US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs Colo, established
West Germany joins NATO
20 die in a train crash in Springer NM
Buddy Holly & Crickets record "That'll Be the Day"
Ted Williams is 10th major league player to get 1,000 extra-base hits
"Bozo the Clown" live children's show premieres on TV
Coal mine of Johnburg caves-in, 417 die
President Kennedy establishes the Peace Corp
K-Mart opens
Beatles release their 1st single in US "Please Please Me"
- Rolling Stones begin 1st US tour (with Bobby Goldsboro & Bobby Vee)
Martin Luther King Jr & 700 demonstrators arrested in Selma Ala
12 day transit worker strike shuts down NYC subway
The US and USSR propose a nuclear nonproliferation treaty
North Korea seizes US Navy ship Pueblo; holds 83 on board as spies
Richard M. Nixon is inaugurated 37th President of the US
•Earthquake kills more than 50,000 in Peru
Nixon ends the US trade embargo against China.
Eleven Israeli athletes at Olympic Games in Munich are killed after eight members of an Arab terrorist group invades Olympic Village; five guerrillas and one policeman are also killed
US bombing of Cambodia ends, marking official halt to 12 years of combat activity in Southeast Asia
Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia is deposed. A collective military dictatorship assumes power
Ice thickness measured at 4776 m, Wilkes Land, Antarctica
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1st time Jay Leno appears on Tonight Show
43 die as 2 express trains collide head-on south of Bologna, Italy
Argentina & Chile sign Beagle Canal accord
Mount St Helens blows its top in Washington State, 60 die
US & Iran sign agreement to release 52 American hostages
Mr. Jackson was born
Michael Jackson's "Thriller" album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 37 weeks
500,000 Iranian soldiers move into Iraq
US approves screening test for AIDS
Phil Natl Assembly authorizes 6 more years for Ferdinand Marcos
Dennis Conner & Stars & Stripes bring America's Cup back to US
US accept immigration of 30,000 US-Vietnamese children
- 0°F (-18°C) or below in 15 US states
Boston Celtics worst ever (6 pts in 2nd vs NJ Nets) & lose 87-78
5% sales tax on consumer goods & services goes into effect in USSR
Bush is 1st US pres to address Australian Parliament
Chicago Bull Michael Jordan scores his 20,000th career point
Jacobs Field opens with "Gateway's New Year's Eve Countdown to '94"
"Glass Menagerie" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 57 perfs
Bomb explodes at Atlanta Olympic Park, 1 killed, 110 injured
Tiger Woods wins Mercedes Championships
- All California bars, clubs & card rooms must be smoke-free
- Basketball player Michael Jordan announces his retirement only to return in 2001
German extortionist Klaus-Peter Sabotta is jailed for life for attempted murder and extortion in connection with the sabotage of German railway lines.
Jennifer Lopez scored her first UK No.1 single with 'Love Don't Cost A Thing.'
US Secretary of Energy makes the decision that Yucca Mountain is suitable to be the United States' nuclear waste repository.
final communication
Saturn Orbit insertion of Cassini-Huygens begins at 01:12 UTC and ends at 02:48 UTC.
Lance Armstrong retires after winning a record seventh consecutive Tour de France victory
Natascha Kampusch, who was abducted at the age of 10, managed to escape from her captor Wolfgang Priklopil, after 8 years of captivity
The US Justice Department releases an internal audit that found that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had acted illegally in its use of the USA Patriot Act to secretly obtain personal information about US citizens
A New Hampshire law legalizing civil unions for same-sex couples comes into effect.
US Airways Flight 1549 makes an emergency landing into the Hudson River shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia Airport in New York City. All passengers and crew members survive.
Suicide car bomb detonates at a volleyball tournament in Lakki Marwat, Pakistan, killing 105 and injuring 100
Hundreds of thousands of protesters fill the Egyptian's streets against the Mubarak regime in demonstrations referred to as the "Friday of Anger"
Hot air balloon crashes in Carterton, New Zealand, killing 11