Muammar Gaddafi is proclaimed premier of Libya. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muammar_Gaddafi’]
14 January 1950
The first prototype of the MiG-17 makes its maiden flight. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-17′]
13 January 1993
The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) is signed. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_Weapons_Convention’]
12 January 1970
Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian Civil War. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_Civil_War’]
11 January 1972
East Pakistan renames itself Bangladesh. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh’]
10 January 1966
Tashkent Declaration, a peace agreement between India and Pakistan signed that resolved the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tashkent_Declaration’]
9 January 2015
The perpetrators of the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris two days earlier are both killed after a hostage situation; a second hostage situation, related to…
8 January 2010
Gunmen from an offshoot the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda attack a bus carrying the Togo national football team on its…
7 January 1999
The Senate trial in the impeachment of U.S. President Bill Clinton begins. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_of_Bill_Clinton’]
6 January 1907
Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome, Italy. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Montessori’]