1695 – Jonathan Swift ordained an Anglican priest in Ireland
1911 – South Africa cricket team’s 1st win over Australia, at Adelaide
1968 – “Hallelujah, Baby!” closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 293 performances
1978 – NASA select its first American women astronauts
1986 – ABC’s TV premiere of “The Right of The People”, whose writer and director is said to have been inspired by the 14 December 1980 massacre at Bob’s Big Boy in Los Angeles
1989 – Ruins of Mashkan-shapir (occupied 2050-1720 BC) found in Iraq
1991 – UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar meets with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein
2002 – 28th People’s Choice Awards: Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts win (Dramatic Motion Picture) and Kelsey Grammer, Ray Romano and Jennifer Aniston win (TV)
2021 – President Donald Trump is impeached by the US House of Representatives voting 232-197, for “incitement of insurrection”, first time in history a US President is impeached twice
2021 – Deadliest air raid by Israel on Syria since 2018, when 10 soldiers and 47 allied fighters killed in attacks on military positions
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 12th January 2024
1924 – History of Science Society organized at Boston
1943 – Frankfurters replaced by Victory Sausages (mix of meat and soy meal)
1945 – German forces in Belgium retreat in Battle of Bulge
1950 – Swedish tanker rams British submarine Truculent in Thames, 64 die
1957 – Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC) founded with Martin Luther King Jr. as leader at Ebenezer Church in Atlanta
1971 – Congressional Black Caucus organizes
1974 – “Joker” by Steve Miller Band peaks at #1
1998 – Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning.
2007 – Comet McNaught reaches perihelion becoming the brightest comet in more than 40 years.
2010 – Colombia officially leaves the recession after achieving 2% economic growth in the last quarter of 2009
Historical Events for 11th January 2024
1779 – Ching-Thang Khomba is crowned King of Manipur
1966 – “Daktari” African adventure series premieres on CBS TV
1967 – Romeinse Curie installs Council for Pontifical Study commission
1981 – “Tintypes” closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 93 performances
1985 – CDC MMWR publishes guidelines for screening U.S. blood supply for AIDS antibodies with ELISA test that would be available later that year
1987 – NFC Championship, Giants Stadium, East Rutherford: New York Giants beat Washington Redskins, 17-0
1998 – Sidi-Hamed massacre takes place in Algeria, over 100 people are killed.
1998 – 24th People’s Choice Awards: Harrison Ford and Julia Roberts win (Dramatic Motion Picture) and Tim Allen and Oprah Winfrey win (TV)
1999 – Marty Schottenheimer resigns as head coach of the Kansas City Chiefs
2004 – 30th People’s Choice Awards: Mel Gibson and Julia Roberts win (Dramatic Motion Picture) and Ray Romano and Jennifer Aniston win (TV)
Historical Events for 10th January 2024
1863 – January uprising begins in Poland
1870 – Standard Oil Company created by John D. Rockefeller (30%), his brother and other business partners. Then controlled about 10% of world oil.
1943 – Soviet offensive against German 6th and 4th Armies near Stalingrad
1954 – Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to W H Auden
1965 – WKBD TV channel 50 in Detroit, Michigan (IND) begins broadcasting
1978 – Soyuz 27 launches, carrying 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
1993 – Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens, musical “My Favorite Year”, adapted from the 1982 film, and starring Evan Pappas, Tim Curry, Andrea Martin, and Lainie Kazan, closes at Vivian Beaumont Theater, NYC, after 37 performances and a Tony Award for Martin
2004 – 9th Critics’ Choice Movie Awards: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King wins Best Film
2015 – 57 people are killed after an oil tanker collided with a passenger coach outside of Karachi, Pakistan
2022 – College Football, National Championship, Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis, Indiana: #3 Georgia beats #1 Alabama, 33-18
Historical Events for 9th January 2024
1760 – Afghans defeat the Indian Maratha Empire in the Battle of Barari Ghat
1792 – Russia and Turkey sign Peace of Jassy
1894 – New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.
1908 – Muir Woods National Monument, California, established
1937 – Maxwell Anderson’s stage drama “High Tor” premieres at Martin Beck Theatre, NYC; runs for 171 performances, wins Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play
1945 – US soldiers led by General Douglas MacArthur invades Philippines
1951 – Washington Capitals NBA team folds
1977 – Australian Open Men’s Tennis: American Roscoe Tanner wins his first and only Grand Slam event; beats Guillermo Vilas of Argentina 6-3, 6-3, 6-3
2007 – 33rd People’s Choice Awards: Johnny Depp and Jennifer Aniston win (Movie Star) and Patrick Dempsey and Eva Longoria win (TV)
2021 – Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 crashes in the Java Sea just after take off from Jakarta, Indonesia, killing all 62 on board
Historical Events for 8th January 2024
1853 – 1st US bronze equestrian statue (of Andrew Jackson) unveiled, Washington
1894 – Columbus World’s fair in Chicago destroyed by fire
1897 – Michael Eagan wins 1st US national amateur handball championship
1901 – New South Wales score 918 all out vs South Australia in 560 minutes
1947 – Toronto Maple Leaf rookie Howie Meeker scores 5 goals in a game
1955 – Georgia Tech ends Kentucky’s 130-game home basketball win streak
1968 – Northern Ireland Prime Minister Terence O’Neill travels to Dublin to meet with Irish Prime Minister Jack Lynch to continue discussions on matters of joint interest to the two governments
1973 – Judge Sirica begins the trial of the Watergate burglars in Washington, D.C.
