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December 10th
1815 ~ Birthday of Ada Lovelace, first computer programmer.
1822 ~ Birthday of César Franck, Composer & Organist. 1830 ~ Birthday of Emily Dickinson, Poet. 1896 ~ Death of Alfred Nobel, chemist, founder of the Nobel Prize. 1941 ~ Japanese forces landed in the Philippines, captured Guam and sank the HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse. 1948 ~ the U.N. General Assembly adopted its Universal Declaration on Human Rights. 1953 ~ Dr. Albert Schweitzer was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. 1965 ~ The Grateful Dead played their first concert, at the Fillmore in San Francisco. 1978 ~ Prime Minister Menachem Begin and President Anwar Sadat were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. 2002 ~ The High Court of Australia handed down its judgment in the internet defamation case of Gutnick v Dow Jones. |
December 11th
1725 ~ Birthday of George Mason, "Father of the Bill of Rights".
1803 ~ Birthday of Hector Berlioz, Composer. 1882 ~ Birthday of Max Born, physicist and 1954 Nobel laureate. 1918 ~ Birthday of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian author, 1970 Nobel laureate. 1931 ~ The Statute of Westminster gave legislative independence to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland and Newfoundland. 1941 ~ Germany and Italy declared war on the United States. 1943 ~ King Edward VIII abdicated the throne in order to marry American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson. 1994 ~ A small bomb exploded on Philippine Airlines Flight 434, killing a Japanese businessman. The bombing was a test of explosives that would have been used in Project Bojinka. 1994 ~ Russian President Boris Yeltsin ordered Russian troops into Chechnya. 1997 ~ The Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was made available for signature. |
December 12th
1531 ~ Apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Mexico City.
1911 ~ The capital of India moved from Calcutta to New Delhi. 1915 ~ Birthday of Frank Sinatra, Singer & Actor. 1927 ~ Birthday of Robert Noyce, one of the men credited with the invention of the integrated circuit. 1963 ~ Kenya gained its independence from the UK. Uhuru! 1967 ~ Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones avoided a prison term for narcotics. 1979 ~ Rhodesia changed its name to Zimbabwe. 1999 ~ Death of Joseph Heller, Author. 2000 ~ The U.S.Supreme Court released its decision in Bush v. Gore. 2003 ~ Death of Keiko, the killer whale in the “Free Willy” movies. |
December 13th
1204 ~ Death of Maimonides, Sephardi Philosopher.
1577 ~ Sir Francis Drake began his circumnavigation from Plymouth, England. 1642 ~ Abel Janszoon Tasman reached New Zealand. 1784 ~ Death of Samuel Johnson, Essayist. 1818 ~ Birthday of Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady. 1925 ~ Birthday of Dick Van Dyke, Actor & Comedian. 1939 ~ The Admiral Graf Spee engaged Royal Navy cruisers HMS Exeter, HMS Ajax and HMNZS Achilles in the Battle of the River Plate. 1981 ~ Martial law imposed in Poland to try to control the Solidarity labor movement. 1996 ~ Kofi Annan elected as Secretary-General of the United Nations. 2003 ~ Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was captured near Tikrit. |
December 14th
1503 ~ Birthday of Nostradamus, Astrologer & Mathematician.
1546 ~ Birthday of Tycho Brahe, Astronomer. 1900 ~ Max Planck published his study of the quantum theory. 1911 ~ First expedition reached the South Pole, led by Roald Amundsen. 1939 ~ USSR expelled from the League of Nations. 1946 ~ The United Nations General Assembly voted to establish the U.N. headquarters in New York City. 1962 ~ Birthday of Ginger Lynn Allen, Actress. 1981 ~ Israel annexed the Golan Heights. 1985 ~ Death of Roger Maris, NYY Home Run King. 1995 ~ The Dayton Agreement was signed in Paris to end the Yugoslav wars. |
December 15th
37 ~ Birthday of Nero, Roman emperor.
