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1493 – Last day for all Jews to leave Sicily
1528 – Gustav I of Sweden crowned King of Sweden, rules for 37 years and becomes known as the “father of the nation”
1554 – Bayinnaung crowned King of Burma, goes on to assemble the largest empire in the history of Southeast Asia
1616 – Brazilian city Belem (the entrance gate to the Amazon) founded by Captain Major Francisco Branco
1773 – The first public museum in America was established in Charleston, SC.
1803 – US Senate approves Thomas Jefferson’s nomination of James Monroe and Robert Livingstone to negotiate purchase of New Orleans from France
1816 – France decrees Bonaparte family excluded from the country forever
1839 – Anthracite coal 1st used to smelt iron, Mauch Chunk, Penn
1866 – The Royal Aeronautical Society was founded in London.
1882 – Thomas Edison’s central station on Holborn Viaduct in London began operation.
1896 – At Davidson College, several students took x-ray photographs. They created the first X-ray photographs to be made in America.
1900 – Freeland Colony founded in US
1906 – Henry Campbell-Bannerman’s cabinet (which included H. H. Asquith, David Lloyd George, and Winston Churchill) embarks on sweeping social reforms after a Liberal landslide in the British general election
1908 – A wireless message was sent long-distance for the first time from the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
1915 – The U.S. House of Representatives rejected a proposal to give women the right to vote.
1915 – The U.S. Congress established the Rocky Mountain National Park.
1932 – Hattie W. Caraway became the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate.
1933 – US Congress recognizes the Philippines’ independence
1938 – Austria recognized the Franco government in Spain.
1939 – Timely Comics (later Marvel) founded by American publisher Martin Goodman in New York
1940 – Soviet bombers raided cities in Finland.
1942 – U.S. President Roosevelt created the National War Labor Board.
1943 – The Office of Price Administration announced that standard frankfurters/hot dogs/wieners would be replaced by ‘Victory Sausages.’
1945 – During World War II, Soviet forces began a huge offensive against the Germans in Eastern Europe.
1948 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states could not discriminate against law-school applicants because of race.
1949 – “Kukla, Fran and Ollie”, the Chicago-based children’s show, made its national debut on NBC-TV.
1950 – USSR re-introduces death penalty for treason, espionage & sabotage
1952 – University of Tennessee admits its 1st black student, Gene Mitchell Gray, as a graduate student in chemistry
1953 – 9 “Jewish” physicians arrested for “terrorist activities” in Moscow
1956 – FBi arrests 6 members of the Great Brink’s robbery gang, 6 days before statute of limitations runs out
1962 – Operation Ranch Hand begins, a US Air Force operation to spray South Vietnamese forests with defoliants such as Agent Orange
1964 – Leftist rebels in Zanzibar began their successful revolt against the government and a republic was proclaimed.
1966 – U.S. President Johnson said in his State of the Union address that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there was ended.
1966 – “Batman” debuted on ABC-TV.
1967 – James Bedford is frozen with intent of future resuscitation, Bedford was the first human to be cryonically preserved; his body awaits resuscitation in Scottsdale, Arizona.
1970 – The breakaway state of Biafra capitulated and the Nigerian civil war came to an end.
1970 – Nigeria’s civil war ended.
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1971 – Negotiations over price of petroleum begin in Tehran between 6 OPEC Persian Gulf states and 22 oil companies
1971 – US Federal grand jury indicts Rev Philip Berrigan & 5 others, including a nun & 2 priests, on charges of plotting to kidnap Henry Kissinger
1975 – Chrysler Corp offers 1st car rebates
1989 – 6 claim to survive in rubble, 35 days after Armenian quake (hoax)
1989 – Ex-dictator of Uganda Idi Amin expelled from Zaire
1991 – The U.S. Congress votes for war in Iraq, President George H. W. Bush was given the authority to use military force to expel Iraq from Kuwait.
1994 – Malcolm X’s daughter arrested for plotting Louis Farrakham’s murder
1995 – Northern Ireland Secretary Patrick Mayhew announced that as of January 16 British troops would no longer carry out daylight street patrols in Belfast.
1998 – Tyson Foods Inc. pled guilty to giving $12,000 to former Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy. Tyson was fined $6 million.
1998 – 19 European nations agreed to prohibit human cloning.
1998 – Linda Tripp provided Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr’s office with taped conversations between herself and former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
2000 – The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling, gave police broad authority to stop and question people who run at the sight of an officer..
2005 – NASA launched “Deep Impact”. The spacecraft was planned to impact on Comet Tempel 1 after a six-month, 268 million-mile journey.
2006 – A stampede during the Stoning the Devil ritual on the last day at the Hajj in Mina, Saudi Arabia, kills at least 362 Muslim pilgrims
2006 – The foreign ministers of the United Kingdom, France, and Germany declare that negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program have reached a dead end and recommend that Iran be referred to the United Nations Security Council.
2010 – An earthquake kills 316,000 in Haiti, Most of the country’s capital, Port-au-Prince, was destroyed during the disaster.
2013 – A failed attempt to rescue a French hostage in Bulo Marer, Somalia, results in 18 deaths
2019 – 18 year-old Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun arrives in Toronto, Canada, as a refugee, via Thailand, after escaping family abuse in Saudi Arabia
2021 – India’s Supreme Court puts on hold three controversial new farm laws that ignited weeks of protests by farmers in Delhi
2022 – UK PM Boris Johnson admits he attended a “bring your own booze” staff party in May 2020 during the country’s first lockdown
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
