On this day in History - Jan. 2

• 0366 - The Alamanni cross the frozen Rhine in large numbers, invading Roman Empire.
• 0533 - Mercurius became Pope John II, the first pope to adopt a new name upon elevation to the papacy.
• 1492 - Reconquista: Granada, the last Moorish stronghold in Spain, surrenders. Muhammad XI, was the leader of the last Arab stronghold in Spain, and surrendered to King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella I.
• 1512 - Svante, Regent of Sweden dies (b. 1460).
• 1514 - William Smyth dies (b. c. 1460). English bishop and statesman.
• 1554 - Prince João of Portugal dies (b. 3 Jun 1537). Son of the King of Portugal D. João III.
• 1557 - Pontormo dies (b. 1494). Italian painter.
• 1570 - Tsar Ivan the Terrible march to Novgorod begins .
• 1585 - Spain & Catholic France sign Saint League of Joinville.
• 1602 - Spanish force in Ireland surrender to the English at Kinsdale.
• 1642 - Mehmed IV was born (d. 1693). Ottoman Sultan.
• 1647 - Nathaniel Bacon was born (d. 1676). English-born American colonist.
• 1685 - Harbottle Grimston dies (b. 1603). English politician.
• 1694 - Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington dies (b. 1651). English politician.
• 1699 - Osman III was born (d. 1757). Ottoman sultan.
• 1713 - Marie Dumesnil was born (d. 1803). French actress.
• 1719 - Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat was born (d. 1797). French shipbuilder.
• 1726 - Domenico Zipoli dies (b. 1688). Italian composer.
• 1727 - James Wolfe was born (d. 1759). British general in French and Indian War.
• 1729 - Johann Daniel Titius was born (d. 1796). Prussian astronomer, physicist, and biologist whose formula (1766) expressing the distances between the planets and the Sun was confirmed by J.E. Bode in 1772, when it was called Bode's Law.
• 1757 - The United Kingdom captures Calcutta, India.
• 1765 - Charles Hatchett was born (d. 1847). English chemist who discovered the element niobium, which he called columbium (1801).
• 1765 - Alvará que manda concretizar o plano que cria o Terreiro Público (área para abastecimento da população na Ribeira de Lisboa).
• 1777 - American Revolutionary War: American forces under the command of George Washington repulsed a British attack at the Battle of the Assunpink Creek near Trenton, New Jersey.
• 1777 - Christian Daniel Rauch was born (d. 1857). German sculptor.
• 1788 - Georgia becomes the 4th state to ratify the United States Constitution.
• 1791 - Big Bottom massacre in the Ohio Country, marking the beginning of the Northwest Indian War.
• 1793 - Russia and Prussia partition Poland.
• 1803 - Charles Thurber was born in E. Brookfield, Mass. (d. 1886). American inventor of the chirographer, an early form of typewriter, patented in 1843.
• 1814 - La Asamblea Representativa de Venezuela otorgó a Simón Bolívar los poderes absolutos.
• 1815 - Lord Byron marries Anna Isabella Milbanke, Seaham, County Durham.
• 1816 - Benjamin Hobson was born at Welford, Northamptonshire (d. 1873). English medical missionary to China.
• 1816 - Louis Bernard Guyton de Morveau dies (b. 1737) . French chemist who collaborated with Lavoisier and others to establish a systematic chemical nomenclature, helping to distinguish elements from compounds.
• 1818 - The British Institution of Civil Engineers formed.
• 1822 - Rudolf Clausius was born (d. 1888). German mathematical physicist who was one of the founders of thermodynamics.
• 1825 - Brasil e Argentina iniciam a Guerra Cisplatina pela posse da Banda Oriental, atual Uruguai.
• 1827 - Peter Semenov of Tian Shan was born (d. 1914). Russian explorer.
• 1830 - Henry Flagler was born (d. 1913). American financier.
• 1831 - Liberator, abolitionist newspaper, begins publishing in Boston.
• 1833 - Re-establishment of British rule on the Falklands.
• 1833 - Frederick A. Johnson was born (d. 1893). American politician.
• 1833 - Seraphim of Sarov dies (b. 1759). Russian Orthodox saint.
• 1836 - Mendele Moykher Sforim was born (d. 1917). Jewish writer.
• 1836 - Queen Emma of Hawaii was born (d. 1885). Consort of King Kamehameha IV.
