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January 24th
1776 ~ Birthday of E.T.A. Hoffmann, Poet & Composer.
1888 ~ Birthday of Ernst Heinkel, aircraft designer. 1908 ~ Robert Baden-Powell began the Boy Scout movement. 1927 ~ Alfred Hitchcock released his first film, “The Pleasure Garden”. 1945 ~ Soviet troops liberated Auschwitz. 1962 ~ Brian Epstein signed to manage The Beatles. 1965 ~ Death of Winston Churchill, Englishman. 1984 ~ The Apple Macintosh went on sale. 1993 ~ Death of Thurgood Marshall, U.S. Supreme Court justice. 2003 ~ The U.S. Department of Homeland Security officially began operation. |
January 25th
1627 ~ Birthday of Robert Boyle, Chemist.
1759 ~ Birthday of Robert Burns, Poet. 1882 ~ Birthday of Virginia Woolf, Writer. 1890 ~ Nellie Bly completed her round-the-world journey in 72 days. 1919 ~ The League of Nations was founded. 1924 ~ The first Winter Olympics opened in Chamonix, France. 1947 ~ Death of Al Capone, Gangster. 1971 ~ Idi Amin lead a coup deposing Milton Obote and became Uganda's president. 1999 ~ Death of Robert Shaw, American conductor. 2004 ~ Opportunity landed on Mars. |
January 26th
1785 ~ Benjamin Franklin wrote a letter to his daughter expressing disappointment over the selection of the eagle as the symbol of the United States; he wanted the turkey.
1885 ~ Troops loyal to the Mahdi conquered Khartoum. 1905 ~ Birthday of Maria von Trapp, Singer. 1925 ~ Birthday of Paul Newman, Actor. 1945 ~ Birthday of Jacqueline du Pré, Cellist 1970 ~ Simon and Garfunkel released “Bridge Over Troubled Water”. 1972 ~ Death of Mahalia Jackson, Gospel Music singer. 1996 ~ Whitewater scandal: First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton testified before a grand jury. 1998 ~ Lewinsky scandal: U.S. President Bill Clinton denied on television he had "sexual relations" with former intern Monica Lewinsky. 2005 ~ Condoleezza Rice sworn in as U.S. Secretary of State, the first African American woman to hold the post. Feastdays & Holidays Australia ~ Australia Day. |
January 27th
1606 ~ The trial of Guy Fawkes and other Gunpowder Plot conspirators began.
1756 ~ Birthday of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer. 1832 ~ Birthday of Lewis Carroll, Author (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland). 1901 ~ Death of Giuseppe Verdi, Composer. 1944 ~ The Siege of Leningrad was lifted. 1945 ~ The Red Army liberated Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland. 1967 ~ Astronauts Grissom, White and Chaffee were killed in a fire during a test of the Apollo 1 spacecraft. 1992 ~ Mike Tyson went on trial charged with raping a Miss Black America contestant. 1997 ~ It is revealed that French museums had retained nearly 2,000 pieces of art that were stolen by Nazis. 1998 ~ U.S. First Lady Hillary Clinton called the attacks against her husband part of a "vast right-wing conspiracy" on the “Today Show”. |
January 28th
1521 ~ The Diet of Worms began.
1596 ~ Death of Sir Francis Drake, Explorer & Soldier. 1788 ~ The first penal colony was founded at Botany Bay, Australia. 1833 ~ Birthday of Charles George 'Chinese' Gordon, British soldier. 1841 ~ Birthday of Henry Morton Stanley, Explorer & Journalist. 1887 ~ Birthday of Artur Rubinstein, Polish Pianist. 1935 ~ Iceland became the first country to legalize abortion. 1939 ~ Death of William Butler Yeats, Writer. 1986 ~ Space Shuttle Challenger exploded just after takeoff killing all seven astronauts onboard. 2004 ~ Lord Hutton published his report into the death of Dr. David Kelly. Feastdays & Holidays Catholicism ~ Feast day of St. Thomas Aquinas. |
January 29th
1845 ~ The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe was published for the first time.
