Jan 21 Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry said he would seek help but did not publicly concede he had used illegal drugs. He left the next day for a treatment program in Florida.

Jan 27 Dissolution of Polish communist party

Jan 15 42 year old George Foreman KOs George Cooney in 2 rounds

Jan 30 Canada's Finance Minister Michael Wilson gets the 7% Goods and Services Tax bill through first reading in the Commons, and we still hate it

Jan 07 Tower Of Pisa closed to the public after leaning too far

Jan 10 NCAA approves random drug testing for college football players

Jan 18 Arthur J. Goldberg, former Supreme Court justice, and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, is found dead in his Washington, D.C. apartment at age 81.

Jan 20 At least 62 civilians were killed and more than 200 wounded when the Soviet army stormed into Baku to end what Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev called fratricidal killing between Moslem Azerbaijanis and Christian Armenians.

Jan 16 Canadian Rail Operating Rules are approved by the Minister of Transport

Jan 30 In Ottawa the CBC President Gerard Veilleux announces 500 jobs to be cut at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation over the next year

Jan 01 David Dinkins sworn in as first black mayor of New York City NY

Jan 02 Dow Jones hits record 2,800 (2,810.15)

Jan 27 Four top aides of executed dictator Nicolae Ceausescu go on trial in Romania, charged with genocide.

Jan 20 US 64th manned space mission STS 32 (Columbia 10) returns from space

Jan 28 East German agreement to form all-party government

Jan 29 Former Exxon Valdez captain Joseph Hazelwood goes on trial in Anchorage, Alaska, on charges arising from worst oil spill in U.S. history.

Jan 02 Sting joins wrestlings 4 Horsemen (Flair, Arn Anderson, Ole Anderson)

Jan 15 AT&T experiences long distance problems due to a computer glitch

Jan 07 Tower Of Pisa closed to the public after leaning too far

Jan 20 Actress Barbara Stanwyck dies in Santa Monica, California, at age 82.

Jan 19 Test debut of Mushtaq Ahmed, vs Australia at Adelaide

Jan 01 Sports News Network begins operation on cable TV

Jan 11 Actor Joseph Cotten undergoes vocal-chord cancer operation at 84

Jan 25 Seventy-three people are killed when an Avianca 707 jet crashes after running out of fuel in Cove Neck, New York.

Jan 02 Dow Jones hits record 2,800 (2,810.15)

Jan 25 West-Europe's strongest hurricane

Jan 15 A computer problem disrupts AT&T's long distance telephone service around the U.S. for nearly nine hours.

Jan 14 Perez de Cuellar says he has lost all hope for peace in the Gulf

Jan 14 11th ACE Cable Awards

Jan 16 2 Bank of Credit & Commerce members plea guilty to money laundering

Jan 04 Canada defeats Czechoslovakia 2-1 to win World Junior Hockey title.

Jan 27 Four top aides of executed dictator Nicolae Ceausescu go on trial in Romania, charged with genocide.

Jan 01 Mitsuko Nishiwaki beats Nakano to become Japan Women wrestling champ

Jan 01 New York City NY MTA stops token redemption at subway stations

Jan 23 Dean Jones scores twin Test tons vs Pakistan at Adelaide Oval

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