<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en"><body><pre>904 – Sergius III is elected pope, after coming out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher.[1]
946 – Caliph al-Mustakfi is blinded and deposed by Mu'izz al-Dawla, ruler of the Buyid Empire. He is succeeded by al-Muti as caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate.[2]1814 – War of the Sixth Coalition: France engages Russia and Prussia in the Battle of Brienne.[3]
1819 – Stamford Raffles lands on the island of Singapore.[4]
1845 – "The Raven" is published in The Evening Mirror in New York, the first publication with the name of the author, Edgar Allan Poe.[5]
1850 – Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the U.S. Congress.[6]
1856 – Queen Victoria issues a Warrant under the Royal sign-manual that establishes the Victoria Cross to recognise acts of valour by British military personnel during the Crimean War.[7]
1861 – Kansas is admitted as the 34th U.S. state.[8]
1863 – The Bear River Massacre: A detachment of California Volunteers led by Colonel Patrick Edward Connor engage the Shoshone at Bear River, Washington Territory, killing hundreds of men, women and children.[9]
1886 – Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.[10]
1891 – Liliʻuokalani is proclaimed the last monarch and only queen regnant of the Kingdom of Hawaii.[11]1907 – Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American U.S. Senator.[12]
1911 – Mexican Revolution: Mexicali is captured by the Mexican Liberal Party, igniting the Magonista rebellion of 1911.[13]
1918 – Ukrainian–Soviet War: The Bolshevik Red Army, on its way to besiege Kyiv, is met by a small group of military students at the Battle of Kruty.[14]
1918 – Ukrainian–Soviet War: An armed uprising organized by the Bolsheviks in anticipation of the encroaching Red Army begins at the Kiev Arsenal, which will be put down six days later.[15]
1936 – The first inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame are announced.[16]
1940 – Three trains on the Nishinari Line; present Sakurajima Line, in Osaka, Japan, collide and explode while approaching Ajikawaguchi Station. One hundred and eighty-one people are killed.[17]
1943 – World War II: The first day of the Battle of Rennell Island, USS Chicago (CA-29) is torpedoed and heavily damaged by Japanese bombers.[18]
1944 – World War II: Approximately 38 people are killed and about a dozen injured when the Polish village of Koniuchy (present-day Kaniūkai, Lithuania) is attacked by Soviet partisan units.[19]
1944 – World War II: In Bologna, Italy, the Anatomical theatre of the Archiginnasio is completely destroyed in an air-raid.[20]
1959 – The first Melodifestivalen is held at Cirkus in Stockholm, Sweden.[21]
1965 – Hakametsä, the first ice rink of Finland, is inaugurated in Tampere.[22]
1973 – EgyptAir Flight 741 crashes into the Kyrenia Mountains in Cyprus, killing 37 people.[23]
1983 – Singapore cable car crash: Panamanian-registered oil rig, Eniwetok, strikes the cables of the Singapore Cable Car system linking the mainland and Sentosa Island, causing two cabins to fall into the water and killing seven people and leaving thirteen others trapped for hours.[24]
1989 – Cold War: Hungary establishes diplomatic relations with South Korea, making it the first Eastern Bloc nation to do so.[25]
1991 – Gulf War: The Battle of Khafji, the first major ground engagement of the war, as well as its deadliest, begins between Iraq and Saudi Arabia.[26]
1996 – President Jacques Chirac announces a "definitive end" to French nuclear weapons testing.[27]
2001 – Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament and demand that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals.[28]
2002 – In his State of the Union address, President George W. Bush describes "regimes that sponsor terror" as an Axis of evil, in which he includes Iraq, Iran and North Korea.[29]
2005 – The first direct commercial flights from mainland China (from Guangzhou) to Taiwan since 1949 arrived in Taipei. Shortly afterwards, a China Airlines flight lands in Beijing.[30]
2008 – An Egyptian court rules that people who do not adhere to one of the three government-recognised religions, while not allowed to list any belief outside of those three, are still eligible to receive government identity documents.[31]
2009 – Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich is removed from office following his conviction of several corruption charges, including solicitation of personal benefit in exchange for an appointment to the United States Senate as a replacement for then-U.S. president-elect Barack Obama.[32]
