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Jan 01 All California bars, clubs and card rooms must be smoke-free. 
Jan 01 Mongolia switches from a 46 hour to 40 hour work week
Jan 01 The Ontario Southland Railway takes over the operation of the Guelph Junction Railway (formerly the Goderich subdivision) which had been leased by CP from the City of Guelph since 1888. The Ontario Southland also took over the 3.1 mile remnant of the CP owned Guelph and Goderich Railway
Jan 01 US Census Bureau estimates population at 268921733
Jan 02 Autopsy of Chris Farley shows he overdosed of opiates and cocaine
Jan 05 Ice storm knocks out electricity in Quebec and Ontario
Jan 05 Sonny Bono, half of the Sonny and Cher pop duo and politician, dies in a skiing accident in Lake Tahoe, California at age 62.
Jan 05 Vandals decapitate Copenhagen's Little Mermaid.
Jan 08 National Defence deploys 4000 soldiers to help Hydro-Quebec with the worst ice storm damage; 1.3 million households will lose power in Eastern Ontario and Quebec.
Jan 08 Roseanne files for divorce from 3rd husband Ben Thomas
Jan 08 Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski asks to act as his own lawyer.
Jan 08 World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Ahmed Yousef sentenced to life
Jan 09 Anatoly Karpov defeats Viswanathan Anand to retain chess title
Jan 09 Anatoly Solovyov and Pavel Vinogradov spacewalk record 3 hours 8 minutes
Jan 09 Decapitated head of Danish Little Mermaid is returned
Jan 09 Hockey News selects Wayne Gretzky best NHL player ever.
Jan 09 Over 100 teams of linemen arrive from Detroit and other parts of the US to help clean up after the ice storm; 1.3 million homes still without electricity in Quebec and Eastern Ontario.
Jan 11 24th Annual People's Choice Awards - Seinfeld, Tim Allen win
Jan 11 US female Figure Skating championship won by Michelle Kwan
Jan 11 US male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldredge.
Jan 13 CBS pays $4 billion to televise AFC games for 8-years.
Jan 14 100th episode of "Ellen," airs.
Jan 14 Charles Barkley pleads not guilty to an assault charge.
Jan 15 Amos "Junior" Wells, blues musician, dies at 63
Jan 15 NASA announces John Glenn, 76, may fly in space again
Jan 16 Investigators for special counsel Kenneth Starr questioned former White House intern Monica Lewinsky about allegations that she had an affair with President Clinton.
Jan 17 President Clinton faces sexual harassment charges from Paula Jones.
Jan 19 Carl Perkins, singer/songwriter, dies at 65
Jan 19 Rock 'n' roll pioneer Carl Perkins, whose hit song Blue Suede Shoes helped lift Elvis Presley to stardom, dies aged 65
Jan 19 The CN line bewteen Moncton, NB and Mont-Joli, Que is transferred to the Quebec Railway Corporation, through its wholly owned subsidiaries as follows New Brunswick East Coast Railway between Pacific Junction, near Moncton, and Campbellton, NB. Matapedia Railway between Campbellton, NB and Mont-Joli, QC.
Jan 19 The CN line bewteen Moncton, NB and Mont-Joli, Que is transferred to the Quebec Railway Corporation, through its wholly owned subsidiaries as follows: New Brunswick East Coast Railway between Pacific Junction, near Moncton, and Campbellton, NB. Matapedia Railway between Campbellton, NB and Mont-Joli, QC
Jan 20 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts Mama and Papas, Eagles
Jan 20 Warner Brothers TV Network begins Tuesday night programming.
Jan 21 Pope John Paul II arrived in Havana for his inaugural-ever visit to Cuba
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