1676 – Feodor III succeeds his father and becomes Tsar of Russia
1879 – Custer Battlefield National Monument established in Montana
1924 – Ice cream cone rolling machine patented by Carl Taylor, Cleveland
1942 – Peru and Ecuador sign Protocol of Rio (boundary determination)
1969 – Jimi Hendrix and Pete Townshend wage a battle of guitars
1989 – Dow jumps 38.06 recoups 508-pt loss since Oct 1987; index at 2,256.43
2000 – Karl Malone of the Utah Jazz becomes the 3rd player in NBA history to score 30,000 career points; finishes with 35 in a 96-94 loss to Minnesota; behind Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (38,387) and Wilt Chamberlain (31,419)
2011 – Australian Open Women’s Tennis: Kim Clijsters wins her 4th and final Grand Slam title; beats Li Na of China 3-6, 6-3, 6-3
2012 – 28th Sundance Film Festival: “The House I Live In”, directed by Eugene Jarecki, wins Grand Jury Prize Dramatic
2017 – NFL Pro Bowl, Orlando, FL: AFC beats NFC, 20-13; MVPs: Travis Kelce, KC Chiefs, TE; Lorenzo Alexander, Buffalo Bills, LB
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 28th January 2021
1561 – By Edict of Orleans French persecution of Huguenots is suspended
1671 – British pirate Henry Morgan captures Panama City from its Spanish defenders
1865 – Confederate President Jefferson Davis names 3 peace commissioners
1929 – Australian Championships Men’s Tennis: Englishman Colin Gregory wins his only Grad Slam title, beating Richard Schlesinger of Australia 6-2, 6-2, 5-7, 7-5
1939 – Australian Championships Women’s Tennis: In an all-Australian final Emily Hood Westacott beats Nell Hall Hopman 6-1, 6-2 for her only Grand Slam singles title
1951 – “La Vie Commence Demain” the 1st X-rated movie, depicting artificial insemination, opens in London
1956 – Elvis Presley’s 1st appearance on National TV (Dorsey Bros Stage Show)
1973 – Ron Howard appears on M*A*S*H in “Sometimes You Hear the Bullet”
1984 – Edmonton center Wayne Gretzky’s NHL record point scoring streak ends at 51 games when Oilers beaten 4-2 by LA Kings; Gretzky totals 61-92-153 during the period
1992 – St. Louis right wing Brett Hull becomes 2nd player (after Wayne Gretzky) in NHL history to record back-to-back seasons of 50 goals in 50 games; #50 comes in 3-3 Blues’ tie in Los Angeles
Historical Events for 27th January 2021
1870 – After accepting 15th amendment, Virginia is readmitted to the Union
1916 – Communist party “Spartacus Letters” 1st published in Berlin
1924 – Clas Thunberg of Finland claims 3 gold medals in one day when he wins the 1,500m, 10,000m and all-round speed skating events at the Chamonix Winter Olympics; won 5,000m the day before
1954 – Archie Moore beats Joey Maxim in 15-round unanimous decision to retain his world light heavyweight boxing title at the Orange Bowl, Miami; last of famous trilogy of fights, all won by Moore
1970 – Australian Open Men’s Tennis: Arthur Ashe beats big serving local Dick Crealy 6-4, 9-7, 6-2
1971 – The body of a man who had been shot dead is found in Belfast
1991 – Australian Open Men’s Tennis: Boris Becker of Germany wins his 1st Australian title; beats Ivan Lendl 1-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4
1992 – Presidential candidate Bill Clinton (D) and Genifer Flowers accuse each other of lying over her assertion they had a 12-year affair
1992 – Jane Fonda undergoes arthroscopic surgery on her right knee
1997 – 24th American Music Awards: Toni Braxton and Alanis Morissette win
Historical Events for 26th January 2021
1748 – Britain, Netherlands, Austria and Sardinia sign anti-French treaty
1907 – John Millington Synge’s “Playboy of Western World” opens in Dublin; play claimed as immoral and causes riots
1957 – India annexes Kashmir
1958 – Japanese ferry Nankai Maru capsized off southern Awaji Island, Japan, 167 killed.
1966 – The Beaumont Children go missing from Glenelg Beach near Adelaide, South Australia.
1981 – Sandeep Patil scores memorable 174 v Australia at Adelaide Oval
1983 – Dutch British infrared satellite IRAS launched from California
1988 – “Phantom of the Opera” opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 4,000+ performances
1993 – West Indies defeat Australia by one run in 4th Test at Adelaide
2001 – An earthquake hits Gujarat, India, causing more than 20,000 deaths.
