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Events on the 1st of January in history

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01 Jan 0001 Origin of Christian Era
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01 Jan 2042 The Roman Senate posthumously deifies Julius Caesar
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01 Jan 2045 The Julian calendar takes effect as the civil calendar of the Roman Empire, establishing January 1 as the new date of the new year.
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01 Jan 0069 Roman garrison of Mainz uprising
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01 Jan 2069 The Roman legions in Germania Superior refuse to swear loyalty to Galba. They rebel and proclaim Vitellius as emperor.
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01 Jan 0089 Gov Lucius Antonius Saturninus of Germany becomes Emperor of Rome
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01 Jan 0153 Roman consuls begin their year in office.
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01 Jan 0193 The Senate chooses Pertinax against his will to succeed Commodus as Roman emperor.
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01 Jan 0313 Start of Roman (Pontifical) Indiction
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01 Jan 0404 Last gladiator competition in Rome
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01 Jan 0404 An infuriated Roman mob tears Telemachus, a Christian monk, to pieces for trying to stop a gladiators' fight in the public arena held in Rome.
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01 Jan 0414 King Ataulf of Narbonne marries Emperor Honorius sister Galle Placidia
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01 Jan 0414 Galla Placidia, half-sister of Emperor Honorius, is married to the Visigothic king Ataulf at Narbonne. The wedding is celebrated with Roman festivities and magnificent gifts from the Gothic booty.
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01 Jan 0417 Emperor Honorius forces Galla Placidia into marriage to Constantius, his famous general (magister militum).
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01 Jan 0722 Hofmeier Charles Martel flees from Bishop Willibrord
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01 Jan 0990 Russia adopts Julian calendar
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01 Jan 1001 Grand Prince Stephen I of Hungary is named the first King of Hungary by Pope Sylvester II.
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01 Jan 1068 Romanos IV Diogenes marries Eudokia Makrembolitissa and is crowned Byzantine Emperor.
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01 Jan 1259 Michael VIII Palaiologos is proclaimed co-emperor of the Empire of Nicaea with his ward John IV Laskaris.
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01 Jan 1430 Jews of Sicily are no longer required to attend conversionist services
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01 Jan 1438 Albrecht II von Habsburg becomes King of Hungary
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01 Jan 1438 Albert II of Habsburg is crowned King of Hungary.
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01 Jan 1494 Juw Dekama elected potentate of Frisia
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01 Jan 1502 Portuguese navigators discover Rio de Janeiro
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01 Jan 1502 The present-day location of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is first explored by the Portuguese.
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01 Jan 1504 King Louis XII loses last bulwark in Naples, Caeta
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01 Jan 1515 Jews are expelled from Laibach Austria
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01 Jan 1515 King Francis I of France succeeds to the French throne.
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01 Jan 1527 Croatian nobles elect Ferdinand I of Austria as King of Croatia in the Parliament on Cetin.
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01 Jan 1573 Geuzen sets fire to Woudrichem
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01 Jan 1583 1st day of the Gregorian calendar in Holland and Flanders
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01 Jan 1600 Scotland begins its numbered year on January 1 instead of March 25.
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01 Jan 1610 German astronomer Simon Marius 1st discovers the Jupiter moons, but does not officially report it, Galileo does on July 1 1610
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01 Jan 1622 Papal Chancery adopts Jan 1 as beginning of the year (was March 25)
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01 Jan 1651 Charles II is crowned King of Scotland.
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01 Jan 1660 General Moncks army battles with the Tweed on way to London
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01 Jan 1673 Regular mail delivery begins between New York and Boston
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01 Jan 1689 Pro-James II-earl of Danby occupies York
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01 Jan 1700 Protestant West-Europe (except England) begin using Gregorian calendar
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01 Jan 1700 Russia replaces Byzantines with Julian calendar
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01 Jan 1700 Russia begins using the Anno Domini era and no longer uses the Anno Mundi era of the Byzantine Empire.
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01 Jan 1701 Great Britain and Ireland union is in effect, creating United Kingdom
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01 Jan 1707 Jacob V succeeds his father Pedro II as King of Portugal
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01 Jan 1707 John V is crowned King of Portugal.
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01 Jan 1739 J B C Bouvet de Lozier discovers Bouvet Island, near Antarctica
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01 Jan 1739 Bouvet Island is discovered by French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier.
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01 Jan 1770 Date of action in the opera "Madeleine"
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01 Jan 1772 The first traveler's cheques, which can be used in 90 European cities, go on sale in London, England.
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01 Jan 1773 The hymn that became known as "Amazing Grace", then titled "1 Chronicles 17:16–17" is first used to accompany a sermon led by John Newton in the town of Olney, England.
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01 Jan 1776 Gen George Washington hoists Continental Union Flag
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01 Jan 1776 American Revolutionary War: Norfolk, Virginia is burned by combined Royal Navy and Continental Army action.
