1921 – Soccer team GVAV of Groningen Neth forms
1931 – Hungary-Austria sign peace treaty
1948 – Australian Championships Women’s Tennis: Nancye Wynne Bolton beats Marie Toomey 6-3, 6-1 for 4th straight Australian single title
1957 – Joseph F Cairnes succeeds Lou Perini as President of Milwaukee Braves
1958 – Japanese ferry Nankai Maru capsized off southern Awaji Island, Japan, 167 killed.
1968 – Israeli submarine Dakar sinks in Mediterranean Sea, 69 die
1972 – Serbian air stewardess Vesna Vulovic survives 10,160m fall without parachute – world’s highest fall without a parachute
1980 – 175,000 pay to hear Frank Sinatra sing in Rio de Janeiro
1991 – NY Lotto pays $90 million to nine winners (#s are 5-15-30-35-46-50)
2002 – Australian Open Women’s Tennis: American Jennifer Capriati wins her 2nd consecutive Australian title; beats Martina Hingis 4-6, 7-6, 6-2
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 25th January 2019
1494 – Alfonso II succeeds his father as king of Naples
1858 – Felix Mendelssohn’s “Wedding March” first played, at wedding of Queen Victoria’s daughter Princess Victoria, to crown prince of Prussia
1914 – An Indian mass meeting in Durban unanimously endorse the agreement between General J.C. Smuts and Mahatma Gandhi regarding voluntary registration, poll tax, recognition of Indian marriages and other matters
1960 – Wilt Chamberlain scores 58 points, the most ever by an NBA rookie, as Philadelphia Warriors beat Detroit Pistons, 127-117 at Bethlehem, PA
1974 – Ray Kroc, CEO of McDonald’s buys San Diego Padres baseball team for $12 million
1979 – 1st documented case of a robot killing a human in US
1992 – Australian Open Women’s Tennis: Monica Seles beats American Mary Joe Fernandez 6-2, 6-3 for her 5th career Grand Slam title
1992 – Dan Jansen skates world record 500m in 36.41″
1998 – Helen Alfredsson wins Office Depot LPGA tournament
2018 – Doomsday clock moved by 30 seconds to 2 minutes to midnight by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, closest since 1950s
Historical Events for 24th January 2019
1899 – Rubber heel for boots or shoes patented by American Humphrey O’Sullivan
1925 – Sandler follows Branting as premier of Sweden
1936 – Pierre Laval’s second French government falls
1943 – Jewish patients, nurses and doctors incinerated at Auschwitz-Birkenau
1950 – Jackie Robinson signs highest contract ($35,000) in Dodger history
1954 – BPAA All-Star Tournament won by Don Carter
1964 – CBS purchases 1964 and 1965 NFL TV rights for $28.2 million
1969 – Students protest the erection of steel gates around the London School of Economics
1975 – Fastest Earth-bound object, 7200 kph, in vacuum centrifuge, England
2009 – Pope Benedict XVI rescinds the excommunications of four bishops consecrated without papal consent in 1988 by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre.
Historical Events for 23rd January 2019
1571 – Queen Elizabeth I of England opens Royal Exchange in London
1853 – John Wilkes Booth is baptized at St. Timothy’s Protestant Episcopal Church
1930 – George Washington Birthplace National Monument, Virginia established
1954 – Harry van Thorn chosen chairman of Dutch KVP
1962 – British intellegence officer Kim Philby defects to USSR
1987 – Dow Jones rises 64 points then drops 110 points (44.15 pt loss)
1991 – World’s largest oil spill, caused by embattled Iraqi forces in Kuwait
1996 – The first version of the Java programming language released
2005 – AFC Championship, Heinz Field, Pittsburgh: New England Patriots beat Pittsburgh Steelers, 41-27
2015 – Golden State guard Klay Thompson scores the most NBA points in a quarter (37) and most 3-pointers in a quarter (9) in Warrior’s 126-101 win over Sacramento Kings
Historical Events for 22nd January 2019
1689 – Lord Halifax becomes Speaker of English House of Lords
1816 – Lord Byron completes poems “Parisina” and “Siege of Corinth”
1925 – Albania Republic proclaimed under President Achmed Zogu
1939 – Aquatic Park, near Fisherman’s Wharf, San Francisco dedicated
1945 – Burma highway reopens
1967 – 17th NFL Pro Bowl, LA Memorial Coliseum: Eastern Conference beats Western Conference, 20-10; Gale Sayers, Chicago Bears, HB; Floyd Peters, Philadelphia Eagles, DT
1987 – Pennsylvania politician R. Budd Dwyer shoots and kills himself at a press conference on live national television, leading to debates on boundaries in journalism
1989 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
2002 – Kmart Corp becomes the largest retailer in United States history to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
2003 – Last successful contact with NASA spacecraft Pioneer 10, one of the most distant man-made objects
Historical Events for 21st January 2019
1821 – Paramaribo Suriname catches fire, 4 die
1893 – Tati Concessions Land, formerly part of Matabeleland, formally annexed to the Bechuanaland Protectorate (now Botswana)
1908 – “Sullivan Ordinance” is passed in NYC, making it illegal for a woman to smoke in public places. It was vetoed 2 weeks later by mayor George B. McClellan Jr.
