1839 – Thomas Henderson measures 1st stellar parallax (Alpha Centauri)
1858 – Anson Jones, the last President of the Republic of Texas, commits suicide
1915 – Exposition (now Civic) Auditorium dedicated in San Francisco
1923 – Swaraj political party founded in India with Chittaranjan Das as president and Motilal Nehru its secretary
1941 – 6,000 Jews murdered in a pogrom in Bucharest, Romania
1951 – Washington Capitals NBA club folds
1953 – Korean ferryboat “Chang Tyong-Ho” sank off Pusan killing 249
1960 – Building of Aswan dam in Egypt, begins
1966 – Polish government denies exit visa to Cardinal Wyszynski revisionism
1976 – Bryan Trottier failed in 4th Islander penalty shot
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 8th January 2022
1816 – Sophie Germain is the first woman to win a prize from the Paris Academy of Sciences for her paper on elasticity
1833 – Boston Academy of Music, 1st US music school, established
1870 – US mint at Carson City, Nevada begins issuing coins
1901 – New South Wales score 918 all out vs South Australia in 560 minutes
1906 – A landslide in Haverstraw, New York, caused by the excavation of clay along the Hudson River, kills 20 people.
1913 – Frank Chance becomes NY Yankees manager
1971 – Voyageurs National Park, Minn, established
1981 – Isabel Allende begins a letter to her dying grandfather that will become her first novel “The House of the Spirits”
1989 – AFC Championship, Riverfront Stadium, Cincinnati: Cincinnati Bengals beat Buffalo Bills, 21-10
2008 – 34th People’s Choice Awards: Johnny Depp and Reese Witherspoon win (Movie Star) and Patrick Dempsey and Katherine Heigl win (TV)
Historical Events for 7th January 2022
1698 – Russian Tsar Peter the Great departs Netherlands for England
1911 – Dutch Scouts Organization established in Amsterdam
1915 – World War I: Germany’s Kaiser Wilhelm approves strategic bombing of Britain, but forbids bombing London, fearing his relatives in the royal family might be killed
1939 – US worker’s union leader Tom Mooney freed (jailed since 1916)
1961 – 1st NFL Playoff Bowl (runner-up bowl)-Detroit beats Cleveland 17-16
1971 – -40°F (-40°C) in Hawley Lake, Arizona (state record)
1975 – Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to AR Ammons (Sphere)
1994 – United Express commuter plane crashes in Ohio, killing 5
2017 – Hopman Cup Tennis, Perth: French pair Kristina Mladenovic and Richard Gasquet beat Americans Coco Vandeweghe and Jack Sock 4-1, 4-3 to clinch 2-1 win; 2nd French title
2018 – It snows in the Sahara desert – 15 inches reported in Aïn Séfra, Northwest Algeria
Historical Events for 6th January 2022
1639 – Virginia is 1st colony to order surplus crops (tobacco) destroyed
1839 – 2 day storm off Irish and English coast immortalized as the “Big Wind”
1880 – Record snow cover in Seattle – 120 cm
1900 – Maurice Ravel’s “Albaradode Gracioso” premieres in Paris
1914 – Stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch founded
1971 – Neil Young returns to his homeland of Canada for his first concert there since his pre-stardom days
1980 – Indira Gandhi’s Congress Party wins elections in India
1980 – The beginning of the first GPS epoch.
2006 – Hopman Cup Tennis, Perth: Lisa Raymond and Taylor Dent beat Dutch pair Michaëlla Krajicek and Peter Wessels 4-6, 6-2, 7-6 for a 2-1 win and 4th American title
2014 – College Football, 16th BCS National Championship, Rose Bowl, Pasadena: #1 Florida State beats #2 Auburn, 34-31
Historical Events for 5th January 2022
1554 – Great fire in Eindhoven, Netherlands
1846 – The United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Territory with the United Kingdom
1895 – Henry James’ play “Guy Domville” opens in London
1912 – The Prague Party Conference takes place.
1925 – England cricket openers Herbert Sutcliffe (176) and Jack Hobbs (154) display heroics in their 1st innings but the tourists sink to an 81 run defeat in the 2nd Test against Australia in Melbourne; Sutcliffe also adds 127 in the England 2nd innings
1933 – Work on Golden Gate Bridge begins, starting on the Marin County side
1949 – General Spoor orders cease-fire on Sumatra
1953 – Samuel Beckett’s “En Attendant Godot” premieres in Paris
1992 – Musical “Peter Pan”, starring Cathy Rigby, closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 48 performances
1996 – Muralitharan no-balled for throwing in ODI v WI at the Gabba
Historical Events for 4th January 2022
1868 – Wilkie Collins’ “The Moonstone” is first serialized in “All the Year Round” owned by Charles Dickins
1947 – “Park Avenue” closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 72 performances
1976 – AFC Championship, Three Rivers Stadium, Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Steelers beat Oakland Raiders, 16-10
1981 – “Red Right 88”, trailing 14–12 Clevelands Browns attempt an end zone pass play (Red Right 88) and a game-winning field goal in the final minute, but pass intercepted by Raiders safety Mike Davis and Oakland wins
1994 – 10th largest wrestling crowd (58,000-Tokyo Dome)
1998 – Wilaya of Relizane massacres in Algeria: over 170 are killed in three remote villages.
