| 2013 | Actor Gerard Depardieu is granted citizenship by Russian President, Vladimir Putin; Depardieu renounced his French citizenship due to the country's high taxes |
| 2013 | The Unites States swears in the 113th Congress, replacing the 112th Congress |
| 2012 | Unemployment in Spain is reportedly at a record high |
| 2012 | Iowa voters attend electoral caucuses; Mitt Romney, Ron Paul and Rick Santorum lead Republican contenders as nominees for President of the United States |
| 2011 | With news that Facebook received investments of $500 million, analysts estimate the value of the company at $50 billion |
| 2011 | Over 5,000 red-winged blackbirds suddenly die in Beebe, Arkansas, on New Year's Eve; scientists investigate causes of the bird die-off |
| 2010 | Australian researchers discover the first plane taken to Antarctica in 1912 |
| 2009 | Israel launches an invasion of the Gaza strip |
| 2007 | Gerald Ford is buried in Grand Rapids, Michigan |
| 2004 | Flash Airlines flight 604 crashes near Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, killing 148 |
| 1998 | "Side Show," closes at Richard Rodgers New York City after 91 performances |
| 1998 | Grandpa Jones suffers a stroke |
| 1997 | Bryant Gumbel co-hosted his final Today show on NBC-TV |
| 1997 | Eddo Brandes takes ODI hat-trick vs. England at Harare |
| 1997 | Zimbabwe clean-sweep ODI series vs. England 3-0 |
| 1994 | "Gray's Anatomy" closes at Beaumont Theater New York City after 13 performances |
| 1994 | 100s killed in Venezuela in prison revolt |
| 1994 | Tupolev-154M crashes at Irkutsk, Siberia: 122 killed |
| 1994 | 35-foot-tall Chief Wahoo, trademark of Indians on top of Stadium since 1962, is taken down, to be moved to Jacob's Field |
| 1993 | "Catskills on Broadway" closes at Lunt-Fontanne New York City after 452 performances |
| 1993 | "Christmas Carol" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 22 performances |
| 1993 | "Lost in Yonkers" closes at Richard Rodgers New York City after 780 performances |
| 1993 | "Secret Garden" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 706 performances |
| 1993 | "Tommy Tune Tonite!" closes at Gershwin New York City after 10 performances |
| 1993 | Junk bond king Michael Milkin is released from jail after 22 months |
| 1992 | 32 Cubans defect to the U.S. via helicopter |
| 1992 | Boon completes 11 Test Cricket century, 129* vs. India at Sydney |
| 1991 | Israel reopens consulate in U.S.S.R. after 23 years |
| 1991 | Los Angeles King Wayne Gretzky scores his 700th goal against New York Islanders |
| 1990 | Panama's leader General Manuel Noriega surrenders to U.S. authorities |
| 1989 | Jim and Tammy Bakker return to TV (Oy Vey!) |
| 1989 | Russian newspaper Izvestia gets its 1st commercial advertisement |
| 1988 | Israel orders 9 Palestinian "instigators" deported from W Beirut |
| 1988 | Margaret Thatcher becomes longest-serving British Prime Minister this century |
| 1987 | "Oh Coward!" closes at Helen Hayes Theater New York City after 56 performances |
| 1987 | "Smile" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City after 48 performances |
| 1987 | Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts 1st female artist Aretha Franklin |
| 1987 | Singer/Miss America Vanessa Williams marries Ramon T Hervey in New York City |
| 1985 | Azharuddin scores 110 in 1st Test innings |
| 1985 | Israel government confirms resettlement of 10,000 Ethiopian Jews |
| 1984 | Syria frees captured U.S. pilot after appeal from Jesse Jackson |
| 1983 | Tony Dorsett sets NFL record with 99-yd rush, Dallas vs Minnesota |
| 1981 | 55th Australian Womens Tennis: H Mandlikova beats W Turnbull (60 75) |
| 1981 | Cleveland Cavaliers retire jersey # 34, Austin Carr |
