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- 250 St Fabian ends his reign as Catholic Pope (236-50)
- 820 Book of mother, published
- 1045 Giovanni di Sabina elected Pope Sylvester III
- 1156 According to legend, freeholder Lalli slays English crusader Bishop Henry with an axe on the ice of Lake Köyliönjärvi in Finland
- 1265 First English Parliament summoned other than by royal command (in this instance by Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester) mets in Westminster Hall
- 1320 Duke Wladyslaw Lokietek becomes King of Poland
- 1356 Edward Balliol abdicates as King of Scots
- 1502 The present-day location of Rio de Janeiro is first explored
- 1503 Casa Contratacion (Board of Trade) found (Spain) to deal with American affairs
- 1513 Christian II succeeds Johan I as Danish and Norwegian king
- 1523 Christian II is forced to abdicate as King of Denmark and Norway.
- 1576 The Mexican city of León is founded by order of viceroy Don Martín Enríquez de Almansa.
- 1613 Peace of Knarod ends War of Kalmar between Denmark & Sweden
- 1648 Cornerstone of Amsterdam townhall laid
- 1667 Treaty of Andrussovo ends 13 year war between Poland & Russia
- 1778 1st American military court martial trial begins in Cambridge, Massachusetts
- 1781 1st edition of Pieter It Hoens "Post of Neder-Rhijn" published
- 1785 Samuel Ellis advertises to sell Oyster Island (Ellis Is), no takers
- 1788 Pioneer African Baptist church organizes in Savannah, Georgia
- 1801 John Marshall appointed US chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States John Marshall.
- 1807 Napoleon convenes great Sanhedrin, Paris French Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte.
- 1809 1st US geology book published by William Maclure
- 1839 Battle of Yungay, Chile defeats a Peruvian and Bolivian alliance
- 1840 Dumont D'Urville discovers Adélie Land, Antarctica
- 1840 Dutch King Willem II crowned
- 1841 China cedes Hong Kong to the British during the 1st Opium War
- 1850 HMS Investigator headed by Robert McClure leaves England, 1st expedition to make a Northwest passage (though some over ice)
- 1860 Dutch troops conquer Watampone in Celebes
- 1866 Prim's Insurrection in Spain ends
- 1868 Florida constitutional convention meets in Tallahassee
- 1869 Elizabeth Cady Stanton becomes 1st woman to testify before US Congress Women's Rights Activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- 1870 "City of Boston" vanishes at sea with all 177 aboard
- 1870 Hiram R. Revels elected to fill unexpired term of Jefferson Davis as US Senator for Mississippi
- 1872 California Stock Exchange Board organized
- 1879 British troops under Lord Chelmsford make camp at Isandlwana
- 1883 Billy Barnes takes a hat-trick, England v Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground
- 1887 US Senate approves naval base lease of Pearl Harbor
- 1905 US begins supervising the Dominican Republic's national and international debts, testing President Theodore Roosevelt's "Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine
- 1910 Ottawa Senators sweep Edmonton in 2 for Stanley Cup (2nd of 1910)
- 1914 The first group of Transvaal Indian women satyagrahis are released from Pietermaritzburg Prison in South Africa after three months imprisonment
- 1920 Dutch 2nd Chamber passes school laws
- 1920 The American Civil Liberties Union is founded
- 1921 British submarine HMS K5 (which was unusually equipped with steam turbines) sinks with 57 crew during exercises in the Bay of Biscay
- 1921 Dagestan ASSR forms in RSFSR
- 1921 Mountain Autonomous Republic established in RSFSR
- 1921 Republic of Turkey declared out of remnants of Ottoman Empire
- 1922 Arthur Honegger's ballet "Skating Rink" premieres, Paris
- 1925 The Soviet and Japan sign a convention resuming relations: Russia agrees to limit revolutionary activity of the Third Communist International, while Japan agrees to leave the Sakhalin
- 1926 2nd German government of Luther begins
- 1929 1st feature talking motion picture taken outdoors, "In Old Arizona"
