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  • 1 Jan 2025

    Bulgaria and Romania became full members of the EU's border-free Schengen area.

  • 1 Jan 2019

    Same-sex marriage became legal in Austria.

  • 1 Jan 2011

    Estonia joined the Eurozone and adopted the Euro as its currency.

  • 1 Jan 2007

    Romania and Bulgaria joined the European Union.

  • 1 Jan 1999

    The Euro currency was introduced and adopted by 11 Member States.

  • 1 Jan 1993

    The country of Czechoslovakia peacefully dissolved into two nations, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

  • 1 Jan 1985

    A Scandinavian research collaboration created the first-ever internet domain name Nordu.net.

  • 1 Jan 1978

    A B747 plane by Air India flying from Bombay, India to Dubai, UAE, crashed with no survivors.

  • 1 Jan 1971

    America banned all advertisements of cigarettes on TV and radio.

  • 1 Jan 1959

    Fidel Castro's revolutionary forces overthrew the Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista.

  • 1 Jan 1958

    The European Economic Community (EEC) is founded.

  • 1 Jan 1958

    Johnny Cash plays the first of many free concerts behind bars at San Quentin Prison, California, with Merle Haggard among the inmates in the audience.

  • 1 Jan 1916

    Medical researcher Oswald Hope Robertson performed the first-ever blood transfusion using stored and refrigerated blood.

  • 1 Jan 1912

    Republic of China is founded.

  • 1 Jan 1902

    First Rose Bowl Game held in the Rose Bowl Stadium.

  • 1 Jan 1892

    Ellis Island opened as a US immigration inspection station.

  • 1 Jan 1801

    The dwarf planet Ceres was discovered by an Italian monk called Giuseppe Piazzi.

  • 1 Jan 1801

    The Union Jack flag was flown for the first time in Dublin, Ireland, to commemorate the union between Great Britain and Ireland.

  • 1 Jan 1502

    Portuguese navigators discovered Rio de Janeiro.

  • 1 Jan 404 AD

    A monk put an end to gladiator fighting in Rome.

  • 1 Jan 45 BC

    The Julian Calendar was used for the first time.