Notable Historical Events on January 1st
January 1st Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
153 |
Roman consuls begin their year in office. |
45 |
The Julian calendar takes effect for the first time. |
BC AD | |
1 |
Origin of Christian Era |
69 |
Roman garrison of Mainz uprising |
89 |
Gov Lucius Antonius Saturninus of Germany becomes emperor of Rome |
313 |
Start of Roman (Pontifical) Indiction |
404 |
Last gladiator competition in Rome |
630 |
The Prophet Muhammad sets out toward Mecca with the army that captures it bloodlessly. |
722 |
Hofmeier Charles Martel flees from bishop Willibrord |
990 |
Russia adopts Julian calendar |
1259 |
Michael VIII Palaiologos is proclaimed co-emperor of the Empire of Nicaea with his ward John IV Laskaris. |
1430 |
Jews of Sicily are no longer required to attend conversionist services |
1438 |
Albrecht II von Habsburg becomes king of Hungary |
1494 |
Juw Dekama elected potentate of Frisia |
1502 |
Portuguese navigators discover Rio de Janeiro |
1504 |
King Louis XII loses last bulwark in Naples, Caeta |
1515 |
Francis, Duke of Angouleme succeeds King Louis XII as Francis I of France |
1515 |
Jews are expelled from Laibach Austria |
1527 |
Croatian nobles elect Ferdinand I of Austria as king of Croatia in the Parliament on Cetin. |
1573 |
Geuzen sets fire to Woudrichem |
1583 |
1st day of the Gregorian calendar in Holland & Flanders |
1600 |
Scotland begins its numbered year on January 1 instead of 25 March. |
1610 |
German astronomer Simon Marius first discovers the Jupiter moons, but does not officially report it, Galileo does on July 1 1610 |
1622 |
Papal Chancery adopts Jan 1 as beginning of the year (was Mar 25) |
1651 |
Charles II Stuart crowned king of Scotland |
1660 |
1st entry in Samuel Pepys' diary |
1660 |
General Moncks army battles with the Tweed on way to London |
1660 |
Thomas Fairfax' New Model-army occupies York |
1672 |
Jean Racine's "Bajazet," premieres in Paris |
1673 |
Regular mail delivery begins between NY & Boston |
1675 |
Don Carlos de Gurrea/Aragon becomes Spanish land guardian of S Neth |
1689 |
Pro-James II-earl of Danby occupies York |
1700 |
Protestant Western Europe (except England) begin using Gregorian calendar |
1700 |
Russia begins using the Anno Domini era and no longer uses the Anno Mundi era of the Byzantine Empire. |
1707 |
John V succeeds his father Pedro II as king of Portugal |
1739 |
J B C Bouvet de Lozier discovers Bouvet Island, near Antarctica |
1758 |
The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature establish the "starting point" for standardized species names across the animal kingdom. This naming system is based on the binomial nomenclature laid out in Carolus Linnaeus 10th edition of Systema Naturae. |
1770 |
Date of action in the opera "Madeleine" |
1772 |
First traveler's cheques go on sale in London, can be used in 90 European cities |
1776 |
Gen George Washington hoists Continental Union Flag |
1781 |
1,500 soldiers of the 6th Pennsylvania Regiment under General Anthony Wayne's command rebel against the Continental Army's winter camp in Morristown, New Jersey as part of the Pennsylvania (Continentals; Regiment) Mutiny of 1781. |
1785 |
"Daily Universal Register" (Times of London) publishes 1st issue |
1788 |
London's Daily Universal Registrar becomes the Times |
1788 |
Quakers in Pennsylvania emancipate their slaves |
1797 |
Albany replaces NYC as capital of NY |
1798 |
Russia appoints 1st Jewish censor to censor Hebrew books |
1800 |
Dutch East Indies Company dissolves |
1801 |
The Irish Parliament votes to join the Kingdom of Great Britain, forming the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
1801 |
The dwarf planet Ceres is discovered by Giuseppe Piazzi. |
1803 |
Emperor Gia Long orders all bronze wares of the Tây Sơn Dynasty to be collected and melted into nine cannons for the Royal Citadel in Huế, Vietnam. |
1804 |
Haiti gains independence from France (National Day) |
1807 |
Curacao is taken by English (until March, 1816) |
1808 |
African Benevolent Society (education) forms |
1808 |
Congress prohibits importation of slaves |
1808 |
Sierra Leone becomes a British colony |
1809 |
Holland Brigade under brig gen Chasse reaches Madrid |