2000 – “Music City Miracle”, in AFC Wild Card Playoff, Tennessee Titans defeat Buffalo Bills 22-16 in last 16 seconds with Kevin Dyson, running length of the field for a game-winning touchdown
2004 – RMS Queen Mary 2, the largest passenger ship ever built, is christened by her namesake’s granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II
Historical Events for 7th January 2024
1598 – Boris Godunov seizes Russian throne on death of Feodor I
1894 – William K.L. Dickson captures “Fred Ott’s Sneeze” as a motion picture at Thomas Edison’s Black Mariah Studio, West Orange, New Jersey
1910 – Stanley Cup, Dey’s Arena, Ottawa, ON: Ottawa Senators beat Galt (ON), 3-1 for a 2-0 sweep of challenge series
1916 – In response to pressure from President Woodrow Wilson, Germany notifies the US State Department that it will abide by strict international rules of maritime warfare
1922 – The Anglo-Irish Treaty is ratified by Dail Eireann by a 64-57 vote
1929 – Croatian nationalist and fascist movement, Ustaša founded by Ante Pavelić in exile in Italy
1933 – 1st edition of People and Fatherland published in Netherlands
1980 – Real Records releases “Pretenders”, the debut album of The Pretenders, in UK
1992 – Tom Seaver and Rollie Fingers elected to Baseball’s Hall of Fame
2019 – Amazon overtakes Microsoft to become the world’s most valuable listed company for the first time, worth $797 billion
Historical Events for 6th January 2024
1501 – Construction begins on Portugal’s Jerónimos Monastery, designed by architect Diogo de Boitaca to commemorate the return of Vasco da Gama from India
1953 – The first Asian Socialist Conference opens in Burma
1967 – United States Marine Corps and ARVN troops launch “Operation Deckhouse Five” in the Mekong River delta.
1980 – Phil Flyers set NHL record of 35 straight games without a defeat
1980 – AFC Championship, Three Rivers Stadium, Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Steelers beat Houston Oilers, 27-13
1987 – Astronomers at University of California see 1st sight of birth of a galaxy
1991 – Qian Hong swims female world record 50m butterfly (27.30 sec)
1994 – US figure skating champion Nancy Kerrigan is attacked by Tonya Harding’s bodyguard at the US Championships in Detroit
1997 – “It’s a Slippery Slope” closes at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC
2019 – 76th Golden Globes: “The Americans”, “Bohemian Rhapsody”, “Green Book”, Glenn Close and Rami Malek among the winners
Historical Events for 5th January 2024
1919 – German Workers’ Party forms, precursor to the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nazi)
1927 – MLB Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis begins 3-day public hearing on charges that 4 games played between Chicago and Detroit in 1917 had been thrown to White Sox
1929 – Coup by King Alexander in South Slavia
1960 – Continental League, a proposed third baseball major league, gets an assurance of congressional support from NY Senator Kenneth Keating
1969 – “Maggie Flynn” closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 82 performances
1976 – Cambodia is renamed “Democratic Kampuchea”
1992 – Revival of Arthur Miller’s dramatic play “The Crucible” closes at Belasco Theater, NYC, after 32 performances
1993 – Washington state executes Westley Allan Dodd by hanging (first legal hanging in America since 1965)
1996 – Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone
2018 – Kitwe in Zambia bans shaking hands and the sale of fresh food in attempt to prevent a cholera outbreak
Historical Events for 4th January 2024
1903 – Topsy the elephant is electrocuted by her owners at Luna Park, Coney Island and filmed by Edison Manufacturing movie company
1904 – Stanley Cup, Aberdeen Pavilion, Ottawa, ON: Ottawa HC beats Winnipeg Rowing Club, 2-0 for 2-1 challenge series victory
1942 – British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and US Army Chief of Staff General Marshall fly to Florida
1942 – 4th NFL All Star Game, Polo Grounds, NYC: Chicago Bears beat NFL All-Stars, 35-24
1953 – KTSM TV channel 9 in El Paso, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
1963 – Soviet Luna (4) reaches Earth orbit but fails to reach Moon
1981 – “Frankenstein” opens and closes on Broadway
1998 – Anton Chekov’s dramatic play “Ivanov”, translated and adapted by David Hare, closes at Vivian Beaumont Theater, NYC, after 51 performances
2009 – Phil Taylor, with a 7–1 victory in the final over Dutchman Raymond van Barneveld wins his 12th PDC World Darts title, his 14th in all; his 110.94 average remains a record for the PDC World Darts Championship final
2018 – Truck hits a train near Kroonstad city, South Africa killing 19 passengers