Jan 01 International Year of Tolerance

Jan 10 "Late Late Show" with Tom Snyder premieres on CBS at 12 30 AM

Jan 20 A strike-shortened National Hockey League season opened, with teams playing a 48-game schedule instead of the usual 84.

Jan 01 International Year of Tolerance

Jan 23 In Toronto Ontario surgeons at The Hospital for Sick Children perform a 17 hour operation to separate Pakistani Siamese twins Hira and Nida Jamal; Nida will died a month later

Jan 27 Five thousand mourners gather at the site of the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp to commemorate the 50th anniversary of its liberation.

Jan 11 NHLPA &owners agree to end NHL strike

Jan 14 10,000s South Africans attend state funeral of Joe Slovo

Jan 04 Newt Gingrich (R) becomes speaker of the House

Jan 12 Major earthquake kills 5,092 in Kobe Japan

Jan 01 Last "Far Side" by cartoonist Gary Larson (started 1980)

Jan 08 "Guys & Dolls" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City NY after 1143 performances

Jan 05 Lockheed C-140 Jetstar crashes at Isfahan Persia, 18 killed

Jan 23 Defence Minister David Collenette disbands the Canadian Airborne Regiment, effective March 5; after some of its soldiers were found to be involved in the death of a Somali boy during the UN mission

Jan 11 Dylex Ltd., Canada's largest clothing retailer seeks court protection from its creditors and says it will shut 200 stores, eliminating 1,800 jobs

Jan 17 More than 6,000 die as a magnitude 7.2 earthquake rocks Kobe, Japan.

Jan 06 Six people die trying to escape a fire in a 29-storey apartment building in North York near Toronto

Jan 11 Fifty-two people are killed when a Colombian airliner crashes near the resort town of Cartagena in the Caribbeans.

Jan 22 Twenty-one Israelis are killed and dozens injured in a suicide bombing in central Israel.

Jan 12 Murder trial against OJ Simpson, begins in Los Angeles

Jan 05 Rogers Cablesystems President Colin Watson says "'We now know we have made a mistake" as consumer revolt forces company to withdraw its negative option billing for seven new specialty cable-television channels

Jan 02 Marion Barry is sworn in as mayor of Washington DC, four years after leaving office to serve a six-month sentence for drug possession.

Jan 02 Most distant galaxy yet discovered found by scientists using Keck telescope in Hawaii (estimated5 billion light years away)

Jan 29 Greg Blewett scores century on Test debut vs England, Adelaide

Jan 02 Bus crashes in Luzon Philippines, 29 killed

Jan 19 Russian forces captured the presidential palace in the rebel republic of Chechnya.

Jan 30 22nd American Music Award Boyz II Men &Ace of Base win

Jan 05 Lockheed C-140 Jetstar crashes at Isfahan Persia, 18 killed

Jan 03 The U.S. Postal Service raises the price for a 1st-class stamp to 32 cents.

Jan 19 Jean-Claude Juncker (28) sworn in as premier of Luxembourg

Jan 15 Southern Alabama begins using new area code 334

Jan 09 British comedian Peter Cook dies in London at age 57.

Jan 30 Car bomb explodes in Algiers, 42 killed/296 injured

Jan 04 Denis Lortie released on parole after serving 10 years in prison for 1984 shooting in the Quebec National Assembly, where he killed three people.

Jan 20 1994-95 NHL Season begin after a lengthy strike

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