Historical Events In January - 01

2018  On this day in history california becomes largest US state to legalise cannabis for recreational use   

2018  On January - 01 initiative of 300 Hollywood women called "Time's Up" announced to fight sexual harassment   

2018  Japanese actress and former porn star Sora Aoi announces her engagement on January - 01.   

2018  On January - 01 world Darts Championship: Retiring 16-time title holder Phil Taylor loses 7-2 to fellow Englishman Rob Cross in the Final at the Alexandra Palace, London.   

2019  Jair Bolsonaro begins his 4 year term as President of Brazil on January - 01.   

2019  Level at 1-1 in Hopman Cup tennis tie, Roger Federer and Serena Williams (combined 43 major singles titles) matchup in deciding mixed doubles; with team mate Belinda Bencic, Federer wins 4-2, 4-3 for 2-1 Swiss victory over US on January - 01.   

2019  On this day in history all works published in 1923 except sound recordings (see 2022 scheduled events) enter the public domain in the United States, the first works to do so since the passage of the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act.   

2019  On this day in history jair Bolsonaro begins his four-year term as President of Brazil.   

2019  Unmanned space probe New Horizons makes a close approach of the Kuiper belt object (KBO) 486958 Arrokoth at 05:33 UTC on January - 01.   

2019  Qatar withdraws from OPEC on this day in history.   

2019  Same-sex marriage becomes legal in Austria on January - 01.   

2020  Jakarta floods in Indonesia killing 66 people on January - 01.   

2020  The Australian bushfires of 2019, or "Black Summer", that have killed as many as 500 million animals so far continues into the new year as the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) and the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) are deployed to New South Wales to assist mass evacuation efforts on January - 01.   

2021  On January - 01 the African Continental Free Trade Area comes into effect.   

2023  Avenger's actor Jeremy Renner is accidentally run over by a snowplow, breaking more than 30 bones in his body near Reno, Nevada [1] on this day in history.   

2023  On January - 01 luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is sworn in as the 39th President of Brazil, his third term in office   

2023  On this day in history croatia adopts the euro and joins the Schengen Area, becoming the 20th member state of the Eurozone and the 27th member of the Schengen Area. This is the first enlargement of the Eurozone since Lithuania's entry in 2015, and the first enlargement of the Schengen Area since Liechtenstein's entry in 2011.   

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0766  On this day in history birth of ali al-Rida, Shia Imam (d. 818)   

1387  On this day in history birth of charles, The Angry One, king of Navarra (1349-87)   

1431  On this day in history birth of alexander VI [Rodrigo Borgia], Spanish/Italian pope (1492-1503)   

1449  On this day in history birth of lorenzo de'Medici, [The Magnificent] of Florence   

1449  On this day in history birth of lorenzo de' Medici, Italian statesman (d. 1492)   

1467  On this day in history birth of sigismund I, the old, king of Poland   

1481  On this day in history birth of huldrych Zwingli, Swiss Protestant reformer   

1484  On January - 01 birth of huldrych Zwingli, Swiss Protestant leader (d. 1531)   

0379  Basilius the Great, of Caesarea, saint (Moralia), dies on this day in history.   

0404  On this day in history death of telemachus, Roman monk, murdered   

0898  On January - 01 odo, earl of Paris/king of France (888-98), dies at about 39   

0962  Boudouin III, count of Flanders, dies on January - 01.   

1204  Death of King Haakon III of Norway (c. 1170) on January - 01.   

1387  Karel de Boze, king of Navarra (1349-87), dies on this day in history.   

1502  Gregorius XIII, [Ugo Buoncampagni], Italy, pope (1572-85), dies on this day in history.   

1515  Louis XII, "the Justified" king of France (1498-1515), dies at 52 on this day in history.