1942 – Count Basie records “One O’Clock Jump”
1943 – Soviet forces reconquer Worosjilowsk
1946 – “Nellie Bly” opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 16 performances
1972 – Manipur, Meghalaya and Tripura become separate states of Indian union
1982 – NY Islanders begin then NHL record 15 game winning streak
1989 – Wayne Gretzky passes Marcel Dionne to become NHL’s 2nd all time scorer
1996 – US male Figure Skating championship won by Rudy Galindo
Historical Events for 20th January 2019
1523 – Christian II is forced to abdicate as King of Denmark and Norway.
1866 – Prim’s Insurrection in Spain ends
1949 – 1st inaugural parade televised, for Harry Truman, watched by 10 million people
1949 – J. Edgar Hoover gives Shirley Temple a tear gas fountain pen
1972 – Six oil exporting countries conclude meetings with Western oil companies; an agreement is reached to raise the price of crude
1973 – A car bomb explodes in Sackville Place, Dublin, Republic of Ireland, killing 1 person and injuring 17 (no organisation claimed responsibility)
1986 – Chunnel announced (railroad tunnel under Channel)
1987 – 8th ACE Cable Awards: Ted Turner wins the Golden CableACE
1990 – 47th Golden Globes: “Born on the Fouth of July”, Tom Cruise, and Michelle Pfeiffer win
1995 – “Love! Valor! Compassion!” opens at Walter Kerr NYC for 276 performances
Historical Events for 19th January 2019
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
1923 – WMC-AM in Memphis TN begins radio transmissions
1968 – WKBF TV channel 61 in Cleveland, Ohio (IND) begins broadcasting
1968 – Northern Ireland Prime Minister Terence O’Neill calls for “a new endeavour by organisations in Northern Ireland to cross denominational barriers and advance the cause of better community relations”
1970 – UCLA fires Angela Davis for being a communist
1984 – Francesco Moser bicycles world record time: 50,808 km
1987 – Guy Hunt becomes Alabama’s 1st Republican governor since 1874
1991 – 42nd NHL All-Star Game, Chicago Stadium: Campbell Conference beats Wales Conference, 11-5; Vincent Damphousse, Toronto, C
1994 – -36°F (-38°C) in New Whiteland, Indiana (state record)
2013 – The 2012-2013 NHL season begins after a 119-day lockout
Historical Events for 18th January 2019
1644 – Perplexed Pilgrims in Boston reported America’s 1st UFO sighting
1691 – English King William III travels to The Hague
1896 – British troops occupy Kumasi, West Africa
1929 – Stalin proposes to ban Trotsky from the Politburo
1951 – Mount Lamington in Papua New Guinea erupts, killing 2,942 people
1960 – Capital Airlines Flight 20 crashes in Virginia, killing all 50 people on-board
1981 – Punk singer Wendy O. Williams arrested in Milwaukee for on-stage obscenity (later cleared)
1985 – US renounces jurisdiction of World Court despite previous promise
1987 – 3rd Soap Opera Digest Awards – Days of Our Lives wins
1998 – Kelly Robbins wins Healthsouth Golf Inaugural
Historical Events for 17th January 2019
1821 – Mexico permits Moses Austin and 300 US families to settle in Texas, after his death leaves to son Stephen
1949 – “The Goldbergs”, first airs in the US on CBS
1954 – 4th NFL Pro Bowl, Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum: Eastern Conference beats Western Conference, 20-9; MVP: Chuck Bednarik, Philadelphia Eagles, LB
1961 – Eisenhower allegedly orders assassination of Congo’s Patrice Lumumba
1980 – NASA launches Fltsatcom-3
1982 – “Cold Sunday” in the United States would see temperatures fall to their lowest levels in over 100 years in numerous cities
1998 – US President Bill Clinton faces sexual harassment charges from Paula Jones
2001 – President Bill Clinton posthumously raises Meriwether Lewis’ rank from Lieutenant to Captain
2012 – LeBron James becomes youngest player in NBA history to record 20,000 career points during the Miami Heat’s 92-75 victory over Golden State; James, 28 years, 17 days, passes Kobe Bryant, 29 years, 122 days
2017 – Search for missing aircraft MH370 over the Indian Ocean is called off