Historical Events in January, Month of January Events
Here is a list of some historical events in January. You can learn What major event happened in January?
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| January 29, 1850 | Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the U.S. Congress. |
| January 6, 1947 | Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to offer a round-the-world ticket. |
| January 24, 1984 | Apple Computer places the Macintosh personal computer on sale in the United States. |
| January 1, 1983 | The ARPANET officially changes to using TCP/IP, the Internet Protocol, effectively creating the Internet. |
| January 18, 1967 | Albert DeSalvo, the "Boston Strangler", is convicted of numerous crimes and is sentenced to life imprisonment. |
| January 20, 1909 | Newly formed automaker General Motors (GM) buys into the Oakland Motor Car Company, which later becomes GM's long-running Pontiac division. |
| January 10, 236 | Pope Fabian succeeds Anterus to become the twentieth pope of Rome. |
| January 19, 1996 | The barge North Cape oil spill occurs as an engine fire forces the tugboat Scandia ashore on Moonstone Beach in South Kingstown, Rhode Island. |
| January 1, 417 | Emperor Honorius forces Galla Placidia into marriage to Constantius, his famous general (magister militum) (probable). |
| January 2, 1920 | The second Palmer Raid, ordered by the US Department of Justice, results in 6,000 suspected communists and anarchists being arrested and held without trial. |
| January 19, 1829 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy receives its premiere performance. |
| January 17, 1903 | El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico becomes part of the United States National Forest System as the Luquillo Forest Reserve. |
| January 4, 1798 | Constantine Hangerli arrives in Bucharest, Wallachia, as its new Prince, invested by the Ottoman Empire. |
| January 25, 1918 | The Ukrainian People's Republic declares independence from Soviet Russia. |
| January 2, 1959 | Luna 1, the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon and to orbit the Sun, is launched by the Soviet Union. |
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