| 1981 | Greg Chappell scores 204 vs. India at the SCG |
| 1981 | Mary Terstegge Meagher swims female record 100 m butterfly (58.91) |
| 1980 | Gold hits record $634 an ounce |
| 1978 | Chandrasekar takes 6-52 and 6-52 at MCG in Indian innings win |
| 1977 | Apple Computers incorporated |
| 1977 | Lindy McDaniel retires with 2nd most pitching appearances (987 games) |
| 1976 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1974 | Arias Navarro succeeds Carrero Blanco as premier of Spain |
| 1974 | Burma accepts its constitution |
| 1974 | Gold hits record $121.25 an ounce in London |
| 1974 | Miguel Pinero's "Short Eyes," premieres in New York City |
| 1974 | New York Yankees sign Bill Virdon as manager |
| 1973 | George Steinbrenner III buys Yankees from CBS for $12 million |
| 1971 | "President's Daughter" closes at Billy Rose Theater New York City after 72 performances |
| 1971 | Baltimore Colts beat Oakland Raiders 27-17 in AFC championship game |
| 1971 | Dallas Cowboys beat San Francisco '49ers 17-10 in NFC championship game |
| 1970 | "Jimmy" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 84 performances |
| 1970 | "Mame" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 1508 performances |
| 1970 | Marxist government takes over in Congo |
| 1970 | WHAG TV channel 25 in Hagerstown, MD (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1969 | Rep Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. seated by Congress |
| 1967 | "Tonight Show" is shortened from 105 to 90 minutes |
| 1967 | Carl Wilson of the Beach Boys is indicted for draft evasion |
| 1967 | WJAN TV channel 17 in Canton, OH (IND) begins broadcasting |
| 1966 | Floyd B McKissick, named national director of CORE |
| 1964 | Jack Paar Show, shows a clip of the Beatles singing "She Loves You" |
| 1963 | WOUB TV channel 20 in Athens, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1962 | Ground is broken for the Houston Astrodome |
| 1962 | Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro |
| 1961 | Adam Clayton Powell elected Chairman of House Education and Labor |
| 1961 | U.S. breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba |
| 1959 | Alaska admitted as 49th U.S. state |
| 1958 | Edmund Hillary reaches South Pole overland |
| 1958 | Lindsay Kline takes a hat-trick vs. South Africa at Cape Town |
| 1957 | 1st electric watch introduced, Lancaster Pa |
| 1955 | Jose Ramon Guizado becomes president of Panama |
| 1952 | "Dragnet" with Jack Webb premieres on NBC TV |
| 1952 | Australia beat West Indies by one wicket at the MCG, last stand 38 |
| 1951 | 9 Jewish Kremlin physicians "exposed" as British/U.S. agents |
| 1951 | Fred Wilt wins AAU Sullivan Memorial Trophy (U.S. athlete of 1950) |
| 1949 | "Colgate Theater" dramatic anthology series premieres on NBC TV |
| 1948 | Bradman completes dual Test tons (132 and 127*) vs. India MCG |
| 1947 | 1st opening session of Congress to be televised |
| 1947 | William Dawson becomes 1st black to head congressional committee |
| 1945 | Allies land on west coast of Burma, conquer Akyab |
| 1945 | British Premier Winston Churchill visits France |
| 1945 | Cato-Meridian School, New York, installs germicidal lamps in every room |
| 1945 | Greek General Plastiras forms government |
| 1945 | John Patrick's "Hasty Heart," premieres in New York City |
| 1945 | U.S. aircraft carriers attack Okinawa |
| 1943 | 1st missing persons telecast (New York City) |
| 1943 | Canadian Army troops arrive in North Africa |
| 1942 | American-British-Dutch-Australian (ABDA) Command forms |
| 1941 | Canada and U.S. acquire air bases in Newfoundland (99 yr lease) |
| 1941 | Italian counter offensive in Albania |
| 1941 | Sergei Rachmaninov's "Symphonic Dances" premieres in Philadelphia |
