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January 1: New Year's Day (Gregorian calendar); Independence Day in Brunei (1984) and Samoa (1962)
Lachlan Macquarie
- 1068 – Having been pardoned by the regent Eudokia Makrembolitissa for attempting to usurp the throne, Romanos IV Diogenes married her to become Byzantine emperor.
- 1785 – The Times, the first newspaper of that name, began publication in London as The Daily Universal Register.
- 1810 – Lachlan Macquarie (pictured) became Governor of New South Wales, eventually playing a major role in the shaping of the social, economic and architectural development of the colony in Australia.
- 1945 – Second World War: The German Luftwaffe launched Operation Bodenplatte in an attempt to cripple Allied air forces in the Low Countries.
- 2009 – A nightclub fire in Bangkok, Thailand, killed 66 patrons celebrating the new year.
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January 2: Perihelion of the Earth (22:49 UTC, 2016); Feast Day of Gregory of Nazianzus (Roman Catholic Church)
Comet Wild 2
- 1777 – American Revolutionary War: American forces under the command of George Washington repulsed a British attack at the Battle of the Assunpink Creek near Trenton, New Jersey.
- 1920 – Under the leadership of U.S. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, Department of Justice agents launched a series of raids against radical leftists and anarchists across 30 cities in 23 states.
- 1963 – Vietnam War: The Viet Cong won its first major victory in the Battle of Ap Bac.
- 1975 – Lalit Narayan Mishra, the Indian Minister of Railways, was assassinated in a bomb blast at Samastipur, Bihar.
- 2004 – The Stardust space probe flew by the comet Wild 2 (pictured) and collected particle samples from its coma, which were later returned to Earth.
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Motorola StarTAC
- 1749 – The first issue of Berlingske, Denmark's oldest continually operating newspaper, was published.
- 1848 – Joseph Jenkins Roberts began his term as the first President of Liberia.
- 1911 – A 7.7 Mw earthquake destroyed the city of Almaty in Russian Turkestan.
- 1946 – Canadian-American jockey George Woolf, who rode Seabiscuit to a famous victory over War Admiral in 1938, was fatally injured when he fell from his horse during a race.
- 1996 – The Motorola StarTAC (pictured), the first clamshell mobile phone, was released and went on to become one of the first mobile phones to gain widespread consumer adoption.
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January 4: Independence Day in Myanmar (1948)
Palace of Whitehall
- 1698 – Most of London's Palace of Whitehall (pictured), the main residence of the English monarchs dating from 1530, was destroyed by fire.
- 1853 – After having been kidnapped and sold into slavery in the American South, Solomon Northup regained his freedom; his memoir Twelve Years a Slave later became a national bestseller.
- 1951 – Korean War: Chinese and North Korean troops captured Seoul.
- 1970 – A magnitude 7.5 Msd earthquake struck Tonghai County, China, killing at least 15,000 people and spurring the creation of the nation's largest earthquake monitoring system.
- 2010 – The Burj Khalifa skyscraper, the world's tallest structure, officially opened in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
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January 5: Twelfth Night (Western Christianity)
US Embassy in Mogadishu
- 1757 – Louis XV of France survived an assassination attempt by Robert-François Damiens, who later became the last person to be executed in the country by drawing and quartering.
- 1919 – The German Workers' Party, the forerunner to the Nazi Party, was founded by Anton Drexler.
- 1941 – Second World War: Australian and British troops defeated Italian forces in Bardia, Libya, the first battle of the war in which an Australian Army formation took part.
- 1976 – The Troubles: In response to the killings of six Catholics the night before, the South Armagh Republican Action Force killed ten Protestants in County Armagh, Northern Ireland.
- 1991 – The United States Embassy to Somalia (pictured) in Mogadishu was evacuated by helicopter airlift days after violence enveloped Mogadishu during the Somali Civil War.
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January 6: Epiphany (Gregorian calendar); Little Christmas in Ireland
Fresco of Stefan Dečanski
- 1066 – Harold Godwinson, widely regarded as the last Anglo-Saxon king before the Norman conquest, was crowned King of England.
- 1322 – Having defeated his half-brother Stefan Konstantin in battle, Stefan Dečanski (fresco pictured) was crowned King of Serbia.
