1866 – Prim’s Insurrection in Spain ends
1942 – Nazi officials hold notorious Wannsee Conference in Berlin to organize the “final solution”, the extermination of Europe’s Jews
1961 – Francis Poulenc’s “Gloria” premieres in Boston
1970 – 20th NBA All-Star Game, Spectrum, Philadelphia, Pa: East beats West, 142-135; MVP: Willis Reed, NY Knicks, C; Tom and Dick Van Arsdale, first brothers to play in same NBA All-Star Game
1982 – Future Hockey Hall of Fame center Darryl Sittler is traded by the Toronto Maple Leafs to the Philadelphia Flyers in exchange for Rich Costello, a 2nd round draft pick and future considerations
1984 – US female Figure Skating championship won by Rosalynn Sumners
1986 – Military coup in Lesotho under major general Lekhanya and premier Leabua Jonathan
1995 – 1994-95 NHL Season begin after a lengthy strike
1995 – Russian ruble drops to 3,947 per dollar (record)
2008 – “Breaking Bad”, created by Vince Gilligan and starring Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul premieres on AMC
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 19th January 2020
1903 – New bicycle race “Tour de France” announced
1923 – UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Stanley Baldwin and US Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon agree to reschedule repayment of Britain’s $4.5 billion war debt over 62 years
1938 – General Motors begins mass production of diesel engines
1943 – 1st Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins
1950 – Maiden flight by Canada’s Avro Canada CF-100 military plane
1970 – Dutch bishops says he is in favor of married priests
1982 – Aust-WI one-day game that produced a Privy Council libel case
1991 – Sgt Slaughter defeats Ultimate Warrior for WWF championship belt
1992 – IBM announces a nearly $5B loss for 1992
2016 – China’s economic growth revealed as lowest for 25 years – 6.9% in 2015
Historical Events for 18th January 2020
1535 – Francisco Pizarro founds the city of Lima in Peru
1840 – The Electro-Magnet, and Mechanics Intelligencer, 1st US electrical journal, appears
1944 – 1st Chinese naturalized US citizen since repeal of exclusion acts
1947 – Small river steamer sinks on Yangtze River, kills 400
1960 – Capital Airlines Flight 20 crashes in Virginia, killing all 50 people on-board
1970 – 20th NFL Pro Bowl, LA Memorial Coliseum: West beats East, 16-13; MVPs: Gale Sayers, Chicago Bears, HB; George Andrie, Dallas Cowboys, DE
1975 – “Jeffersons” spinoff from “All in the Family” premieres on CBS
1981 – Iran accepts US offer of $7.9 billion in frozen assets
1998 – 48th NHL All-Star Game, General Motors Place, Vancouver, BC: North America beats World, 8-7; MVP: Teemu Selanne, Anaheim, RW
2004 – NFC Championship, Lincoln Financial Field, Philadelphia: Carolina Panthers beat Philadelphia Eagles, 14-3
Historical Events for 17th January 2020
1718 – Avalanche destroys every building in Leukerbad, Switzerland; kills 53
1893 – Queen Liliuokalani is deposed by an American coup, Kingdom of Hawaii becomes a republic
1945 – Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, credited with saving tens of thousands of Jews from the Nazis, arrested by Soviet secret police in Hungary
1948 – Netherlands and Indonesia agree to a cease-fire
1954 – Jacques Cousteau’s 1st network telecast airs on “Omnibus” (CBS)
1959 – “Say, Darling” closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 332 performances
1991 – Iraq fires 8 Scud missiles on Israel
1995 – LA Rams announce that they are moving to St Louis
2011 – “Sure Thing” single released by Miguel (Billboard Song of the Year 2011)
2013 – 106 people are massacred by Syrian army forces in Homs
Historical Events for 16th January 2020
1777 – Vermont declares independence from New York
1865 – San Francisco Dramatic Chronicle starts
1871 – Jefferson Long of Georgia sworn in as 2nd black congressman
1905 – Baseball outfielder Frank Huelsman completes eighth transaction in 8 months
1905 – Stanley Cup, Dey’s Arena, Ottawa, ON: Ottawa Senators rout Dawson City (Yukon), 23-2 for 2-0 series sweep; most lopsided challenge playoff game in history; Frank McGee 14 goals
1933 – Cricket’s Bodyline Tour: Australian batsman Bert Oldfield’s skull fractured by delivery bowled by Englishman Harold Larwood during the third test in Adelaide
1938 – LPGA Titleholders Championship Women’s Golf, Augusta CC: Patty Berg retains title by a massive 14 strokes ahead of Jane Cothran
1965 – 4th AFL All Star Game, Jeppeson Stadium, Houston: Western Division beats Eastern Division, 38-14; MVPs: Keith Lincoln, LA Chargers, RB; Willie Brown, Denver Broncos, DB
1997 – Anthony Stuart takes ODI hat-trick, Aus v Pakistan, MCG