1856 ~ Queen Victoria instituted the Victoria Cross. 1880 ~ Birthday of W.C. Fields, Actor. 1933 ~ President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany. 1944 ~ The battleship USS Missouri was launched. 1956 ~ Death of H. L. Mencken, Journalist. 1962 ~ Death of Fritz Kreisler, Austrian violinist. 1963 ~ Death of Robert Frost, Poet. 1996 ~ President Jacques Chirac announced a "definitive end" to French nuclear testing. 2002 ~ In his State of the Union Address, President Bush coined the term Axis of Evil. |
January 30th
1649 ~ King Charles I of England was beheaded.
1862 ~ The first Union ironclad warship, the USS Monitor was launched. 1937 ~ Birthday of Boris Spassky, World Chess Champion. 1948 ~ Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated. 1968 ~ Viet Cong guerillas and North Vietnamese soldiers launched the Tet offensive. 1969 ~ Last performance by The Beatles at the Top of the Apple Building. 1979 ~ The Iranian government announced that the exiled Ayatollah Khomeini would be allowed to return. 1991 ~ Iraqi troops seized control of Al Khafji. 2003 ~ Richard Reid, the 'Shoe bomber' jailed. 2005 ~ Iraq holds an election for its National Assembly, the country's first free election since 1953. |
January 31st
1606 ~ Guy Fawkes was executed for his part in the Gunpowder Plot.
1797 ~ Birthday of Franz Schubert, Composer. 1917 ~ Germany announced that its U-boats will engage in unrestricted submarine warfare. 1929 ~ The Soviet Union exiled Leon Trotsky. 1950 ~ President Harry S. Truman announced a program to develop the hydrogen bomb. 1956 ~ Death of A. A. Milne, Author (Winnie the Pooh). 1958 ~ James Van Allen discovered the Van Allen radiation belt. 1968 ~ Viet Cong attacked the United States embassy in Saigon. 1996 ~ An explosives-filled truck rammed into the gates of the Central Bank in Colombo, Sri Lanka killing 91 and injuring 1,400. 2001 ~ A Scottish court convicted a Libyan and acquitted another for their parts in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988. |
February 1st
1851 ~ Death of Mary Shelley, English Author (Frankenstein).
1896 ~ Puccini’s opera La Bohème premiered in Turin. 1920 ~ The Royal Canadian Mounted Police began operations. 1929 ~ Frenchman Charles Rigoulet became the first weightlifter to lift over 400 pounds (181 kg) in the "clean and jerk" method. 1931 ~ Birthday of Boris Yeltsin, Russian President. 1978 ~ Roman Polanski skipped bail and fled to France after pleading guilty to charges of having sex with a 13-year-old girl. 1979 ~ Ayatollah Khomeini returned to Iran. 1979 ~ Convicted bank robber Patty Hearst was released from prison after her sentence was commuted by President Jimmy Carter. 2003 ~ Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated over Texas upon reentry killing all seven astronauts onboard. 2004 ~ Super Bowl XXXVIII: One team defeated the other team, 32-29. During the half-time show Janet Jackson's right breast was bared. |
February 2nd
1709 ~ Alexander Selkirk was rescued from a desert island, inspiring the book “Robinson Crusoe” by Daniel Defoe.
1870 ~ The Cardiff Giant was revealed as just carved gypsum and not the petrified remains of a human. 1875 ~ Birthday of Fritz Kreisler, Austrian violinist. 1887 ~ In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day was observed. 1897 ~ Birthday of Howard Johnson, American Hotelier. 1905 ~ Birthday of Ayn Rand, Author. 1943 ~ The German 6th Army surrendered at Stalingrad. 1970 ~ Death of Bertrand Russell, Mathematician. 1989 ~ The last Soviet Union armored column left Kabul, bringing to an end nine years of military occupation. Feastdays & Holidays United States & Canada – Groundhog Day |
February 3rd
1468 ~ Death of Johannes Gutenberg, German Publisher.
