1994 ~ Worldwide Day for peace in Bosnia-Herzegovina

1965 Winston Churchill died in London at age 90.

January 24th
 

Togo ~ "Economic Liberation Day". 'Deterioration of the financial sector, energy shortages, depressed commodity prices'..... so says the interweb!! SOME liberation, huh?


41A.D. ~ Roman emperor, Gaius Caesar, better known as Caligula (meaning Little Boot—he used to wear military boots as a child), was murdered.


1848 ~ Gold was first discovered in California, in Sutter's mill. When President Polk announced the news in December, the gold rush began.


1908 ~ Robert Baden-Powell organized the first Boy Scout troop in England.


1972 ~ Japanese soldier Shoichi Yokoi was discovered in Guam, having spent 28 years hiding in the jungle thinking World War II was still going on.


1986 ~ Voyager Two space probe passes within 51,000 miles of Uranus.


2003 ~ The Department of Homeland Security, under Tom Ridge, became a cabinet department.

On Jan. 25, 1915, the inventor of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell, inaugurated U.S. transcontinental telephone service.

January 25th
 

1971 ~ General Idi Amin seizes power in Uganda while President Milton Obote is away on a foreign visit.

January 25th
 

Lithuania ~ "Kirmeline - The Day of Serpents" Locals shake apple trees, and knock on bee-hives to wake bees from their winter slumber. (No mention ANYWHERE of any snakes! :confused: )


Scotland ~ "Burns Night". Celebrates the birth of Scotlands 'National Bard' in 1759; plenty of Haggis, neeps, tatties...... and WHISKY!!! (Now, you didn't think I'd forget THIS one, did ya?!?! :D)


1890 ~ United Mine Workers of America was founded.


1924 ~ The first Winter Olympic games opened at Chamonix, France.


1961 ~ President John F. Kennedy held the first presidential news conference carried live on radio and television.


1971 ~ Charles Manson was found guilty of murdering Sharon Tate and six others.

Jan 25, 1858, Mendelssohn’s "Wedding March" was presented for the first time, as the daughter of Queen Victoria married the Crown Prince of Prussia

1998 The Denver Broncos beat the Green Bay Packers 31-24 in Super Bowl XXXII. The Broncos had lost 3 previous Super Bowl appearances with quarterback John Elway.

1905 Great Britain's Arthur MacDonald sets a new land speed record (149.875 miles per hour) at Daytona Beach, Florida.
1939 Filming begins on "Gone With The Wind."

January 26th
 

1998 ~ President Clinton denies an 18-month affair with Monica Lewinsky in 1995. “I did not have sexual relations with that woman.”

January 26th
 

Australia ~ "Australia Day" An 'official' excuse to get Royally drunk!! (Like they NEED one! :D)


1788 (and THIS is what th^t celebrates!! The first European settlers landed in Sydney, Australia.


1802 ~ Congress passed an act calling for establishment of a library within the US Capitol.


1837 ~ Michigan became the 26th state in the United States.


1950 ~ India, three years after gaining its independence from the United Kingdom, formally became a republic.


1979 ~ Former Vice President Nelson Rockefeller died in New York at age 70.


1993 ~ Vaclav Havel was elected president of the new Czech Republic.


2001 ~ A magnitude 7.7 earthquake rocked the Indian state of Gujarat, killing more than 20,000 people.

January 27th
 

1967 ~ Three American astronauts, Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee died when fire swept through their Command Module while they were taking part in a rehearsal for the launch of the first Apollo mission.

January 27th
 

Serbia & Montenegro ~ "Feast of St. Sava" Serbs honour the prince who founded their orthodox church.


1756 ~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria. (I've been there!!)


1880 ~ Thomas Edison was granted a patent for his incandescent light.


1945 ~ The Russians liberated Auschwitz concentration camp, where the Nazis had killed over 1.5 million people, including over 1 million Jews.


1973 ~ Vietnam War peace accords were signed in Paris.

On Jan. 27, 1967, astronauts Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee died in a flash fire during a test aboard their Apollo spacecraft at Cape Kennedy, Fla.

