January 31 Events

2011 Burma opens its new parliament
2011 Egypt's people vow to continue demonstrating until President Mubarak's regime falls
2010 A 5.2 magnitude earthquake in Sichuan province, China, destroys at least 100 homes, injures 11 and kills one person
2006 Samuel Alito sworn in as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
2000 Alaska Airlines flight 261 crashes off coast of southern California, killing 88, crash caused by a bad stabilizer
1999 Super Bowl XXXIII, Pro Player Stadium, Miami, Denver Broncos beat Atlanta Falcons 34-19
1998 72nd Australian Womens Tennis: Martina Hingis beats C Martinez (63 63)
1998 STS-89 (Endeavour 12) lands
1994 Barcelona opera theater "Gran Teatro del Liceo" burns down
1994 Dow Jones hits a record 3,978.36
1993 "St. Joan" opens at Lyceum Theater New York City for 49 performances
1993 81st Australian Mens Tennis: Jim Courier beats S Edberg (62 61 26 75)
1993 Superbowl XXVII: Dallas Cowboys beat Buffalo Bills, 52-17 in Pasadena Superbowl MVP: Troy Aikman, Dallas, quarterback
1992 Metropolitan Transportation Authority raised tolls on most New York City bridges from $2.50 to $3.00
1992 Sportscaster Howard Cosell retires
1991 Nugget's Michael Adams becomes shortest NBA player to get a triple-double
1991 Robert Gibson flies record 27,040 feet altitude
1990 1st McDonalds in Russia opens in Moscow, world's biggest McDonalds
1990 1st ever all-sports daily "National" begins publishing
1990 Jushin "Thunder" Liger beats Naoki Sano to become New Japan IWGP champ
1988 Barge sinks near Anacortes, WA, spills 70,000 gallons of oil
1988 Superbowl XXII: Washington Redskins beat Denver Broncos, 42-10 in San Diego Superbowl MVP: Doug Williams, Washington, quarterback
1987 44th Golden Globes: Platoon, Marlee Matlin win
1987 United Steel workers union ratified a concessionary with USX Corp
1986 Mary Lund of Minn, is 1st female recipient of an artificial heart
1985 "Harrigan 'n Hart" opens at Longacre Theater New York City for 5 performances
1985 South Africa President PW Botha offers to free Mandela if he denounces violence
1984 36th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 7-6 at New Jersey
1984 Edwin Newman retires from NBC News after 35 years with the network
1984 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1982 10 Arabian oryx, extinct except in zoos, released in Oman
1982 12th AFC-NFC pro bowl, AFC wins 16-13
1982 32nd NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 120-118 at New Jersey
1982 Gustafson skates world record 10 km (14:26.59)
1982 Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Whirlpool Golf Championship of Deer Creek
1982 NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 16-13
1982 U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Hamilton
1981 "The Tide Is High" by Blondie hits #1
1981 38th Golden Globes: Ordinary People, Coal Miner's Daughter
1981 Gaetan Boucher skates world record 1000m (1:13.39)
1980 Police storm occupied Spanish embassy in Guatemala City, killing 41
1978 "Elvis: The Legend Lives!" opens at Palace Theater New York City for 101 performances
1978 Israel turns 3 military outposts in West Bank into civilian settlements
1977 Frenchman Francois Claustre freed, after 33 months as hostage in Chad
1977 Joe Sewell, Amos Rusie, and Al Lopez elected to baseball Hall of Fame

January 30 Events

2011 Over half a million people participate in the world's largest wildlife survey after extreme cold drives exotic birds into Britain's back gardens
2011 Tropical cyclone Anthony lands in Bowen in Queensland, Australia, forcing a disaster zone declared in areas still recovering from the 2010-2011 Queensland floods
2007 Microsoft releases Windows Vista
2005 Parliamentary elections in Iraq, the first since 1958
2000 NFL Pro Bowl
2000 Super Bowl XXXIV, Georgia Dome, Atlanta, St. Louis Rams beat Tennessee Titans 23-16
2000 Kenya Airways flight 431 crashes near Cote d'Ivoire, killing 170, likely cause was a mechnical problem
1998 All-Star Florida Marlin catcher Darren Daulton, retires
1998 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Indianapolis, Indiana on WNAP 93.1 FM
1998 Paul Simon's "The Capeman," premieres
1997 Minuteman III launches
1995 22nd American Music Award: Boyz II Men and Ace of Base win
1995 Belgium's TV channel 2 in Flanders goes on the air
1995 Car bomb explodes in Algiers, 42 killed/296 injured
1995 Kevin Eubanks officially becomes band leader of "Tonight Show"
1994 68th Australian Women's Tennis Open: S Graf beats A S Vicario (60 62)
1994 82nd Australian Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Todd Martin (76 64 64)
1994 Dan Jansen skates world record 500m (35.76)
1994 Kapil Dev equals Richard Hadlee's world record of 431 Test wkts
1994 Superbowl XXVIII: Dallas Cowboys beat Buffalo Bills, 30-13 in Atlanta Superbowl MVP: Emmitt Smith, Dallas, RB
1993 100,000n Europeans demonstrate against fascism and racism
1993 67th Australian Women's Tennis Open: Monica Seles beat Graf (46 63 62)
1992 Space Shuttle STS-42 (Discovery 15) lands
1989 16th American Music Award: Randy Travis and George Michael wins
1989 5 pharoah sculptures from 1470 BC found at temple of Luxor
1989 Joel Steinberg found guilty of 1st degree manslaughter of daughter
1989 Last day of 1st class cricket for Dav Whatmore
1988 Hansie Cronje gets a pair in 2nd 1st-class game (OFS vs. N Tvl)
1983 Hilbert van Thumb becomes European skating champ
1983 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Mazda of Deer Creek Golf Classic
1983 Superbowl XVII: Washington Red Skins beat Miami Dolphins, 27-17 in Pasadena Superbowl MVP: John Riggins, Washington, RB
1982 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Rosalynn Sumners

