1355 – Charles I of Bohemia is crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy as King of Italy in Milan.
1721 – The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble publishes its findings.
1893 – The Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress. The charter is signed by President Benjamin Harrison.
1929 – King Alexander of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes suspends his country's constitution (the January 6th Dictatorship).
1946 – The first general election ever in Vietnam is held.
1974 – In response to the 1973 oil crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States.
1994 – Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the knee at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Detroit.
2005 – A train collision in Graniteville, South Carolina, releases about 60 tons of chlorine gas.
2009 – Israel conducts an assault on the Gaza Strip
2012 – 26 people are killed and 63 wounded when a suicide bomber blows himself up at a police station in Damascus.
