Forward Planner: News Anniversaries for the next 6 months

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January 2027

5 Years (2022)
Jan 04: All five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States) issue a joint statement affirming that "a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought."
Jan 06: Death - Sidney Poitier, Bahamian-American actor, activist and ambassador (b. 1927). He was the first African American actor and first Bahamian to win the Academy Award for Best Actor. In 1958, Poitier starred with Tony Curtis as chained-together escaped convicts in The Defiant Ones, which received nine Academy Award nominations.
Jan 10: The first successful heart transplant from a pig to a human patient occurs in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

10 Years (2017)
Jan 24: Israel approves building 2,500 more homes in settlements in occupied West Bank.
Jan 24: Supreme Court rules that UK Parlt must vote on starting Brexit process.
Jan 24: US President Trump signs order for wall built along Mexican border.
Jan 25: Death of American TV actress Mary Tyler Moore, 80 ('Dick Van Dyke Show').
Jan 25: Mexico President Pena Nieto cancels Washington summit with US Pres Trump.
Jan 25: UK: Death of former Labour MP Tam Dalyell aged 84.
Jan 27: Death of English actor Sir John Hurt, 77 ('Alien', 'The Elephant Man').
Jan 27: UK PM Theresa May meets new US Pres Donald Trump at White House.
Jan 27: US President Trump signs controversial executive order re refugees & muslims.
Jan 30: 6 killed and 8 wounded in a shooting at a mosque in Quebec City, Canada.
Jan 30: Deutsche Bank £504m by US & UK regulators over Russian money laundering plan.
Jan 30: US President Trump sacks acting attorney general Sally Yates over immigration ban.
Jan 31: Austria's ruling coalition agrees a ban on wearing full-face veils in public spaces.

15 Years (2012)
Jan 03: UK: 2 men convicted of murdering London teenager Stephen Lawrence.
Jan 31: Former RBS Chief Executive Fred Goodwin stripped of knighthood.

20 Years (2007)
Jan 07: Death of broadcaster Magnus Magnusson aged 77 ('Mastermind').
Jan 28: UK: BBC broadcasts final Saturday sports show 'Grandstand' (after almost 50 years).
Jan 28: UK: BBC broadcasts final Saturday's 'Grandstand' (after almost 50 years).

25 Years (2002)
Jan 14: UK declared free of foot & mouth disease after slaughter of millions of animals.
Jan 17: Death English actor Peter Adamson, 71 ('Len Fairclough' in 'Coronation Street').
Jan 17: Death of English actor Peter Adamson aged 71 ('Len Fairclough' in 'Coronation Street').
Jan 20: USA releases controversial pictures Camp X-Ray detainees, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Jan 20: USA releases pictures of Camp X-Ray detainees, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

30 Years (1997)
Jan 09: Lone yachtsman Tony Bullimore rescued after 5 days in Southern Ocean.
Jan 15: UK: Princess Diana calls for an international ban on landmines.
Jan 21: Start of inquiry into physical & sexual abuse of children in care in North Wales.

40 Years (1987)
Jan 06: UK: ITV broadcasts 1st episode of police drama series 'Morse'.

45 Years (1982)
Jan 15: Mark Thatcher found after missing in Sahara for 6 days on Paris-Dakar Rally.
Jan 26: UK Unemployment rises above 3 million for 1st time since 1930s.

50 Years (1977)
Jan 17: Execution of killer Gary Gilmore.1st US execution after death penalty restoration.

55 Years (1972)
Jan 09: UK: Start of 1st national miners' strike in Britain for 50 years.
Jan 20: UK Unemployment rises to over 1 million for 1st time since 1930s.
Jan 30: 'Bloody Sunday': British troops fire on demonstrators, Londonderry. 13 killed.
Jan 30: 'Bloody Sunday': British troops open fire on demonstrators in Londonderry. 13 killed.

60 Years (1967)
Jan 03: Jack Ruby, who shot Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, dies in prison awaiting new trial.
Jan 03: US: Jack Ruby, who shot Lee Harvey Oswald, dies in prison awaiting new trial.
Jan 04: Donald Campbell killed in 'Bluebird', trying to set water speed record, Coniston Water.
Jan 07: UK: 1st episode of drama 'The Forsyte Saga' broadcast on BBC TV.
Jan 18: US: Albert DeSalvo, 'Boston Strangler' jailed for life. Claimed he'd killed 13 women.
Jan 27: 3 US astronauts killed by fire in Apollo 1 spacecraft during training.
Jan 27: 3 US astronauts killed in Apollo 1 space capsule fire during testing, Cape Canaveral.

65 Years (1962)
Jan 02: UK: 1st episode of BBC TV police drama 'Z-Cars'.
Jan 02: UK: Start of BBC TV soap opera 'Compact'.
Jan 03: Cuban leader Fidel Castro excommunicated by Pope John XXIII.
Jan 22: UK: Start of trial of James Hanratty for 'A6 Murder' of physicist Michael Gregsten.

70 Years (1957)
Jan 09: British Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden resigns due to ill health.
Jan 10: Harold Macmillan becomes Conservative Party leader & British Prime Minister.
Jan 14: Death US actor Humphrey Bogart, 57 ('Casablanca', African Queen', 'The Big Sleep').
Jan 16: Death of Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini aged 89.

75 Years (1952)
Jan 16: UK: 1st appearance of British TV of Harry Corbett & his glove puppet 'Sooty'.

85 Years (1942)
Jan 03: Birth of British actor John Thaw ('The Sweeney','Kavanagh QC', 'Morse').
Jan 17: Birth of US world champion boxer Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay)
Jan 19: Birth of British actor & entertainer Michael Crawford ('Phantom of the Opera').

135 Years (1892)
Jan 03: Birth of author J.R.R.Tolkien ('Lord of the Rings').

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