1791 ~ The U.S. Bill of Rights ratified. 1852 ~ Birthday of Antoine Henri Becquerel, physicist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics. 1890 ~ Death of Sitting Bull, leader of Lakota tribe. 1916 ~ France defeated Germany in Battle of Verdun. 1958 ~ Death of Wolfgang Pauli, Physicist. 1961 ~ An Israeli war crimes tribunal sentenced Adolph Eichmann to death. 1966 ~ Death of Walt Disney, Animator & Cartoonist. 1982 ~ Spain reopened the border with Gibraltar. 1994 ~ Netscape Navigator 1.0 first released. |
December 17th
1778 ~ Birthday of Sir Humphry Davy, English chemist & physicist.
1830 ~ Death of Simón Bolívar, Latin American politician & Activist. 1843 ~ A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, was first published. 1903 ~ The first controlled, powered heavier-than-air flight occurred when the Wright brothers took to the air, both of them twice at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. 1944 ~ The “Battle of the Bulge” began. 1961 ~ India seized Goa from Portugal. 1969 ~ The USAF, in closing Project Blue Book, announced that its UFO investigations found no evidence of extraterrestrial spacecraft. 1973 ~ The American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from its list of mental illnesses. 1982 ~ ”Tootsie” opened in theaters. 1989 ~ Brazil held its first free election in 25 years. |
December 18th
1737 ~ Death of Antonio Stradivari, Italian violin maker.
1786 ~ Birthday of Carl Maria von Weber, Composer. 1892 ~ Premier or Tchaikovsky's ballet "The Nutcracker". 1912 ~ Official presentation of the discovery of Piltdown Man. 1913 ~ Birthday of Willy Brandt, Chancellor of Germany, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1971. 1936 ~ Death of Andrija Mohorovičić, Croatian seismologist. 1957 ~ The first U.S. civilian nuclear facility to generate electricity went online. 1989 ~ The British Labour Party under Neil Kinnock dropped its policy on trade union closed shops. 1996 ~ "Ebonics" was declared a language or dialect by the outgoing school board of Oakland, California, whose vote was overturned by the incoming board. The Clinton administration declared "black English" a form of slang that did not belong in the classroom. 2002 ~ California Governor Grey Davis announced that the state would face a budget deficit of $35 billion, roughly double the figure reported during his reelection campaign one month earlier. The budget issue was used to support his 2003 recall from office. |
December 19th
1733 ~ Benjamin Franklin first published Poor Richard's Almanack.
1848 ~ Death of Emily Brontë, Author. 1888 ~ Birthday of Fritz Reiner, Conductor. 1906 ~ Birthday of Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet politician. 1963 ~ Zanzibar received its independence from the UK. 1979 ~ ”Kramer vs. Kramer”, starring Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep, opened in theaters. 1984 ~ The UK and People's Republic of China signed the Sino-British Joint Declaration, which returned Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty in 1997. 1997 ~ "Titanic" the highest-grossing movie of all-time, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, opened in theaters. 1988 ~ The House of Representatives passed articles of impeachment against President Clinton over the Lewinsky scandal. 2003 ~ Libya announced that it would begin to destroy its weapons of mass destruction. |
December 20th
1833 ~ Birthday of Samuel Mudd, physician, convicted conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
1860 ~ South Carolina became the first state to secede from the US. 1901 ~ Birthday of Robert Van de Graaff, Physicist & Inventor. 1968 ~ Death of John Steinbeck, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1962. 1989 ~ American troops invaded Panama to remove dictator Manuel Noriega. 1991 ~ Paul Keating became the 24th Prime Minister of Australia. 1995 ~ IFOR (Implementation Force), a NATO-led multinational force, began peacekeeping in Bosnia. The task of IFOR was transfered to SFOR (Stabilisation Force) on 21-DEC-96, and transfered to EUFOR on 02-DEC-05. 1996 ~ Death of Carl Sagan, Astronomer & Writer. 1999 ~ Vermont's Supreme Court ruled that homosexual couples are entitled to the same benefits and protections as married heterosexual couples. 1999 ~ Macau was returned to the People's Republic of China by Portugal. |
December 21st
1118 ~ Birthday of Thomas Becket, Lord Chancellor & Archbishop of Canterbury.