1814 |
Field marshal Blucher's troops cross the Rhine at Kaub |
1818 |
Official reopening of the White House |
1818 |
Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus" is published anonymously by the small London publishing house of Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones |
1826 |
Baron Van der Capellen resigns as governor of Dutch-Indies |
1827 |
Dutch Trade Company NHM gets opium monopoly on Java |
1831 |
William Lloyd Garrison publishes 1st issue of abolitionist journal |
1833 |
British government demands Falkland islands |
1833 |
Curacao census: 2,602 whites, 6,531 free people & 5,894 slaves |
1834 |
German Tolunie goes into effect |
1838 |
1st official horse race in South Australia-Adelaide |
1840 |
1st recorded bowling match in US, Knickerbocker Alleys, NYC |
1842 |
1st illustrated weekly magazine in US publishes 1st issue, NYC |
1844 |
1st edition of New Rotterdam's Daily (3x per week) |
1845 |
The Cobble Hill Tunnel in Brooklyn is completed. |
1846 |
Yucatan declares independence from Mexico |
1847 |
Michigan is 1st state to abolish capital punishment |
1847 |
Neth's Haarlem's Current newspaper starts publishing |
1848 |
Britain takes Mosquito Coast from Nicaragua |
1851 |
City of Glasgow steamer inaugurates Philadelphia-Liverpool line |
1852 |
1st US public bath opens, in NYC |
1852 |
National debt of Britain & Ireland is 765,126,582 pounds |
1852 |
Netherlands begins issuing postage stamps |
1853 |
1st practical fire engine (horse-drawn) in US enters service |
1854 |
Lincoln University, a black college, chartered (Oxford, Penn) |
1858 |
Canada begins using decimal currency system |
1860 |
Slavery ends of in Neth Indies |
1861 |
Porfirio Diaz conquers Mexico City |
1861 |
President-elect of the United States Abraham Lincoln declares slavery in Confederate states unlawful (US Civil War) |
1862 |
1st US income tax (3% of incomes > $600, 5% of incomes > $10,000) |
1862 |
Battle of Ft McRee, FL Battle of Port Royal, SC (Port Royal Ferry) |
1863 |
1st homestead under the Homestead Act claimed, near Beatrice, Nebr |
1863 |
Battle of Galveston, Texas-Confederates recapture the city |
1863 |
Emancipation Proclamation issued by Lincoln to free slaves in confederate states |
1863 |
Franz Schubert's "Missa Solemnis," premieres in Leipzig |
1865 |
-Apr 26th] Carolinas' campaign |
1871 |
Belgium disbands salt tax |
1873 |
Origin of Japanese Era |
1874 |
New York City annexes the Bronx |
1876 |
The Reichsbank opens in Berlin. |
1877 |
England's Queen Victoria proclaimed empress of India |
1879 |
John Brahms' Violin Concerto in D major premieres in Leipzig |
1880 |
Building of Panama Canal, begins |
1881 |
Dr John H Watson is introduced to Sherlock Holmes |
1886 |
1st Tournament of Roses (Pasadena California) |
1890 |
Eritrea is consolidated into a colony by the Italian government. |
1891 |
French troops occupy Nioro, West-Sudan, 3000 killed |
1891 |
King Pakketvaart sails to Neth Indies |
1892 |
Ellis Island becomes reception center for new immigrants |
1893 |
1st US college extension courses for credit, Univ of Chicago |
1893 |
Japan adopts the Gregorian calendar |
1893 |
The railway line from Germiston to Pretoria, South Africa, is opened to traffic. |
1894 |
Denmark adopts Mid-European time |
1894 |
Manchester Ship Canal in England opens to traffic |
1894 |
South African Amateur Athletic Union is founded in Johannesburg. |
1895 |
Norway adopts Mid-European time |
1895 |
Aguinaldo became a Freemason, joining Pilar Lodge No. 203, Imus, Cavite |
1896 |
Wilhelm Röntgen announces his discovery of x-rays |
1897 |
1st football game between black colleges-Atlanta U 10, Tuskegee 0 |
1898 |
Brooklyn merges with NY to form present City of NY |
1898 |
Lightship replaces whistling buoy at mouth of SF Bay |
1898 |
d'Annunzio's "Sogno d'un mattino di primavera," premieres in Rome |
1899 |
Cuba liberated from Spain by US (Natl Day) (US occupies till 1902) |
1899 |
Spanish rule ends in Cuba. |
1900 |
1st date in John dos Passos' USA trilogy (The 42nd Parallel) |
1900 |
British protectorates of Northern & Southern Nigeria established |
1900 |
Compulsory education in Netherlands goes into effect |
1900 |
British protectorates of Northern and Southern Nigeria are established. |
