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Events
307 – Jin Huidi, Chinese Emperor of the Jin dynasty, is poisoned and succeeded by his son Jin Huaidi.
387 – Siyaj K'ak' conquers Waka.
871 – Alfred the Great leads a West Saxon army to repel an invasion by Danelaw Vikings.
1297 – François Grimaldi, disguised as a monk, leads his men to capture the fortress protecting the Rock of Monaco, establishing his family as the rulers of Monaco.
1454 – The papal bull Romanus Pontifex awards Portugal exclusive trade and colonization rights to all of Africa south of Cape Bojador.
1499 – Louis XII of France marries Anne of Brittany.
1547 – the first Lithuanian-language book, Simple Words of Catechism, is published in Königsberg.
1697 – Last execution for blasphemy in Britain; of Thomas Aikenhead, student, at Edinburgh.
1735 – Premiere performance of George Frideric Handel's Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
1746 – Second Jacobite rising: Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling.
1790 – George Washington delivers the first State of the Union address in New York, New York.
1806 – Cape Colony becomes a British colony.
1811 – An unsuccessful slave revolt is led by Charles Deslondes in St. Charles and St. James, Louisiana.
1815 – War of 1812: Battle of New Orleans: Andrew Jackson leads American forces in victory over the British.
1835 – The United States national debt is zero for the only time.
1863 – American Civil War: Second Battle of Springfield.
1867 – African American men are granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C.
1877 – Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle against the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain, Montana Territory.
1889 – Dr. Herman Hollerith is issued US patent #395,791 for the 'Art of Applying Statistics' — his punched card calculator (tabulating machine). His firm, Tabulating Machine Company, later became International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).
1904 – The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system.
1906 – A landslide in Haverstraw, New York, caused by the excavation of clay along the Hudson River, kills 20 people.
1912 – The African National Congress is founded.
1918 – President Woodrow Wilson announces his "Fourteen Points" for the aftermath of World War I.
1918 – Mississippi becomes the first state to ratify the 18th Amendment to the Constitution (prohibition of alcohol).
1920 – The steel strike of 1919 ends in a complete failure for the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers labor union.
1940 – World War II: Britain introduces food rationing.
1945 – World War II: Philippine Commonwealth troops under the Philippine Commonwealth Army units enter the province of Ilocos Sur in Northern Luzon and attack Japanese Imperial forces.
1956 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. missionaries, Jim Elliot, Nate Saint, Ed McCully, Peter Fleming, and Roger Youderian, are killed by the Huaorani of Ecuador shortly after making contact with them.
1961 – In France a referendum supports Charles de Gaulle's policies in Algeria.
1962 – The Harmelen train disaster killed 93 people in the Netherlands.
1963 – Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is exhibited in the United States for the first time, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
1964 – President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a "War on Poverty" in the United States.
1971 – Bowing to international pressure, President of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto releases Bengali leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from prison, who had been arrested after declaring the independence of Bangladesh.
1973 – Soviet space mission Luna 21 is launched.
1973 – Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins.
1975 – Ella T. Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, the first woman to serve as a Governor in the United States other than by succeeding her husband.
1977 – Three bombs explode in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group.
1979 – The tanker Betelgeuse explodes in Bantry Bay, Ireland.
1981 – A local farmer reports a UFO sighting in Trans-en-Provence, France, claimed to be "perhaps the most completely and carefully documented sighting of all time".
1982 – Breakup of the Bell System: AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions.
1989 – Kegworth air disaster: British Midland Flight 92, a Boeing 737-400, crashes into the M1 motorway, killing 47 of the 126 people on board.
1989 – Beginning of Japanese Heisei period.
1994 – Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for Mir. He would stay on the space station until March 22, 1995, for a record 437 days in space.
1996 – An Antonov An-32 cargo aircraft crashes into a crowded market in Kinshasa, Zaire, killing up to 237 on the ground; the aircraft's crew of six survive the crash.
2002 – President George W. Bush signs into law the No Child Left Behind Act.
2003 – Turkish Airlines Flight 634 crashes near Diyarbakır Airport, Turkey, killing the entire crew and 70 of 75 passengers.
2003 – Air Midwest Flight 5481 crashes at Charlotte-Douglas Airport, Charlotte, North Carolina, killing all 21 people on board.
2004 – The RMS Queen Mary 2, the largest passenger ship ever built, is christened by her namesake's granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II.
