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 2013
| Anniversary | Details |
| 1st | Under new guidelines to come into force from 30 April, clinics which charge for pregnancy services including abortions will be able to advertise their services on radio and television after the Broadcast Committee of Advertising Practice rules there is no justification for barring such advertising. (21st Jan 2012) |
| 1st | Press TV, an English language news channel owned by the Iranian Government, is forced off air in the United Kingdom after Ofcom revokes its broadcasting licence for breaching the terms of the Communications Act. (20th Jan 2012) |
| 1st | Five Muslim men go on trial at Derby Crown Court for calling for gay men to be killed, the first such prosecution under hate crime legislation. (10th Jan 2012) |
| 1st | After a trial based on new forensic evidence, Gary Dobson and David Norris are convicted of the racist murder of black London teenager Stephen Lawrence, who was killed in April 1993. On 4 January they are sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder, with minimum term of just over 15 and 14 years respectively. (3rd Jan 2012) |
| 5th | Four men were jailed for 15 years each for their part in the 2006 Securitas raid, the UK's biggest cash robbery. (31st Jan 2008) |
| 5th | Last working of Tower Colliery, the last deep mine in the South Wales Valleys (official closure: 25 January). (18th Jan 2008) |
| 10th | Richard Colvin Reid, the so-called "shoe bomber", is sentenced to life imprisonment by a United States court. (30th Jan 2003) |
| 10th | Central line underground train crashes into the tunnel wall at Chancery Lane tube station in London, injuring 34 people. (25th Jan 2003) |
| 10th | Ian Carr, a 27-year-old banned from driving with a total of 89 previous convictions (including causing death by dangerous driving), admits causing the death by dangerous driving of a six-year-old girl in Ashington, Northumberland - a crime which sparks widespread public and media outrage across Britain. (10th Jan 2003) |
| 40th | The Open University awarded its first degrees. (11th Jan 1973) |
| 40th | The UK is admitted into the European Community. (1st Jan 1973) |
| 50th | Double Agent Kim Philby disappears having defected to the Soviet Union. (23rd Jan 1963) |
| 60th | The North Sea flood of 1953 kills hundreds of people on the east coast of Britain. (31st Jan 1953) |
| 70th | World War II: British forces capture Tripoli from the Nazis. (23rd Jan 1943) |
| 70th | Sandhurst Road School Disaster: a bomb kills 38 children and 6 teachers at a school in Catford, south-east London. (20th Jan 1943) |
| 70th | anti-aircraft shrapnel shells kill 23 people and injure 60 during a raid on London by 118 planes; six are reported losses. (17th Jan 1943) |
| 70th | World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill begin the Casablanca Conference to discuss strategy and study the next phase of the war. (14th Jan 1943) |
| 70th | Post-war austerity "Utility furniture" goes on sale for the first time. (1st Jan 1943) |
| 75th | York Castle Museum opened. (23rd Jan 1938) |
| 75th | psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud arrives in London having fled from Vienna in Austria. (6th Jan 1938) |
| 80th | The London Underground map designed by Harry Beck is introduced to the public for the first time. (occurred at an unknown date in January) (1st Jan 1933) |
| 90th | Britain's Railways are grouped into the Big Four: LNER, GWR, SR, and LMS. (1st Jan 1923) |
| 100th | The United Kingdom's House of Lords rejects the Irish Home Rule Bill. (30th Jan 1913) |
| 100th | The British Board of Film Censors receives the authority to classify and censor films. (1st Jan 1913) |
| 125th | The Lawn Tennis Association is founded. (26th Jan 1888) |
| 150th | The London Underground, the world's oldest underground railway, opens between London Paddington station and Farringdon station. (10th Jan 1863) |
| 175th | A fire destroys Lloyd's Coffee House and the Royal Exchange in London. (10th Jan 1838) |
| 200th | Pride and Prejudice is first published in the United Kingdom. (28th Jan 1813) |
| 225th | First edition of The Times of London, previously The Daily Universal Register, is published. (1st Jan 1788) |
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