12 Jan 1895      The National Trust was founded in the UK.
12 Jan 1969      The New York Jets beat the Baltimore Colts to win Super Bowl III.
12 Jan 1976      Crime writer Agatha Christie died.
12 Jan 2001      Downtown Disney opened to the public as part of the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California.
12 Jan 2001      Sven Goran Eriksson became the first over-sea manager of the England football team.
12 Jan 2003      Maurice Gibb died following a stomach operation.
12 Jan 2004      The world’s largest ocean liner, RMS Queen Mary 2, made its maiden voyage.

13 Jan 1942      Henry Ford patents a soybean car, which was 30% lighter than a regular car.
13 Jan 1942      An ejector seat was first used by a German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter.
13 Jan 1950      A British submarine HMS Truculent collided with an oil tanker in the Thames Estuary, killing 64 men.
13 Jan 1968      Johnny Cash performed live at Folsom State Prison.
13 Jan 2004      Serial killer Shipman was found hanged in his prison cell.
13 Jan 2012      The cruise ship Costa Concordia sank off the coast of Italy. There were 32 confirmed deaths.
13 Jan 2020      The Thai Ministry of Public Health confirmed the first case of COVID-19 outside China.
13 Jan 2021      Outgoing President Donald Trump was impeached for a second time on a charge of incitement of insurrection following the January 6 United States Capitol attack one week prior.

14 Jan 1858      Napoleon escaped an assassination attempt made by Felice Orsini and his accomplices in Paris.
14 Jan 1899      RMS Oceanic was launched and became the largest ship afloat since Brunel’s SS Great Eastern.
14 Jan 1969      Matt Busby retired as manager of Man United.
14 Jan 1973      Elvis Presley’s concert Aloha from Hawaii was broadcast live via satellite, and sets the record as the most watched broadcast by an individual entertainer in television history.
14 Jan 1975      Heiress Lesley Whittle was kidnapped from her home in Shropshire.

15 Jan 1559      Elizabeth I was crowned Queen of England and Ireland in Westminster Abbey.
15 Jan 1759      The British Museum opened to the public.
15 Jan 1889      The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, was incorporated.
15 Jan 1943      The Pentagon is dedicated in Arlington County, Virginia.
15 Jan 1967      The first Super Bowl took place where the Green Bay Packers beat Kansas City Chiefs 35–10.
15 Jan 1969      The Soviet Union launched Soyuz 5.
15 Jan 1970      Muammar Gaddafi was proclaimed premier of Libya.
15 Jan 1973      President Nixon ordered a ceasefire in Vietnam.
15 Jan 1976      Gerald Ford’s would-be assassin, Sara Jane Moore, was sentenced to life in prison.
15 Jan 1982      Mark Thatcher found safe in the Sarah six days after going missing.
15 Jan 1997      Princess Diana called for an international ban on landmines.
15 Jan 2009      US Airways Flight 1549 ditched safely in the Hudson River following a bird strike less than two minutes after take-off.

16 Jan 1547      Grand Duke Ivan IV of Muscovy became the first Tsar of Russia.
16 Jan 1862      Two hundred and four men and boys were killed in Hartley Colliery mining disaster.
16 Jan 1909      Ernest Shackleton’s expedition find the magnetic South Pole.
16 Jan 1969      Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 perform the first-ever docking of crewed spacecraft in orbit.
16 Jan 2003      The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off on what would become it’s final mission.

17 Jan 1773      Captain James Cook lead the first expedition to sail south of the Antarctic Circle.
17 Jan 1912      Captain Robert Falcon Scott reached the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.
17 Jan 1917      The USA paid Denmark $25 million for the Virgin Islands.
17 Jan 1920      Alcohol Prohibition began in the United States.
17 Jan 1977      Convicted murderer Gary Gilmore was executed by firing squad in Utah.
17 Jan 1983      BBC broadcast Britain’s first breakfast news programme.
17 Jan 1998      Matt Drudge broke the story of the Bill Clinton–Monica Lewinsky affair.
17 Jan 2013      Lance Armstrong confessed to his doping.

18 Jan 1778      James Cook became the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, which he names the ‘Sandwich Islands’.
18 Jan 1788      The first fleets carrying 736 convicts from Great Britain to Australia arrived at Botany Bay.
18 Jan 1886      Modern field hockey was born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England.
18 Jan 1896      An X-ray generating machine was exhibited for the first time by H L Smith.
18 Jan 1911      Eugene B Ely landed on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania, the first time an aircraft landed on a ship.
18 Jan 1983      The International Olympic Committee restored Jim Thorpe’s Olympic medals to his family.
18 Jan 2005      The Airbus A380, the world’s largest commercial jet, was unveiled at a ceremony in Toulouse.