Events
Pre-1600
*
690
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– Empress
Wu Zetian
Wu Zetian (17 February 624 – 16 December 705), personal name Wu Zhao, was the ''de facto'' ruler of the Tang dynasty from 665 to 705, ruling first through others and then (from 690) in her own right. From 665 to 690, she was first empres ...
establishes the
Zhou Dynasty
The Zhou dynasty ( ; Old Chinese ( B&S): *''tiw'') was a royal dynasty of China that followed the Shang dynasty. Having lasted 789 years, the Zhou dynasty was the longest dynastic regime in Chinese history. The military control of China by th ...
of China.
*
1091
Year 1091 ( MXCI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
* Spring – Tzachas, a Seljuk Turkish military commander, establishes an in ...
–
London tornado of 1091
The London Tornado of 1091 is the earliest reported tornado in England, occurring in London on Friday, 17 October 1091. It has been reckoned by modern assessment as possibly a T8 on the TORRO scale (roughly equivalent to an F4 on the Fujita scal ...
: A tornado thought to be of strength T8/F4 strikes the heart of London.
*
1346
Year 1346 ( MCCCXLVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. It was a year in the 14th century, in the midst of a period known in European history as the Late Middle Ages. In Asia that year, the Black Death came to the troop ...
– The English capture
King David II of Scotland at
Neville's Cross and imprison him for eleven years.
*
1448
Year 1448 ( MCDXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
* January 6 – Christopher of Bavaria, King of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, dies with ...
– An Ottoman army defeats a Hungarian army at the
Second Battle of Kosovo
The Second Battle of Kosovo ( Hungarian: ''második rigómezei csata'', Turkish: ''İkinci Kosova Muharebesi'') (17–20 October 1448) was a land battle between a Hungarian-led Crusader army and the Ottoman Empire at Kosovo Polje. It was ...
.
*
1456
Year 1456 ( MCDLVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
* May 18 – Second Battle of Oronichea (1456): Ottoman Forces of 15,000 are sent t ...
– The
University of Greifswald is established as the second oldest university in northern Europe.
*
1534
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Year 1534 ( MDXXXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
* January 15 – The Parliament of England passes the ''Act Respecting th ...
–
Anti-Catholic posters appear in Paris and other cities supporting Huldrych Zwingli's position on the Mass.
*
1558
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Year 1558 ( MDLVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
* January 7 – French troops, led by Francis, Duke of Guise, take Calais, ...
–
Poczta Polska, the Polish postal service, is founded.
1601–1900
*
1604
Events
January–June
* January 1 – '' The Masque of Indian and China Knights'' is performed by courtiers of James VI and I at Hampton Court.
* January 14 – The Hampton Court Conference is held between James I of England ...
–
Kepler's Supernova
SN 1604, also known as Kepler's Supernova, Kepler's Nova or Kepler's Star, was a Type Ia supernova that occurred in the Milky Way, in the constellation Ophiuchus. Appearing in 1604, it is the most recent supernova in the Milky Way galaxy to have ...
is observed in the constellation of Ophiuchus.
*
1610
Some have suggested that 1610 may mark the beginning of the Anthropocene, or the 'Age of Man', marking a fundamental change in the relationship between humans and the Earth system, but earlier starting dates (ca. 1000 C.E.) have received broa ...
– French king
Louis XIII
Louis XIII (; sometimes called the Just; 27 September 1601 – 14 May 1643) was King of France from 1610 until his death in 1643 and King of Navarre (as Louis II) from 1610 to 1620, when the crown of Navarre was merged with the French crown ...
is crowned in Reims Cathedral.
*
1660
Events
January–March
* January 1
** At daybreak, English Army Colonel George Monck, with two brigades of troops from his Scottish occupational force, fords the River Tweed at Coldstream in Scotland to cross the border into England ...
– The
nine regicides who signed the death warrant of
Charles I of England
Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649) was King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until Execution of Charles I, his execution in 1649. He was born into the House of Stuart as the second son of King James VI of ...
are hanged, drawn and quartered.
*
1662
Events
January–March
* January 4 – Dziaddin Mukarram Shah becomes the new Sultan of Kedah, an independent kingdom on the Malay Peninsula, upon the death of his father, Sultan Muhyiddin Mansur.
* January 10 – At the ...
– Charles II of England
sells Dunkirk to Louis XIV of France for 40,000 pounds.
*
1713
Events
January–March
* January 17 – Tuscarora War: Colonel James Moore leads the Carolina militia out of Albemarle County, North Carolina, in a second offensive against the Tuscarora. Heavy snows force the troops to take ref ...
–
Great Northern War
The Great Northern War (1700–1721) was a conflict in which a coalition led by the Tsardom of Russia successfully contested the supremacy of the Swedish Empire in Northern, Central and Eastern Europe. The initial leaders of the anti-Swedi ...
:
Russia
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ...
defeated
Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on ...
in the
Battle of Kostianvirta in
Pälkäne.
*
1771
Events January– March
* January 5 – The Great Kalmyk (Torghut) Migration is led by Ubashi Khan, from the east bank of the Lower Volga River back to the homeland of Dzungaria, at this time under Qing Dynasty rule.
* January 9 ...
– Premiere in Milan of the opera ''
Ascanio in Alba'', composed by Mozart at age 15.
*
1777
Events
January–March
* January 2 – American Revolutionary War – Battle of the Assunpink Creek: American general George Washington's army repulses a British attack by Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis, in a second ...
–
American Revolutionary War
The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was a major war of the American Revolution. Widely considered as the war that secured the independence of t ...
: British General John Burgoyne surrenders his army
at Saratoga, New York.
*
1781
Events
January–March
* January – William Pitt the Younger, later Prime Minister of Great Britain, enters Parliament, aged 21.
* January 1 – Industrial Revolution: The Iron Bridge opens across the River Severn in Eng ...
– American Revolutionary War: British General Charles, Earl Cornwallis surrenders at the
Siege of Yorktown
The Siege of Yorktown, also known as the Battle of Yorktown, the surrender at Yorktown, or the German battle (from the presence of Germans in all three armies), beginning on September 28, 1781, and ending on October 19, 1781, at Yorktown, Virgi ...
.
*
1800
As of March 1 ( O.S. February 18), when the Julian calendar acknowledged a leap day and the Gregorian calendar did not, the Julian calendar fell one day further behind, bringing the difference to 12 days until February 28 ( O.S. February 16), ...
– War of the Second Coalition: Britain
takes control of the Dutch colony of Curaçao.
*
1806
Events
January–March
* January 1
** The French Republican Calendar is abolished.
** The Kingdom of Bavaria is established by Napoleon.
* January 5 – The body of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, lies in state in the Painted Hall ...
– Former leader of the Haitian Revolution, Emperor
Jacques I
Jean-Jacques Dessalines (Haitian Creole: ''Jan-Jak Desalin''; ; 20 September 1758 – 17 October 1806) was a leader of the Haitian Revolution and the first ruler of an independent Haiti under the 1805 constitution. Under Dessalines, Haiti bec ...
, is assassinated after an oppressive rule.
*
1811
Events
January–March
* January 8 – An unsuccessful slave revolt is led by Charles Deslondes, in St. Charles and St. James Parishes, Louisiana.
* January 17 – Mexican War of Independence – Battle of Calderón Brid ...
– The silver deposits of
Agua Amarga
Agua Amarga (lit. ''Bitter Water'') is a silver deposit and defunct mining district in Chile's Atacama Region. It is located 30 km south of Vallenar. Agua Amarga was discovered in 1811 and its silver was instrumental to finance the Chilean W ...
are discovered in Chile becoming in the following years instrumental for the
Patriots to finance the
Chilean War of Independence.
*
1814
Events January
* January 1 – War of the Sixth Coalition – The Royal Prussian Army led by Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher crosses the Rhine.
* January 3
** War of the Sixth Coalition – Siege of Cattaro: French garrison s ...
– Eight people die in the
London Beer Flood.
*
1850
Events
January–June
* April
** Pope Pius IX returns from exile to Rome.
** Stephen Foster's parlor ballad "Ah! May the Red Rose Live Alway" is published in the United States.
* April 4 – Los Angeles is incorporated as a cit ...
– Riots start, which lead to a
massacre in Aleppo.
*
1860
Events
January–March
* January 2 – The discovery of a hypothetical planet Vulcan is announced at a meeting of the French Academy of Sciences in Paris, France.
* January 10 – The Pemberton Mill in Lawrence, Massachusett ...
– First
The Open Championship (referred to in North America as the ''British Open'').
*
1861
Statistically, this year is considered the end of the whale oil industry and (in replacement) the beginning of the petroleum oil industry.
Events
January–March
* January 1
** Benito Juárez captures Mexico City.
** The first steam-p ...
– Aboriginal Australians kill nineteen Europeans in the
Cullin-la-ringo massacre
The Cullin-la-ringo massacre, known historically as the Wills tragedy, was a massacre of white colonists by Indigenous people that occurred north of modern-day Springsure in Central Queensland, Australia on 17 October 1861. Nineteen men, wom ...
.
1901–present
*
1907
Events
January
* January 14 – 1907 Kingston earthquake: A 6.5 Mw earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica, kills between 800 and 1,000.
February
* February 11 – The French warship ''Jean Bart'' sinks off the coast of Morocco. ...
–
Marconi begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service.
*
1912
Events January
* January 1 – The Republic of China (1912–49), Republic of China is established.
* January 5 – The Prague Conference (6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party) opens.
* January 6 ...
– Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the
First Balkan War.
*
1919
Events
January
* January 1
** The Czechoslovak Legions occupy much of the self-proclaimed "free city" of Pressburg (now Bratislava), enforcing its incorporation into the new republic of Czechoslovakia.
** HMY ''Iolaire'' sinks off the c ...
–
Leeds United F.C. founded at Salem Chapel, Holbeck after the winding up of
Leeds City F.C.
Leeds City Football Club was the leading professional club in Leeds, England, before the First World War. It was dissolved in 1919 due to financial irregularities, after which Leeds United was established as a replacement.
History
The club was ...
for making illegal payments to players during
World War I
*
1931
Events
January
* January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics.
* January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa.
* January 22 – Sir I ...
–
Al Capone
Alphonse Gabriel Capone (; January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947), sometimes known by the nickname "Scarface", was an American gangster and businessman who attained notoriety during the Prohibition era as the co-founder and boss of the ...
is convicted of income tax evasion.
*
1933
Events
January
* January 11 – Sir Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand.
* January 17 – The United States Congress votes in favour of Philippines independence, against the wis ...
–
Albert Einstein flees Nazi Germany and moves to the United States.
*
1940
A calendar from 1940 according to the Gregorian calendar, factoring in the dates of Easter and related holidays, cannot be used again until the year 5280.
Events
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
*January ...
– The body of Communist propagandist
Willi Münzenberg is found in South France, starting a never-resolved mystery.
*
1941
Events
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
* January–August – 10,072 men, women and children with mental and physical disabilities are asphyxiated with carbon monoxide in a gas chamber, at Hadamar Eu ...
– World War II: The
USS ''Kearny'' becomes the first U.S. Navy vessel to be torpedoed by a U-boat.
*
1943
Events
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
* January 1 – WWII: The Soviet Union announces that 22 German divisions have been encircled at Stalingrad, with 175,000 killed and 137,650 captured.
* January 4 – ...
– The
Burma Railway (Burma–Thailand Railway) is completed.
* 1943 – Nazi Holocaust in Poland:
Sobibór extermination camp is closed.
*
1945
1945 marked the end of World War II and the fall of Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan. It is also the only year in which nuclear weapons have been used in combat.
Events
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
Januar ...
– A
massive demonstration in Buenos Aires, Argentina, demands Juan Perón's release.
*
1952
Events January–February
* January 26 – Black Saturday in Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses.
* February 6
** Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh, becomes m ...
– Indonesian Army elements
surrounded the Merdeka Palace demanding President Sukarno disband the
Provisional People's Representative Council
The Provisional People's Representative Council ( id, Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat Sementara) was the first Indonesian legislature under the Provisional Constitution of 1950. The council was formed after the transition of Indonesia to a unitary state ...
.
*
1956
Events
January
* January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan.
* January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim ...
– The first commercial nuclear power station is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in
Sellafield
Sellafield is a large multi-function nuclear site close to Seascale on the coast of Cumbria, England. As of August 2022, primary activities are nuclear waste processing and storage and nuclear decommissioning. Former activities included nucle ...
, England.
*
1961
Events January
* January 3
** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba ( Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015).
** Aero Flight 311 ...
– Directed by their chief
Maurice Papon, Paris police
massacre scores of
Algerian
Algerian may refer to:
* Something of, or related to Algeria
* Algerian people
This article is about the demographic features of the population of Algeria, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, econo ...
protesters.
*
1961
Events January
* January 3
** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba ( Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015).
** Aero Flight 311 ...
– The first attempt of the
apartheid analogy by
Ahmad Shukeiri.
*
1965
Events January–February
* January 14 – The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years.
* January 20
** Lyndon B. Johnson is Second inauguration of Lyndo ...
– The
1964–65 New York World's Fair closes after two years and more than 51 million attendees.
*
1966
Events January
* January 1 – In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa takes over as military ruler of the Central African Republic, ousting President David Dacko.
* January 3 – 1966 Upper Voltan coup d'état: President Maurice Yaméogo i ...
– The
23rd Street Fire
The 23rd Street Fire was an incident that took place in the Flatiron District neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, on October 17, 1966. A group of firefighters from the New York City Fire Department responding to a fire at 7 East 22nd Street ...
in New York City kills 12 firefighters.
*
1969
This year is notable for Apollo 11's first landing on the moon.
Events January
* January 4 – The Government of Spain hands over Ifni to Morocco.
* January 5
**Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 crashes into a house on its approach to ...
– The
Caravaggio
Michelangelo Merisi (Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi) da Caravaggio, known as simply Caravaggio (, , ; 29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610), was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his artistic life. During the final four years of hi ...
painting ''
Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence
''Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence'' is a painting of the nativity of Jesus from 1609 by Italian painter Caravaggio. It has been missing since 1969 when it was stolen from the Oratory of Saint Lawrence in Palermo. Investigators believe ...
'' is stolen from the
Oratory of Saint Lawrence
The Oratory of Saint Lawrence ( it, Oratorio di San Lorenzo) is a Baroque oratory of Palermo. It is located near the Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi, in the quarter of the Kalsa, within the historic centre of Palermo.
The oratory was built ...
in
Palermo
Palermo ( , ; scn, Palermu , locally also or ) is a city in southern Italy, the capital (political), capital of both the autonomous area, autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan ...
.
*
1970
Events
January
* January 1 – Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC.
* January 5 – The 7.1 Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity scale, Mercalli intensity of X (''Extrem ...
– FLQ
terrorists murder Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte.
*
1973
Events January
* January 1 - The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union.
* January 15 – Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, U.S. ...
– OPEC imposes an
oil embargo An oil embargo is an economic situation wherein entities engage in an embargo to limit the transport of petroleum to or from an area, in order to exact some desired outcome. One commentator states, " oil embargo is not a common commercial practice; ...
against countries they deem to have helped Israel in the ''Yom Kippur War''.
*
1977
Events January
* January 8 – Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group.
* January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (now the Democratic R ...
– The hijacked
Lufthansa Flight 181 lands in Mogadishu. The remaining hostages are later rescued.
*
1979
Events
January
* January 1
** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song ...
–
Mother Teresa is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
* 1979 – The
Department of Education Organization Act creates the U.S. Department of Education.
*
1980
Events January
* January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission.
* January 6 – Global Positioning System time epoch begins at 00:00 UTC.
* January 9 – ...
– As part of the
Holy See–United Kingdom relations a British monarch makes the first state visit to the Vatican.
*
1988
File:1988 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The oil platform Piper Alpha explodes and collapses in the North Sea, killing 165 workers; The USS Vincennes (CG-49) mistakenly shoots down Iran Air Flight 655; Australia celebrates its Australian ...
