Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 1
This is a list of selected January 1 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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Che Guevara and Fidel Castro -
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| New Year's Day (Gregorian calendar); | refimprove section |
| Independence Day in Brunei (1984), Haiti (1804), Samoa (1962), and Sudan (1956) | Brunei: refimprove section, Haiti: needs expansion; Samoa: refimprove; Sudan: missing information |
| 45 BC – The Roman Republic adopted the Julian calendar. | refimprove section |
| 1785 – The Times, the first newspaper of that name, began publication in London as The Daily Universal Register. | refimprove section |
| 1808 – As a result of the lobbying efforts by the abolitionist movement, the importation of slaves into the United States was officially banned, although slavery itself was not yet abolished. | inappropriate tone, unreferenced section |
| 1810 – Lachlan Macquarie became Governor of New South Wales, eventually playing a major role in the shaping of the social, economic and architectural development of the colony in Australia. | refimprove section |
| 1890 – The Rose Parade in Pasadena, California, was first held, eventually becoming an annual event that is currently watched on television by millions in more than 200 countries and territories. | refimprove; blurb could be rewritten to feature Rose Bowl Game, but that article is also ineligible |
| 1892 – The immigration station on Ellis Island in New York Harbor opened, and over the course of its existence, processed 12 million immigrants to the United States. | unreferenced section, refimprove section |
| 1901 – The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, and Western Australia federated as the Commonwealth of Australia. | refimprove |
| 1928 – The personal secretary to Joseph Stalin, Boris Bazhanov, crossed the border to Iran to defect from the Soviet Union. | refimprove section |
| 1948 – British Railways came into existence when the "Big Four" railway companies were nationalised. | multiple issues |
| 1959 – Cuban President Fulgencio Batista fled to the Dominican Republic as forces under Fidel Castro took control of Havana, marking the end of the Cuban Revolution. | refimprove section |
| 1983 – The ARPANET changed its core networking protocols from NCP to TCP/IP, marking the beginning of the Internet as we know it today. | globalize |
| 1994 – The revolutionary leftist Zapatista Army of National Liberation initiated twelve days of armed conflict in the Mexican state of Chiapas. | refimprove section |
| 1995 – The World Trade Organization, the international organization designed to supervise and liberalize international trade, came into being, replacing the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. | appears on April 15 |
Eligible
- 1068 – Having been pardoned by the regent Eudokia Makrembolitissa for attempting to usurp the throne, Romanos IV Diogenes married her to become Byzantine emperor.
- 1739 – Bouvet Island in the South Atlantic Ocean, the most remote island in the world, was discovered by French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier.
- 1776 – American Revolutionary War: The town of Norfolk, Virginia, was destroyed by the combined actions of British and Whig forces.
- 1800 – Quasi-War: An American convoy of four merchant vessels escorted by a schooner was attacked by a squadron of armed barges manned by Haitians.
- 1801 – Pursuant to the Acts of Union 1800, Great Britain and Ireland merged to become the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
- 1914 – The St. Petersburg–Tampa Airboat Line in the U.S. state of Florida became the first scheduled airline using a winged aircraft.
- 1945 – Second World War: The Luftwaffe launched Operation Bodenplatte in an attempt to cripple Allied air forces in the Low Countries.
- 1965 – The People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan, which later helped the country become a republic, was founded.
- 2007 – Adam Air Flight 574 crashed into the sea off Polewali, Indonesia, killing all 102 people on board, when the pilots inadvertently disconnected the autopilot.
- 2009 – A nightclub fire in Bangkok, Thailand, killed 66 patrons celebrating the new year.
- 2010 – A suicide bomber killed 105 spectators at a volleyball game in the Lakki Marwat District of Pakistan.
- Born/died this day: Henry of Marcy (d. 1189) · Betsy Ross (b. 1752) · Vidya Balan (b. 1979)
Notes
- MV Senopati Nusantara appears on December 30, so Adam Air Flight 574 should not appear in the same year.
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Ceres
- 417 – Galla Placidia was forced by her brother Honorius into marriage with his magister militum, Constantius III.
- 1773 – The hymn "Amazing Grace" was probably first used in a prayer meeting in Olney, England, without the music familiar to modern listeners.
- 1801 – Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi discovered the dwarf planet Ceres (pictured), naming it after the Roman goddess of agriculture and of motherly love.
- 1945 – World War II: In retaliation for the massacre of captured Americans by Waffen SS soldiers, U.S. Army personnel killed an estimated 80 Wehrmacht prisoners near Chenogne, Belgium.
- 2011 – A bomb exploded at a Coptic Christian church in Alexandria, Egypt, killing 23 people.
Lorenzo de' Medici (b. 1449) · Marie-Louise Lachapelle (b. 1769) · Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati (d. 1937)
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