January 28th
 

Rwanda ~ "Democracy Day" In this case, Democracy in 1994 Rwanda meant the 'freedom' for 800,000 deaths in a Civil War, plus at least that number again of refugees


1547 ~ King Henry VIII of England died and his nine-year-old son, Edward VI, assumed the throne.


1915 ~ Congress passed legislation creating the U.S. Coast Guard.


1916 ~ The first Jewish Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, Louis Brandeis, was appointed.


1986 ~ U.S. shuttle Challenger exploded 72 seconds after lift off, killing all seven crew members aboard, including school teacher Christa McAuliffe.


1999 ~ The creation of Element 114 (ununquadium) is announced by scientists.


2003 ~ In his second State of the Union Address, President Bush presents case for war with Iraq.

On Jan. 29, 1963, poet Robert Frost died in Boston.

January 29th
 

Switzerland ~ "Landsgemeinde" The locals come together and democratically elect representatives. How much MORE fun could you have?!?! :eek:


1802 ~ John Beckley became the first Librarian of Congress. He was paid $2 a day.


1845 ~ Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven was published.


1861 ~ Kansas became the 34th state in the United States.


1886 ~ Karl Benz received a patent for the first successful gasoline-driven car.


1936 ~ Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson, and Walter Johnson were the first players elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.


2002 ~ In his State of the Union address, President Bush labels Iraq, Iran, and North Korea an "axis of evil."

January 30th
 

Music World ~ 1969, at the Top of the Apple Building. Last EVER performance by The Beatles..... has the world been the same, since?


1649 ~ King Charles I of England was beheaded.


1933 ~ Adolf Hitler was named Chancellor of Germany.


1948 ~ Gandhi was assassinated.


1968 ~ Viet Cong guerillas and North Vietnamese soldiers launched the Tet (New Year) offensive.


1979 ~ The Iranian civilian government announced that the exiled Ayatollah Khomeini would be allowed to return.

January 31st
 

Nauru ~ "Independence Day" Celebrating the Pacific Island's breaking free from the voracious, Empire-building dictatorship of...... Australia!! :D


1797 ~ Franz Schubert was born in Vienna.


1865 ~ Robert E. Lee was appointed commander-in-chief of the Confederate forces.


Same day in 1865 ~ The House of Representatives approved the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which abolished slavery in the United States.


1940 ~ The first social security check was issued to Ida Fuller for $22.54.


1958 ~ The first U.S. earth satellite, Explorer I, was launched.


1990 ~ The first McDonald's opened in Russia. Isn't democracy Wonderful?! :)

January 31st
 

1983 ~ British drivers and front seat passengers began wearing seatbelts as required by a new law.

2000 ~ Dr Harold Shipman is jailed for life for murdering 15 of his patients, making him Britain's most prolific convicted serial killer.

February 1st
 

2004 ~ The Festival of the Sacrifice (Eid al-Adha) begins this evening with the sighting of the moon.

Februray 1st
 

Montserrat ~ "St. Brigid's Day" . (Not the world's most 'exciting' Saint.....miracles include taming a Wolf to replace a Chieftains dog!


1790 ~ The Supreme Court of the United States convened for the first time, in New York City.


1862 ~ Julia Ward Howe's poem "Battle Hymn of the Republic" was published in the Atlantic Monthly.


1884 ~ The first volume of the Oxford English Dictionary A–Ant, was published.


1960 ~ Four black college students began a series of sit-ins at a white-only lunch counter in Woolworth’s, Greensboro, N.C.


1979 ~ Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned to Tehran after 15 years of exile.


2003 ~ The space shuttle Columbia disintegrated as it tried to reenter the Earth's atmosphere after a sixteen-day mission in space. All seven members of the crew were lost.

Re: July 26...
 

Pardon me for pulling the above quote from so far back in this thread (July 26, 2003) but this story has always perplexed me and as I was reading through all the interesting facts...this one jumped out at me......again!

