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| 2010 | A week after the 2010 Haiti earthquake, a 6.1 magnitude aftershock strikes Haiti |
| 2009 | Barack Obama is inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States |
| 2001 | George W. Bush is inaugurated as the 43rd president of the United States |
| 1998 | Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts Mama and Papas and Eagles |
| 1998 | Warner Brothers TV Network begins Tueday night programming |
| 1997 | Comet Hale-Bopp crosses Mars’ orbit |
| 1997 | Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in New Orleans, Louisiana on KKND 106.7 FM |
| 1997 | Pakistan defeat West Indies 2-0 to win Australia one-day Series |
| 1996 | 46th NHL All-Star Game: East beat West 5-4 at Fleet Center Boston |
| 1996 | Australia defeat Sri Lanka 2-0 to win World Series Cup |
| 1996 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Michelle Kwan |
| 1996 | WPAT FM New York City radio station switches to English-Spanish format |
| 1995 | “Love! Valor! Compassion!” opens at Walter Kerr New York City for 276 performances |
| 1995 | 1994-95 NHL Season begin after a lengthy strike |
| 1995 | Russian ruble drops to 3,947 per dollar (record) |
| 1993 | Admiral Studeman, serves as acting director of CIA |
| 1993 | William J. Clinton inaugurated as 42nd president |
| 1992 | Australia beat India 2-0 to win the World Series Cup |
| 1992 | Score begins selling international soccer cards |
| 1991 | “Black and Blue” closes at Minskoff Theater New York City after 829 performances |
| 1991 | “Les Miserables,” opens at Pantages Theatre, LA |
| 1991 | “Peter Pan” closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City or 45 performances |
| 1991 | “Shogun – The Musical” closes at Marquis Theater New York City after 72 performances |
| 1991 | 13th UCP Telethon |
| 1991 | Buffalo Bills beat Los Angeles Raiders 51-3 for AFC title |
| 1991 | Jane Geddes wins LPGA Jamaica Golf Classic |
| 1991 | U.S. Patriot missiles begins shooting down Iraqi missiles |
| 1991 | Matt Barr’s field goal with no time left gives New York Giant 15-13 Victory over defending champs San Francisco 49ers, for NFC title |
| 1990 | 47th Golden Globes: Born on 4th of July, Driving Miss Daisy win |
| 1990 | U.S. 64th manned space mission STS-32 (Columbia 10) returns from space |
| 1989 | Bush inaugurated as 41st president and Quayle becomes 44th vice pres |
| 1989 | Wayne Holdsworth takes a wicket 1st ball in 1st-class cricket |
| 1989 | Reagan becomes 1st President elected in a “0″ year, since 1840, to leave office alive |
| 1988 | Andre Hoffman skates world record 1500m (1:52.06) |
| 1988 | Arizona committee opens hearing on impeachment of Governor Evan Mecham |
| 1987 | Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite taken hostage in Beirut, Lebanon |
| 1987 | Rhino Records 1st #1-Billy Vera and Beaters’ “At This Moment” |
| 1986 | 1st federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| 1986 | Chunnel announced (railroad tunnel under Canal) |
| 1986 | Military coup in Lesotho under general-major Lekhanya and premier Leabua Jonathan |
| 1985 | Cold front strikes U.S., at least 40 die (-27 degrees F (-33 degrees C) in Chicago) |
| 1985 | Superbowl XIX: San Francisco 49ers beat Miami Dolphins, 38-16 in Stanford Superbowl MVP: Joe Montana, San Francisco, quarterback |
| 1984 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Rosalynn Sumners |
| 1982 | 7 miners killed in an explosion in Craynor, Kentucky |
| 1982 | Honduras constitution goes into effect |
| 1982 | Piet Dankert elected chairman of European Parliament |
| 1981 | 52 Americans held hostage in Iran for 444 days are freed |
| 1981 | Admiral Stansfield Turner, USN (Ret), ends term as 12th director of CIA |
| 1981 | Frank C Carlucci, ends term as deputy director of CIA |
| 1981 | Islander Glenn Resch’s 25th and last shut-out opponent-Flames 5-0 |
| 1981 | Ronald Reagan inaugurated as president |