January 29 Events

2011 A 450 year-old painting by Titian of the Madonna and Child sets a record at Sotheby's, selling for $16.9 million
2011 Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak appoints Omar Suleiman Vice President, the first office existing under the President in 30 years
2010 The Wittelsback-Graff Diamond, a 31.06-carat Fancy Deep Blue diamond, once part of the Austrian and Bavarian Crown jewels, is placed on display at the Smithsonian
2002 In his State of the Union address, President George W. Bush likens Iraq, Iran and North Korea to an 'axis of evil'
1998 "Capeman," opens at Marquis Theater New York City
1998 Singers Bobby Brown found guiilty of DWI in Ft. Lauderdale Fla
1998 Soyuz TM-27 launches to MIR
1998 Thick Fog causes highway carnage in Belgium and Netherlands, 6 die
1998 Woman's Clinic in Birmingham Alabama bombed, 1 killed
1996 23rd American Music Award: Garth Brooks wins
1996 Last day of Test cricket for David Boon
1996 6,138th performance of "Cats" is held in London, surpassing record of Broadway's longest-running musical, "A Chorus Line"
1995 Andre Agassi defeats Pete Sampras to win Australian Open
1995 Greg Blewett scores century on Test debut vs England, Adelaide
1995 Superbowl XXIX: San Francisco 49ers beat San Diego Chargers, 49-26 in Miami
1995 Superbowl MVP: Steve Young, San Francisco, quarterback
1993 Test debut of Vinod Kambli, prolific Indian batsman
1991 "Piano Lesson" closes at Walter Kerr Theater New York City after 320 performances
1991 Nelson Mandela and Mangosuthu Buthelezi meet after 28 years
1990 Exxon Valdez Captain Joseph Hazelwood goes on trial due to oil spill
1989 77th Australian Men Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats Miloslav Mecir (62 62 62)
1989 Cleveland's Chris Dudley misses 5 free throws during 1 foul attempt
1989 Dottie Mochrie wins Oldsmobile LPGA Golf Classic
1989 Dow jumps 38.06 recoups 508-pt loss since Oct 1987; index at 2,256.43
1989 Episcopal church appoints 1st female bishop
1989 NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 34-3
1989 Orlando Arena opens
1989 U.S.S.R.'s Phobos II enters Martian orbit
1989 Game-winning RBI, official statistic dropped after 9 years of use New York Mets Keith Hernandez is the all-time leader with 129
1988 Canadian Ben Johnson breaks own 50-yard dash world record at 5.15
1988 Detroit's Kirk Gibson signs a 3-year contract with Dodgers
1988 Largest NBA crowd-Boston Celtics at Detroit (61,938)
1988 United Airlines Boeing 747SP, circles world in 36h54m15s
1987 Lisa files for separation from husband New York Met Darryl Strawberry
1987 William J Casey, ends term as 13th director of CIA
1986 193.8 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange
1986 Yoweri Museveni sworn in as president of Uganda
1985 Jari Kurri of Edmonton Oilers scores 100th pt of season in game 39
1984 34th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 154-145 (OT) at Denver
1984 Actress Lynda Carter (Wonder Woman) marries Robert Altman
1984 NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 45-3
1984 President Reagan formally announces he will seek a 2nd term
1984 Silvia Bertolaccini wins LPGA Mazda Golf Classic of Deer Creek
1984 Space Shuttle 41-B (STS-11) Challenger launched
1983 "Down Under" by Men At Work hit #1 on U.K. pop chart
1983 40th Golden Globes: Gandhi, ET and Tootsie win
1982 Old Dominion ends La Tech's women's basketball rec 54-game win streak
1982 Wayne Garland, baseball 1st millionaire free agent, waived by Indians
1981 AL approves sale of White Sox to Jerry Reinsdorf and Eddie Einhorn for $20 million, and 80% of Mariners to George Argyros for $104 million
1980 6 Iranian held U.S. hostages escape with help of Canadians
1980 Cleveland Cavaliers beat Los Angeles Lakers 154-153 in quadruple OT
1979 9th AFC-NFC pro bowl, NFC wins 13-7
1979 Brenda Spencer kills 2, inspires Boomtown Rats "I Don't Like Mondays"
1979 Chinese vice-premier Deng Xiaoping visits Washington, D.C.
1979 Emerson, Lake and Palmer disband after 10 years together
1979 NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 13-7
1979 President Carter commuted Patricia Hearst's 7 year sentence to 2 years
1978 Joanne Carner wins Colgate Triple Crown Match-Play Golf Championship
1976 Zeiss planetarium in Hague destroyed by fire
1975 "Men on the Moon" opens at Little Theater New York City for 5 performances
1975 1st Annual Comedy Awards of the Year hosted by Alan King
1975 W I win Fifth Test against India to take exciting series 3-2
1974 27th NHL All-Star Game: West beat East 6-4 at Chicago
1972 5th ABA All-Star Game: East 142 beats West 115 at Louisville
1971 Test debut of Dennis Keith Lillee, vs. England at Adelaide
1970 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1969 Jimi Hendrix and Peter Townshend wage a battle of guitars
1969 Sheahan and Connolly hang on for exciting draw Australia vs. W Indies
1968 Nauru adopts constitution
1967 "Let's Sing Yiddish" closes at Brooks Atkinson New York City after 107 performances
1967 Branch Rickey and Lloyd Waner elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1967 Kees Verkerk becomes European skating champ
1967 WDAZ TV channel 8 in Devils Lake, ND (ABC) begins broadcasting
1966 "Sweet Charity" opens at Palace Theater New York City for 608 performances
1966 Lawry and Simpson complete 244 opening stand vs. England, Adelaide
1966 Snow storm in north east U.S. kills 165
1966 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming
1966 U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Allen
1964 9th Winter Olympic games open in Innsbruck, Austria
1964 Beatles record in German "Komm, Gib Mir Diene Hand" and "Sie Leibt Dich"
1964 Most lopsided high-school basketball score 211-29 (Louisiana)
1964 NBC purchases AFL 5 year (1965-69) TV rights for $36 million
1964 Stanley Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove," premieres
1964 Unmanned Apollo 1 Saturn launcher test attains Earth orbit
1963 Jim Thorpe, Red Grange and George Halas elected to football hall of fame
1961 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Laurence Owen
1961 U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Bradley Lord
1959 Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" released
1958 Murderer, Charles Starkweather, captured by police in Wyoming
1958 Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward wed
1957 Graham Greene's "Potting Shed," premieres in New York City
1956 Friedrich Durrenmatt's "Der Besuch der Alten Dame," premieres in Zurich
1955 John Williams Cox buys Yankee Stadium, sells grounds to Knights of Columbus, later leaves structure to Rice University (1962)
1954 Arnold Schoenberg's "De Profundis," premieres in Cologne
1953 1st movie in Cinemascope (The Robe) premieres
1951 "Where's Charley?" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 56 performances
1951 Baseball signs 6 year All-Star pact for TV-radio rights for $6 million
1951 Liz Taylor's 1st divorce, Conrad Hilton, Jr.
1949 England, Belgium, Lux, Netherlands, New Zealand and Switzerland recognize Israel
1948 "Look Ma, I'm Dancin'" opens at Adelphi Theater New York City for 188 performances

January 28 Events

2011 Responding to anti-government protests in Egypt, the government cuts off access to the internet, cell phones, and imposes a curfew
2011 President Mubarak asks his government to resign
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)
2001 Super Bowl XXXV, Raymond James Stadium, Tampa, Baltimore Ravens beat New York Giants 34-7
1998 Michelangelo, "Christ and the Woman of Samaria," sold for $7.4 million
1996 "Hello Dolly!" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City after 118 performances
1996 84th Australian Mens Tennis: Boris Becker beats M Chang (62 64 26 62)
1996 Superbowl XXX: Dallas Cowboys beat Pittsburgh Steelers, 27-17 in Tempe Superbowl MVP:
1995 69th Australian Women's Tennis Open: Mary Pierce beats Vicario (63 62)
1995 83rd Australian Mens Tennis: Andre Agassi beats Sampras (46 61 76 64)
1995 Memphis Mad Dogs granted CFL's 13th franchise
1994 Actress Lorraine Bracco (39) weds actor Edward James Olmos (46)
1994 Helicopter crashes into office building in San Jose, California, 1 dead
1994 Inna Lassovskaja jumps ladies world record (14.78m)
1992 Boon completes twelfth Test century, 135 vs. India at Adelaide
1992 Stan Hansen beats Jumbo Tsuruta to win All Japan Triple Crown
1991 "A Closer Look" with Faith Daniels premieres on NBC-TV
1991 18th American Music Award: M C Hammer and Janet Jackson
1991 Boon completes ninth Test century, 121 vs. England at Adelaide
1991 Dictator Siad Barre flees Somalia ending 22 year rule
1990 "Independent on Sunday" begins publishing in London
1990 78th Australian Mens Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats S Edberg (46 76 52-ret)
1990 Superbowl XXIV: San Francisco 49ers beat Denver Broncos, 55-10 in New Orleans Superbowl MVP: Joe Montana, San Francisco, quarterback
1989 46th Golden Globes: Rainman, Working Girl
1989 63rd Australian Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Helena Sukova (64 64)
1989 Boon completes 7th Test century, 149 vs. WI at SCG
1988 "Saratina!" opens at Cort Theater New York City for 597 performances
1988 Canada's Supreme court declares anti-abortion law unconstitutional
1987 U.S. Foreign minister George Shultz meets ANC-leader Oliver Tambo
1987 Wrestler Jim Neidhart indicted for assaulting a flight attendant
1986 "Uptown... It's Hot!" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City for 24 performances
1986 Space Shuttle Challenger 10 explodes 73 sec after liftoff
1986 Angolan Unity Leader Jonas Savimbi visits Washington, D.C.
1985 12th American Music Award
1984 41th Golden Globes: Thornbirds wins
1984 Los Angeles Kings stop Wayne Gretzky 51 game scoring streak
1984 Mr Glynn Wolfe marries for non-bigamous record 26th time, Las Vegas
1984 Record 295,000 dominoes toppled, Fuerth, West Germany
1982 U.S. General Dozier freed from Red Brigade of Padua Italy
1982 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1981 "5 O'Clock Girl" opens at Helen Hayes Theater New York City for 12 performances
1981 William J Casey becomes 13th director of CIA (until 1987)
1981 Olympic Glory tanker at Galveston Bay, Texas, spills 1 million gallons of oil in a ship collision
1980 37th Golden Globes: Dustin Hoffman and Sally Field wins
1979 "Wiz" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 1672 performances
1979 Arthur Kopit's "Wings," premieres in New York City
1978 "Fantasy Island" starring Ricardo Montalban premieres on ABC TV
1978 Ranger's Don Murdoch failed on 4th penalty shot against Islanders
1978 Ted Nugent autographs a fan's arm with his knife
1976 Erapalli Prasanna takes 8-76 to rip through New Zealand at Eden Park
1976 NBA Atlanta Hawks begin a 28 game road losing streak
1975 8th ABA All-Star Game: East 151 beats West 124 at San Antonio
1974 Sam Thompson, Jim Bottomley, and Jocko Conlan elected to Hall of Fame
1973 "Barnaby Jones" premieres on CBS TV
1973 Henry Boucha, Detroit Red Wings, scores 6 sec into a game vs Mont
1973 Mickey Welch, George Kelly and Billy Evans elected to Hall of Fame
1973 Ron Howard appears on M*A*S*H in "Sometimes You Hear the Bullet"
1972 Oral Roberts' Eddie Woods grabs 30 rebounds for 2nd consecutive game
1970 Lubomir Strougal succeeds Cernik as premier of Czechoslovakia
1969 2nd ABA All-Star Game: West 133 beats East 127 at Louisville
1969 Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st woman jockey to win in North America