–
Uganda Airlines Flight 775 crashes at
Rome–Fiumicino International Airport, in
Rome,
Italy, killing 33 people.
*
1989
File:1989 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Cypress Street Viaduct, Cypress structure collapses as a result of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, killing motorists below; The proposal document for the World Wide Web is submitted; The Exxo ...
– The 6.9
Loma Prieta earthquake
The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake occurred on California's Central Coast on October 17 at local time. The shock was centered in The Forest of Nisene Marks State Park in Santa Cruz County, approximately northeast of Santa Cruz on a section of t ...
shakes the San Francisco Bay Area and the Central Coast, killing 63.
* 1989 – The East German Politburo votes to remove
Erich Honecker from his role as General Secretary.
*
1991
File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, elected as Russia's first president, waves the new flag of Russia after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, orchestrated by Soviet hardliners; Mount Pinatubo erupts in the Phil ...
–
1991 Rudrapur bombings
1991 Rudrapur bombings were bombings by the suspected terrorists in 1991 in Rudrapur, Uttarakhand, Rudrapur city in Indian state of Uttarakhand. Two bombs were exploded on 17 October 1991. The first bomb exploded when people were watching Ramli ...
by Sikh separatists, who explode two bombs, during a
Ramlila Hindu
Hindus (; ) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism.Jeffery D. Long (2007), A Vision for Hinduism, IB Tauris, , pages 35–37 Historically, the term has also been used as a geographical, cultural, and later religious identifier for ...
celebration in
Rudrapur, Uttarakhand
Rudrapur ( Kumaoni: ''रुद्रपुर'') is a city that serves as the headquarters of the Udham Singh Nagar district in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. Located at a distance of about northeast of New Delhi and south of Dehradun, Rudr ...
, killing 41 people.
*
1992
File:1992 Events Collage V1.png, From left, clockwise: 1992 Los Angeles riots, Riots break out across Los Angeles, California after the Police brutality, police beating of Rodney King; El Al Flight 1862 crashes into a residential apartment buildi ...
– Having gone to the wrong house, Japanese student
Yoshihiro Hattori is killed by the homeowner in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
*
1994
File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which Sinking of the MS Estonia, sank in ...
– Russian journalist
Dmitry Kholodov is assassinated while investigating corruption in the armed forces.
*
2000
File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...
– The
Hatfield rail crash leads to the collapse of Railtrack.
*
2001
The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...
– Israeli tourism minister
Rehavam Ze'evi becomes the first Israeli minister to be assassinated in a terrorist attack.
*
2003
File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an epidemic in China, and was a precursor to SARS-CoV-2; A des ...
–
Taipei 101, a 101-floor skyscraper in Taipei, becomes the world's tallest high-rise.
*
2017
File:2017 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The War Against ISIS at the Battle of Mosul (2016-2017); aftermath of the Manchester Arena bombing; The Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017 ("Great American Eclipse"); North Korea tests a ser ...
–
Syrian civil war: The
Syrian Democratic Forces
, war = the Syrian Civil War
, image = Flag of Syrian Democratic Forces.svgborder
, caption = Flag
, active = 10 October 2015 – present
, ideology = DemocracyDecentralizationSecularism ...
(SDF) capture the last foothold of the
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in
Raqqa, marking the end of the
Battle of Raqqa.
*
2018
File:2018 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in PyeongChang, South Korea; Protests erupt following the Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi; March for Our Lives protests take place across the United ...
– The recreational use of cannabis
is legalized in Canada.
* 2018 –
Kerch Polytechnic College attack
The Kerch Polytechnic College massacre was a school shooting and bomb attack that occurred in Kerch, Crimea, on 17 October 2018. 18-year-old student Vladislav Roslyakov killed 20 people and wounded 70 others before committing suicide. It was ...
in Crimea.
*
2019
File:2019 collage v1.png, From top left, clockwise: Hong Kong protests turn to widespread riots and civil disobedience; House of Representatives votes to adopt articles of impeachment against Donald Trump; CRISPR gene editing first used to experim ...
– Drug dealers in
Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico
force the government to back down on an arrest.
*
2019
File:2019 collage v1.png, From top left, clockwise: Hong Kong protests turn to widespread riots and civil disobedience; House of Representatives votes to adopt articles of impeachment against Donald Trump; CRISPR gene editing first used to experim ...
– The
17 October Revolution
The 17 October Protests, commonly referred to as the 17 October Revolution () is a series of civil protests taking place in Lebanon. These national protests were triggered by planned taxes on gasoline, tobacco, and VoIP calls on applications s ...
starts in
Lebanon.
Births
Pre-1600
*
503
__NOTOC__
Year 503 ( DIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Volusianus and Dixicrates (or, less frequently, year 125 ...
–
Lý Nam Đế
Lý Nam Đế (chữ Hán: 李南帝, 503 – 13 April 548), personal name Lý Bí or Lý Bôn (李賁), was the founder of the Early Lý dynasty of Vietnam, ruling from 544 to 548.
Overview
Lý Bôn (李賁, sometimes read as Lý Bí) was a loc ...
, first emperor of
Vietnam (d. 548)
*
1253
Year 1253 ( MCCLIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place Europe
* January 18 – King Henry I (the Fat) dies and is succeeded by his son Hugh II, w ...
–
Ivo of Kermartin, French priest and saint (d. 1303)
*
1493
Year 1493 ( MCDXCIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
* January 19 – Treaty of Barcelona: Charles VIII of France returns Cerdagne a ...
–
Bartolommeo Bandinelli, Italian sculptor (d. 1560)
*
1500
Year 1500 (Roman numerals, MD) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. The year 1500 was not a leap year in the Proleptic Gregorian calendar.
The year was seen as being especially important by many Christians in Europe, ...
–
Alonso de Orozco Mena
Alonso de Orozco Mena (17 October 1500 – 19 September 1591) was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest from the Augustinian order. He was well known across Spain for his preaching abilities and for an austere and humble life.
He was beatified in 1882 ...
, Spanish Roman Catholic priest (d. 1591)
*
1538
__NOTOC__
Year 1538 (Roman numerals, MDXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
* February 24 – Treaty of Nagyvárad: Peace is declared bet ...
–
Irene di Spilimbergo
Irene di Spilimbergo (17 October 1538 - 17 December 1559) was an Italian Renaissance painter and poet.
Biography
She is mostly known for an effusive volume of poetic elegies published two years after her death by Dionigi Atanagi and containing ...
, Italian Renaissance poet and painter (d. 1559)
*
1577
__NOTOC__
Year 1577 ( MDLXXVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
* January 9 – The second Union of Brussels is formed, first without the P ...
–
Cristofano Allori
Cristofano Allori (17 October 1577 – 1 April 1621) was an Italian painter of the late Florentine Mannerist school, painting mostly portraits and religious subjects. Allori was born at Florence and received his first lessons in painting from his ...
, Italian painter (d. 1621)
* 1577 –
Dmitry Pozharsky, Russian prince (d. 1642)
*
1582
1582 ( MDLXXXII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) in the Julian calendar, and a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Proleptic Gregorian calendar. This year saw the be ...
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Johann Gerhard
Johannes Gerhard (17 October 1582 – 17 August 1637) was a Lutheran church leader and Lutheran Scholastic theologian during the period of Orthodoxy.
Biography
He was born in the German city of Quedlinburg. During a dangerous illness, at the ...
, German theologian and academic (d. 1637)
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1587
Events
January–June
* February 1 – Queen Elizabeth I of England signs the death warrant of her cousin Mary, Queen of Scots, after Mary has been implicated in a plot to murder Elizabeth. Seven days later, on the orders of E ...
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Nathan Field, English dramatist and actor (d. 1620)
1601–1900
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1623
Events
January–March
* January 21 –
**Viscount Falkland, England's Lord Deputy of Ireland, issues a proclamation ordering all Roman Catholic priests to leave Ireland. The order frustrates negotiations between Protestant En ...
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Francis Turretin
Francis Turretin (17 October 1623 – 28 September 1687; also known as François Turrettini) was a Genevan-Italian Reformed scholastic theologian.[1629
Events
January–March
* January 7– Henry Frederick, Hereditary Prince of the Palatinate, the 15-year-old son of the German Palatinate elector, Frederick V, drowns in an accident while sailing to Amsterdam.
* January 19&nd ...]
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Balthasar Charles, Prince of Asturias (d. 1646)
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1688
Events
January–March
* January 2 – Fleeing from the Spanish Navy, French pirate Raveneau de Lussan and his 70 men arrive on the west coast of Nicaragua, sink their boats, and make a difficult 10 day march to the city of Oco ...
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Domenico Zipoli
Domenico Zipoli (1688-1726) was a composer from the Baroque period. He worked and died in Córdoba, Argentina, Córdoba, in the Viceroyalty of Peru, Spanish Empire, (presently in Argentina). He became a Jesuit in order to work in the Reduction ...
, Italian missionary and composer (d. 1726)
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1711
In the Swedish calendar it was a common year starting on Tuesday, one day ahead of the Julian and ten days behind the Gregorian calendar.
Events
January–March
* January – Cary's Rebellion: The Lords Proprietor appoint Edward ...
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Jupiter Hammon
Jupiter Hammon (October 17, 1711 – ca. 1806) was an American writer who is known as a founder of African-American literature, as his poem published in 1761 in New York was the first by an African American in North America. He published both po ...
, American poet (d. 1806)
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1719
Events
January–March
* January 8 – Carolean Death March begins: A catastrophic retreat by a largely-Finnish Swedish- Carolean army under the command of Carl Gustaf Armfeldt across the Tydal mountains in a blizzard kills around 3,7 ...
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Jacques Cazotte, French author and academic (d. 1792)
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1720
Events
January–March
* February 10 – Edmond Halley is appointed as Astronomer Royal for England.
* January 21 – Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Stockholm (Great Northern War).
* February 17 – The Treaty of ...
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Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini
Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini (; ; October 17, 1720 – January 19, 1795) was an Italian composer. Though she was most famous for her compositions, she was also an accomplished harpsichordist and singer, and the majority of her surviving com ...
, Italian
harpsichord
A harpsichord ( it, clavicembalo; french: clavecin; german: Cembalo; es, clavecín; pt, cravo; nl, klavecimbel; pl, klawesyn) is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. This activates a row of levers that turn a trigger mechanism ...
player and composer (d. 1795)
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1725
Events
January–March
* January 15 – James Macrae, a former captain of a freighter for the British East India Company, is hired by the Company to administer the Madras Presidency (at the time, the "Presidency of Fort St. Ge ...
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John Wilkes, English journalist and politician (d. 1797)
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1729
Events
January–March
* January 8 – Frederick, the eldest son of King George II of Great Britain is made Prince of Wales at the age of 21, a few months after he comes to Britain for the first time after growing up in Hanover ...
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Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, French composer and academic (d. 1817)
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1735
Events
January–March
* January 2 – Alexander Pope's poem ''Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot'' is published in London.
* January 8 – George Frideric Handel's opera ''Ariodante'' is premièred at the Royal Opera House in Covent G ...
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Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer the Younger, German
Baroque
The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...
artist (d. 1803)
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1759
In Great Britain, this year was known as the ''Annus Mirabilis'', because of British victories in the Seven Years' War.
Events
January–March
* January 6 – George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Custis.
* January 11 &ndas ...
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Andrey Voronikhin
Andrey (Andrei) Nikiforovich Voronikhin (russian: Андрей Никифорович Воронихин) (28 October 1759, Novoe Usolye, Perm Oblast – 21 February 1814, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian architect and painter. As a representativ ...
, Russian architect and painter (d. 1814)
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1760
Events
January–March
* January 9 – Battle of Barari Ghat: Afghan forces defeat the Marathas.
* January 22 – Seven Years' War – Battle of Wandiwash, India: British general Sir Eyre Coote is victorious over the Fr ...
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Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon, French economist and philosopher (d. 1825)
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1768
Events
January–March
* January 9 – Philip Astley stages the first modern circus, with acrobats on galloping horses, in London.
* February 11 – Samuel Adams's circular letter is issued by the Massachusetts House of Rep ...
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Sophie von Dönhoff,
morganatic spouse by bigamy to King Frederick William II of Prussia (d. 1838)
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1779
Events
January–March
* January 11 – British troops surrender to the Marathas in Wadgaon, India, and are forced to return all territories acquired since 1773.
* January 11 – Ching-Thang Khomba is crowned King of Manip ...
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Louis Charles, French
prince of the blood (d. 1808)
* 1779 –
José Andrés Pacheco de Melo
José Andrés Pacheco de Melo (17 October 1779 – approx. 1820) was an Argentine statesman and priest. He was a representative to the Congress of Tucumán which on 9 July 1816 declared the Independence of Argentina.
Pacheco de Melo was bor ...
, Argentine statesman and priest (d. approx. 1820)
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1780
Events
January–March
* January 16 – American Revolutionary War – Battle of Cape St. Vincent: British Admiral Sir George Rodney defeats a Spanish fleet.
* February 19 – The legislature of New York votes to allow ...
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Richard Mentor Johnson, American politician, ninth Vice President of the United States (d. 1850)
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1781
Events
January–March
* January – William Pitt the Younger, later Prime Minister of Great Britain, enters Parliament, aged 21.
* January 1 – Industrial Revolution: The Iron Bridge opens across the River Severn in Eng ...
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Johann Friedrich Meckel
Johann Friedrich Meckel (17 October 1781 – 31 October 1833), often referred to as Johann Friedrich Meckel, the Younger, was a German anatomist born in Halle. He worked as a professor of anatomy, pathology and zoology at the University of Halle, ...
, German anatomist (d. 1833)
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1784
Events
January–March
* January 6 – Treaty of Constantinople: The Ottoman Empire agrees to Russia's annexation of the Crimea.
* January 14 – The Congress of the United States ratifies the Treaty of Paris with Great Brit ...
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Fructuoso Rivera, first president of
Uruguay (d. 1854)
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1785
Events
January–March
* January 1 – The first issue of the ''Daily Universal Register'', later known as ''The Times'', is published in London.
* January 7 – Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries tr ...
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Christen Smith
Christen Smith (17 October 1785 – 22 September 1816) was an early 19th-century Norwegian physician, economist and naturalist, particularly botanist. He died, only 30 years old during a dramatic expedition to the Congo River in 1816, leaving a ...
, Norwegian scientist (d. 1816)
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1792
Events
January–March
* January 9 – The Treaty of Jassy ends the Russian Empire's war with the Ottoman Empire over Crimea.
* February 18 – Thomas Holcroft produces the comedy '' The Road to Ruin'' in London.
* February ...
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John Bowring, English
polyglot and
governor of Hong Kong (d. 1826)
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1797
Events
January–March
* January 3 – The Treaty of Tripoli, a peace treaty between the United States and Ottoman Tripolitania, is signed at Algiers (''see also'' 1796).
* January 7 – The parliament of the Cisalpine Re ...
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Juan Lavalle, Argentine politician (d.1841)
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1803
Events
* January 1 – The first edition of Alexandre Balthazar Laurent Grimod de La Reynière's ''Almanach des gourmands'', the first guide to restaurant cooking, is published in Paris.
* January 5 – William Symington demonstrates his ...
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Ferenc Deák, Hungarian politician (d. 1876)
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1810
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Major-General Lachlan Macquarie officially becomes Governor of New South Wales.
* January 4 – Australian seal hunter Frederick Hasselborough discovers Campbell Island, in the Subantarctic.
* Janua ...
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Adolphe-Félix Cals
Adolphe-Félix Cals (17 October 1810 – 3 October 1880) was a French portrait, genre, and landscape painter.
Life and work
Adolphe–Félix Cals was born into a poor family yet his parents attempted to prevent him from performing manual labor. ...
, French painter (d. 1880)
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1811
Events
January–March
* January 8 – An unsuccessful slave revolt is led by Charles Deslondes, in St. Charles and St. James Parishes, Louisiana.
* January 17 – Mexican War of Independence – Battle of Calderón Brid ...