1804 ~ Birthday of Benjamin Disraeli, Politician & Writer. 1898 ~ Marie and Pierre Curie discovered radium. 1913 ~ The first crossword puzzle was published, in the New York World. 1940 ~ Death of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Writer. 1942 ~ Birthday of Hu Jintao, Chinese president. 1945 ~ Death of George S. Patton, U.S. General. 1958 ~ Charles de Gaulle became the first leader of the Fifth Republic. 1979 ~ Apollo 8 was launched on a mission to orbit the moon. 1988 ~ A terrorist bomb exploded in Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland killing 270, including 11 on the ground. |
December 22nd
1858 ~ Birthday of Giacomo Puccini, Composer.
1864 ~ Savannah, Georgia fell to the Union army of General Sherman. 1880 ~ Death of George Eliot, Writer. 1942 ~ Adolf Hitler signed the order to develop the V-2 (Vergeltungswaffe 2)rocket as a weapon. 1989 ~ Berlin's Brandenburg Gate re-opened, ending the division of East and West Germany. 1990 ~ Lech Wałęsa sworn in as President of Poland. 1997 ~ Attendees at a prayer meeting of Roman Catholic activists for indigenous causes in the village of Acteal were massacred by paramilitary forces. 2001 ~ The Afghan Northern Alliance, handed over power in Afghanistan to the government headed by President Hamid Karzai. 2001 ~ Richard Reid tried to destroy a passenger airliner by igniting explosives hidden in his shoes. 2001 ~ Cc the cat, the first cloned pet, was born. |
December 23rd
1790 ~ Birthday of Jean François Champollion, Egyptologist. He deciphered the Rosetta Stone.
1823 ~ “A Visit From St. Nicholas”, by Clement Clarke Moore, was first published. 1834 ~ Death of Thomas Malthus, Demographer and Economist. 1888 ~ Vincent Van Gogh cut off his ear. 1947 ~ The transistor was first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories. 1953 ~ Death of Lavrenty Beria, Soviet Communist leader. 1956 ~ British and French forces withdrawn from Suez, Egypt. 1979 ~ Soviet military occupies Kabul, Afghanistan. 1986 ~ Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, completed the first non-stop, around-the-world flight without refueling. Feastdays & Holidays Fans of Seinfeld - Festivus (for the restofus) held. |
December 24th
1491 ~ Birthday of Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuits.
1818 ~ "Silent Night" composed by Franz Xaver Gruber. 1910 ~ Birthday of Fritz Leiber, Science Fiction writer. 1914 ~ World War I: The "Christmas truce" begins. 1914 ~ Death of John Muir, Naturalist. 1951 ~ Gian Carlo Menotti's "Amahl and the Night Visitors", the first opera written specifically for TV, was first broadcast 1957 ~ Birthday of Hamid Karzai, first democratically elected President of Afghanistan. 1968 ~ The Apollo 8 astronauts, orbiting the moon, read passages from the Old Testament Book of Genesis during a Christmas Eve TV broadcast. 1974 ~ Cyclone Tracy devastated Darwin, Australia. 1992 ~ President Bush pardoned 6 people involved in the Iran-Contra scandal. |
December 25th
800 ~ Coronation of Charlemagne as Holy Roman Emperor, in Rome.
1066 ~ Coronation of William the Conqueror as king of England, at Westminster Abbey, London. 1223 ~ Saint Francis of Assisi assembled the first Nativity scene. 1821 ~ Birthday of Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross. 1868 ~ President Johnson grants unconditional pardon to all Civil War Confederate soldiers. 1918 ~ Birthday of Anwar Sadat, Egyptian president, awarded Nobel Peace Prize 1978. 1938 ~ Birthday of Karel Čapek, Czech author, inventor of the word robot. 1977 ~ Deathof Charlie Chaplin, Entertainer. 1989 ~ Death of Nicolae Ceauşescu, Romanian dictator (executed). 1991 ~ Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev went on TV to announce his resignation as the eighth and final leader of the Soviet Union (the union itself is dissolved the next day). Feastdays & Holidays The Nativity of Jesus. |
December 26th
1610 ~ Elizabeth Bathory's crimes were uncovered.
