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January 19 in history

176 sourced entries recorded on January 19, from 379 CE to 2025 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 379Emperor Gratian elevates Flavius Theodosius at Sirmium, giving him the title Augustus with power over all the eastern provinces. Theodosius comes to terms with the Visigoths and settles them in the Balkans as military allies (foederati).source
  • 383Arcadius is elevated to Emperor.source
  • 649The Tang campaign against Kucha ends after the forces of Kucha surrender, following a 40-day siege led by general Ashina She'er, establishing Chinese control over the northern Tarim Basin (Xinjiang).source
  • 973Pope Benedict VI is consecrated as the 134th pope of the Catholic Church. He is installed at Rome with the approval of Otto I and becomes a puppet ruler of the Holy Roman Empire. The Roman aristocracy resents Otto's dominance in Roman civil and ecclesiastical affairs.source
  • 1238January 15–20 – Siege of Moscow: The Mongols under Batu Khan and Subutai campaign across the northern heartland of the Kievan Rus', committing numerous atrocities across multiple settlements, including the sacking of an insignificant town known as Moscow. According to the Chronicle of Novgorod, Moscow is a fortified village, a trading post "on a crossroads of four rivers". The village is taken by the Mongols after 5 days of siege.source
  • 1310General Malik Kafur of the Delhi Sultanate begins the siege of Warangal, capital of the Kakatiya kingdom in what is now the Indian state of Telangana.source
  • 1321King Edward II of England appoints the Archbishop of York; the Bishops of Carlisle, Worcester, and Winchester; the Earls of Pembroke, Hereford and Badlesmere; and six other people to negotiate with Scotland for a final peace treaty or an extension of the Pembroke treaty of 1319 before its expiration on Christmas Day.source
  • 1389In Ming dynasty China, General Lan Yu is rewarded by the Emperor Zhu Chongba of the Hongwu era for his victory over Mongol invaders in 1388. Lan Yu is given the title Duke of Liang, with rule over what is now the Gansu province.source
  • 1390The Treaty of Lyck confirms an alliance between Vytautas and the Teutonic Knights, in the Lithuanian Civil War against Vytautas's cousin, Jogaila.source
  • 1405Upon the death of Prince Sigismund of Anhalt-Dessau (now within the federal state of Saxony-Anhalt in southeastern Germany), his four sons Waldemar IV, George, Albert V and Sigismund II become the joint rulers of the principality. Upon the death of Waldemar in 1417, Sigismund in 1452, and Albert in 1469, George I will reign alone for five more years until his death in 1474.source
  • 1417After the dismissal of Al-Musta'in as Caliph of Cairo by the Sultan Shaykh al-Mahmudi is declared unlawful by Islamic clerics, Shaykh arranges Al-Musta'in and three sons of the late Sultan Faraj to be transferred away from Cairo to Alexandria.source
  • 1417Joanna II, Queen of Naples, issues a pardon for Giacomo Orsini, who had rebelled against her predecessor, King Ladislaus of Naples.source
  • 1419Hundred Years' War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England, which brings Normandy under the control of England.source
  • 1419Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England bringing Normandy under his control during the Hundred Years War.source
  • 1421The coronation of John VIII Palaiologos as the Emperor of Byzantium, the "Eastern Roman Empire", takes place in Constantinople.source
  • 1425The Yongle Era ends in China and the Hongxi era begins.source
  • 1445In Poland, the Duchy of Oświęcim, ruled jointly since 1434 by the three sons of the late Duke Casimir of the Piast dynasty, is divided between the three brothers. Wenceslaus I, the eldest, receives the Duchy of Zator, Przemysław becomes ruler of Toszek and Jan IV, the youngest of the brothers, receives the capital, Oświęcim, along with the towns of Kęty and Żywiec.source
  • 1450The Jingtai Era begins in China under the Emperor Daizong, and the Zhengtong Era ends after 14 years.source
  • 1450King James II of Scotland gives royal assent to numerous acts passed by the Scottish Parliament in 1449, including the Leases Act 1449 ("Of takis of landis for termes and takis of wedset (mortgaged) landis eftir the oute quyting of the lande"), the Coinage Act, the Parties Summoned to King's Council Act and the Statute Law Revision Act ("Persons chosyn of the thre estatis til examyn the actis of parliamentis and general counsallis").source
