- 250 St. Fabian ends his reign as pope of the Catholic Church (236-250)
- 1045 Giovanni di Sabina is elected Pope Sylvester III
- 1156 According to legend, freeholder Lalli slays English crusader Bishop Henry with an axe on the ice of Lake Köyliönjärvi in Finland
- 1265 First English Parliament is summoned without royal command, in this instance by Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester. It meets in Westminster Hall.
- 1320 Duke Wladyslaw Lokietek becomes King of Poland
- 1356 Edward Balliol abdicates as King of Scots
- 1502 The present-day location of Rio de Janeiro is first explored
- 1503 Casa de Contratación (House of Trade) established by the Crown of Castile in the port of Seville to deal with American affairs
Christian II Crowned
1513 Christian II succeeds Johan I as Danish and Norwegian king
- 1523 Christian II is forced to abdicate as King of Denmark and Norway
- 1576 The Mexican city of León is founded by order of viceroy Don Martín Enríquez de Almansa
- 1613 Peace of Knarod ends War of Kalmar between Denmark & Sweden
- 1635 Convention of Goa signed between Portugal and England, ending their ongoing conflict in Asia and opening Portuguese ports, including China, to English trade [1]
- 1648 Cornerstone of Amsterdam Town Hall is laid
- 1667 Treaty of Andrussovo ends 13 year war between Poland & Russia
- 1778 1st American military court martial trial begins in Cambridge, Massachusetts
- 1781 First edition of Pieter ’t Hoen's Patriot magazine "De Post van den Neder-Rhijn" (The Post of the Nether Rhine) is published
- 1785 Samuel Ellis advertises to sell Oyster Island (Ellis Island), no takers
- 1788 Pioneer African Baptist church organizes in Savannah, Georgia
Chief Justice Marshall
1801 John Marshall is appointed Chief Justice of the United States
- 1809 First US geology book published by William Maclure
- 1839 Battle of Yungay, Chile defeats a Peruvian and Bolivian alliance
- 1840 Dumont d'Urville discovers Adélie Land in Antarctica
- 1840 Dutch King William II is crowned
- 1841 China cedes Hong Kong Island to Britain during the First Opium War
1st Northwest Passage
1850 HMS Investigator headed by Robert McClure leaves England, 1st expedition to make a Northwest passage, although some of the journey was over ice
- 1860 Dutch troops conquer Watampone in Celebes
- 1866 Prim's Insurrection in Spain ends
- 1868 Florida constitutional convention meets in Tallahassee
- 1870 "City of Boston" vanishes at sea with all 177 aboard
Revels Elected Senator
1870 Hiram R. Revels elected to fill unexpired term of Albert Brown as US Senator from Mississippi
- 1872 California Stock Exchange Board organized
- 1879 British troops under Lord Chelmsford make camp at Isandlwana
- 1883 Billy Barnes takes a hat-trick, England v Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground
- 1887 US Senate approves naval base lease of Pearl Harbor
US Supervises Dominican Debt
1905 US begins supervising the Dominican Republic's national and international debts, testing President Theodore Roosevelt's "Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine
- 1910 Stanley Cup, Dey's Arena, Ottawa, ON: Ottawa Senators outclass Edmonton HC, 13-7 for a 2-0 sweep of challenge series
- 1914 The first group of Transvaal Indian women satyagrahis are released from Pietermaritzburg Prison in South Africa after three months imprisonment
- 1920 Dutch 2nd Chamber passes school laws
PM Alexandre Millerand
1920 Prime Minister of France Georges Clémenceau resigns and is replaced be Alexandre Millerand
- 1920 Russian Imperial Navy Admiral Alexander Kolchak, leader of anti-communist "White Movement" surrenders to Bolshevik troops
- 1920 The American Civil Liberties Union is founded
- 1921 British submarine HMS K5 (which was unusually equipped with steam turbines) sinks with 57 crew during exercises in the Bay of Biscay
- 1921 Dagestan ASSR forms in RSFSR
- 1921 Mountain Autonomous Republic established in RSFSR
- 1921 Republic of Turkey is declared from the remnants of the Ottoman Empire
