1801 – John Marshall is appointed Chief Justice of the United States
1950 – “Dance Me a Song” opens at Royale Theater NYC for 35 performances
1954 – Herman Wouk’s stage drama “The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial”, adpated from his novel “The Caine Mutiny”, starring Henry Fonda, and directed by Charles Laughton, premieres at the Plymouth Theatre, NYC; runs for 415 performances
1982 – Piet Dankert elected chairman of European Parliament
2008 – “Breaking Bad,” created by Vince Gilligan and starring Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul, premieres on AMC
2019 – AFC Championship, Arrowhead Stadium, KC: New England Patriots beat Kansas City Chiefs, 37-31 OT
2021 – Dan Campbell is appointed head coach of the Detroit Lions
2025 – Republican Donald Trump is inaugurated as the 47th President of the United States of America, and JD Vance as the 50th Vice-President; Trump is oldest person to take the office, and joins Grover Cleveland as only the second elected to non-consecutive White House terms, the event is held indoors due to inclement weather
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 19th January 2026
1825 – Ezra Daggett and nephew Thomas Kensett patent food storage in tin cans
1884 – Jules Massenet’s opera “Manon” premieres in Paris
1927 – British government decides to send troops to China
1997 – 54th Golden Globes: The English Patient, Geoffrey Rush, and Brenda Blethyn win
2002 – “Tuck Rule Game” AFC Divisional Playoff Game; with under 2 minutes to play New England Patriots trail Oakland Raiders, 13-10 in a driving snowstorm, when a Tom Brady fumble ruled an incomplete pass. Patriots win 16-13 in overtime
2020 – NFC Championship, Levi’s Stadium, Santa Clara, California: San Francisco 49ers beat Green Bay Packers, 37-20
2021 – US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says China is committing genocide in its repression of Uighurs and other Muslim people
2022 – Major report on antimicrobial resistance shows 4.95m deaths worldwide associated with drug-resistant bacteria, making untreatable infections now a leading cause of death
Historical Events for 18th January 2026
1562 – The Council of Trent is reopened by Pope Pius IV for its third (and final) session
1896 – First demonstration of an X-ray machine in the US (New York City)
1960 – Capital Airlines Flight 20 crashes in Virginia, killing all 50 people on-board
1973 – Orlando Cepeda is 1st player signed as MLB designated hitter by Boston Red Sox
1974 – Science fiction TV series “The Six Million Dollar Man” premieres on ABC, starring Lee Majors
1980 – Price of gold reaches $850 an ounce
1992 – Comedian Pat McCormick injured in a car accident
2017 – Baseball Hall of Fame adds Jeff Bagwell, Tim Raines and Ivan Rodriguez
Historical Events for 17th January 2026
1562 – French regent Catherine de’ Medici issues the Edict of St Germain recognizing Huguenots in France
1746 – Battle of Falkirk Muir, the Jacobites under Charles Stuart defeat Hanoverian forces
1779 – Captain James Cook’s last notation in Discovery’s ship’s log
1911 – Failed assassination attempt on French Prime Minister Aristide Briand in the French Assembly
1934 – NY Giants reward National League MVP pitcher Carl Hubbell with a huge $18,000 contract
1939 – Ed Barrow is elected Yankee president succeeding deceased J Ruppert
1995 – Revival of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein’s musical “Carousel” closes at the Beaumont Theater, NYC after 322 performances
2003 – 8th Critics’ Choice Movie Awards: Chicago Best Picture
Historical Events for 16th January 2026
1749 – Hoax article advertising fictitious theatrical performer “The Bottle Conjuror” drew huge crowds to the Haymarket Theatre, London, whose inevitable non-appearance caused a riot. It’s alleged the Duke of Montagu perpetrated the fiasco to win a bet.
