| 2007 | Nancy Pelosi is elected Speaker of the House, by a vote of 233-202 |
| 2006 | Ehud Olmert becomes Prime Minister of Israel after Ariel Sharon suffers a stroke |
| 1998 | "Funny Thing Happened," closes at St. James New York City after 715 perform |
| 1998 | "Ivanov," closes at Vivian Beaumont Theater New York City after 51 performances |
| 1998 | "Triumph of Love," closes at Royale Theater New York City |
| 1996 | "Father" opens at Criterion Theater New York City for 52 performances |
| 1995 | Newt Gingrich becomes speaker of the House |
| 1994 | 10th largest wrestling crowd (58,000-Tokyo Dome) |
| 1993 | 7th largest wrestling crowd (63,500-Tokyo Dome) |
| 1992 | 8th largest wrestling crowd (60,000-Tokyo Dome) |
| 1991 | AT&T workers in Newark accidentally snap a cable |
| 1991 | Fu Mingxia, 12, of China wins World Swimming Championships gold medal |
| 1991 | Iraq agrees to send Aziz to Geneva to meet Baker on Jan 9th |
| 1991 | Jan Krzystof Bielecki becomes premier of Poland |
| 1989 | Comet Tempel 1 at perihelion |
| 1989 | U.S. F-14s shoot down 2 Libyan jet fighters over Mediterranean |
| 1989 | Vice President Bush is 1st since Vice President Van Buren to declare himself president |
| 1987 | 16 die in a train crash in Chase Md |
| 1986 | David Boon's second Test century, 131 vs. India at Adelaide |
| 1986 | NCAA basketball's David Robinson blocks a record 14 shots |
| 1984 | "Night Court" starring Harry Anderson premieres on NBC TV |
| 1984 | Edmonton beats Minnesota 12-8 highest-scoring modern NHL game |
| 1983 | U.S. Football League holds its 1st player draft |
| 1982 | Bryant Gumbel became co-host of NBC's "Today Show" |
| 1982 | Chris Wallace becomes co-anchor of the Today Show |
| 1982 | Golden Gate Bridge closed for 3rd time by fierce storm |
| 1982 | ABC Direction Network (57 affiliates) and ABC Rock Network (40 affiliates) become the 5th and 6th ABC radio network |
| 1981 | "Frankenstein" opens and closes on Broadway |
| 1981 | "Peter Pan" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City after 578 performances |
| 1981 | 69th Australian Mens Tennis: B Teacher beats Kim Warwick (75 76 63) |
| 1981 | British police arrest Peter Sutcliffe, the "Yorkshire Ripper" |
| 1980 | President Carter announces U.S. boycott of Moscow Olympics |
| 1977 | Mary Shane hired by Chicago White Sox as 1st woman TV play-by-play |
| 1976 | "Candide" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 740 performances |
| 1976 | "Home Sweet Homer" opens and closes at Palace Theater New York City |
| 1975 | "Good News" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 16 performances |
| 1975 | "Gypsy" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 120 performances |
| 1975 | "Over Here" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 341 performances |
| 1975 | Ford Executive Order on CIA Activities within the U.S. (No 11828) |
| 1975 | Ice thickness measured at 4776 m, Wilkes Land, Antarctica |
| 1975 | Montreal Canadiens shutout Washington Capitals 10-0 |
| 1974 | Nixon refuses to hand over tapes subpoenaed by Watergate Committee |
| 1971 | Congressional Black Caucus organizes |
| 1971 | Dr. Melvin H Evans inaugurated as 1st elected governor of Virgin Is |
| 1971 | Philadelphia's Veteran Stadium dedicated |
| 1970 | Beatles last recording session at EMI studios |
| 1970 | New York City transit fare rises from 20 cents to 30 cents, new larger tokens used |
| 1970 | Walter Cronkite ends hosting weekly documentary |
| 1969 | "Fig Leaves Are Falling" closes at Broadhurst New York City after 4 performances |
| 1969 | France begins arms embargo against Israel |
| 1968 | Duck hunter accidentally shoots endangered whooping crane in Texas |
| 1968 | Leo Fender sells Fender Guitars for $13 million |
| 1966 | Doug Walters scores second Test century in his second Test |
| 1966 | WFLD TV channel 32 in Chicago, IL (IND) begins broadcasting |
| 1965 | Lyndon Baines Johnson's "Great Society" State of the Union Address |
| 1963 | Soviet Luna (4) reaches Earth orbit but fails to reach Moon |
| 1962 | 1st automated (unmanned) subway train (New York City) |
| 1961 | Longest recorded strike ends-33 yrs-Danish barbers' assistants |
| 1960 | European Free Trade Association forms in Stockholm |
| 1959 | Luna 1, Mechta, becomes 1st craft to leave Earth's gravity |
| 1958 | Sputnik 1 reenters atmosphere and burns up |
| 1957 | "Blondie" situation comedy premieres on NBC TV (later on CBS) |
| 1957 | Dodgers buy 44 passenger twin-engine airplane for $775,000 |
| 1954 | Elvis Presley records a 10 minute demo in Nashville |
| 1954 | Soap Opera "The Brighter Day" premieres |
| 1953 | KTSM TV channel 9 in El Paso, Texas (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1951 | During Korean conflict, Chinese forces capture Seoul |
