- 0314 St Militiades ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- 0532 Nika-revolt against Justianus & Theodora in Hippodrome Constantinople
- 0705 John VI ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- 1055 Theodora is crowned Empress of the Byzantine Empire.
- 1158 Vladislav II becomes King of Bohemia.
- 1558 Westmunster Church in Middelburg destroyed by heavy storm
- 1569 First recorded lottery in England.
- 1569 The first recorded lottery in England is drawn at St Paul's Cathedral
- 1571 Austrian nobility is granted freedom of religion.
- 1571 Emperor Maximilian II grants Austrian adel freedom of religion
- 1599 Jacob van Necks fleet leaves Bantam Java with pepper, clove & muskaat
- 1672 Isaac Newton is elected a member of Royal Society
- 1693 Mt. Etna erupts in Sicily, Italy. A powerful earthquake destroys parts of Sicily and Malta
- 1709 Colley Cibber's "Rival Fools," premieres in London
- 1753 Ferdinand VI of Spain & Pope Benedictus XIV sign concord
- 1759 First American life insurance company incorporated, Philadelphia
- 1765 Frisia bans Voltaires "Traité sur la tolérance"
- 1774 Messier adds M51 (spiral galaxy in Canes Venatici) to his catalog
- 1775 Francis Salvador becomes first Jew elected to office in America (SC)
- 1779 Ching-Thang Khomba crowned King of Manipur
- 1785 Continental Congress convenes in New York City NY
- 1787 Titania & Oberon, moons of Uranus, discovered by William Herschel
- 1787 William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus.
- 1790 Statisten & Vonckisten unite as Belgium
- 1794 Robert Forsythe, a US Marshal was killed in Augusta, Georgia when trying to serve court papers, the first US Marshal to die in action.
- 1803 Monroe & Livingston sail for Paris to buy New Orleans; they buy Louisiana
- 1805 Michigan Territory is created.
- 1805 The Michigan Territory of the U.S. was created.
- 1813 The first pineapples planted in Hawaii
- 1839 Earthquake at Martinique destroys half of Port Royal-700 die
- 1861 Alabama secedes from the Union at the start of the U.S. Civil War.
- 1861 Mexico City captured by Juárez (Liberal) in War of the Reform
- 1863 CSS Alabama sinks USS Hatteras off Galveston
- 1863 Union forces capture Arkansas Post, or Fort Hindman AR
- 1864 Charing Cross Station opens in London
- 1865 Battle of Beverly WV
- 1866 Steamship London sinks in storm off Land's End England, kills 220
- 1867 Benito Jurez becomes Mexican president again.
- 1873 The first livestock market newspaper published, Drover's Journal, Chicago
- 1879 Anglo-Zulu War begins.
- 1879 UK hist Start of Anglo-Zulu war
- 1879 Zulu war against British colonial rule in South Africa begins
- 1880 Total solar eclipse blackens the sky of San Francisco one day after the funeral of Emperor Norton.
- 1885 Henrik Ibsen's "Vildauden," premieres in Oslo
- 1892 Hawaiian Historical Society founded
- 1892 Paul Gauguin marries a 13-year-old Tahitian girl
- 1892 William D McCoy of Indiana appointed US minister to Liberia
- 1897 M H Cannon becomes first woman state senator in US (Utah)
- 1902 Popular Mechanics magazine hit the newsstands for the first time.
- 1904 Herero people of South West Africa, now Namibia, begin uprising
- 1911 Record Alberta low temperature of -61.1C recorded at Fort Vermilion
- 1912 Lawrence textile strike begins in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
- 1913 Bread & Roses Strike begins
- 1913 The first sedan-type car (Hudson) goes on display at 13th Auto Show (New York City NY)
- 1914 Captain Robert Abram Bartlett 1875-1946 sees his Canadian Arctic Expedition ship Karluk crushed by ice near Herald Island, north of Siberia, 300 km short of his destination of Herschel Island; one of three ships of Stefansson expedition; many of the survivors will die before they reach Wrangel Island, 100 km away, where they wait until September before being rescued
- 1915 Colonel Jacob Ruppert & Colonel Tillinghast Huston purchase Yankees for $460,000
- 1916 French troops capture/Serbian army flees to Corfu
- 1917 Kingsland Explosion Sabotage of munitions factory.
- 1919 3 year old German communist party (Spartacus) crushed
- 1919 Romania annexes Transylvania
- 1920 French passenger ship Afrique sinks near La Rochelle; 553 die
- 1922 First use of insulin to treat diabetes in a human patient.
- 1922 Insulin first used to treat diabetes (Leonard Thompson, 14, of Canada)
- 1922 Quebec Catholic bishops pronounce themselves opposed to votes for women.
