Events
Pre-1600
*
284
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–
Diocletian
Diocletian (; la, Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus, grc, Διοκλητιανός, Diokletianós; c. 242/245 – 311/312), nicknamed ''Iovius'', was Roman emperor from 284 until his abdication in 305. He was born Gaius Valerius Diocles ...
is chosen as
Roman emperor.
*
762
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– During the
An Shi Rebellion, the
Tang dynasty
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, with the help of
Huihe tribe, recaptures
Luoyang
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from the rebels.
*
1194
Year 1194 ( MCXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
England
* February 4 – King Richard I (the Lionheart) is ransomed for an amount of 150,000 ...
–
Palermo
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is conquered by
Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor
Henry VI (German: ''Heinrich VI.''; November 1165 – 28 September 1197), a member of the Hohenstaufen dynasty, was King of Germany ( King of the Romans) from 1169 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1191 until his death. From 1194 he was also King of S ...
.
*
1407
Year 1407 ( MCDVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
* April 10 – After several invitations by the Yongle Emperor of China since 1403 ...
–
John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy, and
Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans Louis may refer to:
* Louis (coin)
* Louis (given name), origin and several individuals with this name
* Louis (surname)
* Louis (singer), Serbian singer
* HMS ''Louis'', two ships of the Royal Navy
See also
Derived or associated terms
* Lewis (d ...
, agree to a truce, but Burgundy would kill Orléans three days later.
*
1441
Events
January–December
* February – The Republic of Venice annexes the seigniory of Ravenna, ending the da Polenta Dynasty.
* February 12 – King's College, Cambridge, is founded by King Henry VI of England.
* March 1 – Battle o ...
– The
Peace of Cremona ends the war between the
Republic of Venice
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and the
Duchy of Milan
The Duchy of Milan ( it, Ducato di Milano; lmo, Ducaa de Milan) was a state in northern Italy, created in 1395 by Gian Galeazzo Visconti, then the lord of Milan, and a member of the important Visconti family, which had been ruling the city sin ...
, after the victorious Venetian enterprise of military engineering of the
Galeas per montes.
1601–1900
*
1695
It was also a particularly cold and wet year. Contemporary records claim that wine froze in the glasses in the Palace of Versailles.
Events
January–March
* January 7 (December 28, 1694 O.S.) – The United Kingdom's last joint monarch ...
–
Zumbi
Zumbi (1655 – November 20, 1695), also known as Zumbi dos Palmares (), was a Brazilian quilombola leader, being one of the pioneers of resistance to slavery of Africans by the Portuguese in colonial Brazil. He was also the last of the kings ...
, the last of the leaders of
Quilombo dos Palmares
Palmares, or Quilombo dos Palmares, was a ''quilombo'', a community of escaped slaves and others, in colonial Brazil that developed from 1605 until its suppression in 1694. It was located in the captaincy of Pernambuco, in what is today the Br ...
in early Brazil, is
executed by the forces of Portuguese bandeirante
Domingos Jorge Velho
Domingos Jorge Velho (1641–1705) was one of the fiercest and most effective bandeirantes. He was born in Santana de Parnaíba, captaincy of São Paulo, to Francisco Jorge Velho and Francisca Gonçalves de Camargo. He was responsible for t ...
.
*
1739
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Bouvet Island is discovered by French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier, in the South Atlantic Ocean.
* January 3: A 7.6 earthquake shakes the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region ...
– Start of the
Battle of Porto Bello between British and Spanish forces during the
War of Jenkins' Ear
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.
*
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 ...
–
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 forces land at
the Palisades and then attack
Fort Lee. The
Continental Army
The Continental Army was the army of the United Colonies (the Thirteen Colonies) in the Revolutionary-era United States. It was formed by the Second Continental Congress after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War, and was establis ...
starts to retreat across
New Jersey
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.
*
1789
Events
January–March
* January – Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès publishes the pamphlet ''What Is the Third Estate?'' ('), influential on the French Revolution.
* January 7 – The 1788-89 United States presidential election a ...
–
New Jersey
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becomes the first U.S. state to ratify the
Bill of Rights.
*
1805
After thirteen years the First French Empire abolished the French Republican Calendar in favour of the Gregorian calendar.
Events
January–March
* January 11 – The Michigan Territory is created.
* February 7 – King Anouvong become ...
–
Beethoven's only opera, ''
Fidelio
''Fidelio'' (; ), originally titled ' (''Leonore, or The Triumph of Marital Love''), Op. 72, is Ludwig van Beethoven's only opera. The German libretto was originally prepared by Joseph Sonnleithner from the French of Jean-Nicolas Bouilly, with ...
'', premieres in
Vienna
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*
1815
Events
January
* January 2 – Lord Byron marries Anna Isabella Milbanke in Seaham, county of Durham, England.
* January 3 – Austria, Britain, and Bourbon-restored France form a secret defensive alliance treaty against Prussi ...
– The
Second Treaty of Paris is signed, returning the French frontiers to their 1790 extent, imposing large indemnities, and prolonging the occupation by troops of Great Britain, Austria, Prussia, and Russia for several more years.
*
1820
Events
January–March
*January 1 – Nominal beginning of the Trienio Liberal in Spain: A constitutionalist military insurrection at Cádiz leads to the summoning of the Spanish Parliament (March 7).
*January 8 – General Maritime T ...
– An 80-ton
sperm whale
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attacks and sinks the ''
Essex
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'' (a
whaling
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It was practiced as an organized industry ...
ship from
Nantucket, Massachusetts
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) from the western coast of South America. (
Herman Melville
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's 1851 novel ''
Moby-Dick'' was in part inspired by this incident.)
*
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 ...
–
Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata:
Battle of Vuelta de Obligado.
*
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 ...
–
American Civil War
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States. It was fought between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), the latter formed by states th ...
: A secession ordinance is filed by
Kentucky
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's Confederate government.
*
1873
Events
January–March
* January 1
** Japan adopts the Gregorian calendar.
** The California Penal Code goes into effect.
* January 17 – American Indian Wars: Modoc War: First Battle of the Stronghold – Modoc Indians defeat ...
–
Garnier Expedition
The Garnier Expedition was a French expedition in Tonkin between November 1873 and January 1874. Lieutenant Francis Garnier, who had been sent by France on the demand of Vietnamese Imperial authorities to bring back Jean Dupuis, an unruly French tr ...
:
French
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* Something of, from, or related to France
** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents
** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with Franc ...
forces under Lieutenant
Francis Garnier
Marie Joseph François Garnier ( vi, Ngạc Nhi; 25 July 1839 – 21 December 1873) was a French officer, inspector of Indigenous Affairs of Cochinchina and explorer. He eventually became mission leader of the Mekong Exploration Commission in 19th ...
captured Hanoi
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from the
Vietnamese.
*
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 ...
– The French actress
Sarah Bernhardt
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receives the press at the Savoy Hotel in New York at the outset of her first visit since 1896. She talked about her impending tour with a troupe of more than 50 performers and her plans to play the title role in ''
Hamlet
''The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'', often shortened to ''Hamlet'' (), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play, with 29,551 words. Set in Denmark, the play depicts ...
''.
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 ...
–
Mexican Revolution
The Mexican Revolution ( es, Revolución Mexicana) was an extended sequence of armed regional conflicts in Mexico from approximately 1910 to 1920. It has been called "the defining event of modern Mexican history". It resulted in the destruction ...
:
Francisco I. Madero
Francisco Ignacio Madero González (; 30 October 1873 – 22 February 1913) was a Mexican businessman, revolutionary, writer and Public figure, statesman, who became the 37th president of Mexico from 1911 until he was deposed in Ten Tragic Da ...
issues the
Plan de San Luis Potosí
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, denouncing Mexican President
Porfirio Díaz
José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz Mori ( or ; ; 15 September 1830 – 2 July 1915), known as Porfirio Díaz, was a Mexican general and politician who served seven terms as President of Mexico, a total of 31 years, from 28 November 1876 to 6 Decem ...
, calling for a
revolution
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to overthrow the
government of Mexico, effectively starting the Mexican Revolution.
*
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 ...
–
World War I
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:
Battle of Cambrai begins: British forces make early progress in an attack on German positions but are later pushed back.
*
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 ...
–
José Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of the
Falange
The Falange Española Tradicionalista y de las Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional Sindicalista (FET y de las JONS; ), frequently shortened to just "FET", was the sole legal party of the Francoist regime in Spain. It was created by General Francisco F ...
, is killed by a republican execution squad.
*
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 ...
–
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
:
Hungary
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becomes a signatory of the
Tripartite Pact
The Tripartite Pact, also known as the Berlin Pact, was an agreement between Germany, Italy, and Japan signed in Berlin on 27 September 1940 by, respectively, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Galeazzo Ciano and Saburō Kurusu. It was a defensive military ...
, officially joining the
Axis powers
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.
*
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 – ...
– World War II:
Battle of Tarawa
The Battle of Tarawa was fought on 20–23 November 1943 between the United States and Japan at the Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands, and was part of Operation Galvanic, the U.S. invasion of the Gilberts. Nearly 6,400 Japanese, Koreans, an ...
(
Operation Galvanic
The Battle of Tarawa was fought on 20–23 November 1943 between the United States and Japan at the Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands, and was part of Operation Galvanic, the U.S. invasion of the Gilberts. Nearly 6,400 Japanese, Koreans, ...
) begins:
United States Marines land on
Tarawa Atoll in the
Gilbert Islands
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and suffer heavy fire from Japanese shore guns and machine guns.
*
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 ...
–
Nuremberg trials
The Nuremberg trials were held by the Allies of World War II, Allies against representatives of the defeated Nazi Germany, for plotting and carrying out invasions of other countries, and other crimes, in World War II.
Between 1939 and 1945 ...
: Trials against 24
Nazi
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war criminals start at the
Palace of Justice at
Nuremberg
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.
*
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 ...
–
The Princess Elizabeth marries
Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, who becomes the
Duke of Edinburgh
Duke of Edinburgh, named after the city of Edinburgh in Scotland, was a substantive title that has been created three times since 1726 for members of the British royal family. It does not include any territorial landholdings and does not produc ...
, at
Westminster Abbey
Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is an historic, mainly Gothic church in the City of Westminster, London, England, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. It is one of the United ...
in London.
*
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 ...
– The
Declaration of the Rights of the Child is adopted by the
United Nations
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.
*
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 ...
–
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis (of 1962) ( es, Crisis de Octubre) in Cuba, the Caribbean Crisis () in Russia, or the Missile Scare, was a 35-day (16 October – 20 November 1962) confrontation between the United S ...
ends: In response to the
Soviet Union
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agreeing to remove its missiles from
Cuba
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, U.S. President
John F. Kennedy
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ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation.
*
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 ...
– A total of 78 miners are killed in an explosion at the Consolidated Coal Company's No. 9 mine in Farmington, West Virginia in the
Farmington Mine disaster
The Farmington Mine disaster was an explosion that happened at approximately 5:30 a.m. on November 20, 1968, at the Consol No. 9 coal mine north of Farmington and Mannington, West Virginia, United States.
The explosion was large enough to be ...
.
*
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 ...
–
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War (also known by #Names, other names) was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vie ...
: ''
The Plain Dealer
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As of Ma ...
'' (Cleveland, Ohio) publishes explicit photographs of dead villagers from the
My Lai Massacre in
Vietnam
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.
* 1969 –
Occupation of Alcatraz: Native American activists seize control of
Alcatraz Island until being ousted by the U.S. Government on
June 11,
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 ...
.
*
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 ...
– The
United States Department of Justice
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files its final anti-trust suit against
AT&T Corporation
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. This suit later leads to the breakup of AT&T and its
Bell System
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.
* 1974 – The first fatal crash of a
Boeing 747
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After introducing the 707 in October 1958, Pan Am wanted a jet times its size, t ...
occurs when
Lufthansa Flight 540
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On 20 November 1974, the Boeing 747-130 that was operating as Flight 540 was carrying 157 people (140 passenge ...
crashes while attempting to takeoff from
Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in
Nairobi
Nairobi ( ) is the capital and largest city of Kenya. The name is derived from the Maasai phrase ''Enkare Nairobi'', which translates to "place of cool waters", a reference to the Nairobi River which flows through the city. The city proper ha ...
,
Kenya
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, killing 59 out of the 157 people on board.
*
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 ...
–
Egypt
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ian President
Anwar Sadat
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becomes the first
Arab
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leader to officially visit
Israel
Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...
, when he meets Israeli prime minister
Menachem Begin
Menachem Begin ( ''Menaḥem Begin'' (); pl, Menachem Begin (Polish documents, 1931–1937); ''Menakhem Volfovich Begin''; 16 August 1913 – 9 March 1992) was an Israeli politician, founder of Likud and the sixth Prime Minister of Israel. B ...
and speaks before the
Knesset
The Knesset ( he, הַכְּנֶסֶת ; "gathering" or "assembly") is the unicameral legislature of Israel. As the supreme state body, the Knesset is sovereign and thus has complete control of the entirety of the Israeli government (with ...
in
Jerusalem
Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...
, seeking a permanent peace settlement.
*
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 ...
–
Grand Mosque seizure: About 200 Sunni Muslims revolt in
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in Western Asia. It covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and has a land area of about , making it the fifth-largest country in Asia, the second-largest in the A ...
at the site of the
Kaaba
The Kaaba (, ), also spelled Ka'bah or Kabah, sometimes referred to as al-Kaʿbah al-Musharrafah ( ar, ٱلْكَعْبَة ٱلْمُشَرَّفَة, lit=Honored Ka'bah, links=no, translit=al-Kaʿbah al-Musharrafah), is a building at the c ...
in
Mecca
Mecca (; officially Makkah al-Mukarramah, commonly shortened to Makkah ()) is a city and administrative center of the Mecca Province of Saudi Arabia, and the Holiest sites in Islam, holiest city in Islam. It is inland from Jeddah on the Red ...
during the pilgrimage and take about 6000 hostages. The Saudi government receives help from Pakistani special forces to put down the uprising.
*
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 – ...
–
Lake Peigneur
Lake Peigneur (locally pronounced ) is a brackish lake in the U.S. state of Louisiana, north of Delcambre and west of New Iberia, near the northernmost tip of Vermilion Bay. With a maximum depth of , it is the deepest lake in Louisiana. Its n ...
in
Louisiana
Louisiana , group=pronunciation (French: ''La Louisiane'') is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States. It is the 20th-smallest by area and the 25th most populous of the 50 U.S. states. Louisiana is borde ...
drains into an underlying
salt deposit
Salt mining extracts natural salt deposits from underground. The mined salt is usually in the form of halite (commonly known as rock salt), and extracted from evaporite formations.
History
Before the advent of the modern internal combustio ...
. A misplaced
Texaco
Texaco, Inc. ("The Texas Company") is an American Petroleum, oil brand owned and operated by Chevron Corporation. Its flagship product is its Gasoline, fuel "Texaco with Techron". It also owned the Havoline motor oil brand. Texaco was an Indepe ...
oil probe had been drilled into the Diamond Crystal Salt Mine, causing water to flow down into the mine, eroding the edges of the hole.
*
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 ...
–
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology corporation producing computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services headquartered at the Microsoft Redmond campus located in Redmond, Washing ...
Windows 1.0
Windows 1.0 is the first major release of Microsoft Windows, a family of graphical operating systems for personal computers developed by Microsoft. It was first released to manufacturing in the United States on November 20, 1985, while the Euro ...
, the first graphical personal computer operating environment developed by Microsoft, is released.
*
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 ...
–
Velvet Revolution
The Velvet Revolution ( cs, Sametová revoluce) or Gentle Revolution ( sk, Nežná revolúcia) was a non-violent transition of power in what was then Czechoslovakia, occurring from 17 November to 28 November 1989. Popular demonstrations agains ...
: The number of protesters assembled in
Prague
Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...
,
Czechoslovakia
, rue, Чеськословеньско, , yi, טשעכאסלאוואקיי,
, common_name = Czechoslovakia
, life_span = 1918–19391945–1992
, p1 = Austria-Hungary
, image_p1 ...
