Historical Events in January, Month of January Events
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| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| January 1, 1994 | The Zapatista Army of National Liberation initiates twelve days of armed conflict in the Mexican state of Chiapas. |
| January 17, 1997 | Cape Canaveral Air Force Station: A Delta II carrying the GPS IIR-1 satellite explodes 13 seconds after launch, dropping 250 tons of burning rocket remains around the launch pad. |
| January 21, 1854 | The RMS Tayleur sinks off Lambay Island on her maiden voyage from Liverpool to Australia with great loss of life. |
| January 13, 1895 | First Italo-Ethiopian War: The war's opening battle, the Battle of Coatit, occurs; it is an Italian victory. |
| January 21, 1950 | American lawyer and government official Alger Hiss is convicted of perjury. |
| January 24, 1900 | Second Boer War: Boers stop a British attempt to break the Siege of Ladysmith in the Battle of Spion Kop. |
| January 7, 1782 | The first American commercial bank, the Bank of North America, opens. |
| January 22, 1984 | The Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to popularize the computer mouse and the graphical user interface, is introduced during a Super Bowl XVIII television commercial. |
| January 15, 2013 | A train carrying Egyptian Army recruits derails near Giza, Greater Cairo, killing 19 and injuring 120 others. |
| January 24, 1939 | The deadliest earthquake in Chilean history strikes Chillán, killing approximately 28,000 people. |
| January 19, 1942 | World War II: The Japanese conquest of Burma begins. |
| January 16, 2001 | US President Bill Clinton awards former President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service in the Spanish–American War. |
| January 31, 1918 | A series of accidental collisions on a misty Scottish night leads to the loss of two Royal Navy submarines with over a hundred lives, and damage to another five British warships. |
| January 10, 1990 | Time Warner is formed by the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications. |
| January 28, 1908 | Members of the Portuguese Republican Party fail in their attempted coup d'état against the administrative dictatorship of Prime Minister João Franco. |
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