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Albertus van Raalte
Albertus Christiaan van Raalte (17 October 1811 – 27 July 1876) was a 19th-century Dutch Reformed clergyman.
Early life and education
Van Raalte did not set out to follow in his father's footsteps and become a clergyman. He was initially ...
, Dutch-American pastor and educator (d. 1876)
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1813
Events
January–March
* January 18–January 23 – War of 1812: The Battle of Frenchtown is fought in modern-day Monroe, Michigan between the United States and a British and Native American alliance.
* January 24 – T ...
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Georg Büchner, German-Swiss poet and playwright (d. 1837)
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1814
Events January
* January 1 – War of the Sixth Coalition – The Royal Prussian Army led by Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher crosses the Rhine.
* January 3
** War of the Sixth Coalition – Siege of Cattaro: French garrison s ...
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Yakiv Holovatsky, Ukrainian historian, scholar, and poet (d. 1888)
*
1817
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Sailing through the Sandwich Islands, Otto von Kotzebue discovers New Year Island.
* January 19 – An army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General José de San Martín, starts crossing the ...
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Syed Ahmad Khan, Indian philosopher and scholar (d. 1898)
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1821
Events
January–March
* January 21 – Peter I Island in the Antarctic is first sighted, by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen.
* January 28 – Alexander Island, the largest in Antarctica, is first discovered by Fabian Gottlieb von Be ...
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Alexander Gardner, Scottish photographer (d. 1882)
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1828
Events
January–March
* January 4 – Jean Baptiste Gay, vicomte de Martignac succeeds the Comte de Villèle, as Prime Minister of France.
* January 8 – The Democratic Party of the United States is organized.
* January 22 – Arthu ...
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Aureliano Maestre de San Juan, Spanish scientist (d. 1890)
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1833
Events January–March
* January 3 – Reassertion of British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands (1833), Reassertion of British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.
* February 6 – His Royal Highness Prince Otto ...
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José E. Días, Paraguayan general (d. 1867)
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1835
Events
January–March
* January 7 – anchors off the Chonos Archipelago on her second voyage, with Charles Darwin on board as naturalist.
* January 8 – The United States public debt contracts to zero, for the only time in history.
...
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Louis-Léon Cugnot
Louis-Léon Cugnot (Paris 17 October 1835 – 19 August 1894) was a French sculptor.
Life
Cugnot was born in Paris, son of the sculptor Etienne Cugnot. He entered the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in the 1850s under teach ...
, French sculptor (d. 1894)
* 1835 –
Paul Haenlein
Paul Haenlein (17 October 1835 in Cologne – 27 January 1905 in Mainz) was a German engineer and flight pioneer. He flew in a semi-rigid-frame dirigible. His family belonged to the ''Citoyens notables'', those notabilities who led the econo ...
, German mechanical engineer (d.1905)
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1840
Events
January–March
* January 3 – One of the predecessor papers of the ''Herald Sun'' of Melbourne, Australia, ''The Port Phillip Herald'', is founded.
* January 10 – Uniform Penny Post is introduced in the United Kingdom.
* Janua ...
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André Gill, French
caricaturist (d. 1885)
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1844
In the Philippines, it was the only leap year with 365 days, as December 31 was skipped when 1845 began after December 30.
Events
January–March
* January 15 – The University of Notre Dame, based in the city of the same name, receives ...
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Gustave Schlumberger
Léon Gustave Schlumberger (17 October 1844 – 9 May 1929) was a French historian and numismatist who specialised in the era of the crusades and the Byzantine Empire. His ' (1878–82) is still considered the principal work on the coinage of the c ...
, French historian (d. 1929)
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1845
Events
January–March
* January 10 – Elizabeth Barrett receives a love letter from the younger poet Robert Browning; on May 20, they meet for the first time in London. She begins writing her ''Sonnets from the Portuguese''.
* January 23 ...
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John J. Gardner
John James Gardner (October 17, 1845 – February 7, 1921) was an American Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey's 2nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives for ten terms from 1893 to 1913, ...
, American politician (d. 1921)
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1853
Events
January–March
* January 6 – Florida Governor Thomas Brown signs legislation that provides public support for the new East Florida Seminary, leading to the establishment of the University of Florida.
* January 8 – Taiping Reb ...
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Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia
Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (russian: Мария Александровна; – 24 October 1920) was the fifth child and only surviving daughter of Emperor Alexander II of Russia and Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine; she wa ...
(d. 1920)
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1859
Events
January–March
* January 21 – José Mariano Salas (1797–1867) becomes Conservative interim President of Mexico.
* January 24 ( O. S.) – Wallachia and Moldavia are united under Alexandru Ioan Cuza (Romania since 1866, final u ...
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Childe Hassam, American painter and illustrator (d. 1935)
*
1860
Events
January–March
* January 2 – The discovery of a hypothetical planet Vulcan is announced at a meeting of the French Academy of Sciences in Paris, France.
* January 10 – The Pemberton Mill in Lawrence, Massachusett ...
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Henry Campbell Black, founder of ''
Black's Law Dictionary
''Black's Law Dictionary'' is the most frequently used legal dictionary in the United States. Henry Campbell Black (1860–1927) was the author of the first two editions of the dictionary.
History
The first edition was published in 1891 by West P ...
'' (d. 1927)
*
1864
Events
January–March
* January 13 – American songwriter Stephen Foster ("Oh! Susanna", "Old Folks at Home") dies aged 37 in New York City, leaving a scrap of paper reading "Dear friends and gentle hearts". His parlor song " ...
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Elinor Glyn
Elinor Glyn ( Sutherland; 17 October 1864 – 23 September 1943) was a British novelist and scriptwriter who specialised in romantic fiction, which was considered scandalous for its time, although her works are relatively tame by modern stand ...
, English author, screenwriter, and producer (d. 1943)
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1865
Events
January–March
* January 4 – The New York Stock Exchange opens its first permanent headquarters at Broad Street (Manhattan), 10-12 Broad near Wall Street, in New York City.
* January 13 – American Civil War : Sec ...
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James Rudolph Garfield
James Rudolph Garfield (October 17, 1865 – March 24, 1950) was an American lawyer and politician. Garfield was a son of President James A. Garfield and First Lady Lucretia Garfield. He served as Secretary of the Interior during President Th ...
, American lawyer and politician, 23rd
United States Secretary of the Interior (d. 1950)
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1867
Events
January–March
* January 1 – The Covington–Cincinnati Suspension Bridge opens between Cincinnati, Ohio, and Covington, Kentucky, in the United States, becoming the longest single-span bridge in the world. It was renamed a ...
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Josep Puig i Cadafalch
Josep Puig i Cadafalch (; Mataró, 17 October 1867 – Barcelona, 21 December 1956) was a Catalan '' Modernista'' architect who designed many significant buildings in Barcelona, and a politician who had a significant role in the development of ...
,
Catalan
Catalan may refer to:
Catalonia
From, or related to Catalonia:
* Catalan language, a Romance language
* Catalans, an ethnic group formed by the people from, or with origins in, Northern or southern Catalonia
Places
* 13178 Catalan, asteroid #1 ...
architect who designed the
Casa Martí
The Casa Martí () is a ''modernista'' building designed by Josep Puig i Cadafalch in 1896, having been commissioned by relatives of Francesc Vilumara, a textile magnate. It stands at Carrer Montsió, 3, Barcelona.
Striking features of the build ...
(d. 1956)
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1871
Events January–March
* January 3 – Franco-Prussian War – Battle of Bapaume: Prussians win a strategic victory.
* January 18 – Proclamation of the German Empire: The member states of the North German Confederation and the sout ...
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Segundo de Chomón, Spanish
cinematographer
The cinematographer or director of photography (sometimes shortened to DP or DOP) is the person responsible for the photographing or recording of a film, television production, music video or other live action piece. The cinematographer is the ch ...
, director, and screenwriter (d.1929)
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1876
Events
January–March
* January 1
** The Reichsbank opens in Berlin.
** The Bass Brewery Red Triangle becomes the world's first registered trademark symbol.
* February 2 – The National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs i ...
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Hippolyte Aucouturier
Hippolyte Aucouturier (17 October 1876 – 22 April 1944) was a French professional road bicycle racer. Aucouturier, a professional between 1900 and 1908, won two stages at the first Tour de France in 1903 and won three stages and finished ...
, French
road cyclist (d. 1944)
*
1878
Events January–March
* January 5 – Russo-Turkish War – Battle of Shipka Pass IV: Russian and Bulgarian forces defeat the Ottoman Empire.
* January 9 – Umberto I becomes King of Italy.
* January 17 – Battle o ...
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Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart, Spanish politician and 17th
Duke of Alba (d. 1953)
*
1880
Events
January–March
* January 22 – Toowong State School is founded in Queensland, Australia.
* January – The international White slave trade affair scandal in Brussels is exposed and attracts international infamy.
* February ...
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Jesús Reyes Ferreira, Mexican artist and art collector (d. 1977)
*
1881
Events
January–March
* January 1– 24 – Siege of Geok Tepe: Russian troops under General Mikhail Skobelev defeat the Turkomans.
* January 13 – War of the Pacific – Battle of San Juan and Chorrillos: The C ...
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Maria Dulęba
Maria Zofia Dulęba (17 October 1881– 6 May 1959) was a Polish stage and film actress. She made her stage debut in 1902 and went on to perform in a number of films, mostly in the silent era. She later also taught drama.Lerski p.122
Selected ...
, Polish actress (d. 1959)
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1882
Events
January–March
* January 2
** The Standard Oil Trust is secretly created in the United States to control multiple corporations set up by John D. Rockefeller and his associates.
** Irish-born author Oscar Wilde arrives in ...
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Haritina Korotkevich
Haritina Evstafievna Korotkevich (russian: Харити́на Евста́фьевна Коротке́вич, also romanised as Charitina Korotkiewicz and Haritena Korotkiewich; née Verkhozina; ) was a soldier who served in the Imperial Russian ...
, Russian war heroine (d. 1904)
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1883
Events
January–March
* January 4 – ''Life'' magazine is founded in Los Angeles, California, United States.
* January 10 – A fire at the Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, kills 73 people.
* Ja ...
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Alexander Neill, Scottish educator (d. 1973)
* 1883 –
Thaddeus Shideler, American
hurdler (d. 1966)
*
1886
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Upper Burma is formally annexed to British Burma, following its conquest in the Third Anglo-Burmese War of November 1885.
* January 5– 9 – Robert Louis Stevenson's novella ''Strange ...
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Spring Byington, American actress (d. 1971)
*
1889
Events
January–March
* January 1
** The total solar eclipse of January 1, 1889 is seen over parts of California and Nevada.
** Paiute spiritual leader Wovoka experiences a vision, leading to the start of the Ghost Dance movement in the ...
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Mikha'il Na'ima,
Lebanese author (d. 1988)
*
1890
Events
January–March
* January 1
** The Kingdom of Italy establishes Eritrea as its colony, in the Horn of Africa.
** In Michigan, the wooden steamer ''Mackinaw'' burns in a fire on the Black River.
* January 2
** The steamship ...
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Roy Kilner
Roy is a masculine given name and a family surname with varied origin.
In Anglo-Norman England, the name derived from the Norman ''roy'', meaning "king", while its Old French cognate, ''rey'' or ''roy'' (modern ''roi''), likewise gave rise to ...
, English cricketer (d. 1928)
*
1892
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Ellis Island begins accommodating immigrants to the United States.
* February 1 - The historic Enterprise Bar and Grill was established in Rico, Colorado.
* February 27 – Rudolf Diesel applies for ...
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Theodor Eicke, German SS general (d. 1943)
* 1892 –
Herbert Howells, English organist, composer, and educator (d. 1983)
*
1893
Events
January–March
* January 2 – Webb C. Ball introduces railroad chronometers, which become the general railroad timepiece standards in North America.
* Mark Twain started writing Puddn'head Wilson.
* January 6 – Th ...
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Raffaele Bendandi
Raffaele Bendandi (17 October 1893 – 3 November 1979) was an Italian clockmaker known for his predictions of earthquakes. Bendandi was self-taught and never published a verifiable scientific exposition of his theory.
Life and legacy
Bendand ...
, Italian clockmaker and seismologist (d. 1979)
*
1894
Events January–March
* January 4 – A military alliance is established between the French Third Republic and the Russian Empire.
* January 7 – William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film in the United S ...
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Prince René, Italian Prince of
Denmark (d. 1962)
* 1894 –
Pablo de Rokha, Chilean poet (d. 1968)
*
1895
Events
January–March
* January 5 – Dreyfus affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his army rank, and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
* January 12 – The National Trust for Places of Histor ...
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Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes
General José Miguel Ramón Ydígoras Fuentes (17 October 1895 – 27 October 1982) was the conservative President of Guatemala from 1958 to March 1963. He was also the main challenger to Jacobo Árbenz during the 1950 presidential election. He ...
,
President of Guatemala (1958–1963) (d. 1982)
* 1895 –
Doris Humphrey, American dancer and choreographer (d. 1958)
*
1896
Events
January–March
* January 2 – The Jameson Raid comes to an end, as Jameson surrenders to the Boers.
* January 4 – Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.
* January 5 – An Austrian newspaper reports that Wil ...
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Roman Petrovich, Russian prince (d. 1978)
*
1898
Events
January–March
* January 1 – New York City annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York as the world's second largest. The city is geographically divided into five boroughs: Manhattan, B ...
–
Shinichi Suzuki
was a Japanese musician, philosopher, and educator and the founder of the international Suzuki method of music education and developed a philosophy for educating people of all ages and abilities. An influential pedagogue in music education of ...
, Japanese violinist and educator (d. 1998)
* 1898 –
Eileen Sedgwick, American actress (d. 1991)
* 1898 –
Simon Vestdijk, Dutch author and poet (d. 1971)
*
1900
As of March 1 ( O.S. February 17), when the Julian calendar acknowledged a leap day and the Gregorian calendar did not, the Julian calendar fell one day further behind, bringing the difference to 13 days until February 28 ( O.S. February 15), 2 ...
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C. C. van Asch van Wijck
Jonkvrouwe (Lady) Cornélie Caroline "Cox" van Asch van Wijck (17 October 1900 – 18 September 1932) was a Dutch artist and sculptor.
Biography
Cornélie Caroline "Cox" van Asch van Wijck was born in Arnhem, the daughter of Jonkheer (Lord) :nl: ...
, Dutch artist and sculptor (d. 1932)
* 1900 –
Jean Arthur, American actress (d. 1991)
* 1900 –
Yvor Winters, American critic and poet (d. 1968)
1901–present
*
1901
Events
January
* January 1 – The Crown colony, British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria (Australia), Victoria and Western Australia Federation of Australia, federate as the Australia, ...
–
Emma Gamboa Alvarado, Costa Rican educator (d. 1973)
*
1902
Events
January
* January 1
** The Nurses Registration Act 1901 comes into effect in New Zealand, making it the first country in the world to require state registration of nurses. On January 10, Ellen Dougherty becomes the world's f ...
–
Irene Ryan, American actress (d. 1973)
*
1903
Events January
* January 1 – Edward VII is proclaimed Emperor of India.
* January 19 – The first west–east transatlantic radio broadcast is made from the United States to England (the first east–west broadcast having been ...
–
Andrei Grechko, Soviet general (d. 1976)
* 1903 –
Nathanael West, American author and screenwriter (d. 1940)
*
1905
As the second year of the massive Russo-Japanese War begins, more than 100,000 die in the largest world battles of that era, and the war chaos leads to the 1905 Russian Revolution against Nicholas II of Russia (Shostakovich's 11th Symphony i ...
–
Leopoldo Benites, Ecuadorian diplomat 28th president of the
United Nations General Assembly (d. 1996)
*
1906
Events
January–February
* January 12 – Persian Constitutional Revolution: A nationalistic coalition of merchants, religious leaders and intellectuals in Persia forces the shah Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar to grant a constitution, ...
