U.S. President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out the Chrysler Corporation
4 January 1958
Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957, falls to Earth from orbit
2 January 1791
Big Bottom massacre in the Ohio Country, North America, marking the beginning of the Northwest Indian War.
31 December 2019
31 December 2019 – The World Health Organization is informed of cases of pneumonia with an unknown cause, detected in Wuhan. This later turned out…
29 December 1998
Leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologize for the Cambodian genocide that claimed over one million lives