January 27 Events

2011 The United Nations Human Rights Council criticizes Burma for its human rights record
2011 Japan experiences its fifth outbreak of bird flu, forcing the slaughter of 150,000 chickens
2010 Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, unveils a new invention, a tablet PC called the iPad, at a press conference in San Francisco
1998 Crane crashes into Roosevelt Is (New York City) Tram, injuring 10
1998 WNBA begins filling rosters of Washington Mystics and Detroit Shock
1998 First Lady Hilary Clinton blames charges that President Clinton had affairs part of a vast right-wing conspiracy
1997 "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus," opens at Gershwin New York City
1997 24th American Music Award: Toni Braxton and Alanis Morissette win
1996 15 day old siamese twins separated - Sarah Morales survives, Sarahi dies
1996 70th Australian Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats Anke Huber (64 61)
1996 Catherine Roskam becomes the 1st New York female Episcopal bishop
1996 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1996 Germany celebrates it's 1st Holocaust Rememberance Day
1996 Monica Seles beats Anke Huber to win Australian Open
1996 Shiv Chanderpaul scores 303* for Guyana vs. Jamaica at Kingston
1995 69th Australian Womens Tennis: Mary Pierce beats A S Vicario (63 62)
1994 "No Man's Land" opens at Criterion Theater New York City for 61 performances
1994 Carlos Reina succeeds President Callejas in Honduras
1994 Romanian social-democrats form government with anti-Semites
1993 DC-3 crashes in Kinshasa, killing 12
1992 "Crazy He Calls Me" opens at Walter Kerr Theater New York City for 7 performances
1992 19th American Music Award: C and C Music Factory, Michael Bolton win
1992 Jane Fonda undergoes arthroscopic surgery on her right knee
1992 President candidate Bill Clinton (D) and Genifer Flowers accuse each other of lying over her assertion they had a 12-year affair
1991 79th Australian Mens Tennis: Boris Becker beats I Lendl (16 64 64 64)
1991 Dutch PSP, Pacifist Socialistic Party, disbands
1991 Nadine Strossen is 1st female president of the ACLU
1991 Superbowl XXV: New York Giants beat Buffalo Bills, 20-19 in Tampa Superbowl MVP: Ottis Anderson, New York Giants, RB
1990 64th Australian Women's Tennis Steffi Graf beats MJ Fernandez (63 64)
1989 German war criminals Fischer and Aus der Funten freed
1989 Kevin Johnson (Phoenix) begins NBA free throw streak of 57 games
1989 Okla's linebacker, Mark VanKeirsblilck assaults an Ok grad student
1988 Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves nomination of Judge Anthony M Kennedy to U.S. Supreme Court
1987 Midnight Rockers beat Buddy Rose and Doug Somers for AWA World Tag Team
1986 13th American Music Award: Whitney Houston, Huey Lewis and C Gayle
1985 "Doug Henning and His World..." closes at Lunt-Fontanne New York after 60 perf
1985 15th Space Shuttle (51-C) Mission-Discovery 3 returns to Earth
1985 Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Mazda Golf Classic
1985 Mark Mckoy cycles world record 50m hurdles indoor (5.25)
1985 NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 22-14

January 26 Events

2011 The 41st World Economic Forum convenes in Davos, Switzerland
2011 Top airport security officials are fired after a suicide bombing at Moscow's Domodedovo International Airport kills 35 people, injures 130
2010 James Cameron's film, Avatar, surpasses his 1997 film Titanic, and becomes the highest grossing film of all time
2003 Super Bowl XXXVII, Qualcomm Stadium San Diego, Tampa Bay Buccaneers beat Oakland Raiders 48-21
2001 Earthquake kills 20,000 in Bhuj, India
1998 25th American Music Award: Spice Girls and Babyface win
1998 Intel launches 333 MHz Pentium II chip
1998 President Clinton says "I want to say one thing to the American people I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky"
1997 "Ideal Husband" closes at Barrymore Theater New York City after 308 performances
1997 85th Australian Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Carlos Moya (62 63 63)
1997 Brunswick World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by John Gant
1997 Super Bowl XXXI, Louisiana Superdome, New Orleans, Green Bay Packers beat New England Patriots 35-21
1996 "Les Miserables," opens at Musichall Theatre, Duisburg
1995 New Jersey Governor Christine Whitman, dedicates a rest stop to Howard Stern
1993 West Indies defeat Australia by one run in 4th Test at Adelaide
1992 "Little Hotel on the Side" opens at Belasco Theater New York City for 41 performances
1992 80th Australian Mens Tennis: Jim Courier beats S Edberg (63 36 64 62)
1992 Americans with Disabilities Act went into effect
1992 Superbowl XXVI: Washington Red Skins beat Buffalo Bills, 37-24 in Minnesota Superbowl MVP: Mark Rypien, Washington, quarterback
1991 "Few Good Men" closes at Music Box Theater New York City after 497 performances
1991 65th Australian Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats J Novotna (57 63 61)
1991 Alfaro Vive guerrilla group of Ecuador gives arms to Catholic church
1991 Houston guard Vernon Maxwell is 4th NBAer to score 30 pts in a quarter
1991 Jan Stenerud becomes 1st pure placekicker to make NFL Hall of Fame
1991 New York Lotto pays $90 million to nine winner (#s are 5-15-30-35-46-50)
1990 Annular eclipse visible over Antarctica and South Atlantic
1990 Boston Red Sox hires Elaine Weddington as asstistant General Manager (highest-ranking black female in a major-league front office)
1989 "Black and Blue" opens at Minskoff Theater New York City for 829 performances
1989 AT&T reports 1st loss in 103 years; $1.67 B in 1988
1989 Allan Border takes 7-46 against the West Indies at the SCG
1989 Madison Square Garden announces 2-year $100 M renovation plan
1989 Test debut of Mark Taylor, Australia vs. West Indies, Sydney
1989 U.S. computer security expert warns of catastrophic virus
1988 "Phantom of the Opera" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 4,000+ performances
1988 Australia's 200th anniversary-parade of tall ships in Sydney Harbor

January 25 Events

2011 In Egypt, tens of thousands of people participate in a 'day of revolt' to protest against the government
2011 Australia and Japan win their semi-final games and will play in the AFC Asian Cup final
2010 One year after thousands of children became ill from melamine in milk, new traces of melamine in milk products is discovered in China
1999 Earthquake kills about 1,185 in Armenia, Colombia
1998 "Grease," closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City after 1,503 performance
1998 "Patti LaBelle On Broadway," closes at St. James Theater New York City
1998 Britain's Queen Mother, 97, gets an emergency hip replacement
1998 Helen Alfredsson wins Office Depot LPGA tournament
1998 Spice Girl Victoria Adams, aka Posh Spice, and soccer David Beckham gets engaged
1998 Superbowl XXXII: Denver Broncos beat Green Bay Packers 31-24
1998 Super Bowl XXXII, Qualcomm Stadium, San Diego, Denver Broncos beat Green Bay Packers 31-24
1997 71st Australian Womens Tennis: Martina Hingis beat Mary Pierce (62 62)
1995 Jacques Santer succeeds Jacques Delors as chairman of Euro Committee
1994 Australia beat South Africa 2-1 to win the World Series Cup
1994 Mine fire at Asansol India, kills 55
1994 U.S. space probe Clementine launched
1994 Accused of molesting a 13-year-old boy, Michael Jackson settles a civil lawsuit out of court
1993 20th American Music Award: Michael Jackson, Mariah Carey win
1993 Puerto Rico adds English as its 2nd official language
1993 Sears announces it is closing its catalog sales department after 97 years
1992 66th Australian Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats M Fernandez (62 63)
1992 Dan Jansen skates world record 500m in 36.41"
1992 Hubble space telescope optics finds NGC3862/3C264
1991 Brett Hull is 3rd NHLer to score 50 goals in less than 50 games (49)
1991 Manuel Noriega is given access to assets frozen by U.S. government
1991 Mark Waugh scores ton in 1st Test Cricket innings, vs. England Adelaide
1991 Soap opera "Generation's" last episode after a 2 year run
1990 Avianca Flight 52, runs out of fuel and crashes in Cove Neck NY, 73 die
1990 Former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is transferred to a Miami jail
1990 West-Europe's strongest hurricane
1989 Augusto Alcalde, 1st South American Zen teacher, receives Dharma Transmission
1989 Michael Jordan scores his 10,000th NBA point in his 5th season
1989 New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner meets with Pope John Paul II
1988 15th American Music Award: Anita Baker, Paul Simon and Whitney Houston
1988 George Harrison releases "When We Was Fab"
1988 Longest winless streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (15 games)
1988 Ramsewak Shankar sworn in as President of Suriname
1988 Vice President Bush and Dan Rather clash on "CBS Evening News" as Rather attempts to question Bush about his role in Iran-Contra affair
1987 75th Australian Mens Tennis: S Edberg beats Pat Cash (63 64 36 57 63)
1987 Superbowl XXI: New York Giants beat Denver Broncos, 39-20 in Pasadena Superbowl MVP: Phil Simms, New York Giants, quarterback
1986 General Tito Okello's government flees Kampala Uganda
1985 "Black and Blue," premieres in Paris
1985 "We are the World" is recorded by Pop stars in Los Angeles
1985 Test debut of Wasim Akram, vs. New Zealand at Auckland (2-105)
1983 China's supreme court commutes Chiang Ch'ing's death sentence to life
1983 Infrared telescope satellite launched into polar orbit
1983 Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie arrested in Bolivia
1982 9th American Music Award: Kenny Rogers win
1981 52 Americans held hostage by Iran for 444 days arrived back in US
1981 Mao's widow Jiang Qing sentenced to death
1981 Superbowl XV: Oakland Raiders beat Philadelphia Eagles, 27-10 in New Orleans Superbowl MVP: Jim Plunkett, Oakland, quarterback
1980 Bani Sadr elected president of Iran
1980 Dutch Government demands boycott of Olympics
1980 Highest speed attained by a warship, 167 kph, USN hovercraft
1980 Paul McCartney is released from Tokyo jail and deported
1979 22.2-km Oshimizu railroad tunnel holed through, central Honshu, Japan
1979 Pope John Paul II's 1st overseas trip as supreme pontiff
1978 Muriel Humphrey (D-Mn) appointed to fill late husband's Senate seat
1978 Padres trade pitcher Dave Tomlin and $125,000 to Rangers for Gaylord Perry (He wins 1978 Cy Young Award)
1976 Surinder Amarnath scores 124 on Test debut Ind vs. New Zealand Auckland
1975 10th hat trick in Islander history-Denis Potvin's 1st
1975 Parliament disposes of premier sheik Mujib ur-Rahman
1974 Bulent Ecevit forms government in Turkey
1974 Christian Barnard transplants 1st human heart without removal of old
1974 Ray Kroc, CEO of McDonald's, buys San Diego Padres for $12 million
1972 25th NHL All-Star Game: East beats West 3-2 at Minnesota
1972 7' Ohio State center Luke Witte is stomped in face during a brawl in a game with Minnesota
1971 Charles Manson and 3 women followers convicted of Tate-LaBianca murders
1971 Himachal Pradesh becomes 18th Indian state
1971 Military coup in Uganda under General Idi Amin Dada
1971 Philadelphia mint's 1st trial strike of Eisenhower dollar
1971 WHMB TV channel 40 in Indianapolis, IN (IND) begins broadcasting