- 1930 1st radio broadcast of "Lone Ranger" (WXYZ-Detroit
- 1934 Japan sends Henry Pu Yi as regent to emperor of Manchuria
- 1936 Edward VIII succeeds British King George V
- 1937 -45°F (-43°C), Boca, California (state record)
- 1937 1st US Presidential Inauguration day held on Jan 20th, (previously March 4th)
- 1939 Charles Ives' 1st Sonata "Concord" premieres
- 1941 Bela Bartok's 6th string quartet, premieres in NYC
- 1942 Japanese invade Burma
- 1942 Nazi officials hold notorious Wannsee conference in Berlin to organise the "final solution", the extermination of Europe's Jews
- 1943 Lead, South Dakota, temperature is 52°F, while 1.5 miles away Deadwood records -16°F
- 1943 Operation Weiss: German, Italian, Bulgarian & Croatian troops attempt to retake land liberated by Tito's partisans
- 1944 RAF drops 2,300 ton of bombs on Berlin
- 1945 Franklin D. Roosevelt sworn-in for an unprecedented (and never to be repeated) 4th term as US President
- 1945 The Hungarian Provisional Government concludes an armistice with the USSR, US, and Britain, agree to pay reparations and to join the war against Germany
- 1946 F Gouin follows De Gaulle as temporary leader of French government
- 1947 Brigadier General Edwin K Wright, USA, becomes deputy director of CIA
- 1949 J. Edgar Hoover gives Shirley Temple a tear gas fountain pen
- 1949 US President Harry Truman announces his four point program
- 1950 "Dance Me a Song" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 35 performances
- 1950 Suriname becomes independent part in Realm of Netherlands
- 1950 1950 NFL Draft: Leon Hart from University of Notre Dame first pick by Detroit Lions
- 1952 British army occupies Ismailiya, Suez Canal Zone
- 1952 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open
- 1953 1st US telecast transmitted to Canada from Buffalo, New York
- 1954 -70°F (-57°C), Rogers Pass, Montana (US 48 state record)
- 1954 Dmitri Shostakovitch's' "Concertino opus 94" premieres
- 1954 The National Negro Network is established with 40 charter member radio stations.
- 1957 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open
- 1957 Gomulka wins Poland's parliamentary election
- 1957 Morton Gould's "Declaration" premieres in Washington, D.C.
- 1958 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open
- 1958 KUED TV channel 7 in Salt Lake City, UT (PBS) begins broadcasting
- 1958 A group attempting the 1st surface crossing of Antarctic join up at the South Pole
- 1959 Dmitri Shostakovitch's Moscow-Tsjerjomoesjki premieres in Moscow
- 1960 Patrice Lumumba sentenced to 6 months in Belgian Congo
- 1961 Francis Poulenc's "Gloria" premieres in Boston
Historical Events from 1961 to 2009
- 1961 Robert Frost recites "Gift Outright" at JFK's inauguration
- 1961 Yugoslav ex-vice-president Milovan Djilas flees
- 1961 The Democrat J.F. Kennedy is inaugurated as President of the United States, the youngest ever sworn in
- 1962 "Kean" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 92 performances
- 1964 "Meet The Beatles" album released in US
- 1965 The Beatles appear on Shindig (ABC-TV)
- 1965 The Byrds record "Mr Tambourine Man"
- 1965 The US Jet Propulsion Laboratory proposes modified Apollo flight to fly around Mars & return
- Conference Meeting of Interest 1965 Generalissimo Francisco Franco meets with Jewish representatives to discuss legitimizing Jewish communities in Spain
Spanish Dictator and General Francisco Franco. - 1968 US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming
- 1968 US male Figure Skating championship won by Tim Wood
- 1968 Houston Cougars defeat the UCLA Bruins 71-69 to win basketball's Game of the Century and end UCLA's 47 game winning streak
- 1969 Richard M Nixon inaugurated as US president
- 1969 U of Az reports 1st optical id of pulsar (in Crab Nebula)
- 1970 20th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 142-135 at Philadelphia
- 1970 23rd NHL All-Star Game: East beat West 4-1 at St Louis
- 1970 Super Fight, computer mock championship between Ali & Marciano; Marciano won.
