** Minimum level required for POWER4 hardware and the last release that worked on the Micro Channel architecture

** Channel Tunnel — voltage remains at 25 kV AC.

** Channel 25

** The Nickelodeon Television Channel, a children's cartoon channel, launches as The Pinwheel Network.

** Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim the English Channel from France to England.

** The German occupation of the Channel Islands ends with the liberation by British troops.

** Establishing the first land connection between the United Kingdom and the mainland of Europe, Channel Tunnel workers from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 metres beneath the English Channel seabed.

** DZBB-TV Channel 7, the Philippines ' third TV station, is launched.

** Regular hovercraft service begins over the English Channel ( discontinued in 2000 due to the Channel Tunnel ).

** WWII: German forces ( 2nd Panzer division ), under General Rudolf Veiel, reach Noyelles on the English Channel.

** WWII: German forces land in Guernsey, marking the start of the 5-year Occupation of the Channel Islands.

** Work is abandoned on the British end of the Channel Tunnel.

** The Weather Channel airs on cable television for the first time.

** Donal Coonan, UK presenter for Channel 4's webshow thisisaknife

** First protected submarine telegraph cable laid, across the English Channel.

** Channel coding including

** Channel models

** Channel access schemes, media access control ( MAC )

** Salem Channel, a part of the Salem Sound

** Julius Caesar continues his campaigns in Gaul, he spreads Roman law and order, and makes the whole country as far as the Channel accessible to trade.

** Speed Channel ( subscription television )

** Speed Channel ( USA, Canada, Caribbean and Latin America ): coverage is hosted by current NASCAR driver and former V8 Supercar champion Marcos Ambrose on a week delay except Surfers Paradise and Bathurst starting in 2011.

** Social Security number, followed by " AF " indicating branch of service

** Social Security number, followed by " AF " indicating branch of service

** Specification – specifying requirements of a design solution for a product ( product design specification ) or service.

** Internet hosting service, a service that runs Internet servers allowing organizations and individuals to serve content to the Internet

** Price index, a typical price for some good or service

** Four wireless providers ( AT & T, Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile, Sprint Nextel ) control 89 % of the cellular telephone service market.

** Service record, usually associated with military service

** 112-EU standard integrated emergency service ( one nation-wide callcentre directly connected to police, EMS, firefighters, Mountain Rescue Service and others )

** Co-ordination with the operators that provide National Rail service within London.

** British Airways inaugurates regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service.

** The United States Post Office Department ( later renamed the United States Postal Service ) begins the 3rd regular airmail service in the world ( between New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, DC ), the 1st being from Allahabad to Naini Junction in India on the 18th February 1911 and the 2nd being from London to Windsor Castle on the 22nd June 1911.

** The Eggnog Riot breaks out at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York during the early morning hours, but is squelched by Christmas chapel service.

** U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologizes to the finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused service in a Dover, Delaware restaurant.

** Ireland's first regular radio service, 2RN ( later Radio Éireann ), begins broadcasting.

** Martin Luther King Day Crash-Telephone service in Atlanta, St. Louis, and Detroit, including 9-1-1 service, goes down for nine hours, due to an AT & T software bug.

** Prime Minister of India V. P. Singh announces plan to reserve 49 % of civil service jobs for lower-caste Hindus.

** Archbishop Desmond Tutu is given an official farewell at his retirement service.

** The BC Ferries company, later to become the second-largest ferry operator in th world, commences service between Tsawwassen and Swartz Bay, British Columbia, Canada.

** The first production model PCC trolley car, built by St. Louis Car Company, is placed in service by Pittsburgh Railways.

** The BBC launches the world's first regular ( then ) high-definition television service.

** The first SR-71 Blackbird spy plane goes into service at Beale AFB.

** Telephone service goes down in the cities of Washington DC, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles and San Francisco due to a software bug.