1901 |
Australia declares independence from federation of UK colonies |
1902 |
1st Rose Bowl game (Pasadena, California) (U of Mich-49, Sanford-0) |
1902 |
Nathan Stubblefield makes 1st public demonstration of radio, Penn |
1903 |
In Delhi, a great durbar, or formal reception, marks the coronation of King Edward VII as Emperor of India; the British release some 16,000 prisoners in honor of the occasion |
1904 |
Neth Indies colony begins opium production |
1905 |
9 hour work day for diamond miners |
1906 |
Dutch law makes driver's license mandatory |
1906 |
The poll tax of £1 per head on all adult male inhabitants of Natal, South Africa, except indentured Indians and married Blacks, imposed by the Natal parliament in 1905, becomes payable. |
1907 |
Pres Theodore Roosevelt shakes a record 8,513 hands in 1 day |
1908 |
1st time, ball signifying new year dropped at Times Square |
1908 |
Jack Hobbs makes his Test debut at the MCG (83 & 28) |
1909 |
Robert Fowler runs then world record marathon (2:52:45.4) |
1909 |
Drilling begins on the Lakeview Gusher. |
1909 |
In Great Britain, the Old Age Pension Law is finally instituted, providing pensions for every British subject over 70 with low income |
1910 |
Simpson-Hayward (England) takes 6-43 on debut with underarm lobs |
1911 |
Belgian Mining law introduces 9½ hour work day |
1911 |
South Australia transfers Northern Territory to federal government |
1912 |
1st running of SF's famed "Bay to Breakers" race (7.63 miles/12.3 km) |
1912 |
Sun Yat-sen forms Chinese Republic |
1912 |
The Republic of China is established. |
1913 |
Post office begins parcel post deliveries |
1914 |
1st scheduled airline flight, St Petersburg-Tampa (Tony Jannus pilot) |
1914 |
Klaas ter Laan becomes Neth's 1st socialist mayor (Zaandam) |
1914 |
Northern & Southern Nigeria united in British colony of Nigeria |
1915 |
DW Griffith shows "Clansman" at a sneak preview |
1915 |
Jews of Laibach Austria expelled |
1916 |
1st football game in Rose Bowl (Washington State-Brown) |
1916 |
1st issue of "Journal of Negro History" published |
1917 |
T. E Lawrence joins the forces of the Arabian sheik Feisal al Husayn, beginning his adventures that will lead him to Damascus by October, 1918 |
1918 |
Last day of the Julian calendar in Finland |
1919 |
Belorussian SSR established |
1919 |
Edsel Ford succeeds his father, Henry Ford, as president of the Ford Motor Company. |
1920 |
The Belorussian Communist Organisation is founded as a separate party. |
1922 |
Vancouver, BC starts driving on the right side of road |
1922 |
Coal miners in the Transvaal, South Africa, embark on a strike in response to a wage cut, which quickly escalated into a large-scale revolt against the government, known as the Rand Rebellion. |
1923 |
Union of Socialist Soviet Republics established |
1923 |
Britain's Railways are grouped into the Big Four: LNER, GWR, SR, and LMSR. |
1924 |
Grossdeutsche Volksgemeinschaft/Volkische Block replaces NSDAP |
1925 |
Norway's capital Christiania changes name to Oslo |
1926 |
Flood in Rhine strikes Cologne |
1927 |
Communist uprising in West Java |
1927 |
Dodgers announce release of future Hall of Fame Zack Wheat |
1927 |
Turkey adopts the Gregorian calendar: December 18, 1926 (Julian), is immediately followed by January 1, 1927 (Gregorian). |
1928 |
1st US air-conditioned office building opens, San Antonio |
1928 |
Algemeene Vereeniging Radio Omroep (AVRO) begins broadcasting (Neth) |
1929 |
Roy Riegels runs 60 yds the wrong way with Rose Bowl fumble recovery |
1930 |
Earl Claus von Stauffenberg promoted to 2nd lieutenant |
1930 |
Jurgens & Van den Berg merge with Lever Brothers to form Unilever |
1932 |
Jacob Cocey Sr chosen as mayor of Massillon Ohio |
1932 |
Rasse und Siedlungshauptamt publishes Himmler's wedding laws |
1932 |
The United States Post Office Department issues a set of 12 stamps commemorating the 200th anniversary of George Washington's birth. |
1934 |
Alcatraz officially becomes a federal prison |
1934 |
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (US bank guarantor) effective |
1934 |
International Telecommunication Union established |
1934 |
Nazi Germany passes the "Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring". |
