| 2013 | The group of hackers known as Anonymous, hacks into the U.S. Sentencing Commission website as a response to the suicide of Aaron Swartz, an American computer programmer, and internet activist |
| 2013 | At the 2013 Australian Open, tennis pro Victoria Azarenka wins the women's singles event, after winning three sets in the final against Li Na |
| 2012 | On Australia Day nearly 200 indigenous protesters surround a restaurant in Canberra, trapping Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott, opposition leader inside |
| 2012 | A U.S. gene sequencing company, Illumina, adopts a poison pill strategy, fighting against a hostile big by Roche Holding |
| 2011 | The 41st World Economic Forum convenes in Davos, Switzerland |
| 2011 | Top airport security officials are fired after a suicide bombing at Moscow's Domodedovo International Airport kills 35 people, injures 130 |
| 2010 | James Cameron's film, Avatar, surpasses his 1997 film Titanic, and becomes the highest grossing film of all time |
| 2003 | Super Bowl XXXVII, Qualcomm Stadium San Diego, Tampa Bay Buccaneers beat Oakland Raiders 48-21 |
| 2001 | Earthquake kills 20,000 in Bhuj, India |
| 1998 | 25th American Music Award: Spice Girls and Babyface win |
| 1998 | Intel launches 333 MHz Pentium II chip |
| 1998 | President Clinton says "I want to say one thing to the American people I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky" |
| 1997 | "Ideal Husband" closes at Barrymore Theater New York City after 308 performances |
| 1997 | 85th Australian Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Carlos Moya (62 63 63) |
| 1997 | Brunswick World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by John Gant |
| 1997 | Super Bowl XXXI, Louisiana Superdome, New Orleans, Green Bay Packers beat New England Patriots 35-21 |
| 1996 | "Les Miserables," opens at Musichall Theatre, Duisburg |
| 1995 | New Jersey Governor Christine Whitman, dedicates a rest stop to Howard Stern |
| 1993 | West Indies defeat Australia by one run in 4th Test at Adelaide |
| 1992 | "Little Hotel on the Side" opens at Belasco Theater New York City for 41 performances |
| 1992 | 80th Australian Mens Tennis: Jim Courier beats S Edberg (63 36 64 62) |
| 1992 | Americans with Disabilities Act went into effect |
| 1992 | Superbowl XXVI: Washington Red Skins beat Buffalo Bills, 37-24 in Minnesota Superbowl MVP: Mark Rypien, Washington, quarterback |
| 1991 | "Few Good Men" closes at Music Box Theater New York City after 497 performances |
| 1991 | 65th Australian Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats J Novotna (57 63 61) |
| 1991 | Alfaro Vive guerrilla group of Ecuador gives arms to Catholic church |
| 1991 | Houston guard Vernon Maxwell is 4th NBAer to score 30 pts in a quarter |
| 1991 | Jan Stenerud becomes 1st pure placekicker to make NFL Hall of Fame |
| 1991 | New York Lotto pays $90 million to nine winner (#s are 5-15-30-35-46-50) |
| 1990 | Annular eclipse visible over Antarctica and South Atlantic |
| 1990 | Boston Red Sox hires Elaine Weddington as asstistant General Manager (highest-ranking black female in a major-league front office) |
| 1989 | "Black and Blue" opens at Minskoff Theater New York City for 829 performances |
| 1989 | AT&T reports 1st loss in 103 years; $1.67 B in 1988 |
| 1989 | Allan Border takes 7-46 against the West Indies at the SCG |
| 1989 | Madison Square Garden announces 2-year $100 M renovation plan |
| 1989 | Test debut of Mark Taylor, Australia vs. West Indies, Sydney |
| 1989 | U.S. computer security expert warns of catastrophic virus |
| 1988 | "Phantom of the Opera" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 4,000+ performances |
| 1988 | Australia's 200th anniversary-parade of tall ships in Sydney Harbor |
| 1987 | 14th American Music Award: Whitney Houston, Lionel Richie and Alabama |
| 1987 | Hart Foundation beat British Bulldogs for WWF tag team title |
| 1986 | Hein Vergeer becomes European skating champ |
| 1986 | Val Skinner wins LPGA Mazda Golf Classic |
| 1986 | Yoweri Museveni's rebel army conquerors Kampala Uganda |
| 1986 | Superbowl XX: Chicago Bears beat New England Patriots, 46-10 in New Orleans Superbowl MVP: Richard Dent, Chicago, DE |
| 1985 | 42th Golden Globes: Amadeus wins |
| 1985 | Edmonton Oiler Wayne Gretzky scores 50th goal in 49th game of season |
| 1984 | Nordiques' Michel Goulet scored on 9th penalty shot against Islanders |
