15th January 1867: 40 people die when ice on the boating lake in Regent’s Park breaks while they are skating
Approximately 200 skaters plunged into the freezing water, all wearing heavy winter clothes that dragged them down. Many were also unable to ...
15 Jan 0s
14th January 1943: Roosevelt and Churchill meet at the Casablanca Conference in Morocco
The Casablanca Conference saw the Combined Chiefs of Staff join American President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to discuss the future strategy for fighting the Se...
14 Jan 0s
13th January 1935: The Territory of the Saar Basin voted in a plebiscite to reunite with Germany
Voter turnout in the plebiscite was 98% of all eligible voters in the Saar, and 90.8% of them chose to re-join the German ...
13 Jan 0s
12th January 1913: The name “Stalin” meaning “man of steel” first used in print by Joseph Dzhugashvili
Like many underground revolutionaries, Joseph Dzhugashvili made frequent use of pseudonyms to evade police surveillance, and first used the alias “K. Stalin” as the signature to a letter in the Social...
12 Jan 0s
11th January 1923: French and Belgian troops marched into Germany and occupied the industrial Ruhr area
The occupation of the Ruhr was met with passive resistance by the German workers. Their strike was only called off on 26 September as rampant hyperinflation crippled the German ...
11 Jan 0s
10th January 49 BCE: Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon River on his march to Rome
Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon with the 13th Legion during his march on Rome that led to the Roman Civil ...
10 Jan 0s
9th January 1806: State funeral of Admiral Horatio Nelson takes place in London, following his death at the Battle of Trafalgar
Nelson’s coffin was placed on a grand funeral car designed to resemble HMS Victory for its final journey to St Paul’s Cathedral and subsequently interred in the crypt, joining a small number of nation...
9 Jan 0s
8th January 1918: United States President Woodrow Wilson outlines his principles for world peace, known as the Fourteen Points
Keen to distance the United States from nationalistic disputes that fuelled European rivalries, Wilson's 14 Points sought a lasting peace by securing terms that avoided selfish ambitions of the ...
8 Jan 0s