• 1837 - Mily Balakirev was born (d. 1910). Russian composer.
• 1839 - Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre took the first photograph of the Moon.
• 1842 - the first wire suspension bridge was opened to traffic in Fairmount, Pennsylvania.
• 1859 - Erastus Beadle publishes The Dime Book of Practical Etiquette.
• 1860 - The discovery of the planet Vulcan is announced at a meeting of the Académie des Sciences in Paris.
• 1860 - William Corless Mills was born [d. 1928]; American museum curator who excavated Indian remains in Ohio, especially the Adena Mound (1901), a large earthen Indian burial ground near Chillicothe.
• 1861 - King Frederick William IV of Prussia dies (b. 1795).
• 1863 - Battle of Murfreesboro (Stone's River) ends.
• 1865 - Tomada de Paissandu, marco da Guerra do Paraguai.
• 1866 - Prof Gilbert Murray was born (d. 1957). Australian classical scholar.
• 1868 - Marcos Paz dies (b. 1813). President of Argentina.
• 1870 - Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge begins.
• 1870 - Ernst Barlach was born (d. 1938). German sculptor.
• 1871 - Amadeus I becomes King of Spain.
• 1872 - Albert Coombs Barnes (d. 1951). American chemist who invented the antiseptic Argyrol (1902).
• 1872 - Brigham Young is arrested on charges of bigamy for having 25 wives.
• 1873 - Thérèse de Lisieux, Saint Theresa was born (d. 30 Aug 1867). French Carmelite nun.
• 1877 - Slava Raskaj was born (d. 1906). Croatian painter.
• 1879 - Fred Spofforth claims the first hat-trick in test cricket on the Sydney Cricket Ground against England.
• 1882 - John D. Rockefeller unites his oil holdings into the Standard Oil trust.
• 1886 - Apsley Cherry-Garrard was born (d. 1959). English Antarctic explorer.
• 1886 - Florence Lawrence was born (d. 1938). Canadian actress.
• 1888 - Tito Schipa was born (d. 1965). Italian tenor.
• 1889 - Sir Bertram Stevens was born (d. 1973). Premier of New South Wales 1932-39.
  
• 1889 - Roger Adams was born (d. 1971). American chemist and teacher who joined the faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana in 1916, which he converted into the leading centre of organic chemistry in the U.S. .
• 1889 - Carmine Mirabellli was born at Botucatu, São Paulo (d. 30 Apr 1951). Brazilian religious. Founder of the Centro Espírita São Luís.
• 1890 - Alice Sanger becomes the first female staffer for the White House.
• 1890 - Joaquín V. González fundó la Universidad Nacional de La Plata (Capital de la Pcia de Buenos Aires, Argentina).
• 1890 - Julián Gayarre dies. Spanish opera singer (tenor).
• 1892 - Seiichiro Kashio was born (d. 1962). Japanese tennis player.
• 1892 - Sir George Biddell Airy dies (b. 1801). English astronomer who became the seventh Astronomer Royal (1836-92).
• 1893 - Webb C. Ball of the General Railroad Timepiece Standards in North America introduces railroad chronometers.
• 1893 - Lillian Leitzel was born (d. 1931). German acrobat and strongwoman.
• 1893 - John Obadiah Westwood dies (b. 1805). British entomologist.
• 1895 - Count Folke Bernadotte was born (d. 1948). Swedish diplomat.
  
• 1896 - Battle at Doornkop, South Africa (Boers beat Dr Jamesons troops).
• 1896 - Dziga Vertov was born (d. 1954). Russian filmmaker.
• 1896 - Sir Lawrence Wackett was born (d. 1982). Australian aircraft engineer.
  
• 1897 - Jim Londos was born (d. 1975). Greek wrestler.
• 1900 - John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China.
• 1900 - Chicago Canal opens.
• 1902 - Dan Keating was born (d. 2007). Irish republican.
• 1904 - Sally Rand was born (d. 1979). American fan dancer.
• 1904 - James Longstreet dies (b. 1821). American Confederate general.
• 1905 - The American anarcho-syndicalist union known as the Industrial Workers of the World forms.
• 1905 - Russo-Japanese War: The Russian fleet surrenders at Port Arthur, China.
• 1905 - Elara, a satellite of Jupiter, was discovered by Perrine.
• 1905 - Lev Schnirelmann was born (d. 1938). Russian mathematician.