1935 |
1st Sugar Bowl & 1st Orange Bowl |
1935 |
Associated Press inaugurates Wirephoto |
1935 |
Eastern Airlines hires Eddie Rickenbacker as GM |
1935 |
Pres Mustapha Kemal Pasha names himself "Ataturk: Father of Turkey" |
1936 |
1st newspaper to microfilm its current issues, NY Herald Tribune |
1937 |
Anastasio Somoza becomes president of Nicaragua |
1937 |
Count Claus von Stauffenberg promoted to captain |
1937 |
US Army Air Corps physiological research laboratory completed, Ohio |
1937 |
Safety glass in vehicle windscreens becomes mandatory in Great Britain. |
1939 |
Sydney, Australia, swelters in 45 ˚C (113 ˚F) heat, a record for the city. |
1941 |
Netherlands begins taxing wages |
1941 |
Russian general Zhukov appointed chief of general staff |
1942 |
Rose Bowl football match played in North Carolina due to Japanese threat - Oregon State 20, Duke University 16 |
1942 |
US & 25 other countries sign a united declaration against the Axis |
1943 |
Count Claus von Stauffenberg promoted to lt-colonel |
1943 |
Negro League star Josh Gibson suffers a nervous breakdown |
1944 |
1st feature-length foreign movie, African Journey, shown on TV, NYC |
1944 |
Army defeats Navy 10-7 in football "Arab Bowl," Oran, North Africa |
1944 |
Gen Clark replaces Gen Patton as commander of 7th Army |
1945 |
France joins the UN |
1945 |
German air raid on allied airports at Eindhoven/Saint-Trond/Brussels |
1946 |
ENIAC, US 1st computer finished by Mauchly/Eckert |
1946 |
Emperor Hirohito of Japan announces he is not a god |
1946 |
National Assembly proclaims Hungary a republic |
1947 |
Benelux agress to work related issues |
1947 |
Britain nationalizes its coal industry |
1947 |
WTTG TV channel 5 in Washington, DC (MET) begins broadcasting |
1948 |
1st color newsreel filmed (Pasadena, California) |
1948 |
Bradman scores 132 in the 1st innings of the 3rd Test v India |
1948 |
General Agreement on Tariffs & Trade effective |
1948 |
Italy adopts constitution |
1948 |
Orissa province accedes to India |
1948 |
British railways are nationalised to form British Rail. |
1948 |
After partition, India declines to pay the agreed share of Rs.550 million in cash balances to Pakistan. |
1948 |
The Constitution of Italy comes into force. |
1949 |
KPRC TV channel 2 in Houston, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1949 |
KTTV TV channel 11 in Los Angeles, CA (MET) begins broadcasting |
1949 |
Tokelau (Union) Islands declared part of New Zealand |
1950 |
Dutch government raises all wages 5%, minimally fl. 5 per week |
1950 |
Ho Chi Minh begins offensive against French troops in Indo China |
1950 |
The state of Ajaigarh is ceded to the Government of India. |
1951 |
Massive Chinese/North Korean assault on UN-lines |
1952 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 5th string quartet |
1953 |
Ernest Blochs "Suite Hebraique," premieres |
1953 |
WBRE TV channel 28 in Wilkes-Barre Scranton, PA (NBC) 1st broadcast |
1953 |
The Bantu Education Act (later renamed the Black Education Act) commenced, providing the legal underpinning of several aspects of the apartheid system, most importantly in education. |
1954 |
KSLA TV channel 12 in Shreveport, LA (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1954 |
Rose & Cotton Bowl are 1st sport colorcasts |
1954 |
WWTV TV channel 9 in Cadillac-Traverse City, MI (CBS) 1st broadcast |
1954 |
Yugoslav parliament chairman/VP Milovan Djilas criticize communism |
1955 |
Bhutan issues its 1st postage stamps |
1955 |
WEAT (now WPEC) TV channel 12 in West Palm Beach, FL (CBS) begins |
1956 |
KHAS TV channel 5 in Hastings, NB (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1956 |
KOSA TV channel 7 in Odessa, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1956 |
Sudan (Anglo-Egyptian Sudan) declares independence from Egypt & UK |
1956 |
WREC (now WREG) TV channel 3 in Memphis, TN (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1956 |
A new year event causes panic and stampedes at Yahiko Shrine, Yahiko, central Niigata, Japan, killing at least 124 people. |
1957 |
Benjamin Britten's ballet "Prince & the Pauper," premieres in London |
1957 |
France returns Saar to becomes the 10th state of German Federal Rep |