Historical Events for 25th January 2021
1817 – Gioachino Rossini’s opera “La Cenerentola” (Cinderella) premieres in Rome
1854 – Aleksandr Ostrovsky’s play “Bednost ne Porok” premieres in Moscow
1882 – Bilu, a Russian Zionist organization, forms
1890 – United Mine Workers of America forms
1894 – In his only successful title defence, James J Corbett KOs English champion Charley Mitchell in 3 rounds at the Duvall Athletic Club, Jacksonville, Florida for the world heavyweight boxing title
1981 – Mao’s widow Jiang Qing sentenced to death
1988 – Ramsewak Shankar sworn in as President of Suriname
1990 – Avianca Flight 52, runs out of fuel and crashes in Cove Neck NY, 73 die
2017 – Kisenosato becomes the 1st Japanese home-grown sumo champion since 1998 when he is made yokozuna, 72nd Grand Champion
2018 – Doomsday clock moved by 30 seconds to 2 minutes to midnight by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, closest since 1950s
Historical Events for 24th January 2021
1458 – Matthias I Corvinus chosen King of Hungary
1679 – King Charles II disbands English parliament
1892 – Battle of Mengo, Uganda: French missionaries attack British missionaries
1899 – Belgium government of Vandenpeereboom forms
1922 – Lehman Caves National Monument established
1956 – 6th NBA All Star Game, Rochester War Memorial Coliseum, NY: West beats East, 108-94; MVP: Bob Pettit, St. Louis Hawks, C
1970 – 3rd ABA All-Star Game: West 128 beats East 98 at Indiana
1972 – Japanese Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi is found hiding in a Guam jungle, where he had been since the end of World War II.
1976 – Cleveland Cavaliers biggest margin victory-43 pts (beat Milwaukee 132-89)
1999 – 56th Golden Globes: “Saving Private Ryan”, Jim Carrey, and Cate Blanchett win
Historical Events for 23rd January 2021
1855 – The first bridge over the Mississippi River opens in what is now Minneapolis, Minnesota, a crossing made today by the Father Louis Hennepin Bridge
1941 – Groundbreaking for NACA (now NASA) Lewis Research Center
1941 – WOR-AM in Newark NJ moves to NYC
1965 – “King Family Show” (musical variety) premieres on ABC TV
1968 – Joe Medwick elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1973 – Helgafell, island of Heimaey Iceland erupts for 1st time in 7,000 yrs
1986 – “Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood” opens at Ritz Theater NYC for 13 performances
1993 – Graham Gooch scores his 100th 100, on tour at Cuttack
2009 – UK officially enters recession as GDP falls by 1.5% in the last quarter of 2008 following a 0.6% drop in the third quarter, with unemployment growing by 131,000 to 1.92 million (6.1%)
2020 – Actress Annabella Sciorra testifies in court that Harvey Weinstein raped her 25 years ago at his trial in New York
Historical Events for 22nd January 2021
565 – Eutychius is deposed as Patriarch of Constantinople by John Scholasticus
1873 – British SS Northfleet sinks at Dungeness, England, 300 die
1949 – “All for Love” opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 121 performances
1964 – World’s largest cheese (15,723 kg) manufactured in Wisconsin for New York’s World Fair
1976 – Bank robbery in Beirut nets $20-50 million (record)
1979 – 10,000s UK public sector workers go on strike
1999 – Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons are burned alive by radical Hindus while sleeping in their car in Eastern India
2002 – Kmart Corp becomes the largest retailer in United States history to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
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
Historical Events for 21st January 2021
1879 – Henrik Ibsen’s “Et Dukkehjem” premieres in Copenhagen
1893 – Tati Concessions Land, formerly part of Matabeleland, formally annexed to the Bechuanaland Protectorate (now Botswana)
1903 – International Theater (Majestic, Park) opens at 5 Columbus Circle NYC
1908 – “Sullivan Ordinance” is passed in NYC, making it illegal for a woman to smoke in public places. It was vetoed 2 weeks later by mayor George B. McClellan Jr.
1972 – Assam’s North East Frontier Agency becomes Arunachal Pradesh territory
1986 – Allison J Brown, 17, of Oklahoma, crowned 4th Miss Teen USA
1986 – Czech tennis star Ivan Lendl defeats Boris Becker of Germany 6-2, 7-6, 6-3 to claim the season-ending ATP Masters Grand Prix title for a third time at Madison Square Garden, NYC
1994 – Dow Jones passes 3900 (record 3,914.20)
1995 – 52nd Golden Globes: “Forrest Gump”, Tom Hanks, and Jessica Lange win
2013 – 1 person is killed and 15 are injured by a magnitude 5.9 earthquake in Indonesia
Historical Events for 20th January 2021
1265 – First English Parliament summoned other than by royal command (in this instance by Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester) mets in Westminster Hall
1502 – The present-day location of Rio de Janeiro is first explored
1839 – Battle of Yungay, Chile defeats a Peruvian and Bolivian alliance
1939 – Charles Ives’ 1st Sonata “Concord” premieres
1981 – Ronald Reagan inaugurated as the 40th President of the United States of America
1986 – Military coup in Lesotho under major general Lekhanya and premier Leabua Jonathan
1989 – Reagan becomes 1st US President elected in a “0” year, since 1840, to leave office alive
1989 – Pittsburgh center Mario Lemieux becomes just the 2nd player in NHL history to score 50 goals in less than 50 games; #50 in 44th game as the Penguins lose 7-3 to the Jets in Winnipeg
1991 – “Black and Blue” closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 829 performances
1996 – 46th NHL All-Star Game, FleetCenter, Boston, MA: East beats West, 5-4; MVP: Ray Bourque, Boston Bruins, D