• 1905 - Luigi Zampa was born (d. 1991). Italian film director and screenwriter.
• 1905 - Michael Tippett was born (d. 1998). English composer.
• 1908 - D. João da Câmara (pdf) dies (b. 27 Dec. 1852). Portuguese poet and dramatist (Os Velhos).
• 1910 - Srirangam Srinivasarao, also known as Sri Sri, was born (d. 1983). Famous Modern Telugu Poet
• 1913 - Anna Lee was born (d. 2004). English actress.
• 1913 - Léon Teisserenc de Bort dies (b. 1855). French meteorologist who discovered the stratosphere (1902).
• 1915 - Carl Goldmark dies (b. 1830). Hungarian composer.
• 1917 - Vera Zorina was born (d. 2003). German dancer.
• 1917 - Sir Edward Burnett Tylor dies (b. 1832). English anthropologist regarded as the founder of cultural anthropology.
• 1917 - The Royal Bank of Canada takes over Quebec Bank.
• 1917 - Vera Zorina was born (d. 2003). German dancer.
• 1917 - Edward Burnett Tylor dies (b. 1832). English anthropologist.
• 1918 - Um incêndio no palácio real da Granja, em Segóvia, queima numerosas obras de arte.
• 1918 - Willi Graf was born (d. 1943). Member of the White Rose (Weiße Rose) resistance group in Nazi Germany.
• 1919 - Lithuania gains independence.
• 1920 – The second Palmer Raid takes place with another 6,000 suspected communists and anarchists arrested and held without trial. These raids take place in several U.S. cities.
• 1920 - Isaac Asimov was born (d. 1992). American author and biochemist, who was a prolific writer of science fiction.
• 1920 - Paul Adam dies (b. 1862). French novelist.
• 1921 - Cruzeiro Esporte Clube is founded (Brazil).
• 1921 - The first religious radio broadcast (KDKA AM in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania).
• 1921 - DeYoung Museum in Golden Gate Park San Francisco opens.
• 1921 - Glen Harmon was born. National Hockey League defenceman.
• 1923 - U.S. Interior Secretary Albert Fall resigns due to the Teapot Dome scandal.
• 1923 - The African-American town of Rosewood, Fla., was burned by Ku Klux Klan (8 killed).
• 1923 - Mário Henrique-Leiria was born in Lisbon (d. 9 Jan 1980 in Cascais). Portuguese writer and painter.
• 1924 - Sabine Baring-Gould dies (b. 1834). English composer and novelist.
• 1925 - Larry Harmon was born (d. 2008). American entertainer and TV producer.
• 1925 - William J. Crowe was born (d. 2007). American admiral and ambassador.
• 1928 - Avie Bennett was born. Canadian philanthropist.
• 1928 - Daisaku Ikeda was born. Japanese writer, president of SGI.
• 1928 - Robert Goralski was born (d. 1988). American journalist.
• 1929 - Canada and the United States agree on a plan to preserve Niagara Falls.
• 1930 - Chiang-Kai-Chek assume a chefia do poder civil na China.
• 1930 - Julius LaRosa was born. American singer.
• 1931 - Toshiki Kaifu was born. Japanese politician.
• 1933 - US troops leave Nicaragua.
• 1933 - Ed Casey was born (d. 2006). Australian politician.
• 1933 - Morimura Seiichi was born. Japanese novelist.
• 1935 - Bruno Hauptmann goes on trial for the murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr., infant son of aviator Charles Lindbergh.
• 1935 - The Bruno R. Hauptmann trial began for the kidnap and murder of the Lindbergh baby.
• 1935 - Neil Downing was born. Irish writer and musician.
• 1936 - the first electron tube to enable night vision was described, in St Louis, Mo.
• 1936 - Roger Miller was born in Ft Worth Texas (d. 1992). American country singer (King of the Road, Dang Me).
• 1936 - José Leonardo Coimbra dies (b. 30 Dec 1883). Portuguese philosopher and professor.
• 1936 - Sir Francis Newdegate dies (b. 1862). Governor of Tasmania, Western Australia.
• 1938 - Hans Herbjørnsrud was born. Norwegian author.
• 1938 - Ian Brady was born. British serial killer.
• 1939 - José Vera Jardim was born. Portuguese politician.
• 1939 - Roman Dmowski dies (b. 1864). Polish politician.
• 1940 - Jim Bakker was born. American televangelist.
