Jan 18 Thiokol conducts 2nd test firing of space shuttle's SRB

Jan 28 Ted Nugent autographs a fan's arm with his knife

Jan 19 Judge William H Webster appointed head of FBI

Jan 07 Angola revises its constitution

Jan 08 Israel's Cabinet votes to `strengthen' settlements in occupied Sinai

Jan 19 Eddie Mathews elected to Hall of Fame

Jan 06 Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada announces plans to move head office from Montreal to Hog Town (Toronto)

Jan 29 Sweden is the first country to introduce a law banning the use of aerosol sprays harmful to the ozone layer

Jan 14 The Sex Pistols perform their last concert, at San Francisco's Winterland Theater.

Jan 15 Theodore Bundy kills Florida State University co-eds Lisa Levy & Margaret Bowman

Jan 23 Belgian industrial Haron Empain kidnapped in Paris

Jan 01 President Ford signs first major revision of copyright law since 1909

Jan 01 President Ford signs first major revision of copyright law since 1909

Jan 02 Rhino Records releases their first album "Wildmania"

Jan 30 Mutual Broadcasting Network begins airing Larry King Show on radio

Jan 24 A Russian satellite accidently crashes in Canada's Northwest Territory

Jan 26 Strikers riot in Tunisia, killing about 40

Jan 21 Bee Gees' "Saturday Night Fever" album goes #1 for 24 weeks

Jan 31 Israel turns 3 military outposts in West Bank into civilian settlements

Jan 13 Former U.S. Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey dies in Waverly, Minnesota, at age 66.

Jan 16 5th American Music Award Stevie Wonder, Fleetwood Mac & Conway Twitty

Jan 14 Sex Pistols' final concert (Winterland, San Francisco)

Jan 07 Angola revises its constitution

Jan 25 Muriel Humphrey (D-MN) appointed to fill late husband's Senate seat

Jan 26 International Ultraviolet Explorer placed in Earth orbit

Jan 18 Geoff Boycott captains England for the first time, vs Pakistan Karachi

Jan 18 Roof of 3-year-old Civic Center in Hartford CT collapses (no injuries)

Jan 24 A nuclear-powered Soviet satellite disintegrates as it falls into the atmosphere, spreading radioactive debris over parts of northern Canada.

Jan 01 Air India B747 explodes near Bombay killing 213

Jan 24 Nuclear-powered USSR satellite Cosmos 954 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere and disintegrates over the Northwest Territories, scattering radioactive debris over the barrens east of Great Slave Lake; Canadian Armed Forces launches operation to recover debris; USSR later pays Canada $3 million under a UN treaty covering costs of cleanup.

Jan 11 Soyuz 27 links with Salyut 6 &Soyuz 26 the first time 3 spacecraft link

Jan 03 Chandrasekar takes 6-52 &6-52 at MCG in Indian innings win

Jan 06 The first postage stamp copyrighted by US (Carl Sandburg stamp)

Jan 01 Air India B747 explodes near Bombay killing 213

Jan 20 Columbia Pictures pays $9.5 million for movie rights to "Annie"

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