Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929 - Pastor, leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement
- 1559 - England's Queen Elizabeth I (Elizabeth Tudor) was crowned in Westminster Abbey.
- 1870 - A cartoon by Thomas Nast titled "A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" appeared in "Harper's Weekly." The cartoon used the donkey to symbolize the Democratic Party for the first time.
- 1892 - "Triangle" magazine in Springfield, MA, published the rules for a brand new game. The original rules involved attaching a peach baskets to a suspended board. It is now known as basketball.
- 1974 - "Happy Days" premiered on ABC-TV.
- 1986 - President Reagan signed legislation making Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday a national holiday to be celebrated on the third Monday of January.
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