1825 – Ezra Daggett and nephew Thomas Kensett patent food storage in tin cans
1884 – Jules Massenet’s opera “Manon” premieres in Paris
1927 – British government decides to send troops to China
1997 – 54th Golden Globes: The English Patient, Geoffrey Rush, and Brenda Blethyn win
2002 – “Tuck Rule Game” AFC Divisional Playoff Game; with under 2 minutes to play New England Patriots trail Oakland Raiders, 13-10 in a driving snowstorm, when a Tom Brady fumble ruled an incomplete pass. Patriots win 16-13 in overtime
2020 – NFC Championship, Levi’s Stadium, Santa Clara, California: San Francisco 49ers beat Green Bay Packers, 37-20
2021 – US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says China is committing genocide in its repression of Uighurs and other Muslim people
2022 – Major report on antimicrobial resistance shows 4.95m deaths worldwide associated with drug-resistant bacteria, making untreatable infections now a leading cause of death
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 18th January 2026
1562 – The Council of Trent is reopened by Pope Pius IV for its third (and final) session
1896 – First demonstration of an X-ray machine in the US (New York City)
1960 – Capital Airlines Flight 20 crashes in Virginia, killing all 50 people on-board
1973 – Orlando Cepeda is 1st player signed as MLB designated hitter by Boston Red Sox
1974 – Science fiction TV series “The Six Million Dollar Man” premieres on ABC, starring Lee Majors
1980 – Price of gold reaches $850 an ounce
1992 – Comedian Pat McCormick injured in a car accident
2017 – Baseball Hall of Fame adds Jeff Bagwell, Tim Raines and Ivan Rodriguez
Historical Events for 17th January 2026
1562 – French regent Catherine de’ Medici issues the Edict of St Germain recognizing Huguenots in France
1746 – Battle of Falkirk Muir, the Jacobites under Charles Stuart defeat Hanoverian forces
1779 – Captain James Cook’s last notation in Discovery’s ship’s log
1911 – Failed assassination attempt on French Prime Minister Aristide Briand in the French Assembly
1934 – NY Giants reward National League MVP pitcher Carl Hubbell with a huge $18,000 contract
1939 – Ed Barrow is elected Yankee president succeeding deceased J Ruppert
1995 – Revival of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein’s musical “Carousel” closes at the Beaumont Theater, NYC after 322 performances
2003 – 8th Critics’ Choice Movie Awards: Chicago Best Picture
Historical Events for 16th January 2026
1749 – Hoax article advertising fictitious theatrical performer “The Bottle Conjuror” drew huge crowds to the Haymarket Theatre, London, whose inevitable non-appearance caused a riot. It’s alleged the Duke of Montagu perpetrated the fiasco to win a bet.
1776 – Continental Congress approves enlistment of free blacks
1863 – -Aug 23rd) Cruise of CSS Florida
1917 – The Greek Government accepts reparations for Allied losses sustained in recent actions in Greece
1931 – Australian cricket batting prodigy Don Bradman scores 223 v West Indies in 3rd Test in Brisbane; most runs scored by a player in a Test match in Australia in one day
1948 – 35 Haganah members are ambushed and killed in Gush Etzyon
1963 – Tennessee Williams’ play “Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore” premieres in America on Broadway, NY
1990 – 2 Bank of Credit and Commerce members plea guilty to money laundering
Historical Events for 15th January 2026
1907 – 3-element vacuum tube patented by American inventor Lee De Forest
1939 – Municipal Railway and Market St RR begin service to Transbay Terminal
1955 – USSR ends state of war with German Federal Republic
1975 – Space Mountain opens at Disney World in Orlando, Florida
1975 – Pioneering American female comedian Phyllis Diller gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
1988 – NFL analyst Jimmy “The Greek” Snyder makes several questionable comments about African Americans during a lunchtime interview on CBS’ NFL Today; fired the next day
1989 – Big John Studd wins WWF’s 2nd Royal Rumble
1997 – Seattle’s Sam Perkins ties Jeff Hornacek’s NBA single-game record by connecting on 8 straight 3-point field goals during Sonics’ 122-78 win over visiting Toronto; Seattle also sets an NBA steals record with 27