1791 ~ Birthday of Charles Babbage, Mathematician and designer of computing machines. 1792 ~ Final trial of Louis XVI of France began. 1890 ~ Death of Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist. 1893 ~ Birthday of Mao Zedong, Chinese Politician. 1941 ~ Winston Churchill became the first British prime minister to address a joint session of the U.S. Congress. 1948 ~ Cardinal Mindszenty arrested in Hungary. 1966 ~ The first Kwanzaa was celebrated. 1991 ~ Supreme Soviet meets and formally dissolved the USSR. 2004 ~ A tsunami triggered by an earthquake beneath the Indian Ocean left more than 216,000 people dead or missing, mostly in southern Asia. Feastdays & Holidays Boxing Day. |
December 27th
1571 ~ Birthday of Johannes Kepler, astronomer.
1822 ~ Birthday of Louis Pasteur, Scientist. 1831 ~ Charles Darwin embarked on his journey aboard the HMS Beagle. 1871 ~ The world's first cat show was held at the Crystal Palace in London. 1904 ~ James Barrie's play Peter Pan premiered in London. 1932 ~ Radio City Music Hall opened in New York City. 1945 ~ The World Bank was created with an agreement signed by 28 nations. 1945 ~ Queen Juliana of the Netherlands granted Indonesia sovereignty. 1985 ~ Naturalist Dian Fossey was found murdered in Rwanda. 2001 ~ The U.S. announced plans to hold Taliban and al-Qaeda prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. |
December 28th
1065 ~ Westminster Abbey consecrated.
1836 ~ Spain recognized Mexico’s independence. 1869 ~ William F. Semple patented chewing gum. 1895 ~ The Lumiere Brothers gave birth to Cinema at the Grand Cafe in Paris. 1937 ~ Death of Maurice Ravel, French composer. 1951 ~ The Peak District became the UK’s first National Park. 1969 ~ Birthday of Linus Torvalds, Benevolent Dictator for Life of Linux. 1973 ~ Alexander Solzhenitsyn published Gulag Archipelago. 1983 ~ Death of Dennis Wilson, the only Beach Boy who could surf. 2000 ~ Montgomery Ward announced it was going out of business after 128 years. |
December 29th
1170 ~ Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, was murdered by knights acting under the orders of Henry II.
1845 ~ Texas became the 28th state of the United States. 1851 ~ The first Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) in the U.S. opened in Boston. 1890 ~ Defeat at the Battle of Wounded Knee effectively ended American Indian resistance to European settlement of the U.S. 1916 ~ Death of Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk. 1937 ~ The Constitution of Ireland, changing the Irish Free State into Eire, went into effect. 1940 ~ The Luftwaffe began dropping incendiary bombs on London. 1975 ~ The UK's Sex Discrimination Act went into effect. 1989 ~ Vaclav Havel was elected president of Czechoslovakia. 1998 ~ Khmer Rouge leaders apologized for the 1970s genocide in Cambodia that claimed 1 million lives. |
December 30th
1691 ~ Death of Robert Boyle, the first modern Chemist.
1853 ~ The U.S. bought some 45,000 sq miles of land from Mexico in the Gadsden Purchase. 1879 ~ The Pirates of Penzance was first performed. 1911 ~ Sun Yat-sen was elected the first president of the Republic of China. 1922 ~ The Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was formed by the confederation of Russia, Byelorussia, Ukraine, and Transcaucasian Federation. 1924 ~ Edwin Hubble announced the existence of other galaxies. 1937 ~ Birthday of Gordon Banks, the best Goalkeeper ever. 1981 ~ Wayne Gretzky scored his 50th goal in 39 games. 1993 ~ Israel and the Vatican established diplomatic relations. 2006 ~ Saddam Hussein hanged for crimes committed during his brutal reign. |
December 31st
404 ~ The last gladiatorial contest took place in Rome.