Now....I gotta ask......Did the authorities NOT see anyone else but Paul Reubens "waxing his carrot" in this adult theater? How can it be called "indecent exposure" if he was INSIDE the (presumedly darkened.....as there was a movie playing)theater...and not outside lurking around the ticket booth? Was he standing up and waving his schlong in the face of the other patrons? Did someone in the theater witness this act and get offended that he couldn't watch his porn flick while another patron was doing an act that might have been playing on the screen simultaneously? Is this act a revelation to the authorities? Was it masturbation that ruined his kiddie-show career, or was it the media blitz that followed the arrest for an act that should never have been reported to children in the first place?

That did, and still does, piss me off to the max......in purple passion style! I love Paul Reubens and they did him dirty for this selective arrest!

OK.....I'm done! *jumps off the soap box*

February 2nd
 

Canada ~ "US Groundhog Day" Eh?


1536 ~ The city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, was founded by Spanish conquistador Pedro de Mendoza.


1848 ~ The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the Mexican War, was signed. In the treaty, Mexico ceded to the United States a huge portion of what is today the American West and Southwest, including California and New Mexico.


1870 ~ The Cardiff Giant was revealed to be a hoax.


1876 ~ The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs was formed.


1922 ~ James Joyce's Ulysses was published.


1943 ~ Nazi troops surrendered in the World War II Battle of Stalingrad.


1971 ~ Idi Amin became dictator of Uganda.

February 2nd
 

1990 ~ The President of South Africa, F. W. De Klerk, lifted the 30-year ban on the African National Congress, effectively dismantling apartheid in South Africa.

February 3rd
 

1959 ~ Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valens died in an airplane crash. Don McLean immortalised the tragedy with his 1972 hit “American Pie”.

February 3rd
 

Vietnam ~ "Foundation of the Vietnamese Communist Party" Catchy little name, isn't it? :)


1468 ~ Johann Gutenberg, German printer and inventor, died.


1870 ~ The 15th Amendment (black suffrage) passed.


1913 ~ The 16th Amendment, establishing federal income tax, was ratified.


1917 ~ The U.S. broke off diplomatic relations with Germany.


1969 ~ The Palestine National Congress appointed Yasir Arafat head of the Palestine Liberation Organization.


1995 ~ Col. Eileen Collins became the first woman to pilot the space shuttle when the Discovery blasted off.

February 4th
 

Angola ~ "Commencement of Armed Struggle Day" There has been fighting in Angola continuously since 1961..... worth a celebration?


1783 ~ England proclaimed the formal end to the hostilities with the United States.


1787 ~ Shays's Rebellion, an uprising of Massachusetts farmers, was defeated.


1789 ~ George Washington and John Adams are elected the president and vice president of the United States.


1861 ~ Delegates from six southern states met at Montgomery, Ala., to form the Confederate States of America.


1945 ~ Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met at the Yalta Conference.


1948 ~ Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) gained independence from the United Kingdom.


1976 ~ Benjamin Britten, British composer, died.


2003 ~ The country of Yugoslavia disappeared, to be replaced by the loose federation of Serbia and Montenegro.

February 5th
 

1974 ~ Patty Hearst, The granddaughter of William Randolph Hearst, was kidnapped by members of the Symbionese Liberation Army.


1982 ~ Pioneering budget airline Laker Airways collapsed, owing £270 million to creditors.

February 5th
 

Taiwan ~ "Lantern Festival" Join the Thousands of visitors at the Chiang Kai Shek Memorial Hall, Taipei


1811 ~ After George III was declared insane, the Prince of Wales became Prince Regent of England, and later George IV.


1917 ~ Congress passed the Immigration Act, which restricted Asian immigration, over President Wilson's veto.


Also 1917 ~ Mexico adopted its present constitution.


1937 ~ FDR proposed increasing the number of Supreme Court justices—"packing" the court.


1994 ~ Byron De La Beckwith was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Medgar Evers, 30 years after the crime in Jackson, Mississippi.


1997 ~ Under international pressure, three of Switzerland’s biggest banks created a fund worth 100 million Swiss francs for Holocaust victims and their families.