January 23 Events

2011 Google awards its outgoing CEO Eric Schmidt $100 million
2011 Pakistan's President, Asif Ali Zardari, launched an emergency polio immunization programme targeting 32 million children under age 5
2010 Six Venezuelan cable television channels are taken off the air by the Venezuelan government after refusing to transmit government messages
2006 Stephen Harper, wins the election in Canada and is the first conservative Prime Minister in 12 years
1998 Pope John Paul II condemns U.S. embargo against Cuba
1996 Chris Cairns scores 120, 96 balls, 10x4, 9x6 in Test New Zealand vs. Zim
1994 Bernie Kosar is 2nd quarterback to throw TD passes in AFC and NFC Champ games
1994 Worldwide Day for peace in Bosnia-Hercegovina
1993 50th Golden Globes: Scent of a Woman, wins
1993 Graham Gooch scores his 100th 100, on tour at Cuttack
1993 Indian Airlines B737 crashes art Aurangabad, 61 die
1993 New York Newsday reports Oregon Senator Bob Packwood sexually harassed 23 women
1993 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Nancy Kerrigan
1992 "Visit" opens at Criterion Theater New York City for 45 performances
1991 Seinfeld debuts on NBC-TV
1991 World's largest oil spill, caused by embattled Iraqi forces in Kuwait
1990 Dean Jones scores twin Test tons vs. Pakistan at Adelaide Oval
1989 Challenge to "who is a Jew" law filed in Israeli Supreme Court
1989 NBA New Jersey Nets begin a 32+ game road losing streak
1988 45th Golden Globes: Last Emperor, Sally Kirkland, Michael Douglas
1988 62nd Australian Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Chris Evert (61 76)
1988 Bob Benoit bowls 1st 300-pt game in a televised title match
1988 Experimental airplane Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, complete 1st nonstop, round-the-world flight without refueling lands
1987 Dow Jones rises 64 points then drops 110 points (44.15 pt loss)
1987 Japan 1st exceeds military spending cap of 1% of GNP ($23 billion)
1986 "Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood" opens at Ritz Theater New York City for 13 performances
1986 Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center via Davis-Monthan AFB
1986 1st induction of Rock 'N' Roll Hall of Fame (Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Domino, Everly Bros, B Holly, J L Lewis and Elvis Presley)

January 22 Events

2011 The Japanese launch the H-II Transfer Vehicle HTV-2 Resupply Craft, in a mission to deliver cargo to the International Space Station
2011 Tunisian Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi announces he will leave politics soon after the Presidential elections are held
2010 Thousands of Venezuelan protesters demonstrate for and against President Hugo Chavez' policies surrounding energy shortages and currency revaluation
2003 The United Nations reported that there is no link between al Queda and Iraq
1998 NHL's Minnesota franchise selects the nickname Wild
1998 Rickey Henderson, rejoins Oakland A's for 4th time
1998 STS-89 (Endeavour 12) launches into orbit
1998 World League of American Football becomes NFL East
1997 Space Shuttle Atlantis Returns to Earth, Successful
1995 Palestinian bomb attack in Beit Lid Israel, 21-22 killed
1995 Pat Bradley wins LPGA HealthSouth Inaugural Golf Tournament
1994 45th NHL All-Star Game: East beat West 9-8 at New York Rangers
1994 5.5 earthquake strikes Sumatra
1994 51st Golden Globes: Schlinder's List, Steven Speilberg
1994 East beats West 9-8 in 45th NHL All Star Game at MSG in New York City
1993 Johan Koss skates world record 5 km in 6:38.77
1992 Sarah Ferguson wears paper bag over her head on airline ride
1992 Space Shuttle STS-42 (Discovery 15) launches into space
1990 17th American Music Award: Milli Vanilli
1990 Wasim Akram scores Test century (123) at Adelaide
1990 Will Clark, NL's MVP signs a $15M 4-year contract with San Francisco Giants
1989 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1989 Superbowl XXIII: San Francisco 49ers beat Cincinnati Bengals, 20-16 in Miami Superbowl MVP: Jerry Rice, San Francisco, WR
1988 1st-class cricket debut of Brian Lara, Trinidad and Tobago vs. Leeward Is
1988 1st-class cricket debut of Hansie Cronje, OFS vs. Transvaal
1988 Mike Tyson TKOs Larry Holmes in 4 for heavyweight boxing title
1987 "334" club forms as 334 brave Devil fans journey through 20" of snow to attend New Jersey Devils 7-5 victory over Calgary at Meadowlands
1987 Blizzard in New Jersey, as 334 attend Devils-Flame NHL game, New Jersey wins 7-5
1986 Ghorbanifar 1st suggests diversion of cash to contras, says North
1985 -30 degrees F (-34 degrees C), Mountain Lake Bio Station, Virginia (state record)

January 21 Events

2011 In a referendum based on official figures, nearly 99% of South Sudanese voted for independence from the north
2011 Tunisians take part in a demonstration urging the interim government to step down
2010 Toyota announces recalls for approximately 5.2 million vehicles for a pedal entrapment and floor mat problem
1998 Pope John Paul II visits Cuba
1998 News of the Lewinsky/Clinton affair is published, President Clinton vigorously denies all allegations
1996 53th Golden Globes: Mel Gibson, Nicole Kidman, John Travolta
1996 Karrie Webb wins LPGA HealthSouth Inaugural Golf Tournament
1996 U.S. male Figure Skating championship won by Rudy Galindo
1995 52th Golden Globes: Forrest Gump, Tom Hanks, Jessica Lange
1994 Dow Jones passes 3900 (record 3,914.20)
1994 Lorena Bobbitt found temporarily insane of chopping off spouse's penis
1993 Johan Koss skates world record 5 km in 6:38.77
1993 Nigerian singer Fela Kuti arrested on suspicion of murder
1991 CBS News correspondant Bob Simon captured by Iraqis in Persian Gulf
1990 41st NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 12-7 at Pittsburgh
1990 Bob Goodenow succeeds Alan Eagleson as NHL players association executive director
1990 John McEnroe becomes 1st ever expelled from Australian Open
1990 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Jamaica Golf Classic
1989 Wayne Gretzky passes Marcel Dionne to become NHL's 2nd all time scorer
1988 U.S. accept immigration of 30,000 U.S. - Vietnamese children
1987 BB King donates his 7,000 record collection to the University of Mississippi
1986 100 participate in Nude Olympics race in 38 degrees F (3 degrees C), Indiana
1986 Allison J Brown, 17, of Oklahoma, crowned 4th Miss Teen USA
1986 Bomb attack in East-Beirut, 27 killed
1985 -19 degrees F (-28 degrees C), Caesar's Head, South Carolina (state record)
1985 -34 degrees F (-37 degrees C), Mount Mitchell, North Carolina (state record)
1985 Bomb attack on Borobudur temple in Java
1985 Dennis Potvin ties Bobby Orr's career record of 270 NHL goals
1984 U.S. male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Hamilton
1983 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Anthony E Hecht
1983 Reagan certifies El Salvador human-rights abuses have decreased making country eligible for U.S. military aid
1982 "Little Me" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City for 36 performances
1982 New York Islanders begin then NHL record 15 game winning streak
1981 "Shakespeare's Cabaret" opens at Bijou Theater New York City for 54 performances
1981 Bernhard Goetz is assault for 1st time on a New York subway train
1980 Gold hits record $850 an ounce
1980 Les Henson, Virginia Tech, makes 89' 3" basketball field goal
1979 Neptune becomes outermost planet (Pluto moves closer)
1979 Price of gold increases to record $875 troy oz
1979 Superbowl XIII: Pittsburgh Steelers beat Dallas Cowboys, 35-31 in Miami Superbowl MVP: Terry Bradshaw, Pittsburgh, quarterback
1978 Bee Gees' "Saturday Night Fever" album goes #1 for 24 weeks