Historical Events for 14th January 2026
1944 – Soviet army begins offensive at Oranienbaum/Wolchow
1956 – Jordan government refuses to join Pact of Baghdad
1967 – Earthquake in Sicily kills 231
1971 – Cricketer John Snow takes 7-40 for England to beat Australia by 299 runs
1990 – 11th ACE Cable Awards: CNN wins the Golden CableACE for the coverage of the events in Beijing, China
1995 – Mexico pledges profits from state-owned Pemex’s $7-billion-per-year oil revenues in an effort to secure US congressional approval of loan guarantees; President Clinton approves a $20-billion U.S. aid package for Mexico
2020 – US game show Jeopardy “greatest of all time” tournament won by Ken Jennings
2021 – Pope Francis, 84, and Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI receive their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine
Historical Events for 13th January 2026
1733 – British officer James Oglethorpe and 130 English colonists arrive at Charleston, South Carolina
1882 – Richard Wagner completes his final opera “Parsifal”
1919 – Dutch Soccer team OSV forms
1924 – Nationalist Wafd-party wins Egyptian parliament elections
1942 – Allied Conference on war trials at St. James’s Palace, London
1963 – 13th NFL Pro Bowl, LA Memorial Coliseum: Eastern Conference beats Western Conference, 30-20; MVPs: Jim Brown, Cleveland Browns, RB; Eugene Lipscomb, Pittsburgh Steelers, DT
1968 – Minnesota North Stars NHL player Bill Masterson, suffers head injuries during a game and dies two days later, becoming the 1st player to die as result of a game
2017 – Cricket all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan scores Bangladesh’s top Test score ever (217) during the 1st Test v New Zealand in Wellington
Historical Events for 12th January 2026
1866 – The Royal Aeronautical Society is formed in London
1912 – -47°F (-44°C), Washta, Iowa (state record)
1957 – Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC) founded with Martin Luther King Jr. as leader at Ebenezer Church in Atlanta
1968 – Beatles Film Production Ltd changes name to Apple Film Production Ltd
1971 – 21st NBA All-Star Game, San Diego Sports Arena: West beats East, 108-107; MVP: Lenny Wilkens, Seattle SuperSonics, PG; oldest MVP in All-Star history (33); scores 21 points
1992 – A new constitution, providing for freedom to form political parties, is approved by a referendum in Mali.
2007 – Comet McNaught reaches perihelion becoming the brightest comet in more than 40 years.
2021 – India’s Supreme Court puts on hold three controversial new farm laws that ignited weeks of protests by farmers in Delhi
Historical Events for 11th January 2026
1879 – Anglo-Zulu War begins as British Lieutenant General Lord Chelmsford invades Zululand in South Africa
1894 – Donghak Peasant Rebellion begins in Mujiang, Korea over local corruption, sparking the 1st Sino-Japanese War
1942 – -23°F (-31°C), Kingston, Rhode Island (state record)
1943 – US and Britain relinquish extraterritorial rights in China
1962 – Landslide at dormant volcano Huascaran in Peru kills an estimated 4,000
1975 – Soviet Soyuz 17 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 4
1984 – Denver Nuggets 163, San Antonio Spurs 155-highest-scoring NBA game
2024 – More than 300 people have died in flooding caused by the highest levels of River Congo in 60 years, especially in Kinshasa, DR Congo
Historical Events for 10th January 2026
1917 – The Allied Governments respond to US President Woodrow Wilson’s December 1916 note, giving their terms for ending the war
1928 – George Gershwin, Sigmund Romberg and P. G. Wodehouse’s musical “Rosalie” premieres in New York
1952 – Cargo ship SS Flying Enterprise sinks in the English Channel after weeks of trying to salvage it
1965 – WKBD TV channel 50 in Detroit, Michigan (IND) begins broadcasting
1984 – Luis Aparicio, Harmon Killebrew and Don Drysdale elected to Baseball’s Hall of Fame
1997 – Dow Corning provides $295 billion to settle breast implant suits
1999 – Fatboy Slim’s music single “Praise You” hits #1 in the UK
2013 – 81 people are killed and 120 are wounded by a twin bombing in Quetta, Pakistan