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The following events took place on January 1. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 155 events. Showing 61 - 90.

• 1911

  Northern Territory is separated from South Australia and transferred to Commonwealth control.
• 1912

  The Republic of China is established.
• 1913

  The British Board of Censors is established.
• 1916

  German troops abandon Yaoundé and their Kamerun colony to British forces and begin the long march to Spanish Guinea.
• 1920

  The Belorussian Communist Organisation is founded as a separate party.
• 1923

  Britain’s Railways are grouped into the Big Four: LNER, GWR, SR, and LMS.
• 1927

  The Cristero War begins in Mexico.
• 1927

  Turkey adopts the Gregorian calendar: December 18, 1926 (Julian), is immediately followed by January 1, 1927 (Gregorian).
• 1928

  Boris Bazhanov defects through Iran. He is the only assistant of Joseph Stalin’s secretariat to have defected from the Eastern Bloc.
• 1929

  The former municipalities of Point Grey, British Columbia and South Vancouver, British Columbia are amalgamated into Vancouver.
• 1932

  The United States Post Office Department issues a set of 12 stamps commemorating the 200th anniversary of George Washington’s birth.
• 1934

  Alcatraz Island becomes a United States federal prison.
• 1934

  Nazi Germany passes the “Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring”.
• 1937

  Safety glass in vehicle windscreens becomes mandatory in the United Kingdom.
• 1939

  Sydney, Australia, swelters in 45 ˚C (113 ˚F) heat, a record for the city.
• 1942

  The Declaration by United Nations is signed by twenty-six nations.
• 1945

  World War II: In retaliation for the Malmedy massacre, U.S. troops massacre 30 SS prisoners at Chenogne.
• 1945

  World War II: The German Luftwaffe launches Operation Bodenplatte, a massive, but failed attempt to knock out Allied air power in northern Europe in a single blow.
• 1947

  The American and British occupation zones in Germany, after World War II, merge to form the Bizone, which later (with the French zone) became part of West Germany.
• 1947

  The Canadian Citizenship Act 1946 comes into effect, converting British subjects into Canadian citizens. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes the first Canadian citizen.
• 1948

  The British railway network is nationalized to form British Railways.
• 1948

  The Constitution of Italy comes into force.
• 1949

  United Nations cease-fire takes effect in Kashmir from one minute before midnight. War between India and Pakistan stops accordingly.
• 1949

  Tokelau becomes part of New Zealand.
• 1950

  Standard practice uses this day as the origin of the age scale Before Present
• 1954

  NBC makes the first coast-to-coast NTSC color broadcast when it telecast the Tournament of Roses Parade, with public demonstrations given across the United States on prototype color receivers.
• 1956

  Sudan achieves independence from Egypt and the United Kingdom.
• 1956

  A new year event causes panic and stampedes at Yahiko Shrine, Yahiko, Niigata, Japan, killing at least 124 people.
• 1957

  George Town, Penang becomes a city by a royal charter granted by Elizabeth II.
• 1957

  An Irish Republican Army (IRA) unit attacks Brookeborough RUC barracks during Operation Harvest; two IRA volunteers killed.

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