| 1984 | U.S. Navy exhibits Piasecki helistat-4 helicopters and a blimp able to lift 26 tons-Lakehurst, New Jersey |
| 1983 | Dutch/British infrared satellite IRAS launched from California |
| 1982 | Islanders score 4 goals within 1:38, 5 within 2:37 vs Penguins |
| 1982 | Mauno Koivisto elected president of Finland |
| 1981 | Sandeep Patil scores memorable 174 vs. Australia at Adelaide Oval |
| 1980 | 175,000 pay to hear Frank Sinatra sing in Rio de Janeiro |
| 1980 | Islanders and Whalers play a NHL penalty-free game |
| 1980 | Israel and Egypt establish diplomatic relations |
| 1979 | "Dukes of Hazzard" premieres on CBS |
| 1979 | Music Center Vredenburg opens in Utrecht, Netherlands |
| 1978 | Frank Herbert completes his novel "Destination: Void" |
| 1978 | International Ultraviolet Explorer placed in Earth orbit |
| 1978 | Mario Soares forms Portuguese government |
| 1978 | Strikers riot in Tunisia, killing about 40 |
| 1977 | Soviet figure skaters Sergei Shakrai and Marine Tcherkasova are 1st to perform a quadruple twist lift, Helsinki |
| 1976 | 6th AFC-NFC pro bowl, NFC wins 23-20 |
| 1976 | Belgium catholic elite start amnesty campaign for war criminals |
| 1976 | David Mamet's "American Buffalo," premieres in New York City |
| 1976 | Israel opens "Good Fence" to Lebanon |
| 1976 | NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 23-20 |
| 1975 | Edward Albee's "Seascape," premieres in New York City |
| 1973 | Belgium government of Leburton forms |
| 1972 | Stewardess Vesna Vulovic survives 10,160m fall without parachute |
| 1971 | Charles Manson convicted of murder |
| 1971 | Dutch 2nd Chamber accept law against limitation of war crimes |
| 1970 | Pendleton, Ford and Cryer's "Last Sweet Days of Isaac," premieres in New York City |
| 1969 | "Red, White, and Maddox" opens at Cort Theater New York City for 41 performances |
| 1968 | Israeli submarine Dakar crashes in Mediterranean Sea, 69 die |
| 1967 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan U.S.S.R. |
| 1966 | Ard Schenk skates world record 1500m (2:06.2) |
| 1965 | South Vietnam military coup under general Nguyen Khanh |
| 1963 | "Milk and Honey" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 543 performances |
| 1963 | Major League Rules Committee votes to expand strike zone |
| 1962 | Bishop Burke of Buffalo Catholic dioceses declares Chubby Checker's |
| 1962 | Canadian Marine Service renamed Coast Guard |
| 1962 | David Diamond's 7th Symphony, premieres in Philadelphia |
| 1962 | U.S. launches Ranger 3, misses Moon by 22,000-mi (37,000-km) |
| 1962 | "Twist" is impure and bans it from all Catholic schools |
| 1961 | "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" by Elvis Presley peaks to #1 |
| 1961 | 1st woman "personal physician to president"-JG Travell |
| 1960 | Danny Heater scores 135 pts in basketball game (Boys' HS) |
| 1960 | High-school basketball sensation Danny Heater scores 135 points |
| 1960 | Oakland enters AFL |
| 1960 | Pete Rozelle elected NFL commissioner on 23rd ballot |
| 1959 | Italy government of Fanfani resigns |
| 1959 | KOKH TV channel 25 in Oklahoma City, OK (IND/PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1958 | H Laskow replaces Moshe Dayan on as Israeli minister of Defense |
| 1958 | Jack Smith takes over for Art Baker as TV host of "You Asked for It" |
| 1958 | Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Lake Worth Open Golf Invitational |
| 1957 | Bernanos and Poulenc's opera "Dialogue des Carmelites," premieres |
| 1957 | Dutch PSP, Pacifist Socialistic Party, forms |
| 1957 | India annexes Kashmir |
| 1957 | Joseph F Cairnes succeeds Lou Perini as President of Milwaukee Braves |
| 1956 | 7th Winter Olympic games open in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy |
| 1956 | Buddy Holly's 1st formal recording session |
| 1956 | Hank Greenberg and Joe Cronin are elected to Hall of Fame |
| 1956 | Porkkala military base returned to Finland by U.S.S.R. |
| 1954 | Ground breaking begins on Disneyland |
| 1951 | Mel Ott and Jimmie Foxx elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
| 1950 | India becomes a republic ceaseing to be a British dominion |
| 1949 | WHIO TV channel 7 in Dayton, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1948 | Executive Order 9981, end segregation in U.S. Armed Forces signed |
| 1947 | KLM Dakota crashes near Copenhagen, 22 die |
| 1945 | Soviet forces reach Auschwitz concentration camp |
| 1942 | 1st U.S. force in Europe during WW II go ashore in Northern Ireland |
