On This Day in January

557 entries

• 2017 — An attack on a nightclub in Istanbul, Turkey, during New Year's celebrations, kills at...
• 2017 — Portuguese politician and diplomat António Guterres was officially elected...
• 2016 — The Address Downtown Dubai burns over midnight as the New Year is rung in. The blaze...

313 entries

• 2006 — An explosion in a coal mine in Sago, West Virginia traps and kills 12 miners, leaving...
• 2004 — Stardust successfully flies past Comet Wild 2, collecting samples that are returned to Earth.
• 1999 — A brutal snowstorm smashes into the Midwestern United States, causing 14 inches...

365 entries

• 2015 — Boko Haram militants raze the entire town of Baga in north-east Nigeria, starting the...
• 2009 — The first block of the blockchain of the decentralized payment system Bitcoin, called...
• 2004 — Flash Airlines Flight 604 crashes into the Red Sea, resulting in 148 deaths, making it...

309 entries

• 2013 — A gunman kills eight people in a house-to-house rampage in Kawit, Cavite, Philippines.
• 2007 — The 110th United States Congress convenes, electing Nancy Pelosi as the first female...
• 2006 — Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel suffers a second, apparently more serious...

307 entries

• 2014 — A launch of the communication satellite GSAT-14 aboard the GSLV MK.II D5 marks the...
• 2005 — Eris, the most massive and second-largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System, is...
• 2000 — Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil politician Kumar Ponnambalam is shot dead in Colombo.

392 entries

• 2017 — 5 people are killed and 6 others injured in a mass shooting at Fort...
• 2012 — Twenty-six people are killed and 63 wounded when a suicide bomber blows himself up at...
• 2005 — American Civil Rights Movement: Edgar Ray Killen is arrested as a suspect in the 1964...

330 entries

• 2015 — Two gunmen commit mass murder at the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris, shooting...
• 2015 — A car bomb explodes outside a police college in the Yemeni capital Sana'a with at...
• 2012 — A hot air balloon crashes near Carterton, New Zealand, killing all 11 people on board.

419 entries

• 2011 — The attempted assassination of Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords and...
• 2010 — Gunmen from an offshoot the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda attack...
• 2009 — A 6.1-magnitude earthquake in northern Costa Rica kills 15 people and injures 32.

363 entries

• 2015 — The perpetrators of the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris two days earlier are both...
• 2014 — An explosion at a Mitsubishi Materials chemical plant in Yokkaichi, Japan, kills at...
• 2011 — Iran Air Flight 277 crashes near Orumiyeh in the northeast of the country, killing 77 people.

343 entries

• 2015 — A mass poisoning at a funeral in Mozambique involves beer that was deliberately...
• 2015 — A traffic accident between an oil tanker truck and passenger coach en route to...
• 2013 — More than 100 people are killed and 270 injured in several bomb blasts in Pakistan.

387 entries

• 2013 — One French soldier and 17 militants are killed in a failed attempt to free a French...
• 2003 — Illinois Governor George Ryan commutes the death sentences of 167 prisoners on...
• 1998 — Over 100 people are killed in the Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria.

342 entries

• 2016 — Ten people are killed and 15 wounded in a bombing near the Blue Mosque in Istanbul.
• 2015 — Government raids kill 143 Boko Haram fighters in Kolofata, Cameroon.
• 2012 — Violent protests occur in Bucharest, Romania, as two-day-old demonstrations continue...

340 entries

• 2012 — The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia sinks off the coast of Italy due to the...
• 2001 — An earthquake hits El Salvador, killing more than 800.
• 1998 — Alfredo Ormando sets himself on fire in St. Peter's Square, protesting against homophobia.

356 entries

• 2011 — Former president of Tunisia, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali flees his country to Saudi Arabia...
• 2010 — Yemen declares an open war against the terrorist group al-Qaeda.
• 2004 — The national flag of the Republic of Georgia, the so-called "five cross flag", is...

359 entries

• 2016 — The Kenyan Army suffers it worst defeat ever in a battle with Al-Shabaab Islamic...
• 2013 — A train carrying Egyptian Army recruits derails near Giza, Greater Cairo, killing 19...
• 2009 — Captain Sully (Chesley Sullenberger) emergency landed a US Airways Flight 1549 in the...

