The Brisbane River breaches its banks to cause the largest flood to affect the city of Brisbane in Australia.

The British First Fleet arrivez at Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour) to establish Sydney, the first permanent European settlement in Australia.

Billy Bailey was the last person to be hanged in the United States of America.

Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill conclude meeting in Casablanca during Word War 2.

The first members are inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Little Richard, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, the Everly…

A USA politician R. Budd Dwyer kills himself during a televised press conference.

One of the more controversial battles of the Vietnam War begins, the Battle of Khe Sanh.

Barack Obama is inaugurated as the first black President of the United States of America.

Nearly 3/4th of all television sets in the USA are tuned in to I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.

The uprising of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto starts