On this day — January 7

resulting in at least 16 deaths and 13,401 structures destroyed.

House of Representatives speaker election since the December 1859 – February 1860 U.S. speaker election concludes and Kevin McCarthy is elected 55th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.

executing twelve people and wounding eleven others.

New Zealand, killing all 11 people on board.

President Bill Clinton begins.

Ohio, killing five of the eight people on board.

former leader of the Tonton Macoute in Haiti under François Duvalier, attempts a coup d'état, which ends in his arrest.

a team in the fifth tier of English league football, defeated top-tier Coventry City in one of the biggest upsets in FA Cup history.

Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union.