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”
1773 – The first public museum in America was established in Charleston, SC.
1839 – Anthracite coal 1st used to smelt iron, Mauch Chunk, Penn
1863 – President Davis delivers his “State of Confederacy” address
1895 – The first performance of King Arthur took place at the Lyceum Theatre.
1896 – At Davidson College, several students took x-ray photographs. They created the first X-ray photographs to be made in America.
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
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.
1939 – Timely Comics (later Marvel) founded by American publisher Martin Goodman in New York
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 (mix of meat & soy meal)’
1946 – NFL champs Cleveland Rams given permission to move to LA
1948 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states could not discriminate against law-school applicants because of race.
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
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 – Dr. James Bedford becomes the first person to be cryonically preserved with intent of future resuscitation and remains preserved at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation
1971 – “All In the Family” debuted on CBS-TV.
1971 – US Federal grand jury indicts Rev Philip Berrigan & 5 others, including a nun & 2 priests, on charges of plotting to kidnap Henry Kissinger
1971 – Negotiations over price of petroleum begin in Tehran between 6 OPEC Persian Gulf states and 22 oil companies
1989 – Ex-dictator of Uganda Idi Amin expelled from Zaire
1991 – The U.S. Congress passed a resolution authorizing President Bush to use military power to force Iraq out of Kuwait. https://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/house-approves-military-action-against-iraq-jan-12-1991-233336
1994 – Malcolm X’s daughter arrested for plotting Louis Farrakham’s murder
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.
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
2010 – Earthquake devastates Haiti, killing approximately 160,000 and destroying the majority of the capital Port-au-Prince
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