• 1940 - S. R. S. Varadhan was born. Indian-American mathematician.
• 1941 - World War II: German bombing severely damages the Llandaff Cathedral in Cardiff, Wales.
• 1941 - World War II: The U.S. government announces its Liberty ship program with a stated goal of building 200 freighters. Over 2,700 ships will eventually be constructed by the end of the war.
• 1941 - Donald B. Keck was born. American research physicist, who with his colleagues at Corning Glass, Dr. Robert Maurer and Dr. Peter Schultz, invented fused silica optical waveguide - optical fiber.
• 1941 - Mischa Levitzki dies (b. 1898). Russian-American pianist.
• 1942 - World War II: Manila is captured by Japanese forces.
• 1942 - The United States Navy opens a blimp base at Lakehurst, New Jersey.
• 1942 - The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) convicts 33 members of a German spy ring headed by Fritz Joubert Duquesne in the largest espionage case in United States history - the Duquesne Spy Ring.
• 1942 - Dennis Hastert was born. 59th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.
• 1942 - Hugh Shelton was born. 15th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
• 1943 - Barış Manço was born (d. 1999). Turkish singer and television producer.
• 1944 - Prince Norodom Ranariddh was born. Cambodian politician.
• 1945 – World War II: Nuremberg (in German Nürnberg) is severely bombed by Allies forces.
• 1945 - Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay dies (b. 1883). British naval commander.
• 1946 - Unable to resume rule after World War II, King Zog of Albania abdicates but retains his claim to the throne.
• 1946 - Richard Cole was born. American tour manager.
• 1946 - Joe Darling dies (b. 1870). Australian cricketer.
• 1947 - Aleksandr Tikhonova was born. USSR biathalon relay (Olympics-gold-1968, 72, 76, 80).
• 1947 - Calvin Hill was born. American football player.
• 1947 – David Shapiro was born. American poet, literary critic, and art historian.
• 1947 - Jack Hanna was born. American zoologist.
• 1948 - Vicente Huidobro dies (b. 10 Jan 1893). Chilean poet.
• 1949 - Luis Muñoz Marín became the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico.
• 1949 - Christopher Durang was born. American playwright.
• 1950 - David Shifrin was born. American classical clarinetist.
• 1950 - Débora Susan Duken [Débora Duarte] was born in São Paulo. Brazilian actress.
• 1950 - Emil Jannings dies (b. 1884). Swiss actor and the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor.
• 1950 - James Dooley dies (b. 1877). Premier of New South Wales.
• 1951 - Alexander Pogrebinsky was born. Russian painter.
• 1951 - Bill Madlock was born. Major League Baseball player.
• 1951 - Sir William Campion dies (b. 1870). Governor of Western Australia.
• 1952 - Graeme Strachan was born (d. 2001). Australian rock singer (Skyhooks).
• 1954 - Henry Bonilla was born. American politician.
• 1954 - Dawn Silva was born. American singer (The Brides of Funkenstein, P-Funk).
• 1955 - Panamanian president Jose Antonio Remon is assassinated.
• 1955 - Tex Brashear was born. American voice actor.
• 1955 - Vivien Savage was born. French singer.
• 1955 - José Norton de Matos dies (b. 23 Mar 1867). Portuguese general and politician.
• 1956 - Lynda Barry was born. American cartoonist.
• 1957 - The San Francisco and Los Angeles stock exchanges merge.
• 1957 - Joanna Pacula was born. Polish actress.
• 1958 - Vladimir Ovchinnikov was born. Russian pianist.
• 1959 - CBS Radio cuts four soap operas: Backstage Wife Our Gal Sunday, Road of Life, and This is Nora Drake.
• 1959 - Luna 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the sun, is launched by the U.S.S.R.
• 1959 - Chris van Abkoude dies (b. 1880). Dutch-American writer and novelist.
• 1960 - Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts announces his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination.
• 1960 - Christian Bartolf was born. German scientist.
• 1960 - Naoki Urasawa was born. Japanese manga author.
• 1960 - Fausto Coppi dies (b. 1919). Italian cyclist.
• 1960 - Paul Sauvé dies (b. 1907). Politician, Premier of Quebec.
• 1961 - Gabrielle Carteris was born. American actress.
• 1961 - Todd Haynes was born. American film director.
• 1963 - David Cone was born. American baseball player.
• 1963 - Edgar Martinez was born. American baseball player.