2013 – SCAT Airlines Flight 760 crashes near the Kazakh city of Almaty, killing 21 people.[33]
2014 – Rojava conflict: The Afrin Canton declares its autonomy from the Syrian Arab Republic.[34]
2017 – A gunman opens fire at the Islamic Cultural Centre of Quebec City, killing six people and wounding 19 others in a spree shooting.[35]1455 – Johann Reuchlin, German-born humanist and scholar (d. 1522)[36]
1475 – Giuliano Bugiardini, Italian painter (d. 1555)[37]
1499 – Katharina von Bora, wife of Martin Luther; formerly a Roman Catholic nun (d. 1552)[38]
1525 – Lelio Sozzini, Italian humanist and reformer (d. 1562)[39]
1584 – Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (d. 1647)[40]
1591 – Franciscus Junius, German pioneer philologist (d. 1677)[41]1602 – Countess Amalie Elisabeth of Hanau-Münzenberg (d. 1651)[42]
1632 – Johann Georg Graevius, German scholar and critic (d. 1703)[43]
1688 – Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish astronomer, philosopher, and theologian (d. 1772)[44]
1711 – Giuseppe Bonno, Austrian composer (d. 1788)[45]
1715 – Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Austrian organist and composer (d. 1777)[46]
1717 – Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, English field marshal and politician, 19th Governor General of Canada (d. 1797)[47]
1718 – Paul Rabaut, French pastor (d. 1794)[48]
1737 – Thomas Paine, English-American political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary (d. 1809)[49]
1749 – Christian VII of Denmark (d. 1808)[50]
1754 – Moses Cleaveland, American general, lawyer, and politician, founded Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1806)[51]
1756 – Henry Lee III, American general and politician, 9th Governor of Virginia (d. 1818)[52]
1761 – Albert Gallatin, Swiss-American ethnologist, linguist, and politician, 4th United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1849)[53]
1782 – Daniel Auber, French composer (d. 1871)[54]
1792 – Lemuel H. Arnold, American politician (d. 1852)[55]
1801 – Johannes Bernardus van Bree, Dutch violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 1857)[56]
1810 – Ernst Kummer, Polish-German mathematician and academic (d. 1893)[57]
1810 – Mary Whitwell Hale, American teacher, school founder, and hymnwriter (d. 1862)[58]
1843 – William McKinley, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 25th President of the United States (d. 1901)[59]
1846 – Karol Olszewski, Polish chemist, mathematician and physicist (d. 1915)[60]
1852 – Frederic Hymen Cowen, Jamaican-English pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1935)[61]
1858 – Henry Ward Ranger, American painter and academic (d. 1916)[62]
1860 – Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright and short story writer (d. 1904)[63]
1861 – Florida Ruffin Ridley, American civil rights activist, teacher, editor, and writer (d. 1943)[64]
1862 – Frederick Delius, English composer (d. 1934)[65]
1864 – Richard Arman Gregory, British astronomer (d. 1952)[66]
1866 – Romain Rolland, French historian, author, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1944)[67]
1867 – Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Spanish journalist and author (d. 1928)[68]
1874 – John D. Rockefeller Jr., American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1960)[69]
1876 – Havergal Brian, English composer (d. 1972)[70]
1880 – W. C. Fields, American actor, comedian, and screenwriter (d. 1946)[71]
1881 – Alice Catherine Evans, American microbiologist (d. 1975)[72]
1884 – Juhan Aavik, Estonian-Swedish composer and conductor (d. 1982)[73]
1886 – Karl Freudenberg, German chemist (d. 1983)[74]
1888 – Sydney Chapman, English mathematician and geophysicist (d. 1970)[75]
1888 – Wellington Koo, Chinese statesman (d. 1985)[76]
1892 – Ernst Lubitsch, German American film director, producer, writer, and actor (d. 1947)[77]
1895 – Muna Lee, American poet and author (d. 1965)[78]1901 – Allen B. DuMont, American engineer and broadcaster, founded the DuMont Television Network (d. 1965)[79]
1901 – E. P. Taylor, Canadian businessman and horse breeder (d. 1989)[80]
1905 – Barnett Newman, American painter and etcher (d. 1970)[81]
1913 – Victor Mature, American actor (d. 1999)[82]
1915 – Bill Peet, American author and illustrator (d. 2002)[83]
1915 – John Serry Sr., Italian-American concert accordionist and composer (d. 2003)[84][85]
1916 – Roy Markham, British plant virologist (d. 1979)[86]
1917 – John Raitt, American actor and singer (d. 2005)[87]
1918 – John Forsythe, American actor (d. 2010)[88]
1920 – Paul Gayten, American R&B pianist, songwriter, producer, and record company executive</pre></body></html>