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Andrey Tikhonov
Andrey Valeryevich Tikhonov (russian: Андрей Валерьевич Тихонов; born 16 October 1970) is a Russian football manager and a former midfielder who was recently the manager of Kazakhstani club Astana. Tikhonov is primarily ...
, Soviet and Russian mathematician (d. 1993)
* 1906 –
Paul Derringer, American baseball player (d. 1987)
*
1907
Events
January
* January 14 – 1907 Kingston earthquake: A 6.5 Mw earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica, kills between 800 and 1,000.
February
* February 11 – The French warship ''Jean Bart'' sinks off the coast of Morocco. ...
–
John Marley, American actor (d. 1984)
*
1908
Events
January
* January 1 – The British ''Nimrod'' Expedition led by Ernest Shackleton sets sail from New Zealand on the ''Nimrod'' for Antarctica.
* January 3 – A total solar eclipse is visible in the Pacific Ocean, and is the 46 ...
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Hjördis Petterson, Swedish actress (d. 1988)
* 1908 –
Wally Prigg
Wally Prigg (1908–1980) was an Australian rugby league footballer. He was a for the Australian national rugby league team. He played nineteen Tests for the Kangaroos between 1929–38, seven as captain and was the first Australian player to ...
, Australian rugby league player (d. 1980)
* 1908 –
Red Rolfe, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1969)
* 1908 –
Kenji Miyamoto, Japanese politician (d. 2007)
*
1909
Events
January–February
* January 4 – Explorer Aeneas Mackintosh of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition escaped death by fleeing across ice floes.
* January 7 – Colombia recognizes the independence of Panama.
* Januar ...
–
Cozy Cole, American drummer (d. 1981)
* 1909 –
Leopoldo Panero, Spanish poet (d. 1962)
* 1909 –
Joaquín Satrústegui
Joaquín Satrústegui Fernández (San Sebastián, 17 October 1909 – 11 March 1992 ) was a Spanish lawyer and political monarchist. He fought on the Nationalist side during the Spanish Civil War, and evolved from the ultra-conservatism of his y ...
, Spanish lawyer and politician (d. 1992)
*
1910
Events
January
* January 13 – The first public radio broadcast takes place; live performances of the operas '' Cavalleria rusticana'' and ''Pagliacci'' are sent out over the airwaves, from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York C ...
–
Ester Wier, American author (d. 2000)
* 1910 –
Marina Núñez del Prado, Bolivian sculptor (d. 1995)
*
1912
Events January
* January 1 – The Republic of China (1912–49), Republic of China is established.
* January 5 – The Prague Conference (6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party) opens.
* January 6 ...
–
Pope John Paul I, Catholic pope from August 1978- September 1978 (d. 1978)
* 1912 –
Theodore Marier
Theodore Norbert Marier (October 17, 1912 – February 24, 2001) was a church musician, educator, arranger and scholar of Gregorian Chant. He founded St. Paul's Choir School in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1963, and served as the second pre ...
, American composer and educator, founded the
Boston Archdiocesan Choir School
St. Paul's Choir School is a Catholic choir school located at St. Paul’s Church, Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1963, by Theodore Marier, the middle school for boys in third through eighth grades is the only boys' choi ...
(d. 2001)
* 1912 –
Jack Owens, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1982)
*
1913
Events January
* January 5 – First Balkan War: Battle of Lemnos (1913), Battle of Lemnos – Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it will not ven ...
–
Faik Türün, Turkish general (d. 2003)
* 1913 –
Robert Lowery, American actor (d. 1971)
* 1913 –
Marian Marsh, Trinidadian-American actress and environmentalist (d. 2006)
*
1914
This year saw the beginning of what became known as World War I, after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austrian throne was Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, assassinated by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip. It als ...
–
Jerry Siegel, American author and illustrator (d. 1996)
*
1915
Events
Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix.
January
* January – British physicist Sir Joseph Larmor publishes his observations on "The Influence of Local Atmospheric Cooling on Astronomical Refraction".
*January 1 ...
–
Arthur Miller, American playwright and screenwriter (d. 2005)
*
1916
Events
Below, the events of the First World War have the "WWI" prefix.
January
* January 1 – The British Royal Army Medical Corps carries out the first successful blood transfusion, using blood that had been stored and cooled.
* ...
–
José López Rega, Argentinean politician (d. 1989)
*
1917
Events
Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix.
January
* January 9 – WWI – Battle of Rafa: The last substantial Ottoman Army garrison on the Sinai Peninsula is captured by the Egyptian Expeditionary Force's ...
–
Adele Stimmel Chase
Adele Stimmel Chase (October 17, 1917 – December 29, 2000) was an American artist who worked in ceramics, metal sculpture and painting.
Early life and education
Adele Stimmel was born in San Francisco on October 17, 1917. She lived in the San ...
, American painter and sculptor (d. 2000)
* 1917 –
Martin Donnelly, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1999)
* 1917 –
Sumner Locke Elliott, Australian-American author and playwright (d. 1991)
* 1917 –
Marsha Hunt, American actress and singer (d. 2022)
* 1917 –
Aimo Koivunen
Aimo Allan Koivunen (), (17 October 1917 – 12 August 1989) was a Finnish soldier in the Continuation War and the first documented case of a soldier overdosing on methamphetamine during combat.
Early life
Aimo Allan Koivunen was born in Alas ...
, Finnish soldier and corporal (d. 1989)
* 1917 –
Norman Leyden
Norman Fowler Leyden (October 17, 1917 – July 23, 2014) was an American conductor, composer, arranger, and clarinetist. He worked in film and television and is perhaps best known as the conductor of the Oregon Symphony Pops orchestra. He co-wro ...
, American composer and conductor (d. 2014)
* 1917 –
Alfred Benlloch Llorach
Alfred Benlloch Llorach (October 17, 1917 – May 8, 2013) was a Spanish inventor with over one hundred patents registered in different areas.
He was born in Barcelona and was one of the pioneers of the first blood transfusion service in the w ...
, Spanish inventor (d. 2013)
*
1918
This year is noted for the end of the First World War, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, as well as for the Spanish flu pandemic that killed 50–100 million people worldwide.
Events
Below, the events ...
–
Rita Hayworth, American actress, singer and dancer (d. 1987)
* 1918 –
Ralph Wilson, American businessman, founded the
Buffalo Bills
The Buffalo Bills are a professional American football team based in the Buffalo metropolitan area. The Bills compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's American Football Conference (AFC) East division. ...
(d. 2014)
* 1918 –
Luis Alberto Solari
Luis Alberto Solari (1918–1993) was a painter and engraver from Uruguay.
Background
He moved to Montevideo in 1934 to study at the Circulo de Bellas Artes with Professor William Laborde between 1934 and 1937. He pursued his particular inte ...
, Uruguayan artist (d. 1993)
*
1919
Events
January
* January 1
** The Czechoslovak Legions occupy much of the self-proclaimed "free city" of Pressburg (now Bratislava), enforcing its incorporation into the new republic of Czechoslovakia.
** HMY ''Iolaire'' sinks off the c ...
–
Isaak Khalatnikov, Ukrainian-Russian theoretical physicist and academic (d. 2021)
* 1919 –
Violet Milstead
Violet Milstead Warren (October 17, 1919June 27, 2014) was a Canadian aviator, noted for being the first female Canadian bush pilot and one of only four Canadian women to work in the British Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) during WWII. With over ...
, Canadian
World War II aviator and
bush pilot
Bush flying refers to aircraft operations carried out in the bush. Bush flying involves operations in rough terrain where there are often no prepared landing strips or runways, frequently necessitating that bush planes be equipped with abnormally ...
(d. 2014)
* 1919 –
Zhao Ziyang, Chinese politician (d. 2005)
*
1920
Events January
* January 1
** Polish–Soviet War in 1920: The Russian Red Army increases its troops along the Polish border from 4 divisions to 20.
** Kauniainen, completely surrounded by the city of Espoo, secedes from Espoo as its own ma ...
–
Montgomery Clift, American actor (d. 1966)
* 1920 –
Miguel Delibes, Spanish journalist and author (d. 2010)
* 1920 –
Zully Moreno, Argentine actress (d. 1999)
*
1921
Events
January
* January 2
** The Association football club Cruzeiro Esporte Clube, from Belo Horizonte, is founded as the multi-sports club Palestra Italia by Italian expatriates in First Brazilian Republic, Brazil.
** The Spanish lin ...
–
George Mackay Brown, Scottish author, poet, and playwright (d. 1996)
* 1921 –
Priscilla Buckley
Priscilla Langford Buckley (October 17, 1921 – March 25, 2012) was an American journalist and author who was the longtime managing editor of ''National Review''.
Biography
Buckley was born in New York City. She was the third of 10 children of ...
, American journalist and author (d. 2012)
* 1921 –
Maria Gorokhovskaya, Russian-Israeli gymnast (d. 2001)
* 1921 –
Tom Poston
Tom or TOM may refer to:
* Tom (given name), a diminutive of Thomas or Tomás or an independent Aramaic given name (and a list of people with the name)
Characters
* Tom Anderson, a character in ''Beavis and Butt-Head''
* Tom Beck, a character ...
, American actor and comedian (d. 2007)
*
1922
Events
January
* January 7 – Dáil Éireann (Irish Republic), Dáil Éireann, the parliament of the Irish Republic, ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by 64–57 votes.
* January 10 – Arthur Griffith is elected President of Dáil Éirean ...
–
Luiz Bonfá, Brazilian guitarist and composer (d. 2001)
* 1922 –
Pierre Juneau
Pierre Juneau, , (October 17, 1922 – February 21, 2012) was a Canadian film and broadcast executive, a one-time member of the Canadian Cabinet, the first chairman of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) and ...
, Canadian broadcaster and politician, co-founded the
Montreal World Film Festival (d. 2012)
*
1923
Events
January–February
* January 9 – Lithuania begins the Klaipėda Revolt to annex the Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory).
* January 11 – Despite strong British protests, troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area, t ...
–
Barney Kessel
Barney Kessel (October 17, 1923 – May 6, 2004) was an American jazz guitarist born in Muskogee, Oklahoma. Known in particular for his knowledge of chords and inversions and chord-based melodies, he was a member of many prominent jazz groups a ...
, American guitarist and composer (d. 2004)
* 1923 –
Charles McClendon, American football player and coach (d. 2001)
*
1924
Events
January
* January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after.
* January 20– 30 – Kuomintang in China hol ...
–
Don Coryell, American football player and coach (d. 2010)
* 1924 –
Anton Geiser
Anton Geiser (surname also spelled Geisser; October 17, 1924 – December 26, 2012) was a Yugoslav-born member of the SS-Totenkopfverbände during World War II, who served as a guard at both the Sachsenhausen and Buchenwald concentration camps. ...
, Croatian
SS officer (d. 2012)
* 1924 –
Giacomo Mari
Giacomo Mari (; 17 October 1924 – 16 October 1991) was an Italian footballer who played as a midfielder.
Club career
After three years of breaking in at Atalanta in his early career, Mari played four seasons with Juventus, winning two Serie A c ...
, Italian footballer (d. 1991)
* 1924 –
Rolando Panerai, Italian baritone (d. 2019)
*
1925
Events January
* January 1
** The Syrian Federation is officially dissolved, the State of Aleppo and the State of Damascus having been replaced by the State of Syria.
* January 3 – Benito Mussolini makes a pivotal speech in the Italia ...
–
Harry Carpenter, English sportscaster (d. 2010)
*
1926
Events January
* January 3 – Theodoros Pangalos declares himself dictator in Greece.
* January 8
**Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud is crowned King of Hejaz.
** Crown Prince Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thuy ascends the throne, the last monarch of V ...
–
Julie Adams, American actress (d. 2019)
* 1926 –
Beverly Garland, American actress (d. 2008)
* 1926 –
Roberto Lippi, Italian race car driver (d. 2011)
* 1928 –
Santiago Stevenson, Panamanian singer and minister (d. 2007)
* 1928 –
Alejandro Végh Villegas
Alejandro Végh Villegas (17 October 1928 – 13 March 2017) was a Uruguayan politician.
Background
Villegas was born in City of Brussels, Brussels. His great-grandfather Sándor Végh was a Hungarian military officer who migrated to Uruguay ...
, Uruguayan politician (d. 2017)
*
1929
This year marked the end of a period known in American history as the Roaring Twenties after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 ushered in a worldwide Great Depression. In the Americas, an agreement was brokered to end the Cristero War, a Catholic ...
–
Mário Wilson, Mozambican footballer and manager (d. 2016)
*
1930
Events
January
* January 15 – The Moon moves into its nearest point to Earth, called perigee, at the same time as its fullest phase of the Lunar Cycle. This is the closest moon distance at in recent history, and the next one will be ...
–
Ismail Akbay
Ishmael ''Ismaḗl''; Classical/Qur'anic Arabic: إِسْمَٰعِيْل; Modern Standard Arabic: إِسْمَاعِيْل ''ʾIsmāʿīl''; la, Ismael was the first son of Abraham, the common patriarch of the Abrahamic religions; and is cons ...
, Turkish physicist and engineer (d. 2003)
* 1930 –
Robert Atkins, American physician and cardiologist, created the
Atkins diet (d. 2003)
*
1931
Events
January
* January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics.
* January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa.
* January 22 – Sir I ...
–
Ernst Hinterberger
Ernst Hinterberger (17 October 1931 – 14 May 2012) was an Austrian writer of novels, particularly detective novels, plays and successful sitcoms. His first TV scripts were unusual for their use of genuine Vienna dialect.
Life
Ernst Hinterber ...
, Austrian author and playwright (d. 2012)
* 1931 –
José Alencar, Brazilian businessman and politician (d. 2011)
* 1931 –
Anatoly Pristavkin, Russian writer (d. 2008)
* 1932 –
Paul Anderson, American weightlifter (d. 1994)
*
1933
Events
January
* January 11 – Sir Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand.
* January 17 – The United States Congress votes in favour of Philippines independence, against the wis ...
–
William Anders, Hong Kong-American general and astronaut
* 1933 –
The Singing Nun, Belgian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and nun (d. 1985)
*
1934
Events
January–February
* January 1 – The International Telecommunication Union, a specialist agency of the League of Nations, is established.
* January 15 – The 8.0 1934 Nepal–Bihar earthquake, Nepal–Bihar earthquake strik ...
–
Alan Garner, English author and playwright
* 1934 –
Johnny Haynes, English-Scottish footballer (d. 2005)
* 1934 –
Rico Rodriguez, Jamaican trombonist (d. 2015)
*
1935
Events
January
* January 7 – Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval conclude Franco-Italian Agreement of 1935, an agreement, in which each power agrees not to oppose the other's colonial claims.
* ...
–
Sydney Chapman, English architect and politician,
Vice-Chamberlain of the Household (d. 2014)
* 1935 –
Michael Eavis, English farmer, founded the
Glastonbury Festival
Glastonbury Festival (formally Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts and known colloquially as Glasto) is a five-day festival of contemporary performing arts that takes place in Pilton, Somerset, England. In addition to contemp ...
* 1935 –
Carlos Pairetti
Carlos Alberto Pairetti (17 October 1935 – 26 September 2022) was an Argentine racing driver.
Pairetti was born in Clucellas, Santa Fe on 17 October 1935. He won the Turismo Carretera
Turismo Carretera ( Road racing, lit., ''Road Touring ...
, Argetine racing driver (d. 2022)
*
1936
Events
January–February
* January 20 – George V of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India, dies at his Sandringham Estate. The Prince of Wales succeeds to the throne of the United Kingdom as King E ...
–
Sathima Bea Benjamin, South African singer-songwriter (d. 2013)
* 1936 –
Hiroo Kanamori, Japanese-American seismologist and academic
* 1936 –
Santiago Navarro
Santiago Navarro (17 October 1936 – 8 October 1993) was a Spanish basketball player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1960 Summer Olympics
The 1960 Summer Olympics ( it, Giochi Olimpici estivi del 1960), officially known as th ...
