1861 – Mississippi secedes from the Union (US Civil War)
1908 – Frans Schollaert succeeds De Trooz as premier of Belgium
1929 – KDB-AM in Santa Barbara CA begins radio transmissions
1956 – Abigail Van Buren’s [Pauline Phillips] “Dear Abby” advice column 1st appears in newspapers
1970 – Constitution of Singapore enacted
1995 – Ecuador and Peru involved in boundary fight
1998 – Decapitated head of Danish Little Mermaid is returned
2006 – 11th Critics’ Choice Movie Awards: Brokeback Mountain wins Best Film
2007 – 33rd People’s Choice Awards: Johnny Depp and Jennifer Aniston win (Movie Star) and Patrick Dempsey and Eva Longoria win (TV)
2018 – The first same-sex marriages take place in Australia after legislation passed a month ago
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 8th January 2021
1884 – Chrome tanning process for leather patented by Augustus Schultz
1902 – 1st National Bowling Championship held (Chicago, Illinois)
1902 – The United Irish League, a leading force for unification in all Ireland and independence from Britain, holds its convention in Dublin
1952 – Jordan adopts constitution
1972 – NCAA announces freshman can play on teams starting in fall
1974 – Silver hits record $3.40 an ounce in New York
1979 – Vietnamese troops overtook Khmer Rouge and occupy Phnom Penh
2001 – 28th American Music Awards: Faith Hill and Kid Rock win
2009 – College Football, 11th BCS National Championship, Dolphin Stadium, Miami Gardens: #2 Florida beats #1 Oklahoma, 24-14
2009 – A 6.2 magnitude earthquake hit Costa Rica´s region of Volcan Poás, with an epicenter near Cinchona. It was caused by Varablanca-Angel fault.
Historical Events for 7th January 2021
1579 – England signs an offensive and defensive alliance with Netherland
1610 – Galileo Galilei discovers the first three moons of Jupiter: Io, Europa and Ganymede
1698 – Russian Tsar Peter the Great departs Netherlands for England
1830 – 1st US Railroad Station opens (Baltimore)
1896 – Fannie Farmer publishes her first cookbook “The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book”
1899 – Walter Camp publishes his 1st All-American football team in Collier’s
1916 – In response to pressure from President Woodrow Wilson, Germany notifies the US State Department that it will abide by strict international rules of maritime warfare
1945 – The last surface engagement between Allies and Japanese in the Pacific campaign, World War II
1972 – Lewis F. Powell Jr. becomes a US Supreme Court Justice
1973 – Mark Essex’s mass shooting comes to an end after he is shot by police more than 200 times on the roof of New Orlean’s Holiday Inn hotel. He killed nine people, including five policeman.
Historical Events for 6th January 2021
1099 – Henry V crowned German king
1453 – Emperor Frederik III becomes archduke of Austria
1649 – The English Rump Parliament votes to put Charles I on trial for treason and other “high crimes”
1809 – Napoleonic Wars: Invasion of Cayenne, by combined British, Portuguese and colonial Brazilian forces, begins
1839 – 2 day storm off Irish and English coast immortalized as the “Big Wind”
1946 – Vietnam holds its first ever general election
1956 – Federal court bars former Little League Commissioner Carl Stotz from forming a rival group
1968 – Surveyor 7 (last of series) launched by US for soft-landing on Moon
1981 – 50th hat trick in Islander history-John Tonelli scored 5 goals
2005 – Mississippi Civil Rights Workers Murders: Edgar Ray Killen is arrested as a suspect for the 1964 murders of three Civil Rights workers.
Historical Events for 5th January 2021
1593 – William Louis of Nassau becomes governor/viceroy of Drenthe
1875 – President Grant sends federal troops to Vicksburg, Mississippi
1886 – “Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde” by Robert Louis Stevenson published by Longmans, Green and Co.
1918 – British premier Lloyd George demand for unified peace
1955 – KMSP TV channel 9 in Minneapolis-St Paul, MN (IND) 1st broadcast
1981 – “Nightline” with Ted Koppel extended from 20 mins to 30 mins
1992 – “Crucible” closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 32 performances
1993 – Oil tanker MV Braer runs aground on the coast of the Shetland Islands, spilling 84,700 tons of crude oil
1995 – Lockheed C-140 Jetstar crashes at Isfahan, Iran, killing 18
2018 – North Korea accepts South Korean invitation for high-level talks
Historical Events for 4th January 2021
1878 – Sofia is emancipated from Ottoman rule.