- 1922 Arthur Honegger's ballet "Skating Rink" premieres at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, France
- 1925 The Soviet and Japan sign a convention resuming relations: Russia agrees to limit revolutionary activity of the Third Communist International, while Japan agrees to leave the Sakhalin
- 1926 2nd German government of Luther begins
- 1929 First feature talking motion picture taken outdoors, "In Old Arizona"
- 1930 1st radio broadcast of "Lone Ranger" (WXYZ-Detroit)
- 1934 Japan sends Henry Pu Yi as regent to emperor of Manchuria
- 1937 -45°F (-43°C), Boca, California (state record)
- 1937 1st US Presidential Inauguration day held on Jan 20th, (previously March 4th)
- 1939 Charles Ives' 1st piano sonata "Concord" premieres
- 1941 Béla Bartók's 6th String Quartet, premieres in NYC
New Fourth Army Reorganized
1941 Chinese Communist leaders reorganize the New Fourth Army in defiance of Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek's order for it to be disbanded
- 1942 Japanese invade Burma
1942 Nazi officials hold the notorious Wannsee Conference in Berlin to coordinate the "Final Solution", the extermination of Europe's Jews
- 1943 Lead, South Dakota, temperature is 52°F, while 1.5 miles away Deadwood records -16°F
Operation Weiss
1943 Operation Weiss: German, Italian, Bulgarian & Croatian troops attempt to retake land liberated by Tito's partisans
- 1944 RAF drops 2,300 ton of bombs on Berlin
Roosevelt's Fourth Term
1945 Franklin D. Roosevelt is sworn in for an unprecedented and never-to-be-repeated fourth term as US President
- 1945 The Hungarian Provisional Government concludes an armistice with the USSR, US, and Britain, agree to pay reparations and to join the war against Germany
- 1946 F Gouin follows De Gaulle as temporary leader of French government
- 1947 Brigadier General Edwin K Wright, USA, becomes deputy director of CIA
- 1947 Nova Scotia Supreme Court rules against case of black woman Viola Desmond - ejected from a cinema seat in New Glasgow reserved for whites and arrested in landmark case (pardoned 2010) [1]
- 1949 First inaugural parade televised for Harry Truman, watched by 10 million people
Four Point Program
1949 US President Harry Truman announces his four point program
- 1950 1950 NFL Draft: Leon Hart from University of Notre Dame first pick by Detroit Lions
- 1950 Suriname becomes independent part in Realm of Netherlands
- 1952 British army occupies Ismailiya, Suez Canal Zone
- 1952 The NBA's first superstar George Mikan scores a career high 61 points leading the Minneapolis Lakers to a 91-81 double-overtime victory over the Rochester Royals
- 1953 1st US telecast transmitted to Canada from Buffalo, New York
- 1954 -70°F (-57°C), Rogers Pass, Montana (US 48 state record)
- 1954 -70°F measured at Rogers Pass, Montana (record low temperature in the contiguous US)
- 1954 Dmitri Shostakovich's "Concertino opus 94" premieres
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
1954 Herman Wouk's stage drama "The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial", adpated from his novel "The Caine Mutiny", starring Henry Fonda, and directed by Charles Laughton, premieres at the Plymouth Theatre, NYC; runs for 415 performances
- 1954 The National Negro Network is established with 40 charter member radio stations.
Blue Days Black Night
1956 Buddy Holly records "Blue Days Black Night" in Nashville, Tennessee for country music producer Owen Bradley
- 1957 Morton Gould's orchestral work "Declaration" premieres in Washington, D.C.
- 1957 Władysław Gomułka wins Poland's parliamentary election
- 1958 A group attempting the 1st surface crossing of Antarctic join up at the South Pole
- 1958 KUED TV channel 7 in Salt Lake City, UT (PBS) begins broadcasting
Lumumba Sentenced
1960 Patrice Lumumba is sentenced to six months in a Belgian Congo jail for inciting an anti-colonial riot
JFK Inaugurated
1961 Democrat John F. Kennedy, the youngest elected President of the United States, is administered his oath of office at his inauguration by Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren. Robert Frost recites "Gift Outright".