- 1449 – The last Byzantine-Roman Emperor, Constantine XI Palaiologos, was crowned, four years before the Fall of Constantinople.
- 1839 – The most damaging storm in 300 years swept across Ireland, with 100-knot winds damaging or destroying more than 20% of the houses in Dublin.
- 1912 – German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presented his theory of continental drift.
- 1993 – Indian Border Security Force (BSF) units killed 55 Kashmiri civilians in Sopore, Jammu and Kashmir, in revenge after militants ambushed a BSF patrol.
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January 7: Christmas (Julian calendar); Victory Day in Cambodia; Flag Day in Italy
Francis, Duke of Guise
- 1558 – Francis, Duke of Guise (pictured), retook Calais, England's last continental possession, for France.
- 1610 – Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei made his first observation of the four Galilean moons through his telescope: Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa, although he was not able to distinguish the latter two until the following day.
- 1797 – The first official Italian tricolour was adopted by the government of the Cispadane Republic.
- 1948 – Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell fatally crashed his P-51 Mustang while in pursuit of a UFO near Fort Knox, Kentucky.
- 2010 – In Nag Hammadi, Egypt, Muslim gunmen opened fire on a crowd of Coptic Christians leaving church after celebrating a Christmas Mass, killing eight of them as well as one Muslim bystander.
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Betelgeuse explosion memorial
- 1198 – Lotario de Conti was elected as Pope Innocent III; he later worked to restore papal power in Rome.
- 1815 – American forces led by General Andrew Jackson defeated the British Army at the Battle of New Orleans, two weeks after the United States and the United Kingdom signed the Treaty of Ghent to end the War of 1812.
- 1956 – Five Evangelical Christian missionaries from the United States were killed by the Huaorani in the rainforest of Ecuador shortly after making contact with them.
- 1979 – The oil tanker Betelgeuse exploded at the offshore jetty of the Whiddy Island Oil Terminal off Bantry Bay, Ireland, killing approximately 50 people (memorial pictured).
- 1996 – An Antonov An-32 cargo aircraft crashed into a crowded market in Kinshasa, Zaire, killing up to 237 on the ground.
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January 9: St. Stephen's Day (Eastern Christianity)
Examples of Davy lamps
- 475 – Basiliscus became Byzantine Emperor after Zeno was forced to flee Constantinople.
- 1816 – Inventor Humphry Davy first tested his Davy lamp (examples pictured), a safety lamp containing a candle for use in coal mines.
- 1909 – Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition, planted the British flag 97 nautical miles (180 km) from the South Pole, the furthest south anyone had ever reached at that time.
- 1991 – Representatives from the United States and Iraq met at the Geneva Peace Conference to try to find a peaceful resolution to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.
- 1996 – First Chechen War: Chechen separatists launched raids in the city of Kizlyar, Republic of Dagestan, which turned into a massive hostage crisis involving thousands of civilians.
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Lucas gusher at the Spindletop oil field
- 9 – The Western Han dynasty of China ended after the throne was usurped by Wang Mang, who founded the Xin Dynasty.
- 236 – Pope Fabian, who is said to have been chosen by the Holy Spirit by having a dove land on his head, began his papacy.
- 1645 – William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury and a fervent supporter of King Charles I, was beheaded in the midst of the English Civil War.
- 1863 – Service began on the Metropolitan Railway between Paddington and Farringdon Street, today the oldest segment of the London Underground.
- 1901 – The first great gusher of the Texas Oil Boom was discovered in the Spindletop oil field near Beaumont, Texas, US.
- 1941 – Greco-Italian War: The Greek army captured the strategically important Klisura Pass in Albania.
- 1993 – The Braer Storm, the strongest extratropical cyclone ever recorded in the North Atlantic, reached its peak intensity.
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January 11: Coming of Age Day in Japan (2016); Proclamation of Independence in Morocco (1944); Eugenio María de Hostos Day in Puerto Rico (1839)
Enver Hoxha
- 1055 – Theodora, the daughter of Constantine VIII and Helena, daughter of Alypius, became Byzantine Empress.
- 1693 – An intensity XI earthquake, the most powerful in Italian history, struck the island of Sicily.