1926 – Theodoros Pangalos resigns as Greek dictator
1958 – Sputnik 1 reenters atmosphere and burns up
1962 – 1st automated (unmanned) subway train in New York City
1970 – AFL Championship, Alameda County Coliseum, Oakland: Kansas City Chiefs beat Oakland Raiders, 17-7; Chiefs defence forces 4 interceptions
1974 – Nixon refuses to hand over tapes subpoenaed by Watergate Committee
1975 – “Over Here” closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 341 performances
1981 – British police arrest Peter Sutcliffe, the “Yorkshire Ripper”
1999 – College Football, 1st BCS National Championship, Sun Devil Stadium, Tempe, AZ: #1 Tennessee beats #2 Florida State, 23-16, at 28th Fiesta Bowl
2013 – 9 people are killed by a car bomb in Damascus, Syria
Historical Events for 3rd January 2021
1338 – Jacob of Arteveld elected mayor of Ghent
1840 – 1st deep sea sounding by James Clark Ross in south Atlantic at 2425 fathoms (14,450 feet)
1919 – Herbert Hoover is placed in charge of war relief in Europe
1951 – 9 Jewish Kremlin physicians “exposed” as British/US agents
1959 – Alaska admitted as 49th US state
1972 – The Irish Republican Army (IRA) explodes a bomb in Callender Street, Belfast, injuring over 60 people
1988 – Margaret Thatcher becomes longest-serving British PM this century
1998 – Grandpa Jones suffers a stroke
2011 – Adrian Lewis of England wins his first PDC World Darts Championship with a 7-5 win over Scotsman Gary Anderson at the Alexandra Palace, London
2019 – Archaeologists in Mexico announce discovery of pre-Aztec temple to god Xipe Tótec in Puebla state (dated 900-1150 AD)
Historical Events for 2nd January 2021
1788 – Georgia is 4th state to ratify US constitution
1943 – University of Kentucky Wildcats men’s basketball team begins 129 home game winning streak that only ends in 1955; incorporates NCAA titles in 1948, 1949 and 1951
1960 – 1st redshank old world shore bird reported in North America (Halifax)
1961 – 27th Sugar Bowl: #2 Mississippi beats Rice, 14-6
1965 – Martin Luther King Jr. begins a drive to register black voters
1966 – National Football League Championship, Lambeau Field, Green Bay: Green Bay Packers beat Cleveland Browns, 23-12; first NFL title game televised in colour; last one played before Super Bowl era
1972 – “Rothschilds” closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 505 performances
1985 – Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak reappoints Coptic pope Shenuda III
2016 – Saudi Arabia executes 47 alleged terrorists, including Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr
2019 – Apple CEO Tim Cook blames below expectation Chinese iPhone sales for downturn in company’s outlook, rocking international stock markets
Historical Events for 1st January 2021
1527 – Croatian nobles elect Ferdinand I of Austria as king of Croatia in the Parliament on Cetin
1785 – “Daily Universal Register” (Times of London) publishes 1st issue
1967 – FCC requires AM-FM sister stations to be at least 50% different
1968 – Netherlands gets color TV
1974 – With effect from this date the New Zealand government terminates all tariff preferences previously granted to South Africa
1977 – Belgium reapportions 2,359 communities into 596
1978 – Los Angeles Police chief Edward Davis retires from police force
1994 – Howard Stern’s New Year’s Eve Beauty Pageant
1995 – Last “Far Side” by cartoonist Gary Larson (started 1980)
1995 – “Shadow Box” closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 49 performances
Historical Events for 31st December 2020
1857 – Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa as new capital of Canada
1967 – “Henry, Sweet Henry” closes at Palace Theater NYC after 80 performances
1974 – Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks join Fleetwood Mac
1977 – Amir Sheikh Jabir al-Ahmad al-Jabir Al Sabah becomes leader of Kuwait
1980 – Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band’s “The River Tour” concert at Nassau Coliseum (Uniondale, New York) clocks in at almost 4 hours
1984 – NYC subway gunman Bernhard Goetz surrenders to police in NH
1989 – “Me and My Girl” closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 1420 performances
1997 – 27th Fiesta Bowl: #10 Kansas State beats #14 Syracuse, 35-18
1997 – Microsoft buys Hotmail email service for $400 million and re-launches it as MSN Hotmail
2017 – Ban on ivory trade in China comes into effect