, swells from 200,000 the day before to an estimated half-million.
*
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 ...
–
Andrei Chikatilo, one of the
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...
's most prolific
serial killer
A serial killer is typically a person who murders three or more persons,A
*
*
*
* with the murders taking place over more than a month and including a significant period of time between them. While most authorities set a threshold of three ...
s, is arrested; he eventually confesses to 56 killings.
*
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 ...
– An
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan (, ; az, Azərbaycan ), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, , also sometimes officially called the Azerbaijan Republic is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is a part of th ...
i
MI-8
The Mil Mi-8 (russian: Ми-8, NATO reporting name: Hip) is a medium twin-turbine helicopter, originally designed by the Soviet Union in the 1960s and introduced into the Soviet Air Force in 1968.
It is now produced by Russia.
In addition to ...
helicopter carrying 19 peacekeeping mission team with officials and journalists from Russia,
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbeki ...
and
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan (, ; az, Azərbaycan ), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, , also sometimes officially called the Azerbaijan Republic is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is a part of th ...
is
shot down by Armenian military forces in
Khojavend District of Azerbaijan.
*
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 ...
– In England,
a fire breaks out in Windsor Castle, badly damaging the castle and causing over £50 million worth of damage.
*
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 ...
–
Savings and loan crisis: The
United States Senate Ethics Committee
The U.S. Senate Select Committee on Ethics is a select committee of the United States Senate charged with dealing with matters related to senatorial ethics. It is also commonly referred to as the Senate Ethics Committee. Senate rules require th ...
issues a stern censure of
California
California is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, located along the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the List of states and territori ...
senator
Alan Cranston
Alan MacGregor Cranston (June 19, 1914 – December 31, 2000) was an American politician and journalist who served as a United States Senator from California from 1969 to 1993, and as a President of the World Federalist Association from 1949 to 1 ...
for his "dealings" with savings-and-loan executive
Charles Keating
Charles Humphrey Keating Jr. (December 4, 1923 – March 31, 2014) was an American sportsman, lawyer, real estate developer, banker, financier, conservative activist, and convicted felon best known for his role in the savings and loan sca ...
.
* 1993 –
Macedonia's deadliest aviation disaster occurs when
Avioimpex Flight 110
Avioimpex Flight 110 was a scheduled international passenger flight operated by Avioimpex that crashed on 20 November 1993 while flying from Geneva to Skopje. Before the disaster, Flight 110 had deviated from Skopje International Airport to Oh ...
, a
Yakovlev Yak-42, crashes near
Ohrid, killing all 116 people on board.
*
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 ...
– The
Angola
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, map_caption =
, capital = Luanda
, religion =
, religion_year = 2020
, religion_ref =
, coordina ...
n government and
UNITA
The National Union for the Total Independence of Angola ( pt, União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola, abbr. UNITA) is the second-largest political party in Angola. Founded in 1966, UNITA fought alongside the Popular Movement for ...
rebels sign the
Lusaka Protocol in
Zambia
Zambia (), officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central Africa, Central, Southern Africa, Southern and East Africa, although it is typically referred to as being in Southern Africa at its most cent ...
, ending 19 years of
civil war
A civil war or intrastate war is a war between organized groups within the same state (or country).
The aim of one side may be to take control of the country or a region, to achieve independence for a region, or to change government policies ...
. (Localized fighting resumes the next year.)
*
1996
File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A Centennial Olympic Park bombing, bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical Anti-abortion violence, anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 8 ...
–
A fire breaks out in an office building in Hong Kong, killing 41 people and injuring 81.
*
1998
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''.
Events January
* January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...
– A court in
Taliban
The Taliban (; ps, طالبان, ṭālibān, lit=students or 'seekers'), which also refers to itself by its state (polity), state name, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a Deobandi Islamic fundamentalism, Islamic fundamentalist, m ...
-controlled
Afghanistan
Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is bordere ...
declares accused terrorist
Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden (10 March 1957 – 2 May 2011) was a Saudi-born extremist militant who founded al-Qaeda and served as its leader from 1988 until Killing of Osama bin Laden, his death in 2011. Ideologically a Pan-Islamism ...
"a man without a sin" in regard to the
1998 U.S. embassy bombings
The 1998 United States embassy bombings were attacks that occurred on August 7, 1998. More than 200 people were killed in nearly simultaneous truck bomb explosions in two East African cities, one at the United States Embassy in Dar es Salaam, ...
in
Kenya
)
, national_anthem = "Ee Mungu Nguvu Yetu"()
, image_map =
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, ...
and
Tanzania
Tanzania (; ), officially the United Republic of Tanzania ( sw, Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It borders Uganda to the north; Kenya to the northeast; Comoro Islands and ...
.
* 1998 – The first space station module component,
Zarya Zarya may refer to:
*Zorya, personification of dawn in Slavic mythology
* Zarya (antenna), a type of medium-wave broadcasting antenna used in former Soviet Union
*Zarya (ISS module) is a module of the International Space Station.
* ''Zarya'' (magazi ...
, for the
International Space Station
The International Space Station (ISS) is the largest modular space station currently in low Earth orbit. It is a multinational collaborative project involving five participating space agencies: NASA (United States), Roscosmos (Russia), JAXA ...
is launched from the
Baikonur Cosmodrome
The Baikonur Cosmodrome ( kk, Байқоңыр ғарыш айлағы, translit=Baiqoñyr ğaryş ailağy, ; russian: Космодром Байконур, translit=Kosmodrom Baykonur, ) is a spaceport in an area of southern Kazakhstan leased to R ...
in
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbeki ...
.
*
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 ...
– After the
November 15
Events Pre-1600
* 655 – Battle of the Winwaed: Penda of Mercia is defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria.
*1315 – Growth of the Old Swiss Confederacy: The Schweizer Eidgenossenschaft ambushes the army of Leopold I in the Battle of Morg ...
bombings, a second day of the
2003 Istanbul bombings
The 2003 Istanbul bombings were a series of suicide attacks carried out with trucks fitted with bombs detonated at four different locations in Istanbul, Turkey on November 15 and 20, 2003.
On November 15, two truck bombs were detonated, one in ...
occurs in
Istanbul
Istanbul ( , ; tr, İstanbul ), formerly known as Constantinople ( grc-gre, Κωνσταντινούπολις; la, Constantinopolis), is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, largest city in Turkey, serving as the country's economic, ...
, Turkey, destroying the Turkish head office of
HSBC Bank AS and the British consulate.
*
2015
File:2015 Events Collage new.png, From top left, clockwise: Civil service in remembrance of November 2015 Paris attacks; Germanwings Flight 9525 was purposely crashed into the French Alps; the rubble of residences in Kathmandu following the Apri ...
– Following a hostage siege, at least 19 people are
killed in Bamako, Mali.
*
2022
File:2022 collage V1.png, Clockwise, from top left: Road junction at Yamato-Saidaiji Station several hours after the assassination of Shinzo Abe; 2022 Sri Lankan protests, Anti-government protest in Sri Lanka in front of the Presidential Secretari ...
– The
2022 FIFA World Cup
The 2022 FIFA World Cup is an international association football, football tournament contested by the men's national teams of FIFA's member associations. The 22nd FIFA World Cup is taking place in Qatar from 20 November to 18 December 2022 ...
begins in
Qatar
Qatar (, ; ar, قطر, Qaṭar ; local vernacular pronunciation: ), officially the State of Qatar,) is a country in Western Asia. It occupies the Qatar Peninsula on the northeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula in the Middle East; it sh ...
. This is the first time the tournament will be held in the
Middle East
The Middle East ( ar, الشرق الأوسط, ISO 233: ) is a geopolitical region commonly encompassing Arabian Peninsula, Arabia (including the Arabian Peninsula and Bahrain), Anatolia, Asia Minor (Asian part of Turkey except Hatay Pro ...
.
Births
Pre-1600
*
270
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Year 270 ( CCLXX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Antiochianus and Orfitus (or, less frequently, year 102 ...
–
Maximinus II, Roman emperor (d. 313)
*
939
Year 939 ( CMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
* Hugh the Great, count of Paris, rebels against King Louis IV ("d'Outremer") and gains su ...
–
Emperor Taizong of Song (d. 997)
*
1545
Year 1545 ( MDXLV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
* February 22 – A firman of the Ottoman Empire is issued for the dethronement of Radu ...
–
Ernst Ludwig, Duke of Pomerania
Ernst Ludwig (20 November 1545, in Wolgast – 17 June 1592, in Wolgast)Thümmel (2002), p.87 was duke of Pomerania from 1560 to 1592. From 1569 to 1592, he was duke in the ''Teilherzogtum'' Pomerania-Wolgast, sharing the rule over the Duchy of Po ...
(d. 1592)
1601–1900
*
1602
Events January–June
* January 3 – Battle of Kinsale: The English defeat Irish rebels and their Spanish allies. (The battle happens on this date according to the Gregorian calendar used by the Irish and Spanish but on Thursday, 24 Dec ...
–
Otto von Guericke
Otto von Guericke ( , , ; spelled Gericke until 1666; November 20, 1602 – May 11, 1686 ; November 30, 1602 – May 21, 1686 ) was a German scientist, inventor, and politician. His pioneering scientific work, the development of experimental me ...
, German physicist and politician (d. 1686)
*
1603
Events
January–June
* February 25 – Dutch–Portuguese War: the Portuguese ship '' Santa Catarina'' is seized by Dutch East India Company ships off Singapore. The first permanent Dutch trading post in Indonesia is established ...
–
Fasilides
Fasilides ( Ge'ez: ፋሲልደስ; ''Fāsīladas''; 20 November 1603 – 18 October 1667), also known as Fasil, Basilide, or Basilides (as in the works of Edward Gibbon), was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1632 to his death on 18 October 1667, and a m ...
, Ethiopian emperor (d. 1667)
*
1620
Events
January–June
* February 4 – Prince Bethlen Gabor signs a peace treaty with Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor.
* May 17 – The first merry-go-round is seen at a fair (Philippapolis, Turkey).
* June 3 – The ...
–
Avvakum, Russian priest and saint (d. 1682)
*
1625
Events
January–March
* January 17 – Led by the Duke of Soubise, the Huguenots launch a second rebellion against King Louis XIII, with a surprise naval assault on a French fleet being prepared in Blavet.
* February 3 – ...
–
Paulus Potter
Paulus Potter (; 20 November 1625 (baptised) – 17 January 1654 (buried)) was a Dutch painter who specialized in animals within landscapes, usually with a low vantage point.
Before Potter died of tuberculosis at the age of 28 he succeeded in p ...
, Dutch painter (d. 1654)
*
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 ...
–
Ernest Augustus,
Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg (d. 1698)
*
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 ...
–
Daniel Ernst Jablonski
Daniel Ernst Jablonski (20 November 1660, Nassenhuben (Mokry Dwór), Royal Prussia, Crown of Poland25 May 1741, Berlin) was
a German theologian and reformer of Czech origin, known for his efforts to bring about a union between Lutheran and Calv ...
, Czech-German theologian and reformer (d. 1741)
*
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 ...
–
Gyeongjong of Joseon, 20th king of the
Joseon Dynasty
Joseon (; ; Middle Korean: 됴ᇢ〯션〮 Dyǒw syéon or 됴ᇢ〯션〯 Dyǒw syěon), officially the Great Joseon (; ), was the last dynastic kingdom of Korea, lasting just over 500 years. It was founded by Yi Seong-gye in July 1392 and re ...
(d. 1724)
*
1715
Events
For dates within Great Britain and the British Empire, as well as in the Russian Empire, the "old style" Julian calendar was used in 1715, and can be converted to the "new style" Gregorian calendar (adopted in the British Empire i ...
–
Pierre Charles Le Monnier, French astronomer (d. 1799)
*
1726
Events
January–March
* January 23 – (January 12 Old Style) The Conventicle Act (''Konventikelplakatet'') is adopted in Sweden, outlawing all non-Lutheran religious meetings outside of church services.
* January 26 – ...
–
Oliver Wolcott, American politician (d. 1797)
*
1733
Events
January–March
* January 13 – Borommarachathirat V becomes King of Siam (now Thailand) upon the death of King Sanphet IX.
* January 27 – George Frideric Handel's classic opera, ''Orlando'' is performed for ...
–
Philip Schuyler, American general and senator (d. 1804)
*
1737
Events
January–March
* January 5 – Spain and the Holy Roman Empire sign instruments of cession at Pontremoli in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany in Italy, with the Empire receiving control of Tuscany and the Grand Duchy of Parma a ...
–
José Antonio de Alzate y Ramírez, Spanish-Mexican scientist and cartographer (d. 1799)
*
1739
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Bouvet Island is discovered by French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier, in the South Atlantic Ocean.
* January 3: A 7.6 earthquake shakes the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region ...
–
Jean-François de La Harpe, French writer and literary critic (d. 1803)
*
1748
Events
January–March
* January 12 – Ahmad Shah Durrani captures Lahore.
* January 27 – A fire at the prison and barracks at Kinsale, in Ireland, kills 54 of the prisoners of war housed there. An estimated 500 prison ...
–
Jean-François de Bourgoing, French diplomat, writer and translator (d. 1811)
*
1750
Various sources, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, use the year 1750 as a baseline year for the end of the pre-industrial era.
Events
January–March
* January 13 – The Treaty of Madrid between Spain ...
–
Tipu Sultan
Tipu Sultan (born Sultan Fateh Ali Sahab Tipu, 1 December 1751 – 4 May 1799), also known as the Tiger of Mysore, was the ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore based in South India. He was a pioneer of rocket artillery.Dalrymple, p. 243 He int ...
, Indian ruler (d. 1799)
*
1752
In the British Empire, it was the only leap year with 355 days, as September 3–13 were skipped when the Empire adopted the Gregorian calendar.
Events January–March
* January 1 – The British Empire (except Scotland, which h ...
–
Thomas Chatterton
Thomas Chatterton (20 November 1752 – 24 August 1770) was an English poet whose precocious talents ended in suicide at age 17. He was an influence on Romantic artists of the period such as Shelley, Keats, Wordsworth and Coleridge.
Althoug ...
, English poet (d. 1770)
*
1753
Events
January–March
* January 3 – King Binnya Dala of the Hanthawaddy Kingdom orders the burning of Ava, the former capital of the Kingdom of Burma.
* January 29 – After a month's absence, Elizabeth Canning returns ...
–
Louis-Alexandre Berthier, 1st
Prince of Wagram
Prince of Wagram (; ) was a title of French nobility that was granted to Marshal Louis-Alexandre Berthier in 1809. It was created as a victory title by Emperor Napoleon I after the Battle of Wagram. Berthier had previously been granted the title of ...
(d. 1815)
*
1755 –
Stanisław Kostka Potocki, Polish noble, politician and writer (d. 1821)
*
1761
Events
January–March
* January 14 – Third Battle of Panipat: Ahmad Shah Durrani and his coalition decisively defeat the Maratha Confederacy, and restore the Mughal Empire to Shah Alam II.
* January 16 – Siege of Pondi ...
–
Pope Pius VIII (d. 1830)
*
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 ...
–
Ignaz Schuppanzigh, Austrian violinist (d. 1830)
*
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 ...
–
Karl Friedrich Eichhorn
Karl Friedrich Eichhorn (20 November 1781 – 4 July 1854) was a German jurist.
Eichhorn was born in Jena as the son of Johann Gottfried Eichhorn. He entered the University of Göttingen in 1797. In 1805 he obtained the professorship of law at Fr ...
, German captain and jurist (d. 1854)
* 1781 –
Bartolomeo Pinelli
Bartolomeo Pinelli (November 20, 1781 – April 1, 1835) was an Italian illustrator and engraver.
Life
Pinelli was born and died in the Trastevere neighborhood of Rome, the son of an artisan who modeled religious statues. Pinelli was educa ...
