1846 Tunisia becomes the first Arab nation to outlaw slavery in decree issued by Ahmed I Bey [1]

1870 Marias Massacre: Approximately 200 Piegan Blackfeet Indians (mostly women, children, and elderly men) killed by US Army, in Montana Territory, spawning outrage and preventing the military from regaining control of the Bureau of Indian Affairs

1889 Daniel Hale Williams forms the Provident Hospital in Chicago, the first non-segregated hospital in the US 

1933 20th amendment, which changed the date of US presidential inaugurations to 20th January, is ratified

1951- President Truman creates the Commission on Internal Security and Individual Rights, to monitor the anti-Communist campaign.

1961 Venezuela adopts constitution

1964 24th Amendment to the United States Constitution ratified, barring poll tax in federal elections

1971 Riots break out in the Shankill Road area of Belfast, North Ireland

1978 Sweden becomes the first nation in the world to ban aerosol sprays, due to their harmful effect on the earth’s ozone layer. 

1983 Russian radioactive satellite falls into Indian Ocean

1997 – The U.S. Senate confirmed Madeleine Albright as the first female secretary of state.

2002 Reporter Daniel Pearl kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan, and subsequently murdered.

Source: onthisday.com