January 20 Events

2011 Save the Children launches a campaign to help 400,000 children in Sri Lanka deal with the crisis following the worst floods in their history
2011 Scientists claim 2010 was the warmest year ever recorded, and the last decade the warmest ever recorded, in 200 years
2010 A week after the 2010 Haiti earthquake, a 6.1 magnitude aftershock strikes Haiti
2009 Barack Obama is inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States
2001 George W. Bush is inaugurated as the 43rd president of the United States
1998 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts Mama and Papas and Eagles
1998 Warner Brothers TV Network begins Tueday night programming
1997 Comet Hale-Bopp crosses Mars' orbit
1997 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in New Orleans, Louisiana on KKND 106.7 FM
1997 Pakistan defeat West Indies 2-0 to win Australia one-day Series
1996 46th NHL All-Star Game: East beat West 5-4 at Fleet Center Boston
1996 Australia defeat Sri Lanka 2-0 to win World Series Cup
1996 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Michelle Kwan
1996 WPAT FM New York City radio station switches to English-Spanish format
1995 "Love! Valor! Compassion!" opens at Walter Kerr New York City for 276 performances
1995 1994-95 NHL Season begin after a lengthy strike
1995 Russian ruble drops to 3,947 per dollar (record)
1993 Admiral Studeman, serves as acting director of CIA
1993 William J. Clinton inaugurated as 42nd president
1992 Australia beat India 2-0 to win the World Series Cup
1992 Score begins selling international soccer cards
1991 "Black and Blue" closes at Minskoff Theater New York City after 829 performances
1991 "Les Miserables," opens at Pantages Theatre, LA
1991 "Peter Pan" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City or 45 performances
1991 "Shogun - The Musical" closes at Marquis Theater New York City after 72 performances
1991 13th UCP Telethon
1991 Buffalo Bills beat Los Angeles Raiders 51-3 for AFC title
1991 Jane Geddes wins LPGA Jamaica Golf Classic
1991 U.S. Patriot missiles begins shooting down Iraqi missiles
1991 Matt Barr's field goal with no time left gives New York Giant 15-13 Victory over defending champs San Francisco 49ers, for NFC title
1990 47th Golden Globes: Born on 4th of July, Driving Miss Daisy win
1990 U.S. 64th manned space mission STS-32 (Columbia 10) returns from space
1989 Bush inaugurated as 41st president and Quayle becomes 44th vice pres

January 19 Events

2011 All remaining political prisoners in Tunisia are freed
2011 A Mongolian bulk carrier sailing off the coast of Oman is seized by Somali pirates
2010 United States Navy troops land near the Haitian presidential palace, bringing food, water, and equipment to aid victims of the earthquake
1997 54th Golden Globes: English Patient, Brenda Blethyn and Geoffrey Rush
1997 Cerebral Palsy telethon
1997 Michelle McGann wins LPGA Healthsouth Inaugural
1996 NHL approves move of Winnipeg Jets to Phoenix
1995 Jean-Claude Juncker (28) sworn in as premier of Luxembourg
1994 -20 degrees F (-29 degrees C) (5:32 AM) coldest day ever recorded in Cleveland Ohio
1994 -36 degrees F (-38 degrees C) in New Whiteland, Indiana (state record)
1993 Israel recognizes PLO as no longer criminal
1993 Oakland A's unveil new elephant logo
1993 Robert M Gates, ends term as 15th director of CIA
1993 STS-54 (Endeavour) lands
1992 "City of Angels" closes at Virginia Theater New York City after 878 performances
1992 Cerebral Palsy telethon raises 23,500,000
1992 IBM announces a nearly $5B loss for 1992
1992 Nature Boy Ric Flair becomes WWF champ at Royal Rumble
1992 Rowdy Roddy Piper beats Mountie to become WWF Intercontinental Champ
1991 42nd NHL All-Star Game: Campbell beat Wales 11-5 at Chicago
1991 48th Golden Globes: Dances with Wolves
1991 Eastern Airlines shuts down operation
1991 Jumbo Tsuruta beats Stan Hansen to win All Japan Triple Crown title
1991 Sergeant Slaughter defeats Ultimate Warrior for WWF championship belt
1990 Test debut of Mushtaq Ahmed, vs. Australia at Adelaide
1989 President Reagan pardons George Steinbrenner for illegal funds for Nixon
1988 "48 Hours" premiers on CBS-TV
1987 Guy Hunt becomes Alabama's 1st Republican governor since 1874
1986 Cerebral Palsy telethon
1986 Israeli premier Simon Peres visits Netherlands
1986 Spain recognizes Israel
1985 "Born In The USA" by Bruce Springsteen peaked at #9
1985 4 die in a car and train crash in Buda Ill
1984 Francesco Moser bicycles world record time: 50,808 km
1984 California Supreme Court rejects quadriplegic Elizabeth Bouvia, who wants to starve herself to death in a public hospital
1983 Klaus Barbie, SS chief of Lyon in Nazi-France, arrested in Bolivia
1982 Aust-WI one-day game that produced a Privy Council libel case
1982 Heater explodes at Star Elementary School-Okla, kills 6 kids and teacher
1981 Muhammad Ali talks a despondent 21 year old out of committing suicide
1981 U.S. and Iran sign agreement to release 52 American hostages
1979 John N Mitchell (former AG) released on parole from federal prison
1978 Eddie Mathews elected to Hall of Fame
1978 Judge William H Webster appointed head of FBI
1977 Ernie Banks elected to Hall of Fame

January 18 Events

2011 A $28 billion merger between Comcast and NBC Universal is approved by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission
2011 Joe Lieberman, an independent U.S. Senator from Connecticut announces he will not seek re-election in 2012
2010 China begins text message surveillance, blocking customers from the country's two largest operators for lewd messages
1998 "Ragtime," opens at Ford Theater New York City
1998 48th NHL All-Star Game: North America beats World 8-7 at Vancouver
1998 55th Golden Globes Awards
1998 ABL All-Star Game at Disney complex in Orlando
1998 Boston Celtics retire Robert Parrish's #00
1998 Kelly Robbins wins Healthsouth Golf Inaugural
1998 UCP Telethon
1997 47th NHL All-Star Game: East beat West 11-7 at San Jose Arena
1996 Baseball owners unanimously approve interleague play in 1997
1996 Lisa Marie Presley filed for divorce from Michael Jackson in New York
1995 Kumble takes 16-99 in match for Karnataka vs. Kerala
1995 Pope John Paul II begins visit to Australia
1993 Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday observed in all 50 states for 1st time
1993 West Indies win the World Series Cup, beating Australia 2-0
1992 43rd NHL All-Star Game: Campbell beat Wales 10-6 at Philadelphia
1992 49th Golden Globes
1992 Actress Joan Chen (Twin Peaks) marries Dr. Peter Hui
1992 Comedian Pat McCormick injured in a car accident
1992 NHL All Star Game - Campbell-10, Wales-6 (Brett Hull, MVP) at Philadelphia
1991 Iraq launches SCUD missiles against Israel
1991 U.S. acknowledges CIA and U.S. Army paid Noriega $320,000 over his career
1991 WLAF's New York Knights become NY-New Jersey Knights
1991 Longest tennis match at the Australian Open, Boris Becker beats Italy's Omar Camporese in 5 hours and 11 minutes
1990 South Africa says its reconsidering ban on African National Congress
1990 Washington D.C., Mayor Marion Barry arrested in drug enforcement sting
1989 Astronomers discover pulsar in remnants of Supernova 1987A (LMC)
1989 IBM announces earnings up 10.4% in 1988
1989 Otis Redding, Dion, Rolling Stones, Temptations and Stevie Wonder
1989 West Indies beat Australia 2-1 to win the World Series Cup
1988 Airliner crashes in SW China, killing all 108 on board
1987 11th Soap Opera Digest Poll Awards - Days of Our Live wins
1986 24th Space Shuttle (61-C) Mission-Columbia 7-returns to Earth
1986 AIDS charity record "That's What Friends are For," hits #1
1986 New York Lotto pays $30.5 million to one winner (#s are 19-20-27-34-41-46)
1985 U.S. renounces jurisdiction of World Court despite previous promise