, Italian illustrator and engraver (d. 1835)
*
1782
Events
January–March
* January 7 – The first American commercial bank (Bank of North America) opens.
* January 15 – Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris goes before the United States Congress to recommend establish ...
–
Georgius Jacobus Johannes van Os, Dutch painter (d. 1861)
*
1783
Events
January–March
* January 20 – At Versailles, Great Britain signs preliminary peace treaties with the Kingdom of France and the Kingdom of Spain.
* January 23 – The Confederation Congress ratifies two October 8, ...
–
Georgios Sinas
Georgios Sinas ( el, Γεώργιος Σίνας, german: Georg Sina; 20 November 1783 – 18 May 1856) was a Greek-Austrian entrepreneur and banker. He became a national benefactor of Greece and was the father of another Greek national benefactor ...
, Greek entrepreneur and banker (d. 1856)
*
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 ...
–
Marianne von Willemer, Austrian actress and dancer (d. 1860)
*
1787
Events
January–March
* January 9 – The North Carolina General Assembly authorizes nine commissioners to purchase of land for the seat of Chatham County. The town is named Pittsborough (later shortened to Pittsboro), for ...
–
Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse
Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse (20 November 1787 – 9 December 1867) was a German firearms inventor and manufacturer. He is most famous for submitting the Dreyse needle gun in 1836 to the Prussian army, which was adopted for service in December 1840 ...
, German firearms inventor and manufacturer (d. 1867)
*
1788
Events
January–March
* January 1 – The first edition of ''The Times'', previously ''The Daily Universal Register'', is published in London.
* January 2 – Georgia ratifies the United States Constitution, and becomes the fourth U.S ...
–
Félix Varela
Félix Varela y Morales (November 20, 1788 – February 18, 1853) was a Cuban Catholic priest and independence leader who is regarded as a notable figure in the Catholic Church in both his native Cuba and the United States, where he also served.
...
, Cuban-born Roman Catholic priest (d. 1853)
*
1794
Events
January–March
* January 1 – The Stibo Group is founded by Niels Lund as a printing company in Aarhus (Denmark).
* January 13 – The U.S. Congress enacts a law providing for, effective May 1, 1795, a United States ...
–
Eduard Rüppell
Wilhelm Peter Eduard Simon Rüppell (20 November 1794 – 10 December 1884) was a German Natural history, naturalist and List of explorers, explorer. Rüppell is occasionally transliterated to "Rueppell" for the English alphabet, due to german ort ...
, German naturalist and explorer (d. 1884)
*
1801
Events
January–March
* January 1
** The legislative union of Great Britain and Ireland is completed under the Act of Union 1800, bringing about the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the abolition of the Parliament of I ...
–
Mungo Ponton
Mungo Ponton FRS FRSE (20 November 1801 – 3 August 1880) was a Scottish inventor who in 1839 created a method of permanent photography based on potassium dichromate.
Life and family
Ponton was born in the Balgreen district of west Edinburgh ...
, Scottish inventor (d. 1880)
*
1808
Events January–March
* January 1
** The importation of slaves into the United States is banned, as the 1807 Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves takes effect; African slaves continue to be imported into Cuba, and until the island ab ...
–
Albert Kazimirski de Biberstein
Albert Félix Ignace Kazimirski or Albin de Biberstein (20 November 1808 – 22 June 1887) was a French orientalist and Arabist of Polish origin, author of an Arabic-French dictionary and a number of Arab-French translations, including the Quran. ...
, French orientalist (d. 1887)
*
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 ...
–
Franz Miklosich, Slovenian linguist and philologist (d. 1891)
*
1830
It is known in European history as a rather tumultuous year with the Revolutions of 1830 in France, Belgium, Poland, Switzerland and Italy.
Events January–March
* January 11 – LaGrange College (later the University of North Alabama) b ...
–
Mikhail Dragomirov
Mikhail Ivanovich Dragomirov (russian: Михаил Иванович Драгомиров; – ) was a Russian general and military writer. His grandfather Ivan Antonovych Dragomirecki-Mockewicz after being granted a noble title in 1786, change ...
, Russian general (1905)
*
1834
Events
January–March
* January – The Wilmington and Raleigh Railroad is chartered in Wilmington, North Carolina.
* January 1 – Zollverein (Germany): Customs charges are abolished at borders within its member states.
* January 3 ...
–
Franjo Kuhač
Franjo Ksaver Kuhač (November 20, 1834 – June 18, 1911) was a piano teacher, choral conductor, composer, and comparative musicologist who studied Croatian folk music. Kuhač did a great deal of field work in this area, collecting and publishing ...
, Croatian conductor and composer (d. 1911)
*
1841
Events
January–March
* January 20 – Charles Elliot of the United Kingdom, and Qishan of the Qing dynasty, agree to the Convention of Chuenpi.
* January 26 – Britain occupies Hong Kong. Later in the year, the first census of the i ...
–
Victor D'Hondt
Victor Joseph Auguste D'Hondt (; 20 November 1841 – 30 May 1901) was a Belgian lawyer and jurist of civil law at Ghent University. He devised a procedure, the D'Hondt method, which he first described in 1878, for allocating seats to candidates ...
, Belgian mathematician, lawyer, and jurist (d. 1901)
* 1841 –
François Denys Légitime
François Denys Légitime (November 20, 1841 – July 29, 1935) was a Haitian general who served as President of Haiti from 1888 to 1889.
Biography
Légitime was born in Jérémie, Haiti, on 20 November 1841 to Denys Légitime and Tinette L ...
, Haitian general (d. 1935)
* 1841 –
Wilfrid Laurier
Sir Henri Charles Wilfrid Laurier, ( ; ; November 20, 1841 – February 17, 1919) was a Canadian lawyer, statesman, and politician who served as the seventh prime minister of Canada from 1896 to 1911. The first French Canadian prime minis ...
, Canadian lawyer and politician, 7th
Prime Minister of Canada
The prime minister of Canada (french: premier ministre du Canada, link=no) is the head of government of Canada. Under the Westminster system, the prime minister governs with the Confidence and supply, confidence of a majority the elected Hou ...
(d. 1919)
*
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 ...
–
Joseph Samuel Bloch, Austrian rabbi and deputy (d. 1923)
* 1850 –
Charlotte Garrigue
Charlotte Garrigue Masaryk ( cz, Charlotta Garrigue-Masaryková; née Garrigue; 20 November 1850 – 13 May 1923) was the American-born wife of the Czechoslovak philosopher, sociologist, and politician, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, the first Presiden ...
, wife of
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk Tomáš () is a Czech and Slovak given name, equivalent to the name Thomas.
It may refer to:
* Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1850–1937), first President of Czechoslovakia
* Tomáš Baťa (1876–1932), Czech footwear entrepreneur
* Tomáš Berdych ( ...
(d. 1923)
*
1851
Events
January–March
* January 11 – Hong Xiuquan officially begins the Taiping Rebellion.
* January 15 – Christian Female College, modern-day Columbia College, receives its charter from the Missouri General Assembly.
...
–
Mikhail Albov
Mikhail Nilovich Albov (russian: Михаи́л Ни́лович А́льбов; November 20, 1851 – June 25, 1911) was a Russian writer.
Biography
Albov was born in St Petersburg in 1851. From an early age he showed a love for reading. He ...
, Russian writer (d. 1911)
*
1851
Events
January–March
* January 11 – Hong Xiuquan officially begins the Taiping Rebellion.
* January 15 – Christian Female College, modern-day Columbia College, receives its charter from the Missouri General Assembly.
...
–
John Merle Coulter
John Merle Coulter, Ph. D. (November 20, 1851 – December 23, 1928) was an American botanist and educator. In his career in education administration, Coulter is notable for serving as the president of Indiana University and Lake Forest College a ...
, American botanist (d. 1928)
* 1851 –
Margherita of Savoy, Italian
Queen consort (d. 1926)
*
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 ...
–
Oskar Potiorek
Oskar Potiorek (20 November 1853 – 17 December 1933) was an officer of the Austro-Hungarian Army, who served as Governor of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1911 to 1914. He was a passenger in the car carrying Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria ...
, Austro-Hungarian Army officer (d. 1933)
*
1855
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Ottawa, Ontario, is incorporated as a city.
* January 5 – Ramón Castilla begins his third term as President of Peru.
* January 23
** The first bridge over the Mississippi River opens ...
–
Josiah Royce, American philosopher (d. 1916)
*
1857
Events January–March
* January 1 – The biggest Estonian newspaper, ''Postimees'', is established by Johann Voldemar Jannsen.
* January 7 – The partly French-owned London General Omnibus Company begins operating.
* Janua ...
–
Helena Westermarck, Finnish artist and writer (d. 1938)
*
1858
Events
January–March
* January –
**Benito Juárez (1806–1872) becomes Liberal President of Mexico. At the same time, conservatives install Félix María Zuloaga (1813–1898) as president.
**William I of Prussia becomes regent f ...
–
Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish author and educator,
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes ( ; sv, Nobelpriset ; no, Nobelprisen ) are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." Alfr ...
laureate (d. 1940)
*
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 ...
–
José Figueroa Alcorta, President of Argentina, (d. 1931)
*
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 ...
–
Camillo Laurenti, Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (d. 1938)
*
1862
Events
January–March
* January 1 – The United Kingdom annexes Lagos Island, in modern-day Nigeria.
* January 6 – French intervention in Mexico: French, Spanish and British forces arrive in Veracruz, Mexico.
* January ...
–
Georges Palante
Georges Toussaint Léon Palante (20 November 1862 – 5 August 1925) was a French philosopher and sociologist.
Palante advocated aristocratic individualist ideas similar to Friedrich Nietzsche and Arthur Schopenhauer. He was opposed to Émile Dur ...
, French philosopher and sociologist (d. 1925)
* 1862 –
Edvard Westermarck, Finnish philosopher and sociologist (d. 1939)
*
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 " ...
–
Percy Cox, British Indian Army officer (d. 1937)
*
1866
Events January–March
* January 1
** Fisk University, a historically black university, is established in Nashville, Tennessee.
** The last issue of the abolitionist magazine '' The Liberator'' is published.
* January 6 – Ottoman tr ...
–
Kenesaw Mountain Landis, American lawyer and judge (d. 1944)
* 1866 –
Maria Letizia Bonaparte
Maria Letizia Bonaparte (Marie Laetitia Eugénie Catherine Adélaïde; 20 November 1866 – 25 October 1926) was one of three children born to Napoléon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte, Prince Napoléon and his wife Princess Maria Clotilde of Savo ...
, daughter of
Prince Napoléon Bonaparte
A prince is a male ruler (ranked below a king, grand prince, and grand duke) or a male member of a monarch's or former monarch's family. ''Prince'' is also a title of nobility (often highest), often hereditary, in some European states. The ...
(d. 1926)
*
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 ...
–
Patrick Joseph Hayes, American Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (d. 1938)
* 1867 –
Gustav Giemsa
Gustav Giemsa (; November 20, 1867 – June 10, 1948) was a German chemist and bacteriologist who was a native of Medar-Blechhammer (now part of the city Kędzierzyn-Koźle). He is remembered for creating a dye solution commonly known as "Giemsa ...
, German chemist and bacteriologist (d. 1948)
*
1869
Events
January–March
* January 3 – Abdur Rahman Khan is defeated at Tinah Khan, and exiled from Afghanistan.
* January 5 – Scotland's oldest professional football team, Kilmarnock F.C., is founded.
* January 20 – E ...
–
Zinaida Gippius, Russian writer and editor (d. 1945)
* 1869 –
Josaphata Hordashevska
Josaphata Hordashevska, born Michaelina Hordashevska (20 November 1869 – 7 April 1919) an ethnic Ukrainian Greek-Catholic in the Austro-Hungarian Empire Religious Sister, was the first member and co-foundress of the Sisters Servants of Mary ...
, Ukrainian Greek-Catholic nun (d. 1919)
*
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 ...
–
William Heard Kilpatrick
William Heard Kilpatrick (November 20, 1871 – February 13, 1965) was an American pedagogue and a pupil, a colleague and a successor of John Dewey (1859–1952). Kilpatrick was a major figure in the progressive education movement of the early 20 ...
, American pedagogue (d. 1965)
* 1871 –
Augusto Weberbauer, German naturalist (d. 1948)
*
1873
Events
January–March
* January 1
** Japan adopts the Gregorian calendar.
** The California Penal Code goes into effect.
* January 17 – American Indian Wars: Modoc War: First Battle of the Stronghold – Modoc Indians defeat ...
–
Ramón Castillo
Ramón Antonio Castillo Barrionuevo (November 20, 1873 – October 12, 1944) was a conservative Argentine politician who served as President of Argentina from June 27, 1942 to June 4, 1943. He was a leading figure in the period known as t ...
, Argentine politician (d. 1944)
* 1873 –
William Coblentz
William Weber Coblentz (November 20, 1873 – September 15, 1962) was an American physicist notable for his contributions to infrared radiometry and spectroscopy.
Early life, education, and employment
William Coblentz was born in North Lima, ...
, American physicist (d. 1962)
* 1873 –
Georges Caussade Georges Paul Alphonse Emilien Caussade (20 November 1873 – 5 August 1936) was a French composer, music theorist, and music educator.
Biography
Born in Port Louis, Mauritius, he joined the faculty of the Conservatoire de Paris in 1905 as a teac ...
, French composer (d. 1936)
* 1873 –
Daniel Gregory Mason, American composer and music critic (d. 1953)
*
1874
Events
January–March
* January 1 – New York City annexes The Bronx.
* January 2 – Ignacio María González becomes head of state of the Dominican Republic for the first time.
* January 3 – Third Carlist War &ndas ...
–
James Michael Curley
James Michael Curley (November 20, 1874 – November 12, 1958) was an American Democratic politician from Boston, Massachusetts. He served four terms as mayor of Boston. He also served a single term as governor of Massachusetts, characterized ...
, American lawyer, politician, 53rd
Governor of Massachusetts
The governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is the chief executive officer of the government of Massachusetts. The governor is the head of the state cabinet and the commander-in-chief of the commonwealth's military forces.
Massachusetts ...
, and criminal (d. 1958)
*
1875
Events
January–March
* January 1 – The Midland Railway of England abolishes the Second Class passenger category, leaving First Class and Third Class. Other British railway companies follow Midland's lead during the rest of the ...
–
Friedrich Werner von der Schulenburg, German diplomat (d. 1944)
*
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 ...
–
Rudolf Koch, German designer (d. 1934)
*
1877
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Queen Victoria is proclaimed ''Empress of India'' by the ''Royal Titles Act 1876'', introduced by Benjamin Disraeli, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom .
* January 8 – Great Sio ...
–
Herbert Pitman
Herbert John "Bert" Pitman MBE (20 November 1877 – 7 December 1961) was an English Merchant Navy seaman, who was the Third Officer of RMS ''Titanic'' when it sank in the North Atlantic Ocean with heavy loss of life after striking an iceb ...
, English sailor (d. 1961)
*
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 ...
–
Walter Brack, German swimmer (d. 1919)
*
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 ...
–
Irakli Tsereteli, Georgian politician (d. 1959)
*
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 ...
–
Ernestas Galvanauskas
Ernestas Galvanauskas (20 November 1882 – 24 July 1967) was a Lithuanian engineer, politician and one of the founders of the Peasant Union (which later merged with the Lithuanian Popular Peasants' Union). He also served twice as Prime Minis ...
, Lithuanian engineer and politician (d. 1967)
*
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 ...
–
Edwin August
Edwin August Phillip von der Butz (November 10, 1883 – March 4, 1964) was an American actor, director, and screenwriter of the silent era.
August was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and graduated from Christian Brothers College there. He act ...
, American actor and director (d. 1964)
* 1883 –
Tony Gaudio
Tony Gaudio, A.S.C. (20 November 1883 – 10 August 1951) was an Italian-American cinematographer and sometimes is cited as the first to have created a montage sequence for a film.
Biography
Born Gaetano Antonio Gaudio in Cosenza, Italy, h ...