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01 Jan 1781 American Revolutionary War: One thousand five hundred soldiers of the 6th Pennsylvania Regiment under General Anthony Wayne's command rebel against the Continental Army's winter camp in Morristown, New Jersey in the Pennsylvania Line Mutiny of 1781.
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01 Jan 1785 "Daily Universal Register" (Times of London) publishes 1st issue
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01 Jan 1788 Quakers in Pennsylvania emancipate their slaves
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01 Jan 1788 First edition of The Times of London, previously The Daily Universal Register, is published.
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01 Jan 1797 Albany replaces NYC as capital of New York
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01 Jan 1798 Russia appoints 1st Jewish censor to censor Hebrew books
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01 Jan 1800 Dutch East Indies Company dissolves
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01 Jan 1800 The Dutch East India Company is dissolved.
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01 Jan 1801 Ireland and Great Britain (England and Scotland) form United Kingdom
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01 Jan 1801 The dwarf planet Ceres is discovered by Giuseppe Piazzi.
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01 Jan 1801 The legislative union of Kingdom of Great Britain and Kingdom of Ireland is completed to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
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01 Jan 1803 Emperor Gia Long orders all bronze wares of the Tây Sơn dynasty to be collected and melted into nine cannons for the Royal Citadel in Huế, Vietnam.
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01 Jan 1804 Haiti gains independence from France (National Day)
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01 Jan 1804 French rule ends in Haiti. Haiti becomes the first black republic and second independent country in North America after the United States
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01 Jan 1806 The French Republican Calendar is abolished.
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01 Jan 1807 Curacao is taken by English (until March, 1816)
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01 Jan 1808 African Benevolent Society (education) forms
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01 Jan 1808 Congress prohibits importation of slaves
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01 Jan 1808 Sierra Leone becomes a British colony
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01 Jan 1808 The importation of slaves into the United States is banned.
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01 Jan 1810 Major-General Lachlan Macquarie officially becomes Governor of New South Wales
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01 Jan 1812 The Bishop of Durham, Shute Barrington, orders troops from Durham Castle to break up a miners' strike in Chester-le-Street, Co. Durham
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01 Jan 1818 Official reopening of the White House
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01 Jan 1822 The Greek Constitution of 1822 is adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus.
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01 Jan 1826 Baron Van der Capellen resigns as Governor of Dutch-Indies
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01 Jan 1827 Dutch Trade Company NHM gets opium monopoly on Java
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01 Jan 1831 William Lloyd Garrison publishes 1st issue of abolitionist journal
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01 Jan 1833 British government demands Falkland Islands
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01 Jan 1833 Curacao census: 2,602 whites, 6,531 free people and 5,894 slaves
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01 Jan 1833 The United Kingdom claims sovereignty over the Falkland Islands.
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01 Jan 1834 German Tolunie goes into effect
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01 Jan 1838 1st official horse race in South Australia-Adelaide
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01 Jan 1840 1st recorded bowling match in US, Knickerbocker Alleys, New York City
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01 Jan 1842 1st illustrated weekly magazine in US publishes 1st issue, New York City
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01 Jan 1845 The Cobble Hill Tunnel in Brooklyn, New York City is completed.
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01 Jan 1847 Michigan is 1st state to abolish capital punishment
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01 Jan 1847 The world's first "Mercy" Hospital is founded in Pittsburgh by the Sisters of Mercy, the name will go on to grace over 30 major hospitals throughout the world.
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01 Jan 1848 Britain takes Mosquito Coast from Nicaragua
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01 Jan 1851 City of Glasgow steamer inaugurates Philadelphia-Liverpool line
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01 Jan 1852 1st US public bath opens in New York City
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01 Jan 1852 Netherlands begins issuing postage stamps
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01 Jan 1853 1st practical fire engine (horse-drawn) in US enters service
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01 Jan 1854 Lincoln University, a black college, chartered (Oxford, Penn)
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01 Jan 1858 Canada begins using decimal currency system
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01 Jan 1860 Slavery ends of in the Netherlands Indies
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01 Jan 1860 First Polish stamp is issued.
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01 Jan 1861 President Lincoln declares slavery in Confederate states unlawful
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01 Jan 1861 Porfirio Díaz conquers Mexico City, Mexico.
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01 Jan 1862 Battle of Ft McRee, Florida Battle of Port Royal, SC (Port Royal Ferry)
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01 Jan 1863 1st homestead under the Homestead Act claimed, near Beatrice, Nebr
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01 Jan 1863 Battle of Galveston, Texas-Confederates recapture the city
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01 Jan 1863 Emancipation Proclamation (ending slavery) issued by Lincoln
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01 Jan 1863 Franz Schuberts "Missa Solemnis, " premieres in Leipzig
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01 Jan 1863 The first claim under the Homestead Act is made by Daniel Freeman for a farm in Nebraska.
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01 Jan 1863 American Civil War: The Emancipation Proclamation takes effect in Confederate territory.
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01 Jan 1870 Adolf Loos, architect, co-founder of modern architecture, baptized in St. Thomas church, Brno, Moravia
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01 Jan 1871 Belgium disbands salt tax
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01 Jan 1873 Origin of Japanese Era
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01 Jan 1873 Japan begins using the Gregorian calendar.