- 1964 Capitol Records releases "Meet The Beatles" album by the Beatles, in US
Franco Meets Jewish Representatives
1965 Generalissimo Francisco Franco meets with Jewish representatives to discuss legitimizing Jewish communities in Spain
- 1965 The Byrds record "Mr Tambourine Man"
- 1965 The US Jet Propulsion Laboratory proposes modified Apollo flight to fly around Mars & return
Chamberlain's Shot Record
1967 Philadelphia 76ers center Wilt Chamberlain makes all 15 of his field goal attempts in a 119-108 win over LA Lakers; NBA record for consecutive shots made; beats mark twice before 1966-67 season ends
- 1968 Houston Cougars defeat the UCLA Bruins 71-69 to win basketball's Game of the Century and end UCLA's 47-game winning streak
Inauguration of Richard Nixon
1969 Richard Nixon inaugurated as 37th US president, completing his political comeback - he had served as vice president (1953–61), and in congress (1947-53) before losing races for president (1960), and for California governor (1962); former Maryland governor Spiro Agnew is sworn in as Vice-President
- 1969 University of Arizona reports 1st optical identification of a pulsar found in Crab Nebula
The Super Fight
1970 The Super Fight, a computer mock championship boxing bout between Muhammad Ali and Rocky Marciano; Marciano wins with a 13th round KO
What's Going On
1971 Tamla Records releases Marvin Gaye's single "What's Going On" about police brutality, from the album of the same name
- 1972 Number of people out of work and claiming unemployment benefit in UK rises to over 1 million
- 1972 Six oil exporting countries conclude meetings with Western oil companies; an agreement is reached to raise the price of crude
- 1973 A car bomb explodes in Sackville Place, Dublin, Ireland, killing 1 person and injuring 17, no group claims responsibility
- 1973 Richard Nixon's second inauguration as President of the United States takes place in Washington, D.C. Flags are flown at half-staff in mourning for former President Harry Truman.
- 1974 Essex Comm College beats Englewood Cliffs 210-67 in basketball
- 1975 Terrence McNally's play "Ritz" premieres in NYC
Knoche Replaces Bush as CIA Director
1977 George H. W. Bush ends his term as 11th director of CIA replaced by E. Henry Knoche as acting director
- 1978 Columbia Pictures pays $9.5 million for the movie rights to "Annie"
1 Million March for Khomeini
1979 1 million Iranians march in Tehran in a show of support for the exiled Ayatollah Khomeini, fundamentalist Muslim leader
- 1980 Super Bowl XIV, Rose Bowl, Pasadena, California: Pittsburgh Steelers beat Los Angeles Rams, 31-19; MVP: Terry Bradshaw, Pittsburgh, QB
US Boycotts Summer Olympics
1980 US President Jimmy Carter announces a US boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
- 1981 Adm Stansfield Turner, USN (Ret), ends term as 12th director of CIA
- 1981 Frank C. Carlucci, ends his term as deputy director of the CIA
- 1981 Islander Glenn Resch's 25th & last shut-out opponent-Flames 5-0
Inauguration of Ronald Reagan
1981 Ronald Reagan is inaugurated as the 40th President of the United States
1981 The US diplomats and citizens held hostage at the US embassy in Tehran are released and begin their journey home after 444 days
- 1982 7 miners killed in an explosion in Craynor Ky
- 1982 Future Hockey Hall of Fame center Darryl Sittler is traded by the Toronto Maple Leafs to the Philadelphia Flyers in exchange for Rich Costello, a 2nd round draft pick and future considerations
Osbourne Bites Head Off Bat
1982 Heavy metal musician Ozzy Osbourne allegedly bites the head off a bat on stage in Des Moines, Iowa
- 1982 Honduras constitution goes into effect
- 1982 Piet Dankert elected chairman of European Parliament
DeMeo Found Murdered
1983 American gangster Roy DeMeo is found murdered in his car trunk after disappearing a few days earlier
- 1985 Cold front strikes US, at least 40 die (-27°F (-33°C) in Chicago)
1985 Super Bowl XIX, Stanford Stadium, Stanford, CA: San Francisco 49ers beat Miami Dolphins, 38-16; MVP: Joe Montana, SF, QB
- 1986 Chunnel announced (railroad tunnel under Channel)
- 1986 Military coup in Lesotho under major general Lekhanya & premier Leabua Jonathan
- 1987 Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite taken hostage in Beirut, Lebanon by Islamic militia group
- 1987 Rhino Records 1st #1, Billy Vera & Beaters' "At This Moment"
- 1987 UK Police crackdown on soccer hooligans in biggest operation against violence around football stadiums
- 1988 Andre Hoffman skates world record 1,500m (1:52.06)
- 1988 Arizona committee opens hearing on impeachment of Gov Evan Mecham
- 1989 George H. W. Bush inaugurated as 41st US President, Dan Quayle becomes 44th Vice President
- 1989 Pittsburgh center Mario Lemieux becomes just the second player in NHL history to score 50 goals in less than 50 games; #50 in 44th game as the Penguins lose 7-3 to the Jets in Winnipeg
- 1989 Reagan becomes 1st US President elected in a "0" year, since 1840, to leave office alive
- 1990 Black January - crackdown of Azerbaijani pro-independence demonstrations by Soviet army in Baku
- 1990 US 64th manned space mission STS 32 (Columbia 10) returns from space
- 1991 13th UCP Telethon
- 1991 Sudan's government imposes Islamic law nationwide, worsening the civil war between the country's Muslim north and Christian south.
