1904 – 1st athletic letters given (University of Chicago football team)
1959 – Smog pollution with readings higher than the 1952 ‘Great Smog of London’ hits London, with many suffering chest and lung-related illnesses
1964 – Unmanned Apollo 1 Saturn launcher test attains Earth orbit
1964 – IX Winter Olympic Games open in Innsbruck, Austria
1967 – The Arusha Declaration written by Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere is issued, clarifying Tanzania’s path towards Ujamaa (African socialism)
1979 – Chinese vice-premier Deng Xiaoping visits Washington, D.C.
1987 – William J. Casey term as 13th director of the CIA ends
1996 – 6,138th performance of “Cats” is held in London, surpassing record of Broadway’s longest-running musical, “A Chorus Line”
2017 – NFL Pro Bowl, Orlando, FL: AFC beats NFC, 20-13; MVPs: Travis Kelce, KC Chiefs, TE; Lorenzo Alexander, Buffalo Bills, LB
2021 – Johnson and Johnson’s Janssen single-dose vaccine shown to be 66% effective in trials, with complete protection against hospitalization and death
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 28th January 2022
1760 – Pownal, Vermont created by Benning Wentworth as one of the New Hampshire Grants
1881 – Battle at Laing’s Neck Natal: Boers beat superior powered British
1911 – Frenchman Henri Rougier wins 1st Rally of Monte Carlo
1915 – The United States Coast Guard is created by merging the US Life Saving Service and the US Revenue Cutter Service
1936 – Pravda criticizes Dmitri Shostakovich’s opera “Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District”
1960 – 1st photograph bounced off Moon, Washington, D.C.
1973 – In the run up to the first anniversary of ‘Bloody Sunday’ there is serious rioting in Derry, North Ireland
1981 – “5 O’Clock Girl” opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 12 performances
1989 – David Boon completes 7th Test century, 149 v WI at SCG
2006 – Australian Open Women’s Tennis: Amélie Mauresmo of France wins her first Grand Slam title; beats Justine Henin 6-1, 2-0; Henin retires from stomach cramps
Historical Events for 27th January 2022
1343 – Pope Clement VI issues the Bull Unigenitus
1556 – Willem of Orange becomes a Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece
1870 – 1st sorority (Kappa Alpha Theta) (DePauw U in Greencastle, Indiana)
1891 – Mine explosion kills 109 at Mount Pleasant Pennsylvania
1900 – Foreign diplomats in Peking, China, write formal notes of protest demanding that the Chinese Government stop the Boxes and other groups leading attacks on Westerners and Christians.
1908 – Pasiphaë, a satellite of Jupiter, discovered by Melotte
1944 – Casey Stengel, manager of the Boston Braves since 1938, resigns Lou Perini, Guido Rugo, and Joseph Maney buy control of Boston Braves
1951 – Leonard Bernstein’s musical “Peter Pan”, starring Jean Arthur and Boris Karloff, closes at Imperial Theater, NYC, after 320 performances
1967 – A fire in the Apollo 1 Command Module kills astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger B. Chaffee during a launch rehearsal
1996 – Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposes the first democratically elected president of Niger, Mahamane Ousmane, in a military coup.
Historical Events for 26th January 2022
1910 – Heavy rains cause floods in Paris
1924 – Australasian Championships Men’s Tennis. Melbourne: James Anderson wins 2nd of 3 Australasian titles; beats fellow Australian Richard Schlesinger 6-3, 6-4, 3-6, 5-7, 6-3
1924 – Australasian Championships Women’s Tennis, Melbourne: All-Australian final; Sylvia Lance Harper beats Esna Boyd Robertson 6-3, 3-6, 8-6
1959 – Italy government of Fanfani resigns
1971 – Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts law against limitation of war crimes
1973 – Belgium government of Leburton forms
1979 – Music Center Vredenburg opens in Utrecht Neth
1986 – Hein Vergeer becomes European skating champion
2013 – Australian Open Women’s Tennis: Victoria Azarenka of Belarus wins her 2nd straight Australian title; beats Li Na of China 4-6, 6-4, 6-3
2014 – NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: Team Rice beats Team Sanders, 22-21; MVPs: Nick Foles, Philadelphia, QB; Derrick Johnson, KC Chiefs, LB
Historical Events for 25th January 2022
1721 – Tsar Peter the Great ends Russian-orthodox patriarchy
1904 – John Millington Synge’s play “Riders to the Sea” premieres in Dublin
1932 – 1st commencement exercises at Hebrew U in Jerusalem
1938 – Ian Hay’s “Bachelor Born” premieres in NYC
1960 – Wilt Chamberlain scores 58 points, the most ever by an NBA rookie, as Philadelphia Warriors beat Detroit Pistons, 127-117 at Bethlehem, PA
1966 – WCMC (now WMGM) TV channel 40 in Wildwood, NJ (NBC) 1st broadcast
1974 – Ray Kroc, CEO of McDonald’s buys San Diego Padres baseball team for $12 million
1979 – 1st documented case of a robot killing a human in US
1988 – Ramsewak Shankar sworn in as President of Suriname
2013 – Tropical cyclone Oswald makes landfall in Queensland, Australia, causing mass flooding
Historical Events for 24th January 2022
1121 – English King Henry I marries 2nd wife Adeliza [Adela] of Louvain at Windsor Castle
1764 – Governor Winthrop’s Telescope is destroyed in a Harvard fire
1859 – Political union of Moldavia and Wallachia; Alexandru Ioan Cuza is elected as ruler
1900 – Battle of Tugela-Spionkop, South Africa (Boers vs British army)
1939 – Spanish government moves to Figueras
1959 – Dmitri Shostakovich’s comedy “Cheryomushk” premieres in Moscow
1962 – 28 refugees escape from East to West Germany
1976 – 33rd Golden Globes: “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”, Jack Nicholson, and Louise Fletcher win
1999 – David Duval eagles the 18th hole for a final round 59 to win the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic at PGA West; becomes only the 3rd player to fire a sub-60 round on the PGA Tour
2013 – Russian police kill 13 rebels in Vedeno District, Chechnya
Historical Events for 23rd January 2022
1856 – Steamer Pacific, leaves Liverpool on final voyage (later lost at sea, 186 on board)
1897 – Elva Zona Heaster is found dead in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. Resulting murder trial of her husband perhaps only case in US history where the alleged testimony of a ghost helped secure a conviction.
