31 January Your'e Fired!!!!!

2017 Acting Attorney General Sally Yates  dismissed after she refused to allow the Justice Department to defend the travel ban.

30 January Pope forgives

1071 German Emperor Henry IV pardoned by Pope  Gregory VII

29 January Investigation Ends

1999 Investigation into the crash that killed Diana Princess of Wales, Dodi Fayadd driver Henri Paul and seriously injured Trevor Ress Jones ended by prosecutors in Paris, France.

28 January Would Be Hostages Leave

1980 Six Americans who had fled the American embassy in Tehran were snack out to Canada using fake passports provided them by the Canadian Government.

27 January Suspension

2017 Admission to the United States from 7 Muslim Majority countries is halted by President Trump after a successful challenge the ban is changed by the president.The Supreme court is ise to hear arguements in the spring.

26 January Woman Appointed

1961 Janet G. Travell appointed Physician to the President the first woman to hold that job.

25 January Pope Goes

1979 first trip overseas by John Paul II as pope.

24 January Rebuilding Considered

1956 Rebuilding a devestated area of London was considered by an inquiry.

23 January Town Rebuilding Funded

1914 After the town of Ålesund on the Noway coast suffers a fire that left 10'000 homeless and one dead Kaiser Wilhelm II funds its rebuilding.

22 Jasnuary Album recorded

1971 Power to the People album released by John Lennon and Yoko Ono.

21 January Holy Man Visits

1998 Visit to Cuba by Pope John Paul II.

20 January Electoral Faliure Made Clear

2017 Donald Trump becomes president without any electors pledged to him switching parties. One Texas elector voted for Ron Paul and another for John Kasich both Republican.

19 January Peace Attempt Called For

1968 A new attempt to promote peace in Northern Ireland called for by its Prime Minister

18 January Talks Begiun

1919 Opening of Versailles Peace Conference to end WWI.

17 January Permission Granted

1821 Patent by Mexican Government issued to Moses Austin to settle Texas. 

16 January Agreement Signed

1992 Salvadoran Civil War ends by signing of Chapultepec Peace Accords

15 January Princess Speaks

1997 In what many say is a possible motive for her 30-1 August alleged murder in Paris Diana Princess of Wales calls for an international ban on land mines.

14 January Acceptance.

  1918 Acceptance of the Gregorian Calendar by Finland and Soviet Union.

13 January Royal Approval Recieved

1630 King Charles I issues letters of patent to Plimouth Colony.

12 January Allies Win

1942 Sollum retaken by British in North Africa.

11 January Record

1942 Kingston RI records the state's lowest temperature -22F -31C.

10 January Answer

1917 France The United Kingdom and Tsarist Russia respond to Wilson's' note giving their terms for ending hostilities.

9 January Leader Visits

1983  Visit to Falkland Islands by Prime Minister Margret Thatcher.

8 January 50+ Die

1996 Due to blizzard in northeast there are at least fifty confirmed deaths.

7 January Famous Reign Begins

1598 Russian crown seized by Boris Godunov on the death of Feodor I.

6 January Derailment

1853  President-Elect Franklin Pierce and his family are involved in a train derailment whcich killed their son Benny.

5 January Deep Freeze

1918 Demand by Prime Minister David Lloyd George for a unified peace with Germany. 

4 January Certification

1989 1988 election results certified by outgoing vice president George Herbert Walker Bush declaring himself president and Dan Qwale vice President for the term that would start in 16 days.

3 January Breakdown

1889 Mental breakdown suffered by Frederich Nietzsche after witnissing a horse being flogged.

2 January Procedure Ended

1776 Torture to force confession abolished an Austria.

1 January Return

1957 Saar returned by France to West Germany becoming 10th West German state.