- 1991 US Patriot missiles begins shooting down Iraqi missiles
- 1992 Score begins selling international soccer cards
- 1993 Adm Studeman, serves as acting director of CIA
On the Pulse of Morning
1993 Maya Angelou is the first African American woman to recite a poem at the inauguration of a US President, "On the Pulse of Morning" for Bill Clinton
- 1995 1994-95 NHL Season begin after a lengthy strike
- 1995 Russian ruble drops to 3,947 per dollar (record)
- 1996 WPAT FM NYC radio station switches to English-Spanish format
- 1997 Comet Hale-Bopp crosses Mars' orbit
- 1997 French electronic dance duo Daft Punk release their album "Homework"
- 1997 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in New Orleans, Louisiana on KKND 106.7 FM
- 1997 Pakistan defeat West Indies 2-0 to win Aust one-day Series
- 1998 Warner Brothers TV network begins Tueday night programming
- 1999 The China News Service announces new government restrictions on Internet use aimed especially at Internet cafés.
- 2001 US President Bill Clinton issues 140 executive pardons on his last day in office; recipients include Marc Rich, Susan McDougall, Patty Hearst, and his brother Roger
- 2002 Photographs showing al-Qaeda and Taliban suspects shackled and masked are published by the United States military
- 2005 Philip Glass' Symphony No. 7 (Toltec) premieres with the National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leonard Slatkin, at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
High School Musical
2006 "High School Musical" debuts, starring Zac Efron and Vanessa Hugdens; becomes Disney Channel's most successful TV movie
- 2007 Utah coach Jerry Sloan passes Larry Brown for 4th on the NBA's all-time win list (1,010) after the Jazz beat the Chicago Bulls, 95-85 at the United Center
- 2008 Frenchman Francis Joyon becomes the fastest person to sail solo around the world, taking 57 days, 13 hours and 34 minutes
Barack Obama Inaugurated
2009 Barack Obama is inaugurated as the 44th president of the United States, becoming the first African American to hold the office. Joe Biden becomes the 47th Vice President.
- 2013 Austria votes to maintain compulsory military service in a referendum
- 2014 Credit cards of at least 20 million South Koreans are hacked
- 2017 Car ploughs into pedestrians in central Melbourne, killing 6 and injuring 27
Donald Trump Inaugurated
2017 Donald Trump is inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States of America and Mike Pence as the 48th Vice President
- 2020 Center for Disease Control (CDC) reports first laboratory-confirmed case of COVID in the US, from samples taken on January 18 in Washington state
- 2021 Dan Campbell is appointed head coach of the Detroit Lions
Joe Biden Inaugurated
2021 Joe Biden is inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States of America and Kamala Harris as the 49th Vice President, the first female, black or south Asian Vice President. Amanda Gorman recites "The Hill We Climb"; previous office holder Donald Trump is first outgoing president to refuse to attend the inauguration of his successor since 1869 P
- 2021 US President Joe Biden signs 15 executive orders on his first day in office, including: US re-joining the WHO, affirming the Paris Climate Agreement, revoking the Keystone XL Pipeline, mandating masks on federal properties, and halting construction of the southern border wall [1]
- 2022 19-year-old aviator Zara Rutherford becomes the youngest woman to fly solo around the world landing at Kortrijk-Wevelgem Airport, Belgium [1]
- 2024 Large weekend protests begin across Germany against far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), after group's 'master plan' for mass deportation of migrants revealed [1]
- 2025 Chinese startup DeepSeek launches the AI model R1, with capabilities similar to other AI models but at a fraction of the cost, prompting experts to call it a “Sputnik moment” [1]
- 2025 In the first day of his return to office, President Donald Trump issues pardons to over 1500 of his supporters charged in connection with the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, declares a national emergency at the southern border, and withdraws the US from the World Health Organization and the Paris Agreement on Climate [1] [2]
Rubio Confirmed
2025 Marco Rubio is confirmed as US Secretary of State by the US Senate [1]
- 2025 Republican Donald Trump is inaugurated as the 47th President of the United States of America, and JD Vance as the 50th Vice-President; Trump is oldest person to take the office, and joins Grover Cleveland as only the second elected to non-consecutive White House terms, the event is held indoors due to inclement weather
- 2025 US President Donald Trump issues a executive order halting all foreign aid programs for 90 days, with some exceptions for humanitarian aid [1]
- 2025 US President Donald Trump issues an executive order for Federal agencies to slash diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives throughout the Federal government [1]
- 2026 Fourth shark attack in New South Wales, Australia, in less than 48 hours; three adults and one child are injured
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