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What happened in history on this day: January 3?
On January 3 in ...
- 236 - Saint Anterus ends his reign as Catholic Pope.
- 269 - Saint Felix I begins his reign as Catholic Pope.
- 936 - Duke Alberik II of Spoleto appoints his son Pope Leo VII.
- 1322 - Philip V the Tall, King of France (1316-22), dies.
- 1338 - Jacob of Arteveld elected mayor of Ghent.
- 1407 - Bloody battles between Hoeksen and Kabeljauwen in Dordrecht.
- 1431 - Joan of Arc handed over to the bishop.
- 1501 - Ali Sjir Neva'i [Fani] Turkish poet/author, dies at age 59.
- 1521 - Pope Leo X publishes his Papal Bull Decet Romanum pontificem, condemning Martin Luther and officially excommunicating the Augustinian monk for burning Leo's previous bull Exsurge Domine.
- 1543 - Juan Cabrillo conqueror of Central America, discoverer of California, dies.
- 1552 - Henry II of Bavaria bishop of Utrecht (1524-29), dies at age 64.
- 1560 - Peder Palladus Danish church reformer (Visitasbog), dies at about age 56.
- 1570 - Bartholomeus Latomus [Steinmetz], Flemish archbishop of Trier, dies.
- 1571 - Death of Joachim II Hektor at age 65; Elector of Brandenburg.
- 1624 - Birth of William Tucker first Black child born in America.
- 1628 - Francesco Maria Guaitoli composer, dies at age 64.
- 1638 - Dutch Premier Van Joost speaks of "Hostage rights of Aemstel".
- 1638 - Schouwburg Theatre, the first in Amsterdam, opens.
- 1641 - Jeremiah Horrocks English astronomical prodigy, dies at age 22.
- 1661 - Maria Henriëtte Stuart (of Orange) English Princess Royal/eldest daughter of the English king Charles I/mother of English king William III, dies of smallpox at age 29.
- 1667 - Russia and Poland sign Truce of Androsovo.
- 1670 - George Monck English General (-to the-sea), dies at age 61.
- 1680 - Birth of Johann Baptist Zimmermann; German stucco worker.
- 1737 - Birth of Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg in Tondern, Denmark; musician, theorist of the "Sturm und Drang" movement in German literature.
- 1750 - Tax revolt in Haarlem Netherlands.
- 1752 - East Indies invasion "Geldermalsen" leaves at Malakka; 92 killed.
- 1752 - Birth of Johannes von Muller in Schaffhausen, Switzerland; historian, "the Swiss Tacitus."
- 1759 - Marquis and Marquess of Tavora Portuguese nobles, executed.
- 1761 - Willem de Fesch Dutch violinist/composer (Joseph), dies at age 73.
- 1763 - Birth of Joseph Fesch French cardinal/war commission/earl/senator.
- 1777 - Birth of M A Elisa Bonaparte; Corsican monarch of Lucca/Piombino.
- 1777 - US General George Washington defeats British at Battle of Princeton, New Jersey.
- 1780 - Danish national anthem "Kong Kristian" is first sung.
- 1803 - Birth of Douglas William Jerrold in London, England; author/playwright/wit (Punch Magazine).
- 1810 - Birth of Antoine T d'Abbadie; French explorer (Ethiopia).
- 1819 - Birth of Thomas Hill Watts; Attorney General (Confederacy) (dies 1892).
- 1821 - Birth of Joseph Reinkens in Aachen, Germany; Roman Catholic priest, leader in the "Old Catholic" movement in Germany and its first bishop.
- 1825 - Scottish factory owner Robert Owen buys 30,000 acres in Indiana as site for New Harmony utopian community.
- 1831 - First US building and loan association organized, Frankford Pennsylvania.
- 1833 - Captain James Onslow on sloop Clio again takes formal possession of the Falkland Islands for England.
- 1835 - Willem F Röell, Dutch baron/minister of Internal Affairs, dies at age 67.
- 1840 - First deep sea sounding.
- 1840 - Birth of Father Joseph Damien de Veuster in Belgium; helped lepers in Hawaii.
