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Events

• 1066 – Harold Godwinson is crowned King of England.
• 1205 – Philip of Swabia becomes King of the Romans.
• 1449 – Byzantine Emperor Constantine XI is crowned at Mistra.
• 1494 – The first Mass in the New World is celebrated at La Isabela, Hispaniola.
• 1540 – King Henry VIII of England marries Anne of Cleves.
• 1579 – The Union of Atrecht is signed.
• 1649 – English Civil War: The Rump Parliament votes to put Charles I on trial.
• 1661 – English Restoration: The Fifth Monarchists unsuccessfully attempt to seize control of London.
• 1690 – Joseph, son of Emperor Leopold I, becomes King of the Romans.
• 1721 – The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble publishes its findings.
• 1781 – In the Battle of Jersey, the British defeat the last attempt by France to invade Jersey.
• 1838 – Samuel Morse first successfully tests the electrical telegraph.
• 1853 – President-elect of the United States Franklin Pierce and his family are involved in a train wreck near Andover, Massachusetts.
• 1870 – The inauguration of the Musikverein (Vienna).
• 1893 – The Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress. The charter is signed by President Benjamin Harrison.
• 1907 – Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome.
• 1912 – New Mexico is admitted as the 47th U.S. state.
• 1929 – King Alexander of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes suspends his country's constitution (the so-called January 6th Dictatorship, Šestojanuarska diktatura).
• 1929 – Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta to begin a her work amongst India's poorest and diseased people.
• 1930 – The first diesel-engined automobile trip is completed (from Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York City).
• 1931 – Thomas Edison submits his last patent application.
• 1936 – The Supreme Court of the United States rules that the 1933 Agricultural Adjustment Act is unconstitutional in the case United States v. Butler et al.
• 1941 – President Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms Speech in the State of the Union Address.
• 1942 – Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to schedule a flight around the world.
• 1950 – The United Kingdom recognizes the People's Republic of China. The Republic of China severs diplomatic relations with the UK in response.
• 1953 – The first Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma.
• 1967 – Vietnam War: United States Marine Corps and ARVN troops launch "Operation Deckhouse Five" in the Mekong River delta.
• 1974 – In response to the 1973 energy crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States.
• 1978 – The Crown of St. Stephen (also known as the Holy Crown of Hungary) is returned to Hungary from the United States, where it was held after World War II.
• 1994 – Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed in the knee at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Detroit.
• 1995 – A chemical fire in an apartment complex in Manila, Philippines, leads to the discovery of plans for Project Bojinka, a mass-terrorist attack.
• 2004 – Costas Simitis announces his resignation as president of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement in Greece.
• 2005 – American Civil Rights Movement: Edgar Ray Killen is arrested as a suspect in the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers.
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