, Spanish basketball player (d. 1993)
* 1936 –
Bert Nievera
Roberto Jose Dela Cruz Nievera (; October17, 1936March27, 2018) was a Filipino-American singer and businessman. He rose to prominence in 1959 after winning the "Search for Johnny Mathis of the Philippines", a singing contest on the television ...
, Filipino-American singer (d. 2018)
*
1937
Events
January
* January 1 – Anastasio Somoza García becomes President of Nicaragua.
* January 5 – Water levels begin to rise in the Ohio River in the United States, leading to the Ohio River flood of 1937, which continues into Fe ...
–
Paxton Whitehead, English actor
* 1937 –
José María Álvarez del Manzano
José María Álvarez del Manzano y López del Hierro (born 17 October 1937) is a Spanish politician for the People's Party. Although born in Seville he has lived in Madrid since he was 3 years old. He studied at the Colegio Nuestra Señora de ...
, Spanish politician
* 1937 –
Aida Navarro
Aida Navarro (born October 17, 1937), is a Venezuelan mezzo-soprano, born in Caracas.
She studied lyric singing in Venezuela, The U.S. and in Vienna, Austria. She excelled in many opera and chamber music presentations in Europe and Latin Americ ...
, Venezuelan mezzo-soprano
* 1937 –
Renato Prada Oropeza
Renato Prada Oropeza (born October 17, 1937 – September 9, 2011) was a Bolivian and Mexican scientist- literary researcher and writer, author of novels, short stories and poetry books, hermeneutics, semiotics and literary theory. Many of his lit ...
, Bolivian-Mexican scientist (d. 2011)
*
1938
Events
January
* January 1
** The Constitution of Estonia#Third Constitution (de facto 1938–1940, de jure 1938–1992), new constitution of Estonia enters into force, which many consider to be the ending of the Era of Silence and the a ...
–
Evel Knievel, American motorcycle rider and stuntman (d. 2007)
* 1938 –
Les Murray, Australian anthologist, poet, and critic (d. 2019)
* 1938 –
António Calvário, Portuguese singer and artist
*
1939
This year also marks the start of the Second World War, the largest and deadliest conflict in human history.
Events
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
* January 1
** Third Reich
*** Jews are forbidden to ...
–
Oliver Rackham
Oliver Rackham (17 October 1939 – 12 February 2015) was an academic at the University of Cambridge who studied the ecology, management and development of the British countryside, especially trees, woodlands and wood pasture. His books incl ...
, English botanist and academic (d. 2015)
*
1940
A calendar from 1940 according to the Gregorian calendar, factoring in the dates of Easter and related holidays, cannot be used again until the year 5280.
Events
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
*January ...
–
Stephen Kovacevich
Stephen Kovacevich (born October 17, 1940) is an American classical pianist and conductor. He is particularly celebrated for his recordings of works by Beethoven, Bartók and Schubert, and is known for technical skill, clarity of playing and an ...
, American pianist and conductor
* 1940 –
Jim Smith, English footballer and manager (d. 2019)
* 1940 –
Peter Stringfellow, English businessman (d. 2018)
*
1941
Events
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
* January–August – 10,072 men, women and children with mental and physical disabilities are asphyxiated with carbon monoxide in a gas chamber, at Hadamar Eu ...
–
Earl Thomas Conley, American country singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2019)
* 1941 –
Jim Seals, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and violinist
* 1941 –
Paul Ellison
Paul Ellison (born October 17, 1941) is co-principal bass at the Grand Teton Festivals, and is Professor of Double Bass at Rice University's Shepherd School of Music. He was also on the faculty of The Colburn School Conservatory of Music in Los A ...
, American musician
*
1942
Events
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
* January 1 – WWII: The Declaration by United Nations is signed by China, the United Kingdom, the United States, the Soviet Union, and 22 other nations, in wh ...
–
Steve Jones Steve or Steven Jones may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* Steve Jones (English presenter) (born 1945), English musician, disk jockey, television presenter, and voice-over artist
*Steve Jones (musician) (born 1955), English rock and roll guita ...
, American basketball player and sportscaster (d. 2017)
* 1942 –
Gary Puckett
Gary may refer to:
*Gary (given name), a common masculine given name, including a list of people and fictional characters with the name
*Gary, Indiana, the largest city named Gary
Places
;Iran
* Gary, Iran, Sistan and Baluchestan Province
;Uni ...
, American pop singer-songwriter and guitarist
*
1943
Events
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
* January 1 – WWII: The Soviet Union announces that 22 German divisions have been encircled at Stalingrad, with 175,000 killed and 137,650 captured.
* January 4 – ...
–
Ignacio Rupérez, Spanish diplomat and journalist (d. 2015)
*
1944
Events
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
* January 2 – WWII:
** Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command French Army B, part of the Sixth United States Army Group in Nor ...
–
Ángel Cristo, Spanish
circus performer (d. 2010)
*
1946
Events January
* January 6 - The 1946 North Vietnamese parliamentary election, first general election ever in Vietnam is held.
* January 7 – The Allies recognize the Austrian republic with its 1937 borders, and divide the country into f ...
–
Ronni Chasen, American publicist (d. 2010)
* 1946 –
Michael Hossack, American drummer (d. 2012)
* 1946 –
Cameron Mackintosh, English producer and manager
* 1946 –
Adam Michnik, Polish journalist and historian
* 1946 –
Drusilla Modjeska
Drusilla Modjeska (born 1946) is a contemporary Australian writer and editor.
Life
Modjeska was born in London and was raised in Hampshire. She spent several years in Papua New Guinea (where she was briefly a student at the University of Pa ...
, English-Australian author and critic
* 1946 –
Bob Seagren
Robert Seagren (born October 17, 1946) is a retired American pole vaulter, the 1968 Olympic champion.
A native of Pomona, California, Seagren was one of the world's top pole vaulters in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He won six National AAU ...
, American pole vaulter
* 1946 –
Manuel "Flaco" Ibáñez
Manuel "Flaco" Ibáñez Martínez (born 17 October 1946) is a Mexican actor and comedian who has appeared in over 140 films and television shows in Mexico.
Biography
Manuel Ibáñez Martínez was born on 17 October 1946, the youngest of four ...
, Mexican actor and comedian
* 1946 –
Julio Miranda
Julio Antonio Miranda (17 October 1946 – 6 June 2021) was an Argentine politician and a member of the Justicialist Party. He was a Senator for Tucumán Province and was part of the majority Front for Victory parliamentary group. Previously he h ...
, Argentine politician (d. 2021)
* 1946 –
Daniela Payssé
Daniela Payssé (17 October 1946 – 21 December 2018) was a Uruguayan senator for the Broad Front party.
Early life
Payssé was born in Montevideo and was a teacher at, and later the director of, the Instituto Pedagogico Infantil (the Childr ...
, Uruguayan politician (d. 2018)
* 1946 –
José Perramón, Spanish handball player
* 1946 –
Jaime Ravinet
Jaime Ravinet de la Fuente (born 17 October 1946), is a Chilean politician, lawyer, academic and businessman. From 1990 to 2000 he was Mayor of Santiago, before becoming the Minister for Housing, Urban Planning and National Property in 2001, a p ...
, Chilean politician
* 1946 –
Rüdiger Wittig Rüdiger Wittig (born October 17, 1946 in Herne, West Germany) is a professor of geobotany and ecology at the Goethe University Frankfurt in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Career
From 1968 to 1973, Wittig studied biology and chemistry at the Wilhe ...
, German
geobotanist and ecologist
* 1946 –
Akira Kushida, Japanese vocalist
*
1947
It was the first year of the Cold War, which would last until 1991, ending with the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Events
January
* January–February – Winter of 1946–47 in the United Kingdom: The worst snowfall in the country in ...
–
Gene Green
Raymond Eugene Green (born October 17, 1947) is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for , serving for 13 terms. He is a member of the Democratic Party. His district included most of eastern Houston, including portion ...
, American lawyer and politician
* 1947 –
Michael McKean, American singer-songwriter, actor, and director
* 1947 –
Robert Post, American educator and academic
* 1947 –
Omar Azziman Omar Azziman (born 17 October 1947, Tétouan), is an advisor to Mohammed VI, King of Morocco.
Life
Azziman started out by studying law in Rabat and Paris, going on to obtain his PhD in law at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis. Since 1972 he ...
, adviser to the
King of Morocco
*
1948
Events January
* January 1
** The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is inaugurated.
** The Constitution of New Jersey (later subject to amendment) goes into effect.
** The railways of Britain are nationalized, to form British ...
–
Robert Jordan, American soldier and author (d. 2007)
* 1948 –
Margot Kidder, Canadian-American actress (d. 2018)
* 1948 –
George Wendt, American actor and comedian
* 1948 –
Osvaldo Castro
Osvaldo Castro Pelayo (born 14 April 1947) is a Chilean former professional footballer who played league football for clubs in Chile and Mexico, as well as playing international football for Chile.
Career
Castro started his career Chilean club ...
, Chilean footballer
*
1949
Events
January
* January 1 – A United Nations-sponsored ceasefire brings an end to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. The war results in a stalemate and the division of Kashmir, which still continues as of 2022.
* January 2 – Luis ...
–
Owen Arthur, Barbadian economist and politician, 5th
Prime Minister of Barbados (d. 2020)
* 1949 –
Bill Hudson, American musician and actor
*
1950
Events January
* January 1 – The International Police Association (IPA) – the largest police organization in the world – is formed.
* January 5 – 1950 Sverdlovsk plane crash, Sverdlovsk plane crash: ''Aeroflot'' Lisunov Li-2 cr ...
–
Philippe Barbarin, French cardinal
* 1950 –
Howard Rollins
Howard Ellsworth Rollins Jr. (October 17, 1950 – December 8, 1996) was an American stage, film, and television actor. Howard Rollins was best known for his role as Andrew Young in 1978's ''King (TV miniseries), King'', George Haley in the 1979 ...
, American actor (d. 1996)
* 1950 –
Sandra Reemer
Barbara Alexandra "Sandra" Reemer (17 October 1950 – 6 June 2017) was an Indo-Dutch singer and television presenter. She represented the Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest on three occasions, tying with Corry Brokken for most app ...
, Indo-Dutch singer (d. 2017)
*
1951
Events
January
* January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950).
* January 9 – The Government of the United ...
–
Annie Borckink, Dutch speed skater
* 1951 –
Roger Pontare, Swedish singer
* 1951 –
Shari Ulrich
Sharon "Shari" Ulrich (born 17 October 1951) is a Canadian/American musician and songwriter. She has also worked as a television host, actress, film composer, and educator. A multi-instrumentalist, she plays Violin, Mandolin, guitar, piano, and D ...
, American-Canadian singer-songwriter and violinist
* 1951 –
Dirk Beheydt
Dirk Beheydt (born 17 October 1951) is a Belgian former professional association football, footballer who played as a forward (association football), forward.
Beheydt was discovered by Cercle Brugge while he was playing for then lower league sid ...
, Belgian footballer
*
1953
Events
January
* January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma.
* January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a Estonian government-in-exile, government-in-exile in Oslo.
* January 14
** Marshal Josip Broz Tito i ...
–
Joseph Bowie, American trombonist and bandleader
* 1953 –
Domenico Penzo
Domenico Penzo (born 17 October 1953) is an Italian retired professional footballer, who played as a forward.
Early life
Penzo was born in Chioggia, Venice, in Veneto; he is one of seven siblings. His father was a fisherman. When he was seven, ...
, Italian footballer
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1954
Events
January
* January 1 – The Soviet Union ceases to demand war reparations from West Germany.
* January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting.
* January 7 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The fir ...
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Carlos Buhler, American mountaineer
*
1955
Events January
* January 3 – José Ramón Guizado becomes president of Panama.
* January 17 – , the first nuclear-powered submarine, puts to sea for the first time, from Groton, Connecticut.
* January 18– 20 – Battle of Yijian ...
–
Georgios Alogoskoufis, Greek economist, academic, and politician,
Greek Minister of Finance
* 1955 –
Mike Bratz, American basketball player
*
1956
Events
January
* January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan.
* January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim ...
–
Fran Cosmo
Francis Cosmo Migliaccio (born October 17, 1956) is an American musician best known as a former lead singer of the bands Boston and Orion the Hunter.
Music career
Cosmo was first featured on guitarist Barry Goudreau's self-titled solo album ...
, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
* 1956 –
Mae Jemison
Mae Carol Jemison (born October 17, 1956) is an American engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut. She became the first black woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle ''Endeavour''. Je ...
, American physician, academic, and astronaut
* 1956 –
Pat McCrory, American businessman and politician, 74th
Governor of North Carolina
The governor of North Carolina is the head of government of the U.S. state of North Carolina. The governor directs the executive branch of the government and is the commander in chief of the military forces of the state. The current governor, ...
* 1956 –
Stephen Palumbi Stephen R. Palumbi (born October 17, 1956, in Baltimore, MD) is the Jane and Marshall Steel Jr. Professor in Marine Sciences at Stanford University at Hopkins Marine Station. He also holds a Senior Fellowship at the Stanford Woods Institute for th ...
, American academic and author
*
1957
1957 ( MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1957th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 957th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 20th century, and the 8th y ...
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Lawrence Bender, American actor and producer
* 1957 –
Steve McMichael, American football player, wrestler, and sportscaster
* 1957 –
Vincent Van Patten, American tennis player and actor
* 1957 –
Antonio Galdo
Antonio Galdo (born 17 October 1957 in Naples) is an Italian writer and journalist.
Biography
He has collaborated with several publications such as Panorama, Economy, Il Mattino, L'Indipendente, Il Messaggero, Corriere Adriatico…, in televisi ...
, Italian journalist
* 1957 –
Nelson Barrera
Nelson Barrera Romellón (17 October 1957 in Ciudad del Carmen – 14 July 2002 in Campeche City) was a Mexican professional baseball player, who at the time of his death led the Mexican League in career home runs (455) and RBIs (1,927). He wa ...
, Mexican baseball player (d. 2002)
* 1957 –
Pino Palladino, Welsh bassist
* 1957 –
Eleftheria Arvanitaki
Eleftheria Arvanitaki (Greek: Ελευθερία Αρβανιτάκη) (born 17 October 1957 in Piraeus) is a Greek folk singer. She originates from the island of Icaria. Arvanitaki has worked with important musicians, such as Cesária Évora, Ar ...
, Greek folk singer
*
1958
Events
January
* January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being.
* January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed.
* January 4
** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third ...
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Howard Alden
Howard Vincent Alden (born October 17, 1958) is an American jazz guitarist born in Newport Beach, California. Alden has recorded many albums for Concord Records, including four with seven-string guitar innovator George Van Eps.
Early life
How ...
, American guitarist
* 1958 –
Alan Jackson, American singer-songwriter
* 1958 –
Craig Murray, British diplomat
* 1958 –
Sandra Mozarowsky
Alexandra Elena Mozarowski Ruiz de Frías (17 October 1958 – 14 September 1977), also known by the stage name Sandra Mozarowsky, was a Spanish actress whose career spanned from 1969 until her death in 1977. She starred in films such as ''Night ...
, Spanish actress (d. 1977)
*
1959
Events January
* January 1 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance.
* January 2 - Lunar probe Luna 1 was the first man-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reached the vicinity of E ...
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Ron Drummond
Ronald N. Drummond (born 1959 in Seattle, Washington) is a writer, editor, and independent scholar.
Writer
Ron Drummond is the author of "The Sonic Rituals of Pauline Oliveros"; "The Frequency of Liberation", a critical fiction about the novels ...
, American author and scholar
* 1959 –
Francisco Flores Pérez, Salvadorian politician,
President of El Salvador (d. 2016)
* 1959 –
Russell Gilbert, Australian comedian, actor, and screenwriter
* 1959 –
Norm Macdonald, Canadian actor, comedian, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2021)
* 1959 –
Mark Peel, Australian historian and academic
* 1959 –
Richard Roeper, American journalist and critic
* 1959 –
Mustafa Aberchán
Mustafa Hamed Mohamed (October 17, 1959 in Melilla, Spain), better known as Mustafa Aberchán after his Riffian clan name, is a Spanish politician from Melilla. He is the leader of the political organization Coalition for Melilla.