| 1942 | Italian supreme command demands dismissal of German marshal Rommel |
| 1940 | Nazi's forbid Polish Jews to travel on trains |
| 1939 | Federal Hall National Monument established |
| 1939 | Filming begins on 'Gone With the Wind' |
| 1939 | Franco conquers Barcelona |
| 1934 | Bradman scores 128 NSW vs. Victoria, 96 minutes, 17 fours 4 sixes |
| 1934 | Nazi Germany and Poland sign non-attack treaty for 10 years |
| 1932 | British submarine M-2 sinks in Channel (60 dead) |
| 1932 | KUT-AM in Austin Texas changes call letters to KNOW |
| 1931 | Hungary-Austria sign peace treaty |
| 1931 | Lynn Riggs' "Green Grow the Lilacs," premieres in New York City |
| 1930 | Cleveland's Terminal Tower opens (52 stories) |
| 1929 | Indian National Congress proclaims goal for India's independence |
| 1927 | Maxwell Anderson's "Saturday's Children," premieres in New York City |
| 1926 | Television 1st demonstrated (J L Baird, London) |
| 1924 | Charles Jewtraw, U.S. 500m skater, takes 1st Winter Olympics gold medal |
| 1922 | Ralph Vaughan Williams' "Pastoral Symphony," premieres in London |
| 1921 | Soccer team GVAV of Groningen Netherlands forms |
| 1921 | Toronto St. Pat Corb Denneny scores 6 goals vs Hamilton Tigers |
| 1920 | Amadeo Modigliani's mistress jumps out of a window |
| 1915 | Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado established |
| 1914 | 600 Dutch textile workers go on strike |
| 1914 | Vatican puts Belgian Nobel winner Maeterlinck's works in their index |
| 1913 | Jim Thorpe relinquishes his 1912 Olympic medals for being a pro |
| 1911 | Glenn Curtiss pilots 1st successful hydroplane, San Diego |
| 1911 | Richard Strauss's opera "Die Rosenkavalier" premieres, Dresden |
| 1910 | Heavy rains cause floods in Paris |
| 1907 | J M Synge's "Playboy of Western World" opens; police are called |
| 1905 | Arnold Schonberg's "Pelleas und Melissande," premieres in Vienna |
| 1905 | Han Yong-woon [Bongwan, Manhae] (1879-1944) ordained a monk in Korea |
| 1900 | Henrik Ibsen's "Naar vi Dode Vaaguer," premieres in Stuttgart |
| 1897 | Battle at Bida Gold Coast: British troops beat Nupe's army |
| 1891 | Oscar Wilde's "Duchess of Padua," premieres in New York City |
| 1887 | Battle of Dogali: Abyssinian Emperor John IV defeats Italians |
| 1886 | Karl Benz patents 1st auto with burning motor |
| 1885 | Muhammad Ahmed ("Mahdi") rebels conquer Khartoum |
| 1884 | 1st Dutch Wagner version of Elizabeth aria |
| 1882 | France government of Gambetta falls |
| 1881 | Union of Baptists Communities forms in Foxholl |
| 1875 | Electric dental drill is patented by George F Green |
| 1871 | British Rugby Union forms |
| 1871 | U.S. income tax repealed |
| 1870 | Virginia rejoins US |
| 1863 | 54th Regiment (Black) infantry forms |
| 1863 | War Department authorizes Mass governor to recruit black troops |
| 1862 | Lincoln issues General War Order #1, calling for a Union offensive McClellan ignores order |
| 1861 | Louisiana becomes 6th state to secede |
| 1850 | 1st German-language daily newspaper in U.S. published, New York City |
| 1841 | Hong Kong proclaimed a sovereign territory of Britain |
| 1838 | Tennessee becomes 1st state to prohibit alcohol |
| 1837 | Michigan admitted as 26th U.S. state |
| 1833 | Gaetano Dinozetti's opera "Lucrezia Borgia," premieres in Milan |
| 1802 | Congress passes an act calling for a U.S. Capitol library |
| 1797 | Russia, Prussia and Austria sign treaty |
| 1790 | Mozart's opera "Cosi Fan Tutte" premieres in Vienna |
| 1789 | John Odell signs contract for 336 pounds to build St. Peter's church (Bronx) |
| 1788 | Captain Arthur Phillip hoists English flag on Port Jackson, New South Wales |
| 1784 | Ben Franklin expresses unhappiness over eagle as America's symbol |
| 1748 | England, Netherlands, Austria and Sardinia sign anti-French treaty |
| 1736 | Stanislaw Lesczynski flees Polish throne |
| 1699 | Venice, Poland and Austria sign peace treaty with Turkey |
| 1697 | Isaac Newton receives Jean Bernoulli's 6 month time-limit problem, solves problem before going to bed that same night |
| 1689 | Jean Racine's "Esther," premieres in Saint-Cyr |
| 1666 | France declares war on England and Munster |
| 1654 | Portuguese troops conquer last Dutch base on Recife |
| 1531 | Lisbon hit by Earthquake; about 30,000 die |
| 1340 | English king Edward III proclaimed king of France |
| 66 | 5th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet |
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