Events in History
- Jan 1 Britain, Ireland and Denmark become 7th, 8th and 9th members of the European Common Market
- Jan 1 West African Economic Community formed (Benin, Ivory Coast, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Upper Volta)
- Jan 5 Mali & Niger break diplomatic relations with Israel
- Jan 5 Netherlands recognizes German DR
- Jan 7 American poet James Merrill wins Bollingen Prize
- Jan 7 Johnny Watkins bowls six overs 0-21 v Pakistan Never again
- Jan 7 Mark Essex's mass shooting comes to an end after he is shot by police more than 200 times on the roof of New Orlean's Holiday Inn hotel. He killed nine people, including five policeman.
- Jan 8 Judge Sirica begins the trial of the Watergate burglars in Washington, D.C.
- Jan 8 Secret peace talks between US & North Vietnam resumed near Paris
- Jan 8 USSR launches Luna 21 for Moon landing
- Jan 9 Luna 21 launched, to Moon
- Jan 10 For the first time graduates studying from home with 'the Open University' receive their degrees
- Jan 10 Gas tank on Staten Island explodes, 40 die
- Jan 11 Famous victory at the SCG Pakistan chasing 158 all out 106
- Jan 13 Lasse Daniel Efskind skates world record 1000m (1:17.6)
- Jan 14 2 Royal Ulster Constabulary officers are killed in Derry by a booby-trap bomb attached to their car by the Irish Republican Army
- Jan 15 4 Watergate burglars plead guilty in federal court
- Jan 15 Gene Shalit joins Today Show panel
Event of Interest
Jan 15 Pope Paul VI holds an audience with Golda Meir at the Vatican
Battle of Interest
Jan 15 US President Richard Nixon suspends all US offensive action in North Vietnam
- Jan 16 USSR's Lunakhod 2 begins radio-controlled exploration of Moon
- Jan 17 City of Amsterdam decides to support Hanoi
- Jan 17 New Philippine constitution names Marcos president for life
- Jan 20 A car bomb explodes in Sackville Place, Dublin, Republic of Ireland, killing 1 person and injuring 17 (no group claimed responsibility)
- Jan 20 Richard Nixon's second inauguration as President of the United States takes place in Washington, D.C.
- Jan 22 Roe vs Wade: US Supreme Court legalizes most abortions
- Jan 22 US, North & South Vietnam & Vietcong sign boundary accord
- Jan 23 Helgafell, island of Heimaey Iceland erupts for 1st time in 7,000 yrs
- Jan 23 Jordan Air crash at Kano, Nigeria kills 176 Muslim pilgrims
Agreement of Interest
Jan 23 Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi announces that the 1954 operating agreement between a consortium of oil companies and Iran will not be renewed when it expires in 1979
America’s Agony Is Over: Vietnam War Ends
Jan 23 US President Richard Nixon announces an accord has been reached to end the Vietnam War
- Jan 26 Belgium government of Leburton forms
- Jan 27 Paris Peace Accords: US Secretary of State William P. Rogers, (North) Vietnam Minister for Foreign Affairs Nguyen Duy Trinh, Republic of South Vietnam Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyễn Thị Bình, and Republic of Vietnam Minister for Foreign Affairs Trần Văn Lắm sign cease-fire, ending longest US war (at the time) and military draft
- Jan 27 US female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn
- Jan 27 US male Figure Skating championship won by Gordon McKellen Jr
- Jan 28 In the run up to the first anniversary of 'Bloody Sunday' there is serious rioting in Derry, North Ireland
- Jan 29 International agreement to pay for and conserve 9th century Borobudur Temple in Indonesia, world's largest Buddhist temple (completed 1982). Beginnings of the World Heritage Convention. [1]
- Jan 30 Jury finds Watergate defendants Liddy & McCord guilty on all counts of conspiracy, burglary, and illegal wiretapping
Birthdays in History
- Jan 1 Anwar Mansoor Mangrio, Sindhi poet & research scholar.
- Jan 20 Queen Mathilde of Belgium, born in Uccle, Belgium
- Jan 25 Elvis Presley Jr., alleged son of Elvis Presley
- Jan 25 Geoff Johns, American comic book writer, born in Detroit, Michigan
- Jan 26 Mayu Shinjo, Japanese mangaka, born in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan
Deaths in History
- Jan 5 Cor of Dis sr. [Cornelis Nicolas of Dis sr.], Dutch politician (SGP), dies at 79
- Jan 15 Ivan Petrovsky, Russian mathematician (b. 1901)
- Jan 20 Amilcar Cabral, Bissau-Guinean nationalist leader, fought for Guinea Bissau independence, murdered at 51
- Jan 20 Lorenz Böhler, Austrian physician (b. 1885)
Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973)
Jan 22 36th US President (Democrat: 1963-69), dies at his Texas ranch at 64
- Jan 23 Alexander Onassis, Greek heir of the Onassis family (b. 1948)
- Jan 26 Meijer Sluyser, Dutch journalist/commentator (VARA), dies at about 71
- Jan 27 William Nolde, US Army officer, last US soldier killed during Vietnam War, dies at 43
- Jan 31 Ragnar Frisch, Norwegian economist and 1st winner of the Nobel prize in economics in 1969, dies at 77
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