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01 Jan 1874 New York City annexes the Bronx
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01 Jan 1877 Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom is proclaimed Empress of India.
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01 Jan 1880 Building of Panama Canal, begins
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01 Jan 1880 Ferdinand de Lesseps begins French construction of the Panama Canal.
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01 Jan 1881 Dr John H Watson is introduced to Sherlock Holmes
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01 Jan 1885 Twenty-five nations adopt Sandford Fleming's proposal for standard time (and also, time zones)
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01 Jan 1886 1st Tournament of Roses (Pasadena, California)
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01 Jan 1890 The Rose Parade in Pasadena, California, is first held.
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01 Jan 1890 Eritrea is consolidated into a colony by the Italian government.
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01 Jan 1891 French troops occupy Nioro, West-Sudan, 3000 killed
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01 Jan 1891 King Pakketvaart sails to the Netherlands Indies
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01 Jan 1892 Ellis Island becomes reception center for new immigrants
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01 Jan 1892 Ellis Island opens to begin processing immigrants into the United States.
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01 Jan 1893 1st US college extension courses for credit, University of Chicago
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01 Jan 1893 Japan adopts the Gregorian calendar
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01 Jan 1894 Denmark adopts Mid-European time
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01 Jan 1894 Manchester Ship Canal in England opens to traffic
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01 Jan 1894 The Manchester Ship Canal, is officially opened to traffic.
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01 Jan 1897 1st football game between black colleges - Atlanta University 10, Tuskegee 0
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01 Jan 1897 Brooklyn merges with New York to form present City of New York
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01 Jan 1898 Lightship replaces whistling buoy at mouth of SF Bay
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01 Jan 1898 New York, New York annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York. The four initial boroughs, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and The Bronx, are joined on January 25 by Staten Island to create the modern city of five boroughs.
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01 Jan 1899 Cuba liberated from Spain by US (National Day) (US occupies till 1902)
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01 Jan 1899 Spanish rule ends in Cuba.
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01 Jan 1900 British protectorates of Northern and Southern Nigeria established
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01 Jan 1900 Compulsory education in the Netherlands goes into effect
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01 Jan 1901 Australia declares independence from federation of the UK colonies
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01 Jan 1901 The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia; Edmund Barton is appointed the first Prime Minister.
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01 Jan 1901 Nigeria becomes a British protectorate.
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01 Jan 1902 1st Rose Bowl game (Pasadena, California) (University of Michigan - 49, Sanford - 0)
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01 Jan 1902 Nathan Stubblefield makes 1st public demonstration of radio, Penn
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01 Jan 1902 The first American college football bowl game, the Rose Bowl between Michigan and Stanford, is held in Pasadena, California.
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01 Jan 1904 Netherlands Indies colony begins opium production
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01 Jan 1905 9 hour work day for diamond miners
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01 Jan 1906 British India officially adopts Indian Standard Time.
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01 Jan 1907 President Theodore Roosevelt shakes a record 8,513 hands in 1 day
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01 Jan 1908 1st time, ball signifying new year dropped at Times Square
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01 Jan 1908 Jack Hobbs makes his Test debut at the MCG (83 & 28)
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01 Jan 1908 For the first time, a ball is dropped in New York City's Times Square to signify the start of the New Year at midnight.
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01 Jan 1909 Robert Fowler runs then world record marathon (2:52:45.4)
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01 Jan 1909 Drilling begins on the Lakeview Gusher.
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01 Jan 1910 Simpson-Hayward (England) takes 6-43 on debut with underarm lobs
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01 Jan 1910 Captain David Beatty is promoted to Rear admiral, and becomes the youngest admiral in the Royal Navy (except for Royal family members), since Horatio Nelson.
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01 Jan 1911 South Australia transfers Northern Territory to federal government
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01 Jan 1911 Northern Territory is separated from South Australia and transferred to Commonwealth control.
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01 Jan 1912 Sun Yat-sen forms Chinese Republic
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01 Jan 1912 The Republic of China is established.
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01 Jan 1913 Post office begins parcel post deliveries
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01 Jan 1913 The British Board of Censors is established.
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01 Jan 1914 1st scheduled airline flight, St. Petersburg-Tampa (Tony Jannus pilot)
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01 Jan 1914 Northern and Southern Nigeria united in British colony of Nigeria
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01 Jan 1915 DW Griffith shows "Clansman" at a sneak preview
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01 Jan 1915 Jews of Laibach Austria expelled
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01 Jan 1916 1st football game in Rose Bowl (Washington State-Brown)
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01 Jan 1916 1st issue of "Journal of Negro History" published
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01 Jan 1916 German troops abandon Yaoundé and their Kamerun colony to British forces and begin the long march to Spanish Guinea.
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01 Jan 1918 Last day of the Julian calendar in Finland
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01 Jan 1919 Belorussian SSR established
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01 Jan 1920 The Belorussian Communist Organisation is founded as a separate party.