  • 1476The siege of Burgos comes to an end as the Portuguese defender, Juan de Stúñiga, relinquishes control of the castle back to the Castilians.source
  • 1482A Portuguese fleet, commanded by Diogo de Azambuja, arrives at the mouth of the River Benya on the Gold Coast, where the fort of São Jorge da Mina (Elmina Castle) is erected.source
  • 1493In the Treaty of Barcelona, King Charles VIII of France returns Cerdagne and Roussillon to King Ferdinand of Aragon.source
  • 1493Treaty of Barcelona is signed between France, King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella of Castile.source
  • 1511The Siege of Mirandola by the Papal States, with help from the Duchy of Urbino and Spanish and Venetian troops, ends with the capture of Mirandola after 18 days of fighting. The Pope personally leads the troops and, after the outnumbered defenders surrender, works at preventing his troops from pillaging the city or harming the residents.source
  • 1520King Christian II of Denmark and Norway defeats the Swedes, at Lake Åsunden in Sweden. The Swedish regent Sten Sture the Younger is mortally wounded in the Battle of Bogesund. He is rushed towards Stockholm, in order to lead the fight against the Danes from there.source
  • 1537Most of Bigod's forces are captured by the English Army at a dawn raid of their camp at Beverley, Yorkshire, but Bigod escapes to Mulgrave and then to what is then the County of Cumberland.source
  • 1548Three ships from the Portuguese Navy arrive at the port of Aden to assist Mohammed bin Ali al-Tawlaki, who has been defending the city against an attack by the Ottoman Navy. The Portuguese ships are forced to retreat to Zeila in Somalia, where 120 survivors are captured and their ships are burned.source
  • 1549Maha Chakkraphat is crowned as the King of Siam after having been installed on the throne in 1548 by Maha Thammaracha of Burma.source
  • 1607San Agustin Church, Manila, is officially completed; by the 21st century it will be the oldest church in the Philippines.source
  • 1633January 17–19 – Quarrel between Diogo de Oliviera, alias Sindicario, a member of the Portuguese marrano community of Rouen, and Diego de Cisneros, a Spanish priest of the Roman Catholic Diocese of León in Spain, over a request for a catholicity certificate. The case is brought before the courts and causes the dispersion of part of the Rouen marrano community, some finding refuge in Lille, Antwerp and London. The Spanish priests Cisneros and Juan Bautista de Villadiego, denounced as spies, as well as Oliviera, are arrested. The 36 marranos accused of crypto-Judaism are finally absolved on June 30 after an investigation by the King's Council and the promise to pay 250000 livres to the crown.source
  • 1634Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine abdicates in favor of his brother Nicholas II, who is only able to hold the duchy for 75 days.source
  • 1634Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine abdicates in favour of his brother Nicholas Francis at Mirecourt; on February 1 he crosses the Rhine at Breisach and retires to Besançon.source
  • 1639Hämeenlinna (Tavastehus) is granted privileges, after it separates from the Vanaja parish, as its own city in Tavastia.source
  • 1646Sir Richard Grenville, 1st Baronet, a Royalist fighting for Prince Charles against Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth, is imprisoned for insubordination after proposing to make Cornwall self-governing in order to win Cornish support for the Royalists. After being incarcerated at the tidal island of St Michael's Mount off of the coast of Cornwall, he is allowed to escape in March to avoid capture by Cromwell's troops.source
  • 1667The town of Anzonico in Switzerland is destroyed by an avalanche.source
  • 1674The tragic opera Alceste, by Jean-Baptiste Lully, is performed for the first time, presented by the Paris Opera company at the Theatre du Palais-Royal in Paris.source
  • 1699Parliament limits the size of the country's standing army to 7,000 "native born" men. The King's Dutch Blue Guards hence cannot serve in the line. By Act of February 1, it also requires disbandment of foreign troops in Ireland.source