2019 – Australian Bureau of Meteorology tweets last four days were the country’s hottest on record with Tarcoola, South Australia, reaching 49 C (120 F), Port Augusta 48.5 C (119 F)
Historical Events for 15th January 2020
1762 – Fraunces Tavern opens in NYC
1886 – Weekly Herald, 1st newspaper in Vancouver, BC, publishes 1st issue
1895 – Tchaikovsky’s ballet “Swan Lake” premieres, St Petersburg (1/27 NS)
1935 – 300 Dutch ice cream salesmen protest against Italian competition
1955 – Dmitri Shostakovich’s “From Jewish Folk Poetry” premieres in Leningrad
1962 – Coco the Clown [Nicolai Poliakoff] is the subject of the BBC TV programme “This is Your Life”
1981 – Pitcher Bob Gibson is elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility; after a stellar 17 year career, polls 337 votes from Baseball Writers Association of America
1993 – 7.5 earthquake strikes northern Japan, killing 2 people
2019 – Theresa May’s Brexit deal with the EU is rejected by UK parliament 432 votes to 202, largest parliamentary defeat in its democratic era
2019 – Bomb blast and gunfight at DusitD2 hotel in Nairobi, Kenya, leaves at least 21 dead with militants group claiming responsibility al-Shabab
Historical Events for 14th January 2020
1601 – Church authorities in Rome burn Hebrew books
1724 – Spanish King Philip V abdicates throne
1950 – US recalls all consular officials from China
1973 – Dancer Roy Castle is measured at 1,440 taps/min on BBC TV
1978 – Sex Pistols’ final concert held in Winterland, San Francisco
1981 – US Federal Communications Commission frees stations to air as many commercials an hour as they wish
1986 – Vinicio Cerezo becomes only the second freely elected President of Guatemala since CIA-sponsored coup in 1954
1993 – David Letterman announces his show is moving from NBC to CBS
2004 – The national flag of Georgia, the so-called “five cross flag” restored to official use after a hiatus of some 500 years
2010 – Yemen declares war on al-Qaeda
Historical Events for 13th January 2020
1605 – Controversial play “Eastward Hoe” by Ben Jonson, George Chapman, and John Marston is performed, landing two of the authors in prison.
1958 – Moroccan Liberation Army ambushes Spanish patrol in the Battle of Edchera.
1963 – 2nd AFL All Star Game, Balboa Stadium, SD: Western Division beats Eastern Division, 21-14; MVPs: Curtis McClinton, Dallas Texans, RB; Earl Faison, LA Chargers, DE
1967 – Rolling Stones appear again on the Ed Sullivan Show
1971 – “Soon” closes at Ritz Theater NYC after 3 performances
1973 – “Tricks” closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 8 performances
1983 – Quebec Nordiques play 251st NHL game without being shut out
1986 – NCCA institutes eligibility requirements based on college exams
2001 – Atlanta Hawks retire Dominique Wilkins’ No. 21 in pre-game ceremonies at Philips Arena; joins Bob Pettit and Lou Hudson as the only Hawks to have their numbers retired
2003 – 30th American Music Awards: Sheryl Crow and Eminem win
Historical Events for 12th January 2020
1773 – First public museum established in north American colonies (Charlestown, SC)
1861 – Florida state troops demand surrender of Fort Pickens (US Civil War)
1915 – US House of Representatives rejects proposal to give women right to vote
1916 – Max Immelmann and Oswald Boelcke receive the Pour le Merite, the German Empire’s highest military award, for achieving eight aerial victories each over Allied aircrafts
1924 – History of Science Society organized at Boston
1933 – Uprising of Guardia Civil in Spain, 25 dies
1949 – “Arthur Godfrey and his Friends” premieres on CBS TV
1961 – UN genocide pact goes into effect
1977 – Anti-French demonstrations takes place in Israel after Paris released Abu Daoud, responsible 1972 Munich massacre of Israeli athletes
2019 – 18 year-old Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun arrives in Toronto, Canada, as a refugee, via Thailand, after escaping family abuse in Saudi Arabia
Historical Events for 11th January 2020
1894 – Donghak Peasant Rebellion begins in Mujiang, Korea over local corruption, sparking the 1st Sino-Japanese War
1913 – 1st sedan-type car (Hudson) goes on display at 13th Auto Show (NYC)
1916 – French troops capture/Serbian army flees to Corfu
1962 – Volcano Huascaran in Peru erupts killing 4,000
1972 – Abu Sayeed Chudhury becomes President of Bangladesh and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman premier
1974 – ABC airs final episode of “Love, American Style”
1990 – Bobby Knight becomes basketball’s Big 10 winningest coach (229)
1992 – Paul Simon opens a tour in South Africa
1995 – NHLPA and owners agree to end NHL strike
2014 – During a concert in Maui, Mick Fleetwood announces that Christine McVie would be rejoining Fleetwood Mac