- 1787 – German-born British astronomer William Herschel discovered two Uranian moons, later named, by his son, Oberon and Titania.
- 1879 – British forces under Lord Chelmsford invaded Zululand without authorisation from the British Government, beginning the Anglo-Zulu War.
- 1946 – Enver Hoxha (pictured), First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania, declared the People's Republic of Albania with himself as head of state.
- 1986 – The Gateway Bridge in Brisbane, Australia, at the time the longest prestressed concrete free-cantilever bridge in the world, opened.
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January 12: Zanzibar Revolution Day in Tanzania (1964)
St Mary's Church, Reculver
- 1808 – John Rennie's scheme to defend St Mary's Church, Reculver (pictured), from coastal erosion was abandoned in favour of demolition, despite the church being an exemplar of Anglo-Saxon architecture.
- 1899 – During a storm, the crew of the Lynmouth Lifeboat Station transported their 10-ton lifeboat 15 mi (24 km) overland in order to rescue a damaged schooner.
- 1921 – Seeking to restore confidence after the Black Sox Scandal, owners of Major League Baseball teams elected former United States district court judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis as the league's first commissioner.
- 1967 – Seventy-three-year-old psychology professor James Bedford became the first person to be cryonically frozen with intent of future resuscitation.
- 2007 – Comet McNaught reached perihelion and became the brightest comet in over 40 years with an apparent magnitude of −5.5.
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January 13: St. Knut's Day in Finland and Sweden
Greek flag
- 1797 – French Revolutionary Wars: A naval battle off the coast of Brittany between two British frigates and a French ship of the line ended with over 900 deaths when the latter ran aground.
- 1822 – The design of the current flag of Greece (pictured) was adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus for their naval flag.
- 1953 – An article published in Pravda accused some of the most prestigious physicians in the Soviet Union, mostly Jews, of taking part in a vast plot to poison members of the top Soviet political and military leadership.
- 1986 – The month-long South Yemen Civil War began in Aden between supporters of President Ali Nasir Muhammad and his predecessor Abdul Fattah Ismail, resulting in thousands of casualties.
- 2001 – The first of two large earthquakes struck El Salvador, killing at least 944 people and destroying over 100,000 homes.
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January 14: New Year (Julian calendar); National Forest Conservation Day in Thailand; Ratification Day in the United States (1784)
Giraud, Roosevelt, De Gaulle, and Churchill at Casablanca
- 1724 – Philip V, the first Bourbon ruler of Spain, abdicated in favor of his eldest son Louis.
- 1814 – Sweden and Denmark–Norway signed the Treaty of Kiel, whereby Frederick VI of Denmark ceded Norway to Sweden in return for the Swedish holdings in Pomerania.
- 1943 – Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Charles de Gaulle, and Henri Giraud (all pictured) met in Casablanca to plan the Allied European strategy for the next phase of World War II.
- 1960 – The Reserve Bank of Australia, the country's central bank and banknote-issuing authority, was established.
- 1978 – Austrian logician Kurt Gödel, who suffered from an obsessive fear of being poisoned, died of starvation after his wife was hospitalized and unable to cook for him.
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January 15: John Chilembwe Day in Malawi; Korean Alphabet Day in North Korea
The British Museum
- 1759 – The British Museum (pictured) in London, today containing one of the largest and most comprehensive collections in the world, opened to the public in Montagu House, Bloomsbury.
- 1815 – War of 1812: American frigate USS President, commanded by Commodore Stephen Decatur, was captured by a squadron of four British frigates.
- 1933 – A teenage girl in Banneux, Belgium, reported the first of several Marian apparitions, now known as Our Lady of Banneux.
- 1951 – Ilse Koch, the wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald and Majdanek concentration camps, was sentenced to life imprisonment by a West German court.
- 2009 – After US Airways Flight 1549 struck a flock of Canada geese during its initial climb out from New York City, Captain Chesley Sullenberger successfully made an emergency landing in the Hudson River.
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January 16: Mattu Pongal (Tamils, 2016)
Benny Goodman
- 27 BC – Gaius Octavianus was given the title Augustus by the Roman Senate when he became the first Roman emperor.