- 1971 Ard Schenk skates world record 1000m (1:18.8)
- 1971 John Lennon meets Yoko Ono's parents in Japan
- 1972 Six oil exporting countries conclude meetings with Western oil companies; an agreement is reached to raise the price of crude
- 1972 Number of people out of work and claiming unemployment benefit in UK rises to over 1 million
- 1973 A car bomb explodes in Sackville Place, Dublin, Republic of Ireland, killing 1 person and injuring 17 (no organisation claimed responsibility)
- 1973 Richard Nixon's second inauguration as President of the United States takes place in Washington, D.C.
- 1974 NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 15-13
- 1974 7th ABA All-Star Game: East 128 beats West 112 at Virginia
- 1974 Essex Comm College beats Englewood Cliffs 210-67 in basketball
- 1975 NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 17-10
- 1975 Terrence McNally's "Ritz" premieres in NYC
- 1976 29th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 7-5 at Philadelphia
- 1977 George H. W. Bush ends term as 11th director of CIA
- 1977 Mr Knoche, serves as acting director of CIA
- 1978 Columbia Pictures pays $9.5 million for movie rights to "Annie".
- 1979 1 million Iranians march in Tehran in a show of support for the exiled Ayatollah Khomeini, fundamentalist Muslim leaderSupreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Khomeini.
- 1980 President Jimmy Carter announces US boycott of Olympics in Moscow.
- 1980 US female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne.
- 1980 US male Figure Skating championship won by Charles Tickner
- 1980 Super Bowl XIV: Pittsburgh Steelers beat LA Rams, 31-19 in Pasadena, MVP: Terry Bradshaw, Pittsburgh, QB
- 1981 52 Americans held hostage in Iran for 444 days freed
- 1981 Adm Stansfield Turner, USN (Ret), ends term as 12th director of CIA
- 1981 Frank C Carlucci, ends term as deputy director of CIA
- 1981 Islander Glenn Resch's 25th & last shut-out opponent-Flames 5-0
- 1981 Ronald Reagan inaugurated as the 40th President of the United States of America
- 1981 The US diplomats and citizens held hostage at the US embassy in Tehran begin their journey home
- 1982 7 miners killed in an explosion in Craynor Ky
- 1982 Honduras constitution goes into effect
- 1982 Piet Dankert elected chairman of European Parliament
- 1982 Darryl Sittler is traded by the Toronto Maple Leafs to the Philadelphia Flyers NHL Legend Darryl Sittler
- 1982 Heavy metal musician Ozzy Osbourne bites the head off a bat on stage in Des Moines, Iowa
- 1983 American gangster Roy DeMeo is found murdered in his car trunk after disappearing a few days earlier
- 1984 US female Figure Skating championship won by Rosalynn Sumners
- 1985 Cold front strikes US, at least 40 die (-27°F (-33°C) in Chicago)
- 1985 Super Bowl XIX: SF 49ers beat Miami Dolphins, 38-16 in Stanford Super Bowl MVP: Joe Montana, San Francisco, QB
- 1986 1st federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr
- 1986 Chunnel announced (railroad tunnel under Channel)
- 1986 Military coup in Lesotho under major general Lekhanya & premier Leabua Jonathan
- 1987 Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite taken hostage in Beirut, Lebanon by Islamic militia group
- 1987 Rhino Records 1st #1, Billy Vera & Beaters' "At This Moment"
- 1987 8th ACE Cable Awards: Ted Turner wins the Golden CableACE
- 1987 Bank robber Robert A. Litchfield is arrested at Lake Tahoe
- 1987 UK Police crackdown on soccer hooligans in biggest operation against violence around football stadiums
- 1988 Andre Hoffman skates world record 1,500m (1:52.06)
- 1988 Arizona committee opens hearing on impeachment of Gov Evan Mecham
- 1989 George H. W. Bush inaugurated as 41st US President, Dan Quayle becomes 44th Vice President
- 1989 Wayne Holdsworth takes a wicket 1st ball in 1st-class cricket
- 1989 Reagan becomes 1st US president elected in a "0" year, since 1840, to leave office alive
- Film tv awardsFilm and TV Awards 1990 47th Golden Globes: "Born on the Fouth of July", Tom Cruise, & Michelle Pfeiffer win
- 1990 US 64th manned space mission STS 32 (Columbia 10) returns from space
- 1990 Black January - crackdown of Azerbaijani pro-independence demonstrations by Soviet army in Baku
- 1991 "Black & Blue" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 829 performances
- 1991 "Les Miserables" opens at Pantages Theatre, LA
- 1991 "Peter Pan" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC or 45 performances
- 1991 "Shogun - The Musical" closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 72 performances
- 1991 13th UCP Telethon
- 1991 Buffalo Bills beat LA Raiders 51-3 for AFC title
- 1991 Jane Geddes wins LPGA Jamaica Golf Classic
- 1991 US Patriot missiles begins shooting down Iraqi missiles
- 1991 Sudan's government imposes Islamic law nationwide, worsening the civil war between the country's Muslim north and Christian south.
