You can check here and there. This is what stood out to me:
45 B.C.–Jan 1, The Julian calendar took effect.
1831–William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879), 24-year-old reformer of Massachusetts, began publishing his newspaper The Liberator, dedicated to the abolition of slavery.
1891–An office was opened on Ellis Island, New York, to cope with the vast flood of immigrants coming into the United States.
1908–The 1st time-ball signifying new year was dropped at Times Square, NYC.
1975–The Watergate verdict was guilty when a jury convicted Richard Nixon’s three top advisers on all counts in the Watergate coverup: former attorney general John Mitchell and White House aides Bob Haldeman and John Ehrlichman.
1978–Newspaper editor flees South Africa; Newspaper editor Donald Woods arrives in London after fleeing South Africa’s apartheid regime.
2002–Celebrations as euro hits the streets; Twelve of the European Union’s 15 countries wake up to life with a new currency as the euro reaches the streets.
What stands out to you?