- 1841 - Wilhelmus Kist, writer/director of Dutch (Official) Gazette, dies at age 82.
- 1848 - Joseph Jenkins Roberts is sworn in as the first president of the independent African Republic of Liberia.
- 1858 - Rachel [Elisabeth Rachel-Félix], French singer/actress (Muse), dies at age 36.
- 1861 - Fort Pulaski and Fort Jackson, Savannah, seized by Georgia.
- 1865 - Con Orem and Hugh O'Neill box 193 rounds before darkness ends match.
- 1868 - Meiji Restoration returns authority to Japan's emperors.
- 1870 - Birth of Henry Handel Richardson in Australia; novelist (Richard Mahoney).
- 1870 - Construction begins on the Brooklyn Bridge across New York's East River (completed May 24, 1883, will be world's longest suspension bridge).
- 1871 - Oleomargarine patented by Henry Bradley, Binghamton, New York.
- 1872 - First patent list issued by US Patent Office.
- 1875 - Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (opera's buff), dies at age 68.
- 1876 - First free kindergarten in US opens in Florence, Massachusetts.
- 1876 - Birth of Wilhelm Pieck in Germany; founding member of the German Communist Party (KPD), co-leader of the Socialist Unity Party (SED), President of the German Democratic Republic (1949-1960).
- 1877 - In Warrenton, Missouri, a meteorite falls to the ground; no damage or injuries.
- 1882 - Birth of Willem Benoy; Flemish actor/director (Pygmalion).
- 1882 - William H Ainsworth, English writer (Guy Fawkes), dies at age 76.
- 1883 - Birth of Clement Richard Attlee; (Liberal) British Prime Minister (1945-51).
- 1884 - Birth of Eli S Jones; US evangelist (Christ of Indian road).
- 1886 - Birth of Arthur Mailey; cricket player (great Aussie leg-spinner and cartoonist).
- 1886 - Birth of John G Fletcher; US poet (Epic of Arkansas).
- 1886 - Birth of Josephine Hull in Newtonville, Massachusetts, USA; Academy award winning character actress (Harvey).
- 1887 - Birth of Helen Parkhurst; US educator (Education on the Dalton plan).
- 1888 - First wax drinking straw patented, by Marvin C Stone in Washington DC.
- 1889 - Admissions convention meets in Ellensburg, Washington, asks for statehood.
- 1890 - First US college-level dairy school opens at University of Wisconsin.
- 1892 - Birth of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien in South Africa; philologist/writer (Lord of the Rings).
- 1893 - Birth of Pierre Drieu in La Rochelle, France; novelist/essayist (Gilles).
- 1894 - Birth of Zasu Pitts in Parsons, Kansas, USA; character actress (Fibber McGee radio show, supporting role on TV's Gale Storm Show, Life With Father, Dames).
- 1896 - German Emperor Kaiser Wilhelm congratulates President Kruger on the Jameson Raid.
- 1897 - Birth of Marion Davies [Marion Cecelia Douras] in Brooklyn, New York, USA; actress (Operator 13).
- 1897 - Birth of Pola Negri [Barbara A Chalupec]; Polish/US actress (Madame Bovary).
- 1898 - Birth of Johannes Hin in Holland; yachtsman (Olympics-gold-1920).
- 1898 - James Wimshurst, British designer/inventor (vacuum pump), dies at age 70.
- 1901 - Birth of Ngo Dinh Diem; President/Dictator of South Vietnam (1955-63).
- 1904 - Birth of Boris Kochno; Russian ballet dancer (La Chatte).
- 1905 - Birth of Ray Milland in Neath, Wales; actor (Lost Weekend - Academy Award 1945).
- 1907 - Birth of Anna May Wong in Los Angeles, California, USA; actress (Impact, Study in Scarlet).
- 1907 - Birth of Ray Milland AKA Reginald Truscott-Jones in Wales; actor (Lost Weekend, Meet Mr. McNulty, Markham, Rich Man Poor Man (I & II), Seventh Ave., Dream Merchants, Testimony of Two Men.
