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| 1077 – Pope Gregory VII lifted the excommunication of Henry IV after the Holy Roman Emperor made his trek from Speyer to Canossa Castle to beg the pope for forgiveness for his actions in the Investiture Controversy. | refimprove section |
| 1521 – Emperor Charles V and the estates of the Holy Roman Empire convened at the Diet of Worms to discuss Martin Luther and the effects of the Protestant Reformation. | Tagged with {{refimprove}} |
| 1573 – The Warsaw Confederation was signed, sanctioning religious freedom in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. | refimprove section |
| 1724 – The Russian Academy of Sciences, the national academy of Russia, was established. | refimprove section, external links |
| 1813 – The novel Pride and Prejudice by English author Jane Austen was published, using material from an unpublished manuscript that she originally wrote between 1796 and 1797. | refimprove |
| 1820 – A Russian expedition led by naval officers Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev approached the coast of Antarctica. | Bellingshausen: needs more footnotes; Lazarev: refimprove |
| 1846 – The British led by Sir Harry Smith defeated the Sikh Khalsa Army led by Ranjodh Singh Majithia at the Battle of Aliwal, sometimes regarded as the turning point of the First Anglo-Sikh War. | needs more footnotes |
| 1855 – A train on the Panama Railway made the world's first transcontinental crossing by rail, a 48-mile (77 km) trip from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean across the Isthmus of Panama. | {{refimprove}} |
| 1871 – French forces surrendered at the Siege of Paris, leading to the end of the Franco-Prussian War and the establishment of the German Empire. | needs more footnotes |
| 1896 – Cited for travelling at 8 miles per hour (13 km/h), Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent, England, became the first person ever convicted of exceeding the speed limit, and was fined one shilling. | globalize |
| 1932 – The January 28 Incident, a short war fought in and around Shanghai between the armies of the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan, began. | needs more footnotes |
| 1986 – The NASA Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrated 73 seconds into its tenth mission, killing all seven crew members. | refimprove section |
| 2006 – The roof of one of the buildings at the Katowice International Fair in Katowice, Poland, collapsed due to the weight of snow, killing 65 visitors. | needs more footnotes |
Eligible
- 1922 – Snowfall from the biggest recorded snowstorm in Washington, D.C. history caused the roof of the Knickerbocker Theatre to collapse, killing 98 people.
- 1964 – An unarmed US Air Force T-39 Sabreliner on a training mission was shot down over Erfurt, East Germany, by a Soviet MiG-19, killing all three aboard.
- 1977 – A deadly blizzard hit upstate New York and Southern Ontario, creating snowdrifts of up to 30 ft (9 m) in affected areas.
- 1982 – After having been kidnapped by the Italian Red Brigade 42 days earlier, General James L. Dozier of the United States Army was freed by the anti-terrorist force NOCS.
Horace Walpole
- 1393 – King Charles VI of France was nearly killed when several dancers' costumes caught fire during a masquerade ball.
- 1754 – Horace Walpole (pictured) coined the word "serendipity" in a letter he wrote to a friend, saying that he derived the term from the Persian fairy tale The Three Princes of Serendip.
- 1821 – Alexander Island, the largest island of Antarctica, was discovered by explorer Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen of the Imperial Russian Navy.
- 1933 – Choudhry Rahmat Ali published a pamphlet entitled "Now or Never" in which he called for the creation of a Muslim state in northwest India that he termed "Pakstan".
- 1958 – The Danish toy company Lego Group patented their design of Lego bricks.
- 1984 – Tropical Storm Domoina made landfall in southern Mozambique, causing some of the most severe flooding recorded in the region.
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