Events
98 -
Trajan becomes
Roman Emperor after the death of
Nerva.672 -
St. Vitalian ends his reign as Catholic Pope.847 -
Sergius II ends his reign as Catholic Pope. 1142 - Wrongful execution of noted
Song Dynasty General
Yue Fei.1186 -
Henry VI, the son and heir of the
Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I, weds
Constance of Sicily.1343 -
Pope Clement VI issues the Bull
Unigenitus.1416 -
Republic of Dubrovnik, as a first state in Europe, outlaw
slavery1593 -
Vatican opens 7 year trial against scholar
Giordano Bruno.
1606 -
Gunpowder Plot: The trial of
Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins, and ending in their execution on
January 31.
1678 - The first
fire engine company in the
United States went into service.
1695 -
Mustafa II becomes the Ottoman
sultan in
Istanbul on the death of
Ahmed II. Mustafa rules until his death in
1703.
1785 - The
University of Georgia is founded, the first public university in the United States.
1825 -
U.S. Congress approves
Indian Territory (in what is present-day
Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the
Eastern Indians on the "
Trail of Tears."
1870 - The first college
sorority,
Kappa Alpha Theta, is formed at
DePauw University.
1880 -
Thomas Edison files a patent for his electric incandescent lamp.
1888 - In
Washington, D.C., the
National Geographic Society is founded.
1909 - The
Young Left is founded in
Norway.
1915 -
United States Marines occupy
Haiti.
1918 - The first hostilities occurred in the
Finnish Civil War, beginning the war.
1926 -
John Logie Baird makes the first
television broadcast.1939 - First flight of the
Lockheed P-38 Lightning.
1941 -
World War II: Fighting at Derna, Libya, begins. Following the capture of
Tobruk, two brigades of the
6th Australian Division under
Major General Iven Mackay pursue the
Italians westwards and encounters an
Italian rear guard at
Derna.
1943 - World War II: Fifty bombers mount the first entirely
American air raid against
Germany, targeting
Wilhelmshaven.
1944 - World War II: The two-year
Siege of Leningrad is lifted.
1945 - World War II: The
Red Army arrives at the
Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in
Poland.1945 - World War II: Lt.Col. Mucci comades Army Rangers to liberate the prisoners of the Cabanatuan POW camp.
1951 -
Nuclear testing at the
Nevada Test Site begins with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flats.
1967 -
Apollo program:
Apollo 1 -
Astronauts Gus Grissom,
Edward White and
Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of the spacecraft at the
Kennedy Space Center.1967 - More than sixty nations sign the
Outer Space Treaty banning
nuclear weapons in space.
1973 -
Paris Peace Accords officially end the
Vietnam War, Colonel
William Nolde falls, becoming the conflict's last recorded American combat casualty.
1977 - Record company
EMI sacks the controversial
United Kingdom punk rock group the
Sex Pistols.
1983 - Pilot shaft of
World's longest subaqueous tunnel (53.85 km) between the Japanese islands of
Honshū and
Hokkaidō breaks through.
1984 -
Carl Lewis beats his own indoor world
long jump record by 9¼ inches (23.5 centimeters) with a 28-foot, 10¼-inch (8.795-meter) jump.
1996 - Colonel
Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposes the first democratically elected president of
Niger,
Mahamane Ousmane, in a military coup. 1996 -
Germany first observes
International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
1997 - It is revealed that
French museums have nearly 2,000 pieces of art that were stolen by
Nazis.
1998 -
First Lady of the United States Hillary Rodham Clinton appears on
The Today Show, calling the attacks against her husband part of a
vast right-wing conspiracy.
2001 - Ten members of the
Oklahoma State University men's basketball team and support staff die in a plane crash in
Colorado.
2002 - Several explosions at a military dump in
Lagos,
Nigeria kill more than 1,000.
2007 - Approximately 100,000 protesters converge on the Mall in
Washington, D.C. for the
January 27, 2007 anti-war protest sponsored by
United for Peace and Justice.
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