1853 – After having been kidnapped and sold into slavery in the American South, Solomon Northup regains his freedom; his memoir 12 Years a Slave later becomes a national bestseller.
1865 – The New York Stock Exchange opens its first permanent headquarters at 10-12 Broad near Wall Street in New York City.
1896 – Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.
1930 – Don Shula, American football player and coach is born.
1935 – Floyd Patterson, American boxer (d. 2006) is born.
1944 – World War II: Operation Carpetbagger, involving the dropping of arms and supplies to resistance fighters in Europe, begins.
1958 – Sputnik 1 falls to Earth from orbit.
1965 – T. S. Eliot, American-English poet, playwright, and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888) dies.
1970 – A magnitude 7.7 earthquake strikes Tonghai County, China, killing at least 15,000 people.
1974 – United States President Richard Nixon refuses to hand over materials subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee.
1990 – In Pakistan's deadliest train accident an overloaded passenger train collides with an empty freight train, resulting in 307 deaths and 700 injuries.
1998 – A massive ice storm hits eastern Canada and the northeastern United States, continuing through January 10 and causing widespread destruction.
1999 – Former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura is sworn in as governor of Minnesota.
2004 – Spirit, a NASA Mars rover, lands successfully on Mars at 04:35 UTC.
2007 – The 110th United States Congress convenes, electing Nancy Pelosi as the first female Speaker of the House in U.S. history.
2015 – Stuart Scott, American sportscaster and actor (b. 1965) dies.
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