- 1809 – Peninsular War: French forces under Nicolas Jean-de-Dieu Soult attacked the amphibious evacuation of the British under Sir John Moore in Corunna, Galicia, Spain.
- 1938 – Benny Goodman (pictured) performed a concert at New York City's Carnegie Hall which has been considered instrumental in establishing jazz as a legitimate form of music.
- 1986 – The Internet Engineering Task Force, a standards organization that develops and promotes Internet standards, held its first meeting, consisting of twenty-one United States-government-funded researchers.
- 2008 – Five days after proposing lyrics for the wordless Marcha Real, the Spanish national anthem, the Spanish Olympic Committee withdrew the proposal due to widespread criticism.
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January 17: National Day in Minorca (1287)
Pope Gregory XI
- 1377 – Pope Gregory XI (pictured) entered Rome after a four-month journey from Avignon, returning the Papacy to its original city and effectively becoming the last Avignon Pope.
- 1524 – Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano set sail westward from Madeira to find a sea route to the Pacific Ocean.
- 1946 – The United Nations Security Council, the organ of the United Nations charged with the maintenance of international peace and security, held its first meeting at Church House in London.
- 1966 – A US Air Force B-52 Stratofortress collided with a KC-135 Stratotanker during aerial refueling over the Mediterranean Sea, dropping three hydrogen bombs on land near Palomares, Spain, and a fourth one into the sea.
- 1991 – Harald V, the current King of Norway, succeeded to the throne upon the death of his father Olav V.
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January 18: World Religion Day; the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity begins; Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in the United States (2015)
- 1126 – Emperor Huizong (pictured) of the Song dynasty of China abdicated in favour of his son Qinzong.
- 1535 – Conquistador Francisco Pizarro founded Ciudad de los Reyes, present-day Lima, Peru, as the capital of the lands he conquered for the Spanish Crown.
- 1915 – Japanese Prime Minister Ōkuma Shigenobu issued the Twenty-One Demands to China in a bid to increase Japan's power in East Asia.
- 1958 – African Canadian Willie O'Ree of the Boston Bruins played his first game in the National Hockey League, breaking the colour barrier in professional ice hockey.
- 1990 – In a sting operation conducted by the FBI, Mayor of Washington, D.C., Marion Barry was arrested for possession of crack cocaine.
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January 19: Theophany (Julian calendar)
- 1607 – San Agustin Church in Manila, the oldest church in the Philippines, was completed.
- 1795 – A day after William V, Prince of Orange (pictured), fled the Dutch Republic as a result of the Batavian Revolution, the Batavian Republic was established.
- 1917 – Approximately 50 tons of TNT exploded at a munitions factory in Silvertown in West Ham, present-day Greater London, killing more than 70 people and injuring more than 400 others.
- 1975 – A magnitude 6.8 Ms earthquake struck northern Himachal Pradesh, India, causing extensive damage to the region.
- 2006 – In the deadliest aviation accident in Slovak history, an Antonov An-24 aircraft operated by the Slovak Air Force crashed in northern Hungary, killing 42 of the 43 people on board.
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January 20: Martyrs' Day in Azerbaijan (1990)
- 1265 – Summoned by Simon de Montfort (pictured), the first English parliament held its first meeting in the Palace of Westminster.
- 1576 – León in Guanajuato, Mexico, was founded by order of Viceroy Martín Enríquez de Almanza of New Spain.
- 1843 – Honório Hermeto Carneiro Leão, Marquis of Paraná, became the de facto first prime minister of the Empire of Brazil.
- 1945 – World War II: Germany began the evacuation of 1.8 million people from East Prussia, an operation which took nearly two months to complete.
- 1990 – The Soviet Red Army violently cracked down on Azeri pro-independence demonstrations in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR.
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January 21: Feast Day of Saint Agnes (Christianity); Flag Day in Quebec
- 1789 – The Power of Sympathy by William Hill Brown, widely considered to be the first American novel, was published.
- 1793 – French Revolution: After being found guilty of treason by the National Convention, King Louis XVI (pictured) was guillotined in front of a cheering crowd at the Place de la Révolution in Paris.
- 1931 – Sir Isaac Isaacs became the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia.
