Historical Events in January, Month of January Events
Here is a list of some historical events in January. You can learn What major event happened in January?
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| January 9, 1349 | The Jewish population of Basel, believed by the residents to be the cause of the ongoing Black Death, is rounded up and incinerated. |
| January 5, 1900 | Irish nationalist leader John Edward Redmond calls for revolt against British rule. |
| January 26, 1952 | Black Saturday in Egypt: rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses. |
| January 19, 1607 | San Agustin Church in Manila is officially completed; it is the oldest church still standing in the Philippines. |
| January 31, 1945 | World War II: About 3,000 inmates from the Stutthof concentration camp are forcibly marched into the Baltic Sea at Palmnicken (now Yantarny, Russia) and executed. |
| January 1, 1438 | Albert II of Habsburg is crowned King of Hungary. |
| January 12, 1997 | Space Shuttle program: Atlantis launches from the Kennedy Space Center on mission STS-81 to the Russian space station Mir, carrying astronaut Jerry M. Linenger for a four-month stay on board the station, replacing astronaut John E. Blaha. |
| January 10, 1916 | World War I: Imperial Russia begins the Erzurum Offensive, leading to the defeat of the Ottoman Empire's Third Army. |
| January 27, 1996 | In a military coup, Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposes the first democratically elected president of Niger, Mahamane Ousmane. |
| January 7, 1931 | Guy Menzies flies the first solo non-stop trans-Tasman flight (from Australia to New Zealand) in 11 hours and 45 minutes, crash-landing on New Zealand's west coast. |
| January 20, 1973 | Amílcar Cabral, leader of the independence movement in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde, is assassinated in Conakry, Guinea. |
| January 15, 1970 | Muammar Gaddafi is proclaimed premier of Libya. |
| January 31, 1862 | Alvan Graham Clark discovers the white dwarf star Sirius B, a companion of Sirius, through an 18.5-inch (47 cm) telescope now located at Northwestern University. |
| January 16, 2002 | War in Afghanistan: The UN Security Council unanimously establishes an arms embargo and the freezing of assets of Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda, and the remaining members of the Taliban. |
| January 22, 1924 | Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. |
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