1189 Philip II, Henry II & Richard Lion-Hearted initiate 3rd Crusade

1276 Pierre de Tarantaise elected Pope Innocent V

1324 Zen Buddhist religious debate between Tendai & Shingon

1522 Head inquisitor Adrian Florisz Boeyens elected pope

1542 Parliament passes bill of attainder against Queen Katherine Howard

1604 Tsar Ivan IV defeats the False Dmitri, who claims to be the true tsar

1643 Dutch mariner Abel Tasman discovers Tonga in the Pacific

1664 Count Miklós of Zrinyi sets out to battle Turkish invasion army

1677 The first medical publication in America (pamphlet on smallpox), Boston

1732 Russia & Persia sign Treaty of Riascha

1757 In Ticonderoga New York Robert Rogers 1731-1795 defeated with his Rogers Rangers by French near Ticonderoga

1789 The first American novel, WH Brown's "The Power of Sympathy," is published

1792 French King Louis XVI was executed in Paris.

1793 Jan 21, King Louis the 16th of France is found guilty of treason and beheaded during the Revolution.

1793 Prussia & Russia sign partition treaty (Poland divided)

1799 Edward Jenner's smallpox vaccination is introduced

1839 Acadia College opens in Wolfville Nova Scotia; now Acadia University.

1846 The first edition of Charles Dickens' "Daily News"

1853 Envelope-folding machine patented by Russell Hawes, Worcester MA

1854 The Cardiff schooner Catherine o'Flanagan, stranded near Tyrella, in Dundrum Bay, Northern Ireland. Although the ship did not suffer much damage in the stranding the crew had abandoned her before she hit the shore and were drowned in the breakers.

1861 Jefferson Davis of Mississippi & 4 other southern senators resign

1861 Mississippi Sen. Jefferson Davis resigned from the U.S. Senate, 12 days before Mississippi seceded from the Union.

1863 City of Dublin leases part of Cattle Market for 100,000 years

1863 Outback explorers Robert Burke and William Wills given heroes' funeral in Melbourne.

1865 Jan 21, Akrin, Ohio is incorporated as a city.

1874 Franz Grillparzer's "Libussa," premieres in Vienna

1879 Henrik Ibsen's "Et Dukkehjem," premieres in Copenhagen

1880 Jeffree & Pendray install Victoria's*(British Columbia) first business telephones; W. J. Jeffree's Clothing store, W. I. Pendray's Soap Factory

1880 The first US sewage disposal system separate from storm drains, Memphis TN

1887 Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) forms

1890 The first issue of Propria Cures, Amsterdam student-weekly newspaper

1891 Calixa Lavallée dies at age 48; the composer of O Canada Canada's national anthem

1900 Second Contingent of Canadian troops sails from Halifax for South Africa; more troop ships leave January 27 and February 21

1903 "Wizard of Oz," premieres in New York City NY

1903 Harry Houdini escapes police station Halvemaansteeg in Amsterdam

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