1957 |
International Geophysical Year begins; ends 6/30/1958 (18-mo year) |
1957 |
George Town, Penang becomes a city by a royal charter granted by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. |
1957 |
An Irish Republican Army (IRA) unit attacks Brookeborough RUC barracks in one of the most famous incidents of the IRA's Operation Harvest. |
1958 |
BOAC Britannia flies London to NY in a record 7h57m |
1958 |
European Economic Community (Common Market) starts operation |
1958 |
WMBD TV channel 31 in Peoria, IL (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1959 |
Cuban Dictator Fulgencio Batista flees Cuba for the Dominican Republic |
1959 |
Chad becomes autonomous republic in French Community |
1959 |
Rohan Kanhai completes 256 v India at Calcutta |
1960 |
Bank of France issues new franc, worth 100 times the value of existing francs |
1960 |
Cameroon (French Cameroon) gains independence from France |
1960 |
Johnny Cash plays first of many free concerts behind bars |
1960 |
Montserrat adopts constitution |
1960 |
A photograph of a 13 year-old South African boy in a torn vest appears in the front page of the London Labour paper, the Daily Herald. According to the Native Labour Regulation Act, it was an offence to employ a Native in a mine under the age of 18 years. |
1961 |
Briggs Stadium is renamed Tigers Stadium |
1961 |
Houston Oilers beat LA Chargers 24-16 in AFL championship game |
1961 |
Largest check issued, Natl Bank of Chicago to Sears ($960.242 billion) |
1961 |
Russia introduces a new ruble worth $1.11 |
1962 |
Beatles' Decca audition is unsuccessful |
1962 |
Rwanda granted internal self-government by Belgium |
1962 |
Western Samoa gains independence from New Zealand Susuga Malietoa Tanumafili II becomes co-chief of Western Samoa |
1962 |
United States Navy SEALs established. |
1963 |
G Woods succeeds Eugene Black as president of the World Bank |
1963 |
WTEV (now WLNE) TV channel 6 in Providence RI begins broadcasting |
1964 |
Federation of Rhodesia & Nyasaland dissolved |
1964 |
KNMT TV channel 12 in Walker, MN (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1964 |
KTVS TV channel 3 in Sterling, CO (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1965 |
International Cooperation Year begins |
1965 |
Palestinian al-Fatah organization forms |
1965 |
The People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan is founded in Kabul. |
1965 |
American actor George Murphy begins his term as Senator of California |
1966 |
12 day transit worker strike shuts down NYC subway |
1966 |
Milt coup by Col Jean-Bédell Bokassa in Central African Republic |
1966 |
Simon & Garfunkel's "Sounds of Silence" reaches #1 |
1966 |
All US cigarette packs have to carry "Caution Cigarette smoking may be hazardous to your health" |
1967 |
CRU becomes the CAFA & turns over the Grey Cup trophy to the CFL |
1967 |
Day's play in the Calcutta Test v W Indies cancelled by riots |
1967 |
FCC requires AM-FM sister stations to be at least 50% different |
1967 |
Green Bay Packers beat Dallas Cowboys 34-27 in NFL championship game |
1967 |
KC Chiefs beat Buffalo Bills 31-7 in AFL championship game |
1967 |
St Helena adopts constitution |
1967 |
Tonga revises constitution |
1967 |
WABW TV channel 14 in Pelham, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1968 |
ABC radio splits into 4 networks (Info, Entertainment, Contemp & FM) |
1968 |
Evel Knievel fails in his attempt to jump Caesar's Palace Fountain |
1968 |
Netherlands gets color TV |
1968 |
WDCO TV channel 15 in Cochran, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1969 |
Jack Kent Cooke, owner of NHL's LA Kings, fines each player $100 for "NOT" arguing with the referee |
1969 |
People's Democracy (PD) begin a 4-day march from Belfast across Northern Ireland to Derry, modeled on Martin Luther King's Selma to Montgomery march |
1970 |
"The Epoch" (Time 0 for UNIX systems, Midnight GMT) |
1970 |
Afro-American Historical Calendar Series Established |
1970 |
Charles "Chub" Feeney becomes president of baseball's National League |
1970 |
Neth Christian Workers Union (NCW) forms |
1970 |
Revised calendar for Western (RC) Church goes into effect |
1970 |