, Italian American cinematographer (d. 1951)
*
1884
Events
January–March
* January 4 – The Fabian Society is founded in London.
* January 5 – Gilbert and Sullivan's ''Princess Ida'' premières at the Savoy Theatre, London.
* January 18 – Dr. William Price atte ...
–
Norman Thomas, American minister and politician (d. 1968)
*
1885
Events
January–March
* January 3– 4 – Sino-French War – Battle of Núi Bop: French troops under General Oscar de Négrier defeat a numerically superior Qing Chinese force, in northern Vietnam.
* January 4 – ...
–
George Holley, English footballer (d. 1942)
* 1885 –
Kaarlo Vasama
Kaarlo Hjalmar Vasama (20 November 1885 – 12 November 1926) was a Finnish gymnast
Gymnastics is a type of sport that includes physical exercises requiring balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, dedication and endur ...
, Finnish gymnast (d. 1926)
*
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 ...
–
Robert Hunter, American golfer (d. 1971)
* 1886 –
Karl von Frisch, Austrian-German ethologist and zoologist,
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes ( ; sv, Nobelpriset ; no, Nobelprisen ) are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." Alfr ...
laureate (d. 1982)
* 1886 –
Alexandre Stavisky
Serge Alexandre Stavisky (20 November 1886 – 8 January 1934) was a French financier and embezzler whose actions created a political scandal that became known as the Stavisky Affair.
Early life
Alexandre Stavisky was a Polish Jew born in moder ...
, French financier and embezzler (d. 1934)
*
1887
Events
January–March
* January 11 – Louis Pasteur's anti-rabies treatment is defended in the Académie Nationale de Médecine, by Dr. Joseph Grancher.
* January 20
** The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Har ...
–
Jean Ducret
Jean Ducret (born 20 November 1887, 19 November 1975) was a French international footballer. He played as a midfielder and played for five teams, most notably Olympique Lillois and Stade Français. Ducret was one of the national team's first-ev ...
, French footballer
*
1888
In Germany, 1888 is known as the Year of the Three Emperors. Currently, it is the year that, when written in Roman numerals, has the most digits (13). The next year that also has 13 digits is the year 2388. The record will be surpassed as late ...
–
Dennis Fenton
Dennis Fenton (November 20, 1888 – March 29, 1954) was an American sport shooter and Olympic champion. He was born in Ventry, Ireland, and died in San Diego, California.
In 1920 he won three gold and one bronze medal. He also participated ...
, American sports shooter (d. 1954)
*
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 ...
–
Edwin Hubble
Edwin Powell Hubble (November 20, 1889 – September 28, 1953) was an Americans, American astronomer. He played a crucial role in establishing the fields of extragalactic astronomy and observational cosmology.
Hubble proved that many objects ...
, American astronomer and cosmologist (d. 1953)
*
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 ...
–
Robert Armstrong, American actor (d. 1973)
* 1890 –
Harald Madsen
Harald Martin Bergmann Madsen (20 November 1890 – 13 July 1949) was a Danish film actor. He appeared in 51 films between 1917 and 1948. Harald Madsen was a part of the Danish comedian couple '' Fyrtårnet og Bivognen'' (''Fy og Bi''), kno ...
, Danish actor (d. 1949)
* 1890 –
Lauri Tanner
Lauri Arvo Tanner (20 November 1890 – 11 July 1950) was a Finnish gymnast and amateur football (soccer) player who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.
He was part of the Finnish team, which won the silver medal in the gymnastics men's t ...
, Finnish gymnast (d. 1950)
*
1891
Events
January–March
* January 1
** Paying of old age pensions begins in Germany.
** A strike of 500 Hungarian steel workers occurs; 3,000 men are out of work as a consequence.
**Germany takes formal possession of its new Africa ...
–
Reginald Denny, English actor (d. 1967)
*
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 ...
–
James Collip
James Bertram Collip (November 20, 1892 – June 19, 1965) was a Canadian biochemist who was part of the Toronto group which isolated insulin. He served as the Chair of the Department of Biochemistry at McGill University from 1928–1941 an ...
, Canadian biochemist and academic, co-discovered
insulin
Insulin (, from Latin ''insula'', 'island') is a peptide hormone produced by beta cells of the pancreatic islets encoded in humans by the ''INS'' gene. It is considered to be the main anabolic hormone of the body. It regulates the metabolism o ...
(d. 1965)
*
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 ...
–
André Bloch André Bloch may refer to:
*André Bloch (composer) (1873–1960), French composer
*André Bloch (mathematician) (1893–1948), French mathematician
{{Hndis, Bloch, Andre ...
, French mathematician (d. 1948)
* 1893 –
Grace Darmond, Canadian-American actress (d. 1963)
*
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 ...
–
Johann Nikuradse Johann Nikuradse ( ka, ივანე ნიკურაძე, ''Ivane Nikuradze'') (November 20, 1894 – July 18, 1979) was a Georgia-born German engineer and physicist. His brother, Alexander Nikuradse, was also a Germany-based physicist and g ...
, Georgian-born German engineer and physicist (d. 1979)
*
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 ...
–
Pierre Cot, French politician (d. 1977)
*
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 ...
–
Chiyono Hasegawa, Japanese supercentenarian (d. 2011)
* 1896 –
Carl Mayer
Carl Mayer (20 November 1894 – 1 July 1944) was an Austrians, Austrian screenwriter who wrote or co-wrote the screenplays to ''The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari'' (1920), ''The Head of Janus'' (1920), ''The Haunted Castle (1921 film), The Haunted C ...
, Austrian-Jewish screenplay writer (d. 1944)
*
1897
Events
January–March
* January 2 – The International Alpha Omicron Pi sorority is founded, in New York City.
* January 4 – A British force is ambushed by Chief Ologbosere, son-in-law of the ruler. This leads to a puniti ...
–
Germaine Krull Germaine Luise Krull (20 November 1897 – 31 July 1985) was a photographer, political activist, and hotel owner.Sichel, Kim. ''Germaine Krull: Photographer of Modernity''. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1999. . Her nationality has been catego ...
, German photographer and political activist (d. 1985)
*
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 ...
–
Richmond Landon
Richmond Wilcox "Dick" Landon (November 20, 1898 – June 13, 1971) was an American high jumper who won a gold medal at the 1920 Summer Olympics. , American high jumper (d. 1971)
* 1898 –
Adrian Piotrovsky
Adrian Ivanovich Piotrovsky (russian: Адриа́н Ива́нович Пиотро́вский) ( – 21 November 1937) was a Russian Soviet dramaturge, responsible for creating the synopsis for Sergei Prokofiev's ballet '' Romeo and Juliet''. He ...
, Russian dramaturge (d. 1937)
*
1899
Events January 1899
* January 1
** Spanish rule ends in Cuba, concluding 400 years of the Spanish Empire in the Americas.
** Queens and Staten Island become administratively part of New York City.
* January 2 –
**Bolivia sets up a c ...
–
Alicja Kotowska, Polish nun (d. 1939)
*
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 ...
–
Florieda Batson
Florieda Burton Batson Gibbens (November 20, 1900 – January 31, 1996) was an American hurdler and captain of the United States team at the Women's Olympics in Paris in 1922.
Early life and education
Batson was born in New Orleans, the youngest ...
, American Olympic hurdler (d. 1996)
* 1900 –
Helen Bradley
Helen Layfield Bradley MBE (20 November 1900 – 19 July 1979) was an English artist born in Lees, Lancashire, England. Her paintings, mostly in oils, typically depict life in Lancashire in the Edwardian era.
Biography
She was born Helen ...
, English painter (d. 1979)
* 1900 –
Chester Gould
Chester Gould (; November 20, 1900 – May 11, 1985) was an American cartoonist, best known as the creator of the ''Dick Tracy'' comic strip, which he wrote and drew from 1931 to 1977, incorporating numerous colorful and monstrous villains.
Ear ...
, American cartoonist and author, created ''
Dick Tracy
''Dick Tracy'' is an American comic strip featuring Dick Tracy (originally Plainclothes Tracy), a tough and intelligent police detective created by Chester Gould. It made its debut on Sunday, October 4, 1931, in the ''Detroit Mirror'', and it ...
'' (d. 1985)
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, ...
–
José Leandro Andrade, Uruguayan footballer (d. 1957)
*
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 ...
–
Gianpiero Combi
Gianpiero Combi (; 20 November 1902 – 12 August 1956) was an Italian footballer who played as a goalkeeper.[Erik Eriksen
Erik Eriksen (20 November 1902 – 7 October 1972) was a Denmark, Danish politician, who served as Prime Minister of Denmark from 1950 to 1953 and as the fourth President of the Nordic Council in 1956. Eriksen was leader of the Denmark, Dan ...](_blank)
, Danish politician (d. 1972)
* 1902 –
Heini Meng
Heinrich Anton Meng (b. 20 November 1902 - d. 13 August 1982) was a Swiss ice hockey player who competed in the 1928 Winter Olympics
The 1928 Winter Olympics, officially known as the II Olympic Winter Games (french: IIes Jeux olympiques d' ...
, Swiss ice hockey player (d. 1982)
* 1902 –
Jean Painlevé
Jean Painlevé (20 November 1902 – 2 July 1989) was a photographer and filmmaker who specialized in underwater fauna. He was the son of mathematician and twice prime minister of France Paul Painlevé.
Upbringing
A few days after Painlevé ...
, French photographer and filmmaker (d. 1989)
* 1902 –
Philipp Schmitt Philipp Johann Adolf Schmitt (20 November 1902 – 8 August 1950) was a German officer of the ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS) who served as commandant of Fort Breendonk, a Nazi prison camp in German-occupied Belgium during World War II. For a year, he was ...
, German officer of the Schutzstaffel (d. 1950)
*
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 ...
–
Alexandra Danilova, Russian-American ballerina and choreographer (d. 1997)
* 1903 –
Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi
Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi ( ur, ) (20 November 1903 – 22 January 1981) popularly known as I.H. Qureshi, ''SP'', ''HI'', was a Pakistani conservative nationalist historian and playwright. He was the Vice Chancellor of the University of K ...
, Pakistani historian and educator (d. 1981)
*
1904
Events
January
* January 7 – The distress signal ''CQD'' is established, only to be replaced 2 years later by ''SOS''.
* January 8 – The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system.
* ...
–
Arnold Gartmann, Swiss bobsledder (d. 1980)
*
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 ...
–
Minoo Masani
Minocher Rustom "Minoo" Masani (20 November 1905 – 27 May 1998) was an Indian politician, a leading figure of the erstwhile Swatantra Party. He was a three-time Member of Parliament, representing Gujarat's Rajkot constituency in the second, ...
, Indian lawyer and politician (d. 1998)
*
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, ...
–
Vera Tanner
Iris Vera Tanner (20 November 1906 – 22 February 1971) was an English swimmer born in Eastbourne, who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics and 1928 Summer Olympics. At the 1924 Olympics she won a silver medal in the 4×100 m f ...
, English swimmer (d. 1971)
*
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. ...
–
Fran Allison, American entertainer (d. 1989)
* 1907 –
Mihai Beniuc
Mihai Beniuc (; 20 November 1907 – 24 June 1988) was a Romanian socialist realist poet, dramatist, and novelist.
He was born in 1907 in Sebiș, Arad County (at the time in Austria-Hungary), and attended the Moise Nicoară High School in Arad ...
, Romanian writer (d. 1988)
* 1907 –
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Henri-Georges Clouzot (; 20 November 1907 – 12 January 1977) was a French film director, screenwriter and producer. He is best remembered for his work in the thriller film genre, having directed ''The Wages of Fear'' and '' Les Diaboliques'', ...
, French film director, screenwriter and producer (d. 1977)
* 1907 –
Anni Rehborn
Anni Rehborn (25 August 1904 – 15 January 1986) was a German swimmer who won a bronze medal in the freestyle relay at the 1927 European Aquatics Championships. She entered the 1928 Summer Olympics, but did not compete for unknown reasons. ...
, German swimmer (d. 1987)
*
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 ...
–
Louis, Prince of Hesse and by Rhine
Louis, Prince of Hesse and by Rhine (''Ludwig Hermann Alexander Chlodwig'', 20 November 1908 – 30 May 1968) was the youngest son of Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse by his second wife, Princess Eleonore of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich. He was a great ...
, the youngest son of
Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse
, spouses =
, issue =
, house = Hesse-Darmstadt
, father = Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine
, mother =Princess Alice of the United Kingdom
, birth_date =
, birth_place = New Palace, Darmstadt, Gran ...
(d. 1968)
* 1908 –
Alistair Cooke, British-American journalist and author (d. 2004)
* 1908 –
Jenő Vincze
Jenő Vincze ''( sr, Eugen Vince)'' (20 November 1908 – 20 November 1988) was a Hungarians, Hungarian footballer and a legend of Újpest FC, most famous for playing for the Hungary national football team, Hungarian national team in the 1938 FI ...
, Hungarian footballer (d. 1988)
*
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 ...
–
John Berger, Swiss cross-country skier (d. 2002)
* 1909 –
Vicente Feola
Vicente Ítalo Feola (; 20 November 1909 – 6 November 1975) was a Brazilian football manager and coach from São Paulo. He became famous for leading the Brazilians to their first FIFA World Cup title in 1958.
Biography
Feola was born in Sã ...
, Brazilian football manager and coach (d. 1975)
* 1909 –
Piero Gherardi Piero Gherardi (20 November 1909 – 8 June 1971) was the Costume and Set Designer of Federico Fellini's ''La Dolce Vita'' and ''8½'', winning an Oscar for each film in the category of Best Costume Design.
Born in Poppi, Tuscany, Piero Ghera ...
, Italian costume and set designer (d. 1971)
* 1909 –
Samand Siabandov, Soviet
Red Army
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and, after ...
writer (d. 1989)
*
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 ...
–
Willem Jacob van Stockum
Willem Jacob van Stockum (20 November 1910 – 10 June 1944) was a Dutch mathematician who made an important contribution to the early development of general relativity.
Biography
Van Stockum was born in Hattem in the Netherlands. His father wa ...
, Dutch mathematician, pilot, and academic (d. 1944)
* 1910 –
Pauli Murray, American civil rights activist, women's rights activist, lawyer, Episcopal priest, and author (d. 1985)
*
1911
A notable ongoing event was the Comparison of the Amundsen and Scott Expeditions, race for the South Pole.
Events January
* January 1 – A decade after federation, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory ...
–
Eduard Kainberger
Eduard "Edi" Kainberger (20 November 1911 – 7 March 1974) was an Austrian association football player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics
The 1936 Summer Olympics (German: ''Olympische Sommerspiele 1936''), officially known as th ...
, Austrian footballer (d. 1974)
* 1911 –
David Seymour
David Seymour may refer to:
* David Seymour (English politician) (died 1557/58), 14th-century Member of Parliament (MP) for Wareham and Great Bedwyn
*David Seymour (New Zealand politician) (born 1983), leader of the ACT Party
*David Seymour (photo ...
, Polish photographer (d. 1956)
* 1911 –
Jean Shiley
Jean Shiley Newhouse (November 20, 1911 – March 11, 1998) was an American high jumper. She was born Jean Shiley in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and later moved to Havertown, Pennsylvania, Havertown, a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philadel ...
, American high jumper (d. 1998)
* 1911 –
Rupert Weinstabl
Rupert Weinstabl (20 November 1911 – 7 September 1953) was an Austrian sprint canoeist who competed in the 1930s.
At the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, he won two medals with his partner Karl Proisl with a silver in the C-2 1 ...
, Austrian sprint canoeist (d. 1953)
* 1911 –
Paul Zielinski, German footballer (d. 1966)
*
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 ...
–
Enrique Garcia, Argentine footballer (d. 1969)
* 1912 –
Otto von Habsburg, the last
Crown Prince
A crown prince or hereditary prince is the heir apparent to the throne in a royal or imperial monarchy. The female form of the title is crown princess, which may refer either to an heiress apparent or, especially in earlier times, to the wif ...
of
Austria-Hungary
Austria-Hungary, often referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire,, the Dual Monarchy, or Austria, was a constitutional monarchy and great power in Central Europe between 1867 and 1918. It was formed with the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of ...
