1592 – Ippolito Aldobrandini elected Pope Clement VIII
1647 – After nine months of negotiations, Scottish Presbyterians sell captured Charles I to English Parliament for around £100,000
1835 – Richard Lawrence misfires at President Andrew Jackson in Washington, D.C. in 1st attempted assassination of a US President
1902 – Britain and Japan sign a treaty after months of negotiating which commits each country to supporting an independent China and Korea, although it acknowledges Japan’s ‘special interest’ in Korea
1933 – Australian Championships Men’s Tennis: Jack Crawford wins his 3rd straight Australian title; beats Keith Gledhill of the US 2-6, 7-5, 6-3, 6-2
1956 – KRMA TV channel 6 in Denver, CO (PBS) begins broadcasting
1960 – Dutch communist trade union EVC’58 disbands
1965 – State funeral of Winston Churchill at St Paul’s Cathedral in London. Then world’s largest ever state funeral.
1996 – Commander of the U.S. Fifth Fleet Scott Redd states that Iran test-fired a new anti-ship missile near the Strait of Hormuz
2000 – 16th Sundance Film Festival: “Girlfight” and “You Can Count on Me” (tie) win Grand Jury Prize Dramatic
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 29th January 2020
904 – Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher
1732 – Paris churchyard of Saint-Medard closed after Jansenistic ritual
1900 – Boers under Joubert beat British at Spionkop Natal, 2,000 killed
1936 – 1st players elected to Baseball Hall of Fame: Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson and Walter Johnson
1940 – Australian Championships Women’s Tennis: Nancye Wynne Bolton wins her 2nd Australian singles titles; beats Thelma Coyne 5-7, 6-4, 6-0
1944 – World War II: The Battle of Cisterna takes place in central Italy.
1959 – ‘The Great Smog’ hits London, many die of chest and lung-related illnesses
1966 – US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Allen
1968 – Australian Championships Women’s Tennis: American Billie Jean King beats home favourite Margaret Court 6-1, 6-2 for her 13th Grand Slam singles title
2012 – 59th NHL All-Star Game, Scotiabank Place, Ottawa: Team Chara beats Team Alfredsson, 12-9; Marián Gáborík, NY Rangers, LW
Historical Events for 28th January 2020
1848 – King of Naples grants his subjects a constitution
1918 – Finnish Civil War: Rebels seized control of the capital, Helsinki, and members of the Senate of Finland go underground.
1935 – Iceland becomes 1st western country to legalize abortion
1949 – NY Giants sign their 1st black players, Monte Irvin and Ford Smith
1959 – Soviet Union wins 62-37 for 1st international basketball loss by US
1960 – “The Goon Show”‘s final episode on BBC radio
1975 – 8th ABA All-Star Game: East 151 beats West 124 at San Antonio
1979 – Pope John Paul II addresses the Third General Conference of Latin American Episcopate in Puebla, Mexico
1981 – “5 O’Clock Girl” opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 12 performances
1988 – “Saratina!” opens at Cort Theater NYC for 597 performances
Historical Events for 27th January 2020
1945 – Nazi occupiers forbid food transport to West (The Netherlands)
1951 – US begins 126 nuclear tests at Nevada Test Site
1968 – French submarine Minerve dissappears in the Mediterranean with the loss of 52 crew
1969 – Ian Paisley sentenced to 3 years
1972 – World premiere of Scott Joplin’s rediscovered opera “Treemonisha” at Morehouse College in Atlanta
1985 – “Doug Henning and His World…” closes at Lunt-Fontanne NY after 60 performances
1996 – Shiv Chanderpaul scores 303* for Guyana v Jamaica at Kingston
1996 – Catherine Roskam becomes the 1st NY female Episcopal bishop
2013 – Spain defeats Denmark to win the 2013 World Men’s Handball Championship
2019 – Landslide kills 15 at a wedding party in a hotel in Abancay, Peru
Historical Events for 26th January 2020
1875 – Electric dental drill is patented by George F Green
1922 – Ralph Vaughan Williams’ “Pastoral Symphony” premieres in London
1934 – Nazi Germany and Poland sign 10-year non-aggression treaty
1957 – Dutch Pacifist Socialist Party forms
1959 – Italy government of Fanfani resigns
1962 – Bishop Burke of Buffalo Catholic dioceses declares Chubby Checker’s “The Twist” to be impure and bans it from all Catholic schools
1978 – Strikers riot in Tunisia, killing about 40
1979 – Music Center Vredenburg opens in Utrecht Neth
1988 – Australian 200th anniversary parade of tall ships in Sydney Harbour
2008 – Australian Open Women’s Tennis: Russian Maria Sharapova wins her first and only Australian title; beats Ana Ivanović of Serbia 7-5, 6-3
Historical Events for 25th January 2020
1879 – The Bulgarian National Bank is founded
1890 – United Mine Workers of America forms
1937 – 1st broadcast of “Guiding Light” on NBC radio
1939 – Joe Louis KOs John Henry Lewis in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
1961 – 1st live, nationally televised presidential news conference with JFK
1976 – Surinder Amarnath scores 124 on Test debut Ind v NZ Auckland
1983 – China’s supreme court commutes Chiang Ch’ing’s death sentence to life
1988 – George Harrison releases “When We Was Fab”
1990 – Honduras becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty
1992 – Hubble space telescope optics finds NGC3862/3C264
Historical Events for 24th January 2020
1908 – Lieutenant General Robert Baden-Powell publishes “Scouting for Boys” as a manual for self-instruction in outdoor skills and self-improvement. The book becomes the inspiration for the Scout Movement.