2000 – After 2 months, Catherine Hartley and Fiona Thornewill, reach the South Poll, the same day as Edmund Hillary 48 years before
2001 – Rapper Vanilla Ice spends night in jail after allegedly ripping out some of his wife’s hair during a row
2004 – College Football, 6th BCS National Championship, Louisiana Superdome, New Orleans: #2 LSU beats #1 Oklahoma, 21-14 at 70th Sugar Bowl
2004 – Mikheil Saakashvili is elected President of Georgia
Historical Events for 3rd January 2022
1638 – Dutch Premier Van Joost speaks of “Hostage rights of Aemstel”
1862 – Romney Campaign: Stonewall Jackson moves north from Winchester
1889 – Admissions convention meets in Ellensburg, WA, asks for statehood
1955 – Jose Ramon Guizado becomes president of Panama
1987 – Aretha Franklin is the first female artist to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
2007 – National Express has its worst ever coach crash just outside Heathrow Airport.
2007 – High profile Miami Dolphins NFL head coach Nick Saban resigns after agreeing to return to college football and take head coaching job at Alabama
2013 – 42nd Fiesta Bowl: #5 Oregon beats #7 Kansas State, 35-17
2018 – Security expert reveal two security flaws, Meltdown and Spectre which affect most microprocessors
2019 – 116th US Congress convenes in Washington, D.C., electing Nancy Pelosi Speaker of the House of Representatives for the second time
Historical Events for 2nd January 2022
1585 – Spain and Catholic France sign Saint League of Joinville
1791 – Big Bottom massacre in the Ohio Country, marking the beginning of the Northwest Indian War.
1831 – Liberator, abolitionist newspaper, begins publishing in Boston
1843 – Richard Wagner’s opera “The Flying Dutchman” premieres in Dresden
1885 – General Wolseley receives last distress signal of General Gordon in Khartoum
1920 – Responding to global fear of communism caused by the Russian Revolution, US Attorney General Palmer authorizes raids across the country on unionists and socialists
1968 – KBHK TV channel 44 in San Francisco, California (IND) begins broadcasting
1970 – Dutch premiere of musical “Hair” in Amsterdam
1974 – Worst fire in Argentine history destroys 1.2 million acres
1997 – Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Columbus OH on WBZX 99.7 FM
Historical Events for 1st January 2022
1890 – Eritrea is consolidated into a colony by the Italian government.
1913 – US Post office begins parcel post deliveries
1943 – 29th Rose Bowl: #2 Georgia beats #13 UCLA, 9-0
1988 – 54th Sugar Bowl: #4 Syracuse ties #6 Auburn, 16-16
1994 – Jacobs Field opens with “Gateway’s New Year’s Eve Countdown to ’94”
1998 – 84th Rose Bowl: #1 Michigan beats #8 Washington State, 21-16
2009 – 61 die in nightclub fire in Bangkok, Thailand.
2014 – 100th Rose Bowl: #4 Michigan State beats #5 Stanford, 24-20
2016 – Dubai skyscraper “The Address” burns as the New Year is rung in. Fire started on the 31st.
2019 – Level at 1-1 in Hopman Cup tennis tie, Roger Federer and Serena Williams (combined 43 major singles titles) matchup in deciding mixed doubles; with teammate Belinda Bencic, Federer wins 4-2, 4-3 for 2-1 Swiss victory over US
Historical Events for 31st December 2021
1229 – James I of Aragon the Conqueror enters Medina Mayurqa (Palma) consummating Christian conquest of the island of Majorca
1756 – Russia joins the Alliance of Versailles
1906 – French, British and Italian treaty concerning rights on Abyssinia
1939 – Dutch national debt hits ƒ4,218,553,180.99
1942 – Battle of the Barents Sea between British Navy and German Kriegsmarine off North Cape, Norway
1966 – Pirate Radio 390 (Radio Invicata) off England, resumes transmitting
1990 – United Somali Congress seizes Presidential Palace
2014 – Beji Caid Essebsi is sworn in as Tunisia’s 1st ever freely elected President
2017 – Cleveland Browns crash to a 28-24 loss to Pittsburgh Steelers at Heinz Field to become only the 2nd team in NFL history to finish season with 0-16 record
2019 – Iraqi militiamen and protesters breach the outer wall of the US embassy in Baghdad following US airstrikes against Kataib Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed Iraqi militia, on December 29