- 1991 AFC Championship Game: Buffalo Bills beat Los Angeles Raiders 51-3
- 1991 NFC Championship Game: New York Giants with a field goal by Matt Barr's with no time left beat San Francisco 49ers 15-13
- 1992 Australia beat India 2-0 to win cricket's World Series Cup, David Boon scores the most runs in the series (432)
- 1992 Score begins selling international soccer cards.
- 1993 Adm Studeman, serves as acting director of CIA
- 1993 Bill Clinton (D) inaugurated as 42nd US President
- 1993 Maya Angelou is 1st African American and woman to recite a poem at inauguration of a US President - "On the Pulse of Morning" for Bill Clinton
- 1995 "Love! Valor! Compassion!" opens at Walter Kerr NYC for 276 performances
- 1995 1994-95 NHL Season begin after a lengthy strike
- 1995 Russian ruble drops to 3,947 per dollar (record)
- 1996 46th NHL All-Star Game: East beat West 5-4 at Fleet Center Boston
- 1996 Australia defeat Sri Lanka 2-0 to win cricket's World Series Cup
- 1996 US female Figure Skating championship won by Michelle Kwan
1996 WPAT FM NYC radio station switches to English-Spanish format- 1997 Comet Hale-Bopp crosses Mars' orbit
- 1997 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in New Orleans LA on KKND 106.7 FM
- 1997 Pakistan defeat West Indies 2-0 to win Aust one-day Series
- 1997 2nd Critics' Choice Movie Awards: Fargo wins Best Film
- 1998 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducts Mama & Papas & Eagles
- 1998 Warner Brothers TV Network begins Tueday night programming
- 1998 3rd Critics' Choice Movie Awards: L.A. Confidential wins Best Film
- 1998 "Dawson's Creek" created by Kevin Williamson, starring James Van Der Beek, Katie Holmes and Joshua Jackson premieres on WB in the US
- 1999 The China News Service announces new government restrictions on Internet use aimed especially at Internet cafés.
- 2001 President of the Philippines Joseph Estrada is ousted in the EDSA II Revolution and succeeded by Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
- 2002 Photographs showing al-Qaeda and Taliban suspects shackled and masked are published by the United States militaryilm tv awardsFilm and TV Awards
- 2002 59th Golden Globes: "A Beautiful Mind", Russell Crowe, & Sissy Spacek win
- 2002 18th Sundance Film Festival: "Personal Velocity: Three Portraits", directed by Rebecca Miller, wins Grand Jury Prize Dramatic
- 2007 12th Critics' Choice Movie Awards: "The Departed" wins Best Film
- 2008 AFC Championship Game: New England Patriots beat San Diego Chargers 21-12
- 2008 NFC Championship Game: New York Giants beat Green Bay Packers 23-20 (OT)
- 2008 "Breaking Bad", created by Vince Gilligan and starring Bryan Cranston premieres on AMC
- 2009 Barack Obama, inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States of America, becomes the United States' first African-American president
- 2009 Joe Biden assumes the office of the Vice President of the United States
- 2013 Austria votes to maintain compulsory military service in a referendum
- 2013 AFC Championship Game: Baltimore Ravens beat New England Patriots 28-13
- 2013 NFC Championship Game: San Francisco 49ers beat Atlanta Falcons 28-24
- 2014 Credit cards of at least 20 million South Koreans are hacked
- 2017 Donald Trump is inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States of America and Mike Pence as the 48th Vice President