• 1963 - Dick Powell dies (b. 1904). American actor.
• 1963 - Jack Carson dies (b. 1910). American actor.
• 1964 - Kwame (Francis Nwia Kofie) Nkrumah, Ghana's first president, survives a fifth assassination attempt.
• 1964 - Pernell Whitaker was born. American boxer.
• 1965 - The New York Jets sign University of Alabama quarterback Joe Namath for a reported $400,000.
• 1965 - Ayub Khan elected President of Pakistan.
• 1965 - Diane Lane was born. American actress.
• 1965 - Greg Swindell was born. American baseball player.
• 1967 - Francois Pienaar was born. South African rugby player.
• 1967 - Jón Gnarr was born. Icelandic comedian.
• 1967 - Tia Carrere was born. American actress.
• 1968 - Dr Christiaan Neethling Barnard performs his second successful heart transplant.
• 1968 - Anky van Grunsven was born. Dutch dressage champion
• 1968 - Cuba Gooding Jr. was born. American actor (Boyz N the Hood, Gadiator, Few Good Men).
• 1968 - Evan Parke was born. Jamaican actor.
• 1968 - Goichi Suda was born. CEO of Grasshopper Manufacture.
• 1969 - Luis Ferré becomes the first statehooder Governor of Puerto Rico.
• 1969 - Operation Barrier Reef began in Mekong Delta, Vietnam.
• 1969 - Christy Turlington was born in California. American fashion model (Calvin Klein Eternity).
• 1969 - Domingos was born in Leça da Palmeira. Portuguese former football player (FC Porto) and now coach (Académica).
• 1969 - Glen Johnson was born. Jamaican boxer.
• 1969 - Karl-Heinz Grasser was born. Austrian politician.
• 1969 - Robby Gordon was born. American racing driver.
• 1969 - Róbert Švehla was born. Slovak ice hockey player.
• 1969 - Patrick Huard was born. Quebec actor and comedian.
• 1969 - Tommy Morrison was born. American boxer.
• 1970 - Robert Fertitta was born. American opera singer.
• 1970 - Royce Clayton was born. American baseball player.
• 1970 - Sanda Ladoşi was born. Romanian singer.
• 1971 - The second Ibrox disaster kills 66 fans at a Rangers-Celtic football match.
• 1971 - Lisa Harrison was born. American basketball player.
• 1971 - Renee Elise Goldsberry was born. African American actress and singer.
• 1971 - Taye Diggs was born. American actor.
• 1971 - Willard Maas dies (b. 1906). American educator and experimental filmmaker.
• 1972 - Adam Elliot was born. Australian animator.
• 1972 - Christopher Lennertz was born. American composer.
• 1972 - Hristos Meletoglou was born. Greek triple jumper.
• 1972 - Rita Guedes was born. Brazilian actress.
• 1972 - Taye Diggs was born. American actor.
• 1972 - Lillian Evelyn (Moller) Gilbreth dies (b. 1878). American efficiency expert, who as wife of Frank Bunker Gilbreth, contracting engineer, together developed the method of time-and-motion study.
• 1973 - Lucy Davis was born. British actress.
• 1973 - Will Kirby was born. American actor.
• 1974 - Richard Nixon signs a bill lowering the maximum US speed limit to 55 MPH in order to conserve gasoline during an OPEC embargo.
• 1974 - Patrick Fonti was born. American musician.
• 1974 - Tex Ritter dies (b. 1905). American actor, singer.
• 1974 - President Richard Nixon signs a bill lowering the maximum U.S. speed limit to 55 MPH in order to conserve gasoline during an OPEC embargo.
• 1975 - Chris Cheney was born. Australian musician (The Living End).
• 1975 - Dax Shepard was borm. American actor.
• 1975 - Doug Robb was born. American singer (Hoobastank).
• 1975 - Reuben Thorne was born. New Zealand rugby union player.
• 1975 - Sundra Oakley was born. American actress and Survivor contestant.
• 1975 - Hernâni Cidade dies in Évora (b. 1887, Redondo). Portuguese essayst and professor
• 1976 - Cletidus Hunt was born. American football player.
• 1976 - Danilo Di Luca was born. Italian cyclist.
• 1976 - Hrysopiyi Devetzi was born. Triple jump & long jump athlete.
• 1976 - Mahée Paiement was born. Canadian actress.