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01 Jan 1922 Vancouver, BC starts driving on the right side of road
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01 Jan 1923 Union of Socialist Soviet Republics established
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01 Jan 1923 Britain's Railways are grouped into the Big Four: LNER, GWR, SR, and LMS.
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01 Jan 1926 Flood in Rhine strikes Cologne
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01 Jan 1927 Communist uprising in West Java
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01 Jan 1927 Dodgers announce release of future Hall of Fame Zack Wheat
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01 Jan 1927 Turkey adopts the Gregorian calendar: December 18, 1926 (Julian), is immediately followed by January 1, 1927 (Gregorian).
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01 Jan 1927 The Cristero War begins in Mexico.
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01 Jan 1928 1st US air-conditioned office building opens, San Antonio
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01 Jan 1928 Algemeene Vereeniging Radio Omroep (AVRO) begins broadcasting (Neth)
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01 Jan 1928 Boris Bazhanov defects through Iran. He is the only assistant of Joseph Stalin's secretariat to have defected from the Eastern Bloc.
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01 Jan 1929 Roy Riegels runs 60 yards the wrong way with Rose Bowl fumble recovery
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01 Jan 1929 The former municipalities of Point Grey, British Columbia and South Vancouver, British Columbia are amalgamated into Vancouver.
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01 Jan 1930 Earl Claus von Stauffenberg promoted to 2nd lieutenant
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01 Jan 1930 Jurgens and Van den Berg merge with Lever Brothers to form Unilever
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01 Jan 1932 Jacob Cocey Sr chosen as Mayor of Massillon Ohio
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01 Jan 1932 The United States Post Office Department issues a set of 12 stamps commemorating the 200th anniversary of George Washington's birth.
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01 Jan 1934 Alcatraz officially becomes a federal prison
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01 Jan 1934 Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (US bank guarantor) effective
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01 Jan 1934 International Telecommunication Union established
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01 Jan 1934 Nazi Germany passes the "Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring".
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01 Jan 1934 Alcatraz Island becomes a United States federal prison.
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01 Jan 1935 1st Sugar Bowl and 1st Orange Bowl
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01 Jan 1935 Associated Press inaugurates Wirephoto
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01 Jan 1935 Eastern Airlines hires Eddie Rickenbacker as GM
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01 Jan 1936 1st newspaper to microfilm its current issues, New York Herald Tribune
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01 Jan 1937 Anastasio Somoza becomes President of Nicaragua
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01 Jan 1937 Count Claus von Stauffenberg promoted to captain
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01 Jan 1937 US Army Air Corps physiological research laboratory completed, Ohio
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01 Jan 1937 Safety glass in vehicle windscreens becomes mandatory in the United Kingdom.
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01 Jan 1939 Sydney, Australia, swelters in 45 ˚C (113 ˚F) heat, a record for the city.
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01 Jan 1941 Netherlands begins taxing wages
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01 Jan 1941 Russian general Zhukov appointed chief of general staff
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01 Jan 1942 Rose Bowl played in NC due to Japanese threat-Oregon 20, Duke 16
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01 Jan 1942 US and 25 other countries sign a united declaration against the Axis
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01 Jan 1942 The Declaration by United Nations is signed by twenty-six nations.
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01 Jan 1943 Count Claus von Stauffenberg promoted to Lieutenant Colonel
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01 Jan 1943 Negro League star Josh Gibson suffers a nervous breakdown
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01 Jan 1944 1st feature-length foreign movie, African Journey, shown on TV, New York City
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01 Jan 1944 Army defeats Navy 10-7 in football "Arab Bowl, " Oran, North Africa
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01 Jan 1944 Gen Clark replaces General Patton as commander of 7th Army
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01 Jan 1945 France joins the UN
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01 Jan 1945 German air raid on allied airports at Eindhoven / Saint-Trond / Brussels
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01 Jan 1945 World War II: The German Luftwaffe launches Operation Bodenplatte, a massive, but failed attempt to knock out Allied air power in northern Europe in a single blow.
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01 Jan 1945 World War II: In retaliation for the Malmedy massacre, U.S. troops massacre 30 SS prisoners at Chenogne.
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01 Jan 1946 Emperor Hirohito of Japan announces he is not a god
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01 Jan 1946 ENIAC, US 1st computer finished by Mauchly / Eckert
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01 Jan 1946 National Assembly proclaims Hungary a Republic
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01 Jan 1947 Benelux agress to work related issues
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01 Jan 1947 Britain nationalizes its coal industry
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01 Jan 1947 WTTG TV channel 5 in Washington, DC (MET) begins broadcasting
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01 Jan 1947 The Canadian Citizenship Act 1946 comes into effect, converting British subjects into Canadian citizens. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes the first Canadian citizen.
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01 Jan 1947 The American and British occupation zones in Germany, after World War II, merge to form the Bizone, which later (with the French zone) became part of West Germany.