  • 1729At the age of 14, Joseph (José), Prince of Brazil, son of King John V of Portugal, is married to the 10-year-old Princess Mariana Victoria of Spain, eldest daughter of King Philip V of Spain. In 1750, the couple become King Joseph I and Queen Consort Mariana Victoria of Spain.source
  • 1747"Kelly riots" at the Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin when Thomas Sheridan, the proprietor, is in dispute with some gentlemen.source
  • 1764John Wilkes is expelled from the House of Commons for seditious libel for his article criticising King George III in The North Briton; he is in exile in France.source
  • 1764John Wilkes is expelled from the House of Commons of Great Britain, for seditious libel.source
  • 1785Richard Crosbie successfully flies in a hot air balloon from Ranelagh Gardens to Clontarf. He goes on to makes several unsuccessful attempts to cross the Irish Sea in a hydrogen-filled balloon.source
  • 1787Mozart's Symphony No. 38 is premièred in Prague.source
  • 1795The Batavian Republic is proclaimed in Amsterdam, ending the Dutch Republic (Republic of the Seven United Netherlands).source
  • 1813January 18–23 – War of 1812: The Battle of Frenchtown is fought in modern-day Monroe, Michigan between the United States and a British and Native American alliance.source
  • 1815Returning northward the Active calls into Whangārei, apparently only the second ever European vessel to do so, after the Venus in 1806.source
  • 1817An army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General José de San Martín, starts crossing the Andes from Argentina, to liberate Chile and then Peru.source
  • 181719 January-13 February - Crossing of the Andessource
  • 1829August Klingemann's adaptation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust premieres in Braunschweig.source
  • 1829August Klingemann's adaptation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust premieres in Braunschweig.source
  • 1839The British Aden Expedition captures Aden.source
  • 1840Captain Charles Wilkes' United States Exploring Expedition sights what becomes known as Wilkes Land in the southeast quadrant of Antarctica, claiming it for the United States, and providing evidence that Antarctica is a complete continent.source
  • 1840Captain Charles Wilkes circumnavigates Antarctica, claiming what becomes known as Wilkes Land for the United States.source
  • 1845Hone Heke cuts down the British flagstaff at Kororareka for the third time in the lead-up to the Flagstaff War.source
  • 1852The Governor Wynyard, the first steamer built in New Zealand, launched at Freemans Bay, Auckland, makes her first trial trip.source
  • 1853Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il Trovatore premieres at Teatro Apollo in Rome.source
  • 1871Battle of St. Quentin. Prussian victory defeats French attempts to relieve the besieged city of Paris.source
  • 1883January 8 — January 19 – Trial of the 66 in Lyon, targeting the Black International in France.source
  • 1883The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires begins service in Roselle, New Jersey, United States, installed by Thomas Edison.source
  • 1883The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires begins service in Roselle, New Jersey (it was built by Thomas Edison).source
  • 1888The Battle of the Grapevine Creek, the last major conflict of the Hatfield–McCoy feud in the Southeastern United States.source
  • 1891A British Royal Navy squadron is ordered to Chile.source
  • 1891General Miles officially announces the end of the native outbreak and congratulates his troops.source
  • 1899Future film producer Samuel Goldwyn, born in Poland and later a resident of Germany and England, arrives in the United States at the age of sixteen as Szmuel Gelbfisz.source
  • 1903The first west–east transatlantic radio broadcast is made from the United States to England (the first east–west broadcast having been made in 1901).source
  • 1907A tropical cyclone hits Cooktown, Queensland, killing six people.source
  • 1915Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.source
  • 1915WWI: German Zeppelins bomb the coastal towns of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in England for the first time, killing more than 20.source
  • 1918January 18–25 – General strike in Austria-Hungarysource
  • 19191919 German federal election, first under the Weimar Republic and the first in Germany with female suffrage.source
