Germany first observes the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
26 January 1956
Soviet Union cedes Porkkala back to Finland
25 January 1858
The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn is played at the marriage of Queen Victoria’s daughter, Victoria, and Friedrich of Prussia, and becomes a popular wedding processional.
24 January 1742
Charles VII Albert becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
23 January 1849
Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her M.D. by the Geneva Medical College of Geneva, New York, becoming the United States’ first female doctor
22 January 1905
Bloody Sunday in Saint Petersburg, beginning of the 1905 revolution.
21 January 1951
The catastrophic eruption of Mount Lamington in Papua New Guinea claims 2,942 lives.
20 January 1841
Hong Kong Island is occupied by the British during the First Opium War.
19 January 1942
World War II: The Japanese conquest of Burma begins.
18 January 1977
Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires’ disease.