- 1909 - Birth of Victor Borge AKA Borge Rosenbaum in Copenhagen, Denmark; pianist & comedian (Bing Crosby's Kraft Music Hall on radio, Ed Sullivan Show, Hollywood Palace, The Tonight Show).
- 1910 - British miners strike for 8-hour working day.
- 1911 - Birth of John Sturges; US director (The Old Man and the Sea, The Magnificent Seven).
- 1911 - US postal savings bank inaugurated.
- 1912 - Birth of Robert Flemyng in Liverpool, England; actor (Windom's Way, Young Winston).
- 1915 - James E Flecker, British diplomat/novelist (Hassan), dies at age 30.
- 1916 - Birth of Betty Furness in New York City, New York, USA; movie actress, TV spokesperson (commercial voice of Westinghouse), consumer activist (Studio 1).
- 1916 - Birth of Maxene (Angelyn) Andrews in Minneapolis, USA; singer (The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schön", "Rum and Coca Cola", "Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree", "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy").
- 1917 - Birth of Vernon Walters in New York City, New York, USA; American permanent representative to the United Nations.
- 1918 - US employment service opens as a unit of Department of Labor.
- 1920 - New York Yankees purchase Babe Ruth from Boston Red Sox for $125,000.
- 1921 - Birth of John (William Lawrence) Russell in Los Angeles, California, USA; actor (Pale Rider, Rio Bravo, TV series Lawman, recurring roles in It Takes a Thief, Alias Smith & Jones, and Jason of Star Command).
- 1921 - Turkey makes peace with Armenia.
- 1922 - Canadian Governor General Julian Byng strikes the first two nickel 5-cent coins of Canada, at the mint in Ottawa.
- 1922 - Birth of Bill Travers in Newcastle-on-Tyne, England; actor (Born Free, Gorgo).
- 1922 - Birth of Jacques Wildberger; Swiss composer (In My End is My Beginning).
- 1922 - Birth of Morten Nielsen in Denmark; poet/resistance fighter.
- 1922 - Death of Berthold Delbruck in Jena, Germany; linguist, initiated study of Indo-European languages.
- 1922 - Death of Wilhelm Herrmann in Marburg, Germany; Protestant theologian.
- 1923 - Jaroslav Hasek, Czech writer (Good Soldier Schweyk), dies at age 39.
- 1924 - Birth of Henry M Fazzie; South African Union/UDF-leader.
- 1925 - Benito Mussolini dissolves Italian parliament, becomes dictator.
- 1926 - Birth of George Martin; record producer (The Beatles).
- 1926 - Greek General Theodorus Pángulos names himself dictator.
- 1928 - Birth of Frank Ross Anderson in Canada; International Chess Master (1954).
- 1929 - William Paley incorporates the Columbia Broadcast System and becomes the first CBS president.
- 1929 - Birth of Marilyn Lloyd; American politician (Representative-Democrat-Tennessee, 1975-).
- 1929 - Birth of Sergio Leone; Italian director (Fist Full of Dollars).
- 1929 - Donald Bradman scores 112 versus England at Melbourne Cricket Ground - his first Test century.
- 1930 - Birth of Eddie Egan in Bronx, New York, USA; actor (Joe Forrester).
- 1930 - Birth of Robert Loggia in Staten Island, New York, USA; actor (An Officer and a Gentleman, THE Cat, The Sopranos, Emerald Point NAS).
- 1931 - Joseph J C Joffre, French World War I general, dies at age 78.
- 1931 - Nels Stewart of Montréal Maroons scores two goals in 4 seconds (record).
- 1932 - Birth of Dabney Coleman in Austin, Texas, USA; actor (That Girl, Mary Hartman, Buffalo Bill, The Guardian, Slap Maxwell Story).
- 1932 - Birth of Jaswick Taylor; cricket player (West Indies pace bowler 50s, 10 wickets in three Tests).
- 1932 - Birth of Mara Corday in Santa Monica, California, USA; actress (Foxfire, Black Scorpion).