January 17 Events

2011 In Vietnam, 1,400 members of the ruling Communist Party of Vietnam gather to vote for new leaders
2011 All bullet trains in northern and central Japan were temporarily halted due a computer glitch; thousands of passengers are affected
2010 Ali Hassan al-Majid, former Iraqi minister, also known as Chemical Ali, is sentenced to death for the poison gas attack at Halabja
2009 Israel declares a unilateral ceasefire in the Gaza War, effective January 18, as Hamas declares a ceasefire of its own
1998 President Clinton faces sexual harrament charges from Paula Jones
1997 NBA suspends Dennis Rodman indefinitely/$25,000 for kicking cameraman
1995 "Carousel" closes at Beaumont Theater New York City after 322 performances
1995 7.2 earthquake destroys Kobe Japan killing 5,372 die
1995 Australia beat Australia A 2-0 to win the World Series Cup
1995 Los Angeles Rams announce that they are moving to St. Louis
1994 6.6 Earthquake hits Los Angeles killing 60, $30B in damage
1994 Liz Taylor released from the hospital after hip treatment
1993 14th ACE Cable Awards: HBO wins 32 awards
1993 Russian Irina Privalova cycles world record 300m indoor (35.45")
1992 Sarah Ferguson attends dinner of Everglades club (club excludes Jews)
1991 Iraq fires 8 Scud missiles on Israel
1991 Mountie Jacques Rougeau beats Hart for WWF intercontinental title
1991 Operation Desert Storm begins - U.S. led allies vs Iraq
1991 Operation Desert Storm: 1st U.S. pilot shot down (Jeffrey Zahn)
1990 5th Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Awards: Bobby Darin
1990 Dave Stewart signs record $3,500,000 per year Oak A's contract
1990 Who, Simon and Garfunkel, 4 Seasons, 4 Tops, Hank Ballard, Platters &
1990 Kinks inducted into Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
1989 Al Arbour wins his 600th NHL game as coach
1989 Gunman opens fire in California schoolyard; 5 students slain, 30 wounded
1989 Murden and Metz are 1st women to reach South Pole overland (on skis)
1989 Phoenix Suns cancel game at Miami Heat, due to racial unrest in Miami
1988 "Teddy and Alice" closes at Minskoff Theater New York City after 77 performances
1988 Leslie Manigay elected president of Haiti
1987 President Reagan signs secret order permitting covert sale of arms to Iran
1986 Tim Witherspoon beats Tony Tubbs in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1985 Azharuddin scores second Test century in second Test (v England)
1984 Supreme Court rules (5-4) oks private use of home VCRs to tape TV programs for later viewing does not violate federal copyright laws
1983 10th American Music Award: Kenny Rogers
1983 Alabama Governor George C. Wallace, becomes governor for record 4th time
1983 Nigeria expels 2 million illegal aliens, mostly Ghanaians
1981 Philippino president Marcos ends state of siege
1980 NASA launches Fltsatcom-3
1979 New York Islanders didn't get a shot off in 1 period against New York Rangers
1979 Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi flees Iran
1979 U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test
1977 KC releases Tommy Davis, ends an 18-year career with 10 teams
1977 NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 24-14
1977 Zaire president Mobutu visits Belgium
1976 "I Write the Songs" by Barry Manilow hits #1
1976 Hermes rocket launched by European Space Agency
1974 Styne, Comdem and Green's musical "Lorelei," premieres in New York City
1973 City of Amsterdam decides to support Hanoi
1973 New Philippine constitution names Marcos president for life
1972 Section of Memphis' Highway 51 South renamed Elvis Presley Blvd
1971 Super Bowl V: Baltimore Colts-16, Dallas Cowboys-13 in Miami Superbowl MVP: Chuck Howley, Dallas, LB
1970 357 baseball players are available in the free-agent draft
1970 AFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 26-3
1970 John M Burgess installed as bishop of Protestant Episcopals (Mass)
1970 Sporting News names Willie Mays as Player of the Decade for the 1960s
1969 Beatles release Yellow Submarine album in UK
1969 Debut album of Led Zeppelin released in US
1969 Soyuz 5 lands
1968 Soyuz 4 and 5 completed 1st docking of 2 manned spacecraft
1966 B-52/KC-135 tankers crash near Spanish coast at Palomares, 7 die

January 16 Events

2011 After 41 years in power, Libya's Muammar al-Gaddafi is less than 24 months away from being world's longest-serving leader
2011 In one of the biggest upsets in NFL history, the New York Jets defeat the New England Patriots
2005 Adriana Iliescu becomes the oldest woman in the world to give birth at 66
2005 George W. Bush is inaugurated for his second term as President of the United States
1997 Anthony Stuart takes ODI hat-trick, Aus vs. Pakistan, MCG
1995 UPN (Universal-Parmount Network) begins telecasting (WWOR in New York City)
1994 Scott skates world record 1000m (1:12.54)
1992 "2 Shakespearean Actors" opens at Cort Theater New York City for 29 performances
1991 7th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Live wins
1991 U.S. and 27 allies attack Iraq for occupying Kuwait (U.S. time)
1990 2 Bank of Credit and Commerce members plea guilty to money laundering
1989 Police arrest writer Vaclav Havel in Prague
1989 U.S.S.R. announces plan for 2-yr manned mission to Mars
1988 4th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Live wins
1988 Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder fired from CBS for racial remarks
1988 NFL St. Louis Cardinals announce move to Phoenix
1986 Police arrested 3 IRA-terrorists in Amsterdam
1985 "Playboy" announces end of stapling centerfolds
1984 Paul and Linda McCartney arrested in Barbados for possession of cannabis
1981 Boxer Leon Spinks is mugged, his assailants even took his gold teeth
1981 John Lennon releases "Woman" in the United Kingdom
1981 Protestant gunmen shoot and wound Bernadette Devlin McAliskey and husband
1981 Ivan Lendl intentionally loses a match in Volvo Masters in order to avoid having to play Bjorn Borg
1980 Paul McCartney jailed in Tokyo for 10 days on marijuana possession
1979 Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi of Iran flees Iran for Egypt
1978 5th American Music Award: Stevie Wonder, Fleetwood Mac and C Twitty
1978 Soyuz 27 returns to Earth
1977 Cap's H Monahan scored on 2nd penalty shot against Islanders
1976 "Donny and Marie" [Osmond] musical variety show premieres on ABC TV
1976 Peter Frampton released platinum live album "Frampton Comes Alive"
1974 "Jaws" by Peter Benchley is published
1974 L A Landslide kills 9, Canyonville, Oregon
1974 New York Yankees Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford elected to Hall of Fame
1973 NBC presents 440th and final showing of "Bonanza"
1973 U.S.S.R.'s Lunakhod 2 begins radio-controlled exploration of Moon
1972 Atje Keulen-Deelstra becomes European all-round lady skating champ

January 15 Events

2011 Australia's enormous flood effects 13,000 properties in rural Victoria
2011 China announces it may station troops in North Korea to protect its citizens and investment projects
2010 Muslim fundamentalists in northern Algeria kill an army colonel and a military commander of Bejaia
2009 U.S. Airways plane ditches in the Hudson River - all 155 passengers survive
2006 Stardust space mission returns dust from a comet to earth
1998 NASA announces John Glenn, 76, may fly in space again
1997 Chicago Bull Dennis Rodman kicks cameraman, Eugene Amosin the groin
1997 Space Shuttle Atlantis docks with Mir Space Station
1995 Dawn Coe-Jones wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Tournament of Golf Champion
1995 San Diego Chargers beat Pittsburgh Steelers 17-13 for AFC championship
1995 San Francisco 49ers beat Dallas Cowboys for NFC championship
1995 Southern Alabama begins using new area code 334
1995 Western Washington begins using new area code 360
1994 15th ACE Cable Awards: HBO wins 34 awards, Showtime wins 10
1994 Hague motorist with .51% alcohol in blood, breaks Dutch record (.47%)
1994 Queen Elizabeth falls off her horse and breaks her left wrist
1993 7.5 earthquake strikes northern Japan, 2 die
1993 Soap opera "Santa Barbara" final show on NBC TV
1993 Top mafia leader Salvatore "Toto" Riina arrested in Palermo
1992 Bulgaria recognizes Macedonia
1992 Cleaning woman finds intimate photos of Sarah Ferguson with U.S. man
1992 Supreme Court rules 5-3 that Joseph Doherty isn't entitled to asylum
1991 Australia beat New Zealand 2-0 to win the World Series Cup
1991 UN's deadline for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait (they don't)
1990 42 year old George Foreman KOs George Cooney in 2 rounds
1990 6th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Knots Landing wins
1990 AT&T experiences long distance problems due to a computer glitch
1990 Blue Jay Cecil Fielder signs with Detroit as a free agent
1990 New York Knicks Trent Tucker scores with 1/10 sec, beats Bulls, 109-106
1989 "Ain't Misbehavin'" closes at Ambassador Theater New York City after 176 performances
1989 10th ACE Cable Awards: HBO wins 35 awards
1989 Betsy King wins LPGA Jamaica Golf Classic
1989 Big John Studd wins WWF's 1st Royal Rumble
1989 Cerberal Palsy telethon raises $22,600,000
1988 Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder makes racist remarks about black athletes
1988 Kiran More stumps five WI batsman at Madras, world Test record
1988 Narendra Hirwani takes 16-136 (8-61 and 8-75) vs. WI on Test debut
1986 Living Seas opens at Epcot
1985 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to John Ashbery and Fred Chapell

