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January 9th
1431 ~ Start of the Heresy trial of Joan of Arc.
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 ~ Mississippi became the second state to secede from the Union. 1882 ~ Oscar Wilde gave his first lecture on "The English Renaissance of Art" in New York. 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. 2005 ~ Mahmoud Abbas won the election for a successor to Yasser Arafat. |
January 10th
49 BC ~ Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon.
1776 ~ Thomas Paine published Common Sense. 1778 ~ Death of Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish Botanist. 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. 1943 ~ Birthday of Jim Croce, American Singer. 1945 ~ Birthday of Rod Stewart, English Rocker. 1951 ~ Death of Sinclair Lewis, Author. 1994 ~ Lorena Bobbitt went on trial for cutting off the penis of her husband John. |
January 11th
1693 ~ Eruption of Mt. Etna.
1787 ~ William Herschel discovered Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus. 1801 ~ Death of Domenico Cimarosa, Italian Composer. 1843 ~ Death of Francis Scott Key, Lawyer. 1935 ~ Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo from Hawaii to California. 1938 ~ Birthday of Arthur Scargill, Union Leader. 1964 ~ U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry reported smoking may be hazardous to health. First such statement from US government. 1972 ~ East Pakistan became Bangladesh. 1980 ~ Nigel Short became the youngest chess player, at 14 years old, to be awarded the degree of International Master. 1992 ~ Paul Simon became the first major artist to tour South Africa after the end of the cultural boycott. |
January 12th
1665 ~ Death of Pierre de Fermat, Mathematician.
1856 ~ Birthday of John Singer Sargent, Artist. 1893 ~ Birthday of Hermann Göring, Nazi official. 1970 ~ Biafra capitulated, ending the Nigerian civil war. 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. 1998 ~ EU nations agree to forbid human cloning. 2003 ~ Death of Leopoldo Galtieri, Dictator of Argentina. 2005 ~ Deep Impact launched from Cape Canaveral by a Delta 2 rocket. |
January 13th
1599 ~ Death of Edmund Spenser, Poet (The Faerie Queene).
1832 ~ Birthday of Horatio Alger, Jr., Author. 1929 ~ Death of Wyatt Earp. 1941 ~ Death of James Joyce, Writer. 1957 ~ Wham-O Company began to sell the Frisbee. 1977 ~ Birthday of Orlando Bloom, Actor. 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 Korean women into sexual slavery during World War II. 1993 ~ American, British and French fighter jets bomb Iraq. |
January 14th
1690 ~ The clarinet was invented in Nuremberg, Germany.
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 Lewis Carroll, Writer & Mathematician. 1900 ~ Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca premiered in Rome. 1957 ~ Death of Humphrey Bogart, Actor. 1978 ~ Death of Kurt Gödel, Mathematician. 1994 ~ U.S. President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed the Kremlin accords which ended the preprogrammed aiming of nuclear missiles to targets and also provided for the dismantling of the nuclear arsenal in Ukraine. 2000 ~ A UN tribunal sentenced five Bosnian Croats to prison for the 1993 killing of over 100 Muslims in a Bosnian village. 2005 ~ The Huygens probe landed on Saturn's moon Titan. |
January 15th
1870 ~ U.S. Democratic Party first portrayed as a donkey ("A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" by Thomas Nast for Harper's Weekly).
1892 ~ James Naismith published the rules for basketball. 1908 ~ Birthday of Edward Teller, Physicist. 1918 ~ Birth of Gamal Abdal Nasser, President of Egypt. 1929 ~ Birthday of Martin Luther King Jr., Civil Rights leader & winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 1964. 1951 ~ Ilse Koch, The "Bitch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, was sentenced to life imprisonment in a court in West Germany. 1953 ~ East German authorities began a purge of senior Jewish officials . 1970 ~ Muammar al-Qaddafi is proclaimed premier of Libya. 1983 ~ Death of Meyer Lansky, mobster. 1991 ~ The UN deadline for the withdrawal of Iraqi forces from occupied Kuwait expired, preparing the way for the start of Operation Desert Storm. |
January 16th
1581 ~ English Parliament outlawed Roman Catholicism.
1605 ~ The first edition of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes was published in Madrid. 1794 ~ Death of Edward Gibbon, Historian. 1909 ~ Ernest Shackleton's expedition found the magnetic South Pole. 1957 ~ Death of Arturo Toscanini, Conductor. 1966 ~ The Metropolitan Opera House opened at Lincoln Center in New York City. 1977 ~ The Marx Brothers were inducted into the Motion Picture Hall of Fame. 1979 ~ The Shah of Iran fled Iran with his family and relocated to Egypt. 1991 ~ Serial killer Aileen Wuornos confessed to the murders of six men. 2003 ~ Space Shuttle Columbia took off on its final mission, STS-107. |
January 17th
1751 ~ Death of Tomaso Albinoni, Italian Composer.