He was the M ...
, Spanish politician
* 1959 –
Eugenio Hernández Flores
Eugenio Javier Hernández Flores (born October 17, 1959 in Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas), is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He was the mayor of Ciudad Victoria from 2001 to 2004 and Governor of t ...
, Mexican politician
*
1960
It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism.
Events
January
* Ja ...
–
Guy Henry, English actor
* 1960 –
Rob Marshall, American director, producer, and choreographer
* 1960 –
Bernie Nolan, Irish singer (d. 2013)
* 1960 –
Philippe Sands, American lawyer and academic
*
1961
Events January
* January 3
** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba ( Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015).
** Aero Flight 311 ...
–
David Means
David Means (born October 17, 1961) is an American short story writer and novelist based in Nyack, New York. His stories have appeared in many publications, including '' Esquire'', ''The New Yorker'', and '' Harper's''. They are frequently set i ...
, American short story writer
*
1962
Events January
* January 1 – Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand.
* January 3 – Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro for preaching communism.
* January 8 – Harmelen train disaster: 93 die in the wors ...
–
Glenn Braggs
Glenn Erick Braggs (born October 17, 1962) is an American former Major League Baseball and Nippon Professional Baseball outfielder and designated hitter. Braggs was a member of the Cincinnati Reds team that defeated the Oakland Athletics in the ...
, American baseball player
* 1962 –
Mike Judge
Michael Craig Judge (born October 17, 1962) is an American actor, animator, writer, producer, director and musician. He is the creator of the animated television series ''Beavis and Butt-Head'' (1993–1997, 2011, 2022–present), and the co-cre ...
, American animator, director, screenwriter, producer and actor
* 1962 –
Jay Humphries, American basketball player
*
1963
Events January
* January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Cov ...
–
Sergio Goycochea, Argentinian footballer and journalist
* 1963 –
Toby Young, English journalist and academic
*
1964
Events January
* January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved.
* January 5 - In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch ...
–
Gregg Wallace, English television presenter
* 1964 –
Margarita Liborio Arrazola, Mexican politician
*
1965
Events January–February
* January 14 – The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years.
* January 20
** Lyndon B. Johnson is Second inauguration of Lyndo ...
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Aravinda de Silva, Sri Lankan cricketer
* 1965 –
Rhys Muldoon, Australian actor
*
1966
Events January
* January 1 – In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa takes over as military ruler of the Central African Republic, ousting President David Dacko.
* January 3 – 1966 Upper Voltan coup d'état: President Maurice Yaméogo i ...
–
Shaun Edwards, English rugby player and coach
* 1966 –
Danny Ferry, American basketball player and manager
* 1966 –
Mark Gatiss, English actor, screenwriter and novelist
* 1966 –
Tommy Kendall
Tommy Kendall (born October 17, 1966) is an American race car driver and television broadcaster. He is best known for his IMSA GT Championship and SCCA Trans-Am Series career.
Racing career
Son of race driver Charles Kendall, Kendall began his ...
, American race car driver and sportscaster
*
1967
Events
January
* January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of Confederation, featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair.
* January 5
** Spain and Romania sign an agreement in Paris, establishing full consular and ...
–
Simon Segars
Simon Anthony Segars (born 17 October 1967) is the former chief executive officer (CEO) of ARM Holdings plc from 2013 to 2022., Consumer Electronics Show, Las Vegas ARM is the UK-largest semiconductor Intellectual Property, IP company headquart ...
, English businessman
* 1967 –
Nathalie Tauziat
Nathalie Tauziat (born 17 October 1967) is a French former professional tennis player. She was the runner-up in women's singles at the 1998 Wimbledon Championships and runner-up in the women's doubles at the 2001 US Open partnering Kimberl ...
, French tennis player
* 1967 –
René Dif, Danish musician
* 1967 –
Pedro González Vera, Chilean footballer
*
1968
The year was highlighted by protests and other unrests that occurred worldwide.
Events January–February
* January 5 – "Prague Spring": Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.
* Januar ...
–
Graeme Le Saux, English footballer and sportscaster
* 1968 –
Ziggy Marley, Jamaican singer-songwriter, guitarist, and voice actor
* 1968 –
David Robertson, Scottish footballer and manager
* 1968 –
Alejandra Ávalos
Alejandra Margarita Ávalos Rodríguez (born October 17, 1968) is a Mexican singer, musician and actress. She began her career in 1980, when she took part in the musical contest ''La Voz del Heraldo''. After receiving a scholarship to study in ...
, Mexican artist
*
1969
This year is notable for Apollo 11's first landing on the moon.
Events January
* January 4 – The Government of Spain hands over Ifni to Morocco.
* January 5
**Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 crashes into a house on its approach to ...
–
Ernie Els, South African golfer and sportscaster
* 1969 –
Jesús Ángel García
Jesús Ángel García Bragado (born 17 October 1969 in Madrid) is a Spanish race walker. He has competed at eight Olympic Games
The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporti ...
, Spanish racewalker
* 1969 –
Wyclef Jean, Haitian-American rapper, producer, and actor
* 1969 –
Rick Mercer
Richard Vincent "Rick" Mercer (born October 17, 1969) is a Canadian comedian, television personality, political satirist, and author. He is best known for his work on the CBC Television comedy shows ''This Hour Has 22 Minutes'' and '' Rick Merc ...
, Canadian comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter
* 1969 –
Wood Harris, American actor
*
1970
Events
January
* January 1 – Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC.
* January 5 – The 7.1 Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity scale, Mercalli intensity of X (''Extrem ...
–
Anil Kumble, Indian cricketer
* 1970 –
John Mabry
John Steven Mabry (born October 17, 1970) is an American former professional baseball player, broadcaster, and coach. He is a coach for the Kansas City Royals of Major League Baseball (MLB). He had 898 career hits in 3,409 at-bats (for a batting ...
, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster
* 1970 –
J. C. MacKenzie
John Charles MacKenzie (born October 17, 1970) is a Canadian actor. He is best known for portraying Skip Fontaine on the HBO series ''Vinyl'' (2016) and Reagan "Normal" Ronald on the Fox series '' Dark Angel'' (2000–2002). He has also appea ...
, Canadian actor
*
1971 *
The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses ( February 25, July 22 and August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 10, and August 6).
The world population increased by 2.1% this year, the highest increase in history.
Events
Ja ...
–
Blues Saraceno, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
* 1971 –
Chris Kirkpatrick, American singer-songwriter and dancer
* 1971 –
Kim Ljung
Kim Ljung (born 17 October 1971) is a musician from Tønsberg, Norway. He is best known as the bassist in Norwegian alternative rock band Seigmen and industrial band Zeromancer. He also appeared as guest vocalist on SubGud's Time Machine.
Early ...
, Norwegian singer-songwriter and bass player
* 1971 –
Martin Heinrich, American politician
* 1971 –
Derrick Plourde, American drummer (d. 2005)
*
1972
Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, me ...
–
Eminem
Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17, 1972), known professionally as Eminem (; often stylized as EMINƎM), is an American rapper and record producer. He is credited with popularizing hip hop in middle America and is critically acclai ...
, American rapper, producer, and actor
* 1972 –
Tarkan, German-Turkish singer
* 1972 –
Akio "Musashi" Mori, Japanese karateka and kickboxer
*
1973
Events January
* January 1 - The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union.
* January 15 – Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, U.S. ...
–
Andrea Tarozzi
Andrea Tarozzi (born 17 October 1973) is an Italian former footballer, who played as a defender, and currently the assistant manager of Parma.
Playing career
After making his Serie A debut in the 1996–97 season, in July 1997 he joined Fiore ...
, Italian footballer and coach
* 1973 –
Rubén Garcés
Rubén Santiago Garcés Riquelme (born October 17, 1973) is a Panamanian professional basketball player. He last played for the Mets de Guaynabo of Puerto Rico. A 6'9" power forward/center, he played US college basketball with Navarro Junior Col ...
, Panamanian basketball player
*
1974
Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War determined politics; f ...
–
Ariel Levy, American journalist and author
* 1974 –
Matthew Macfadyen
David Matthew Macfadyen (; born 17 October 1974) is an English actor. Known for his performances on stage and screen, he gained prominence for his role as Mr. Darcy in Joe Wright's ''Pride & Prejudice'' (2005). He currently stars as Tom Wambsgans ...
, English actor
* 1974 –
Obdulio Ávila Mayo
Obdulio Ávila Mayo (born 17 October 1974) is a Mexican politician from the National Action Party. From 2006 to 2009 he served as Deputy of the LX Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing the Federal District
A federal district is a ...
, Mexican politician
* 1974 –
Bárbara Paz
Bárbara Raquel Paz (born 17 October 1974) is a Brazilian non-binary actress, producer, and film director.
Life and career
Paz graduated from the Macunaíma Theatre School and from the Antunes Centre for Theatre Research (CPT) and is a long-st ...
, Brazilian actress
* 1974 –
Janne Puurtinen, Finnish keyboard player
* 1974 –
John Rocker
John Loy Rocker (born October 17, 1974) is a former American relief pitcher who played six seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), primarily with the Atlanta Braves. Making his major league debut in 1998 as a member of the Braves, with whom he p ...
, American baseball player
* 1974 –
Darío Sala, Argentine footballer
* 1974 –
Gabriel Silberstein, Chilean tennis player
* 1974 –
Dhondup Wangchen
Dhondup Wangchen ( bo, དོན་གྲུབ་དབང་ཆེན་, Wylie transliteration, Wylie: ''don grub dbang chen''; born 17 October 1974) is a Tibetan people, Tibetan filmmaker imprisoned by the Chinese government in 2008 on char ...
, Chinese director and producer
*
1975
It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe.
Events
January
* January 1 - Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. ...
–
Francis Bouillon, American-Canadian ice hockey player
* 1975 –
Jericó Abramo Masso
Jericó Abramo Masso (first name also spelled Yericó; born 17 October 1975) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party. He currently represents the Seventh Federal Electoral District of Coahuila in the Chambe ...
, Mexican politician
* 1975 –
Vina Morales, Filipino actress and singer
*
1976
Events January
* January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force.
* January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea.
* January 11 – The 1976 Phila ...
–
Sebastián Abreu
Washington Sebastián Abreu Gallo (; born 17 October 1976) is a Uruguayan football manager and former player who played as a striker. He is the current manager of Peruvian club Universidad César Vallejo.
He is best known for his record of app ...
, Uruguayan footballer
* 1976 –
Seth Etherton, American baseball player
* 1976 –
Carlos Loret de Mola
Carlos Loret de Mola Álvarez (born October 17, 1976 in Mérida, Yucatán) is a Mexican journalist. He currently hosts the radio program ''Así las cosas con Carlos Loret de Mola'' on W Radio and is a contributor to '' El Universal''.
Most rec ...
, Mexican journalist
* 1976 –
Kevin Maher
Kevin Andrew Maher (born 17 October 1976) is a former professional footballer and coach who played as a midfielder. He is head coach of National League side Southend United. Born in England, he represented the Republic of Ireland internationall ...
, English-Irish footballer and coach
*
1977
Events January
* January 8 – Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group.
* January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (now the Democratic R ...
–
Dudu Aouate
David "Dudu" Aouate (or Awat, he, דוד "דודו" אוואט, ''pronounced Dūdū Ahwaht''; born 17 October 1977) is an Israeli retired professional association football, footballer who played as a goalkeeper (association football), goalkeeper ...
, Israeli footballer
* 1977 –
Alimi Ballard, American actor and producer
* 1977 –
Bryan Bertino
Bryan Michael Bertino (born October 17, 1977) is an American filmmaker. He is best known as the writer/director of '' The Strangers'' (2008), as well as writing its sequel, '' The Strangers: Prey at Night'' (2018), with Ben Ketai.
Early life a ...
, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
* 1977 –
Walter Calderón
Walter Richard Calderón Carcelén, nicknamed ''Mamita'' (born October 17, 1977) is a retired Ecuadorian football player.
Club career
Calderón began his professional career at Quito-based club ESPOLI. In 2000, he made the move to Deportivo Cuen ...
, Ecuadorian footballer
* 1977 –
Marko Antonio Cortés Mendoza
Marko Antonio Cortés Mendoza (born 17 October 1977 in Zamora, Michoacán) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the National Action Party (Mexico), National Action Party (PAN). He currently serves in the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico), Chamber ...
, Mexican politician
* 1977 –
Ryan McGinley, American photographer
* 1977 –
André Villas-Boas, Portuguese footballer and manager
*
1978
Events January
* January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213.
* January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd go ...
–
Pablo Iglesias Turrión, Spanish politician
* 1978 –
Jerry Flannery
Jeremiah Paul Flannery (born 17 October 1978) is a former Irish rugby union player and current coach.
During his playing career, Flannery, a hooker, played for Munster and Ireland, before being forced to retire in March 2012 due to injury prob ...
, Irish rugby player and coach
* 1978 –
Erin Karpluk, Canadian actress
* 1978 –
Chuka Umunna, English lawyer and politician
*
1979
Events
January
* January 1
** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song ...
–
Marcela Bovio, Mexican singer-songwriter and violinist
* 1979 –
Alexandros Nikolaidis
Alexandros Nikolaidis (17 October 1979 – 14 October 2022) was a Greek taekwondo athlete. He was named the 2008 Greek Male Athlete of the Year. Initially the home favorite, he won the silver medal at the 2004 Olympics held in At ...
, Greek martial artist (d. 2022)
* 1979 –
Kimi Räikkönen
Kimi-Matias Räikkönen (; born 17 October 1979), nicknamed "The Iceman", is a Finnish racing driver who competed in Formula One between 2001 and 2021 for Sauber, McLaren, Ferrari, Lotus, and Alfa Romeo. Räikkönen won the 2007 Formula One Wo ...
, Finnish race car driver
* 1979 –
Kostas Tsartsaris, Greek basketball player
*
1980
Events January
* January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission.
* January 6 – Global Positioning System time epoch begins at 00:00 UTC.
* January 9 – ...
–
Yekaterina Gamova, Russian volleyball player
* 1980 –
Mohammad Hafeez, Pakistani cricketer
* 1980 –
Isaac Mina, Ecuadorian footballer
* 1980 –
Angel Parker, American actress
* 1980 –
Alessandro Piccolo, Italian race car driver
* 1980 –
Justin Shenkarow
Justin Shenkarow is an American actor, producer, director and writer, best known for his roles of Matthew Brock in ''Picket Fences'', Simon Holmes in ''Eerie, Indiana'', and the voice of Harold Berman from the ''Nickelodeon'' animated series, ' ...
, American actor
*
1981
Events January
* January 1
** Greece enters the European Economic Community, predecessor of the European Union.
** Palau becomes a self-governing territory.
* January 10 – Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensiv ...
–
Horacio Cervantes
Horacio Javier Cervantes Chávez (born 17 October 1981) is a former Mexican footballer, who last played as defender for Veracruz, on loan for Cruz Azul
Club de Futbol Cruz Azul or simply Cruz Azul () is a professional football club based in ...
, Mexican footballer
* 1981 –
Kurumi Enomoto
, formerly known as , is a Japanese singer-songwriter. She debuted in 2002 with the independently released single . She is most well known for singing the ending theme song for the anime adaptation of the Namco role-playing video game ''Tales of ...
, Japanese singer-songwriter
* 1981 –
Tsubasa Imai, Japanese singer, actor, and dancer
* 1981 –
Ben Rothwell
Ben Rothwell (born October 17, 1981) is an American mixed martial artist who competes as a Heavyweight. He most notably had a 17 bout stint in the Ultimate Fighting Championship and competed for the Quad Cities Silverbacks of the IFL where he h ...