(d. 2011)
*
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 ...
–
Franz Berghammer
Franz Berghammer (November 20, 1913 – July 7, 1944) was an Austrian field handball player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. He was part of the Austrian field handball team, which won the silver medal. He played one match.
He was ki ...
, Austrian field handballer (d. 1944)
* 1913 –
Charles Berlitz, American linguist (d. 2003)
* 1913 –
Charles Bettelheim
Charles Bettelheim (20 November 1913 – 20 July 2006) was a French Marxian economist and historian, founder of the Center for the Study of Modes of Industrialization (CEMI : ''Centre pour l'Étude des Modes d'Industrialisation'') at thEHESS eco ...
, French Marxian economist and historian (d. 2006)
* 1913 –
Judy Canova
Judy Canova (November 20, 1913 – August 5, 1983),Although one source gives her birth date as November 20, 1916, (DeLong, Thomas A. (1996). ''Radio Stars: An Illustrated Biographical Dictionary of 953 Performers, 1920 through 1960''. McFarland ...
, American actress and comedian (d. 1983)
* 1913 –
Kostas Choumis, Greek footballer (d. 1981)
* 1913 –
Russell Rouse, American screenwriter, director and producer (d. 1987)
* 1913 –
Libertas Schulze-Boysen
Libertas "Libs" Schulze-Boysen, born Libertas Viktoria Haas-Heye (20 November 1913 in Paris – 22 December 1942 in Plötzensee Prison ) was a German aristocrat and resistance fighter against the Nazis. From the early 1930s to 1940, Libs attempt ...
, German opponent of the
Nazis
Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Na ...
(d. 1942)
* 1913 –
Yakov Zak
Yakov Izrailevich Zak ( uk, Яків Ізраїлович Зак), (russian: link=no, Яков Израилевич Зак), ''Jiakov Israilevič Sak''; Odessa, – Moscow, 28 June 1976) was a Soviet and Russian pianist and pedagogue. People's ...
, Soviet pianist (d. 1976)
*
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 ...
–
Emilio Pucci
Don Emilio Pucci, Marchese di Barsento (; 20 November 1914 – 29 November 1992) was an Italian aristocrat, fashion designer and politician. He and his eponymous company are synonymous with geometric prints in a kaleidoscope of colors.
Early l ...
, Italian fashion designer and politician (d. 1992)
* 1914 –
Kurt Lundqvist
Kurt Lundqvist (20 November 1914 – 26 March 1976) was a Swedish track and field athlete who competed in the high jump. He was the 1938 European champion in the event.
He won his first national title in 1933 and established himself as the top ...
, Swedish high jumper (d. 1976)
*
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 ...
–
Kon Ichikawa, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2008)
* 1915 –
Hu Yaobang
Hu Yaobang (; 20 November 1915 – 15 April 1989) was a high-ranking official of the People's Republic of China. He held the top office of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 1981 to 1987, first as Chairman from 1981 to 1982, then as Genera ...
, Chinese politician (d. 1989)
*
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.
* ...
–
Charles E. Osgood
Charles Egerton Osgood (20 November 1916 – 15 September 1991) was an American psychologist and professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, University of Illinois. He was known for his research on behaviourism versus Cognitiv ...
, American psychologist (d. 1991)
* 1916 –
Michael J. Ingelido
Michael Joseph Ingelido (November 20, 1916 – April 28, 2015) was an American USAF, Air Force major general who was commander of the Fourteenth Aerospace Force, (Air Defense Command), Ent Air Force Base, Colorado.
Early life
Ingelido was born ...
, American general (d. 2015)
* 1916 –
Evelyn Keyes, American actress (d. 2008)
* 1916 –
Donald T. Campbell
Donald Thomas Campbell (November 20, 1916 – May 6, 1996) was an American social scientist. He is noted for his work in methodology. He coined the term ''evolutionary epistemology'' and developed a selectionist theory of human creativity. A ''R ...
, American social scientist (d. 1996)
*
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 ...
–
Robert Byrd, American lawyer and politician (d. 2010)
* 1917 –
Leonard Jimmie Savage, American mathematician (d. 1971)
* 1917 –
Erich Leo Lehmann, American statistician (d. 2009)
* 1917 –
Bobby Locke, South African golfer (d. 1987)
*
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 ...
–
Corita Kent
Corita Kent (November 20, 1918 – September 18, 1986), born Frances Elizabeth Kent and also known as Sister Mary Corita Kent, was an American artist, designer and educator, and former religious sister. Key themes in her work included Christiani ...
, American nun, illustrator, and educator (d. 1986)
* 1918 –
Dora Ratjen
Heinrich Ratjen (20 November 1918 – 22 April 2008), born Dora Ratjen, was a German athlete who competed for Germany in the women's high jump at the 1936 Summer Olympics at Berlin, finishing fourth, but was later determined to be male and/or int ...
, German high jumper (d. 2008)
*
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 ...
–
Alan Brown, English race car driver (d. 2004)
* 1919 –
Phyllis Thaxter, American actress (d. 2012)
*
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 ...
–
Douglas Dick
Douglas Harvey Dick (November 20, 1920 – December 19, 2015) was an American actor and occasional screenwriter. His most famous role came in the 1948 film ''Rope''. In 1971, Dick left the entertainment industry to work as a psychologist.
Early ...
, American actor and psychologist (d. 2015)
*
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 ...
–
Jim Garrison, American lawyer and judge (d. 1992)
*
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 ...
–
Gunnar Åkerlund, Swedish sprint canoer (d. 2006)
* 1923 –
Danny Dayton
Danny Dayton (born Daniel David Segall, November 20, 1923 – February 6, 1999) was an American actor and television director. Beginning in the 1950s, he played many roles in film and on TV. He had a recurring role as Hank Pivnik on ''All i ...
, American actor and director (d. 1999)
* 1923 –
Tonino Delli Colli, Italian cinematographer (d. 2005)
* 1923 –
Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer (20 November 192313 July 2014) was a South African writer and political activist. She received the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991, recognized as a writer "who through her magnificent epic writin ...
, South African novelist, short story writer, and activist,
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes ( ; sv, Nobelpriset ; no, Nobelprisen ) are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." Alfr ...
laureate (d. 2014)
*
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 ...
–
Karen Harup
Karen Margrethe Harup Petersen (20 November 1924 – 9 July 2009) was a Danish swimmer. She competed in four events at the 1948 Summer Olympics and won three medals: a gold in the 100 m backstroke and silvers in the 400 m and 4 × 100 m freestyl ...
, Danish swimmer (d. 2009)
* 1924 –
Timothy Evans, (d. 1950)
* 1924 –
Benoit Mandelbrot
Benoit B. Mandelbrot (20 November 1924 – 14 October 2010) was a Polish-born French-American mathematician and polymath with broad interests in the practical sciences, especially regarding what he labeled as "the art of roughness" of phy ...
, Polish-American mathematician and economist (d. 2010)
* 1924 –
Michael Riffaterre, French literary critic and theorist (d. 2006)
* 1924 –
Henk Vredeling
Hendrikus "Henk" Vredeling (20 November 1924 – 27 October 2007) was a Dutch politician of the Labour Party (PvdA).
Decorations
References
External links
;Official
*Ir. H. (Henk) VredelingParlement & Politiek
1924 ...
, Dutch agronomist and politician,
Dutch Minister of Defence (d. 2007)
*
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 ...
–
June Christy
June Christy (born Shirley Luster; November 20, 1925June 21, 1990) was an American singer, known for her work in the cool jazz genre and for her silky smooth vocals. Her success as a singer began with The Stan Kenton Orchestra. She pursued a sol ...
, American singer (d. 1990)
* 1925 –
Robert F. Kennedy
Robert Francis Kennedy (November 20, 1925June 6, 1968), also known by his initials RFK and by the nickname Bobby, was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 64th United States Attorney General from January 1961 to September 1964, a ...
, US Navy officer, lawyer, and politician, 64th
United States Attorney General
The United States attorney general (AG) is the head of the United States Department of Justice, and is the chief law enforcement officer of the federal government of the United States. The attorney general serves as the principal advisor to the p ...
(d. 1968)
* 1925 –
Maya Plisetskaya
Maya Mikhailovna Plisetskaya (russian: link=no, Майя Михайловна Плисецкая; 20 November 1925 – 2 May 2015) was a Soviet and Russian ballet dancer, choreographer, ballet director, and actress. In post-Soviet times, she he ...
, Russian-Lithuanian ballerina, choreographer, actress, and director (d. 2015)
*
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 ...
–
John Gardner, English soldier and author (d. 2007)
* 1926 –
Tôn Thất Đính
Lieutenant General Tôn Thất Đính (, ; November 20, 1926 – November 21, 2013) was an officer who served in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN). He is best known as one of the key figures in the November 1963 coup that led to the ...
, Vietnamese general (d. 2013)
* 1926 –
Édouard Leclerc
Édouard Leclerc (; born 20 November 1926 in Landerneau – died 17 September 2012 in Saint-Divy, Brittany) was a French businessman and entrepreneur who founded the French supermarket chain E.Leclerc in 1948. From his first store, Lecle ...
, French businessman and entrepreneur (d. 2012)
* 1926 –
Miroslav Tichý, Czech photographer (d. 2011)
*
1927
Events January
* January 1 – The British Broadcasting ''Company'' becomes the British Broadcasting ''Corporation'', when its Royal Charter of incorporation takes effect. John Reith becomes the first Director-General.
* January 7
* ...
–
Vakhtang Balavadze, Georgian wrestler (d. 2018)
* 1927 –
Ed Freeman
Ed W. "Too Tall" Freeman (November 20, 1927 – August 20, 2008) was a United States Army helicopter pilot who received the United States military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions in the Battle of Ia Drang during the Vie ...
, American soldier and pilot,
Medal of Honor
The Medal of Honor (MOH) is the United States Armed Forces' highest military decoration and is awarded to recognize American soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen, guardians and coast guardsmen who have distinguished themselves by acts of valor. ...
recipient (d. 2008)
* 1927 –
Estelle Parsons
Estelle Margaret Parsons (born November 20, 1927) is an American actress, singer and stage director.
After studying law, Parsons became a singer before deciding to pursue a career in acting. She worked for the television program ''Today'' and ...
, American actress and director
* 1927 –
Wolfgang Schreyer
Wolfgang Schreyer (20 November 1927 – 14 November 2017) was a German writer of fiction, historic adventures mixed with documentary, science fiction for TV shows and movies and is best known as the author of over 20 adventure stories.
Life ...
, German writer (d. 2017)
* 1927 –
Mikhail Ulyanov, Soviet and Russian actor (d. 2007)
*
1928
Events January
* January – British bacteriologist Frederick Griffith reports the results of Griffith's experiment, indirectly proving the existence of DNA.
* January 1 – Eastern Bloc emigration and defection: Boris Bazhanov, J ...
–
Aleksey Batalov
Aleksey Vladimirovich Batalov (russian: link=no, Алексе́й Влади́мирович Бата́лов; 20 November 1928 – 15 June 2017) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, film director, screenwriter and pedagogue acclaimed f ...
, Russian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2017)
* 1928 –
Franklin Cover
Franklin Edward Cover (November 20, 1928 – February 5, 2006) was an American actor best known for starring in the sitcom ''The Jeffersons''. His character, Tom Willis, was half of one of the first interracial marriages to be seen on prime-time ...
, American actor (d. 2006)
* 1928 –
Pedro Ferrándiz
Pedro Ferrándiz González (20 November 1928 – 7 July 2022) was a Spanish basketball coach. He is most famous for coaching Real Madrid basketball club in the 1960s and 1970s. The International Olympic Committee awarded him the Olympic Order in ...
, Spanish basketball coach
* 1928 –
John Disley
John Ivor Disley CBE (20 November 1928 – 8 February 2016) was a Welsh athlete. He competed mainly in the 3000 metres steeplechase before co-founding the London Marathon and becoming active in sports promotion and administration. He was born in ...
, Welsh athlete (d. 2016)
* 1928 –
Pete Rademacher
Thomas Peter Rademacher (November 20, 1928 – June 4, 2020) was an American heavyweight boxer. A gold medalist at the 1956 Olympics, he became the only person to challenge for the world heavyweight championship in his first professional b ...
, American boxer
* 1928 –
Genrikh Sapgir, Russian writer (d. 1999)
*
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 ...
–
Jerry Hardin
Jerry Hardin (born November 20, 1929) is an American actor. Hardin has appeared in film and television roles, including the character nicknamed Deep Throat in ''The X-Files''.
Hardin was born in Texas and studied acting at London's Royal Academ ...
, American actor
* 1929 –
Raymond Lefèvre
Raymond Lefèvre (20 November 1929 – 27 June 2008) was a French easy listening orchestra leader, arranger and composer.
Biography and career
Born on 20 November 1929 in Calais, France, Raymond Lefèvre is best known for his interpretation of ...
, French composer (d. 2008)
* 1929 –
Gabriel Ochoa Uribe
Gabriel Ochoa Uribe (November 20, 1929 – August 8, 2020) was a Colombian football player and manager. He won four league titles and the Copa Colombia with Millonarios as a player and fourteen league titles as a manager, making him the mo ...
, Colombian footballer
* 1929 –
Ron Willey
Ronald William Willey (1929−2004) was an Australian rugby league footballer and coach. He was a representative for the Australian national side. Post-playing, Willey had a long and successful first grade and State representative coaching care ...
, Australian rugby league player and coach (d. 2004)
*
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 ...
–
Christine Arnothy, French writer (d. 2015)
* 1930 –
Aarón Hernán, Mexican actor
* 1930 –
Bernard Horsfall
Bernard Arthur Gordon Horsfall (20 November 1930 – 28 January 2013) was an English actor of stage and screen.
Early life
Horsfall was born in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, and educated at Rugby School. He trained as an actor at the Webb ...
, English-Scottish actor (d. 2013)
* 1930 –
Choe Yong-rim, North Korean Premier
*
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 ...
–
Wayne Moore, American swimmer (d. 2015)
*
1932
Events January
* January 4 – The British authorities in India arrest and intern Mahatma Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel.
* January 9 – Sakuradamon Incident (1932), Sakuradamon Incident: Korean nationalist Lee Bong-chang fails in his effort ...
–
Richard Dawson, English-American actor and game show host (d. 2012)
* 1932 –
Yorozuya Kinnosuke
(November 20, 1932 – March 10, 1997) was a Japanese kabuki actor. Born , son of kabuki actor Nakamura Tokizō III, he entered kabuki and became the first in the kabuki tradition to take the name Nakamura Kinnosuke. He took on his guild name (''y ...
, Japanese kabuki actor (d. 1997)
* 1932 –
Sándor Mátrai
Sándor Mátrai (Born Sándor Magna, 20 November 1932 – 30 May 2002) was a Hungarian footballer.
During his club career he played for Ferencváros. He earned 81 caps for the Hungary national football team from 1956 to 1967, and participated ...
, Hungarian footballer (d. 2002)
* 1932 –
Paulo Valentim
Paulo Angelo Valentim (November 20, 1933 – July 9, 1984) was a Brazilian football striker. He played for clubs in Brazil, Argentina and Mexico.
Biography
Valentim came through the youth team of Guarani de Volta Redonda to make his firs ...
, Brazilian footballer (d. 1984)
* 1932 –
Colville Young
Sir Colville Norbert Young (born 20 November 1932) is a Belizeans, Belizean politician who served as the 2nd Governor-General of Belize. He is also a patron of the Scouting, Scout Association of Belize. He was appointed as the Governor-General ...
, Governor-General of Belize
*
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 ...
–
Paco Ibáñez
Francisco "Paco" Ibáñez (born 20 November 1934 in Valencia) is a Spanish singer and musician. He never composed his own lyrics, but used famous poems, like those of Federico García Lorca, Luis Cernuda, Rafael Alberti or Miguel Hernández. He a ...