February 6th
 

Jamaica ~ "Bob Marley Day" Speaks for itself..... da man woulda been 59 today.


1788 ~ Massachusetts ratified the U.S. Constitution, becoming the sixth state to join the Union.


1804 ~ Joseph Priestley, British chemist, died. His work on the isolation of gases led him to discover oxygen in 1774.


1899 ~ The Spanish-American War ended when a peace treaty between Spain and the United States was signed.


1933 ~ The 20th Amendment to the Constitution, which set the date for the president’s inauguration on Jan. 20, was adopted.


1935 ~ The popular board game Monopoly® went on sale for the first time.


1952 ~ Princess Elizabeth became Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain.


1971 ~ Astronaut Alan B. Shepard hit three golf balls on the moon.

February 7th
 

Tibet ~ "Ghost Exorcising day" Sorcerors enter a trance, and perform a special dance to chase off evil spirits


1795 ~ The 11th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified.


1904 ~ Disastrous fire destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in downtown Baltimore.


1926 ~ Carter G. Woodson founded Negro History Week, which later evolved into Black History Month.


1964 ~ The Beatles arrived in the U.S. for the first time.


1971 ~ Women in Switzerland were finally granted suffrage. Now, I KNOW the Swiss have a reputation for being "Traditional", but Nineteen SEVENTY ONE?!?! Sheesh! :)

February 7th
 

1992 ~ Ministers from the 12 countries in the European Community (EC) have taken another step towards political and economic union in Maastricht. The EC will now be known as the European Union (EU).

February 8th
 

Norway ~ "Mothers's Day" (What's wrong with a WARM time of year? :confused:


1587 ~ Mary Queen of Scots was beheaded.


1693 ~ College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va., received its charter, becoming the second institution of higher learning in the United States.


1904 ~ The Russo-Japanese war began when the Japanese launched a surprise attack on the Russian fleet at Port Arthur in northeast China.


1924 ~ The gas chamber was used for the first time as a method of execution in the United States. Gangster Gee Jon was put to death at the Nevada State Prison in Carson City.


1985 ~ Opposition leader Kim Dae Jung returned to South Korea.

February 9th. It Was 40 Years Ago Today!
 

(with apologies)

1964 ~ The Beatles performed on The Ed Sullivan Show, and changed & challenged American popular music.

February 9th
 

Lebanon ~ "Feast of St. Maron" A feast of delicious pastries, in memory of popular hermit and patron Saint of Lebanon, Maron.


1861 ~ Jefferson Davis was chosen as the president of the Confederate States of America.


1867 ~ Nebraska became the 37th state in the United States.


1950 ~ Senator Joseph McCarthy claimed he had evidence there were card-carrying members of the Communist Party in the State Department.


1964 ~ The Beatles made their first appearance on 'The Ed Sullivan Show'.


1991 ~ Lithuanians voted overwhelmingly for independence from the Soviet Union.

On Feb. 9, 1943, the World War II battle of Guadalcanal in the southwest Pacific ended with an American victory over Japanese forces.

February 10th
 

Malta ~ "Feast of St. Paul's Shipwreck" Commemorating (?) the day when (St.) Pauls ship hit a rock off Malta in 60 A.D.


1763 ~ Treaty of Paris signed, ending the French and Indian War. France ceded Canada and all its North American territories east of the Mississippi to Great Britain.


1837 ~ Russian poet and novelist Alexander Pushkin was killed in a duel.


1840 ~ Queen Victoria married Prince Albert.


1942 ~ Glenn Miller received the first ever gold record for selling a million copies of "Chattanooga Choo Choo."


1962 ~ The Soviet Union exchanged captured American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers for Rudolph Abel, a Soviet spy held by the United States.


1996 ~ IBM's computer, Deep Blue, beat the world chess champion, Garry Kasparov.

February 11th
 

1975 ~ The British Conservative Party chose Margaret Thatcher as its new leader.

1990 ~ Anti-apartheid campaigner Nelson Mandela was released from prison in South Africa after 27 years.

February 11th,

1922 Leslie Nielson was born.......Regina Sask. Canada

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