1922 – -54°F (-48°C), Danbury, Wisconsin (state record)
1958 – After warming to 100,000,000 degrees, 2 light atoms are bashed together to create a heavier atom, resulting in 1st man-made nuclear fusion
1962 – Brian Epstein signs management contract with the Beatles
1962 – 28 refugees escape from East to West Germany
1962 – Jackie Robinson is 1st African American elected to Baseball’s Hall of Fame. Bob Feller is also elected.
1978 – Carter Executive Order on Intelligence (# 12036)
1993 – US men’s Figure Skating championship won by Scott Davis
1994 – Dow Jones closes above 3,900 for 1st time (3,914.48)
2010 – AFC Championship, Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis, IN: Indianapolis Colts beat New York Jets, 30-17
Historical Events for 23rd January 2020
1812 – 7.8 earthquake shakes New Madrid, Missouri
1907 – Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes 1st Native American US senator
1930 – WIS-AM (now WOMG) in Columbia SC begins radio transmissions
1943 – British 8th army marches into Tripoli
1960 – Bathosphere “Trieste”, crewed by Jacques Piccard and US Navy Lieutenant Don Walsh, reaches bottom of Pacific (10,900 m)
1971 – UCLA loses to Notre Dame, UCLA then wins next 88 games in a row
1987 – Japan 1st exceeds military spending cap of 1% of GNP ($23 billion)
1991 – Bagogwe Massacre of Tutsi in and around Ruhengeri, Northern Rwanda
2001 – The Chinese Communist Party stages a self-immolation in Tiananmen Square to frame Falun Gong and escalate the persecution.
2012 – European Union agrees to embargo Iranian oil in protest against Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons program
Historical Events for 22nd January 2020
1588 – Pope Sixtus V decrees “Immense aeterni” (Reformed curia)
1771 – Spain cedes Falkland Islands to Britain
1816 – Lord Byron completes poems “Parisina” and “Siege of Corinth”
1837 – Earthquake in southern Syria kills thousands
1905 – In St Petersburg, Russia, a large demonstration of workers led by Father Gapon, march to the Winter Palace with a petition to the Tsar; troops fire on protesters in what becomes known as ‘Bloody Sunday’
1956 – 30 people die in a train crash in Los Angeles
1957 – Mad Bomber (George P Metesky) accused of 30 explosions, arrested
1970 – Test debut of Barry Richards, South Africa v Australia, Cape Town
1980 – PGA begins a senior golf tour
1987 – Blizzard in NJ, as 334 attend Devils-Flame NHL game, NJ wins 7-5
Historical Events for 21st January 2020
1664 – Count Miklos of Zrinyi sets out to battle Turkish invasion army
1749 – Verona Philharmonic Theatre destroyed by fire. Rebuilt 1754.
1793 – Louis XVI of France is executed by the guillotine in Paris, following his conviction for high treason
1887 – Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) forms
1922 – 1st slalom ski race run at Murren, Switzerland
1941 – Australian and British troops attack Tobruk, Libya
1960 – Little Joe 4 suborbital Mercury test reaches 16 km
1968 – The Battle of Khe Sanh – one of the most publicized and controversial battles of the Vietnam War – begins at the Khe Sanh Air Base
2007 – NFC Championship, Soldier Field, Chicago: Chicago Bears beat New Orleans Saints, 39-14
2017 – More than 2 million people protest worldwide in the ‘Women’s March’ against Donald Trump, with 500,000 marching in Washington D.C.