- 1933 - Wilhelm Cuno, German Reich's chancellor (1922-23), dies at age 56.
- 1934 - Birth of Carla Hills; politician (US Presidential Commission on Housing-1982).
- 1936 - Birth of Betty Rollin; actress (Crossing Delancey), author (Last Wish).
- 1938 - US President Franklin Roosevelt authorizes the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (March of Dimes), to conquer polio.
- 1939 - Birth of Bobby Hull; NHL forward (Chicago Blackhawks 1957-72).
- 1940 - Birth of Thelma Schoonmaker; actress/editor (Casino, Cape Fear, Good Fellas).
- 1941 - Birth of Shima Iwashita; actress (Red Lion, Hara-Kiri, Double Suicide).
- 1941 - Birth of Van Dyke Parks in Alabama, USA; actor/musician (Bonino, Billy Crystal Hour).
- 1941 - Canada and US acquire air bases in Newfoundland (99 year lease).
- 1941 - British forces assault the Italian army at Bardia, inside the Libyan frontier. They capture 45,000 troops, 129 tanks, 400 guns, and 706 trucks.
- 1941 - Italian counter-offensive in Albania.
- 1942 - American-British-Dutch-Australian (ABDA) Command forms.
- 1943 - First missing persons telecast (New York City, New York).
- 1943 - Canadian Army troops arrive in North Africa.
- 1944 - Birth of Christina von Saltza; American swimmer (Olympics-3 gold/silver-1960).
- 1945 - Allies land on west coast of Burma, conquer Akyab.
- 1945 - Birth of Stephen Stills in Dallas, Texas, USA; singer/songwriter/guitarist (Crosby Stills and Nash).
- 1945 - Greek General Plastiras forms government.
- 1945 - US aircraft carriers attack Okinawa.
- 1946 - Birth of John Paul Jones; rock musician (Led Zeppelin - "Stairway to Heaven").
- 1946 - At Wandsworth Prison in London, England, William Joyce is hanged. Known as "Lord Haw Haw", Joyce was an American citizen, who made regular wartime broadcasts over German radio, making him one of the most hated men in Great Britain.
- 1946 - Great Britain, Canada, and the United States make their first public disclosures about their chemical and biological warfare efforts during the war. American authorities reveal that they were prepared to act both defensively and offensively if Germany or Japan had started such warfare against the Allies.
- 1947 - First opening session of US Congress to be televised.
- 1948 - Birth of Larry McNeeley in Lafayette, Indiana, USA; banjo player (Glen Campbell Hour).
- 1948 - Birth of Manfred Kokot; East German runner (world record 50 metre indoor).
- 1948 - Donald Bradman completes dual Test tons (132 and 127*) versus India Melbourne Cricket Ground.
- 1949 - Colgate Theatre dramatic anthology series premieres on NBC TV.
- 1949 - Death of Robert Aitken, American coin designer.
- 1950 - Birth of Victoria Principal in Fukuoka, Japan; actress (Earthquake, Pamela - Dallas, Titans).
- 1951 - Birth of Frank Chikane; Secretary-General of South African Council of Churches.
- 1951 - Fred Wilt wins Amateur Athletic Union Sullivan Memorial Trophy (US athlete of 1950).
- 1952 - Australia beats West Indies by one wicket at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, last stand 38.
- 1952 - NBC-TV airs the first episode of Dragnet.
- 1953 - Birth of Angelo Parisi in France; heavyweight judo (Olympics-gold-1980).
- 1955 - Birth of Cynthia Sykes in Coffeyville, Kentucky, USA; actress (Flamingo Road, St. Elsewhere).
- 1955 - José Ramon Guizado becomes President of Panamá.
- 1956 - Birth of Mel Gibson in Peekskill, New York, USA; director, actor (Mad Max, Mrs Soffel, Lethal Weapon, Conspiracy Theory, Complete Savages, Punishment, The Sullivans).
- 1956 - Death of Joseph Wirth in Freiburg, Germany; chancellor of the Weimar Republic (1921-22).