, Spanish singer and musician
* 1934 –
Lev Polugaevsky, Soviet Chess Grandmaster (d. 1995)
*
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.
* ...
–
Leo Falcam
Leo Amy Falcam (November 20, 1935 – February 12, 2018) was a Micronesian political figure. He was born in Pohnpei. He served as the first elected Governor of Pohnpei from 1979 to 1983 and as Vice President of Micronesia from May 1997 to May 19 ...
, Micronesian politician and 5th President of Micronesia (d. 2018)
* 1935 –
Imre Makovecz, Hungarian architect (d. 2011)
*
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 ...
–
Hans van Abeelen
Hans van Abeelen (20 November 1936 – 21 August 1998) was the first Dutch behaviour geneticist. He obtained his M.Sc from the University of Groningen and his Ph.D. from the Catholic University of Nijmegen in 1965, where he stayed for the ...
, Dutch geneticist (d. 1998)
* 1936 –
Don DeLillo, American novelist, essayist, and playwright
* 1936 –
Luciano Fabro
Luciano Fabro (November 20, 1936 – June 22, 2007) was an Italian sculptor, conceptual artist and writer associated with the Arte Povera movement.
Life
Fabro was born in Turin, and he moved to Udine, in the Friuli region after his father's deat ...
, Italian sculptor and artist (d. 2007)
* 1936 –
Charles R. Larson
Charles Robert Larson (November 20, 1936 – July 26, 2014) was an Admiral of the United States Navy.
Military career
A 1958 graduate of the United States Naval Academy, Larson twice served as Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis ...
, American admiral (d. 2014)
*
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 ...
–
René Kollo
René Kollo (born 20 November 1937) is a German operatic tenor, especially known for his Wagnerian Heldentenor roles. He also performed a wide variety of operas and operettas, and made several recordings.
Biography
Born René Kollodzieyski in Be ...
, German tenor
* 1937 –
Ruth Laredo, American pianist and educator (d. 2005)
* 1937 –
Eero Mäntyranta
Eero Antero Mäntyranta (20 November 1937 – 29 December 2013) was one of the most successful Finnish cross-country skiers. He competed in four Winter Olympics (1960–1972) winning seven medals at three of them. His performance at the 1964 Wi ...
, Finnish skier (d. 2013)
* 1937 –
Bruno Mealli
Bruno Mealli (20 November 1937 – 3 August 2023) was an Italian professional road cyclist. He competed in eight editions of the Giro d'Italia.
Career
When an amateur, Mealli won several races, notably the Giro del Casentino. A professional ...
, Italian cyclist
* 1937 –
Viktoriya Tokareva
Viktoriya Samuilovna Tokareva (russian: Виктория Самуиловна Токарева) (born 20 November 1937) is a Soviet and Russian screenwriter and short story writer. Her work has been translated into English and is available in sever ...
, Russian author and screenwriter
*
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 ...
–
Colin Fox, Canadian actor
*
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 ...
–
Jerry Colangelo
Jerry Colangelo (born November 20, 1939) is an American businessman and sports executive. He formerly owned the Phoenix Suns of the NBA, the Phoenix Mercury of the WNBA, the Arizona Sandsharks of the Continental Indoor Soccer League, the Arizona ...
, American businessman
* 1939 –
Copi
COPI is a coatomer, a protein complex that coats vesicles transporting proteins from the ''cis'' end of the Golgi complex
The Golgi apparatus (), also known as the Golgi complex, Golgi body, or simply the Golgi, is an organelle found in most ...
, Argentine writer and artist (d. 1987)
* 1939 –
Dick Smothers
Richard Remick Smothers (born November 20, 1938) is an American actor, comedian, composer, and musician. He was half of the musical comedy team the Smothers Brothers, with his older brother Tom Smothers, Tom.
Life and career
Smothers was born i ...
, American actor and comedian
* 1939 –
Jan Szczepański, Polish boxer (d. 2017)
*
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 ...
–
Wendy Doniger, American indologist
* 1940 –
Helma Sanders-Brahms
Helma Sanders-Brahms (20 November 1940 – 27 May 2014) was a German film director, screenwriter and producer.
Biography
Helma Sanders was born on 20 November 1940 in Emden, Germany. She attended a school for acting in Hannover from 1960 to 1 ...
, German director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2014)
* 1940 –
Ediz Hun
Ediz Hun (born 20 November 1940) is a Turkish people, Turkish film actor and politician.
Biography
Hun was born in 1940 to a Circassians, Circassian father and a Turkish mother.
After studying at the St. George's Austrian High School in Istanb ...
, Turkish actor and politician
* 1940 –
Arieh Warshel, Israeli-American biochemist and biophysicist
*
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 ...
–
Oliver Sipple, U.S. Marine and Vietnam War veteran (d. 1989)
* 1941 –
Dr. John
Malcolm John Rebennack Jr. (November 20, 1941 – June 6, 2019), better known by his stage name Dr. John, was an American singer and songwriter. His music encompassed New Orleans blues, jazz, funk, and R&B.
Active as a session musician from t ...
, American singer and songwriter (d. 2019)
*
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 ...
–
Joe Biden, American politician, 46th
President of the United States
The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America. The president directs the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United Stat ...
* 1942 –
Bob Einstein
Stewart Robert Einstein (November 20, 1942 – January 2, 2019) was an American actor, comedy writer, and producer. He created and performed the satirical stuntman character Super Dave Osborne, and was also known for his roles as Marty Funkh ...
, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2019)
* 1942 –
Norman Greenbaum, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
* 1942 –
Meredith Monk
Meredith Jane Monk (born November 20, 1942) is an American composer, performer, director, vocalist, filmmaker, and choreographer. From the 1960s onwards, Monk has created multi-disciplinary works which combine music, theatre, and dance, recording ...
, American composer and choreographer
* 1942 –
Paulos Faraj Rahho
Paulos Faraj Rahho (also known as Paul Faraj Rahho and Paulos Faradsch Raho; ar, بولس فرج رحو, '; syr, ܦܘܠܘܣ ܦ̮ܪܔ ܪܚܘ, '; 20 November 1942 – February or March 2008) was a Chaldean Catholic prelate who served as the Arch ...
,
Chaldean Catholic Archeparch of Mosul (d. 2008)
*
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 – ...
–
David Douglas-Home, British businessman and politician
* 1943 –
Veronica Hamel
Veronica Hamel (born November 20, 1943) is an American actress and model. She was nominated five times for an Emmy Award for her role as attorney Joyce Davenport in the TV police drama ''Hill Street Blues''.
Biography
The daughter of a Philade ...
, American actress and model
* 1943 –
Ivan Hrdlička, Czechoslovak footballer
* 1943 –
Suze Rotolo
Susan Elizabeth Rotolo (November 20, 1943 – February 25, 2011),''The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia'', 2006, pp. 592–594, Michael Gray, Continuum known as Suze Rotolo ( ), was an American artist, and the girlfriend of Bob Dylan from 1961 to 1964. ...
, American artist
*
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 ...
–
Louie Dampier
Louis Dampier (born November 20, 1944) is an American retired professional basketball player.
A 6-foot-tall guard, Dampier is one of only a handful of men to play all nine seasons in the American Basketball Association (ABA) (1967–1976), all w ...
, American basketball player and coach
* 1944 –
Wayne Maki
Wayne may refer to:
People with the given name and surname
* Wayne (given name)
* Wayne (surname)
Geographical
Places with name ''Wayne'' may take their name from a person with that surname; the most famous such person was Gen. "Mad" Anthon ...
, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1974)
* 1944 –
Anthea Stewart
Anthea Dorine Stewart (born November 20, 1944) is a former field hockey player who was a member of the Zimbabwe national women's team that won the gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. Previously, she had represented South Africa ...
, Zimbabwean field hockey player
*
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 ...
–
Deborah Eisenberg, American writer, actress and teacher
*
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 ...
–
Duane Allman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1971)
* 1946 –
Algimantas Butnorius
Algimantas Butnorius (20 February 1946 – 30 October 2017) was a Lithuanian chess grandmaster and world seniors champion in 2007. From 2014 he represented Monaco.
Chess career
He won the Lithuanian Chess Championship on ten occasions: in 1967 ...
, Lithuanian chess
Grandmaster (d. 2017)
* 1946 –
Patriarch Kirill of Moscow
Kirill or Cyril (russian: link=Russian, Кирилл, chu, , secular name Vladimir Mikhailovich Gundyayev, russian: link=no, Владимир Михайлович Гундяев; born 20 November 1946) is a Russian Orthodox bishop. He became ...
* 1946 –
Samuel E. Wright
Samuel Ernest Wright (November 20, 1946 – May 24, 2021) was an American actor and singer. He was best known as the voice of Sebastian in Disney's ''The Little Mermaid'', for which he provided the lead vocals to "Under the Sea", which won the ...
, American actor, voice actor and singer (d. 2021)
*
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 ...
–
Nurlan Balgimbayev
Nurlan Utebovich Balgimbayev ( kz, Нұрлан Өтепұлы Балғымбаев, ''Nūrlan Ötepūly Balğymbaev''; 20 November 1947 – 14 October 2015) was a Kazakh politician who served as Prime Minister of Kazakhstan from 10 October 1997 t ...
,
Prime Minister of Kazakhstan
The Prime Minister of Kazakhstan ( Kazakh Cyrillic: Қазақстан Республикасының Премьер-Министрі, Kazakh Latin: Qazaqstan Respublikasynyñ Premier-Ministrı, ; russian: Премьер-Министр Респ ...
(d. 2015)
* 1947 –
Eli Ben Rimoz
Eliahu Ben Rimoz (born 20 November 1944) is an Israeli former international footballer who competed at the 1970 FIFA World Cup.
Ben Rimoz played club football for Hapoel Jerusalem and Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv
Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv F.C. ( he, מוע ...
, Israeli footballer
* 1947 –
Joe Walsh, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor
*
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 ...
–
John R. Bolton, American lawyer and diplomat, 25th
United States Ambassador to the United Nations
The United States ambassador to the United Nations is the leader of the U.S. delegation, the U.S. Mission to the United Nations. The position is formally known as the permanent representative of the United States of America to the United Nations ...
* 1948 –
Park Chul-soo
Park Chul-soo (November 20, 1948 – February 19, 2013) was a South Korean film director, producer, screenwriter and occasional actor. He was one of the most active filmmakers in Korean cinema in the 1980s and '90s.
Career
Park Chul-soo was ...
, South Korean director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2013)
* 1948 –
Barbara Hendricks, American-Swedish soprano and actress
* 1948 –
Richard Masur
Richard Masur is an American character actor who has appeared in more than 80 films. From 1995 to 1999, he served two terms as president of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG). He is best known for Nick Lobo on ''Rhoda'' (1974-1977), Stanley Uris in th ...
, American actor and director
* 1948 –
Gunnar Nilsson, Swedish race car driver (d. 1978)
* 1948 –
Kenjiro Shinozuka
is a Japanese rally driver. Since his debut in 1967, his greatest successes have been as a works driver for Mitsubishi Motors. Behind the wheel of a Galant VR-4 he won the Asia-Pacific Rally Championship in 1988 and scored consecutive victories ...
, Japanese race car driver
*
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 ...
–
Jeff Dowd
Jeff Dowd (born November 20, 1949) is an American film producer and political activist.
Biography
He was a member of the "Seattle Seven," who were jailed for contempt of court following a violent protest against the Vietnam War. He later moved ...
, American film producer and activist
* 1949 –
Thelma Drake
Thelma Day Drake (born November 20, 1949) is an American politician and former member of Congress for Virginia's 2nd congressional district. A Republican, she served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2005 to 2009. Prior to serving in Co ...
, American politician
* 1949 –
Ulf Lundell, Swedish writer and composer
* 1949 –
Juha Mieto
Juha Iisakki Mieto (born 20 November 1949) is a Finnish former cross-country skier, who was born in Kurikka. He competed in the 1972, 1976, 1980 and 1984 Olympics and won five medals, including a gold medal in the 4 × 10 km relay in 1976 ...
, Finnish cross-country skier
* 1949 –
Nené, Portuguese footballer
*
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 ...
–
Jacqueline Gourault
Jacqueline Gourault (; née Doliveux, born 20 November 1950) is a French politician who served as Minister of Territorial Cohesion and Relations with Local Authorities in the governments of successive Prime Ministers Édouard Philippe and Jean C ...
, French politician
* 1950 –
Gary Green, British musician
*
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 ...
–
Rodger Bumpass, American actor and singer
* 1951 –
León Gieco
Raúl Alberto Antonio Gieco, pseudonym, better known as León Gieco (born on November 20, 1951 in Cañada Rosquín, Argentina) is an Argentine folk rock performer, Music composer, composer and interpreter. He is known for mixing popular Folklore, ...
, Argentine folk rock singer and interpreter
* 1951 –
Aleksey Spiridonov
Aleksey Sergeyevich Spiridonov (russian: Алексей Серге́евич Спиридонов) (20 November 1951 – 9 April 1998) was a Soviet athlete who mainly competed in the men's hammer throw event. Born in Leningrad he trained at ...
, Soviet footballer (d. 1998)
* 1951 –
David Walters
David Lee Walters (born November 20, 1951) is an American politician who was the 24th governor of Oklahoma from 1991 to 1995.
Born in Canute, Oklahoma, Walters was a project manager for Governor David Boren and the youngest executive officer w ...
, American businessman and politician, 24th
Governor of Oklahoma
The governor of Oklahoma is the head of government of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Under the Oklahoma Constitution, the governor serves as the head of the Oklahoma Executive (government), executive branch, of the government of Oklahoma. The gove ...
*
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 ...
–
John Van Boxmeer
John Martin Van Boxmeer (born November 20, 1952) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He has also served extensively as a hockey coach with various teams from 1984 to the present.
Bio
John Van Boxmeer was considered a top prospec ...
, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
*
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 ...
–
Fábio Jr.
Fábio Correa Ayrosa Galvão (born November 21, 1953), known as Fábio Jr. or Fábio Júnior, is a Brazilian singer, songwriter and actor.
Biography
In 1971, already in a solo career, Fábio Jr. recorded songs in English (with pseudonyms such a ...
, Brazilian singer-songwriter and actor
* 1953 –
Greg Gibson, American wrestler
* 1953 –
Halid Bešlić
Halid Bešlić (; born 20 November 1953) is a Bosnian folk singer and musician who has been performing professionally since 1979. Bešlić's singing career was one of the most successful in Yugoslavia, and continues today throughout the entire ...
, Bosnian musician and singer
* 1953 –
Nirmal Selvamony
Nirmal Selvamony (born 20 November 1953) is an Indian Tamil academician and scholar with specialization in the field of ecocriticism.
When he retired from Central University of Tamil Nadu in April 2018, he was Professor and Head of the Depart ...
, Indian
Tamil
Tamil may refer to:
* Tamils, an ethnic group native to India and some other parts of Asia
** Sri Lankan Tamils, Tamil people native to Sri Lanka also called ilankai tamils
**Tamil Malaysians, Tamil people native to Malaysia
* Tamil language, nati ...
academician and
ecocritic
*
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 ...
–
Richard Brooker
Richard Brooker (20 November 1954 – 8 April 2013) was a British actor and stuntman, perhaps best known for his role in ''Friday the 13th Part III'' as Jason Voorhees.
Career
Brooker, a former trapeze artist, started his career in acting in a c ...
, English actor and stuntman (d. 2013)
* 1954 –
Antonina Koshel
Antonina Vladimirovna Koshel (russian: Антонина Владимировна Кошель, be, Антаніна Уладзіміраўна Кошаль; born 20 November 1954) is a retired Soviet artistic gymnast. She competed at the 1972 Sum ...
