1817 – British freighter Diana sinks off Malaya
1862 – Confederate government raises premium for volunteers from $10 to $20
1879 – Zulu warriors attack British Army camp in Isandhlwana, South Africa
1883 – England completes 1st innings victory in Tests vs. Australia at Melbourne Cricket Grounds
1944 – Allied forces begin landing at Anzio on the Italian mainland
1953 – Arthur Miller’s play “Crucible” premieres in NYC
1964 – World’s largest cheese (15,723 kg) manufactured in Wisconsin for New York’s World Fair
1998 – Rickey Henderson, rejoins Oakland A’s for 4th time
2010 – Conan O’Brien’s last The Tonight Show episode after a big controversy over the Tonight Show timeslot
2017 – Chile declares a State of Emergency and requests international assistance as wildfires rage out of control
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 21st January 2023
1901 – Clyde Fitch’s play “The Climbers” premieres in NYC
1922 – 1st slalom ski race run at Murren, Switzerland
1950 – “Lend an Ear” closes at National Theater NYC after 460 performances
1958 – Phillies agree to televise 78 games into NYC (doesn’t happen)
1969 – 22nd NHL All-Star Game, Montreal Forum: Western Division ties Eastern Division, 3-3; MVP: Frank Mahovlich, Detroit, LW
1973 – 23rd NFL Pro Bowl, Texas Stadium, Irving, Texas: AFC beats NFC, 33-28; MVP: O. J. Simpson, Buffalo Bills, RB
1982 – “Little Me” opens at Eugene O’Neill Theater NYC for 36 performances
1987 – 2nd Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees: The Coasters; Eddie Cochran; Bo Diddley; Aretha Franklin; Marvin Gaye; Bill Haley; B.B. King; Clyde McPhatter; Ricky Nelson; Roy Orbison; Carl Perkins; Smokey Robinson; Joe Turner; Muddy Waters; Jackie Wilson; Louis Jordan; T-Bone Walker; Hank Williams; Leonard Chess; Ahmet Ertegun; Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller; and Jerry Wexler
1989 – A woman is assaulted and raped in room of an Oklahoma football player
2001 – 58th Golden Globes: “Gladiator”, Tom Hanks, and Julia Roberts win
Historical Events for 20th January 2023
1840 – Dumont D’Urville discovers Adélie Land, Antarctica
1879 – British troops under Lord Chelmsford make camp at Isandlwana
1920 – The American Civil Liberties Union is founded
1921 – Dagestan ASSR forms in RSFSR
1967 – Philadelphia 76ers center Wilt Chamberlain makes all 15 of his field goal attempts in a 119-108 win over LA Lakers; NBA record for consecutive shots made; beats mark twice before 1966-67 season ends
1988 – Arizona committee opens hearing on impeachment of Gov Evan Mecham
1991 – NFC Championship, Candlestick Park, SF: New York Giants beat San Francisco 49ers, 15-13
1996 – WPAT FM NYC radio station switches to English-Spanish format
1999 – The China News Service announces new government restrictions on Internet use aimed especially at Internet cafés.
2001 – George W. Bush inaugurated as 43rd US President, Dick Cheney becomes 46th Vice President
Historical Events for 19th January 2023
1810 – Cold Friday: temperature at Portsmouth, New Hampshire drops from 54°F to minus 12°F in one day with many frozen to death
1886 – Aurora Ski Club, 1st in US, founded in Minnesota
1913 – Raymond Poincaré installed as President of France
1969 – 19th NFL Pro Bowl, LA Memorial Coliseum: West beats East, 10-7; MVPs: Roman Gabriel, Los Angeles Rams, QB; Merlin Olsen, Los Angeles Rams, DT
1970 – UCLA fires Angela Davis for being a communist
1971 – 24th NHL All-Star Game, Boston Garden: Western Division beats Eastern Division, 2-1; MVP: Bobby Hull, Chicago, LW
1974 – Notre Dame beats UCLA, 71-70 in South Bend, Indiana to end Bruins’ NCAA-record 88-game basketball win streak
1983 – Klaus Barbie, SS chief in Lyon in Nazi-occupied France, arrested in Bolivia
1989 – President Reagan pardons George Steinbrenner for illegal funds for Nixon
2003 – NFC Championship, Veterans Stadium, Philadelphia: Tampa Bay Buccaneers beat Philadelphia Eagles, 27-10
Historical Events for 18th January 2023
474 – Leo II, age 6 or 7, briefly becomes Byzantine Emperor, being joined by his father as co-ruler by his father on January 29th
1921 – William Archer’s “Green Goddess” premieres in NYC
1938 – Pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1951 – 1951 NFL Draft: Kyle Rote from SMU first pick by New York Giants
1963 – Al Davis becomes the head coach and general manager of the Oakland Raiders
1977 – Pakistan cricket all-rounder Imran Khan takes 6 for 63 in the Australian 2nd innings for a match total of 12 to lead his side to an easy 8 wicket 3rd Test win in Sydney
1980 – Studio 54 owners Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager sentenced to 3½ years in prison for tax evasion and fined $20,000
1986 – NY Lotto pays $30.5 million to one winner (#s are 19-20-27-34-41-46)
1990 – South Africa says it is reconsidering ban on African National Congress
1992 – 49th Golden Globes: Bugsy, Nick Nolte and Jodie Foster win
Historical Events for 17th January 2023
1377 – Pope Gregory XI moves the Papacy back to Rome from Avignon
1893 – Franco-Russian Alliance is signed
