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January 28 1547 - King Henry VIII of England died and his nine-year-old son, Edward VI, assumed the throne. 1813 - The novel "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen was first published anonymously in London. 1915 - The United States Coast Guard was created as President Woodrow Wilson signed a...

January 27 1756 - Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria. 1880 - Thomas Edison was granted a patent for his incandescent light. 1944 - The Soviets announced the end of the two-year siege of Leningrad. 1945 - The Soviets liberated Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz...

January 26 1788 - The first European settlers landed in Sydney, Australia. 1802 - Congress passed an act calling for the establishment of a library within the U.S. Capitol. 1837 - Michigan became the 26th state. 1887 - Groundbreaking took place for the construction of the Eiffel Tower in...

January 24 41 - Roman emperor Gaius Caesar, better known as Caligula, was murdered. 1848 - Gold was first discovered in California, in Sutter's Mill. When President James K. Polk announced the news in December, the California Gold Rush began. 1908 - Robert Baden-Powell organized the first Boy...

January 23 1368 - China's Ming Dynasty, which lasted nearly 300 years, began as Zhu Yuanzhang was formally acclaimed Hongwu Emperor, following the collapse of the Yuan Dynasty. 1556 - The deadliest earthquake ever recorded struck Shanxi, China, killing an estimated 830,000 people. 1789 -...

January 22 1901 - Queen Victoria of England died at age 81 after reigning for 63 years (the second-longest reign among British monarchs behind Elizabeth II, who reigned for 70 years); she was succeeded by her eldest son, Edward VII. 1905 - More than 500 workers were killed by the Czar's troops...

January 21 1793 - During the French Revolution, King Louis XVI was guillotined for treason. 1915 - The first Kiwanis Club was founded in Detroit. 1924 - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin died in Moscow at age 53. 1950 - Former State Department official Alger Hiss, accused of being part of a Communist...

January 20 1801 - John Marshall is appointed Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. 1841 - As a result of the First Opium War, Hong Kong was ceded to the British. (It was returned to Chinese control in July 1997.) 1885 - LaMarcus A. Thompson of Coney Island patented the roller...

January 16 1547 - Ivan the Terrible was crowned the first czar of Russia. 1865 - Union Major General William Tecumseh Sherman decreed that 400,000 acres of land in the South would be divided into 40-acre lots and given to former slaves. (The order, later revoked by President Andrew Johnson...

January 14 1639 - The first constitution of Connecticut, Fundamental Orders, was adopted. 1784 - The United States ratified the Treaty of Paris with England ending the Revolutionary War. 1943 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and French Gen. Charles...

January 13 1733 - James Oglethorpe and some 120 English colonists arrived at Charleston, South Carolina, while en route to settle in present-day Georgia. 1794 - President George Washington approved a measure adding two stars and two stripes to the American flag, following the admission of...

January 10 1776 - Thomas Paine's "Common Sense," which argued for independence from British rule and greatly influenced the authors of the Declaration of Independence, was published. 1860 - The Pemberton Mill in Lawrence, Massachusetts collapsed and caught fire, killing as many as 145 people...

January 9 1788 - Connecticut became the fifth state. 1861 - Mississippi became the second state to secede from the Union. 1916 - The World War I Battle of Gallipoli ended with an Ottoman Empire victory as Allied forces withdrew. 1945 - During World War II, American forces began landing on...

January 8 1790 - President George Washington delivered the first State of the Union address in New York City. 1815 - The last major engagement of the War of 1812 came to an end as U.S. forces defeated the British in the Battle of New Orleans, not having received word of the signing of a peace...

Northern Illinois leaving the MAC to join the Mountain West as a football-only member beginning in 2026. NIU is looking at several options as a home for its non-football sports. https://x.com/Brett_McMurphy/status/1876725033051025484

January 7 1610 - Astronomer Galileo Galilei observed four of Jupiter's moons for the first time. 1896 - Fanny Farmer published her first cookbook. 1927 - Transatlantic commercial telephone service began between New York and London. 1953 - President Harry S. Truman announced that the United...

January 6 1540 - King Henry VIII of England married his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves. 1759 - George Washington married Martha Custis. 1838 - Samuel Morse gave the first public demonstration of the telegraph. 1912 - New Mexico became the 47th state. 1919 - Former President Theodore Roosevelt...

January 3 1521 - Martin Luther is excommunicated by Pope Leo X. 1777 - Gen. George Washington defeated Cornwallis's forces at the Battle of Princeton during the Revolutionary War. 1833 - Britain seized control of the Falkland Islands. 1861 - More than two weeks before Georgia seceded from...

January 2 1492 - Muhammad XI, the leader of the last Arab stronghold in Spain, surrendered to King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella I. 1788 - Georgia became the fourth state. 1839 - Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre took the first photograph of the Moon. 1905 - The Russo-Japanese War ended. 1923...

December 26 1492 - Christopher Columbus established the first Spanish settlement in the New World. 1776 - George Washington defeated the Hessians at the Battle of Trenton during the Revolutionary War. 1865 - James H. Nason received a patent for a coffee percolator. 1941 - During World War...