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01 Jan 1948 1st color newsreel filmed (Pasadena, California)
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01 Jan 1948 Bradman scores 132 in the 1st innings of the 3rd Test vs. India
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01 Jan 1948 Britain nationalizes its railways
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01 Jan 1948 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade effective
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01 Jan 1948 Italy adopts constitution
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01 Jan 1948 Orissa province accedes to India
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01 Jan 1948 The Constitution of Italy comes into force.
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01 Jan 1948 The British railway network is nationalized to form British Railways.
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01 Jan 1949 KPRC TV channel 2 in Houston, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
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01 Jan 1949 KTTV TV channel 11 in Los Angeles, CA (MET) begins broadcasting
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01 Jan 1949 Tokelau (Union) Islands declared part of New Zealand
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01 Jan 1949 Tokelau becomes part of New Zealand.
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01 Jan 1949 United Nations cease-fire takes effect in Kashmir from one minute before midnight. War between India and Pakistan stops accordingly.
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01 Jan 1950 Ho Chi Minh begins offensive against French troops in Indo China
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01 Jan 1950 Standard practice uses this day as the origin of the age scale Before Present
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01 Jan 1951 Massive Chinese / North Korean assault on UN-lines
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01 Jan 1952 Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 5th string quartet
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01 Jan 1953 Ernest Blochs "Suite Hebraique, " premieres
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01 Jan 1953 WBRE TV channel 28 in Wilkes-Barre Scranton, PA (NBC) 1st broadcast
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01 Jan 1954 KSLA TV channel 12 in Shreveport, LA (CBS) begins broadcasting
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01 Jan 1954 Rose and Cotton Bowl are 1st sport colorcasts
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01 Jan 1954 WWTV TV channel 9 in Cadillac-Traverse City, MI (CBS) 1st broadcast
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01 Jan 1954 Yugoslav parliament Chairman / VP Milovan Djilas criticize communism
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01 Jan 1954 NBC makes the first coast-to-coast NTSC color broadcast when it telecast the Tournament of Roses Parade, with public demonstrations given across the United States on prototype color receivers.
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01 Jan 1955 Bhutan issues its 1st postage stamps
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01 Jan 1955 WEAT (now WPEC) TV channel 12 in West Palm Beach, Florida (CBS) begins
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01 Jan 1956 Elvis Presley records Heartbreak Hotel for RCA in Nashville
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01 Jan 1956 KHAS TV channel 5 in Hastings, NB (NBC) begins broadcasting
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01 Jan 1956 KOSA TV channel 7 in Odessa, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
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01 Jan 1956 Sudan (Anglo-Egyptian Sudan) declares independence from Egypt and the UK
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01 Jan 1956 WREC (now WREG) TV channel 3 in Memphis, TN (CBS) begins broadcasting
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01 Jan 1956 A new year event causes panic and stampedes at Yahiko Shrine, Yahiko, Niigata, Japan, killing at least 124 people.
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01 Jan 1956 Sudan achieves independence from Egypt and the United Kingdom.
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01 Jan 1957 France returns Saar to becomes the 10th state of German Federal Rep
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01 Jan 1957 International Geophysical Year begins; ends 6 / 30 / 1958 (18-mo year)
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01 Jan 1957 An Irish Republican Army (IRA) unit attacks Brookeborough RUC barracks during Operation Harvest; two IRA volunteers killed.
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01 Jan 1957 George Town, Penang becomes a city by a royal charter granted by Elizabeth II.
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01 Jan 1958 BOAC Britannia flies London to New York in a record 7h57m
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01 Jan 1958 European Economic Community (Common Market) starts operation
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01 Jan 1958 Sammy Davis Jr marries Loray White
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01 Jan 1958 Treaties establish European Economic Community (Common Market)
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01 Jan 1958 WMBD TV channel 31 in Peoria, IL (CBS) begins broadcasting
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01 Jan 1958 The European Economic Community is established.
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01 Jan 1959 Castro leads Cuba to victory as Fulgencio Batista flees to Dom Rep
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01 Jan 1959 Chad becomes autonomous Republic in French Community
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01 Jan 1959 Rohan Kanhai completes 256 vs. India at Calcutta
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01 Jan 1959 Fulgencio Batista, dictator of Cuba, is overthrown by Fidel Castro's forces during the Cuban Revolution.
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01 Jan 1960 Bank of France issues new franc, worth 20 cents
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01 Jan 1960 Cameroon (French Cameroon) gains independence from France
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01 Jan 1960 Johnny Cash plays 1st of many free concerts behind bars
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01 Jan 1960 Montserrat adopts constitution
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01 Jan 1960 US census at 179,245,000
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01 Jan 1961 Briggs Stadium is renamed Tigers Stadium
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01 Jan 1961 Houston Oilers beat LA Chargers 24-16 in AFL championship game
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01 Jan 1961 Largest check issued, National Bank of Chicago to Sears ($960.242 billion)
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01 Jan 1961 Russia introduces a new ruble worth $1.11
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01 Jan 1962 Rwanda granted internal self-government by Belgium
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01 Jan 1962 Western Samoa gains independence from New Zealand Susuga Malietoa Tanumafili II becomes co-chief of Western Samoa
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01 Jan 1962 United States Navy SEALs established.