1879 ~ Thomas Edison gave the first public demonstration of an electric incandescent lamp. 1880 ~ Birthday of George Marshall, U.S. Secretary of State, recipient of 1953 Nobel Peace Prize. 1943 ~ Birthday of John Denver, Singer & Songwriter. 1960 ~ The farthing coin ceased to be legal tender. 1964 ~ One of my boyhood heroes, Donald Campbell set the world water speed record, the only man to set both the world land and water speed records in the same year. 1980 ~ Death of Marshall McLuhan, Canadian writer. 1987 ~ Robert Mugabe sworn in as Zimbabwe's president. 1995 ~ The last new Calvin and Hobbes cartoon strip was published. 1999 ~ Russian President Boris Yeltsin resigned. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was designated acting president. |
January 1st
45 BC ~ Julian calendar went into effect.
1752 ~ Birthday of Betsy Ross, American seamstress. 1801 ~ Discovery of 1 Ceres, first known asteroid. 1879 ~ Birthday of E. M. Forster, English novelist. 1892 ~ Ellis Island began accepting immigrants to the U.S. 1895 ~ Birthday of J. Edgar Hoover, FBI director. 1901 ~ Establishment of the Commonwealth of Australia (Federation). 1983 ~ The ARPANET officially changed to use the Internet Protocol, creating the Internet. 1985 ~ The Internet's Domain Name System created. 2002 ~ Euro banknotes and coins became legal tender. |
January 2nd
1727 ~ Birthday of James Wolfe, British general in French and Indian War.
1808 ~ The U.S. Congress banned the importation of slaves. 1872 ~ Brigham Young was arrested for bigamy (25 wives). 1882 ~ John D. Rockefeller united his oil holdings into the Standard Oil trust. 1904 ~ Death of James Longstreet, Confederate general. 1905 ~ The Russian fleet surrender at Port Arthur, China brought the Russo-Japanese War to a close. 1920 ~ Birthday of Isaac Asimov, Russian-born American science fiction author. 1929 ~ Canada and the United States agreed on a plan to preserve Niagara Falls. 1994 ~ Death of Dixy Lee Ray, governor of Washington State & chaired the Atomic Energy Commission. 1996 ~ U.S. peacekeepers arrive in Bosnia. |
January 3rd
106 BC ~ Birthday of Cicero, Roman Statesman & Philosopher.
1521 ~ Pope Leo X excommunicated Martin Luther. 1777 ~ General George Washington defeats General Charles Cornwallis at the Battle of Princeton. 1861 ~ Delaware voted to not secede from the United States. 1892 ~ Birthday of J. R. R. Tolkien, South African-born Writer & Philologist. 1945 ~ Birthday of Stephen Stills, American Singer, Songwriter, & Guitarist. 1956 ~ Birthday of Mel Gibson, Australian Actor & Director. 1979 ~ Death of Conrad Hilton, American hotelier. 1959 ~ Alaska was admitted as the 49th U.S. state. 1993 ~ Presidents George Bush and Boris Yeltsin signed the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty in Moscow. (START). |
January 4th
1643 ~ Birthday of Isaac Newton, Scientist & Philosopher.
1785 ~ Birthday of Jakob Grimm, German philologist, elder half of the Grimm Brothers. 1948 ~ Burma gained its independence from the UK. 1958 ~ Sputnik 1 burned up on reentry into Earth's atmosphere (launched 4 October, 1957). 1960 ~ Death of Albert Camus, French Philosopher & Writer. 1961 ~ Death of Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian Physicist, awarderd the Nobel Prize in Physics 1933. 1965 ~ Death of T.S. Eliot, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 1948. 1965 ~ In his State of the Union address, President Johnson outlined his ''Great Society'' goals. 1967 ~ Donald Campbell died while trying to break the water speed record. 2004 ~ The first of two NASA Mars Rovers, Spirit, landed successfully on Mars. |
January 5th
1781 ~ British naval forces led by Benedict Arnold burned Richmond, Virginia.
1914 ~ Ford Motor Company announced a $10,000,000 employee give away, and the eight-hour workday. 1929 ~ Birthday of Walter Mondale, American Politician 1933 ~ Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge began in San Francisco Bay. 1952 ~ PM Churchill began his last visit to the U.S. 1968 ~ The "Prague Spring" began in Czechoslovakia when Alexander Dubček came to power. 1972 ~ President Nixon funded the Space Shuttle program development . 1997 ~ Withdrawal of Russian forces from Chechnya. 2003 ~ Death of Roy Jenkins, British Politician. 2005 ~ Eris, the largest known dwarf planet in the solar system, was discovered using images taken in 2003. |
Is the horoscope being recalculated for Eris?