• 1976 - Paz Vega was born. Spanish actress.
• 1977 - Ales Pisa was born. Czech ice hockey player.
• 1977 - Scott Proctor was born. American baseball player.
• 1977 - Errol Garner dies (b. 1921). American musician.
• 1978 - Toyoguchi Megumi was born. Japanese seiyuu (voice actress).
• 1979 - Sid Vicious goes on trial for the murder of Nancy Spungen.
• 1979 - Jonathan Greening was born. British footballer.
• 1979 - Suranne Jones was born. British actress.
• 1980 - Jérôme Pineau was born. French cyclist.
• 1980 - Mac Danzig was born. American Mixed martial arts combatant.
• 1981 - Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, is arrested.
• 1981 - Hanno Balitsch was born. German footballer.
• 1981 - Kirk Hinrich was born. American basketball player.
• 1981 - Maxi Rodríguez was born. Argentine footballer.
• 1981 - Ryan Garko was born. American baseball player.
• 1982 - Athanasia Tsoumeleka was born. Greek race walker.
• 1983 - The musical Annie is performed for the last time after 2,377 shows at the Uris Theatre on Broadway.
• 1983 - Kate Bosworth was born. American actress.
• 1984 - Cinco barcos iranianos são atacados e destruídos pela Armada do Iraque no Golfo Pérsico.
• 1984 - Colleen Taylor was born. American journalist.
• 1984 - Dick Emery was born (d. 1915). English comedian.
• 1985 - Heather O'Reilly was born. American soccer player.
• 1986 - Bill Veeck dies (b. 1914). American baseball executive.
• 1986 - Dick James was born (d. 1920). English music publisher (Northern Songs).
• 1986 - Una Merkel dies (b. 1903). American actress.
• 1987 - Loui Batley was born. British actress.
• 1987 - Syesha Mercado was born. American singer.
• 1988 - Jonny Evans was born. Northern Irish footballer.
• 1990 - Alan Hale Jr. dies (b. 1918). American actor.
• 1991 - Sharon Pratt Dixon is sworn in as mayor of Washington, DC becoming the first African American woman to lead a city of that size and importance.
• 1992 - Paraguay becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
• 1993 - Leaders of the three warring factions in Bosnia meet to discuss peace plans.
• 1994 - Dr Christiaan Neethling Barnard performs his second successful heart transplant.
• 1994 - Dixy Lee Ray dies (b. 1914). Margaret Ray, American marine biologist whose interests extended to the environment. A year after appointment to the Atomic Energy Commission, she became its first female chair (1973-75) and championed nuclear power plant construction. On 2 Nov 1976, Ray won election as the first woman to be governor of Washington state.
• 1994 - Mais de 70 pessoas morrem e 670 são feridas durante dois dias de luta entre facções na capital afegã de Cabul.
• 1994 - Dixy Lee Ray dies (b. 1914). American politician.
• 1994 - Pierre-Paul Schweitzer dies (b. 1915). Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund.
• 1995 - the most distant galaxy yet discovered was found by scientists using the Keck telescope in Hawaii. It is estimated to be 15 billion light years away and was named 8C 1435+63.
• 1995 - Manuel Rivera dies in Madrid (b. 1928, Granada). Spanish Painter, co-founder of El Paso.
• 1995 - Nancy Kelly dies (b. 1921). American actress.
• 1995 - Siad Barre dies. President of Somalia.
• 1995 - Pinheiro Rosa dies. Portuguese historian investigator.
• 1996 - O presidente egípcio Hosni Mubarak escolhe Kamal Ganzouri como seu novo primeiro-ministro após a renuncia de Atef Sedki.
• 1996 - Thornton Page dies at 82. Astrophysicist.
• 1996 - Karl Targownik dies (b. 1915). Hungarian psychiatrist.
• 1997 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Columbus OH on WBZX 99.7 FM .
• 1997 - Randy California dies (b. 1951). American guitarist & songwriter (Spirit).
• 1998 - Russia begins to circulate new rubles to stem inflation and promote confidence.
• 1998 - Frank Muir dies (b. 1920). English writer, raconteur.
• 1999 - A brutal snowstorm smashes into the Midwestern USA, causing 14 inches (359mm) of snow at Milwaukee, Wisconsin and 19 inches (487mm) at Chicago, Illinois.Temperatures plunge to -13°F (-25°C), and 68 deaths are reported.