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01 Jan 1962 Western Samoa achieves independence from New Zealand; its name is changed to the Independent State of Western Samoa.
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01 Jan 1963 G Woods succeeds Eugene Black as President of the World Bank
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01 Jan 1963 WTEV (now WLNE) TV channel 6 in Providence RI begins broadcasting
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01 Jan 1964 Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland dissolved
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01 Jan 1964 KNMT TV channel 12 in Walker, MN (CBS) begins broadcasting
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01 Jan 1964 KTVS TV channel 3 in Sterling, CO (CBS) begins broadcasting
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01 Jan 1964 The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is divided into the independent republics of Zambia and Malawi, and the British-controlled Rhodesia.
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01 Jan 1965 International Cooperation Year begins
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01 Jan 1965 Palestinian al-Fatah organization forms
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01 Jan 1965 The People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan is founded in Kabul, Afghanistan.
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01 Jan 1966 12 day transit worker strike shuts down NYC subway
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01 Jan 1966 All US cigarette packs have to carry "Caution Cigarette smoking may be hazardous to your health"
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01 Jan 1966 After a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa assumes power as president of the Central African Republic.
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01 Jan 1966 A twelve-day New York City transit strike begins.
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01 Jan 1967 CRU becomes the CAFA and turns over the Grey Cup trophy to the CFL
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01 Jan 1967 FCC requires AM-FM sister stations to be at least 50% different
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01 Jan 1967 Green Bay Packers beat Dallas Cowboys 34-27 in NFL championship game
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01 Jan 1967 Kansas City Chiefs beat Buffalo Bills 31-7 in AFL championship game
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01 Jan 1967 St. Helena adopts constitution
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01 Jan 1967 Tonga revises constitution
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01 Jan 1968 ABC radio splits into 4 networks (Info, Entertainment, Contemp & FM)
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01 Jan 1968 Netherlands gets color TV
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01 Jan 1968 WDCO TV channel 15 in Cochran, Georgia (PBS) begins broadcasting
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01 Jan 1970 "The Epoch" (Time 0 for UNIX systems, Midnight GMT)
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01 Jan 1970 Afro-American Historical Calendar Series Established
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01 Jan 1970 Netherlands Christian Workers Union (NCW) forms
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01 Jan 1970 Revised calendar for Western (RC) Church goes into effect
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01 Jan 1970 Unix time begins at 00:00:00 UTC/GMT.
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01 Jan 1971 Cigarette advertisements banned on TV
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01 Jan 1971 Hellenic Railways Organisation, the Greek national railway company, is founded.
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01 Jan 1971 Cigarette advertisements are banned on American television.
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01 Jan 1972 "Company" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 690 performances
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01 Jan 1972 "On the Town" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 65 performances
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01 Jan 1972 "Promises Promises" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 1281 performances
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01 Jan 1972 KDSD TV channel 16 in Aberdeen, SD (PBS) begins broadcasting
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01 Jan 1973 Britain, Ireland and Denmark become 7th-9th members of Common Market
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01 Jan 1973 West African Economic Community formed (Benin, Ivory Coast, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Upper Volta)
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01 Jan 1973 Denmark, the United Kingdom, and Ireland are admitted into the European Economic Community.
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01 Jan 1974 Lee MacPhail takes over as AL President, succeeding Joe Cronin
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01 Jan 1974 NBC radio begins on the hour news 24 hours a day (following CBS lead)
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01 Jan 1974 World Population Year begins
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01 Jan 1975 Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell and Mardian convicted of Watergate crime
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01 Jan 1976 "Musical Jubilee" closes at St. James Theater NYC after 92 performances
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01 Jan 1976 Liberty Bell moves to new home behind Independence Hall
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01 Jan 1976 NBC replaces the peacock logo
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01 Jan 1976 Venezuela nationalizes oil fields
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01 Jan 1977 1st woman formally ordained an Episcopal priest (Jacqueline Means)
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01 Jan 1977 Belgium reapportions 2,359 communities into 596
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01 Jan 1977 Czech intellects begin Human Rights Group Chapter 77
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01 Jan 1977 Tony Dorsett runs for record 202 yards in the Sugar Bowl
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01 Jan 1977 Charter 77 published its first document.
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01 Jan 1978 Air India B747 explodes near Bombay killing 213
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01 Jan 1978 President Ford signs 1st major revision of copyright law since 1909
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01 Jan 1978 The Constitution of the Northern Mariana Islands becomes effective.
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01 Jan 1978 Air India Flight 855 Boeing 747 crashes into the sea, due to instrument failure and pilot disorientation, off the coast of Bombay, India, killing 213.
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01 Jan 1979 Jura, 26th canton of Switzerland, established
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01 Jan 1979 US and China (Peoples Republic) begin diplomatic relations
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01 Jan 1979 Formal diplomatic relations are established between China and the United States.
