532 – Constantinople chariot racing green and blue supporters due to be executed escape, prompting Nika revolt
1897 – Vincent d’Indy’s “Istar” premieres in Amsterdam and Brussels
1964 – US version of “That Was The Week That Was” premieres
1967 – Edward W. Brooke (Sen-R-Mass), takes his seat as the 1st popularly elected African American to the US Senate
1969 – Pirate Radio Station Free Derby begins operation by Northern Ireland
1973 – For the first time graduates studying from home with ‘the Open University’ receive their degrees
1982 – AFC Championship, Riverfront Stadium, Cincinnati: Cincinnati Bengals beat San Diego Chargers, 27-7 in the “Freezer Bowl”
1996 – Boston guard Dana Barros sinks a 3-point field goal in his 89th straight game, during the Celtics’ 113-104 win over Sacramento Kings; NBA record streak ends in next game when he goes 0 from 9
2001 – The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge will not be designated as a national monument, the White House announces; a move environmentalist groups had been pressing for to prevent oil drilling
2013 – 18th Critics’ Choice Movie Awards: Argo wins Best Film
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 9th January 2020
1908 – Muir Woods National Monument, California, established
1909 – Ernest Shackleton as part of the British Nimrod Expedition reaches a record farthest South latitude (88°23′ south)
1959 – Pat O’Connor beats Dick Hutton in St Louis, to become NWA champ
1964 – Anti-US rioting broke out in Panama Canal Zone
1973 – Luna 21 launched, to Moon
1977 – “Porgy and Bess” closes at Uris Theater NYC after 122 performances
1979 – Supreme Court strikes down (6-3) PA law requiring doctors performing an abortion to try to preserve lives of potentially viable fetuses
1979 – High-school player Daryl Moreau makes 126th consecutive free throws
1981 – Francisco Balsamao elected President of Portugal
1991 – Chicago’s Michael Jordan scores a game-high 40 points to lead the Bulls to a 107-99 win over Philadelphia at the Spectrum; reaches the 15,000 point mark of his career
Historical Events for 8th January 2020
1198 – Lotario di Segni elected Pope Innocentius III
1598 – Jews are expelled from Genoa, Italy
1857 – Dion Boucicauly’s “Poor of NY” premieres in NYC
1889 – Dr Herman Hollerith receives 1st US patent for a mechanical tabulating machine
1934 – Jaap Speyers “Bluejackets” premieres in Amsterdam
1956 – Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Conrad Aiken
1980 – Islander Glenn Resch’s 20th shut-out opponent-Canucks 3-0
1996 – For 1st time in 25 years no one is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1998 – NY Giant GM George Young resigns to accept NFL position
2014 – 40th People’s Choice Awards: Johnny Depp and Sandra Bullock win (Movie Star) and Josh Charles and Stana Katić win (Dramatic TV)
Historical Events for 7th January 2020
1790 – French Revolution: A major riot breaks out in Versailles as people demand lower bread prices
1862 – Battle of Manassas Junction, VA
1911 – Dutch Scouts Organization established in Amsterdam
1946 – Cambodia becomes autonomous state inside French Union
1950 – Mental health wing of Mercy Hospital burns, kills 41 in Davenport, Iowa
1960 – The Polaris missile is tested
1975 – Led Zeppelin fans riot before Boston concert causing $30,000 damage
1990 – Tower of Pisa closed to the public after leaning too far
1992 – Last day of Test cricket for Imran Khan
2013 – FIFA Ballon d’Or: Barcelona forward Lionel Messi wins award for a record 4th consecutive year; US forward Abby Wambach wins women’s award
Historical Events for 6th January 2020
1497 – Jews are expelled from Graz in Styria, Austria
1745 – Bonnie Prince Charlies’ army draws to Glasgow
1802 – Naturalists Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland reach Quito, Ecuador
1950 – “Happy as Larry” opens at Coronet Theater NYC for 3 performances
1951 – Ganghwa massacre: Hundreds of South Korean communist sympathisers are slaughtered
1953 – WKBN TV channel 27 in Youngstown, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 – The first Asian Socialist Conference opens in Burma
1971 – Berkeley chemists announces 1st synthetic growth hormones
1985 – AFC Championship, Miami Orange Bowl: Miami Dolphins beat Pittsburgh Steelers, 45-28
1991 – “Real Life With Jane Pauley” premieres on NBC-TV
Historical Events for 5th January 2020
1349 – Margaretha of Bavaria names her son Willem V Earl of Holland and Zealand
1593 – William Louis of Nassau becomes governor/viceroy of Drenthe
1709 – The Great Frost begins during the night, a sudden cold snap that remains Europe’s coldest ever winter. Thousands are killed across the continent and crops fail in France.
