1525 - The Swiss Anabaptist Movement was born when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptized each other in the home of Manz 's mother on Neustadt-Gasse , Zurich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union.
1643 - Abel TasmanAbel Janszoon Tasman ( 1603 1659) was a Dutch seafarer and explorer, born in Lutjegast, a village in the province of Groningen, best known for his voyages of 1642 and 1644, in the service of the VOC ( Dutch East India Company). His was the first European discovers TongaThe Kingdom of Tonga is an archipelago in the southern Pacific Ocean, about a third of the way between New Zealand and Hawaii. It lies south of Samoa and east of Fiji. Pule'anga Fakatu'i 'o TongaKingdom of Tonga ( In Detail) (Full size) National motto: Ko.
1720Events January 6 The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble publishes its findings February 11 Sweden and Prussia sign the ( 2nd Treaty of Stockholm) declaring peace. February 29 Queen Ulrike Eleonora of Sweden resigns. The Tuscarora fled North Caro - SwedenThe Kingdom of Sweden Konungariket Sverige in Swedish) is a Nordic country in Scandinavia, in Northern Europe. It is bordered by Norway on the west, Finland on the northeast, the Skagerrak and the Kattegat on the southwest, and the Baltic Sea and the Gulf and PrussiaThe Kingdom of Prussia existed from 1701 until 1918, and from 1871 was the leading kingdom of the German Empire, comprising in its last form almost two-thirds of the area of the Empire. In 1688, Frederick William I, the "Great Elector", died and his posse signs the Treaty of Stockholm.
1789Events January 7 First nationwide United States election January 21 The first American novel, The Power of Sympathy or the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth is printed in Boston, Massachusetts January 23 Georgetown College becomes the first Catholic coll - The first American novel, The Power of Sympathy or the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth, is printed in Boston, MassachusettsAlternate meanings: Boston (disambiguation Old State House in Boston is surrounded by tall buildings of the 19th and 20th centuries. Boston is the capital and largest city in Massachusetts in the United States. It is the unofficial capital of the region k.
1968 - Simon & Garfunkel release the Original Soundtrack to The Graduate, which quickly goes to #1 on the pop charts and which will bring Simon a Grammy for Best Original Score.
1969 - An experimental underground nuclear reactor at Lucens Vad, Switzerland, released radiation into a cavern, which was then sealed.
1976 - The first commercial service Concorde flight took off.
2003 - The terms of Kevin Mitnick's parole allow him to use a computer again.
2004 - Canada: The residence of reporter, Juliet O'Neill was searched by the RCMP investigating leaks concerning the deportation of Maher Arar.
2004 - NASA's MER-A (Mars Rover) had too many open files for the flash memory; the robotic Rover froze in mid-motion; the problem was fixed remotely from Earth.