- 1957 - First electric watch introduced, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA.
- 1957 - Birth of Frank Dicopoulos in Akron, Ohio, USA; actor (Frank Cooper - Guiding Light).
- 1958 - Edmund Hillary reaches South Pole overland.
- 1958 - Lindsay Kline takes a hat-trick versus South Africa at Cape Town.
- 1959 - Alaska becomes the 49th state to join the USA.
- 1959 - Birth of Rusty Golden; rocker (Boys Band).
- 1960 - Birth of Joan Chen [Chen Chung] in Shanghai, China; actress (Last Emperor).
- 1961 - Adam Clayton Powell elected Chairman of US House Education and Labor.
- 1961 - Birth of Erwin Blom; Dutch singer/guitarist (Eton Crop).
- 1962 - Birth of Darren Daulton; US baseball catcher (Philadelphia Phillies).
- 1962 - Birth of Gavin Hastings; WLAF kicker (Scottish Claymores).
- 1962 - Birth of Mark Gardner; US baseball player (Florida Marlins).
- 1962 - Pope John XXIII excommunicates Cuba's Fidel Castro.
- 1963 - Birth of Aamer Malik; cricket player (Pakistani batsman in 13 Tests 1987-90).
- 1963 - Birth of Ashley Chinner in Cape Town, South Africa; golfer (1992 CGIA Canadian Tour).
- 1963 - Birth of Jim Everett; NFL quarterback (Los Angeles Raiders, New Orleans Saints, San Diego Chargers).
- 1963 - CBS resumes airing The Twilight Zone as a 60-minute TV show.
- 1964 - Birth of Cheryl Miller in Riverside, California, USA; basketball player (Olympics-gold-1984).
- 1965 - Birth of Daniel Stubbs; NFL defensive end (Philadelphia Eagles, Miami Dolphins).
- 1965 - Birth of Mark Dewey in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA; pitcher (San Francisco Giants).
- 1966 - Birth of Chetan Sharma; cricket player (Indian Test bowler, World Cup hat-trick 1987).
- 1966 - Birth of John Kropke; Canadian Football League defensive tackle (Saskatchewan Roughriders).
- 1966 - Birth of Luis Sojo in Barquisimeto, Venezuela; infielder (Seattle Mariners).
- 1966 - Birth of Wendell Davis; NFL wide receiver (Indianapolis Colts).
- 1966 - Rex Lease, actor (Perils of Pauline, Dakota, California), dies at age 62.
- 1967 - Birth of Demetri Davis; WLAF tight end (Barcelona Dragons).
- 1967 - Birth of Helena Bonham Carter in London, England; actress (Getting it Right).
- 1967 - Birth of Joseph Amor in San Jose, New Mexico, USA; video game record holder (Space Invaders).
- 1967 - Jack Ruby, assassin who killed Lee Harvey Oswald, dies at age 55.
- 1968 - Birth of Kerry Huffman in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada; NHL defenseman (Philadelphia Flyers, Ottawa Senators).
- 1968 - Birth of Shannon Sturges; actress (Port Charles, Savannah, Days of Our Lives).
- 1968 - Birth of Thomas Rayam; Canadian Football League offensive linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos).
- 1969 - Birth of Matt LaBounty; defensive end (Seattle Seahawks).
- 1969 - Birth of Nikki Nelson in Topaz Lake, Nevada, USA; country singer (Highway 101 - "Cry Cry Cry").
- 1969 - Birth of Steve Poapst in Cornwall, Ontario, Canada; NHL defenseman (Washington Capitals).
- 1969 - Death of Howard McNear after a long illness at age 63; actor ("Doc" on radio's Gunsmoke, "Floyd the Barber" on TV's Andy Griffith Show, Irma La Douce).
- 1969 - Birth of Michael Schumacher; Formula 1 car racing champion.
- 1970 - Mame closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City, New York after 1508 performances.
- 1970 - Birth of James Brown; NFL tackle (New York Jets).
- 1970 - Birth of Tony Farmer; NBA forward (Charlotte Hornets).