, American mixed-martial artist
*
1982
Events January
* January 1 – In Malaysia and Singapore, clocks are adjusted to the same time zone, UTC+8 (GMT+8.00).
* January 13 – Air Florida Flight 90 crashes shortly after takeoff into the 14th Street bridges, 14th Street Bridge in ...
–
Rubén Ramírez, Argentine footballer
* 1982 –
Nick Riewoldt, Australian footballer
* 1982 –
Marion Rolland
Marion Rolland (born 17 October 1982) is a retired World Cup alpine ski racer from France.
Racing career
Born in Saint-Martin-d'Hères, Isère, she made her World Cup debut in January 2004 and attained her first top-10 in February 2009 in Ba ...
, alpine ski racer
*
1983
The year 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call.
Events January
* January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to Internet protocol suite, TCP/IP is officially completed (this is consid ...
–
Michelle Ang, New Zealander actress
* 1983 –
Milica Brozovic
Milica ( sr-Cyrl, Милица; pronounced 'Millitsa') is a feminine name popular in Balkan countries. It is a diminutive form of the given name Mila, meaning 'kind', 'dear' or 'sweet'. The name was used for a number of queens and princesses, incl ...
, Serbian-Russian figure skater
* 1983 –
Felicity Jones, English actress
* 1983 –
Toshihiro Matsushita, Japanese footballer
* 1983 –
Riki Miura
is a Japanese actor from Hiroshima Prefecture. Miura made his acting debut in 2005. His first major role has been as Gou Fukami/Geki Violet in ''Juken Sentai Gekiranger''. He announced on March 10, 2018 that he will retire from the entertainment ...
, Japanese actor
* 1983 –
Junichi Miyashita
is a Japanese swimmer. He won a bronze medal in the men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay at the 2008 Summer Olympics
The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an internat ...
, Japanese swimmer
* 1983 –
Ivan Saenko
Ivan Ivanovich Saenko (russian: link=no, Иван Иванович Саенко; born 17 October 1983) is a Russian former footballer who played as a winger.
Club career
Saenko was born in Maslovka. In August 2008, Saenko moved to Spartak Mos ...
, Russian footballer
* 1983 –
Mitch Talbot, American baseball player
* 1983 –
Vitali Teleš
Vitali Teleš (born 17 October 1983 in Tallinn) is an Estonian footballer who plays for Estonian club Maardu Linnameeskond as a goalkeeper.
Club career
TVMK Tallinn
After TVMK was disbanded Teleš was about to retire of professional football a ...
, Estonian footballer
*
1984
Events
January
* January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888.
* January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast A ...
–
Chris Lowell, American actor
* 1984 –
Giovanni Marchese
Giovanni Marchese (born 17 October 1984) is an Italian football coach and a former player who played as a defender. He is currently the manager of the Sicily national team.
Club career
Torino
Born in Caltanissetta, Sicily, Marchese started h ...
, Italian footballer
* 1984 –
Randall Munroe, American author and illustrator
* 1984 –
Luke Rockhold, American mixed martial artist
* 1984 –
Anja Eline Skybakmoen, Norwegian singer-songwriter and bandleader
* 1984 –
Gottfrid Svartholm
Per Gottfrid Svartholm Warg (born 17 October 1984), alias anakata, is a Swedish computer specialist, known as the former co-owner of the web hosting company PRQ and co-founder of the BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay together with Fredrik Neij and ...
, Swedish computer specialist
* 1984 –
Jared Tallent
Jared Tallent OAM (born 17 October 1984) is an Australian race walker and Olympic gold medallist in the 50 km walk from London in 2012. He is a four-time Olympic medallist, three-time World Championship medallist and holds the current Oly ...
, Australian race walker
*
1985
The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations.
Events January
* January 1
** The Internet's Domain Name System is created.
** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a ...
–
Carlos González, Venezuelan baseball player
* 1985 –
Max Irons, English-Irish actor
* 1985 –
Collins John, Dutch footballer
* 1985 –
Tomokazu Nagira, Japanese footballer
*
1986
The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations.
Events January
* January 1
** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles.
**Spain and Portugal ente ...
–
Alexandre Bonnet, French footballer
* 1986 –
Antoni Bou
Antoni Bou i Mena () (born 17 October 1986) is a Spanish professional motorcycle trials rider. He has been the sole outdoor and indoor FIM Trial World Championship champion from 2007 to 2022. With these 32 world titles (16 outdoor and 16 indoor), ...
, Spanish motorcyclist
* 1986 –
Aija Brumermane
Aija Klakocka ( Brumermane, born 17 October 1986) is a Latvian women's basketball player with the Latvia women's national basketball team. She competed with the team at the 2008 Summer Olympics and EuroBasket Women 2009
The 2009 European Wom ...
, Latvian basketball player
* 1986 –
Constant Djakpa
Tohouri Zahoui Constant Djakpa (born 17 October 1986) is an Ivorian professional footballer who plays as a left back for Hessen Dreieich.
Career
On 12 September 2018, Djakpa joined Regionalliga Südwest side Hessen Dreieich.
International ca ...
, Ivorian footballer
* 1986 –
Yannick Ponsero, French figure skater
* 1986 –
Nicolás Richotti
Nicolás "Nico" Richotti (born 17 October 1986) is an Argentine professional basketball player. At a height of 1.84 m (6'0 ") tall, he plays at both the point guard and shooting guard positions, with shooting guard being his main position.
Profes ...
, Argentine basketball player
*
1987
File:1987 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes after leaving the Port of Zeebrugge in Belgium, killing 193; Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, k ...
–
Bea Alonzo, Filipino actress and singer
* 1987 –
Jarosław Fojut, Polish footballer
* 1987 –
Elliot Grandin
Elliot Grandin (born 17 October 1987) is a French professional footballer who plays as a winger for Championnat National 3 club Cannet Rocheville.
Grandin can also play as a central attacking midfielder. He notably played in the Premier Lea ...
, French footballer
* 1987 –
Hideto Takahashi
is a Japanese footballer who plays for Auckland United FC.
Club statistics
''Updated to 24 February 2019''.Nippon Sports Kikaku Publishing inc./日本スポーツ企画出版社"2016J1&J2&J3選手名鑑" 10 February 2016, Japan, (p. 34 out of ...
, Japanese footballer
*
1988
File:1988 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The oil platform Piper Alpha explodes and collapses in the North Sea, killing 165 workers; The USS Vincennes (CG-49) mistakenly shoots down Iran Air Flight 655; Australia celebrates its Australian ...
–
Sergiy Gladyr, Ukrainian basketball player
* 1988 –
Tori Matsuzaka, Japanese actor and model
* 1988 –
Marina Salas
Marina Salas Rodríguez (born October 17, 1988), is a Spanish actress.
Career
Her first onscreen appearance was as the character Laia in El Cor de la Ciutat, a TV series, in 2005. She has also appeared in films, including La Mano Invisible in 2 ...
, Spanish actress
*
1989
File:1989 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Cypress Street Viaduct, Cypress structure collapses as a result of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, killing motorists below; The proposal document for the World Wide Web is submitted; The Exxo ...
–
Débora García, Spanish footballer
* 1989 –
Oleksandr Isakov
Oleksandr Isakov (born 17 October 1989, Ivano-Frankivsk) is a Ukrainian swimmer. He swam for the Ukraine in three events at the 2008 Summer Olympics, the 100 m backstroke, finishing in 38th place, the 200 m backstroke, finishing in 39th place, and ...
, Ukrainian swimmer
* 1989 –
Sophie Luck
Sophie Kathrin Luck (born 17 October 1989) is an Australian actress best known for her roles on the television shows ''Blue Water High'' and ''Home and Away''.
Biography
Personal life
Luck has had drama lessons since the age of seven. She ha ...
, Australian actress
* 1989 –
Charles Oliveira, Brazilian mixed martial artist
* 1989 –
David Timor
David Timor Copoví (born 17 October 1989) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for CD Eldense.
Club career
Born in Carcaixent, Valencian Community, Timor was a product of Valencia CF's youth ranks. He made his ...
, Spanish footballer
*
1990
File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of Humankind, humanity on Earth, Astroph ...
–
Paolo Campinoti
Paolo Campinoti (born 17 October 1990) is an Italian footballer, who plays as a left midfielder for S.S.D. Massese.
Career
Born in Massa, Tuscany, Campinoti started his career at La Spezia, Liguria, about 30 km away. In 2005, he was signed ...
, Italian footballer
* 1990 –
Maica García Godoy
María del Carmen "Maica" García Godoy (born 17 October 1990) is a Spanish water polo player, playing at the centre forward position. She is part of the Spain women's national water polo team. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she ...
, Spanish water polo player
* 1990 –
Ronald González Tabilo, Chilean footballer
* 1990 –
Saki Kumagai
is a Japanese footballer who plays for German club FC Bayern Munich and the Japan national team. She plays primarily as a defensive midfielder but has also been deployed as a central defender.
Kumagai is one of the most successful East Asian ...
, Japanese footballer
* 1990 –
Patrick Lambie
Patrick Jonathan Lambie (born 17 October 1990) is a retired South African professional rugby union player who last played for in the French Top 14. He announced his retirement in January 2019 due to multiple concussions.
Early life
Lambie at ...
, South African rugby player
*
1991
File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, elected as Russia's first president, waves the new flag of Russia after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, orchestrated by Soviet hardliners; Mount Pinatubo erupts in the Phil ...
–
Brenda Asnicar
Brenda Asnicar (born 17 October 1991) is an Argentine actress, singer, model and dancer who gained international popularity for her debut role as Antonella Lamas Bernardi in the Disney Channel television series ''Patito feo''.
Life and career
...
, Argentine actress
*
1992
File:1992 Events Collage V1.png, From left, clockwise: 1992 Los Angeles riots, Riots break out across Los Angeles, California after the Police brutality, police beating of Rodney King; El Al Flight 1862 crashes into a residential apartment buildi ...
–
Sam Concepcion, Filipino musician and dancer
* 1992 –
Keerthy Suresh, Indian actress
*
1993
File:1993 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Oslo I Accord is signed in an attempt to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; The Russian White House is shelled during the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis; Czechoslovakia is peace ...
–
Kenneth Omeruo, Nigerian footballer
*
2001
The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...
–
Thomas Strudwick
Thomas Strudwick (born 17 October 2001) is a British motorcycle road racer from West Sussex.
In 2020, Strudwick raced in the Open600 class of the Campeonato de España de Superbike (ESBK) for the Team Edge RST Racing Team.
He was selected a ...
, British motorcycle road racer
Deaths
Pre-1600
*
AD 33
AD 33 ( XXXIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known in the Roman world as the Year of the Consulship of Ocella and Sulla (or, less frequently, year 786 '' ...
–
Agrippina the Elder, Roman wife of
Germanicus
Germanicus Julius Caesar (24 May 15 BC – 10 October AD 19) was an ancient Roman general, known for his campaigns in Germania. The son of Nero Claudius Drusus and Antonia the Younger, Germanicus was born into an influential branch of the Patric ...
(b. 14 BC)
*
532
__NOTOC__
Year 532 ( DXXXII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Second year after the Consulship of Lampadius and Probus (or, less frequently, ye ...
–
Pope Boniface II
*
866
__NOTOC__
Year 866 ( DCCCLXVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
* April 21 – Bardas, the regent of the Byzantine Empire, is murd ...
–
Al-Musta'in, Abbasid caliph (b. 836)
*
1271
Year 1271 (Roman numerals, MCCLXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
* July 2 – Peace of Pressburg (1271), Peace of Pressburg: Kings Otto ...
–
Steinvör Sighvatsdóttir
Steinvör Sighvatsdóttir (early 13th–century – 17 October 1271; Modern Icelandic: ; Old Norse: ), was the politically most influential woman in Iceland in the Age of the Sturlungs. She was also a skald and listed as such in ''Skáldat ...
, Icelandic aristocrat and poet
*
1277
Year 1277 ( MCCLXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
* March 19 – Byzantine–Venetian Treaty: Emperor Michael VIII (Palaiolo ...
–
Beatrice of Falkenburg
Beatrice of Falkenburg ( 1254 – 17 October 1277), also referred to as Beatrix of Valkenburg, was the third spouse of Richard of Cornwall, and as such nominally queen of Germany. She was 15 years old when she married the 60-year-old English prin ...
, German queen consort (b. c. 1254)
*
1346
Year 1346 ( MCCCXLVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. It was a year in the 14th century, in the midst of a period known in European history as the Late Middle Ages. In Asia that year, the Black Death came to the troop ...
–
John Randolph, 3rd Earl of Moray
*
1346
Year 1346 ( MCCCXLVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. It was a year in the 14th century, in the midst of a period known in European history as the Late Middle Ages. In Asia that year, the Black Death came to the troop ...
–
Maurice de Moravia, Earl of Strathearn
*
1456
Year 1456 ( MCDLVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
* May 18 – Second Battle of Oronichea (1456): Ottoman Forces of 15,000 are sent t ...
–
Nicolas Grenon
Nicolas Grenon ( – October 17, 1456) was a French composer of the early Renaissance. He wrote in all the prevailing musical forms of the time, and was a rare case of a long-lived composer who learned his craft in the late 14th century but primari ...
, French composer (b. 1375)
*
1485
Year 1485 ( MCDLXXXV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
* Spring – Multiple earthquakes occur near Taishan, China.
* March 16 – A ...
–
John Scott of Scott's Hall
Sir John Scott, JP (c. 1423 – 17 October 1485) of Scot's Hall in Smeeth was a Kent landowner, and committed supporter of the House of York. Among other offices, he served as Comptroller of the Household to Edward IV, and lieutenant to t ...
, Warden of the Cinque Ports
*
1552
__NOTOC__
Year 1552 ( MDLII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
* January 15 – Henry II of France and Maurice, Elector of Saxony, sign the Trea ...
–
Andreas Osiander, German Protestant theologian (b. 1498)
*
1575
__NOTOC__
Year 1575 ( MDLXXV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
* January 21 – Queen Elizabeth I of England grants a monopoly on producin ...
–
Gaspar Cervantes de Gaeta
Gaspar Cervantes de Gaeta ( Trujillo, 1511However, in the Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana, it is stated that he was born in 1512. – Tarragona, 17 October 1575) was a Spanish cardinal of the 16th century. He was a relative of the famous Spanish wri ...
, Spanish cardinal (b. 1511)
*
1586
Events
* January 18 – The 7.9 Tenshō earthquake strikes the Chubu region of Japan, triggering a tsunami and causing at least 8,000 deaths.
* June 16 – The deposed and imprisoned Mary, Queen of Scots, recognizes Philip II of ...
–
Philip Sidney, English courtier, poet, and general (b. 1554)
*
1587
Events
January–June
* February 1 – Queen Elizabeth I of England signs the death warrant of her cousin Mary, Queen of Scots, after Mary has been implicated in a plot to murder Elizabeth. Seven days later, on the orders of E ...
–
Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1541)
1601–1900
*
1616
Events
January–June
* January
** Six-year-old António Vieira arrives from Portugal, with his parents, in Bahia (present-day Salvador) in Colonial Brazil, where he will become a diplomat, noted author, leading figure of the Church, an ...
–
John Pitts, English priest and scholar (b. 1560)
*
1660
Events
January–March
* January 1
** At daybreak, English Army Colonel George Monck, with two brigades of troops from his Scottish occupational force, fords the River Tweed at Coldstream in Scotland to cross the border into England ...
–
Adrian Scrope, English colonel and politician (b. 1601)
*
1673
Events
January–March
* January 22 – Impostor Mary Carleton is hanged at Newgate Prison in London, for multiple thefts and returning from penal transportation.
* February 10 – Molière's ''comédie-ballet'' ''The Imagi ...
–
Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English politician,
Lord High Treasurer of England (b. 1630)
*
1690
Events
January–March
* January 2 – The Ottoman Empire defeats Serbian rebels and Austrian troops in battle at Kaçanik Gorge, prompting more than 30,000 Serb refugees to flee northward from Kosovo, Macedonia and Sandžak to the Aus ...