| 1948 | Burma declares independence from UK |
| 1947 | "Park Avenue" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 72 performances |
| 1947 | "Show Boat" closes at Ziegfeld Theater New York City after 417 performances |
| 1945 | Germans execute resistance fighters in Amsterdam |
| 1945 | U.S. jeep-aircraft carrier Ommaney Bay sinks after kamikaze attack |
| 1943 | Thomas Mann completes his tetralogy, "Joseph and His Brothers" |
| 1942 | NFL Pro Bowl: Chi Bears beats NFL All-Stars 35-24 |
| 1942 | Premier Churchill and General Marshall fly to Florida |
| 1942 | Rogers Hornsby is 14th player selected to the Hall of Fame |
| 1941 | Resistance fighters counter d'Estienne d'Orves/Jan Doornik, 1st meet |
| 1941 | Sergey Rachmaninov's "Symphonie Dances," premieres in Philadelphia |
| 1939 | Frieda Wunderlich elected 1st woman dean of a U.S. graduate school |
| 1939 | Hermann Goering appoints Reinhard Heydrich head of Jewish Emigration |
| 1936 | Billboard magazine publishes its 1st music hit parade |
| 1936 | Grimmett becomes world record wicket taker with no 190 vs. South Africa |
| 1935 | Bob Hope 1st heard on network radio as part of "The Intimate Revue" |
| 1935 | Fort Jefferson National Monument in Florida established |
| 1934 | 1st Dutch talkie movie, Jan Teunissen's "Willem of Orange," premieres |
| 1932 | Bradman scores 167 for Australia vs. South Africa at the MCG |
| 1932 | British East Indies Viceroy Willingdon arrests Gandhi and Nehru |
| 1932 | State of siege proclaimed in Honduras |
| 1926 | Theodorus Pangalos resigns as Greek dictator |
| 1925 | French psychologist Emil Coue brings his self-esteem therapy to U.S. "Every day in every way I am getting better and better" |
| 1923 | 1st broadcast of "Barn Dance Show" (WBAP - Ft. Worth Texas) |
| 1923 | Lenin's "Political Testament" calls for removal of Stalin |
| 1921 | Eugene O'Neill's "Diff'rent," premieres in New York City |
| 1920 | Amsterdam actors decide to strike for retirement benefits |
| 1915 | 1st elected Jewish governor, Moses Alexander, takes office in Idaho |
| 1915 | Trans-Caucausus Russian defeat Turkish troops |
| 1912 | Smallest earth-moon distance this century, 356,375 km center-to-ctr |
| 1907 | George Bernard Shaw's "Don Juan in Hell," premieres in London |
| 1906 | South Africa beat England by one wicket, their 1st Test win |
| 1904 | Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 beat Winnipeg Rowing Club, 2 games to 1 |
| 1904 | Supreme Court rules Puerto Ricans cannot be denied admission to US |
| 1902 | Hugh Trumble takes a hat-trick vs. England at the MCG |
| 1898 | 1st installment of William Dean Howell's "Life and Letters" appears |
| 1896 | AFL charters Actors' National Protective Union, New York City |
| 1896 | Following Mormon abandonment of polygamy, Utah admitted as 45th state |
| 1894 | France ratifies Duple Alliance with Russia |
| 1893 | U.S. President Cleveland grants amnesty to Mormon polygamy |
| 1887 | Thomas Stevens is 1st man to bicycle around the world (SF-SF) |
| 1885 | Dr. W W Grant of Iowa, performs 1st appendectomy (on Mary Gartside, 22) |
| 1884 | Last sighting of an eastern cougar (Ontario) |
| 1883 | Ontario Rugby Football Union (forerunner of CFL) forms |
| 1881 | Johannes Brahms' "Academic Festival Overture" premieres, Breslau |
| 1863 | 4 wheeled roller skates patented by James Plimpton of NY |
| 1862 | Battle of Helena, AK |
| 1862 | Romney Campaign-Stonewall Jackson occupies Bath |
| 1861 | President Buchanan appoints a fast on account of threatened succession |
| 1861 | U.S. Ft. Morgan, Mobile, seized by Alabama |
| 1843 | Gaetano Donizetti's opera "Don Pasquale," premieres in Paris |
| 1843 | Royal Academy (Technical Hague court) Delft opens |
| 1790 | President Washington delivers 1st State of the Union address |
| 1781 | Andre Mechain discovers M80 (globular cluster in Scorpio) |
| 1780 | Snowstorm hit Washington's army at Morristown, NJ |
| 1762 | England declares war on Spain and Naples |
| 1754 | Columbia University founded, as Kings College (New York City) |
| 1725 | Benjamin Franklin arrives in London |
| 1717 | Netherlands, England and France sign Triple Alliance |
| 1642 | King Charles I with 400 soldiers attacks the English parliament |
| 1570 | Spanish viceroy Alva banishes Zutphen City's only physician, Joost Sweiter, "because he is a Jew" |
| 1519 | 1st Altenburger sermon (Luther and Karl von Miltitz) |
| 1493 | Columbus left new world on return from 1st voyage |
| 1357 | Flemish earl Louis and Luxembourg Duke Wenceslaus sign peace treaty |
| 871 | Battle at Reading: Ethelred of Wessex beats Danish invasion army |
| 274 | St. Eutychian begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
