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Notable anniversaries in history for today: January 1
- 150th: 1874 - New York City annexes the Bronx.
- 100th: 1924 - Grossdeutsche Völksgemeinschaft/Völkische Block replaces NSDAP in Germany.
- 90th: 1934 - Alcatraz officially becomes a federal prison.
- 90th: 1934 - Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (US bank guarantor) effective.
- 90th: 1934 - International Telecommunication Union established.
- 90th: 1934 - Radio horror show Light's Out debuts on WENR Chicago.
- 90th: 1934 - Fiorello La Guardia becomes mayor of New York City, begining a campaign of ridding the city of slot machines.
- 90th: 1934 - Death of Jakob Wassermann in Altausee, Austria at age 60 (born in Furth, Germany); novelist (Die Juden von Zirndorf, Caspar Hauser, Christian Wahnschaffe).
- 80th: 1944 - Lebanon gains full independence.
- 80th: 1944 - First feature-length foreign movie, African Journey, shown on TV, New York City, New York.
- 80th: 1944 - US Army defeats Navy 10-7 in football "Arab Bowl", Oran, North Africa.
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Charlie Davis; cricket player (West Indies batsman in 15 Tests 1968-73).
- 80th: 1944 - C T B Turner, cricket player (17 Tests 1886-95, 101 wicket All time great), dies.
- 80th: 1944 - US General Clark replaces General George Patton as commander of 7th Army.
- 70th: 1954 - Rose and Cotton Bowl are first televised sport colorcasts.
- 70th: 1954 - Yugoslav parliament chairman and Vice President Milovan Djilas criticizes communism.
- 60th: 1964 - Alf Hall, cricket player (South African lefty quick took 40 wickets in 7 Tests), dies.
- 60th: 1964 - Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland dissolved.
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Dedee Pfeiffer; actress (Cybill).
- 60th: 1964 - Rika Hopper, Dutch actress (Comedia, Anastasia), dies at about age 86.
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Johnie Church; NFL defensive end (Seattle Seahawks).
- 50th: 1974 - Lee MacPhail takes over as American League president, succeeding Joe Cronin.
- 50th: 1974 - NBC radio begins on-the-hour news 24 hours a day (following CBS lead).
- 40th: 1984 - AT&T's Bell System companies divest into 24 independent units.
- 40th: 1984 - Brunei becomes independent of United Kingdom.
- 30th: 1994 - Aleksandr Popov swims world record 100m free style (47.83).
- 30th: 1994 - Carquest Bowl 4: Boston College beats Virginia, 32-13.
- 30th: 1994 - Cesar Romero, Cuban-American actor (Joker - Batman, Falcon Crest), dies at age 86 from bronchitis and pneumonia (born 1907).
- 30th: 1994 - The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect in Canada, USA, and Mexico.
- 30th: 1994 - Werner Schwab, Austrian playwright (Female Presidents), dies at age 35.
- 30th: 1994 - Florida State University beats the University Of Nebraska in the Orange Bowl for the US national football championship.
- 30th: 1994 - The Zapatista Army of National Liberation begins their war in Chiapas, Mexico.
- 25th: 1999 - The Euro begins to be introduced as the common currency of Belgium, Germany, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxemburg, Holland, Austria, Portugal, Spain and Finland. All non-cash transactions in the Eurozone are now conducted in the common euro currency.
- 20th: 2004 - The single largest expansion of the European Union takes place as the number of member states grows from 15 to 25 due to the accession of Cyprus, Malta, Slovenia, and several former Eastern Bloc countries.
- 20th: 2004 - Pervez Musharraf wins a vote of confidence from an electoral college consisting of Parliament and the provincial assemblies, confirming him as President of Pakistan and de facto dictator until 2007.
- 15th: 2009 - In Brazil, new spelling rules come into effect, standardising spellings, removing silent consonants, removing various accents, and officially adding letters k, w and y to the Portuguese alphabet.
- 15th: 2009 - Helen Suzman, South African Member of Parliament and anti-apartheid campaigner, dies at age 91.
- 15th: 2009 - Death of Nizar Rayan, Palestinian military and political leader (born 1959).
- 15th: 2009 - Iraqi security forces take control Baghdad's fortified Green Zone after a UN mandate for troops expires. The Basra International Airport is also turned over to Iraqi forces.
- 15th: 2009 - The U.S. military in Iraq falls under Iraqi authority for the first time since the U.S.-led invasion ousted Saddam Hussein in 2003.
- 15th: 2009 - Claiborne Pell, Rhode Island Democratic Senator (1961-97), dies at age 90 of Parkinson's disease.
- 15th: 2009 - Slovakia becomes the 16th member of the Euro Zone, changing its currency from the koruna to the euro.
- 15th: 2009 - Austria, Japan, Mexico, Turkey, and Uganda assume their seats on the United Nations Security Council.
- 15th: 2009 - The Czech Republic takes over the presidency of the Council of the European Union from France.
- 15th: 2009 - Asunción, the capital of Paraguay, becomes the American Capital of Culture and Vilnius and Linz become the European Capitals of Culture.
- 15th: 2009 - Turkmenistan redenominates its currency, making 1 new manat equal to 5000 old manat, and releases a new series of coins and currency.
- 10th: 2014 - Latvia officially adopts the euro as its currency and becomes the 18th member of the Eurozone.
- 5th: 2019 - Unmanned space probe New Horizons makes a close approach of the Kuiper belt object (KBO) 486958 Arrokoth at 05:33 UTC.
- 5th: 2019 - Jair Bolsonaro begins his four-year term as President of Brazil.
- 5th: 2019 - Qatar withdraws from OPEC.
- 5th: 2019 - Same-sex marriage becomes legal in Austria.
- 5th: 2019 - Works published by authors who died in 1948 enter the public domain in many countries. In the United States, all works published in 1923 enter the public domain, the first entry of published works into the public domain since 1998.
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