1912 – Captain Robert Scott’s expedition arrives at the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen
1915 – Antoni van Leeuwenhoek’s Hospital in Amsterdam opens
1915 – Jerome Kern and Harry B. Smith’s musical “Love o’ Mike” opens at the Shubert Theatre (later transferring to the Maxine Elliott and Casino theatres), NYC; runs for 233 performances
1945 – Auschwitz concentration camp begins evacuation
1945 – Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, credited with saving tens of thousands of Jews from the Nazis, arrested by Soviet secret police in Hungary
1961 – 11th NBA All-Star Game, Onondaga County Coliseum, Syracuse, NY: West beats East, 153-131; MVP: Oscar Robertson, Cincinnati Royals, PG; at 22, youngest player to receive All-Star MVP honours, 23 points and 14 assists
1989 – Murden and Metz are 1st women to reach South Pole overland (on skis)
2007 – Doomsday Clock set to five minutes to midnight in response to North Korea’s 1st nuclear test
Historical Events for 16th January 2023
929 – Caliphate of Cordoba is established by Emir Abd-al-Rahman III
1362 – A great storm tide in the North Sea destroys the German island of Strand and the city of Rungholt
1756 – Britain and Prussia sign Treaty of Westminster
1924 – British Government of Stanley Baldwin resigns
1941 – US vice admiral Bellinger warns of an assault on Pearl Harbor
1978 – 5th American Music Awards: Stevie Wonder, Fleetwood Mac and Conway Twitty win
1981 – Boxer Leon Spinks is mugged, his assailants even take his gold teeth
1997 – Anthony Stuart takes ODI hat-trick, Aus v Pakistan, MCG
2019 – Golden State Warriors break 2 franchise records in 142-111 win over Denver Nuggets; in 1st quarter, record 10 three-point field goals on way to franchise best 51 points in the period
2021 – 10 Nepali climbers become the first to reach the summit of K2 in winter on the China-Pakistan border
Historical Events for 15th January 2023
1559 – Elizabeth I crowned Queen of England in Westminster Abbey
1831 – 1st US-built locomotive to pull a passenger train makes 1st run
1892 – Basketball rules first published in Triangle Magazine, written by James Naismith
1907 – Gold dental inlays first described by William Taggart, who invented them
1962 – Derveni Papyrus rediscovered – Europe’s oldest surviving manuscript from c. 340 B.C., commentary on a Orphic poem, found in a tomb in Derveni, Northern Greece
1972 – TV drama “Emergency” with Randolph Mantooth and Robert Fuller premieres on NBC TV
1994 – Queen Elizabeth falls off her horse and breaks her left wrist
1998 – NASA announces John Glenn, 76, may fly in space again
2019 – Theresa May’s Brexit deal with the EU is rejected by UK parliament 432 votes to 202, largest parliamentary defeat in its democratic era
2019 – LGBTQ activists accuse the Russian republic of Chechnya of a new gay purge with 40 detained and two killed
Historical Events for 14th January 2023
378 – General Siyaj K’ak’, a Mayan warlord, conquers Tikal and increases the domain of Teotihuacan
1129 – Formal approval of the Order of Templars at the Council of Troyes
1868 – South Carolina constitutional convention meets with a black majority
1955 – Heitor Villa-Lobos’ 8th Symphony premieres by the Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by the composer, in Carnegie Hall, New York City
1962 – 12th NFL Pro Bowl, LA Memorial Coliseum: Western Conference beats Eastern Conference, 31-30; MVPs: Jim Brown, Cleveland Browns, RB; Henry Jordan, Green Bay Packers, DT
1969 – 25 members of US aircraft carrier Enterprise die during maneuvers
1973 – Dancer Roy Castle is measured at 1,440 taps/min on BBC TV
1994 – The Duchess of Kent converts to Catholicism, the first member of the Royal Family to do so in more than 300 years
2013 – Mike Pence sworn in as 50th governor of Indiana
2014 – Columbia Records releases Bruce Springsteen’s 18th studio album “High Hopes”, produced with members of the E Street Band, including the deceased Danny Federici and Clarence Clemons
Historical Events for 13th January 2023
1733 – James Oglethorpe and 130 English colonists arrive at Charleston, South Carolina
1794 – Congress changes US flag to 15 stars and 15 stripes
1874 – US troops land in Honolulu to protect the king
1915 – Earthquake in Avezzano, Italy kills 29,800
1943 – British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in Casablanca, French Morocco for a conference of Allied forces in World War II
1962 – Chubby Checker’s song “The Twist”, credited with starting the Twist dance craze, goes to #1 in the charts two years after first reaching number one spot
1968 – Minnesota North Stars NHL player Bill Masterson, suffers head injuries during a game and dies two days later, becoming the 1st player to die as result of a game
1986 – NCCA institutes eligibility requirements based on college exams
1989 – Jerry Parks, Oklahoma defensive back, charged with shooting a teammate
1991 – Soviet troops continue attack on Vilnius, capital of Lithuania; 13 people killed and 140 injured as