** based on a novel by Danish author Martin Andersen Nexø

** Saint Martin

** Martin of Tongres

** Martin of Tours ( Roman Catholic Church )

** Martin Branner

** Martin de Porres

** Chris Martin, British rock musician ( Coldplay )

** Martin Biron, Canadian hockey player

** Kenyon Martin, American basketball player

** Martin Donnelly, Northern Irish racecar driver

** Martin Škrtel, Slovakian footballer

** Martin Kaymer, German golfer

** Martin Delrio, Flemish theologian and occultist ( b. 1551 )

** The Martin Declaration is published, including Slovakia in the formation of the Czecho-Slovak state.

** Martin Sheridan, Irish athlete ( b. 1881 )

** Dean Martin, American actor and singer ( d. 1995 )

** Martin Buchan, Scottish footballer

** Martin Amis, English novelist

** Martin Sandberger, German military officer ( d. 2010 )

** In Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King Jr. ( he later retracts his guilty plea ).

** Steve Martin, American actor and comedian

** Martin Frost, American politician

** Martin Scorsese, American film director

** At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team.

** 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.

** The Union of Alba Iulia is proclaimed: Following the March 27 incorporation of Bessarabia and Bucovina, Transylvania unites with Romania.

** Following a rash of integrist murders, Algeria breaks diplomatic relations with Iran, accusing the country of interfering in its interior affairs.

** Following the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement's victory, Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada becomes president of Bolivia.

** Following the invasion of Poland, Danzig ( now Gdańsk, Poland ) is annexed to Nazi Germany.

** Following a hung parliament in the UK general election, Conservative prime minister Edward Heath resigns and is succeeded by Labour's Harold Wilson, who previously led the country from 1964 to 1970.

** Following her 1972 sex reassignment surgery, musician Wendy Carlos legally changes her name from Walter.

** Queensland: Following a week of turmoil from his National Party of Australia colleagues, Joh Bjelke-Petersen resigns as Premier of Queensland.

** Following a campaign that saw over 1000 people killed in massive campaign-related violence, the United National Party wins the Sri Lankan parliamentary election.

** Following the death of Gustavus Adolphus, king of Sweden, he is succeeded by his 6 year old daughter Christina while five regents, headed by Axel Oxenstierna, govern the country since she is underage.

** Following the capture of Kandahar, Ahmad Shah Durrani is chosen by a Loya jirga as first leader of the Durrani Empire, predecessor of Afghanistan.

** Following the execution of King Charles I, the Commonwealth of England, a republican form of government, replaces the monarchy as the form of government of England and later of Scotland and Ireland.

** Following the American Civil War, the Radical Republicans attempted to put a land reform through Congress, promising " forty acres and a mule " to newly freed blacks in the South, which was ultimately rejected by moderate elements as " socialistic.

** Blackwood Brothers for I'm Following You

** Following the season, the Eagle Pro Box Lacrosse League changes its name to the Major Indoor Lacrosse League ( MILL ).

** The Blackwood Brothers for I'm Following You

** Following parathyroidectomy, " Hungry Bone Syndrome "

** Following thyroidectomy, the parathyroid glands are located very close to the thyroid and are easily injured or even accidentally removed during thyroidectomy

** Following the niddah period after menstruation, prior to resuming marital relations

** Following the niddah period after childbirth, prior to resuming marital relations

** Following pericarditis associated with acute myocardial infarction

** Following post-myocardial infarction ( Dressler's ) syndrome

** Greens: Following an announcement from The Broadcaster's Consortium ( composed of CBC, Radio-Canada, CTV, Global and TVA ) that only the four major parties would participate in the national televised leader's debates, Green Party leader Jim Harris announces he is considering legal action against the consortium.

** Episode 10. 22-Fair Winds and Following Seas

** Hadi Khamenei, member of Society of Forces Following the Line of the Imam, declined on December 6, 2004