- 1970 - Birth of Trudi Jeffrey in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; golfer (1990 Australian Junior Champion).
- 1970 - Birth of Yogi Johl in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; 130kg Greco Roman wrestler (Olympics-1996).
- 1970 - Marxist government takes over in Congo.
- 1970 - The Prairie Network of cameras on parairie states of the USA records the fall of a stony meteorite, with four fragments totalling 17kg recovered near Lost City in Oklahoma, Nebraska.
- 1970 - The Beatles record their last song together: "I Me Mine".
- 1971 - Baltimore Colts beat Oakland Raiders 27-17 in AFC championship game.
- 1971 - Birth of Cory Cross in Lloydminster, Alberta, Canada; NHL defenseman (Tampa Bay Lightning).
- 1971 - Birth of Ku'ualoha Taylor in Hawaii; Miss Hawaii-USA (Miss Congeniality-1996).
- 1971 - Birth of Rene van Rijswijk; Dutch soccer player (RKC).
- 1971 - Dallas Cowboys beat San Francisco 49ers 17-10 in NFC championship game.
- 1972 - Birth of Charles Johnson; NFL wide receiver (Pittsburgh Steelers).
- 1972 - Birth of Deborah Carter; WNBA forward (Utah Starzz).
- 1972 - Frans Masereel, Flemish WWII resistance fighter (Le Soleil), dies at age 82.
- 1973 - Birth of Paula Knoll in Moorhead, Minnesota, USA; Miss Minnesota-America (1995).
- 1973 - Birth of Tyrone Brown, NFL wide receiver (Atlanta Falcons).
- 1973 - The Columbia Broadcasting System sells the New York Yankees to a 17-person syndicate headed by George Steinbrenner for US$10 million.
- 1974 - Arias Navarro succeeds Carrero Blanco as premier of Spain.
- 1974 - Birth of Stefan Ustorf in Kaufbeuren, Germany; NHL right wing (Washington Capitals).
- 1974 - Birth of Todd Warriner in Blenheim, Ontario, Canada; NHL left wing (Toronto Maple Leafs).
- 1974 - Burma accepts its constitution.
- 1974 - Gino Cervi, actor (Becket, Don Camillo), dies at age 72.
- 1974 - Gold hits record US$121.25 an ounce in London, England.
- 1974 - New York Yankees sign Bill Virdon as manager.
- 1975 - Birth of Danica McKellar; actress (Winnie Cooper - The Wonder Years, Static Shock, Inspector Mom).
- 1975 - Birth of Jason Marsden; actor (General Hospital, Eddie - Munsters Today, W.I.T.C.H., Boy Meets World, Step By Step).
- 1975 - Death of Milton Cross of a heart attack at age 87; legendary radio/TV announcer (for 43 years the voice of the New York Metropolitan Opera).
- 1975 - Robert Neumann, Austrian/British author (False Flag), dies at age 77.
- 1976 - Birth of Mendel Witzenhauser; soccer player (Ajax, VVV).
- 1976 - Birth of Nicholas Gonzalez; actor (The OC, Undressed).
- 1976 - Michael V Love, US test pilot (X-24), dies in F-4 crash at age 37.
- 1976 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
- 1977 - Avraham Ofer, Israeli minister of housing, commits suicide.
- 1977 - Birth of Beata Handra in San Francisco, California; dance skater (and Sinek-1997 Pacific Coast Senior third).
- 1977 - Lindy McDaniel retires with second most pitching appearances (987 games).
- 1978 - Birth of Kimberley Locke; American singer and model (American Idol TV show).
- 1978 - Chandrasekar takes 6-52 and 6-52 at Melbourne Cricket Ground in Indian innings win.
- 1979 - Death of Conrad Hilton, American hotelier, at age 91 (born 1887).
- 1980 - Birth of Angela Ruggiero; ice hockey defenseman (USA, Olympics-1998).
- 1980 - Gold hits record US$634 an ounce.
- 1980 - Ivan Triesault, actor (Von Ryan's Express, Desert Fox), dies at age 81.
