The U.S. presidential election of 2000 was one of the closest elections in U.S. history, decided by only 527 votes in the swing state of Florida. On election night, the media prematurely declared a winner twice based on exit polls before finally deciding that the Florida race was too close to call. It would turn out to be a month before the election was finally certified after numerous court challenges and recounts. Republican candidate George W. Bush won Florida's 25 electoral votes by a razor-thin margin of the popular ...
1998 (MCMXCVIII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean.
1998 - Events.
January 1998 - A massive ice storm, caused by El Niño, strikes New England, southern Ontario and Quebec, resulting in widespread power failures, severe damage to forests, and a number of deaths.
January 1 - Smoking is banned in all California bars and restaurants.
January 2 - Russia begins to circulate new rubl ...
1993 (MCMXCIII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003).
1993 - Events.
January 1 - Czechoslovakia divides. Establishment of independent Slovakia and Czech Republic.
January 3 - In Moscow, George H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).
January 5 - Washington State executes Westley Allan Do ...
1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar).
1940 - Births.
See also Category:1940 births
January 4 - Brian David Josephson, Welsh physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
January 4 - Gao Xingjian, Chinese-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate
January 6 - Penny Lernoux, American journalist and author (d. 1989)
January 14 - Julian Bond, American civil rights activist
January 20 - Carol Heiss, American figure skater
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1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar).
1937 - Events.
January 1 - Anastasio Somoza becomes President of Nicaragua
January 11 - The first issue of Look magazine goes on sale in the United States.
January 19 - Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes and 25 seconds.
January 23 - In Moscow, 17 leading Communists go on trial accused of participatin ...
1989 (MCMLXXXIX) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. The world population growth in absolute numbers is believed to have been the highest ever around this time. [1]
1989 - Events.
January 8 - the Kegworth Air Disaster - A British Midland Boeing 737 crashes on approach to East Midlands Airport - 44 dead
January 16–18 - Race riots in Overtown, Miami
January 10 - Cuban troops begin withdrawing from Angola
January 10 - Assistant Austra ...
1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar.
1988 - Events.
January 1 - The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is established, creating the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States.
January 2 - Georgia celebrates its bicentennial statehood.
January 9 - Connecticut celebrates its bicentennial statehood.
January 26 - Australia celebrates its bicentennial.
1988 - February. ...
1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar).
1947 - Events.
January 1 - British mines nationalized
January 1 - Nigeria gains limited autonomy
January 1 - The Canadian Citizenship Act went into effect
January 3 - Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time
January 10 - United Nations takes control of the free city of Trieste
January 15 - Elizabeth Short (the "Black Dahlia") is ...
1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar).
1944 - Events.
January 4 - The Battle of Monte Cassino begins.
January 5 - Murder of Danish playwright Kaj Munk.
January 14 - The Soviet troops start the offensive at Leningrad and Novgorod.
January 17 - British forces, in Italy, cross the Garigliano River.
January 17 - Meat Rationing ends in Australia.
January 20 - The Royal Air Force drops 2,300 to ...
1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar.
1951 - Events.
January 9 - United Nations headquarters officially opens (New York City).
January 15 - Ilse Koch, The "Witch of Buchenwald," wife of the Commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment in a court in West Germany.
January 17 - Korean War: Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul.
January 20 - Avalanches in the Alps - 240 die and 45.000 are ...
1952 (MCMLII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar).
1952 - Events.
January 8 - West Germany has 8 million refugees inside its borders.
January 24 - Sudden heavy snowfall in Algeria.
January 24 - Vincent Massey sworn in as first Canada-born Governor-General of Canada.
1952 - February.
February 2 - A tropical storm forms just north of Cuba moving northeast. The storm makes landfall in southe ...
1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar).
1978 - Events.
January 1 - The Copyright Act of 1976 takes effect, making sweeping changes to United States copyright law.
January 1 - Air India's Boeing 747 explodes near Bombay - 213 dead.
January 4 - Referendum in Chile supports policies of Augusto Pinochet.
January 6 - The Hungarian Holy Crown (also known as Stephen of Hungary Crown) returned to Hungary from the U ...
1974 (MCMLXXIV) is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar).
1974 - Events.
January 5 - Dungeons & Dragons officially released.
January 6 - In response to the energy crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States.
January 30 - G. Gordon Liddy found guilty of Watergate charges
1974 - February.
February 1 - Fire in Joelman Bank Building in Sao Paulo, Brazil - ...
1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday. 1970 is the Unix epoch time.
1970 - Events.
January 1 - Construction begins on Arcosanti, by Paolo Soleri, in Mayer, Arizona, located 65 miles north of Phoenix, Arizona.
January 1 - Unix epoch at 00:00:00 UTC.
January 5 - The first episode of All My Children was broadcast on the ABC television network.
January 12 - Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian civil war.
January 15 - After a 32-mo ...
1953 (MCMLIII) is a common year starting on Thursday.
1953 - Events.
January 7 - President Harry S. Truman announces the United States has developed a hydrogen bomb.
January 12 - Estonian emigres find a government in exile in Oslo
January 13 - Marshal Josip Broz Tito chosen President of Yugoslavia
January 15 - Georg Dertinger, foreign minister of East Germany, is arrested for spying
January 20 - Change of US presidency from Harry S. Truman (1945-1953) ...
The calendar of saints is a traditional Christian method of organising a liturgical year on the level of days by associating each day with one or more saints, and referring to the day as the saint's day of that saint. The system arose from the very early Christian custom of annual commemoration of martyrs on the date of their death. As the number of recognized saints increased during Late Antiquity and roughly the first half of the Middle Ages, eventually every day of the year had at least one saint who was commemorated on that ...
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1877 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar).
1877 - Events.
January 1 - Queen Victoria proclaimed Empress of India by the Royal Titles Act, introduced by United Kingdom Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli.
January 8 - Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle with the United States Cavalry (Montana)
January 20 - Ottoman Turkey rejec ...
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1875 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). In the ISO 8601 calendar, 1875 is defined as the year the Convention du Mètre was originally signed, by way of a reference year.
1875 - Events.
January 12 - Kwang-su becomes emperor of China.
February 27 - Newton Booth, 11th Governor of California resigns, having been elected Senator. Lieutenant Governor ...
1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar).
1934 - Events.
January 1 - Alcatraz becomes a federal prison.
January 1 - Nazi Germany passes the "Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring."
January 7 - First Flash Gordon comic strip is published.
January 10 - Execution of Marinus van der Lubbe
January 24 - Einstein visits White House
January 26 - The Apollo The ...
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1897 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar).
1897 - Events.
January 1 - Brooklyn, New York merges with New York City.
January 4 - A British force is ambushed by Chief Ologbosere, son-in-law of the Oba of Benin. This leads to a Punitive Expedition against Benin.
February 2 - Harrisburg, the Pennsylvania state capitol, is destroyed by fire.
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