- 1968 – Cold War: A B-52 bomber carrying four nuclear weapons crashed onto sea ice near Thule Air Base, Greenland, causing localised radioactive contamination.
- 2011 – Demonstrations in Tirana to protest the alleged corruption of the Albanian government led to the killings of three demonstrators by the Republican Guard.
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January 22: Reunion Day in Ukraine (1919)
- 565 – Justinian the Great deposed Eutychius, Patriarch of Constantinople, after the latter refused the Byzantine Emperor's order to adopt the tenets of the Aphthartodocetae, a sect of Monophysites.
- 1689 – The Convention Parliament convened to justify the overthrow of James II, the last Roman Catholic king of England, who had vacated the throne when he fled to France in 1688.
- 1906 – The SS Valencia (pictured) was wrecked off the coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, in a location so treacherous it was known as the Graveyard of the Pacific.
- 1946 – Iran Crisis: The Republic of Mahabad declared its independence, seeking autonomy for the Kurds within Iran.
- 1973 – The U.S. Supreme Court delivered its landmark decision in Roe v. Wade, striking down laws restricting abortion during the first six to seven months of pregnancy.
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- 1719 – Emperor Charles VI established Liechtenstein, the only principality in the Holy Roman Empire still in existence today.
- 1870 – American Indian Wars: The United States Army massacred a friendly band of Piegan Blackfeet in Montana Territory, resulting in about 200 deaths, mostly women, children, and elderly men.
- 1899 – Pursuant to the adoption of the Malolos Constitution and the establishment of the First Philippine Republic, Emilio Aguinaldo (pictured) was sworn in as the first President of the Philippines.
- 1915 – The Chilembwe uprising, regarded as a seminal moment in the history of Malawi, began as rebels, led by a minister, attacked local plantation owners.
- 1945 – German Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz ordered the beginning of Operation Hannibal, which became one of the largest emergency evacuations by sea in history, with over 1 million people transferred over 15 weeks.
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- 41 – Cassius Chaerea and the disgruntled Praetorian Guards murdered Roman emperor Caligula (bust pictured), replacing him with his uncle Claudius.
- 1458 – The 14-year-old Matthias Corvinus was unanimously proclaimed King of Hungary, after the Estates were persuaded to do so by his uncle Michael Szilágyi.
- 1848 – James W. Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California, leading to the California Gold Rush.
- 1989 – American serial killer Ted Bundy was executed via electric chair in Florida for the homicides of at least 30 women.
- 2011 – A suicide bomber killed at least 37 people at Domodedovo International Airport in Moscow.
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January 25: Feast Day of Gregory of Nazianzus (Eastern Orthodox Church); Tu Bishvat (Judaism, 2016); Burns Night (Scots culture); Dydd Santes Dwynwen in Wales
- 1533 – Anne Boleyn, already pregnant with future queen Elizabeth, secretly married Henry VIII of England, the second of his six marriages.
- 1890 – American journalist Nellie Bly (pictured) completed a circumnavigation of the globe, inspired by Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days, in a then-record 72 days.
- 1971 – Idi Amin Dada seized power in a military coup d'état from President Milton Obote, beginning eight years of military rule in Uganda.
- 1990 – Avianca Flight 52 ran out of fuel on approach to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport and crashed into the village of Cove Neck, resulting in the deaths of 73 people.
- 2011 – The first wave of the Egyptian revolution began, eventually leading to the removal of Hosni Mubarak after nearly 30 years of rule.
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January 26: Australia Day (1788); Liberation Day in Uganda (1986)
- 1500 – Spanish navigator, explorer, and conquistador Vicente Yáñez Pinzón reached the north coast of what today is Brazil.
- 1788 – Captain Arthur Phillip (pictured) and the British First Fleet landed at Sydney Cove on the shore of Port Jackson in present-day Sydney, establishing the first permanent European settlement in Australia.
- 1907 – The Short Magazine Lee-Enfield Mk III, the second oldest military rifle still in official use, was introduced into British military service.
- 1945 – Audie Murphy engaged in action that won him a Medal of Honor and made him one of the most famous and decorated American combat soldiers of World War II.