1958 – “Body Beautiful” opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 60 performances
1959 – 9th NBA All-Star Game, Olympia Stadium, Detroit, Mi: West beats East, 124-108; MVPs: Elgin Baylor, Minneapolis Lakers, F; Bob Pettit, St. Louis Hawks, C; first co-winners of MVP award
1964 – Arthur Miller’s play “After the Fall” premieres in NYC
1970 – US launches 2nd generation weather satellite, ITOS 1
1973 – Helgafell, island of Heimaey Iceland erupts for 1st time in 7,000 yrs
1978 – Sweden becomes the first nation in the world to ban aerosol sprays, believed to be damaging to earth’s ozone layer.
1978 – Belgian industrial Haron Empain kidnapped in Paris
1982 – Urbe Blanca (cow) produces record 110 kg of milk, Cuba (approx date)
Historical Events for 22nd January 2022
1901 – After 63 years Britain stops sale of Queen Victoria postage stamps series and begins King Edward VII series
1908 – Katie Mulcahey is arrested for lighting a cigarette, violating the 1-day old “Sullivan Ordinance” banning women from smoking in public, and is fined $5. Appearing before the judge she stated “I’ve got as much right to smoke as you have. I never heard of this new law, and I don’t want to hear about it. No man shall dictate to me.”
1930 – -35°F (-37°C), Mount Carroll, Illinois (state record)
1948 – All time great England cricket spin bowler Jim Laker takes 7-103 in his first Test innings in 1st Test v West Indies in Bridgetown, Barbados
1968 – NBA announces expansion franchise licences awarded to Milwaukee (Bucks) and Phoenix (Suns)
1969 – Orbiting Solar Observatory 5 launched into earth orbit
1986 – Ghorbanifar 1st suggests diversion of cash to contras, says North
1995 – Palestinian bomb attack in Beit Lid Israel, 21-22 killed
2002 – Kmart Corp becomes the largest retailer in United States history to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
2014 – Water vapour is detected on the dwarf planet Ceres
Historical Events for 21st January 2022
1522 – Head inquisitor Adrian Florisz Boeyens elected pope
1942 – Count Basie records “One O’Clock Jump”
1946 – “Nellie Bly” opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 16 performances
1950 – T. S. Eliot’s play “The Cocktail Party” premieres in NYC
1952 – Jawaharlal Nehru’s Congress party wins general election in India
1956 – “Comedy in Music (Victor Borge)” closes at Golden NYC after 849 performances
1981 – “Shakespeare’s Cabaret” opens at Bijou Theater New York City for 54 performances
1987 – B.B. King is inducted into the “Rock and Roll Hall of Fame”
1995 – 52nd Golden Globes: “Forrest Gump”, Tom Hanks, and Jessica Lange win
2004 – Minnesota Wild set an NHL record for 2 fastest goals, when Jim Dowd and Richard Park score just 3 seconds apart in the final 15 seconds of a 4-2 win over visiting Chicago Blackhawks
Historical Events for 20th January 2022
1503 – Casa de Contratación (House of Trade) established by the Crown of Castile in the port of Seville to deal with American affairs
1840 – Dumont D’Urville discovers Adélie Land, Antarctica
1869 – Elizabeth Cady Stanton becomes 1st woman to testify before US Congress
1949 – 1st inaugural parade televised, for Harry Truman, watched by 10 million people
1952 – British army occupies Ismailiya, Suez Canal Zone
1953 – 1st live US coast-to-coast inauguration address (Eisenhower)
1965 – The Byrds record “Mr Tambourine Man”
1981 – The US diplomats and citizens held hostage at the US embassy in Tehran are released and begin their journey home after 444 days
1989 – Wayne Holdsworth takes a wicket 1st ball in 1st-class cricket
1995 – 1994-95 NHL Season begin after a lengthy strike