydrogen bomb. Truman's directive came in responds to evidence of an atomic explosion occurring within USSR in 1949.
1954 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system, is held in New York at the head office of IBM.
1955 – Contralto Marian Anderson becomes the first person of color to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in Giuseppe Verdi's Un ballo in maschera.
1959 – Just six days after the fall of the Fulgencio Batista dictatorship in Cuba, U.S. officials recognize the new provisional government of Fidel Castro on the island nation. Despite fears that Castro, whose rebel army helped to overthrow Batista, might have communist leanings, the U.S. government believed that it could work with the new regime and protect American interests in Cuba.
1960 – The Polaris missile is test launched.
1968 – Surveyor Program: Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off from launch complex 36A, Cape Canaveral.
1970 – The Punjab Legislative Council (Abolition) Act, 1969 comes into effect.
1973 – Mark Essex fatally shoots ten people and wounds 13 others at Howard Johnson's Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana, before being shot to death by police officers.
1979 – Third Indochina War: Cambodian–Vietnamese War: The Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh falls to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out the brutal regime of Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge.
1980 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out the Chrysler Corporation.
1984 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
1985 – Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches Sakigake, Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union.
1989 – Prince Akihito is sworn in as the emperor of Japan after the death of his father Hirohito.
1990 – The interior of the Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to the public for safety reasons.
1991 – Roger Lafontant, former leader of the Tonton Macoute in Haiti under François Duvalier, attempts a coup d'état, which ends in his arrest.
1993 – The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings as President.
1993 – Bosnian War: The Bosnian Army executes a surprise attack on the village of Kravica in Srebrenica.
1999 – The Senate trial in the impeachment of U.S. President Bill Clinton begins.
2010 – Muslim gunmen in Egypt open fire on a crowd of Coptic Christians, killing eight of them and one Muslim bystander.
2012 – A hot air balloon crashes near Carterton, New Zealand, killing all 11 people on board.
2015 – Two gunmen commit a mass shooting at the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris, killing twelve people and injuring another eleven.
2015 – A car bomb explodes outside a police college in the Yemeni capital Sana'a with at least 38 people reported dead and more than 63 injured.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Within the Octave of the Epiphany.
* Lord's Day within the Octave of the Epiphany: The Finding of the Child JESUS in the Temple. Greater Double.
Contemporary Western
André Bessette (Canada)
Canute Lavard
Charles of Sezze
Lucian of Antioch
Raymond of Peñafort
Canute Lavard
Charles of Sezze
Lucian of Antioch
Raymond of Peñafort
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
Feasts
Saints
Synaxis of the Holy Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist Saint John
Saint Julian the Deacon, of Aegina (391)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Saint Crispin of Pavia, Bishop of Pavia in Italy, he signed the acts of the
Council of Milan (467)
Saint Valentine, an abbot who became a bishop in Rhaetia (470)
Saint Brannock of Braunton (Brynach), England (6th century)
Saint Cedd, Bishop of Lastingham (664)
Saint Cronan Beg, a Bishop of Aendrum in County Down in Ireland (7th century)
Saint Tillo of Solignac (Thillo, Thielman, Théau, Tilloine, Tillmann) (702)
Saint Kentigerna, Hermitess of Loch Lomond (734)
Saint Emilian (Émilion, Aemilio), born in Vannes, he was a monk at Saujon near
Saintes, and died as a hermit in the forest of Combes near Bordeaux (767)
Blessed Wittikund (Wittekind, Wittikind, Widukind) of Westphalia (807)
Saint Aldric of Le Mans (Aldericus, Audry), Bishop of Le Mans in France,
from 832 (856)
Saint Reinold (Rainald, Reynold), monk at the monastery of St Pantaleon in
Cologne in Germany (960)
Saint Anastasius of Sens, Archbishop of Sens (977)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Saint Feodor I of Russia (Fyodor (Theodore) I Ivanovich), last Rurikid Tsar
of Russia (1598)
New Martyr Athanasius of Attalia and Smyrna (1700)
New Martyrs and Confessors
New Hieromartyr Alexander Skalsky, of Alma-Ata, Protopresbyter (1933)
New Hieromartyr Paphnutius (Kostin), Hieromonk of Optina Monastery (1938)
New Hieromartyr Basil, Priest (1939)
Martyr John (1940)
Martyr John (1942)
Other commemorations
Synaxis of the Holy Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist Saint John
Saint Julian the Deacon, of Aegina (391)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Saint Crispin of Pavia, Bishop of Pavia in Italy, he signed the acts of the
Council of Milan (467)
Saint Valentine, an abbot who became a bishop in Rhaetia (470)
Saint Brannock of Braunton (Brynach), England (6th century)
Saint Cedd, Bishop of Lastingham (664)
Saint Cronan Beg, a Bishop of Aendrum in County Down in Ireland (7th century)
Saint Tillo of Solignac (Thillo, Thielman, Théau, Tilloine, Tillmann) (702)
Saint Kentigerna, Hermitess of Loch Lomond (734)
Saint Emilian (Émilion, Aemilio), born in Vannes, he was a monk at Saujon near
Saintes, and died as a hermit in the forest of Combes near Bordeaux (767)
Blessed Wittikund (Wittekind, Wittikind, Widukind) of Westphalia (807)
Saint Aldric of Le Mans (Aldericus, Audry), Bishop of Le Mans in France,
from 832 (856)
Saint Reinold (Rainald, Reynold), monk at the monastery of St Pantaleon in
Cologne in Germany (960)
Saint Anastasius of Sens, Archbishop of Sens (977)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Saint Feodor I of Russia (Fyodor (Theodore) I Ivanovich), last Rurikid Tsar
of Russia (1598)
New Martyr Athanasius of Attalia and Smyrna (1700)
New Martyrs and Confessors
New Hieromartyr Alexander Skalsky, of Alma-Ata, Protopresbyter (1933)
New Hieromartyr Paphnutius (Kostin), Hieromonk of Optina Monastery (1938)
New Hieromartyr Basil, Priest (1939)
Martyr John (1940)
Martyr John (1942)
Other commemorations
Malankara Orthodox
Beheading of St. John the Baptist
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