- 2009 – Rioting broke out in Antananarivo, Madagascar, sparking a political crisis that led to deposing of President Marc Ravalomanana.
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January 27: International Holocaust Remembrance Day; Holocaust Memorial Day in the United Kingdom and various commemorations of the liberation of Auschwitz (1945)
- 447 – An earthquake destroyed large sections of the Walls of Constantinople.
- 1142 – Despite having saved the Southern Song dynasty from attempts by the northern Jin dynasty to conquer it, Chinese general Yue Fei was executed by the Song government.
- 1868 – Boshin War: The Battle of Toba–Fushimi, where pro-Imperial forces defeated those of the Tokugawa shogunate and which was a catalyst for the Meiji Restoration, began in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto.
- 1945 – The Soviet Red Army liberated over 7,500 prisoners left behind by Nazi personnel in the Auschwitz concentration camp (entrance pictured) in Oświęcim, Poland.
- 1980 – With the assistance of Canadian government officials, six American diplomats who had avoided capture in the Iran hostage crisis escaped to Zurich, Switzerland.
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- 98 – Trajan (bust pictured) succeeded his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor; under his rule the Roman Empire reached its maximum extent.
- 1077 – Pope Gregory VII lifted the excommunication of Henry IV after the Holy Roman Emperor made his trek from Speyer to Canossa Castle to beg the pope for forgiveness for his actions in the Investiture Controversy.
- 1821 – Alexander Island, the largest island of Antarctica, was discovered by explorer Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen of the Imperial Russian Navy.
- 1933 – Choudhry Rahmat Ali published a pamphlet entitled "Now or Never" in which he called for the creation of a Muslim state in northwest India that he termed "Pakstan".
- 1982 – After having been kidnapped by the Italian Red Brigade 42 days earlier, General James L. Dozier of the United States Army was freed by the anti-terrorist force NOCS.
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- 757 – An Lushan, leader of a revolt against the Tang dynasty and emperor of Yan, was murdered by his own son, An Qingxu.
- 904 – Sergius III, whose pontificate was marked with feudal violence and disorder in central Italy, came out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher.
- 1845 – American poet Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" (illustrated) appeared in the New York Evening Mirror, its first publication attributed to Poe.
- 1944 – World War II: At least 38 people were killed and about a dozen injured when the Polish village of Koniuchy (present-day Kaniūkai, Lithuania) was attacked by Soviet partisan units.
- 1967 – The Mantra-Rock Dance, called the "ultimate high" of the hippie era, took place in San Francisco, featuring Swami Bhaktivedanta, Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead, and Allen Ginsberg.
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January 30: Martyrs' Day in India
- 1649 – English Civil War: King Charles I, who was defeated in both the First and the Second Civil Wars, was beheaded for high treason in front of the Banqueting House in London.
- 1826 – The Menai Suspension Bridge (pictured), connecting the Isle of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales, one of the world's first modern suspension bridges, opened.
- 1889 – Archduke Rudolf, heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown, was found dead in a suicide pact with his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera in Mayerling.
- 1945 – World War II: In one of the largest losses of life in a single sinking in maritime history, the Soviet submarine S-13 sank the Wilhelm Gustloff carrying German soldiers and refugees evacuating from East Prussia, killing at least 9,400 people.
- 1968 – Vietnam War: Forces of the Viet Cong and the Vietnam People's Army launched the Tet Offensive to strike military and civilian command and control centers throughout South Vietnam.
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January 31: Independence Day in Nauru (1968)
- 314 – Sylvester I, during whose pontificate the great churches of Rome were built, began his reign as pope.
- 1862 – American astronomer Alvan Graham Clark first observed the faint white dwarf companion of Sirius (pictured), the brightest star in the night sky.
- 1900 – Datu Muhammad Salleh, leader of a series of major disturbances in North Borneo, was shot dead in Tambunan, but his followers did not give up for five more years.
- 1945 – Second World War: The British 3rd Commando Brigade's victory in the Battle of Hill 170 was crucial in causing the 28th Japanese Army to withdraw from the Arakan peninsula of Burma.
- 2001 – Scottish judges sitting in court in the Netherlands convicted Libyan national Abdelbaset al-Megrahi of 270 counts of murder in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
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