  • 1919The Sunday Post first published under this title in Glasgow.source
  • 1920The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is founded.source
  • 1921January 15-21 – The XVII Congress of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) was held at the Carlo Goldoni Theatre in Livorno from 15 to 21 January 1921. After tumultuous proceedings the congress resulted in a split in the party.source
  • 1943January 14–24 – WWII: Casablanca Conference: Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States; Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; and generals Henri Giraud and Charles de Gaulle of the French Resistance meet secretly at the Anfa Hotel in Casablanca, Morocco, to plan the Allied European strategy for the next stage of the war.source
  • 1946Expulsion of Germans of Hungary begins from Wudersch.source
  • 1946General Douglas MacArthur establishes the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo, to try Japanese war criminals.source
  • 1946The Bell XS-1 is test flown for the first time (unpowered), with Bell's chief test pilot Jack Woolams at the controls.source
  • 1947Ferry SS Heimara sinks in the South Euboean Gulf of Greece killing 392.source
  • 1947The TSMV MS Wanganella, completing her first trans-tasman crossing since World War II, runs aground on Barrett Reef at the entrance to Wellington Harbour. All 400 passengers are safely evacuated. The ship is refloated on 6 February but is out of service for a further 22 months.source
  • 195371.1% of all television sets in the United States are tuned into I Love Lucy, to watch Lucy give birth to Little Ricky, which is more people than those who tune into Dwight Eisenhower's inauguration the next day.source
  • 1955January 18–20 – Battle of Yijiangshan Islands: The Chinese Communist People's Liberation Army seizes the islands from the Republic of China (Taiwan).source
  • 1959Interior Minister Enrique Ortuzar resigns on health grounds.source
  • 1960A revised version of the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan ("U.S.-Japan Security Treaty" or "Anpo (jōyaku)"), which allows U.S. troops to be based on Japanese soil, is signed in Washington, D.C. by Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi and President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The new treaty is opposed by the massive Anpo protests in Japan.source
  • 1962A counter-coup occurs in the Dominican Republic; the old government returns, except for the new president Rafael Filiberto Bonnelly.source
  • 1962Parti Negara was dissolved after the death of Dato' Onn Jaafar.source
  • 1963Soviet spy Gheorghe Pintilie is removed from his position as Deputy Interior Minister of the Romanian People's Republic, as a step in ensuring Romania's political independence; the Workers' Party Politburo discusses way of neutralizing "Soviet intelligence networks [...] which Gheorghe Pintilie had coordinated."source
  • 1967A gas explosion in the Strongman coal mine near Greymouth kills 19 miners.source
  • 1969End of the siege of the University of Tokyo, marking the beginning of the end for the 1968–69 Japanese university protests.source
  • 1971Representatives of 23 western oil companies begin negotiations with OPEC in Tehran to stabilize oil prices; February 14 they sign a treaty with 6 Arab states of the Persian Gulf.source
  • 1972The Libertarian enclave Minerva on a platform in the South Pacific, sponsored by the Phoenix Foundation, declares independence. Soon neighboring Tonga annexes the area and dismantles the platform.source
  • 1977An Ejército del Aire CASA C-207C Azor (registration T.7-15) plane crashes into the side of a mountain near Chiva, on approach to Valencia Airport in Spain, killing all 11 people on board.source
  • 1979Former U.S. Attorney General John N. Mitchell is released on parole after 19 months at a federal prison in Alabama.source
  • 1986January 13–24 – South Yemen Civil War.source
  • 1989Planetarium Sultan Iskandar in Kuching, Sarawak, the first planetarium in Malaysia was officially opened.source
  • 1992Paramount Leader of China Deng Xiaoping speaks in Shenzhen during his southern tour, a move that would return China on its right-wing march towards free market economics.source
  • 1992The news embargo is lifted on George Bush's visit.source
  • 1993January 6–20 – The Bombay riots take place in Mumbai.source