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01 Jan 1980 54th Australian Womens Tennis: Barbara Jordan beats S Walsh (63 63)
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01 Jan 1980 Alabama beats Arkansas in Sugar Bowl for college football championship
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01 Jan 1980 Chrysler UK renamed Talbot
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01 Jan 1980 International Decade of Water & Sanitation begins
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01 Jan 1980 Mob storms Russian embassy in Teheran
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01 Jan 1980 Premier Adbou Diouf becomes President of Senegal
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01 Jan 1980 Sweden changes order of succession to throne
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01 Jan 1980 Victoria is crowned princess of Sweden.
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01 Jan 1981 Georgia beats Notre Dame in Sugar Bowl for college football title
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01 Jan 1981 Greece is 10th country to join European Economic Community
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01 Jan 1981 International Year for the Disabled begins
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01 Jan 1981 Palau (Trust Territory of Pacific Is) becomes self-governing
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01 Jan 1981 Roger Smith becomes CEO of General Motors
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01 Jan 1981 Palau achieves self-government though it is not independent from the United States.
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01 Jan 1981 Greece is admitted into the European Community.
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01 Jan 1982 30 Something stars Ken Olin and Patricia Wettig meet, later they marry
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01 Jan 1982 Clemson wins the Orange Bowl for college football championship
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01 Jan 1982 MTA launches a 5 year plan to upgrade the NYC subway system
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01 Jan 1982 Pope John Paul II prays for an end to martial law in Poland
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01 Jan 1982 TA launches 5 year capital program to overhaul NYC subway system
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01 Jan 1982 ITV franchise ATV gets replaced by Central
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01 Jan 1982 Peruvian Javier Pérez de Cuéllar becomes the first Latin American to hold the title of Secretary-General of the United Nations.
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01 Jan 1983 Penn State beats Georgia in Sugar Bowl for college football title
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01 Jan 1983 PGA inaugurates all-exempt tour
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01 Jan 1983 World Communications Year begins
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01 Jan 1983 The ARPANET officially changes to using the Internet Protocol, creating the Internet.
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01 Jan 1984 New York City transit fare rises from 75 cents to 90 cents
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01 Jan 1984 Brunei becomes independent of the United Kingdom.
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01 Jan 1984 The original American Telephone & Telegraph Company is divested of its 22 Bell System companies as a result of the settlement of the 1974 United States Department of Justice antitrust suit against AT&T.
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01 Jan 1985 International Youth Year begins
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01 Jan 1985 VH-1 made its broadcasting debut
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01 Jan 1985 The first British mobile phone call is made by Michael Harrison to his father Sir Ernest Harrison, chairman of Vodafone.
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01 Jan 1986 Aruba becomes independent from neighbor island Curacao
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01 Jan 1986 Barbra Striesand and Jon Peters relationship breaks up
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01 Jan 1986 Spain and Portugal are 11th and 12th to join European Economic Community
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01 Jan 1986 Spain and Portugal are admitted into the European Community.
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01 Jan 1986 Aruba becomes independent of Curaçao, though it remains in free association with the Netherlands.
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01 Jan 1987 60 bodies recovered in Dupont Plaza Hotel fire in Puerto Rico
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01 Jan 1987 International Year of Shelter for Homeless begins
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01 Jan 1987 A value-added tax is introduced in Greece for the first time.
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01 Jan 1988 Czech born tennis star Hana Mandikova becomes an Australian Citizen
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01 Jan 1988 Miami beats Oklahoma for college football championship
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01 Jan 1988 The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America comes into existence, creating the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States.
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01 Jan 1989 Actress Kelly McGillis gets married
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01 Jan 1989 Year of the Young Reader begins
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01 Jan 1989 The Montreal Protocol comes into force, stopping the use of chemicals contributing to ozone depletion.
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01 Jan 1990 David Dinkins sworn in as 1st black Mayor of New York City
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01 Jan 1990 FCC implements "SYNDEX" giving independent stations more rights over cable TV outlets for exclusive syndicated programs
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01 Jan 1990 Mitsuko Nishiwaki beats Nakano to become Japan Women wrestling champ
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01 Jan 1990 New York City MTA stops token redemption at subway stations
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01 Jan 1990 Sports News Network begins operation on cable TV
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01 Jan 1990 David Dinkins is sworn in as New York City's first black mayor.
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01 Jan 1991 5% sales tax on consumer goods and services goes into effect in the USSR
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01 Jan 1991 Iraq rejects peace proposal from Egyptian President Hosi Mubarak
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01 Jan 1991 Les Miserables opens at Festival Theatre, Adelaide
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01 Jan 1992 Bush is 1st US President to address Australian Parliament
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01 Jan 1992 Curacao becomes 1st in Dutch Antilles to have compulsory education
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01 Jan 1992 Europe breaks down trade barriers
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01 Jan 1992 International Space Year begins
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01 Jan 1992 New York City transit fare increases from $1.15 to $1.25
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01 Jan 1992 The Russian Federation is formally established.