2005 – The nuclear sub USS San Francisco collides at full speed with an undersea mountain south of Guam. One man is killed, but the sub surfaces and is repaired.
2009 – A 6.1-magnitude earthquake in northern Costa Rica kills 15 people and injures 32.
2010 – Gunmen from an offshoot the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda attacked the bus carrying the Togo national football team on its way to the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations, killing three.
2011 – The attempted assassination of Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords and subsequent shooting in Casas Adobes, Arizona at a Safeway grocery store, for which Jared Lee Loughner is subsequently arrested, kills six people and wounds 13, including Giffords.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Within the Octave of the Epiphany.
Contemporary Western
Abo of Tiflis
Apollinaris Claudius
Blessed Eurosia Fabris
Gauchito Gil (Folk Catholicism)
Gudula
Lawrence Giustiniani
Lucian of Beauvais
Our Lady of Prompt Succor (Bon Secours)
Pega
Severinus of Noricum
Thorfinn of Hamar
Apollinaris Claudius
Blessed Eurosia Fabris
Gauchito Gil (Folk Catholicism)
Gudula
Lawrence Giustiniani
Lucian of Beauvais
Our Lady of Prompt Succor (Bon Secours)
Pega
Severinus of Noricum
Thorfinn of Hamar
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Harriet Bedell (Episcopal Church (USA))
Eastern Orthodox
Feasts
Saints
Prophet Shemaiah (10th c. BC)
Martyr Julian, his wife Basilissa, and with them Martyrs Celsius, his mother
Marcianilla, Anastasius, the priest Anthony, seven brothers, and twenty
prison guards, of Antinoe in Egypt (283-305)
Hieromartyr Carterius of Caesarea in Cappadocia (304)
Saint Elias the Wonderworker, of Egypt (4th century)
Hieromartyr Theophilus the Deacon, and Martyr Helladius, in Libya (4th c.)
Saint Atticus of Constantinople, Patriarch (425)
Saint Domnica the Righteous of Constantinople (c. 474)
Venerable Agathon of Egypt, monk (5th century)
Venerable Theodore of Constantinople, founder and abbot of the Monastery
of Chora (c. 595)
Venerable George the Chozebite, Abbot (7th c.)
Saint Cyrus of Constantinople, Patriarch (714)
Martyr Abo of Tiflis, the Perfumer, of Baghdad, at Tbilisi, Georgia (786)
Saint Emilian the Confessor, Bishop of Cyzicus (820)
Saint Gregory of Ochrid, Bishop of Moesia (1012)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Saint Patiens, venerated as the fourth Bishop of Metz and patron-saint
of that city (2nd c.)
Hieromartyr Lucian (priest, the "Apostle of Beauvais"), and martyrs Maximian
and Julian, in Beauvais in the north of France (290)
Saint Eugenian of Autun (Egemoine), Bishop of Autun, a staunch defender
of Orthodoxy against Arianism, for which he was martyred (4th c.)
Saint Severinus of Noricum, monk of Göttweig Abbey (Austria and Bavaria) (482)
Saint Ergnad (Ercnacta), born in Ulster in Ireland, she was made a nun
by St Patrick (5th c.)
Saint Maximus of Pavia, Bishop of Pavia in Italy, he attended Councils in Rome
under Pope Symmachus (511)
Saint Frodobert, a monk at Luxeuil in France, he founded the monastery
of Moutier-la-Celle near Troyes, where he led a life of unceasing prayer
and asceticism (673)
Saint Erhard of Regensburg, Bishop of Regensburg (Bavaria) (c. 686)
Saint Albert of Cashel, English laborer in Ireland and Bavaria (7th c.)
Holy Virgin Gudula (Goule), patroness of Brussels in Belgium (712)
Saint Pega, an anchoress in the ancient Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia,
and the sister of Saint Guthlac (719)
Saint Garibaldus (Gaubald), first Bishop of Regensburg (762)
Saint Æthelhelm (Athelm), the first Bishop of Wells, and later Archbishop
of Canterbury (926)
Saint Wulfsige III (Wulsin), a monk whom St Dunstan loved as a son, became
Abbot of Westminster in 980, and Bishop of Sherborne in 993 (1002)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Venerable Gregory, Wonderworker of the Kiev Caves (1093)
Venerable Gregory the Hermit of the Kiev Caves (14th c.)