1800 – 1st Swedenborgian temple in US holds 1st service in Baltimore
1904 – -34°F (-36.7°C), River Vale, New Jersey (state record)
1963 – “Carnival!” closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 719 performances
1964 – AFL Championship, Balboa Stadium, San Diego: San Diego Chargers beat Boston Patriots, 51-10; Chargers RB Keith Lincoln rushes for 206 yards, 2 TDs
1972 – President of Bangladesh Sheikh Mujibur Rahman freed by the newly elected President of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
1990 – J Donald Crump appointed 8th Commissioner of CFL
2019 – Orthodox Church of Ukraine granted independence from the Russian Orthodox Church by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew
Historical Events for 4th January 2020
1862 – Romney Campaign: Stonewall Jackson occupies Bath
1885 – Dr William Grant of Iowa, performs 1st appendectomy in America on Mary Gartside, aged 22
1920 – Amsterdam actors decide to strike for retirement benefits
1943 – Thomas Mann completes his tetralogy, “Joseph and His Brothers”
1957 – Dodgers buy 44 passenger twin-engine airplane for $775,000
1965 – LBJ’s “Great Society” State of the Union Address
1970 – More than 15,000 people are killed in Tonghai County, China after a magnitude 7.7 earthquake
1989 – US F-14s shoot down 2 Libyan jet fighters over Mediterranean
1998 – A massive ice storm hits eastern Canada and the northeastern United States, continuing through January 10 and causing widespread destruction.
2011 – 77th Sugar Bowl: #6 Ohio State beats #8 Arkansas, 31-26
Historical Events for 3rd January 2020
1338 – Jacob of Arteveld elected mayor of Ghent
1638 – Dutch Premier Van Joost speaks of “Hostage rights of Aemstel”
1831 – 1st US building and loan association organized, Frankford, Penn
1870 – Construction begins on Brooklyn Bridge in New York; completed May 24, 1883
1945 – British Premier Winston Churchill visits France
1948 – Australian cricket batting maestro Don Bradman completes dual Test centuries (132 and 127* [26th Test 100]) in 3rd Test v India in Melbourne
1971 – 1st AFC Championship, Memorial Stadium, Baltimore: Baltimore Colts beat Oakland Raiders, 27-17
1993 – “Tommy Tune Tonite!” closes at Gershwin NYC after 10 performances
1996 – 1st clamshell flip mobile phone, the Motorola StarTAC, goes on sale. Eventually 60 million are sold.
1997 – The People’s Republic of China announces it will spend $US27.7 billion to fight erosion and pollution in the Yangtze and Yellow river valleys
Historical Events for 2nd January 2020
1896 – Battle at Doornkop, South Africa (Boers beat Dr Jamesons troops)
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
1922 – 8th Rose Bowl: California ties Washington and Jefferson, 0-0
1960 – Roger Sessions’ 4th Symphony, premieres
1968 – KBHK TV channel 44 in San Francisco, California (IND) begins broadcasting
1969 – Operation Barrier Reef begins in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam
1982 – “Camelot” closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 48 performances
1983 – “Annie” closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 2,377 performances
1995 – Most distant galaxy yet discovered found by scientists using Keck telescope in Hawaii (est 15 billion light years away)
2014 – 80th Sugar Bowl: #11 Oklahoma beats #3 Alabama, 45-31
Historical Events for 1st January 2020
630 – Prophet Muhammad sets out with his army towards Mecca, capturing it bloodlessly
1951 – 17th Sugar Bowl: #7 Kentucky beats #1 Oklahoma, 13-7
1952 – 18th Orange Bowl: #6 Georgia Tech beats #9 Baylor, 17-14
1954 – Rose and Cotton Bowl are 1st sport colorcasts
1957 – Benjamin Britten’s ballet “Prince and the Pauper,” premieres in London
1960 – Johnny Cash plays first of many free concerts behind bars
1981 – Palau (Trust Territory of Pacific Is) becomes self-governing
1991 – Les Miserables opens at Festival Theatre, Adelaide
1995 – The Draupner wave in the North Sea in Norway is detected, confirming the existence of freak waves.
2008 – A New Hampshire law legalizing civil unions for same-sex couples comes into effect.