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• 1606 - Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begin and later ends in their execution on January 31.
• 1785 - The University of Georgia is founded.
• 1870 - First college sorority, Kappa Alpha Theta, is formed at DePauw University.
• 1880 - Thomas Edison files a patent for his electric incandescent lamp.
• 1888 - In Washington, DCWashington, DC officially the District of Columbia (also known as DC Washington and, historically, the Federal City is the capital city and administrative district of the United States of America. Residents of the city and its surrounding suburbs refer to the National Geographic SocietyThe National Geographic Society was founded in the USA on January 27, 1888, by 33 men interested in "organizing a society for the increase and diffusion of geographical knowledge. They had begun discussing forming the Society two weeks earlier on January is founded.
• 19001900 is the common year starting on Monday. see link for calendar) For the film, see 1900 (film). Events January January 1 Nigeria becomes British protectorate January 2 John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China. January 2 Chicag - Boxer RebellionThe Boxer Rebellion ( simplified: traditional: , Pinyin: Yihetuan Qyi) was an uprising against Western commercial and political influence in China during the final years of the 19th century. By August 1900, over 230 foreigners, thousands of Chinese Christ: Foreign diplomats in Peking, ChinaThis article is on the geographic and cultural entity. For other meanings, see China (disambiguation). China ( Traditional Chinese: , Simplified Chinese: , Hanyu Pinyin: Zhongguo, Wade-Giles: Chung-kuo) is a country in continental East Asia with some oute demand that the Boxer rebels be disciplined.
• 1915Events January 12 The Rocky Mountain National Park is established by an act of Congress. January 12 United States House of Representatives rejects proposal to give women the right to vote. January 13 An earthquake (6. 8 in Richter scale) in Avezzano, Ital - United States MarinesThe United States Marine Corps USMC is the second-smallest of the five branches of the United States armed forces, with 170,000 active and 40,000 reserve Marines as of 2002. The United States Coast Guard is the smallest. The Marine Corps is nonetheless la occupy Haiti.
• 1926 - John Logie Baird demonstrates the first television broadcast.
• 1943 - World War II: 50 bombers mount the first all American air raid against Germany ( Wilhelmshaven was the target).
• 1944 - World War II: The two year Siege of Leningrad is lifted.
• 1945 - World War II: The Red Army arrives at Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland and find the Nazi concentration camp where 1.1-1.5 million people were murdered.
• 1951 - Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flats.
• 1967 - Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of the Apollo 1 spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center.
• 1967 - More than 60 nations sign the Outer Space Treaty banning nuclear weapons in space.
• 1973 - Paris Peace Accords officially end the Vietnam War.
• 1978 - Lt Marilyn R. Koon, 161st Aerial Refueling Squadron, Arizona Air National Guard, becomes first female Air National Guard Pilot.
• 1984 - Carl Lewis beats his own indoor world jumping record by 9-1/4 inches with a 28 feet, 10-1/4 inches jump.
• 1991 - Muhammad Siyad Barre flees his compound in Mogadishu.
• 1991 - Super Bowl XXV: The New York Giants defeat the Buffalo Bills, 20-19.
• 1992 - Mike Tyson goes on trial charged with raping a 1991 Miss Black America contestant.
• 1996 - Colonel Ibrahim Bare Mainassara deposes the first democratically elected president of Niger, Mahamane Ousmane, in a military coup.
• 1997 - It is revealed that French museums had nearly 2,000 pieces of art that were stolen by Nazis.
• 1998 - American First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton appears on the Today Show calling the attacks against her husband part of a "vast right-wing conspiracy."
• 2001 - A chartered Beechcraft King Air 200 crashes after takeoff from Boulder, Colorado killing 10.
• 2002 - Several explosions at a military dump in Lagos, Nigeria kill more than 1,000.