** Governors, Lieutenant Governors and Administrators of Indian States and Union Territories

** Albert Walsh, Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland ( d. 1958 )

** The U. S. Navy's Commander Leroy Heath ( the pilot ) and Lieutenant Larry Monroe ( the bombardier / navigator ) establish a world flight-altitude record of 91, 450 feet ( 27, 874 m ), with payload, in an A-5 Vigilante twinjet bomber carrying a 1, 000 kilogram payload, and they better the previous world record by over four miles ( 6 km ).

** U. S. Lieutenant Colonel William R. Higgins, serving with a United Nations group monitoring a truce in southern Lebanon, is kidnapped ( he is later killed by his captors ).

** Iran-Contra Affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.

** John Shelton Wilder, American politician, former Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee ( died 2010 )

** Vietnam War: Lieutenant William Calley goes on trial for the My Lai massacre.

** U. S. Army Lieutenant William Calley is found guilty of 22 murders in the My Lai massacre and sentenced to life in prison ( later pardoned ).

** Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings takes power in Ghana after a military coup in which General Fred Akuffo is overthrown.

** Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland, Lord Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire ( d. 1563 )

** John I Stanley of the Isle of Man, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, King of the Isle of Man ( b. 1350 )

** Lieutenant Governor of New South Wales

** Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia

** Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba

** Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick

** Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador

** Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia

** Lieutenant Governor of Ontario

** Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island

** Lieutenant Governor of Quebec

** Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan

** Graduated As No. 5378 and commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant

** Lieutenant R. Alcaraz

** Lieutenant S. Nuval

** Spanish Royal Governor of the Philippines

** Governor of the Faroe Islands

** Ibrahim, Governor of Eskişehir ( 1316 – 1362 ).

** Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton announces his candidacy for the Republican Presidential nomination, as part of a ' stop-Goldwater ' movement.

** Sarah Palin, American politician, former Governor of Alaska

** Jeanne Sauvé, Canadian Governor General ( b. 1922 )

** American Civil Rights Movement – Little Rock Crisis: Governor Orville Faubus of Arkansas calls out the US National Guard, to prevent African-American students from enrolling in Central High School in Little Rock.

** Alfred Walton Hinds, 17th Naval Governor of Guam ( b. 1874 )

** Adrienne Clarkson, 26th Governor General of Canada

** Carlton Skinner, Governor of Guam ( d. 2004 )

** Robert Stafford, Governor of Vermont, U. S Representative and U. S. Senator ( d. 2006 )

** Joshua Chamberlain, leader of the 20th Maine during the American Civil War, Governor of Maine, President of Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine ( d. 1914 )

** John Milton, Governor of Florida ( b. 1807 )

** Hans Frank, German Nazi Governor General of Poland ( b. 1900 )

** Francis William Drake, British admiral and Governor of Newfoundland ( b. 1724 )

** Pat Brown, Governor of California ( b. 1905 )

** Alabama Governor George C. Wallace stands in the door of the University of Alabama to protest against integration, before stepping aside and allowing African Americans James Hood and Vivian Malone to enroll.

** John F. Kennedy assassination: In Dallas, Texas, United States President John F. Kennedy is assassinated, Texas Governor John B. Connally is seriously wounded, and Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson becomes the 36th President.

** Governor William Goebel of Kentucky dies of wounds after being shot by several assassins on January 30.

** Luis A. Ferre is elected Governor of Puerto Rico.

** William Michael Crose, United States Navy Commander and the seventh Naval Governor of American Samoa ( b. 1867 )

** Thomas Darden, American Rear admiral, 37th Governor of American Samoa ( b. 1900 )

** Sir Douglas Nicholls appointed 28th Governor of South Australia, the first Australian Aboriginal appointed to vice-regal office.

** Governor George C. Wallace of Alabama is shot by Arthur Herman Bremer at a Laurel, Maryland political rally.