| 1980 | President Jimmy Carter announces U.S. boycott of Olympics in Moscow |
| 1980 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne |
| 1980 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Charles Tickner |
| 1980 | Superbowl MVP: Terry Bradshaw, Pittsburgh, quarterback |
| 1980 | Superbowl XIV: Pittsburgh Steelers beat Los Angeles Rams, 31-19 in Pasadena |
| 1978 | Columbia Pictures pays $9.5 million for movie rights to “Annie” |
| 1977 | George Bush, ends term as 11th director of CIA |
| 1977 | Mr. Knoche, serves as acting director of CIA |
| 1976 | 29th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 7-5 at Philadelphia |
| 1975 | 5th NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 17-10 |
| 1975 | Terrence McNally’s “Ritz,” premieres in New York City |
| 1974 | 4th NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 15-13 |
| 1974 | 7th ABA All-Star Game: East 128 beats West 112 at Virginia |
| 1974 | A college basketball game ends 210-67 |
| 1974 | Essex Comm College beats Englewood Cliffs 210-67 in basketball |
| 1971 | Ard Schenk skates world record 1000m (1:18.8) |
| 1971 | John Lennon meets Yoko Ono’s parents in Japan |
| 1970 | 20th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 142-135 at Philadelphia |
| 1970 | 23rd NHL All-Star Game: East beat West 4-1 at St. Louis |
| 1970 | Super Fight, computer mock championship between Ali and Marciano |
| 1969 | Richard M. Nixon inaugurated as president |
| 1969 | University of Arizona reports 1st optical id of pulsar (in Crab Nebula) |
| 1968 | Houston ends UCLA’s 47-game basketball winning streak, 71-69 |
| 1968 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming |
| 1968 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Tim Wood |
| 1965 | Beatles appear on Shindig (ABC-TV) |
| 1965 | Byrds record “Mr Tambourine Man” |
| 1965 | JPL proposes modified Apollo flight to fly around Mars and return |
| 1965 | Generalissimo Francisco Franco meets with Jewish representatives to discuss legitimizing Jewish communities in Spain |
| 1964 | “Meet The Beatles” album released in US |
| 1962 | “Kean” closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 92 performances |
| 1961 | Arthur M Ramsay becomes archbishop of Canterbury |
| 1961 | Francis Poulenc’s “Gloria,” premieres in Boston |
| 1961 | Robert Frost recites “Gift Outright” at John F. Kennedy’s inauguration |
| 1961 | Yugoslav ex-vice-president Milovan Djilas flees |
| 1960 | Patrice Lumumba sentenced to 6 months in Belgian Congo |
| 1959 | Dmitri Sjostakovitsj’ Moscow-Tsjerjomoesjki, premieres in Moscow |
| 1958 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open |
| 1958 | KUED TV channel 7 in Salt Lake City, UT (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1957 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open |
| 1957 | Gomulka wins Poland’s parliamentary election |
| 1957 | Morton Gould’s “Declaration,” premieres in Washington, D.C. |
| 1956 | Buddy Holly records “Blue Days Black Night” in Nashville |
| 1955 | 1st atomic sub, USS Nautilus, launched at Groton Conn |
| 1954 | -70 degrees F (-57 degrees C), Rogers Pass, Montana (U.S. 48 state record) |
| 1954 | Dmitri Sjostakovitsj’ “Concertino opus 94,” premieres |
| 1953 | 1st U.S. telecast transmitted to Canada-from Buffalo NY |
| 1953 | 1st live coast-to-coast inauguration address (Eisenhower) |
| 1952 | British army occupies Ismailiya, Suez Canal Zone |
| 1952 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open |
| 1950 | “Dance Me a Song” opens at Royale Theater New York City for 35 performances |
| 1950 | Suriname becomes independent part in Realm of Netherlands |
| 1949 | J Edgar Hoover gives Shirley Temple a tear gas fountain pen |
| 1949 | President Truman announces his point 4 program |
| 1947 | Brigadier General Edwin K Wright, USA, becomes deputy director of CIA |
| 1946 | F Gouin follows De Gaulle as temporary leader of French government |