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January 6th
1412 ~ Birthday of Joan of Arc, Saint & French Patriot.
1822 ~ Birthday of Heinrich Schliemann, Archaeologist. 1838 ~ Samuel Morse first publicly demonstrated his telegraph, in Morristown, NJ. 1838 ~ Birthday of Max Bruch, German composer. 1884 ~ Death of Gregor Mendel, the father of genetics. 1918 ~ Death of Georg Cantor, German mathematician. 1942 ~ The Pan American Airways “Pacific Clipper” returned to New York after making the first round-the-world trip by a commercial airplane. 1946 ~ William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) hanged for treason. 1994 ~ Figure skater Nancy Kerrigan was attacked at Cobo Arena in Detroit. Four men, including the ex-husband of Kerrigan's rival, Tonya Harding, were later sentenced to prison. 2005 ~ The first World Congress of Imams and Rabbis for Peace. Feastdays & Holidays Latin Christianity - Epiphany. |
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January 7th
1610 ~ The astronomer Galileo Galilei sighted the four moons of Jupiter which are now known as the “Galilean moons”.
1899 ~ Birthday of Francis Poulenc, French composer. 1916 ~ Birthday of Paul Keres, Estonian chess player. 1922 ~ Birthday of Jean-Pierre Rampal, French flutist. 1943 ~ Death of Nikola Tesla, Inventor & Electrical Engineer. 1953 ~ President Truman, in his State of the Union address, announced that the U.S. had developed a hydrogen bomb. 1979 ~ Vietnamese forces captured Phnom Penh, the Cambodian capital, overthrowing the Khmer Rouge government. 1980 ~ The Carter Administration authorized giving a $1.5 billion loan to bail out the Chrysler Corporation. 1990 ~ The Leaning Tower of Pisa was closed to the public. 1999 ~ President Clinton's impeachment trial began in the Senate. (He was later acquitted on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice.) |
January 8th
1642 ~ Death of Galileo Galilei, Astronomer.
1735 ~ Birthday of John Carroll, first Roman Catholic Archbishop in the U.S. 1918 ~ President Wilson announced his "Fourteen Points" for the aftermath of World War I. 1925 ~ Birthday of Gerald Durrell, Naturalist & Writer. 1926 ~ Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud became the King of Saudi Arabia. 1942 ~ Birthday of Stephen Hawking, English theoretical physicist. 1958 ~ Bobby Fischer won the U.S. Chess Championship. 1994 ~ Valeri Polyakov began his record setting 437 days in space. 1996 ~ Death of Francois Mitterrand, French president. 1999 ~ Cosmologists announced that the expansion rate of the universe is increasing. |
January 9th
1793 ~ Jean-Pierre Blanchard became the first person to fly in a balloon in the U.S.
1839 ~ The Daguerreotype photography process publicly demonstrated. 1861 ~ The "Star of the West" was fired upon as it attempted to deliver supplies to Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. This was the "Casus belli" of the American Civil War. 1861 ~ Mississippi became the second state to secede from the Union. 1903 ~ Hallam Tennyson, son of the poet Alfred Tennyson, became the second Governor-General of Australia. 1913 ~ Birthday of Richard Nixon, U.S. President. 1941 ~ Birthday of Joan Baez, Singer & Activist. 1951 ~ United Nations headquarters officially opened. 1968 ~ The Surveyor 7 space probe made a soft landing on the moon,. 2005 ~ Mahmoud Abbas won the election for a successor to Yasser Arafat. |
January 10th
1776 ~ Thomas Paine published Common Sense.