- 1980 - Joy Adamson, Austrian-born conservationist and author (Born Free), killed by her servant at age 69 (born 1910).
- 1981 - Greg Chappell scores 204 versus India at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
- 1981 - Mary Terstegge Meagher swims female record 100 metre butterfly (58.91s).
- 1981 - 55th Australian Womens Tennis: H Mandlikova beats W Turnbull (6-0, 7-5).
- 1982 - Derek Sealy, cricket player (West Indies 1930-39), dies.
- 1983 - Tony Dorsett sets NFL record with 99-yard rush, Dallas Cowboys versus Minnesota Vikings.
- 1983 - Kilauea begins slowly erupting on the Big Island of Hawaii and is still flowing as of 2008.
- 1984 - Syria frees captured US pilot after appeal from Jesse Jackson.
- 1985 - Azharuddin scores 110 in first Test innings.
- 1985 - Israel government confirms resettlement of 10,000 Ethiopian Jews.
- 1987 - 14 artists are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, including Aretha Franklin and Bill Haley.
- 1988 - Gaston Eyskens, Prime Minister of Belgium (1949, 1958-61, 1968-72), dies at age 82.
- 1988 - Israel orders nine Palestinian "instigators" deported from West Beirut.
- 1988 - Margaret Thatcher becomes longest-serving British Prime Minister this century.
- 1988 - William Cagney, actor (Torrid Zone), dies of a heart attack at age 82.
- 1989 - Russian newspaper Izvestia gets its first commercial advertisement.
- 1989 - Birth of Alex D. Linz, American actor (Providence, The Young and the Restless).
- 1990 - Ken Hill, actor (Cobra, Protocol), dies.
- 1990 - Panamá's leader General Manuel Noriega surrenders to US military troops to face charges of drug trafficking.
- 1991 - Israel reopens consulate in USSR after 23 years.
- 1991 - Los Angeles Kings' Wayne Gretzky scores his 700th goal, against New York Islanders.
- 1991 - NBC TV begins airing the series Blossom.
- 1992 - 32 Cubans defect to the US via helicopter.
- 1992 - Anthony Del Casino, band leader (Charlie Barnet Band), dies at age 79.
- 1992 - The NBC TV network airs the last episode of the series Pacific Station.
- 1992 - Boon completes 11 Test Cricket century, 129 versus India at Sydney.
- 1992 - Dame Judith Anderson, Australian actress (Playhouse 90, Hallmark Hall of Fame, Star Trek III, Laura, Rebecca, Santa Barbara), dies of pneumonia at age 93 (born 1897).
- 1992 - Ken Grieves, cricket player (New South Wales and Lancashire leg-spin all-rounder), dies.
- 1992 - Radomiro Tomic, Chilean President (1970), dies.
- 1993 - In Dresden, Germany, reconstruction of the Frauenkirche church begins. The church had collapsed during bombing in 1945.
- 1993 - "Lost in Yonkers" closes at Richard Rodgers New York City, New York after 780 performances.
- 1993 - In Moscow, George H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).
- 1994 - Hundreds killed in Venezuela in prison revolt.
- 1994 - 35-foot-tall Chief Wahoo, trademark of Cleveland Indians on top of Stadium since 1962, is taken down, to be moved to Jacob's Field.
- 1994 - Roel Bazen, Dutch sound technician (Van Kooten and The Bie), dies at age 48.
- 1994 - Tupolev-154M crashes at Irkutsk, Siberia; 122 killed.
- 1994 - The ABC TV network premieres the Disney TV series The Good Life.
- 1995 - Vladislav Listiev, Russian talk show host/producer, assasinated.
- 1997 - Bryant Gumbel co-hosts his final Today show on NBC-TV.
- 1997 - Eddo Brandes takes ODI hat-trick versus England at Harare.
- 1997 - Zimbabwe clean-sweep ODI series versus England 3-0.
- 2000 - Opera star Luciano Pavarotti, reportedly worth $510 million, agrees to pay Italian authorities $2.72 million after losing an appeal against tax evasion charges.
