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, 1916 | World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli concludes with an Ottoman Empire victory when the last Allied forces are evacuated from the peninsula. |
| January 23, 1900 | Second Boer War: The Battle of Spion Kop between the forces of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State and British forces ends in a British defeat. |
| January 26, 1945 | World War II: Audie Murphy displays valor and bravery in action for which he will later be awarded the Medal of Honor. |
| January 11, 2003 | Illinois Governor George Ryan commutes the death sentences of 167 prisoners on Illinois's death row based on the Jon Burge scandal. |
| January 14, 1967 | Counterculture of the 1960s: The Human Be-In takes place in San Francisco, California's Golden Gate Park, launching the Summer of Love. |
| January 25, 1945 | World War II: The Battle of the Bulge ends. |
| January 16, 1862 | Hartley Colliery disaster: Two hundred and four men and boys killed in a mining disaster, prompting a change in UK law which henceforth required all collieries to have at least two independent means of escape. |
| January 28, 1988 | In R v Morgentaler the Supreme Court of Canada strikes down all anti-abortion laws. |
| January 8, 1982 | Breakup of the Bell System: In the United States, AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions. |
| January 8, 2016 | Joaquín Guzmán, widely regarded as the world's most powerful drug trafficker, is recaptured following his escape from a maximum security prison in Mexico. |
| January 1, 1978 | Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747, crashes into the Arabian Sea off the coast of Bombay, India, due to instrument failure, spatial disorientation, and pilot error, killing all 213 people on board. |
| January 4, 1999 | Former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura is sworn in as governor of Minnesota, United States. |
| January 28, 1591 | Execution of Agnes Sampson, accused of witchcraft in Edinburgh. |
| January 23, 1937 | The trial of the anti-Soviet Trotskyist center sees seventeen mid-level Communists accused of sympathizing with Leon Trotsky and plotting to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime. |
| January 4, 1885 | Sino-French War: French troops under General Oscar de Négrier defeat a numerically superior Qing force at Núi Bop in northern Vietnam. |
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