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01 Jan 1993 12 member European Economic Community set up vast free trade zone
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01 Jan 1993 Blockbuster Bowl 3: Stanford beats Penn State, 24-3
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01 Jan 1993 Czechoslovakia separates into Czech Republic (Bohemia) and Slovakia
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01 Jan 1993 Harry Connick Jr arrested at a New York airport for gun possession
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01 Jan 1993 A single market within the European Community is introduced.
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01 Jan 1993 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia: Czechoslovakia is divided into Slovakia and the Czech Republic.
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01 Jan 1994 "Flying Karamzov Brothers" closes at Helen Hayes NYC after 50 performances
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01 Jan 1994 "Grand Night after Singing" closes at Criterion NYC after 52 performances
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01 Jan 1994 Carquest Bowl 4: Boston College beats Virginia, 32-13
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01 Jan 1994 International Year of Family
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01 Jan 1994 Microsoft CEO Bill Gates (38) marries Melinda French (29)
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01 Jan 1994 The North American Free Trade Agreement comes into effect.
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01 Jan 1994 The Zapatista Army of National Liberation initiates twelve days of armed conflict in the Mexican state of Chiapas.
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01 Jan 1995 "Glass Menagerie" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 57 performances
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01 Jan 1995 "Shadow Box" closes at Circle in the Square Theater NYC after 49 performances
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01 Jan 1995 Austria, Finland and Sweden act to join European Union
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01 Jan 1995 Fernando Henrique Cardoso installed as President of Brazil
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01 Jan 1995 For"Tuna Christmas" closes at Booth Theater NYC 20 performances
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01 Jan 1995 International Year of Tolerance
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01 Jan 1995 Last "Far Side" by cartoonist Gary Larson (started 1980)
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01 Jan 1995 Raman Lamba and Ravi Sehgal score 464 for 1st wicket for Delhi
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01 Jan 1995 The Draupner wave in the North Sea in Norway is detected, confirming the existence of freak waves.
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01 Jan 1995 The Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe becomes the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.
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01 Jan 1995 Sweden, Austria, and Finland are admitted into the European Union.
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01 Jan 1995 The World Trade Organization goes into effect.
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01 Jan 1996 After 27 years, Betty Rubble debuts as a Flintstone vitamin
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01 Jan 1996 Curacao gains limited form of self rule (Status Aparte)
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01 Jan 1996 Curaçao gains limited self-government, though it remains within free association with the Netherlands.
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01 Jan 1997 Ghanaian diplomat Kofi Annan is appointed Secretary-General of the United Nations.
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01 Jan 1997 Zaire officially joins the World Trade Organization.
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01 Jan 1998 All California bars, clubs and card rooms must be smoke-free
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01 Jan 1998 Mongolia switches from a 46 hour to 40 hour work week
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01 Jan 1998 US Census Bureau estimates population at 268,921,733
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01 Jan 1998 The European Central Bank is established.
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01 Jan 1998 Russia begins to circulate new rubles to stem inflation and promote confidence.
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01 Jan 1999 The Euro currency is introduced in 11 countries - members of the European Union (with the exception of the United Kingdom, Denmark, Greece and Sweden).
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01 Jan 2002 The Open Skies mutual surveillance treaty, initially signed in 1992, officially comes into force.
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01 Jan 2002 Taiwan officially joins the World Trade Organization, as Chinese Taipei.
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01 Jan 2002 Euro banknotes and coins become legal tender in twelve of the European Union's member states.
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01 Jan 2004 In a vote of confidence, General Pervez Musharraf wins 658 out of 1,170 votes in the Electoral College of Pakistan, and according to Article 41(8) of the Constitution of Pakistan, is "deemed to be elected" to the office of President until October 2007.
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01 Jan 2007 Adam Air Flight 574 disappears over Indonesia with 102 people on board.
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01 Jan 2007 Bulgaria and Romania officially join the European Union. Slovenia joins Eurozone.
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01 Jan 2008 Cyprus and Malta join the Eurozone.
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01 Jan 2009 Slovakia joins the Eurozone.
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01 Jan 2009 Sixty-six people die in a nightclub fire in Bangkok, Thailand.
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01 Jan 2010 A suicide car bomber detonates at a volleyball tournament in Lakki Marwat, Pakistan, killing 105 and injuring 100 more.
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01 Jan 2011 Estonia becomes the 17th member of the Eurozone.
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01 Jan 2011 The Kallikratis plan becomes the new administrative system of Greece.
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01 Jan 2011 A bomb explodes as Coptic Christians in Alexandria, Egypt, leave a new year service, killing 23 people.
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01 Jan 2012 A Moldovan civilian is fatally wounded by a Russian peacekeeper in the Transnistrian security zone, leading to demonstrations against Russia.
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01 Jan 2013 At least 60 people are killed and 200 injured in a stampede after celebrations at Félix Houphouët-Boigny Stadium in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
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01 Jan 2015 The Eurasian Economic Union comes into effect, creating a political and economic union between Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.
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