January 11th
1972     East-Pakistan becomes independent state of Bangladesh
January 12th
1948     Mohandas Mahatma Gandhi begins his final fast
January 13th
1559     Elizabeth I crowned queen of England at Westminster Abbey
January 14th
1987    1,000 muslims burn Rushdies’ “Satanic Verses” in Bradfort England
January 15th
1971     Aswan Dam officially opens in Egypt
January 16th
1493    Columbus returns to Spain after his first trip
January 17th
1966     Martin Luther King, Jr. opens campaign in Chicago
January 18th
1964     Plans for World Trade Center announced
January 19th
1966     Indira Gandhi elected India’s 3rd prime minister
January 20th
1945     Franklin D. Roosevelt sworn-in for an unprecedented 4th term as president
January 21st
1972     Assam’s North East Frontier Agency becomes Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya and Tripura become separate states of Indian union and Mizoram, formerly part of Assam, creates an Indian union territory
January 22nd
1831    Charles Darwin takes his Bachelors of Art exam
January 23rd
1972     Entire population of Istanbul under 24 hour house arrest
January 24th
1984    Apple Computer unveils its Macintosh personal computer
January 25th
1974    Christian Barnard transplants 1st human heart without removal of old
January 26th
1971     Serial killer Charles Manson convicted of murder
January 27th
1924     Lenin placed in Mausoleum in Red Square
January 28th
2003    In his State of the Union address, President George W. Bush stated that Saddam Hussein had tried to acquire ‘significant quantities of uranium from Africa’ (a claim substantiated only by forged documents)
January 29th
1933    German president von Hindenburg appoints Hitler chancellor
January 30th
1965     State funeral of Winston Churchill
January 31st
1950     President Truman approves building of hydrogen bomb