Venerable Macarius (Makris) of Vatopedi on Mt. Athos and Pantocratoros
monastery in Constantinople, Abbot (1430)
Hieromartyr Priest Isidore and 72 companions at Yuriev (Dorpats) in Estonia,
slain by German Catholic Latins in (1472)
Saint Paisius of Uglich, Igumen of the Protection monastery, near Uglich (1504)
Venerable Elder Isaiah of Valaam Monastery (1914)
New Martyrs and Confessors
New Hieromartyr Victor Usov, Priest (1937)
New Hieromartyr Demetrius, Priest (1938)
New Hieromartyr Vladimir, Priest (1938)
Martyr Michael Novoselov (1938)
New Hieromartyr Michael Rostov, Priest, confessor, of Yaroslavl-Rostov (1941)
Prophet Shemaiah (10th c. BC)
Martyr Julian, his wife Basilissa, and with them Martyrs Celsius, his mother
Marcianilla, Anastasius, the priest Anthony, seven brothers, and twenty
prison guards, of Antinoe in Egypt (283-305)
Hieromartyr Carterius of Caesarea in Cappadocia (304)
Saint Elias the Wonderworker, of Egypt (4th century)
Hieromartyr Theophilus the Deacon, and Martyr Helladius, in Libya (4th c.)
Saint Atticus of Constantinople, Patriarch (425)
Saint Domnica the Righteous of Constantinople (c. 474)
Venerable Agathon of Egypt, monk (5th century)
Venerable Theodore of Constantinople, founder and abbot of the Monastery
of Chora (c. 595)
Venerable George the Chozebite, Abbot (7th c.)
Saint Cyrus of Constantinople, Patriarch (714)
Martyr Abo of Tiflis, the Perfumer, of Baghdad, at Tbilisi, Georgia (786)
Saint Emilian the Confessor, Bishop of Cyzicus (820)
Saint Gregory of Ochrid, Bishop of Moesia (1012)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Saint Patiens, venerated as the fourth Bishop of Metz and patron-saint
of that city (2nd c.)
Hieromartyr Lucian (priest, the "Apostle of Beauvais"), and martyrs Maximian
and Julian, in Beauvais in the north of France (290)
Saint Eugenian of Autun (Egemoine), Bishop of Autun, a staunch defender
of Orthodoxy against Arianism, for which he was martyred (4th c.)
Saint Severinus of Noricum, monk of Göttweig Abbey (Austria and Bavaria) (482)
Saint Ergnad (Ercnacta), born in Ulster in Ireland, she was made a nun
by St Patrick (5th c.)
Saint Maximus of Pavia, Bishop of Pavia in Italy, he attended Councils in Rome
under Pope Symmachus (511)
Saint Frodobert, a monk at Luxeuil in France, he founded the monastery
of Moutier-la-Celle near Troyes, where he led a life of unceasing prayer
and asceticism (673)
Saint Erhard of Regensburg, Bishop of Regensburg (Bavaria) (c. 686)
Saint Albert of Cashel, English laborer in Ireland and Bavaria (7th c.)
Holy Virgin Gudula (Goule), patroness of Brussels in Belgium (712)
Saint Pega, an anchoress in the ancient Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia,
and the sister of Saint Guthlac (719)
Saint Garibaldus (Gaubald), first Bishop of Regensburg (762)
Saint Æthelhelm (Athelm), the first Bishop of Wells, and later Archbishop
of Canterbury (926)
Saint Wulfsige III (Wulsin), a monk whom St Dunstan loved as a son, became
Abbot of Westminster in 980, and Bishop of Sherborne in 993 (1002)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Venerable Gregory, Wonderworker of the Kiev Caves (1093)
Venerable Gregory the Hermit of the Kiev Caves (14th c.)
Venerable Macarius (Makris) of Vatopedi on Mt. Athos and Pantocratoros
monastery in Constantinople, Abbot (1430)
Hieromartyr Priest Isidore and 72 companions at Yuriev (Dorpats) in Estonia,
slain by German Catholic Latins in (1472)
Saint Paisius of Uglich, Igumen of the Protection monastery, near Uglich (1504)
Venerable Elder Isaiah of Valaam Monastery (1914)
New Martyrs and Confessors
New Hieromartyr Victor Usov, Priest (1937)
New Hieromartyr Demetrius, Priest (1938)
New Hieromartyr Vladimir, Priest (1938)
Martyr Michael Novoselov (1938)
New Hieromartyr Michael Rostov, Priest, confessor, of Yaroslavl-Rostov (1941)
Martyrdom of St. Stephen
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