The University College of Zululand, formerly affiliated to the University of South Africa, attains full academic autonomy as the University of Zululand. |
1970 |
The Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR), an infantry regiment of the British Army, comes into existence |
1970 |
US Federal oil depletion allowance reduced from 27.5 to 22.0 percent |
1971 |
Cigarette advertisements banned on TV |
1972 |
"Company" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 690 performances |
1972 |
"On the Town" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 65 performances |
1972 |
"Promises Promises" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 1281 perfs |
1972 |
China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC |
1972 |
International Book Year begins |
1972 |
KDSD TV channel 16 in Aberdeen, SD (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1972 |
Policewomen are enlisted as full members of South African Police Force for the first time. |
1973 |
47th Australian Women's Tennis: Margaret Court beats Goolagong (64 75) |
1973 |
Britain, Ireland & Denmark become 7th-9th members of Common Market |
1973 |
West African Economic Community formed (Benin, Ivory Coast, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Upper Volta) |
1974 |
Lee MacPhail takes over as AL president, succeeding Joe Cronin |
1974 |
NBC radio begins on the hour news 24 hours a day (following CBS lead) |
1974 |
World Population Year begins |
1974 |
With effect from this date the New Zealand government terminates all tariff preferences previously granted to South Africa. |
1975 |
Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell & Mardian convicted of Watergate crime |
1975 |
International Women's Year begins |
1975 |
Sweden adopts constitution |
1975 |
U.S. Federal oil depletion allowance eliminated for large producers |
1976 |
"Musical Jubilee" closes at St James Theater NYC after 92 performances |
1976 |
Liberty Bell moves to new home behind Independence Hall |
1976 |
NBC replaces the peacock logo |
1976 |
Venezuela nationalizes oil fields |
1976 |
After 45 years of coaching, Paul Brown announces his retirement from the National Football League |
1977 |
1st woman formally ordained an Episcopal priest (Jacqueline Means) |
1977 |
Belgium reapportions 2,359 communities into 596 |
1977 |
Czech intellects begin Human Rights Group Chapter 77 |
1977 |
Tony Dorsett runs for record 202 yards in the Sugar Bowl |
1978 |
"Your Arm's Too Short..." closes at Lyceum NYC after 429 perfs |
1978 |
Air India B747 explodes near Bombay killing 213 |
1978 |
Pres Ford signs 1st major revision of copyright law since 1909 |
1978 |
Newspaper editor Donald Woods arrives in London after fleeing South Africa's apartheid regime |
1979 |
International Year of the Child begins |
1979 |
Jura, 26th canton of Switzerland, established |
1979 |
US & China (Peoples Republic) begin diplomatic relations |
1980 |
54th Australian Womens Tennis: Barbara Jordan beats S Walsh (63 63) |
1980 |
Alabama beats Arkansas in Sugar Bowl for college football championship |
1980 |
Chrysler UK renamed Talbot |
1980 |
International Decade of Water & Sanitation begins |
1980 |
Mob storms Russian embassy in Teheran |
1980 |
Premier Adbou Diouf becomes president of Senegal |
1980 |
Sweden changes order of succession to throne |
1980 |
Victoria is crowned princess of Sweden. |
1981 |
Georgia beats Notre Dame in Sugar Bowl for college football title |
1981 |
Greece is 10th country to join European Economic Community |
1981 |
International Year for the Disabled begins |
1981 |
Palau (Trust Territory of Pacific Is) becomes self-governing |
1981 |
Roger Smith becomes CEO of General Motors |
1982 |
30 Something stars Ken Olin & Patricia Wettig meet, later they marry |
1982 |
Clemson wins the Orange Bowl for college football championship |
1982 |
Javier Perez de Cuellar becomes sec-gen of UN |
1982 |
MTA launches a 5 year plan to upgrade the NYC subway system |
1982 |
Pope John Paul II prays for an end to martial law in Poland |
1982 |
TA launches 5 year capital program to overhaul NYC subway system |
1983 |
PGA inaugurates all-exempt tour |
1983 |
Penn State beats Georgia in Sugar Bowl for college football title |
1983 |