| 1940 | WPG-AM in Atlantic City New Jersey consolidates with WBIL and WOV as "new" WOV |
| 1939 | Gene Cox becomes 1st girl page in U.S. House of Representatives |
| 1938 | March of Dimes established to fight polio |
| 1931 | Nels Stewart of Montreal Maroons scores 2 goals in 4 sec (record) |
| 1929 | 27 year old William S. Paley becomes CBS president |
| 1929 | Bradman scores 112 vs. England at MCG - his 1st Test century |
| 1926 | Greek General Theodorus Pangulos names himself dictator |
| 1925 | Mussolini dissolves Italian parliament/becomes dictator |
| 1922 | 1st living person identified on a U.S. coin (Thomas E Kirby) on the Alabama Centennial half-dollar |
| 1921 | Turkey makes peace with Armenia |
| 1920 | Arthur Honegger's "Chant de Nigamon," premieres |
| 1920 | New York Yankees purchase Babe Ruth from Red Sox for $125,000 |
| 1918 | U.S. employment service opens as a unit of Department of Labor |
| 1914 | Kelman/Cushing/Heath' musical "Sari," premieres in New York City |
| 1912 | South Pacific RR offers to bring Liberty Bell to Exposition, free |
| 1911 | U.S. postal savings bank inaugurated |
| 1910 | British miners strike for 8 hour working day |
| 1902 | Reg Duff 104 on Test debut, vs. England at MCG |
| 1900 | Gerhart Hauptmanns "Schluck und Jau," premieres in Berlin |
| 1900 | Perihelion Passage |
| 1896 | Emperor Wilhelm congratulates President Kruger on the Jameson Raid |
| 1890 | 1st U.S. college-level dairy school opens at University of Wisconsin |
| 1889 | Admissions convention meets in Ellensburg, WA, asks for statehood |
| 1888 | 1st wax drinking straw patented, by Marvin C Stone in Washington D.C. |
| 1876 | 1st free kindergarten in U.S. opens in Florence, Mass |
| 1872 | 1st patent list issued by U.S. Patent Office |
| 1871 | Oleomargarine patented by Henry Bradley, Binghamton, New York |
| 1870 | Brooklyn Bridge construction begins; completed May 24, 1883 |
| 1868 | Meiji Restoration returns authority to Japan's emperors |
| 1865 | Con Orem and Hugh O'Neill box 193 rounds before darkness ends match |
| 1862 | Romney Campaign-Stonewall Jackson moves north from Winchester |
| 1861 | Delaware legislature rejects proposal to join Confederacy |
| 1861 | U.S. Ft. Pulaski and Ft. Jackson, Savannah, seized by Georgia |
| 1852 | 1st Chinese arrive in Hawaii |
| 1847 | California town of Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco |
| 1840 | 1st deep sea sounding |
| 1833 | Britain seizes control of Falkland Islands in South Atlantic |
| 1831 | 1st U.S. building and loan association organized, Frankford, Penn |
| 1825 | Scottish factory owner Robert Owen buys 30,000 acres in Indiana as site for New Harmony utopian community |
| 1780 | Danish national anthem "Kong Kristian...," 1st sung |
| 1777 | Washington defeats British at Battle of Princeton, New Jersey |
| 1752 | East Indies invasion "Geldermalsen" leaves at Malakka: 92 killed |
| 1750 | Tax revolt in Haarlem, Netherlands |
| 1746 | Bonnie Prince Charlies army leaves Glasgow, |
| 1667 | Resistance of Androsovo in Russia-Poland |
| 1667 | Russia and Poland sign Truce of Androsovo |
| 1638 | Dutch Premier Van Joost speaks of "Hostage rights of Aemstel" |
| 1638 | Schouwburg Theater, the 1st in Amsterdam, opens |
| 1521 | Martin Luther excommunicated by Roman Catholic Church |
| 1431 | Joan of Arc handed over to the bishop |
| 1407 | Bloody battles between Hoeksen and Kabeljauwen in Dordrecht |
| 1338 | Jacob of Arteveld elected mayor of Ghent |
| 936 | Duke Alberik II of Spoleto appoints his son Pope Leo VII |
| 269 | St. Felix I begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 236 | St. Anterus ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
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