| 1945 | Franklin D. Roosevelt sworn-in for an unprecedented 4th term as president |
| 1944 | RAF drops 2300 ton bombs on Berlin |
| 1943 | Lead, South Dakota, temp is 52 degrees F, while 1.5 miles away Deadwood SD records -16 degrees F |
| 1943 | Operation-Weiss: Assault of German, Italian, Bulgarian and Croatian |
| 1942 | Japanese air raid on Rabaul New Britain |
| 1942 | Japanese invade Burma |
| 1942 | Nazi officials hold notorious Wannsee conference in Berlin deciding on “final solution” calling for extermination of Europe’s Jews |
| 1941 | Bela Bartok’s 6th string quartet, premieres in New York City |
| 1939 | Charles Ives’ 1st Sonate “Concord,” premieres |
| 1939 | Hitler proclaims to German parliament to exterminate all European Jews |
| 1937 | -45 degrees F (-43 degrees C), Boca, California (state record) |
| 1937 | 1st Inauguration day on Jan 20th, (held every 4th years there-after) |
| 1936 | Edward VIII succeeds British king George V |
| 1934 | Japan sends Henry Pu Yi as regent to emperor of Manchuria |
| 1930 | 1st radio broadcast of “Lone Ranger” (WXYZ-Detroit) |
| 1929 | 1st feature talking motion picture taken outdoors, “In Old Arizona” |
| 1926 | 2nd German government of Luther begins |
| 1925 | U.S.S.R. and Japan sign treaty of Peking, Seychelles back to U.S.S.R. |
| 1922 | Arthur Honegger’s ballet “Skating Rink” premieres, Paris |
| 1921 | British submarine K5 leaves with man and mouse |
| 1921 | Dagestan ASSR forms in RSFSR |
| 1921 | Mountain Autonomous Republic established in RSFSR |
| 1921 | Turkey declared in remnants of Ottoman Empire |
| 1920 | Dutch 2nd Chamber passes school laws |
| 1910 | Ottawa Senators sweep Edmonton in 2 for Stanley Cup (2nd of 1910) |
| 1892 | 1st basketball game played (Mass) |
| 1887 | U.S. Senate approves naval base lease of Pearl Harbor |
| 1883 | Billy Barnes takes a hat-trick, England vs. Australia MCG |
| 1879 | British troops under Lord Chelmsford set camp at Isandlwana |
| 1872 | California Stock Exchange Board organized |
| 1870 | “City of Boston” vanishes at sea with all 177 aboard |
| 1870 | Hiram R. Revels elected to fill unexpired term of Jefferson Davis |
| 1869 | Elizabeth Cady Stanton becomes 1st woman to testify before Congress |
| 1868 | Florida constitutional convention meets in Tallahassee |
| 1866 | Prim’s Insurrection in Spain ends |
| 1860 | Dutch troops conquer Watampone in Celebes |
| 1850 | Investigator, 1st ship to effect northwest passage, leaves England |
| 1841 | China cedes Hong Kong to British |
| 1840 | Dumont D’Urville discovers Adelie Land, Antarctica |
| 1840 | Dutch King Willem II crowned |
| 1809 | 1st U.S. geology book published by William Maclure |
| 1807 | Napoleon convenes great Sanhedrin, Paris |
| 1801 | John Marshall appointed U.S. chief justice |
| 1800 | Napoleon I’s sister Carolina marries King Joachim Murat of Naples |
| 1788 | Pioneer African Baptist church organizes in Savannah, Ga |
| 1785 | Samuel Ellis advertises to sell Oyster Island (Ellis Island), no takers |
| 1783 | Hostilities cease in Revolutionary War |
| 1781 | 1st edition of Pieter It Hoens “Post of Neder-Rhijn” published |
| 1778 | 1st American military court martial trial begins, Cambridge, Mass |
| 1667 | Treaty of Andrussovo-ends 13 year war between Poland and Russia |
| 1648 | Cornerstone of Amsterdam townhall laid |
| 1613 | Peace of Knarod ends War of Kalmar between Denmark and Sweden |
| 1513 | Christian II succeeds Johan I as Danish/Norwegian king |
| 1503 | Casa Contratacion (Board of Trade) found (Spain) to deal with American affairs |
| 1356 | Scottish king Edward Baliol resigns |
| 1320 | Duke Wladyslaw Lokietek becomes king of Poland |
| 1265 | 1st English Parliament called into session by Earl of Leicester |
| 1045 | Giovanni di Sabina elected Pope Sylvester III |
| 250 | Saint Fabian ends his reign as Catholic Pope (236-50) |
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