  • 1993Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq refuses to allow UNSCOM inspectors to use its own aircraft to fly into Iraq and begins military operations in the demilitarized zone between Iraq and Kuwait, and the northern Iraqi no-fly zones. U.S. forces fire approximately 40 Tomahawk cruise missiles at Baghdad factories linked to Iraq's illegal nuclear weapons program (→ January 1993 airstrikes on Iraq). Iraq then informs UNSCOM that it will be able to resume its flights.source
  • 1993João Mário, footballersource
  • 1997Yasser Arafat returns to Hebron after more than 30 years, and joins celebrations over the handover of the last Israeli-controlled West Bank city. (→ Hebron Agreement)source
  • 2002In American football, Tom Brady's victory in the Tuck Rule Game causes a national controversy.source
  • 2006NASA launches the first interplanetary space probe to Pluto, the New Horizons.source
  • 2007A girl who disappeared 19 years ago at the age of 8 was found living wild in the jungle in northern Rattanakiri Province. Police say the girl cannot speak any intelligible language.source
  • 2010North Caucasian Federal District was split from Southern Federal District by decree of Russian president Dmitry Medvedev.source
  • 2010A report transmitted by the Pasteur Institute to the Algerian Ministry of Health, Population, and Hospital Reform stated the results of their technical and administrative report on the H1N1 vaccine Arepanrix. Produced by Glaxo Smith Kline, and imported to Algeria, the four lots were approved by the Pasteur Institute.source
  • 2011Journalist Lê Hoàng Hùng was burned.source
  • 2013January 16–20 – 39 international workers and 1 security guard die in a hostage crisis at a natural gas facility near In Aménas, Algeria.source
  • 2015January 15–19 – Pope Francis visits the country for a five-day state and pastoral visit. The pope also visits the victims of Typhoon Haiyan in Leyte. This is the first papal visit to the Philippines in the 21st century.source
  • 20172016–2017 Gambian constitutional crisis: The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) launches a military intervention in the Gambia after Yahya Jammeh refuses to cede power following the 2016 presidential elections.source
  • 2018Paula-Mae Weekes is elected new presidentsource
  • 2020The 2020 Tobago Council of the People's National Movement leadership election is won by Tracy Davidson-Celestine.source
  • 2020Glorimar Andújar and Fernando Gil-Enseñat, Secretaries of Family Services Housing respectively, are fired in the warehouse scandal. Nino Correa is appointed chief of operations for the Emergency Management Office.source
  • 2021U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deports between four and six asylum seekers to Mauritania on the last day of President Donald Trump′s administration.source
  • 2024Japan becomes the 5th country to achieve a soft landing on the Moon, with its SLIM mission.source
  • 2025Gaza war: A ceasefire goes into effect, lasting until an Israeli surprise attack on 18 March.source

Births

  • 1027Shōshi, Japanese empress consort (died 1105)source
  • 1200Dōgen Zenji, founder of the Sōtō Zen school (died 1253)source
  • 153519 January Mata Bhani, also known as Bibi Bhani, daughter of third Sikh guru Guru Amar Das, wife of fourth Sikh guru Guru Ram Das and mother of fifth Sikh guru Guru Arjan Dev is born (dies 1598)source
  • 1544King Francis II of France (died 1560)source
  • 1544Francis II of France, King of France and Scotland (by marriage) from 1559 to 1560.(d.1560)source
  • 1563Leonhard Hutter, German theologian (died 1616)source
  • 1570Wolfgang Hirschbach, German legal scholar (died 1620)source
  • 1601Guido Cagnacci, Italian painter (died 1663)source
  • 1617Lucas Faydherbe, Belgian sculptor and architect (died 1697)source
  • 1663Nicholas Trott, colonial magistrate, South Carolina Chief Justice (died 1740)source
  • 1687Sebastián de la Cuadra, 1st Marquess of Villarías, Spanish statesman (died 1759)source
  • 1736James Watt, Scottish inventor (died 1819)source
  • 1736James Watt, Scottish inventor (died 1819)source
  • 1747Johann Elert Bode, German astronomer (died 1826)source
  • 1798Auguste Comte, French philosopher, pioneer of positivism (died 1857)source
  • 1807Robert E. Lee, American Confederate general (died 1870)source
  • 1808Lysander Spooner, American philosopher (died 1887)source
