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
Category: Historical Events
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.
Historical Events for 20th January 2020
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
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