1773 ~ Captain James Cook became the first explorer to cross the Antarctic Circle. 1899 ~ Birthday of Nevil Shute, Author. 1942 ~ Birthday of Muhammad Ali, the world's greatest heavyweight Boxer. 1964 ~ Death of T.H. White, author. 1975 ~ Bob Dylan released Blood on the Tracks. 1977 ~ Gary Gilmore executed. 1985 ~ BT announced the retirement of Britain's famous red telephone boxes. 1991 ~ Operation Desert Storm began. 1998 ~ Paula Jones accused President Bill Clinton of sexual harassment. |
January 18th
1535 ~ Lima, Peru founded by Francisco Pizarro.
1779 ~ Birthday of Peter Roget, Lexicographer. 1882 ~ Birthday of A. A. Milne, Author. 1892 ~ Birthday of Oliver Hardy, Comedian & Actor. 1936 ~ Death of Rudyard Kipling, Writer & Poet 1939 ~ Louis Armstrong recorded “Jeepers Creepers”. 1944 ~ Birthday of Paul Keating, twenty-fourth Prime Minister of Australia. 1964 ~ Plans were revealed for the World Trade Center in New York City. 1990 ~ Washington, DC, Mayor Marion Barry was arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting. 1998 ~ Matt Drudge published the Bill Clinton - Monica Lewinsky affair story on his website The Drudge Report. |
January 19th
1809 ~ Birthday of Edgar Allan Poe, Poet & short story Author.
1813 ~ Birthday of Sir Henry Bessemer, Inventor. 1829 ~ Goethe's Faust premiered. 1839 ~ Birthday of Paul Cézanne, Painter. 1853 ~ Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il Trovatore premiered. 1943 ~ Birthday of Janis Joplin, Blues/Rock Singer. 1949 ~ Birthday of Robert Palmer, Singer & Guitarist. 1966 ~ Indira Gandhi elected Prime Minister of India. 1983 ~ The Apple Lisa was announced. I was the first commercial personal computer from Apple to have a graphical user interface and a computer mouse. 2004 ~ Death of David Hookes, Australian cricketer and coach. |
January 20th
1892 ~ The first official basketball game was played, at the YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts.
1907 ~ Death of Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian Chemist and inventor of the Periodic table. 1930 ~ Birthday of Buzz Aldrin, Astronaut. 1937 ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt was sworn in for a second term as U.S. President. This was the first inauguration scheduled on January 20, following adoption of the 20th Amendment. Previous inaugurations were scheduled on March 4. 1942 ~ Nazis at the Wannsee conference in Berlin decided the "final solution to the Jewish problem". 1961 ~ John F. Kennedy sworn in as U.S. President. 1967 ~ The first pulsar is discovered, followed shortly by the one in the Crab Nebula. 1984 ~ Death of Johnny Weissmuller, Olympic swimming gold medalist & Actor (Tarzan). 1991 ~ Sudan's government imposed Islamic law nationwide, worsening the civil war between the country's Muslim north and Christian south. 1993 ~ Death of Audrey Hepburn, actress. |
January 21st
1643 ~ Abel Tasman discovered Tonga.
1793 ~ Louis XVI of France was guillotined. 1908 ~ The New York City Council passed a law making it illegal for women to smoke in public. It was vetoed by the mayor. 1924 ~ Death of Vladimir Lenin, first leader of the U.S.S.R. 1941 ~ Birthday of Plácido Domingo, Opera Singer. 1950 ~ Death of George Orwell, Writer. 1950 ~ Alger Hiss was convicted of perjury. 1954 ~ The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, was launched in Groton, Connecticut. 1959 ~ Death of Cecil B. DeMille, Movie Director. 1977 ~ President Jimmy Carter pardoned nearly all Vietnam War draft evaders. |
January 22nd
1788 ~ Birthday of Lord Byron, Poet.
1840 ~ British colonists reached New Zealand. 1879 ~ Zulu troops defeated British troops at the Battle of Isandlwana. 1899 ~ Leaders of six Australian colonies met in Melbourne to discuss confederation. 1901 ~ Death of Queen Victoria I of the United Kingdom. 1931 ~ Sir Isaac Isaacs sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia. 1953 ~ The Crucible, a drama by Arthur Miller, opened on Broadway. 1973 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court delivered its decision in Roe vs. Wade striking down state laws restricting abortion during the first six months of pregnancy. 1984 ~ The Apple Macintosh was introduced during Super Bowl XVIII with the famous television commercial 1984 (requires QuickTime and patience [but is generally considered among the best commercials in history]). 1997 ~ Madeleine Albright became the first female secretary of state after confirmation by the United States Senate. |
January 23rd
1789 ~ Georgetown College, now University, founded by Archbishop John Carroll, became the first Catholic, Jesuit college in the U.S.
1832 ~ Birthday of Edouard Manet, Impressionist artist. 1849 ~ Elizabeth Blackwell was awarded her MD, and became the first woman doctor in the U.S. 1857 ~ Birthday of Andrija Mohorovičić, Croatian seismologist. 1862 ~ Birthday of David Hilbert, Mathematician. 1943 ~ Australian and American forces defeated the Japanese army in Papua. This turning point in the Pacific War marked the beginning of the end of Japanese aggression. 1973 ~ U.S. President Richard Nixon announced that a peace accord had been reached in Vietnam. 1989 ~ Death of Salvador Dalí, Artist. 2002 ~ Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and subsequently murdered in Pakistan. 2006 ~ Canadian federal election. |
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