  • 1809Edgar Allan Poe, American writer, poet (died 1849)source
  • 1839Paul Cézanne, French painter (died 1906)source
  • 1851David Starr Jordan, American ichthyologist, educator, eugenicist, and peace activist (died 1931)source
  • 1889Sophie Taeuber-Arp, artist (died 1943)source
  • 1943Janis Joplin, American rock singer (died 1970)source
  • 1946Dolly Parton, American singer-songwriter, actress, businesswoman and philanthropist (died 2026)source

Deaths

  • 520John of Cappadocia, patriarch of Constantinoplesource
  • 639Dagobert I, king of the Franks (born c. 603)source
  • 639Dagobert I dies after a 10-year reign as king of all the Franks, in which his realm has prospered. He is succeeded by Sigebert III (age 9), independent ruler of Austrasia, and his half-brother Clovis II (age 2), who becomes king of Neustria and Burgundy. Under the supervision of Pepin of Landen, Mayor of the Palace, the royal treasury is distributed between the two brothers and widowed queen Nanthild (regent on Clovis' behalf).source
  • 646Liu Ji, chancellor of the Tang dynastysource
  • 914King García I dies at Zamora (Spain) after a 4-year reign. He is succeeded by his brother Ordoño II, who becomes king of Galicia and León. Ordoño continues his expansion and settles his court in León.source
  • 914García I, king of León (Spain)source
  • 966Fujiwara no Asatada, Japanese nobleman (born 910)source
  • 1003Kilian of Cologne, Irish abbotsource
  • 1048Jingzong, Chinese founding emperor of Western Xia (born 1003)source
  • 1243Konoe Iezane, Japanese nobleman (born 1179)source
  • 1302Al-Hakim I, Abbasid ruler (caliph) of Cairo (born 1247)source
  • 1401Robert Bealknap, British justicesource
  • 1402Bonne of Bourbon, Regent of Savoy (born 1341)source
  • 1445Antonio Correr, Venetian cardinal (born 1359)source
  • 1452In Mongolia, Taisun Khan, the reigning khagan of the Northern Yuan dynasty, is killed while fleeing after a defeat at Turfan in a war with Esen Taishi. Taisun's younger brother, Agbarjin, becomes the new khagan.source
  • 1487Louis of Bourbon, Count of Roussillonsource
  • 1491Dorothea of Brandenburg, Duchess of Mecklenburg (born 1420)source
  • 1526Isabella of Burgundy, queen of Christian II of Denmark (born 1501)source
  • 1547Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, English nobleman, politician and poet, beheaded (born c.1517)source
  • 1565Diego Laynez, Spanish Jesuit theologian (born 1512)source
  • 1576Hans Sachs, German Meistersinger (born 1494)source
  • 1597Maharana Pratap, Hindu Rajput ruler of Mewar (born 1540)source
  • 1601Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English statesman (born 1538)source
  • 1607Anne Morgan, Baroness Hunsdon, English Baroness (born 1529)source
  • 1626Ruqaiya Sultan Begum (born 1542)source
  • 1628(26 Jumada I 1037 A.H.) The reign of Salef-ud-din Muhammad Shahryar as the Mughal Emperor, Shahryar Mirza, comes to an end a little more than two months after the November 7 death of his father, Jahangir, as Sharyar's older brother, Shihab defeats him in battle. Prince Shihab-ud-Din Muhammad Khurram takes the name Shah Jahan and sentences Shahryar and other members of the court to death.source
  • 1629Abbas the Great, 5th Safavid Shāh of Persia (born 1571)source
  • 1636Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger (born 1561/2), paintersource
  • 1720Eleonor Magdalene of Neuburg, Holy Roman Empress (born 1655)source
  • 1726Giovanni Battista Tolomei, Italian Jesuit priest, theologian and cardinal (born 1653)source
  • 1729William Congreve, English playwright (born 1670)source
  • 1744Lady Lucy Herbert, writer, 74source
  • 1865Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French philosopher, anarchist (born 1809)source
  • 1927Empress Carlota of Mexico (born 1840)source
  • 1962Dato' Onn Jaafar the founder of UMNO died. His body was laid to rest at Makam Mahmoodiah, Johor Bahru.source
  • 2000Hedy Lamarr, 85, Austrian actress (Samson and Delilah, Algiers, White Cargo), cardiovascular disease.source
  • 2007Bam Bam Bigelow, 45, American professional wrestler (WWF, ECW, NJPW), drug overdose.source
  • 2016January 16 – 30 people are killed and 56 injured in terrorist attacks in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, targeting a hotel and a nearby restaurant. A siege occurs and 176 hostages are released afterwards, by government forces.source