World Communications Year begins |
1983 |
TCP/IP protocols become the only approved protocol on the ARPANET, replacing the earlier NCP protocol |
1984 |
AT&T's 22 owned Bell system companies divests into 8 companies |
1984 |
Brunei becomes independent of UK |
1984 |
NYC transit fare rises from 75 cents to 90 cents |
1985 |
International Youth Year begins |
1985 |
US's 1st manadatory seat belt law goes into effect (NY) |
1985 |
VH-1 made its broadcasting debut |
1985 |
The Internet's Domain Name System is created. |
1985 |
The first British mobile phone call is made by Ernie Wise to Vodafone. |
1986 |
Aruba becomes independent from neighbor island Curacao |
1986 |
Barbra Striesand & Jon Peters relationship breaks up |
1986 |
International Peace Year begins |
1986 |
NYC transit fare rises from 90 cents to $1.00 |
1986 |
Oklahoma wins Orange Bowl for college football championship |
1986 |
Spain & Portugal are 11th & 12th to join European Economic Community |
1986 |
Iowa's All-American running back, Ronnie Harmon, fumbles the ball 4 times in his last game-the Rose Bowl |
1986 |
South African Government closes its borders with Lesotho, cutting off important food and fuel supplies, after Lesotho refuses to sign a non-aggression pact. |
1987 |
60 bodies recovered in Dupont Plaza Hotel fire in Puerto Rico |
1987 |
China's rudimentary civil code in effect |
1987 |
International Year of Shelter for Homeless begins |
1988 |
Czech born tennis star Hana Mandikova becomes an Australian Citizen |
1988 |
Miami beats Oklahoma for college football championship |
1988 |
Year of the Reader begins |
1989 |
NYC transit fare rises from $1.00 to $1.15 |
1989 |
Year of the Young Reader begins |
1990 |
David Dinkins sworn in as 1st black mayor of NYC |
1990 |
Mitsuko Nishiwaki beats Nakano to become Japan Women wrestling champ |
1990 |
NYC MTA stops token redemption at subway stations |
1990 |
Sports News Network begins operation on cable TV |
1990 |
FCC implements "SYNDEX" giving independent stations more rights over cable TV outlets for exclusive syndicated programs |
1991 |
5% sales tax on consumer goods & services goes into effect in USSR |
1991 |
Iraq rejects peace proposal from Egyptian Pres Hosi Mubarak |
1991 |
Les Miserables opens at Festival Theatre, Adelaide |
1992 |
Bush is 1st US president to address Australian Parliament |
1992 |
Curacao becomes 1st in Dutch Antilles to have compulsory education |
1992 |
Europe breaks down trade barriers |
1992 |
International Space Year begins |
1992 |
NYC transit fare increases from $1.15 to $1.25 |
1992 |
The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic is renamed the Russian Federation, becoming the successor state to the Soviet Union. |
1993 |
12 member European Economic Community set up vast free trade zone |
1993 |
Blockbuster Bowl 3: Stanford beats Penn State, 24-3 |
1993 |
Cigarette advertisements are banned in NYC's MTA |
1993 |
Czechoslovakia separates into Czech Republic (Bohemia) & Slovakia |
1994 |
"Flying Karamzov Brothers" closes at Helen Hayes NYC after 50 perfs |
1994 |
"Grand Night after Singing" closes at Criterion NYC after 52 perfs |
1994 |
Aleksandr Popov swims world record 100m free style (47.83) |
1994 |
Carquest Bowl 4: Boston College beats Virginia, 32-13 |
1994 |
Howard Stern's New Year's Eve Beauty Pageant |
1994 |
International Year of Family |
1994 |
Jacobs Field opens with "Gateway's New Year's Eve Countdown to '94" |
1994 |
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect |
1994 |
The Zapatista Army of National Liberation initiates twelve days of armed conflict in the Mexican State of Chiapas. |
1995 |
"Glass Menagerie" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 57 perfs |
1995 |
"Shadow Box" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 49 performances |
1995 |
Austria, Finland & Sweden act to join European Union |
1995 |
Centennial of Canadian Mounties presence in Canada's Yukon Territory |
1995 |
Fernando Henrique Cardoso installed as president of Brazil |
1995 |
International Year of Tolerance |
1995 |
Last "Far Side" by cartoonist Gary Larson (started 1980) |
1995 |
Raman Lamba & Ravi Sehgal score 464 for 1st wicket for Delhi |
1995 |
for"Tuna Christmas" closes at Booth Theater NYC 20 performances |