January 14 Events

2011 In Afghanistan, the Taliban drop their ban on education for females due to a 'cultural change'
2011 American actress Zsa Zsa Gabor undergoes a life-saving operation and has her leg amputated
2010 A suicide bomber kills 20 people at a market in Afghanistan's Oruzgan Province
2005 The Huygens probe lands on Saturn's moon Titan
1998 100th episode of "Ellen," airs
1998 Charles Barkley pleads not guilty to an assault charge
1996 "Holiday" closes at Circle in Sq Theater New York City after 49 performances
1996 "Swinging On a Star" closes at Music Box Theater New York City after 97 performances
1996 Liselotte Neumann wins Chrysler-Plymouth Tournament of Golf Champions
1995 10,000s South Africans attend state funeral of Joe Slovo
1995 16th ACE Cable Awards: HBO wins 23 awards
1994 Inna Lassovskaya triple-jumps ladies world record (14.61m)
1994 Kathleen Kinmont files for divorce from Lorenzo Lamas
1994 Russian manned space craft TM-17, lands
1993 "Anna Christie" opens at Criterion Theater New York City for 54 performances
1993 David Letterman announces his show is moving from NBC to CBS
1993 Polish ferry boat capsizes in storm, 50 die
1991 "Barbara DeAngelis Show" premieres on CBS-TV
1991 Jorge Serrano Elias sworn in as president of Guatemala
1991 Valentin Pavlov become new premier of U.S.S.R.
1990 "Simpsons" premiered on Fox-TV
1990 11th ACE Cable Awards
1990 Perez de Cuellar says he has lost all hope for peace in Gulf
1989 "Romance/Romance" closes at Helen Hayes Theater New York City after 297 performances
1989 1,000 muslims burn Rushdies' "Satanic Verses" in Bradfort England
1989 29 year old French woman gives birth to sextuplets in Paris
1989 Former Belgian premier Paul Vanden Boeynants kidnapped
1987 Catfish Hunter and Billy Williams are elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1986 Constitution of Guatemala takes effect
1986 Vinicio Cerezo becomes only 2nd freely elected president of Guatemala since CIA-sponsored coup in 1954
1985 16 indicted by U.S. for granting sanctuary to Central American refugees
1985 M Navratilova is 3rd to win 100 tennis tournaments (Connors and Evert)
1984 Madonna 1st sings "Holiday" on American Bandstand
1981 FCC frees stations to air as many commercials an hour as they wish
1980 "Blues Brothers" movie with Dan Akwoyd and John Belushi opens
1980 Shakuntala Devi, mentally multiplies 2 13-digit #s in 28 sec
1979 President Carter proposes Martin Luther King's birthday be a holiday
1978 Sex Pistols' final concert (Winterland, SF)
1976 "Bionic Woman" with Lindsay Wagner debuts on ABC (later NBC)
1976 Ted Turner becomes CEO of Atlanta Braves
1975 Anita Wold (Norway) sets women's ski jump distance record-98 m
1975 U.S.S.R. breaks trade agreement with US
1974 World Football League founded
1973 Grateful Dead bass player, Phil Lesh, busted on drugs in California
1973 Superbowl VII: Miami Dolphins beat Washington Red Skins, 14-7 in LA
1973 Tap dancer Ray Castle measured at 1440 taps/minute on BBC TV
1973 Superbowl MVP: Jake Scott, Miami, S
1972 "Sanford and Son" starring Redd Foxx premieres on NBC TV
1972 WMAH TV channel 19 in Biloxi, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting
1972 WMAU TV channel 17 in Bude, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting
1972 WMAW TV channel 14 in Meridian, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting
1971 John Snow takes 7-40 for England to beat Australia by 299 runs
1969 25 members of U.S. aircraft carrier Enterprise die during maneuvers
1969 Soyuz 4 launched; rendezvous with Soyuz 5 two days later
1968 Superbowl II: Green Bay Packers beat Oakland Raiders, 33-14 in Miami Superbowl MVP: Bart Starr, Green Bay, quarterback
1967 20,000 attend Human Be-In, SF
1967 Earthquake in Sicily kills 231
1967 New York Times reports Army is conducting secret germ warfare experiments
1967 Sonny and Cher release "Beat Goes On"
1966 David Bowie releases his 1st record 'Can't Help Thinking About Me'
1964 14th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 111-107 at Boston
1964 Bapu Nadkarni 32-27-5-0 vs. England, 21 maiden overs in a row
1964 Jacqueline Kennedy's 1st public appearance (TV) since assassination
1963 George C. Wallace sworn in as governor of Alabama, his address states "segregation now; segregation tomorrow; segregation forever!"
1962 NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 31-30
1961 Chicago Bear Willard Dewveall becomes 1st NFLer to join AFL
1960 Tuindorp-Oostzaan in Northern Amsterdam, flooded
1960 U.S. Army promoted Elvis Presley to Sergeant
1956 Jordan government refuses to join Pact of Baghdad
1956 Little Richard releases "Tutti Frutti"
1955 Heitor Villa-Lobos' 8th Symphony, premieres in Philadelphia
1954 New York Yankee Joe DiMaggio marries actress Marilyn Monroe
1954 Sandy Wilson's musical "Boyfriend," premieres in London
1953 Vaughan William's "Sinfonia Antartica," premieres in Manchester
1953 WALA TV channel 10 in Mobile, AL (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 Yugoslavia elects it's 1st president (Marshal Tito)
1952 "Today Show" premieres with Dave Garroway and Jack Lescoulie on NBC-TV
1952 Rationing of coffee in Netherlands ends
1952 Snow storm in Sierra Nevada kills 26
1951 NFL Pro Bowl: 1st since 1942, Americans beat Nationals 28-27
1950 "As the Girls Go" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 420 performances

January 13 Events

2011 In South Korea, 1.4 million domestic pigs are buried alive to combat an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease
2011 North Korea plans to host its first ever golf tournament on a course frequented by leader Kim Jong-il
2010 The People's Republic of China 2009 Mercedes-Benz sales rose 77%
2009 After two years of trying to maintain order, Ethiopian military forces start pulling out of Somalia
2001 Earthquake and landslides kill 850 in El Salvador
1998 "Patti LaBelle On Broadway," opens at St. James Theater New York City
1998 CBS pays $4 billion to televise AFC games for 8-years
1995 26 HNL teams unanimously ratify agreement to end NHL strike
1995 America3 becomes 1st all-female crew to win an America's Cup race
1994 Italian government of Ciampi resigns
1994 Tonya Harding's bodyguard, Shawn Eric Eckardt and Derrick Brian Smith arrested and charged with conspiracy in attack of skater Nancy Kerrigan
1993 STS-54 (Endeavour) launches into orbit
1993 Super Bowl XXVII in Pasadena - Cowboys beat Bills
1992 Excavation of new ballpark at Gateway (Jacobs Field) begins
1992 U.S. serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer pleads guilty but insane
1991 12th ACE Cable Awards: HBO wins 25 awards
1991 42 killed in exhibition soccer match in Johannesburg South Africa
1991 Phil Mickelson wins PGA Northern Telecom Golf Open
1991 President Mario Soares of Portugal re-elected
1991 Soccer stadium riot in Orkney South Africa, at least 40 die
1991 U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar meets with Saddam
1990 1st elected U.S. black governor inaugurated (Douglas Wilder-Virginia)
1989 "Friday the 13th" virus strikes hundreds of IBM computers in Britain
1989 "Ryan's Hope" ends 13 year run on ABC-TV
1989 Computers across Britain hit by "Friday the 13th" virus
1989 Jerry Parks, Oklahoma defensive back, charged with shooting a teammate
1989 Ruins of Mashkan-shapir (occupied 2050-1720 BC) found in Iraq
1989 Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz begins 1-year jail sentence
1988 LA Dodger/SD Padre Steve Garvey retires
1988 Supreme Court rules (5-3) public school officials have broad powers to censor school newspapers, plays and other expressive activities
1987 7 top New York Mafia bosses sentenced to 100 years in prison each
1987 West German police arrest Mohammed Ali Hamadi, suspect in 1985 hijacking
1986 NCCA institutes eligibility requirements based on college exams
1986 South Yemen President Ali Nasser Mohammed's bodyguard shoots opponents
1985 23rd Tennis Fed Cup: Czechoslovakia beats USA in Nagoya Japan (2-1)
1985 99-yr-old Otto Bucher scores a hole-in-one at Spanish golf course
1985 Blackhawk Doug Wilson failed on 12th penalty shot against Islanders
1985 Cerberal Palsy telethon raises $17,1000,000
1985 Express train derails in Ethiopia, kills at least 428
1984 TV anchor Christine Craft wins $325,000 in her case against KMBC-TV
1983 AMA urges ban on boxing, sites Muhammad Ali's deteriorating condition
1983 Quebec Nordiques play 251st NHL game without being shut out
1982 Hank Aaron and Frank Robinson elected to Hall of Fame
1982 Air Florida 737 took off in a snowstorm, crashes into 14th St. Bridge in Washington, D.C., and falls into Potomac River, killing 78
1981 Barbara Sonntag, Colorado, crochets record 147 stitches/minute for 1/2 hour
1981 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to May Swenson and Howard Nemerov
1981 Islander's Mike Bossy's 15th career hat trick-4 goals
1980 "King of Schnorrers" closes at Playhouse Theater New York City after 63 performances

