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• 1184 BC - According to the calculations of Eratosthenes, the date that Troy was sacked and burned.
• 1509 - Marriage of King Henry VIII of England and Katherine of Aragon.
• 1534 - Jacques Cartier and crew celebrate the first recorded Catholic mass in North America.
• 1770 - Captain James Cook runs aground on the Great Barrier ReefThe Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef. The reef is located in the Coral Sea off the coast of Queensland in north-east Australia. It stretches over 2000 kilometres in length and can be seen from space. The first European explorer to see.
• 1788Events January 1 First edition of The Times previously The Daily Universal Register was published. January 2 Georgia ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 4th U. January 9 Connecticut ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes t - RussiaThe Russian Federation ( Russian: , transliteration: Rossiyskaya Federatsiya or Rossijskaja Federacija , or Russia (Russian: , transliteration: Rossiya or Rossija , is a country that stretches over a vast expanse of eastern Europe and northern Asia. Withn explorer Gerasim IzmailovGerasim Grigor'evich Izmailov circa 1745 after 1795) was a Russian sea explorer who did much to map the Russian Far East and the Aleutian Islands and Russian America ( Alaska). Born in Yakutsk, he made numerous sea voyages together with Dmitry Bocharov, b reaches AlaskaOn January 3, 1959, Alaska was admitted to the United States as the 49th state. The population of the state is 626,932, as of 2000. The name "Alaska" is most likely derived from the Aleut word for "great country" or "mainland. The natives called it "Alyes.
• 1898Events January 1 New York City annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York. The city is geographically divided into five boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx, and Staten Island. January 13 Emile Zola's J'accus - Spanish-American WarThe Spanish-American War took place in 1898, and resulted in the United States of America gaining control over the former colonies of Spain in the Caribbean and Pacific. Background For several centuries Spain's position as a world power had been slipping: U.S. war ships start to sail for CubaAlternate meanings: see Cuba (disambiguation The Republic of Cuba is an archipelago in the northern Caribbean, in between the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. To the north are found the United States and the Bahamas, to the west M.
• 1899 - Pope Leo XIII dedicates the entire human race to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
• 1901 - New Zealand annexes the Cook Islands.
• 1937 - Great Purge: The Soviet Union executes eight army leaders under Joseph Stalin.
• 1940 - World War II: British forces bomb Genoa and Turin, Italy.
• 1942 - World War II: The United States agrees to send Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union.
• 1955 - Eighty-three are killed and at least 100 are injured after an Austin-Healy and a Mercedes-Benz collide at the Le Mans Grand Prix .
• 1962 - Frank Morris , John Anglin and Clarence Anglin escape from Alcatraz.
• 1963 - American Civil Rights Movement: Alabama Governor George Wallace stands at the door of Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama in an attempt to block two black students from attending that school.
• 1963 - Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc burns himself with gasoline in a busy Saigon intersection to protest the lack of religious freedom in South Vietnam.
• 1964 - World War II veteran Walter Seifert runs amok in an elementary school in Cologne, Germany, killing at least eight children and two teachers and seriously injuring several more with a home-made flamethrower and a lance.
• 1967 - Mexico becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
• 1977 - Seattle Slew wins the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing.
• 1998 - Compaq Computer pays $9 billion for Digital Equipment Corporation in largest high-tech acquisition
• 2001 - United States carries out the severest sentence for the gravest of crimes as Timothy McVeigh is executed for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
• 2004 - Cassini-Huygens makes its closest flyby of Phoebe.
• 2004 - United States observes a National Day of Mourning for former president Ronald Reagan, whose remains are interred today.
• 2004 - Exactly three years to the day Timothy McVeigh is executed for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing, his co-defendant Terry Nichols is spared of the death penalty because of a jury deadlock.