11th January 1989

Kindergarten student caught with loaded handgun at Bronx school.

12th January 1989

Idi Amin expelled from Zaire.

13th January 1957

Wham-O Company produces the 1st Frisbee.

14th January 1954

New York Yankee Joe DiMaggio marries actress Marilyn Monroe.

15th January 1949

Mao Zedong’s Red army conquers Ten-tsin.

1st January 1994

Microsoft CEO Bill Gates (38) marries Melinda French (29).

2nd January 1960

John F. Kennedy announces run for U.S. Presidency.

3rd January 1988

Margaret Thatcher becomes longest-serving British Prime Minister of the century.

4th January 1948

Burma declares independence from UK.

5th January 1998

Vandals decapitate Copenhagen’s Little Mermaid.

6th January 1958

Gibson patents Flying V Guitar.

7th January 1936
    
Tennis champs Helen Moody and Howard Kinsley volley 2,001 times.

8th January 1993

Chicago Bull Michael Jordan scores his 20,000th career point.

16th January 1920

1st assembly of League of Nations in Paris.

17th January 1929

Popeye makes 1st appearance, in comic strip “Thimble Theater”.

18th January 1919

WW I Peace Congress opens in Versailles, France.

19th January 1903

Bicycle race “Tour de France” announced.

20th January 1841

China cedes Hong Kong to British.

21st January 1990

John McEnroe becomes 1st ever expelled from Australian Open.

22nd January 1969

Billy Preston becomes 5th Beatle.

23rd January: 2003

Final communication between Earth and Pioneer 10.

24th January: 1958

1st man-made nuclear fusion produced.

25th January 1998

Spice Girl Victoria Adams, aka Posh Spice, and soccer David Beckham gets engaged

26th January 1929

Indian National Congress proclaims goal for India’s independence.

27th January 1969

Noordiers vicar Ian Paisley sentenced to 3 years.

28th January 1956

Elvis Presley’s 1st TV appearance (Dorsey Bros Stage Show).

29th January 1886

1st successful gasoline-driven car patented, Karl Benz, Karlsruhe.

30th January 1994

Kapil Dev equals Richard Hadlee’s world record of 431 Test wickets.

31st January 1986

Mary Lund of Minnesota is the first female recipient of an artificial heart.