• 1999 - Sebastian Haffner dies (b. 1907). German journalist and author.
• 2000 - Nat Adderley dies (b. 1931). American musician and composer.
• 2000 - Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr. dies (b. 1920). U.S. admiral, 19th Chief of Naval Operations.
• 2000 - Patrick O'Brian dies (b. 1914). Novelist.
• 2001 - Sila Calderón becomes the first female Governor of Puerto Rico.
• 2001 - Teri Diver dies (b. 1971). American actress.
• 2001 - William P. Rogers dies (b. 1913). American politician.
• 2002 - Levy Mwanawasa takes office as the third President of Zambia.
• 2002 - Eduardo Duhalde is appointed interim President of Argentina by the Legislative Assembly.
• 2002 - Levy Mwanawasa took office as the third President of Zambia.
• 2002 - Armi Aavikko dies (b. 1958). Finnish singer.
• 2003 - A crise argentina continua. O Congresso argentino conduz Eduardo Duhalde, derrotado nas eleições, ao poder. Jorge Lenicov assume a pasta da Economia e anuncia que vai desvalorizar a moeda após uma década de paridade cambial com o dólar.
• 2003 - Eric Jupp dies (b. 1922). British-Australian pianist, composer, arranger.
• 2004 - Stardust successfully flies past Comet Wild 2, collecting samples that it will return to Earth two years later.
• 2004 - Eduardo Guerra Carneiro dies in Lisbon (b. in Chaves 04 Oct. 1942). Portuguese journalist and poet.
• 2004 - Jess Collins dies (b. 1923). American artist.
• 2004 - Lynn Cartwright dies (b. 1927). American actress.
• 2005 - Cyril Fletcher dies (b. 1913). British comedian.
• 2005 - Edo Murtić dies (b. 1921). Croatian painter.
• 2005 - Frank Kelly Freas dies (b. 1922). American artist.
• 2005 - Maclyn McCarty dies (b. 1911). American geneticist.
• 2005 - Ronald 'Bo' Ginn dies (b. 1934). U.S. Congressman from Georgia.
• 2006 - An explosion in a coal mine leads to the death of 12 of 13 miners in the 2006 Sago Mine disaster in West Virginia.
• 2006 - Fifteen people die in the Bad Reichenhall ice rink roof collapse tragedy in Bavaria, Germany
• 2006 - Cecilia Muñoz-Palma dies (b. 1913). First female Philippine Supreme Court Justice.
• 2007 - Dan Shaver dies (b. 1950). NASCAR driver and ARCA race car driver/owner.
• 2007 - David Perkins dies (b. 1919). Stanford University geneticist.
• 2007 - Don Massengale dies (b. 1937). American PGA Tour golf player.
• 2007 - Elizabeth Fox-Genovese dies (b. 1941). American historian.
• 2007 - Garry Betty dies (b. 1957). American CEO of Earthlink.
• 2007 - Mauno Jokipii dies (b. 1924). Finnish professor and World War II researcher.
• 2007 - Paek Nam-sun dies (b. 1929). North Korean Foreign Affairs minister.
• 2007 - Richard Newton dies (b. 1951). Australian-born technology pioneer and professor.
• 2007 - Robert C. Solomon dies (b. 1942). American scholar of continental philosophy.
• 2007 - Teddy Kollek dies (b. 1911). Austrian-born mayor of Jerusalem.
• 2008 - Gerry Staley dies (b. 1920). American baseball player.
• 2008 - Her Royal Highness Princess Galyani Vadhana Krommaluang Narathiwat Rajanagarindra dies (b. 1923). Elder sister of His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand.
• 2008 - George MacDonald Fraser dies (b. 1925). British author.
• 2008 – Gerry Staley dies (b. 1920). American baseball player.
• 2008 - Lee S. Dreyfus dies (b. 1926). American politician.
• 2009 – Inger Christensen dies (b. 1935). Danish poet.
• 2009 – Maria de Jesus dies (b. 1893). Portuguese supercentenarian.
• 2010 - David R. Ross dies (b. 1958). Scottish author and historian.
  
• Catholicism and Anglicanism — Feast day of St. Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzen.
• The second day of New Year (A holiday in Kazakhstan, Macedonia, Montenegro, New Zealand, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Ukraine).
• Ancestry Day (Haiti)
• Berchtold’s Day (Switzerland, Liechtenstein and the Alsace)