347 entries

• 2016 — 33 out of 126 freed hostages are injured and 23 killed in terrorist attacks in...
• 2006 — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia's new president. She becomes Africa's...
• 2003 — The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which would be its final one....

380 entries

• 2010 — Rioting begins between Muslim and Christian groups in Jos, Nigeria, results in at...
• 2007 — The Doomsday Clock is set to five minutes to midnight in response to North Korea's...
• 2002 — Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, displacing an...

357 entries

• 2009 — Gaza War: Hamas announces they will accept Israel Defense Forces offer of a ceasefire,...
• 2007 — The strongest storm in the United Kingdom in 17 years kills 14 people and Germany sees...
• 2005 — The Airbus A380, the world's largest commercial jet, is unveiled at a ceremony in...

366 entries

• 2014 — A bomb attack on an army convoy in the city of Bannu kills at least 26 soldiers and...
• 2012 — The Hong Kong-based file-sharing website Megaupload is shut down by the FBI.
• 2007 — Turkish-Armenian Journalist Hrant Dink is assassinated in front of his newspaper's...

337 entries

• 2017 — Donald Trump is inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States of America.
• 2009 — A protest movement in Iceland culminates as the 2009 Icelandic financial crisis protests start.
• 2009 — Barack Obama is inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States of America,...

346 entries

• 2017 — Over 400 cities across America and 160+ countries worldwide participate in a...
• 2005 — In Belmopan, Belize, the unrest over the government's new taxes erupts into riots.
• 2004 — NASA's MER-A (the Mars Rover Spirit) ceases communication with mission control. The...

363 entries

• 2015 — An explosion near a civilian trolley-bus in Donetsk kills at least thirteen people.
• 2007 — At least 88 people are killed when two car bombs explode in the Bab Al-Sharqi market...
• 2006 — Evo Morales is inaugurated as President of Bolivia, becoming the country's first...

339 entries

• 2003 — A very weak signal from Pioneer 10 is detected for the last time, but no usable data...
• 2002 — U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl is kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan and subsequently murdered.
• 2001 — Five people attempt to set themselves on fire in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, an act...

286 entries

• 2011 — At least 35 die and 180 are injured in a bombing at Moscow's Domodedovo Airport.
• 2009 — Cyclone Klaus makes landfall near Bordeaux, France, causing 26 deaths as well as...
• 2003 — The United States Department of Homeland Security officially begins operation.

314 entries

• 2015 — A clash in Mamasapano, Maguindanao in the Philippines killing 44 members of Special...
• 2013 — At least 50 people are killed and 120 people are injured in a prison riot in...
• 2011 — The first wave of the Egyptian revolution begins throughout the country, marked by...

310 entries

• 2015 — An aircraft crashes at Los Llanos Air Base in Albacete, Spain, killing 11 people and...
• 2009 — Rioting breaks out in Antananarivo, Madagascar, sparking a political crisis that will...
• 2001 — The 7.7 Mw Gujarat earthquake shakes Western India with a maximum Mercalli intensity...

310 entries

• 2013 — Two hundred forty-two people die in a nightclub fire in the Brazilian city of Santa...
• 2011 — Arab Spring: The Yemeni Revolution begins as over 16,000 protestors demonstrate in Sana'a.
• 2010 — The 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis ends when Porfirio Lobo Sosa becomes the new...

315 entries

• 2006 — The roof of one of the buildings at the Katowice International Fair in Poland,...
• 2002 — TAME Flight 120, a Boeing 727-100 crashes in the Andes mountains in southern Colombia,...
• 1988 — In R v Morgentaler the Supreme Court of Canada strikes down all anti-abortion laws.

231 entries

• 2017 — Quebec City mosque shooting Alexandre Bissonnette opens fire at mosque in Sainte-Foy,...
• 2013 — SCAT Airlines Flight 760 crashes near the Kazakh city of Almaty, killing 21 people.
• 2009 — The Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt rules that people who do not adhere to one...

278 entries

• 2013 — Naro-1 becomes the first carrier rocket launched by South Korea.
• 2003 — The Kingdom of Belgium officially recognizes same-sex marriages.
• 2000 — Off the coast of Ivory Coast, Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic...

315 entries

• 2009 — In Kenya, at least 113 people are killed and over 200 injured following an oil...
• 2001 — In the Netherlands, a Scottish court convicts Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and acquits...
• 2000 — Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crash: An MD-83, experiencing horizontal stabilizer...