–
Margaret Mary Alacoque, French mystic (b. 1647)
*
1757
Events
January–March
* January 2 – Seven Years' War: The British Army, under the command of Robert Clive, captures Calcutta, India.
* January 5 – Robert-François Damiens makes an unsuccessful assassination attempt ...
–
René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur
René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (; 28 February 1683, La Rochelle – 17 October 1757, Saint-Julien-du-Terroux) was a French entomologist and writer who contributed to many different fields, especially the study of insects. He introduced t ...
, French entomologist and academic (b. 1683)
*
1776
Events January–February
* January 1 – American Revolutionary War – Burning of Norfolk: The town of Norfolk, Virginia is destroyed, by the combined actions of the British Royal Navy and occupying Patriot forces.
* January 1 ...
–
Pierre François le Courayer, French-English theologian and author (b. 1681)
*
1780
Events
January–March
* January 16 – American Revolutionary War – Battle of Cape St. Vincent: British Admiral Sir George Rodney defeats a Spanish fleet.
* February 19 – The legislature of New York votes to allow ...
–
William Cookworthy
William Cookworthy (12 April 170517 October 1780) was an English Quaker minister, a successful pharmacist and an innovator in several fields of technology. He was the first person in Britain to discover how to make hard-paste porcelain, like t ...
, English pharmacist and minister (b. 1705)
*
1781
Events
January–March
* January – William Pitt the Younger, later Prime Minister of Great Britain, enters Parliament, aged 21.
* January 1 – Industrial Revolution: The Iron Bridge opens across the River Severn in Eng ...
–
Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, English admiral (b. 1705)
*
1786
Events
January–March
* January 3 – The third Treaty of Hopewell is signed, between the United States and the Choctaw.
* January 6 – The outward bound East Indiaman '' Halsewell'' is wrecked on the south coast of Englan ...
–
Johann Ludwig Aberli, Swiss painter and illustrator (b. 1723)
*
1806
Events
January–March
* January 1
** The French Republican Calendar is abolished.
** The Kingdom of Bavaria is established by Napoleon.
* January 5 – The body of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, lies in state in the Painted Hall ...
–
Jean-Jacques Dessalines
Jean-Jacques Dessalines (Haitian Creole: ''Jan-Jak Desalin''; ; 20 September 1758 – 17 October 1806) was a leader of the Haitian Revolution and the first ruler of an independent First Empire of Haiti, Haiti under the Constitution of Haiti, 1 ...
, Haitian commander and politician,
Governor-General of Haiti (b. 1758)
*
1836
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Queen Maria II of Portugal marries Prince Ferdinand Augustus Francis Anthony of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
* January 5 – Davy Crockett arrives in Texas.
* January 12
** , with Charles Darwin on board, r ...
–
Orest Kiprensky
Orest Adamovich Kiprensky (russian: Орест Адамович Кипренский -) was a leading Russian portraitist in the Age of Romanticism. His most familiar work is probably his portrait of Alexander Pushkin (1827), which prompted the ...
, Russian painter (b. 1782)
*
1837
Events
January–March
* January 1 – The destructive Galilee earthquake causes 6,000–7,000 casualties in Ottoman Syria.
* January 26 – Michigan becomes the 26th state admitted to the United States.
* February – Charles Dickens's ...
–
Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Johann Nepomuk Hummel (14 November 177817 October 1837) was an Austrian composer and virtuoso pianist. His music reflects the Transition from Classical to Romantic music, transition from the Classical period (music), Classical to the Romantic ...
, Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1778)
*
1849
Events
January–March
* January 1 – France begins issue of the Ceres series, the nation's first postage stamps.
* January 5 – Hungarian Revolution of 1848: The Austrian army, led by Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz, enters in th ...
–
Frédéric Chopin
Frédéric François Chopin (born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin; 1 March 181017 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period, who wrote primarily for solo piano. He has maintained worldwide renown as a leadin ...
, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1810)
*
1868
Events
January–March
* January 2 – British Expedition to Abyssinia: Robert Napier leads an expedition to free captive British officials and missionaries.
* January 3 – The 15-year-old Mutsuhito, Emperor Meiji of Jap ...
– Laura Secord, Canadian War of 1812, war heroine (b. 1775)
*1887 – Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist and chemist (b. 1824)
*
1889
Events
January–March
* January 1
** The total solar eclipse of January 1, 1889 is seen over parts of California and Nevada.
** Paiute spiritual leader Wovoka experiences a vision, leading to the start of the Ghost Dance movement in the ...
– Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher and critic (b. 1828)
*
1893
Events
January–March
* January 2 – Webb C. Ball introduces railroad chronometers, which become the general railroad timepiece standards in North America.
* Mark Twain started writing Puddn'head Wilson.
* January 6 – Th ...
– Patrice de MacMahon, Duke of Magenta, French general and politician, 3rd President of France (b. 1808)
1901–present
*
1910
Events
January
* January 13 – The first public radio broadcast takes place; live performances of the operas '' Cavalleria rusticana'' and ''Pagliacci'' are sent out over the airwaves, from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York C ...
– Julia Ward Howe, American poet and songwriter (b. 1819)
*
1918
This year is noted for the end of the First World War, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, as well as for the Spanish flu pandemic that killed 50–100 million people worldwide.
Events
Below, the events ...
– Malak Hifni Nasif, Egyptian poet and author (b. 1886)
*
1920
Events January
* January 1
** Polish–Soviet War in 1920: The Russian Red Army increases its troops along the Polish border from 4 divisions to 20.
** Kauniainen, completely surrounded by the city of Espoo, secedes from Espoo as its own ma ...
– Michael Fitzgerald (Irish republican) died on Hunger Strike (b. 1881)
*1928 – Frank Dicksee, English painter and illustrator (b. 1853)
*
1931
Events
January
* January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics.
* January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa.
* January 22 – Sir I ...
– Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist and academic (b. 1884)
*
1937
Events
January
* January 1 – Anastasio Somoza García becomes President of Nicaragua.
* January 5 – Water levels begin to rise in the Ohio River in the United States, leading to the Ohio River flood of 1937, which continues into Fe ...
– J. Bruce Ismay, English businessman (b. 1862)
*
1938
Events
January
* January 1
** The Constitution of Estonia#Third Constitution (de facto 1938–1940, de jure 1938–1992), new constitution of Estonia enters into force, which many consider to be the ending of the Era of Silence and the a ...
– Karl Kautsky, Czech-German journalist, philosopher, and theoretician (b. 1854)
*
1948
Events January
* January 1
** The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is inaugurated.
** The Constitution of New Jersey (later subject to amendment) goes into effect.
** The railways of Britain are nationalized, to form British ...
– Royal Cortissoz, American art critic (b. 1869)
*
1955
Events January
* January 3 – José Ramón Guizado becomes president of Panama.
* January 17 – , the first nuclear-powered submarine, puts to sea for the first time, from Groton, Connecticut.
* January 18– 20 – Battle of Yijian ...
– Dimitrios Maximos, Greek banker and politician (b. 1873)
*
1956
Events
January
* January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan.
* January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim ...
– Anne Crawford, Israeli-English actress (b. 1920)
*
1957
1957 ( MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1957th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 957th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 20th century, and the 8th y ...
– Wilhelmina Hay Abbott, Scottish suffragist and feminist (b. 1884)
*
1958
Events
January
* January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being.
* January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed.
* January 4
** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third ...
– Paul Outerbridge, American photographer (b. 1896)
* 1958 – Charlie Townsend, English cricketer and lawyer (b. 1876)
*
1962
Events January
* January 1 – Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand.
* January 3 – Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro for preaching communism.
* January 8 – Harmelen train disaster: 93 die in the wors ...
– Natalia Goncharova, Russian painter, costume designer, and set designer (b. 1882)
*
1963
Events January
* January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Cov ...
– Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician and academic (b. 1865)
*
1965
Events January–February
* January 14 – The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years.
* January 20
** Lyndon B. Johnson is Second inauguration of Lyndo ...
– Bart King, American cricketer (b. 1873)
*
1966
Events January
* January 1 – In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa takes over as military ruler of the Central African Republic, ousting President David Dacko.
* January 3 – 1966 Upper Voltan coup d'état: President Maurice Yaméogo i ...
– Sidney Hatch, American runner and soldier (b. 1883)
* 1966 – Wieland Wagner, German director and manager (b. 1917)
*
1967
Events
January
* January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of Confederation, featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair.
* January 5
** Spain and Romania sign an agreement in Paris, establishing full consular and ...
– Puyi, Chinese emperor (b. 1906)
*
1970
Events
January
* January 1 – Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC.
* January 5 – The 7.1 Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity scale, Mercalli intensity of X (''Extrem ...
– Pierre Laporte, Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician (b. 1921)
* 1970 – Vola Vale, American actress (b. 1897)
* 1970 – Quincy Wright, American political scientist and academic (b. 1890)
*
1972
Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, me ...
– Turk Broda, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1914)
* 1972 – George, Crown Prince of Serbia (b. 1887)
*
1973
Events January
* January 1 - The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union.
* January 15 – Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, U.S. ...
– Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian author and poet (b. 1926)
*
1978
Events January
* January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213.
* January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd go ...
– George Clark (racing driver), George Clark, American race car driver (b. 1890)
* 1978 – Giovanni Gronchi, Italian educator, soldier, and politician, 3rd President of the Italian Republic (b. 1887)
*
1979
Events
January
* January 1
** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song ...
– S. J. Perelman, American humorist and screenwriter (b. 1904)
* 1979 – John Stuart (actor), John Stuart, Scottish-English actor (b. 1898)
* 1979 – Eugenio Mendoza, Venezuelan business tycoon (b. 1909)
*
1981
Events January
* January 1
** Greece enters the European Economic Community, predecessor of the European Union.
** Palau becomes a self-governing territory.
* January 10 – Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensiv ...
– Kannadasan Indian author, poet, and songwriter (b. 1927)
* 1981 – Albert Cohen (novelist), Albert Cohen, Greek-Swiss civil servant and author (b. 1895)
* 1981 – Lina Tsaldari, Greek politician (b. 1887)
*
1983
The year 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call.
Events January
* January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to Internet protocol suite, TCP/IP is officially completed (this is consid ...
– Raymond Aron, French sociologist, political scientist, and philosopher (b. 1905)
*
1987
File:1987 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes after leaving the Port of Zeebrugge in Belgium, killing 193; Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, k ...
– Abdul Malek Ukil, Bangladeshi lawyer and politician (b. 1925)
*
1991
File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, elected as Russia's first president, waves the new flag of Russia after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, orchestrated by Soviet hardliners; Mount Pinatubo erupts in the Phil ...
– Tennessee Ernie Ford, American singer and actor (b. 1919)
*
1992
File:1992 Events Collage V1.png, From left, clockwise: 1992 Los Angeles riots, Riots break out across Los Angeles, California after the Police brutality, police beating of Rodney King; El Al Flight 1862 crashes into a residential apartment buildi ...
– Herman Johannes, Indonesian scientist, academic, and politician (b. 1912)
* 1992 – Orestis Laskos, Greek actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1908)
*
1993
File:1993 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Oslo I Accord is signed in an attempt to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; The Russian White House is shelled during the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis; Czechoslovakia is peace ...
– Criss Oliva, American guitarist and songwriter (b. 1963)
*1996 – Chris Acland, English musician and drummer of Lush (b. 1966)
*1997 – Larry Jennings, American magician and author (b. 1933)
*1998 – Joan Hickson, English actress (b. 1906)
* 1998 – Hakim Said, Pakistani scholar and politician, 20th Governor of Sindh (b. 1920)
*1999 – Nicholas Metropolis, Greek-American mathematician and physicist (b. 1915)
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2000
File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...
– Leo Nomellini, Italian-American football player and wrestler (b. 1924)
* 2000 – Joachim Nielsen, Norwegian singer-songwriter and poet (b. 1964)
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2001
The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...
– Jay Livingston, American singer-songwriter (b. 1915)
* 2001 – Micheline Ostermeyer, French shot putter, discus thrower, and pianist (b. 1922)
* 2001 – Rehavam Ze'evi, Israeli historian, general, and politician, Tourism Minister of Israel (b. 1926)
*2002 – Derek Bell (musician), Derek Bell, Irish harpist and composer (b. 1935)
*2004 – Uzi Hitman, Israeli singer-songwriter (b. 1952)
*2006 – Daniel Emilfork, Chilean-French actor (b. 1924)
* 2006 – Christopher Glenn, American journalist (b. 1938)
*2007 – Joey Bishop, American actor and talk show host (b. 1918)
* 2007 – Teresa Brewer, American singer (b. 1931)
* 2007 – Suzy Covey, American scholar and academic (b. 1939)
*2008 – Urmas Ott, Estonian journalist and author (b. 1955)
* 2008 – Levi Stubbs, American singer (b. 1936)
* 2008 – Ben Weider, Canadian businessman, co-founded the International Federation of BodyBuilding & Fitness (b. 1923)
*2009 – Norma Fox Mazer, American author and educator (b. 1931)
* 2009 – Vic Mizzy, American composer (b. 1916)
*2011 – Carl Lindner, Jr., American businessman (b. 1919)
*2012 – Milija Aleksic, English-South African footballer (b. 1951)
* 2012 – Émile Allais, French skier (b. 1912)
* 2012 – Henry Friedlander, German-American historian and author (b. 1930)
* 2012 – Stanford R. Ovshinsky, American scientist and businessman, co-founded Energy Conversion Devices (b. 1922)
* 2012 – Kōji Wakamatsu, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1936)
*2013 – Mother Antonia, American-Mexican nun and activist (b. 1926)
* 2013 – Terry Fogerty, English rugby player and coach (b. 1944)
* 2013 – Arthur Maxwell House, Canadian neurologist and politician, 10th Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador (b. 1926)
* 2013 – Lou Scheimer, American animator, producer, and voice actor, co-founded the Filmation, Filmation Company (b. 1928)
* 2013 – Rene Simpson, Canadian-American tennis player (b. 1966)
*2014 – Edwards Barham, American farmer and politician (b. 1937)
* 2014 – Masaru Emoto, Japanese author and activist (b. 1943)
* 2014 – Tom Shaw (bishop), Tom Shaw, American bishop (b. 1945)
* 2014 – Berndt von Staden, German diplomat, German Ambassador to the United States (b. 1919)
*2015 – Danièle Delorme, French actress and producer (b. 1926)
* 2015 – Howard Kendall, English footballer and manager (b. 1946)
* 2015 – Anne-Marie Lizin, Belgian lawyer and politician (b. 1949)
* 2015 – Tom Smith (Pennsylvania politician), Tom Smith, American businessman and politician (b. 1947)
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2017
File:2017 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The War Against ISIS at the Battle of Mosul (2016-2017); aftermath of the Manchester Arena bombing; The Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017 ("Great American Eclipse"); North Korea tests a ser ...
– Gord Downie, Canadian musician (b. 1964)
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2019
File:2019 collage v1.png, From top left, clockwise: Hong Kong protests turn to widespread riots and civil disobedience; House of Representatives votes to adopt articles of impeachment against Donald Trump; CRISPR gene editing first used to experim ...
– Elijah Cummings, American politician and civil rights advocate (b. 1951)
Holidays and observances
*Christian feast day:
**Andrew of Crete (martyr), Andrew of Crete
**Anstrudis
**Catervus
**Æthelred and Æthelberht, Ethelred and Ethelberht
**Florentius of Orange
**François-Isidore Gagelin (one of Vietnamese Martyrs)
**Hosea
**Ignatius of Antioch
**John the Dwarf, John the Short (John Colobus)
**Marguerite Marie Alacoque (pre-1969 calendar, Visitadines)
**Nothhelm
**Saint Regulus, Rule of Andrew
**Richard Gwyn
**Victor of Capua
**October 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
*International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
*Loyalty Day (Argentina)
*National Police Day (Thailand)
References
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Days of the year
October