- 1923 French & Belgian troops occupy Ruhr to collect reparations
- 1923 Troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area to force Germany to pay its reparation payments.
- 1924 SS Helgoland, she had sought shelter off the Ards coast but dragged her anchors and stranded at Tara Point, Ulster. The crew climbed the rigging to seek safety but had to remain there all night until they were rescued. During World War One she had been a 'Q' ship, with disguised gunnery for use against enemy submarines.
- 1925 Franc B Kellogg replaces Charles Hughes on as US Secretary of State
- 1934 Jean Chretien Canadian P.M. and lawyer, politician, born at Shawinigan, Quebec
- 1938 Frances Moulton elected first woman president of a US national bank
- 1940 Sergei Prokofiev's ballet Romeo & Juliet premieres in Leningrad
- 1941 Princess Irene Brigade established in Congleton
- 1942 -23ºF (-31ºC), Kingston RI (state record)
- 1942 Japan conquers Kuala Lumpur, Malaya
- 1942 The Japanese capture Kuala Lumpur.
- 1943 US & Britain relinquish extraterritorial rights in China
- 1944 Aircraft from USS Block Island make first aircraft rocket attack on German submarine
- 1944 Crakow-Plaszow Concentration Camp established
- 1946 Enver Hoxha declares People's Republic of Albania with himself dictator
- 1949 First recorded case of snowfall in Los Angeles, California.
- 1949 Snowfall first recorded in Los Angeles
- 1950 Visitor posting - David Frum of Ocracoke Island, NC was born this day - USA
- 1950 Visitor posting - Jackie Lyons was born - United Kingdom [email protected]
- 1951 Visitor posting - Sara "Ginger" McNay Born - USA
- 1954 A two ton locomotive swept into ravine by avalanche - 10 die (Austria)
- 1957 Canadian aircraft carrier HMCS Magnificent arrives in Egypt with men and supplies for the UN emergency force; Canadian strength in Egypt now about 1,000 men
- 1957 The African Convention is founded in Dakar. Mass-murderer Jack Gilbert Graham is executed via the Gas Chamber.
- 1957 UK hist Harold Macmillan becomes Prime Minister
- 1958 Sea Hunt, starring Lloyd Bridges as crusty frogman and good guy Mike Nelson, debuts on CBS-TV.
- 1959 Hanif Mohammad completes 499 for Karachi, then first class world record
- 1960 Lamar Clark sets pro boxing record of 44 consecutive knockouts
- 1961 Racial riot at University of Georgia
- 1961 Visitor posting - R.J. Braun born - Canada
- 1962 Eruption of the Huascaran volcano in Peru; 4,000 deaths.
- 1962 Mandela leaves South Africa, travels to Ethiopia, Algeria & England
- 1962 Number one hit on UK music charts - Cliff Richard - The Young Ones
- 1962 Volcano Huascaran in Peru, erupts; 4,000 die
- 1963 Beatles release "Please Please Me" & "Ask Me Why"
- 1963 The Whisky a Go Go night club in Los Angeles, the first disco in the USA, is opened.
- 1963 The first discotheque opens, The Whiskey-a-go-go in Los Angeles CA
- 1964 "She Loves Me" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City NY after 302 performances
- 1964 Beatles "I Want to Hold Your Hand" is #80 in US (Cashbox)
- 1964 Panama ends diplomatic relations with US
- 1964 U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry releases a report that states that smoking cigarettes is bad for your health.
- 1964 United States Surgeon General Dr. Luther Leonidas Terry, M.D., publishes a report saying that smoking may be hazardous to health. It is the first such statement ever made by the U.S. government.
- 1966 "Daktari" African adventure series premieres on CBS TV with John Wayne
- 1966 550 die in landslides in mountains behind Rio de Janeiro after rain
- 1968 Explorer 36 (GEOS-B) launched into earth orbit (1080/1570 km)
- 1969 "Hooked on a Feeling" by BJ Thomas peaks at #5
- 1969 Jethro Tull's This Was Jethro Tull album debuts
- 1971 The first "Quickie" Divorce granted in UK
- 1972 East Pakistan renames itself Bangladesh.
- 1972 East-Pakistan becomes independent state of Bangladesh
- 1973 Famous victory at the SCG Pakistan chasing 158 all out 106
- 1973 The Open University, Britain's distance-learning university, awards its first degrees.
- 1973 The designated hitter rule is added to Major League Baseball teams in the American League.
- 1973 Trial of the Watergate burglars begins in Washington DC
- 1974 ABC airs final episode of "Love, American Style"
- 1974 The world's first surviving set of sextuplets are born to Susan Rosenkowitz in Cape Town, South Africa.