1862 ~ Death of Samuel Colt, Inventor. 1927 ~ The film Metropolis by Fritz Lang premiered. 1929 ~ Tintin, a comic book character created by Hergé, made his debut. 1945 ~ Birthday of Rod Stewart, English Rocker. 1946 ~ The first General Assembly of the United Nations convened in London. 1949 ~ Birthday of Linda Lovelace, Pornographic Actress. 1951 ~ Death of Sinclair Lewis, Author. 1994 ~ Lorena Bobbitt went on trial for cutting off the penis of her husband John. 2003 ~ North Korea withdrew from a global treaty barring it from making nuclear weapons. Feastdays & Holidays Islamic New Year |
In the spirit of Strange Days, http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~yeli23/Flash/Fire.html
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Pretty cool. Thank you!
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Sad how much of that is living memory for many of us. I saw sputnik1 as a small child.
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January 11th
1693 ~ Eruption of Mt. Etna.
1787 ~ William Herschel discovered the first two moons of Uranus, Titania & Oberon. 1801 ~ Death of Domenico Cimarosa, Italian Composer. 1843 ~ Death of Francis Scott Key, Lawyer. 1935 ~ Amelia Earhart began a trip from Honolulu to Oakland, Calif., becoming the first woman to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean. 1938 ~ Birthday of Arthur Scargill, Union Leader. 1962 ~ An avalanche in Peru killed some 4,000 people. 1964 ~ U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry issued the first government report saying smoking may be hazardous to one's health. 1973 ~ American League baseball teams voted to adopt the designated-hitter rule on a trial basis. 1980 ~ Nigel Short became the youngest chess player, at 14 years old, to be awarded the degree of International Master. |
January 12th
1665 ~ Death of Pierre de Fermat, Mathematician.
1893 ~ Birthday of Hermann Göring, Nazi official. 1915 ~ The U.S. House of Representatives defeated a proposal to give women the right to vote. 1969 ~ On a day that will be long remembered in infamy, Joe Namath and the New York Jets defeated the Baltimore Colts 16-7 in Super Bowl III, and became the first team from the American Football League to win American Football's championship. 1976 ~ Death of Agatha Christie, Mystery Writer. 1991 ~ U.S. Congress authorized the use of military force to drive Iraq out of Kuwait. 1992 ~ In the film ”2001: A Space Odyssey”, the computer HAL 9000 was activated on this date. 2003 ~ Death of Maurice Gibb, Bee Gee. 2003 ~ Death of Leopoldo Galtieri, Dictator of Argentina. 2006 ~ A stampede broke out during the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, killing 363 people. |
January 13th
1599 ~ Death of Edmund Spenser, Poet (The Faerie Queene).
1929 ~ Death of Wyatt Earp. 1941 ~ Death of James Joyce, Writer. 1942 ~ The United States began Japanese American internment. 1948 ~ Death of James Joyce, Irish novelist (Dubliners, Ulysses, Finnegans Wake). 1966 ~ Robert Weaver became the first black Cabinet member as he was appointed Secretary of Housing and Urban Development by President Johnson. 1978 ~ Death of Hubert H. Humphrey, U.S. Vice President & Minnesota Senator. 1990 ~ Douglas Wilder took office as the first elected African American governor. 1992 ~ Japan apologized for forcing tens of thousands of Korean women to serve as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during World War II. 1993 ~ American, British and French fighter jets bomb Iraq. |
January 14th
83 BC ~ Birthday of Marcus Antonius (Marc Anthony), Roman politician.
1784 ~ The Continental Congress ratified the Treaty of Paris, formally ending the American War of Independence. 1857 ~ Birthday of Albert Schweitzer, Christian Missionary & winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 1952. 1898 ~ Death of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson - who wrote ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' under the pen name Lewis Carroll, Writer & Mathematician. 1943 ~ President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill opened a wartime conference in Casablanca. 1954 ~ Baseball player Joe Dimaggio and actress Marilyn Monroe were married at San Francisco City Hall. 1957 ~ Death of Humphrey Bogart, Actor. 1978 ~ Death of Kurt Gödel, Mathematician. 1993 ~ Whitewater prosecutors questioned first lady Hillary Clinton at the White House about the gathering of FBI background files on past Republican political appointees. 2005 ~ The Huygens probe landed on Saturn's moon Titan. |
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