Events
393 - Roman Emperor
Theodosius I proclaims his nine year old son
Honorius co-emperor.1510 -
Henry VIII of England, then 18 years old, appears incognito in the lists at
Richmond, and is applauded for his
jousting before he reveals his identity.1533 -
Anne Boleyn, mistress of
Henry VIII of England, discovers herself pregnant.1546 - Having published nothing for eleven years,
Francois Rabelais brings out his sequel to
Gargantua and Pantagruel: the Tiers Livre. 1556 - The deadliest
earthquake in history, the
Shaanxi earthquake, hits
Shaanxi province,
China. The death toll may have been as high as 830,000.1570 - The
assassination of regent
James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray throws
Scotland into
civil war.1571 - The
Royal Exchange opens in
London.1579 - The
Union of Utrecht forms a
Protestant republic in the
Netherlands.1656 -
Blaise Pascal published the first of his
Lettres provinciales.
1719 - The
Principality of
Liechtenstein is created within the
Holy Roman Empire.
1789 -
Georgetown College becomes the first
Roman Catholic college in the
United States (
Washington, DC).
1793 -
Russia and
Prussia partition
Poland.
1849 -
Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her M.D. by the Medical Institute of
Geneva, New York, becoming the
United States' first woman doctor.
1855 - The first bridge over the
Mississippi River opens in what is now
Minneapolis, Minnesota, a crossing made today by the
Father Louis Hennepin Bridge.
1870 - In
Montana, U.S. cavalrymen kill 173
Indians, mostly women and children, in the
Marias Massacre.
1879 -
Anglo-Zulu War:
Battle of Rorke's Drift ends.
1897 -
Elva Zona Heaster found dead in
Greenbrier County,
West Virginia. The resulting murder trial of her husband was perhaps the only case in United States history where the alleged testimony of a ghost helped secure a conviction.
1899 -
Emilio Aguinaldo was sworn in as
President of the
First Philippine Republic.
1904 -
Ålesund Fire:
Norwegian coastal town
Ålesund is devastated by fire, leaving 10,000 people homeless and one person dead.
Kaiser Wilhelm II funds the rebuilding of the town in
Jugendstil architecture.
1907 -
Charles Curtis of
Kansas becomes the first
Native American US Senator.
1912 - The
International Opium Convention is signed at
The Hague.
1920 - The
Netherlands refuses to surrender ex-
Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany to the
Allies.
1924 -
Bal Thackeray - The leader of Indian Politician Party Shiv Sena was born
1937 - In
Moscow, 17 leading
Communists go on trial accused of participating in a plot led by
Leon Trotsky to overthrow
Joseph Stalin's regime and assassinate its leaders.
1941 -
Charles Lindbergh testifies before the
U.S. Congress and recommends that the
United States negotiate a neutrality pact with
Adolf Hitler.
1943 -
World War II:
British forces capture
Tripoli in
Libya from the
Nazis.1943 - Jewish-led
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.1943 -
World War II:
Australian and
American forces finally defeat the
Japanese army in
Papua. This turning point in the
Pacific War marks the beginning of the end of
Japanese aggression.1943 -
Duke Ellington plays at
Carnegie Hall in
New York City for the first time.
1945 -
World War II:
Karl Dönitz launches
Operation Hannibal.
1950 - The
Knesset passes a resolution that states
Jerusalem is the capital of
Israel.
1960 - The
bathyscaphe USS Trieste breaks a depth record by descending to 10,911 m (35,798 feet)in the
Pacific Ocean.
1964 - The
24th Amendment to the
United States Constitution, prohibiting the use of
poll taxes in national elections, is ratified.
1967 -
Milton Keynes (England) founded by
Order in Council. (See
History of Milton Keynes)
1968 -
North Korea seizes the
USS Pueblo, claiming the ship violated their
territorial waters while spying.
1973 -
President Richard Nixon announces that a peace accord has been reached in
Vietnam.1973 - A
volcanic eruption devastates
Heimaey in the
Vestmannaeyjar chain of islands off the south coast of
Iceland.
1977 - The first segment of the
Roots mini-series airs on
ABC.
1978 -
Sweden becomes the first nation in the world to ban
aerosol sprays, believed to be damaging to earth's protective
ozone layer.
1985 -
O.J. Simpson becomes the first
Heisman Trophy winner elected to the
Football Hall of Fame.
1986 - The
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts its first members:
Chuck Berry,
James Brown,
Ray Charles,
Fats Domino,
Everly Brothers,
Buddy Holly,
Jerry Lee Lewis and
Elvis Presley.
1996 - The first version of the
Java programming language is released.
1997 -
Madeleine Albright becomes the first woman to serve as
United States Secretary of State.
2002 - "American
Taliban"
John Walker Lindh returns to the
United States under
FBI custody.2002 - Reporter
Daniel Pearl is
kidnapped -- and subsequently
murdered -- in
Karachi,
Pakistan.
2005 -
Viktor Yushchenko is sworn in as the third
President of Ukraine in
Kiev,
Ukraine.
2006 - After over 12 years of
Liberal Party rule,
Stephen Harper's
Conservative Party wins the most seats in the
Canadian federal election. Harper becomes the 22nd
Prime Minister of Canada with a
minority government, assuming office
February 6.
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