- 1975 Soyuz 17 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 4
- 1976 Dorothy Hamill wins her 3rd consecutive national figure skating championship
- 1976 Military coup in Ecuador, President Guillermo Lara leaves
- 1977 France releases Abu Daoud, a Palestinian suspected of involvement in the massacre of Israeli athletes at the
- 1978 Soyuz 27 links with Salyut 6 & Soyuz 26 the first time 3 spacecraft link
- 1980 Debut of the Pretenders
- 1981 British team led by Ranulph Fiennes completes longest & fastest crossing of Antarctica, reaching Scott base after 75 days (2,500 miles)
- 1981 Palau adopts constitution
- 1982 Atlanta GA's temperature goes below zeroº F
- 1982 Honduras adopts constitution
- 1983 Billy Martin named New York Yankee manager for 3rd time
- 1983 Canadian Soccer player Matthew Palleschi is born.
- 1984 STS 41-B vehicle moves to launch pad
- 1984 Supreme Court reinstated $10M award to Karen Silkwood's family
- 1984 Visitor posting - My best Friend Nicole Kneale was born - USA
- 1985 Visitor posting - Alan and Cindy Head was married
- 1986 Number one hit on UK music charts - Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls
- 1986 The Gateway Bridge, Brisbane in Queensland, Australia is officially opened.
- 1987 Largest crowd (76,633) at NFL New York Giant Stadium (beat Washington 17-0)
- 1988 USSR announces it will participate in the Seoul Summer Olympics
- 1989 140 nations agree to ban chemical weapons (poison gas, etc)
- 1989 Kindergarten student caught with loaded handgun at Bronx school
- 1990 200,000 demand return of Lithuania's independence
- 1990 300,000 march in favor of Lithuanian independence.
- 1990 Actor Joseph Cotten undergoes vocal-chord cancer operation at 84
- 1991 Ben Johnson first race after being stripped of his 1988 Olympic Gold medal for steroid use, he finished 2nd
- 1991 Congress empowers Bush to order attack on Iraq
- 1991 Ric Flair wins NWA/WCW wrestling title
- 1991 Soviets storm buildings in Vilnius to block Lithuania independence
- 1992 Algeria's President Chadli announces his resignation
- 1992 Paul Simon opens a tour in South Africa
- 1992 Visitor posting - January 11 1992 Christy Steyn was born.
- 1993 Henry Birks and Sons jewelry chain files for bankruptcy protection; closes 34 of its 112 stores, then sells another 39 stores to an Italian jewellery group
- 1993 Howard Stern's radio show begins transmitting to Buffalo NY (WKBW)
- 1993 Independent presidential candidate Ross Perot publicly returns to politics
- 1994 Irish Government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the IRA and its political arm Sinn Fin
- 1994 Irish government announces end of a 20-year broadcasting ban on IRA
- 1995 Birmingham Barracudas granted CFL franchise
- 1995 Dylex Ltd., Canada's largest clothing retailer seeks court protection from its creditors and says it will shut 200 stores, eliminating 1,800 jobs
- 1995 Fifty-two people are killed when a Colombian airliner crashes near the resort town of Cartagena in the Caribbeans.
- 1995 NHLPA & owners agree to end NHL strike
- 1995 Visitor posting - Deondre M. Flanagan was born and destined for stardom!!! - USA
- 1995 Visitor posting - Grey Wolf Osment Is Born - USA
- 1996 Bloc Quebecois Leader Lucien Bouchard chosen as the 4th President of the Parti Quebecois, and Premier designate of Quebec.
- 1996 Haiti becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
- 1996 Space Shuttle STS 72 (Endeavour 10), launches into space
- 1997 23rd People's Choice Awards Bill Cosby wins
- 1997 Telstar 401 Satellite Fails
- 1997 Visitor posting - Cliff was Born, MAN! Before GAGE!!!!! HHAHA take that! - USA
- 1998 24th Annual People's Choice Awards - Seinfeld, Tim Allen win
- 1998 Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria; over 100 people killed.
- 1999 Visitor posting - salih wins $3mil in Vegas
- 2000 Visitor posting - january 11 2000 Salih goes bankrupt
- 2001 The Federal Trade Commission approved the merger of AOL and Time Warner to form AOL Time Warner.
- 2003 Illinois governor George H. Ryan announces decision to grant clemency to all inmates of death row.
- 2005 "Black Tuesday" bushfires swept across the southern Eyre Peninsula in South Australia.
- 2009 Visitor posting - Tristan and Shannan began dating. :) - USA
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