1995 |
The Draupner wave in the North Sea in Norway is detected, confirming the existence of freak waves. |
1995 |
Fred West, the Gloucestershire builder charged with 12 murders, found dead in his prison cell |
1996 |
After 27 years, Betty Rubble debuts as a Flintstone vitamin |
1996 |
Curacao gains limited form of self rule (Status Aparte) |
1997 |
The Republic of Zaïre officially joins the World Trade Organization, as Zaïre. |
1998 |
All California bars, clubs & card rooms must be smoke-free |
1998 |
Mongolia switches from a 46 hour to 40 hour work week |
1998 |
US Census Bureau estimates population at 268,921,733 |
1998 |
Russia begins to circulate new rubles to stem inflation and promote confidence. |
1998 |
The European Central Bank is established. |
1999 |
International Year of Elderly |
1999 |
The Euro currency is introduced. |
2000 |
Gisbourne, New Zealand population 32,754 is first city in the world to welcome in the new millennium |
2002 |
The Open Skies mutual surveillance treaty, initially signed in 1992, officially comes into force. |
2002 |
Euro banknotes and coins become legal tender in twelve of the European Union's member states. |
2002 |
Taiwan officially joins the World Trade Organization, as Chinese Taipei. |
2004 |
In a vote of confidence, General Pervez Musharraf wins 658 out of 1,170 votes in the Electoral College of Pakistan, and according to Article 41(8) of the Constitution of Pakistan, was "deemed to be elected" to the office of President until October 2007. |
2006 |
Sydney, Australia swelters through its hottest New Years Day on record. The thermometre peaked at 45 degrees celsius, sparking bushfires and power outages. |
2007 |
Bulgaria and Romania officially join the European Union. Also, Bulgarian, Romanian, and Irish become official languages of the European Union, joining 20 other official languages. |
2007 |
Slovenia officially adopts the Euro currency and becomes the thirteenth Eurozone country. |
2007 |
Adam Air Flight 574 disappears over Indonesia with 102 people on board. |
2008 |
A New Hampshire law legalizing civil unions for same-sex couples comes into effect. |
2008 |
Malta and Cyprus officially adopt the Euro currency and become the fourteenth and fifteenth Eurozone countries. |
2009 |
Slovakia officially adopts the Euro currency and becomes the sixteenth Eurozone country. |
2009 |
61 die in nightclub fire in Bangkok, Thailand. |
2009 |
The government of the Republic of China adopts Hanyu Pinyin as its official Chinese romanization (before this time, the most commonly used was Tongyong Pinyin. |
2010 |
Suicide car bomb detonates at a volleyball tournament in Lakki Marwat, Pakistan, killing 105 and injuring 100 |
2013 |
13 FARC members are killed by an airstrike by the Colombian military |
2013 |
13 Boko Harem members are killed by Nigeria's military in Maiduguri |
2013 |
60 people are killed and 200 are injured after a stampede following New Year celebrations |
2013 |
18 people are killed and 16 wounded after a bus and mini-bus collision in Thiès, Senegal |
2013 |
10 people are killed and 120 are injured in a stampede in Luanda, Angola |
2013 |
US bi-partisan deal temporarily avoids the fiscal cliff |
2013 |
Magnus Carlsen breaks Garry Kasparov's chess FIDE rating, reaching 2,861 |
2014 |
Michael van Gerwen defeats Peter Wright to win the 2014 PDC World Darts Championship |
2016 |
Police: 2 killed, at least 4 wounded in Tel Aviv pub shooting |
2016 |
Justice Department investigates Blue Bell Creameries over listeria response |
2016 |
Former Rep. Mike Oxley dies, 71 |
2016 |
Zika virus reported in Puerto Rico |
2016 |
Camille Cosby ordered to give deposition in case against husband Bill |
2017 |
23 Dead After Ferry Catches Fire Near Indonesia's Capital |
2017 |
New Year's Attack on Packed Istanbul Club Leaves 39 Dead |
2017 |
At least 35 killed in New Year gun attack at Istanbul nightclub |
2017 |
India mine collapse: Bodies of 13 recovered in Jharkhand |
2018 |
North Korea's Kim says US will never start war against North |
2018 |
Costa Rica seeks cause of plane crash that killed 10 from US |
6000 |
1st reversible date since 11/11/1999 |
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