The Vega de Tera dam fails, triggering a disastrous flood that nearly destroys the town of Ribadelago and kills 144 residents
8 January 2002
President of the United States George W. Bush signs into law the No Child Left Behind Act.
7 January 1980
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…