- 2000 - (to January 10) Israel and Syria hold inconclusive peace talks.
- 2001 - The 107th United States Congress is sworn in, including incoming freshmen Senators Bill Nelson (Democrat-Florida), Tom Carper (Democrat-Delaware), Debbie Stabenow (Democrat-Michigan), John Ensign (Republican-Nevada), George Allen (Republican-Virginia), Maria Cantwell (Democrat-Washington), Ben Nelson (Democrat-Nebraska), Hillary Clinton (Democrat-New York), Jon Corzine (Democrat-New Jersey), Jean Carnahan (Democrat-Missouri), and Mark Dayton (Democrat-Minnesota).
- 2002 - The University of Miami defeats Nebraska 37-14 in the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California to win college football's national championship.
- 2002 - Death of Freddy Heineken, Dutch-born beer magnate (born 1923).
- 2003 - The Ohio State University defeats the University of Miami in double-overtime in the Fiesta Bowl, 31-24, for the national Bowl Championship Series (BCS) title.
- 2003 - The 108th United States Congress is sworn in, including incoming freshmen Senators Saxby Chambliss (Republican-Georgia), Lindsey Graham (Republican-South Carolina), John Sununu (Republican-New Hampshire), Lamar Alexander (Republican-Tennessee), Elizabeth Dole (Republican-North Carolina), Norm Coleman (Republican-Minnesota), and Mark Pryor (Democrat-Arkansas).
- 2004 - Flash Airlines Flight 604 crashes into the Red Sea off the coast of Egypt, killing all 148 aboard.
- 2005 - The Angels of Anaheim baseball team in California announces the franchise will now be known as the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.
- 2006 - Twelve dead coal miners and one survivor are discovered in the Sago Mine Disaster near Buckhannon, West Virginia, USA.
- 2006 - Death of Bill Skate, Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea (born 1954).
- 2006 - David Hill retires as chief engineer of the Corvette automobile, replaced by Tom Wallace.
- 2006 - Intel announces it is dropping the 25-year old "Intel Inside" campaign and the 37-year old Intel logo with dropped "e". The new logo is lowercase "intel" in an oval, with tag line "Leap ahead".
- 2007 - China conducts an anti-terror raid in Xinjiang.
- 2008 - Rare snow flurries in southeast Florida, USA.
- 2008 - In Iowa, USA, the Democratic caucuses choose Barack Obama as candidate for the presidential election on November. National front-runner Hillary Clinton places third, behind John Edwards. The Republican caucuses choose Mike Huckabee over Mitt Romney.
- 2008 - In Venezuela, President Hugo Chavez announces a major cabinet reshuffle, naming Ramon Carrizales vice-president, and making 12 other cabinet changes.
- 2008 - A car bomb detonates, killing at least 4 and injuring 68, in Diyarbakir, Turkey. Police blame Kurdish rebels.
- 2009 - A series of powerful earthquakes hits eastern Indonesia, the strongest with a magnitude of 7.6, north of the city of Manokwari in West Papua province.
- 2009 - At the Hollywood Wheels Fort Lauderdale auction, a 1965 Shelby 427 SC Cobra CSX 3021 sells for US$3,780,000.
- 2009 - Israel launches a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip as the Gaza War enters its second week.
- 2010 - The film Avatar, released on December 18, becomes the fastest movie ever to achieve US$1 billion in ticket sales around the world.
- 2016 - Following the fallout caused by the execution of Nimr al-Nimr, Iran ends its diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia.
- 2019 - Chinese probe Chang'e 4 becomes the first human-made object to land on the far side of the Moon.
- 2020 - A United States drone strike (ordered by US President Donald Trump) at Baghdad International Airport kills Iranian general Qasem Soleimani and Iraqi paramilitary leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.
- 2022 - Death of Harvey Stack; American coin dealer (Stack's, Numismatist of the Year (1997)).
- 2023 - Death of Walter Cunningham at age 90; American astronaut (NASA Apollo program).
- 2023 - Death of Alan Rankine at age 64; Scottish musician (Associates).
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