1776 – Continental Congress approves enlistment of free blacks
1863 – -Aug 23rd) Cruise of CSS Florida
1917 – The Greek Government accepts reparations for Allied losses sustained in recent actions in Greece
1931 – Australian cricket batting prodigy Don Bradman scores 223 v West Indies in 3rd Test in Brisbane; most runs scored by a player in a Test match in Australia in one day
1948 – 35 Haganah members are ambushed and killed in Gush Etzyon
1963 – Tennessee Williams’ play “Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore” premieres in America on Broadway, NY
1990 – 2 Bank of Credit and Commerce members plea guilty to money laundering
Historical Events for 15th January 2026
1907 – 3-element vacuum tube patented by American inventor Lee De Forest
1939 – Municipal Railway and Market St RR begin service to Transbay Terminal
1955 – USSR ends state of war with German Federal Republic
1975 – Space Mountain opens at Disney World in Orlando, Florida
1975 – Pioneering American female comedian Phyllis Diller gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
1988 – NFL analyst Jimmy “The Greek” Snyder makes several questionable comments about African Americans during a lunchtime interview on CBS’ NFL Today; fired the next day
1989 – Big John Studd wins WWF’s 2nd Royal Rumble
1997 – Seattle’s Sam Perkins ties Jeff Hornacek’s NBA single-game record by connecting on 8 straight 3-point field goals during Sonics’ 122-78 win over visiting Toronto; Seattle also sets an NBA steals record with 27
Historical Events for 14th January 2026
1944 – Soviet army begins offensive at Oranienbaum/Wolchow
1956 – Jordan government refuses to join Pact of Baghdad
1967 – Earthquake in Sicily kills 231
1971 – Cricketer John Snow takes 7-40 for England to beat Australia by 299 runs
1990 – 11th ACE Cable Awards: CNN wins the Golden CableACE for the coverage of the events in Beijing, China
1995 – Mexico pledges profits from state-owned Pemex’s $7-billion-per-year oil revenues in an effort to secure US congressional approval of loan guarantees; President Clinton approves a $20-billion U.S. aid package for Mexico
2020 – US game show Jeopardy “greatest of all time” tournament won by Ken Jennings
2021 – Pope Francis, 84, and Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI receive their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine
Historical Events for 13th January 2026
1733 – British officer James Oglethorpe and 130 English colonists arrive at Charleston, South Carolina
1882 – Richard Wagner completes his final opera “Parsifal”
1919 – Dutch Soccer team OSV forms
1924 – Nationalist Wafd-party wins Egyptian parliament elections
1942 – Allied Conference on war trials at St. James’s Palace, London
1963 – 13th NFL Pro Bowl, LA Memorial Coliseum: Eastern Conference beats Western Conference, 30-20; MVPs: Jim Brown, Cleveland Browns, RB; Eugene Lipscomb, Pittsburgh Steelers, DT
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
2017 – Cricket all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan scores Bangladesh’s top Test score ever (217) during the 1st Test v New Zealand in Wellington
Historical Events for 12th January 2026
1866 – The Royal Aeronautical Society is formed in London
1912 – -47°F (-44°C), Washta, Iowa (state record)
1957 – Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC) founded with Martin Luther King Jr. as leader at Ebenezer Church in Atlanta
1968 – Beatles Film Production Ltd changes name to Apple Film Production Ltd
1971 – 21st NBA All-Star Game, San Diego Sports Arena: West beats East, 108-107; MVP: Lenny Wilkens, Seattle SuperSonics, PG; oldest MVP in All-Star history (33); scores 21 points
1992 – A new constitution, providing for freedom to form political parties, is approved by a referendum in Mali.
2007 – Comet McNaught reaches perihelion becoming the brightest comet in more than 40 years.
2021 – India’s Supreme Court puts on hold three controversial new farm laws that ignited weeks of protests by farmers in Delhi
Historical Events for 11th January 2026
1879 – Anglo-Zulu War begins as British Lieutenant General Lord Chelmsford invades Zululand in South Africa
1894 – Donghak Peasant Rebellion begins in Mujiang, Korea over local corruption, sparking the 1st Sino-Japanese War
1942 – -23°F (-31°C), Kingston, Rhode Island (state record)
1943 – US and Britain relinquish extraterritorial rights in China
1962 – Landslide at dormant volcano Huascaran in Peru kills an estimated 4,000
1975 – Soviet Soyuz 17 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 4
1984 – Denver Nuggets 163, San Antonio Spurs 155-highest-scoring NBA game
2024 – More than 300 people have died in flooding caused by the highest levels of River Congo in 60 years, especially in Kinshasa, DR Congo