January 12 Events

2011 Haiti commemorates the first anniversary of the 2010 earthquake
2011 A plan to prevent the spread of artemisinin-resistant malaria is launched by the World Health Organization (WHO)
2010 A 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti, devastating its capital city, Port-au-Prince, an estimated 150,000 were killed and buried later in mass graves
2005 Deep Impact spacecraft is launched from Cape Canaveral
1997 Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Tournament of Champions
1997 HAL became operational (2001: A Space Odyssey)
1997 Ice skater Oksana Baiul injured slightly whiled driving intoxicated
1997 Space Shuttle STS-81 (Atlantis 18), launches into space
1997 Tiger Woods wins Mercedes Championships
1996 Russian troops arrived in Bosnia (joint operation with U.S.)
1995 Major earthquake kills 5,092 in Kobe Japan
1995 Murder trial against OJ Simpson, begins in LA
1995 Pope John Paul II begins visit to SE Asia
1994 Malcolm X's daughter arrested for plotting Louis Farrakham's murder
1994 Steve Carlton (Phillies) elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1993 Doctors announce Pitts Penguin Mario Limeux has Hodgkin's disease
1993 MTV hostess Martha Quinn marries longtime boyfriend Jordan Tarlow
1992 13th ACE Cable Awards: HBO wins 27 awards
1992 Last building in Gateway area in Cleveland is demolished
1992 U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Christopher Bowman
1992 Algeria's general elections canceled after strong gains by Islamic Salvation Front in the 1st round
1991 Largest crowd to watch Atlantic Coast Womens Basketball game (11,520)
1991 Melvin Stewart swims world record 200 m butterfly (1:55.69)
1991 U.S. Congress gives George Bush authority to wage war against Iraq
1990 Civil Rights activist Reverend Al Sharpton is stabbed in Bensonhurst Bkln
1990 Romania bans Communist party (1st Warsaw Pact member to do so)
1989 6 claim to survive in rubble, 35 days after Armenian quake (hoax)
1989 Idi Amin expelled from Zaire
1988 Willie Stargell (Pittsburgh Pirate), elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1987 Britain's Prince Edward resigns from his Royal Marines training
1986 24th space shuttle (61-C) mission-Columbia 7-launched
1986 Chicago Blackhawks Denis Savard scores at 4 seconds of 3rd period
1983 Brooks Robinson and Juan Marichal elected to Hall of Fame
1983 NCAA creates football Kickoff Classic to begin in August
1981 "Dynasty" with Joan Collins premieres on ABC-TV
1981 -35 degrees F (-37 degrees C), Chester, Massachusetts (state record)
1981 Dynasty, a prime time soap opera inspired by Dallas, premieres on ABC
1980 Mike Bratz (Phoenix) begins NBA free throw streak of 57 games
1979 6th American Music Award: Barry Manilow, Linda Ronstadt win
1979 LA's Hillside Strangler, Kenneth Bianchi, arrested in Bellingham
1979 Record blizzard struck midwest killing over 100
1977 "Ipi Tombi" opens at Harkness Theater New York City for 39 performances
1977 Anti-French demonstrations takes place in Israel after Paris released Abu Daoud, responsible 1972 Munich massacre of Israeli athletes
1976 U.N. Security Council votes 11-1 to seat Palestine Liberation Org
1975 Chrysler Corp offers 1st car rebates
1975 Superbowl IX: Pittsburgh Steelers beat Minnesota Vikings, 16-6 in New Orleans Superbowl MVP: Franco Harris, Pittsburgh, RB
1974 "Joker" by Steve Miller Band peaks at #1
1974 Libya and Tunisia announces they are merging as "Islamic Arab Republic"
1972 Tigers sign a lease to build a $126M domed stadium (doesn't happen)
1971 "All in the Family" premieres on CBS featuring 1st toilet flush on TV
1971 "Soon" opens at Ritz Theater New York City for 3 performances
1971 Congressional Black Caucus organizes
1971 Federal grand jury indicts Reverend Philip Berrigan and 5 others, including a nun and 2 priests, on charges of plotting to kidnap Henry Kissinger
1970 Biafran War ends, Biafra surrenders to Nigeria
1970 Boeing 747 makes its maiden voyage
1969 "Golden Rainbow" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 355 performances
1969 Superbowl III: New York Jets beat Baltimore Colts, 16-7 in Miami Superbowl MVP: Joe Namath, New York Jets, quarterback
1968 Beatles Film Production Ltd changes name to Apple Film Production Ltd
1968 Nighttime version of "Hollywood Squares" premieres on NBC TV
1967 Louisville, Kentucky, draft board refuses exemption for boxer Muhammad Ali

January 11 Events

2011 The Arctic sun rises two days earlier than expected over Ilulissat, Greenland
2011 Scientists posit that streams of antimatter positrons detected annihilating electrons cause Terrestrial gamma-ray flashes on top of thunderstorms
2010 The theory that Egypt's pyramids were built by free workers, not slaves, is reinforced by the discovery of new tombs near the great pyramids
2007 Vietnam becomes the 150th member of the World Trade Organization
2006 Alaska's Augustine volcano erupts
1998 "Proposals," closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 76 performances
1998 24th Annual People's Choice Awards - Seinfeld, Tim Allen win
1998 AFC Championship: Denver Broncos beat Pittsburgh Steelers 24-21
1998 NFC Championship: Green Bay Packers beat San Francisco 49'ers 23-10
1998 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Michelle Kwan
1997 23rd People's Choice Awards: Bill Cosby wins
1997 Martina Hingis beats Jennifer Capriati at Sydney Tennis International
1997 Telstar 401 Satellite Fails
1996 Space Shuttle STS-72 (Endeavour 10), launches into space
1995 5th TV network (WB) Warner Brothers begins (WPIX-TV in New York City)
1995 Birmingham Barracudas granted CFL franchise
1995 DC-9 crashes near Maria La Baya, Colombia: 51 die, 9 yr old girl lives
1995 NHLPA and owners agree to end NHL strike
1994 Hyderabad score 6 for 944 against Andhra Pradesh in Ranji Trophy
1994 Irish government announces end of a 20-year broadcasting ban on IRA
1993 Howard Stern's radio show begins transmitting to Buffalo, New York on WKBW
1993 Independent President candidate Ross Perot publicly returns to politics
1992 Algeria's President Chadli announces his resignation
1992 Paul Simon opens a tour in South Africa
1992 U.S. female Figure Skating championship won by Kristi Yamaguchi.
1991 Congress empowers Bush to order attack on Iraq
1991 Ric Flair wins NWA/WCW wrestling title
1991 Soviets storm buildings in Vilnius to block Lithuania independence
1991 Ben Johnson 1st race after being stripped of his 1988 Olympic Gold medal for steroid use, he finished 2nd
1990 200,000 demand return of Lithuania's independence
1990 Actor Joseph Cotton undergoes vocal cancer operation at 84
1990 Bobby Knight becomes basketball's Big 10 winningest coach (229)
1990 Pat Lafontaine sets New York Islander record of scoring goals in 11 straight
1989 140 nations agree to ban chemical weapons (poison gas, etc)
1989 Denver Nuggets' rookie Jerome Lane misses 7 free throws in a game against Milwaukee, one missed by 2 feet
1989 Kindergarten student caught with loaded handgun at Bronx school
1988 Test debut of Phil Simmons, WI vs. India, Madras
1988 U.S.S.R. announces it will participate in Seoul Summer Olympics
1987 Largest crowd (76,633) at NFL New York Giant Stadium (beat Washington 17-0)
1986 1st black lt Governor since reconstruction sworn in (Douglas Wilder of Va)
1984 Denver Nuggets 163, San Antonio Spurs 155-highest-scoring NBA game
1984 STS-41-B vehicle moves to launch pad
1984 Supreme Court reinstated $10M award to Karen Silkwood's family