, Soviet artistic gymnast
* 1954 –
Frank Marino, Canadian guitarist and singer-songwriter
* 1954 –
Bin Shimada
Bin Shimada ( ja, 島田 敏, Shimada Bin; born November 20, 1954) is a Japanese actor, voice actor and narratorDoi, Hitoshi.Shimada Bin. ''Seiyuu Database''. July 17, 2010Archivedby WebCite July 20, 2010. affiliated with the talent management fir ...
, Japanese voice actor
*
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 ...
–
Angela Finocchiaro
Angela Finocchiaro (born 20 November 1955, in Milan) is an Italian actress.
She won the David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actress in 2006 for her performance in ''The Beast in the Heart'' and in 2007 for her role of Amelia Benassi in '' ...
, Italian actress
* 1955 –
Toshio Matsuura
is a former Japanese football player and manager. He played for Japan national team.
Club career
Matsuura was born in Yokohama on November 20, 1955. After graduating from Waseda University, he joined Nippon Kokan (later ''NKK'') in 1978. The ...
, Japanese footballer
* 1955 –
Ray Ozzie
Raymond "Ray" Ozzie (born November 20, 1955) is an American software industry entrepreneur who held the positions of Chief Technical Officer and Chief Software Architect at Microsoft between 2005 and 2010. Before Microsoft, he was best known for ...
, American software industry entrepreneur
*
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 ...
–
Bo Derek, American actress and producer
*
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 ...
–
Stefan Bellof, German race car driver (d. 1985)
* 1957 –
John Eriksen
John Hartmann Eriksen (20 November 1957 – 12 February 2002) was a Danish footballer who played as a striker. He scored 319 league goals over the course of 15 seasons. He played in four countries, namely his native Denmark, the Netherlands, F ...
, Danish footballer (d. 2002)
* 1957 –
Jean-Marc Furlan
Jean-Marc Furlan (born 20 November 1957) is a French football manager and former player who played as a defender.
Club career
Born in Sainte-Foy-la-Grande, Furlan started his career at Bordeaux, where he signed his first professional contract i ...
, French football manager
* 1957 –
Goodluck Jonathan
Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan (born 20 November 1957)Lawson Heyford, ''The Source'' (Lagos), 11 December 2006. is a Nigerian politician who served as the President of Nigeria from 2010 to 2015. He lost the 2015 presidential election to fo ...
,
President of Nigeria
*
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 ...
–
Rickson Gracie, Brazilian mixed martial artist and choreographer
*
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 ...
–
Diane James
Diane Martine James (born 20 November 1959) is a British politician who was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for South East England from 2014 to 2019. She was briefly leader-elect of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) from September 2 ...
, British politician
* 1959 –
Mario Martone
Mario Martone (born 20 November 1959) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. He has directed more than 30 films since 1985. His film '' L'amore molesto'' was entered into the 1995 Cannes Film Festival. His 2010 film ''Noi credevamo'' c ...
, Italian director and screenwriter
* 1959 –
Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst
Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst (born 20 November 1959) is a German prelate of the Catholic Church and theologian. He was a vicar and an auxiliary bishop in Catholic Diocese of Münster, Münster before becoming the Bishop of Limburg in January 20 ...
, German prelate of the Catholic Church and theologian
* 1959 –
Sean Young, American actress and dancer
*
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 ...
–
Ye Jiangchuan
Ye Jiangchuan (born November 20, 1960) is a Chinese chess player. He is the second Chinese player, after Ye Rongguang, to achieve the title of Grandmaster, which FIDE awarded him in 1993. On 1 January 2000, he became the first ever Chinese pl ...
, Chinese chess player
* 1960 –
Ozell Jones
Ozell "Hoppy" Jones III (November 20, 1960 – September 7, 2006) was an American professional basketball player. He was listed at and weighed . Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, his family soon moved to Compton, California, and later to Long B ...
, American basketball player (d. 2006)
*
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 ...
–
Pierre Hermé, French pastry chef and chocolatier
* 1961 –
Petra Wenzel, Liechtenstein alpine skier
*
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 ...
–
Živko Budimir
Živko Budimir (; born 20 November 1962) is a Bosnian Croat politician who served as the 9th President of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, one of the two autonomous entities that compose Bosnia and Herzegovina, from 17 March 2011 until ...
, Bosnian politician
* 1962 –
Polona Dornik
Polona Dornik (born 20 November 1962) is a Yugoslav and Slovenian former female professional basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, comp ...
, Yugoslav and Slovenian basketball player
* 1962 –
Rajkumar Hirani, Indian director
* 1962 –
Abderrazak Khairi, Moroccan footballer
* 1962 –
Peng Liyuan, wife of
Xi Jinping
Xi Jinping ( ; ; ; born 15 June 1953) is a Chinese politician who has served as the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), and thus as the paramount leader of China, s ...
* 1962 –
Gerardo Martino
Gerardo Daniel "Tata" Martino (born 20 November 1962) is an Argentine professional football manager and former player.
Martino played mostly for Newell's Old Boys in his native Rosario. He holds the record of appearances with the team playing a ...
, Argentine footballer
*
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 ...
–
Tim Gavin
Bryant Timothy Gavin (born Sydney 20 November 1963) is an Australian former state and national representative rugby union player who played Number 8 for the Wallabies in 47 Test matches in between 1988 and 1996.
Gavin played 83 times for Ne ...
, Australian rugby player
* 1963 –
Timothy Gowers
Sir William Timothy Gowers, (; born 20 November 1963) is a British mathematician. He is Professeur titulaire of the Combinatorics chair at the Collège de France, and director of research at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity Col ...
, English mathematician and academic
* 1963 –
Beezie Madden
Elizabeth Madden (née Patton; born 20 November 1963) is an American Olympic champion equestrian competing in show jumping. She has two Olympic golds and one silver in team jumping, and an individual bronze. She won the FEI Show Jumping World C ...
, American show jumper
* 1963 –
Ming-Na Wen, Chinese-American actress
*
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 ...
– Katharina Böhm, Austrian actress
* 1964 – Boris Dežulović, Croatian journalist and author
* 1964 – Andriy Kalashnykov, Ukrainian wrestler
* 1964 – John MacLean (ice hockey), John MacLean, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
*1965 – Mike D, American rapper and drummer
* 1965 – Nigel Gibbs, English footballer and coach
* 1965 – Yehuda Glick, American-Israeli Orthodox rabbi
* 1965 – Amos Mansdorf, Israeli tennis player
* 1965 – Takeshi Kusao, Japanese actor and singer
* 1965 – Jimmy Vasser, American race car driver
* 1965 – Yoshiki (musician), Yoshiki, Japanese musician
*1966 – Neil Broad, British tennis player
* 1966 – Kevin Gilbert (musician), Kevin Gilbert, American singer-songwriter and musician (d. 1996)
* 1966 – Terry Lovejoy, Australian information technologist
* 1966 – Štefan Svitek (basketball), Štefan Svitek, Slovak basketball coach
* 1966 – Jill Thompson, American author and illustrator
*1967 – Chris Childs (basketball), Chris Childs, American basketball player
* 1967 – Stuart Ripley, English footballer
* 1967 – Teoman (singer), Teoman, Turkish singer
*
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 ...
– James Dutton (astronaut), James Dutton, American astronaut
* 1968 – Andrei Kharlov, Russian chess player
* 1968 – Paul Scheuring, American screenwriter and director
* 1968 – David Einhorn (hedge fund manager), David Einhorn, American hedge fund manager
* 1968 – Jeff Tarango, American tennis player
*
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 ...
– Jimmy Blandon, Ecuadorian footballer
* 1969 – Kristian Ghedina, Italian alpine ski racer
* 1969 – Chris Harris (cricketer), Chris Harris, New Zealand cricketer
* 1969 – Wolfgang Stark, German football referee
* 1969 – Callie Thorne, American actress and producer
*1970 – Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, deputy prime minister of the United Arab Emirates
* 1970 – Matt Blunt, American lieutenant and politician, 54th Governor of Missouri
* 1970 – Phife Dawg, American rapper (d. 2016)
* 1970 – Delia Gonzalez, American boxer
* 1970 – Stéphane Houdet, French wheelchair tennis player
* 1970 – Geoffrey Keezer, American pianist and educator
* 1970 – Sabrina Lloyd, American actress
*
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 ...
– Mike Dunn (snooker player), Mike Dunn, English snooker player
* 1971 – Joey Galloway, American football player and sportscaster
* 1971 – Joel McHale, American comedian, actor, and producer
*1972 – Johan Åkerman, Swedish ice hockey player
* 1972 – Jérôme Alonzo, French footballer
* 1972 – Ed Benes, Brazilian comic book artist
* 1972 – Paulo Figueiredo, Angolan footballer
* 1972 – Corinne Niogret, French biathlete
* 1972 – Skander Souayah, Tunisian footballer
* 1972 – Tatiana Turanskaya, Transnistrian politician
*1973 – Angelica Bridges, American actress and singer
* 1973 – Fabio Galante, Italian footballer
* 1973 – Neil Hodgson, English motorcycle racer and sportscaster
* 1973 – Masaya Honda, Japanese footballer
*
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 ...
– Daniela Anschütz-Thoms, German speed skater
* 1974 – Jason Faunt, American actor
* 1974 – Florian David Fitz, German actor, screenwriter and director
* 1974 – Drew Ginn, Australian rower
* 1974 – Claudio Husain, Argentine footballer
* 1974 – Jon Knudsen, Norwegian footballer
*1975 – Mengke Bateer, Chinese Inner Mongolian basketball player
* 1975 – Dierks Bentley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
* 1975 – Ryan Bowen, American basketball player and coach
* 1975 – J. D. Drew, American baseball player
* 1975 – Joshua Gomez, American actor
* 1975 – Sébastien Hamel, French footballer
* 1975 – Davey Havok, American singer-songwriter
*1976 – Mohamed Barakat, Egyptian footballer
* 1976 – Beto (footballer, born November 1976), Beto, Brazilian footballer
* 1976 – DeJuan Collins, American basketball player
* 1976 – Dominique Dawes, American gymnast and actress
* 1976 – Laura Harris, Canadian actress
* 1976 – Adrián Hernán González, Argentine footballer
* 1976 – Harold Jamison, American basketball player
* 1976 – Tusshar Kapoor, Indian Bollywood actor and producer
* 1976 – Pascal Roller, German basketball player
* 1976 – Francisco Rufete, Spanish footballer
* 1976 – Nebojša Stefanović, Serbian politician
* 1976 – Doug Viney, New Zealand boxer
* 1976 – Atsushi Yoneyama, Japanese footballer
* 1976 – Ji Yun-nam, North Korean footballer
*
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 ...
– Rudy Charles, American wrestling referee
* 1977 – Mikhail Ivanov (cross-country skier), Mikhail Ivanov, Russian cross-country skier
* 1977 – Daniel Svensson, Swedish drummer and producer
* 1977 – Josh Turner, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
*1978 – Jean-François Bedenik, French footballer and coach
* 1978 – Freya Lim, Taiwanese-Malaysian singer and radio host
* 1978 – Kéné Ndoye, Senegalese track and fielder
* 1978 – Nadine Velazquez, American actress and model
*
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 ...
– Maree Bowden, New Zealand netball player
* 1979 – Dmitri Bulykin, Russian footballer
* 1979 – Kateryna Burmistrova, Ukrainian wrestler
* 1979 – Naide Gomes, Portuguese heptathlete and long jumper
* 1979 – Joseph Hallman, American composer and academic
* 1979 – Anastasiya Kapachinskaya, Russian sprint athlete
* 1979 – Hassan Mostafa, Egyptian footballer
* 1979 – Jacob Pitts, American actor
* 1979 – Shalini, Indian actress
* 1979 – Arpad Sterbik, Serbian handball 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 – ...
– Dilnaz Akhmadieva, Kazakhstani singer and actress
* 1980 – James Chambers (English footballer), James Chambers, English footballer
* 1980 – Eiko Koike, Japanese actress
* 1980 – Poonsawat Kratingdaenggym, Thai boxer
* 1980 – Marek Krejčí, Slovak footballer (d. 2007)
* 1980 – Ana Caterina Morariu, Romanian-Italian actress
* 1980 – Christian Obrist, Italian middle-distance runner
* 1980 – Eoin Reddan, Irish rugby union player
*1981 – Carlos Boozer, American basketball player
* 1981 – Yuko Kavaguti, Japanese ice skater
* 1981 – Ye Li, Chinese basketball player
* 1981 – Andrea Riseborough, English actress
* 1981 – İbrahim Toraman, Turkish footballer
* 1981 – Orsolya Tóth, Hungarian actress
* 1981 – Kimberley Walsh, English singer-songwriter and actress
*1982 – Stephen Ademolu, Canadian footballer
* 1982 – Dương Hồng Sơn, Vietnamese footballer
* 1982 – Rémi Mathis, French historian and curator
* 1982 – Shermine Shahrivar, Iranian model
* 1982 – Gregor Urbas, Slovenian figure skater
* 1982 – Israel Villaseñor, Mexican footballer
*1983 – Future (rapper), Future, American rapper
* 1983 – Dele Aiyenugba, Nigerian footballer
* 1983 – Mónika Kovacsicz, Hungarian handballer
*1984 – Ali (South Korean singer), Ali, South Korean singer
* 1984 – Halley Feiffer, American actress and playwright
* 1984 – Kévin Hecquefeuille, French ice hockey player
* 1984 – Justin Hoyte, English footballer
* 1984 – Jeremy Jordan (actor, born 1984), Jeremy Jordan, American actor
* 1984 – Cartier Martin, American basketball player
* 1984 – Nelson Sebastián Maz, Uruguayan footballer
* 1984 – Sherjill MacDonald, Dutch footballer
* 1984 – Moe Meguro, Japanese curler
* 1984 – Ferdinando Monfardini, Italian race car driver
* 1984 – Florencia Mutio, Argentine field hockey player
* 1984 – Stéphane N'Guéma, Gabonese footballer
* 1984 – Naoya Tamura, Japanese footballer
* 1984 – Monique van der Vorst, Dutch cyclist
* 1984 – Lee Yun-yeol, South Korean gamer
*
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 ...
– Juan Cruz Álvarez, Argentinian race car driver
* 1985 – Eric Boateng, British basketball player
* 1985 – Dan Byrd, American actor
* 1985 – Muhamed Demiri, Macedonian footballer
* 1985 – Greg Holland, American baseball player
* 1985 – Maria Mukhortova, Russian skater
* 1985 – Heinrich Schmidtgal, Kazakhstani footballer
* 1985 – Themistoklis Tzimopoulos, Greek New Zealanders, Greek New Zealander footballer
* 1985 – Aaron Yan, Taiwanese actor and singer
*1986 – Josh Carter, American basketball player
* 1986 – Edder Delgado, Honduran footballer
* 1986 – Ashley Fink, American actress and singer
* 1986 – Kōhei Horikoshi, Japanese manga artist
* 1986 – Özer Hurmacı, Turkish footballer
* 1986 – William Fernando da Silva, Brazilian footballer
* 1986 – Oliver Sykes, English singer-songwriter
* 1986 – Bartolomé Salvá Vidal, Spanish tennis player
* 1986 – Koudai Tsukakoshi, Japanese race car driver
*1987 – Amelia Rose Blaire, American actress
* 1987 – Andrew Driver, English footballer
* 1987 – Ben Hamer, English footballer
* 1987 – Mylène Lazare, French swimmer
* 1987 – Kou Lei, Ukrainian table tennis player
* 1987 – Nathan Lyon, Australian cricketer
* 1987 – Joëlle Numainville, Canadian cyclist
* 1987 – Christoph Pfingsten, German cyclist
* 1987 – Valdet Rama, Albanian footballer
* 1987 – Gina Stechert, German alpine skier
*1988 – Marie-Laure Brunet, French biathlete
* 1988 – Aya Medany, Egyptian modern pentathlete.
* 1988 – Max Pacioretty, American ice hockey player
* 1988 – Roberto Rosales, Venezuelan footballer
* 1988 – Dariga Shakimova, Kazakhstani boxer
* 1988 – Dušan Tadić, Serbian footballer
* 1988 – Rhys Wakefield, Australian actor and director
*
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 ...