1809 ~ Birthday of Felix Mendelssohn, Composer. 1870 ~ The 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. 1874 ~ Birthday of Gertrude Stein, Writer. 1894 ~ Birthday of Norman Rockwell, Illustrator. 1916 ~ Parliament buildings in Ottawa, Canada burned down. 1947 ~ Birthday of Melanie Safka, Singer. 1959 ~ Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and The Big Bopper were killed in a plane crash. 1966 ~ The Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft made the first controlled landing on the Moon. 1972 ~ The first Winter Olympics to be held in Asia opened in Sapporo, Japan. |
February 4th
1789 ~ George Washington was unanimously elected by the Electoral College to be the first President of the United States.
1861 ~ In Montgomery, Alabama the Confederate States of America was formed by delegates from six break-away United States. 1894 ~ Death of Adolphe Sax, instrument maker, inventor of the saxophone. 1902 ~ Birthday of Charles Lindbergh, U.S. aviator. 1913 ~ Birthday of Rosa Parks, U.S. civil rights activist. 1927 ~ The first motion picture with synchronized sound was released – ‘The Jazz Singer’ starring Al Jolson. 1928 ~ Death of Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate. 1974 ~ The Symbionese Liberation Army kidnapped Patty Hearst in Berkeley, California. 1987 ~ Death of Liberace, "Mr. Showmanship". 1997 ~ O. J. Simpson was found to be civilly liable for the deaths of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. |
February 5th
1878 ~ Birthday of André Citroën, automobile pioneer.
1885 ~ The king of Belgium established the Congo as a personal possession. 1919 ~ Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith created United Artists. 1924 ~ The Royal Greenwich Observatory began to broadcast hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the "BBC pips". 1934 ~ Birthday of Hank Aaron, Athlete. 1958 ~ A hydrogen bomb was lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered. 1962 ~ French President Charles De Gaulle called for Algerian independence. 1968 ~ The Battle of Khe Sanh began. 1982 ~ Pioneering budget airliner Laker Airways collapsed owing £270 million to banks and other creditors. 1988 ~ Comic Relief held the first "Red Nose Day", which raised a £15 million in the U.K. for charity. |
February 6th
1564 ~ Birthday of Christopher Marlowe, Playwright.
1819 ~ Sir Thomas Raffles founded Singapore. 1840 ~ Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, founding document of New Zealand. 1895 ~ Birthday of Babe Ruth, Athlete. 1913 ~ Birthday of Mary Leakey, Anthropologist. 1952 ~ Princess Elizabeth became Queen upon the death of her father George VI. 1959 ~ Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments filed the first patent for an integrated circuit. 1993 ~ Death of Arthur Ashe, Athlete. 2004 ~ Chechen suicide-attack in a Moscow subway killed 40 commuters, and injures a hundred and twenty-nine. 2006 ~ The Conservative Party of Canada took control of the Canadian government. |
February 7th
1812 ~ Birthday of Charles Dickens, Novelist.
1834 ~ Birthday of Dmitri Mendeleev, chemist and inventor of the Periodic table of the chemical elements. 1883 ~ Birthday of Eubie Blake, Musician, Composer. 1885 ~ Birthday of Sinclair Lewis, Author. 1905 ~ The Great Baltimore Fire destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in 30 hours. 1964 ~ The Beatles arrived on their first visit to the U.S. 1971 ~ Women became entitled to vote in Switzerland. 1979 ~ Pluto moved inside Neptune's orbit, and became for the next 20 years, the eighth planet from the sun. 1990 ~ Collapse of the Soviet Union: The Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party agreed to give up its monopoly of power. 1992 ~ The European Union was formed. |
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