I often wonder what significant anniversaries are due at some point in the future as some of them might be of interest as triggers for blog posts or visits somewhere. However, it is often difficult to find out quickly what events have significant anniversaries - hence this section on the website.
By "significant anniversaries", I mean dates that are not, for example, the 73rd anniversary of something, but the 50th, 100th, 200th etc.
It should help to flag up interesting events.
Significant anniversaries during January 2014
| Anniversary | Details |
| 1st | A helicopter crash in central London kills two people and injures 13 others. (16th Jan 2013) |
| 1st | Publication of the Giving Victims a Voice report, initiated as a result of publicity surrounding the Jimmy Savile sexual abuse scandal (11th Jan 2013) |
| 1st | April Casburn, a senior detective with the Metropolitan Police is found guilty of trying to sell information on the investigation into phone hacking to the News of the World, the newspaper at the centre of the scandal. (10th Jan 2013) |
| 1st | Mark Cahill, a 51-year-old former pub landlord from West Yorkshire becomes the first person in the UK to receive a hand transplant. (4th Jan 2013) |
| 5th | Possession of 'extreme pornography' becomes illegal under the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008. (26th Jan 2009) |
| 5th | The Sunday Times publishes allegations that four Labour members of the House of Lords are willing to accept money to table amendments to legislation. (25th Jan 2009) |
| 5th | Karen Matthews and Michael Donavon are sentenced to eight years in prison for the kidnap of Shannon Matthews, the former's daughter, having held her captive in Donvon's flat in Dewsbury last year as part of a bid to claim £50,000 for her "safe return" after reporting her missing to the police. (23rd Jan 2009) |
| 5th | The Disasters Emergency Committee of UK charities launched its Gaza Crisis Appeal following the recent conflict in the region. The BBC causes controversy by saying it will not be broadcasting the appeal as it would compromise its impartiality. (22nd Jan 2009) |
| 5th | Statistics released by the Office for National Statistics show that the number of unemployed people in the UK has risen to more than 1,900,000, the highest level since late 1996. (21st Jan 2009) |
| 5th | The Royal Bank of Scotland announces it expects to have to write down assets totalling around £20 billion, believed to be the biggest lose in British corporate history. The announcement sees RBS' share price plunge 67% on the day. (19th Jan 2009) |
| 5th | John McDonnell, Labour MP for Hayes and Harlington, the constituency which includes Heathrow Airport, is suspended from Parliament after picking up the ceremonial House of Commons mace in protest at the government's approval of a third runway. (15th Jan 2009) |
| 5th | The closure of Woolworths is completed across the UK, having started at the end of December, spelling an end to 100 years of the retail chain. The company was placed into administration in November 2008, with its 813 stores gradually being phased out. More than 27,000 jobs have been lost as a result of the company's collapse. (6th Jan 2009) |
| 5th | Waterford Wedgwood, makers of the famous Wedgwood pottery, enter administration. (5th Jan 2009) |
| 10th | The Hutton Inquiry into the circumstances of the death of Dr. David Kelly is published. This is taken by most of the press to strongly condemn the BBC's handling of the David Kelly affair and to exonerate the government; the BBC's Director-General, Greg Dyke, Chairman of the Board of Governors, Gavyn Davies, and the journalist at the centre of the controversy, Andrew Gilligan, resign. The UK media, in general, condemns the report as a whitewash. (28th Jan 2004) |
| 10th | The Bichard Inquiry into events preceding the Soham murders formally opens. (13th Jan 2004) |
| 10th | The Queen Mary 2 is christened by Elizabeth II. (8th Jan 2004) |
| 10th | The Daily Mirror publishes the blacked out portion of a letter wherein Diana, Princess of Wales alleged that someone was trying to kill her. (6th Jan 2004) |
| 40th | New Year's Day was celebrated as a public holiday for the first time. (1st Jan 1974) |
| 50th | The Film "Zulu" is released. (22nd Jan 1964) |
| 50th | Eleven men go on trial at Buckinghamshire Assizes in Aylesbury charged in connection with the Great Train Robbery five months ago. (20th Jan 1964) |
| 50th | Teen girls' magazine Jackie first published. (11th Jan 1964) |
| 60th | A de Havilland Comet jet airliner on BOAC Flight 781 from Singapore to London crashes in the Mediterranean Sea following fatigue failure, killing all 35 on board. (10th Jan 1954) |
| 70th | Start of Operation Steinbock (the "Baby Blitz"), a nocturnal Luftwaffe bombing offensive chiefly targeted at the Greater London area. (continues until May) (21st Jan 1944) |
| 70th | The Daily Mail becomes the first transoceanic newspaper. (5th Jan 1944) |
| 75th | The Irish Republican Army (IRA) begins a bombing and sabotage campaign in England. (16th Jan 1939) |
| 80th | Ten thousand people attend a British Union of Fascists rally in Birmingham, organised by Oswald Mosley. (21st Jan 1934) |
| 90th | Margaret Bondfield becomes the first woman to be appointed a government minister. (23rd Jan 1924) |
| 90th | Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. (22nd Jan 1924) |
| 90th | The Met Office issues its first broadcast Shipping Forecast, at this time called Weather Shipping. (1st Jan 1924) |
| 150th | Charing Cross railway station in London opens. (11th Jan 1864) |
| 200th | Treaty of Kiel cedes Danish Heligoland to Britain. (14th Jan 1814) |
| 200th | Last River Thames frost fair in London. (14th Jan 1814) |
| 250th | John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel. (19th Jan 1764) |
| 275th | Britain and Spain sign the Convention of Pardo. (14th Jan 1739) |
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