– Artak Dashyan, Armenian footballer
* 1989 – Babita Kumari, Indian wrestler
* 1989 – Cody Linley, American actor and singer
* 1989 – Agon Mehmeti, Swedish footballer
* 1989 – Jonas Mendes, Bissau-Guinean footballer
* 1989 – Sergei Polunin, Ukrainian ballet dancer
* 1989 – Eduardo Vargas, Chilean footballer
* 1989 – Dmitry Zhitnikov, Russian handballer
*
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 ...
– Haley Anderson, American swimmer
* 1990 – Mark Christian, Manx cyclist
* 1990 – Aleksandra Król, Polish snowboarder
* 1990 – Slobodan Medojević, Serbian footballer
* 1990 – Nzuzi Toko, Congolese footballer
*
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 ...
– Irene Esser, Venezuelan actress and model
* 1991 – Grant Hanley, Scottish footballer
* 1991 – Anthony Knockaert, French footballer
* 1991 – Yvonne Leuko, Cameroonian footballer
* 1991 – Kim Se-yong, South Korean singer and actor
* 1991 – Tim Simona, New Zealand rugby league player
*
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 ...
– Amit Guluzade, Azerbaijani footballer
* 1992 – Zoltán Harcsa, Hungarian boxer
* 1992 – Maiha Ishimura, Japanese singer and actress
* 1992 – Kristiina Mäkelä, Finnish triple jumper
* 1992 – Gaku Matsuda, Japanese actor
* 1992 – Jenna Prandini, American track and field athlete
* 1992 – Brayan Ramírez (cyclist), Brayan Ramirez, Colombian cyclist
* 1992 – Frédéric Veseli, Albanian footballer
*
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 ...
– Junior Paulo (rugby league, born 1993), Junior Paulo, New Zealand rugby league player
* 1993 – Sanjin Prcić, Bosnian footballer
* 1993 – Anna Prugova, Russian ice hockey player
*
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 ...
– Timothy Kitum, Kenyan middle-distance runner
*1995 – Timothy Cheruiyot, Kenyan athlete
* 1995 – Iván García (cyclist), Iván Garcia, Spanish cyclist
* 1995 – Shaolin Sándor Liu, Hungarian short track speed skater
* 1995 – Kyle Snyder (wrestler), Kyle Snyder, American wrestler
*
1996
File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A Centennial Olympic Park bombing, bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical Anti-abortion violence, anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 8 ...
– Jack Harrison (footballer, born 1996), Jack Harrison, English professional footballer
* 1996 – Blaž Janc, Slovenian handballer
* 1996 – Denis Zakaria, Swiss footballer
*1997 – Levi Garcia, Trinidadian footballer
*2000 – Connie Talbot, English singer-songwriter
*2001 – Caty McNally, American tennis player
*2002 – Madisyn Shipman, American actress
Deaths
Pre-1600
*
284
__NOTOC__
Year 284 ( CCLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Carinus and Numerianus (or, less frequently, year 1037 ...
– Numerian, Roman emperor
* 763 – Domnall Midi, High King of Ireland (b. 743)
* 811 – Li Fan (Tang dynasty), Li Fan, Chinese chancellor (b. 754)
* 855 – Theoktistos, Byzantine courtier
* 869 – Edmund the Martyr, English king (b. 841)
* 927 – Xu Wen, Chinese general (b. 862)
* 996 – Richard I of Normandy, Richard I, duke of Normandy (b. 932)
*1008 – Geoffrey I, Duke of Brittany, Geoffrey I, duke of Brittany (b. 980)
*1022 – Bernward of Hildesheim, German bishop (b. c. 960)
*1314 – Albert II, Margrave of Meissen, Albert II, German nobleman (b. 1240)
*1316 – John I of France, John I, king of France and Navarra (b. 1316)
*1400 – Elisabeth of Moravia, margravine of Meissen
*1480 – Eleanor of Scotland, Scottish princess (b. 1433)
*1518 – Pierre de la Rue, Belgian singer and composer (b. 1452)
*1559 – Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk, Lady Frances Brandon, English noblewoman and claimant to the throne of England (b. 1517)
*1591 – Christopher Hatton, English academic and politician, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1540)
*1593 – Hans Bol, Flemish painter (b. 1534)
1601–1900
*1606 – John Lyly, English poet and courtier
*1612 – John Harington (writer), John Harington, English courtier and author (b. 1561)
*1651 – Mikołaj Potocki, Polish nobleman (b. 1595)
*1678 – Karel Dujardin, Dutch Golden Age painting, Dutch Golden Age painter (b. 1622)
*1662 – Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, Leopold Wilhelm, Austrian duke and governor (b. 1614)
*
1695
It was also a particularly cold and wet year. Contemporary records claim that wine froze in the glasses in the Palace of Versailles.
Events
January–March
* January 7 (December 28, 1694 O.S.) – The United Kingdom's last joint monarch ...
–
Zumbi
Zumbi (1655 – November 20, 1695), also known as Zumbi dos Palmares (), was a Brazilian quilombola leader, being one of the pioneers of resistance to slavery of Africans by the Portuguese in colonial Brazil. He was also the last of the kings ...
, Brazilian king (b. 1655)
*1704 – Charles Plumier, French botanist and painter (b. 1646)
*
1737
Events
January–March
* January 5 – Spain and the Holy Roman Empire sign instruments of cession at Pontremoli in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany in Italy, with the Empire receiving control of Tuscany and the Grand Duchy of Parma a ...
– Caroline of Ansbach, queen of England and Ireland (b. 1683)
*1742 – Melchior de Polignac, French cardinal and poet (b. 1661)
*1758 – Johan Helmich Roman, Swedish violinist and composer (b. 1694)
*1764 – Christian Goldbach, Prussian mathematician and theorist (b. 1690)
*1773 – Charles Jennens, English landowner and patron of the arts
*1778 – Francesco Cetti, Italian priest, zoologist, and mathematician (b. 1726)
*1824 – Carl Axel Arrhenius, Swedish chemist (b. 1757)
*1856 – Farkas Bolyai, Romanian-Hungarian mathematician and academic (b. 1775)
*
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 " ...
– Albert Newsam, American painter and illustrator (b. 1809)
*
1866
Events January–March
* January 1
** Fisk University, a historically black university, is established in Nashville, Tennessee.
** The last issue of the abolitionist magazine '' The Liberator'' is published.
* January 6 – Ottoman tr ...
– Otto Karl Berg, German botanist and pharmacist (b. 1815)
*
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 ...
– Léon Cogniet, French painter (b. 1794)
*
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 ...
– Henry Draper, American doctor and astronomer (b. 1837)
*
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 ...
– William Bliss Baker, American painter (b. 1859)
*
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 ...
– August Ahlqvist, Finnish professor, poet, scholar of the Finno-Ugric languages, author, and literary critic (b. 1826)
*
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 ...
– Anton Rubinstein, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1829)
*
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 ...
– Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet, English engineer (b. 1817)
1901–present
*
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 ...
– Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat, French race car driver (b. 1867)
* 1903 – Tom Horn, American scout, cowboy, soldier
*
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. ...
– Paula Modersohn-Becker, German painter (b. 1876)
*
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 ...
– Albert Dietrich, German composer and conductor (b. 1829)
* 1908 – Georgy Voronoy, Ukrainian mathematician and academic (b. 1868)
*
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 ...
– Leo Tolstoy, Russian author and playwright (b. 1828)
*
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 ...
– John Bauer (illustrator), John Bauer, Swedish painter and illustrator (b.1882)
*
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 ...
– Allen Holubar, American actor and director
* 1923 – Denny Barry Irish Republican, Hunger Striker (b. 1883)
*
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 ...
– Ebenezer Cobb Morley, English sportsman and the List of persons considered father or mother of a field, father of the Football Association and modern Association football, football (b. 1831)
*
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 ...
– Alexandra of Denmark, Queen of the United Kingdom (b. 1844)
*
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 ...
– Bill Holland (sprinter), Bill Holland, American track and field athlete (b. 1874)
*1933 – Augustine Birrell, British politician (b. 1815)
*
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 ...
– Willem de Sitter, Dutch mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (b. 1872)
*
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.
* ...
– John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, John Jellicoe, Royal Navy officer (b. 1859)
*
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 ...
– Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish mechanic and activist (b. 1896)
* 1936 –
José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Spanish lawyer and politician (b. 1903)
*
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 ...
– Maud of Wales, queen of Norway (b. 1869)
* 1938 – Edwin Hall, American physicist (b. 1855)
*
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 ...
– Arturo Bocchini, Chief of Police under the Fascism, Fascist regime of Benito Mussolini (b. 1880)
* 1940 – Tim Coleman, English footballer (b. 1881)
* 1940 – Robert Lane (soccer), Robert Lane, Canadian footballer (b. 1882)
*
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 ...
– Elmar Muuk, Estonian linguist and author (b. 1901)
*
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 ...
– Maria Jacobini, Italian actress (b. 1892)
* 1945 – Francis William Aston, English chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
*
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 ...
– Wolfgang Borchert, German author and playwright (b. 1921)
*
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 ...
– Francesco Cilea, Italian composer (b. 1866)
*
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 ...
– Benedetto Croce, Italian philosopher and politician (b. 1866)
*
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 ...
– Clyde Vernon Cessna, American pilot and engineer, founded the Cessna, Cessna Aircraft Corporation (b. 1879)
*
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 ...
– Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian-Lithuanian painter and illustrator (b. 1875)
*
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 ...
– Sylvia Lopez, French model and actress (b. 1933)
*
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 ...
– Ya'akov Cahan, Israeli writer and translator (b. 1881)
*1972 – Ennio Flaiano, Italian writer and journalist (b. 1910)
*1973 – Allan Sherman, American actor, comedian, and producer (b. 1924)
*1975 – Francisco Franco, Spanish general and dictator, Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1892)
*1976 – Trofim Lysenko, Ukrainian-Russian biologist and agronomist (b. 1898)
*1978 – Giorgio de Chirico, Greek-Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1888)
* 1978 – Vasilisk Gnedov, Russian soldier and poet (b. 1890)
*
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 – ...
– John McEwen, Australian lawyer and politician, 18th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1900)
*1983 – Marcel Dalio, French actor and playwright (b. 1900)
* 1983 – Richard Loo, Chinese-American actor (b. 1903)
*1984 – Carlo Campanini, Italian actor, singer and comedian (b. 1904)
* 1984 – Kristian Djurhuus, Faroese politician, 2nd Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. 1895)
* 1984 – Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Pakistani journalist and poet (b. 1911)
*
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 ...
– Lynn Bari, American actress (b. 1913)
*
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 ...
– Raul Renter, Estonian economist and chess player (b. 1920)
*
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 ...
– Jānis Krūmiņš, Latvian basketball player (b. 1930)
*1995 – Sergei Grinkov, Russian figure skater (b. 1967)
* 1995 – Robie Macauley, American editor, novelist and critic (b. 1919)
*1997 – Dick Littlefield, American baseball player (b. 1926)
* 1997 – Robert Palmer (writer), Robert Palmer, American saxophonist, producer, and author (b. 1945)
*
1998
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''.
Events January
* January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...
– Roland Alphonso, Jamaican saxophonist (b. 1931)
* 1998 – Galina Starovoytova, Russian ethnographer and politician (b. 1946)
*1999 – Amintore Fanfani, Italian journalist and politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1908)
*2000 – Mike Muuss, American computer programmer, created Ping (networking utility), Ping (b. 1958)
* 2000 – Kalle Päätalo, Finnish author (b. 1919)
* 2000 – Barbara Sobotta, Polish athlete (b. 1936)
*2002 – Kakhi Asatiani, Georgian footballer (b. 1947)
*
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 ...
– Robert Addie, English actor (b. 1960 )
* 2003 – David Dacko, African educator and politician, 1st President of the Central African Republic (b. 1930)
* 2003 – Eugene Kleiner, American businessman, co-founded Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (b. 1923)
*2004 – Ancel Keys, American physiologist (b. 1904)
*2005 – Manouchehr Atashi, Iranian journalist and poet (b. 1931)
* 2005 – James King (tenor), James King, American tenor (b. 1925)
* 2005 – Chris Whitley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1960)
*2006 – Robert Altman, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1925)
* 2006 – Zoia Ceaușescu, Romanian mathematician and academic (b. 1950)
* 2006 – Donald Hamilton, American author (b. 1916)
*2007 – Kenneth S. Kleinknecht, NASA manager (b. 1919)
* 2007 – Ian Smith, Rhodesian lieutenant and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Rhodesia (b. 1919)
*2009 – Lino Lacedelli, Italian mountaineer (b. 1925)
*2010 – Chalmers Johnson, American author and scholar (b. 1931)
*2012 – Kaspars Astašenko, Latvian ice hockey player (b. 1975)
* 2012 – William Grut, Swedish pentathlete (b. 1914)
* 2012 – Pete La Roca, American jazz drummer (b. 1938)
* 2012 – Ivan Kušan, Croatian writer (b. 1933)
*2013 – Sylvia Browne, American author (b. 1936)
* 2013 – Dieter Hildebrandt, Polish-German actor and screenwriter (b. 1927)
*2014 – Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba (b. 1926)
*
2015
File:2015 Events Collage new.png, From top left, clockwise: Civil service in remembrance of November 2015 Paris attacks; Germanwings Flight 9525 was purposely crashed into the French Alps; the rubble of residences in Kathmandu following the Apri ...
– Keith Michell, Australian actor (b. 1926)
* 2015 – Jim Perry (television personality), Jim Perry, American-Canadian singer and game show host (b. 1933)
* 2015 – Kitanoumi Toshimitsu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 55th Makuuchi#Yokozuna, Yokozuna (b. 1953)
*2016 – Gabriel Badilla, Costa Rican footballer (b. 1984)
* 2016 – Gene Guarilia, American basketball player (b. 1937)
* 2016 – Konstantinos Stephanopoulos, Greek statesman (b. 1926)
* 2016 – William Trevor, Irish novelist, playwright, and short story writer (b. 1928)
*2017 – Peter Berling, German actor, film producer and writer (b. 1934)
*2018 – James H. Billington, 13th Librarian of Congress (b. 1929)
* 2018 – Aaron Klug, Lithuanian-English chemist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1926)
*2019 – Wataru Misaka, American basketball player (b. 1923)
*2020 – Jan Morris, Welsh historian, author and travel writer (b. 1926)
Holidays and observances
*20-N (Spain)
*Africa Industrialization Day (International observance, international)
*Black Awareness Day (Brazil)
*Children's Day
* Christian feast day:
**Agapius (died 306), Agapius
**Saint Ambrose Traversari, Ambrose Traversari
**Ampelus, Ampelus and Caius
**Beatification, Blessed Anacleto González Flores, José Sánchez del Río, and companions (Saints of the Cristero War, Martyrs of Cristero War)
**Bernward of Hildesheim
**Dasius of Durostorum
**Edmund the Martyr
**Felec of Cornwall, Felec (or Felix) of Cornwall
**Gregory of Dekapolis
** Blessed
Josaphata Hordashevska
Josaphata Hordashevska, born Michaelina Hordashevska (20 November 1869 – 7 April 1919) an ethnic Ukrainian Greek-Catholic in the Austro-Hungarian Empire Religious Sister, was the first member and co-foundress of the Sisters Servants of Mary ...
(Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church)
**Solutor, Solutor, Octavius, and Adventor
**Theonestus of Vercelli
**November 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
* Earliest day on which the Feast of Christ the King can fall, while November 26 is the latest; celebrated on the last Sunday before Advent. (Roman Catholic Church)
*National Sovereignty Day (Argentina)
*Revolution Day (Mexico), Revolution Day (Mexico)
*Royal Thai Navy, Royal Thai Navy Day (Thailand)
*Teachers' Day or ''Ngày nhà giáo Việt Nam'' (
Vietnam
Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of and population of 96 million, making i ...
)
*Transgender Day of Remembrance (LGBT community)
References
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Days of the year
November