January 6th
 

Venezuela ~ La Paradura del Nino....... "The Parade of Baby Jesus". A carnival where statues of Jesus are paraded down the street


1540 ~ King Henry VIII of England married his 4th wife, Anne of Cleves.


1838 ~ Samuel Morse gave the first public demonstration of the telegraph.


1912 ~ New Mexico became the 47th state in the United States.


1987 ~ University of California astronomers first witnessed the birth of a galaxy that contained 1 billion stars.

On Jan. 6, 1919, the 26th president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, died in Oyster Bay, N.Y., at age 60.

January 7th
 

1899 ~ French composer Francis Poulenc born

1979 Vietnamese forces captured the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, overthrowing the Khmer Rouge government.

January 7th
 

Cambodia ~ Following on from Steph's post, this day is now known as "Victory over the Genocidal Regime Day". Catchy, huh?


1789 ~ The first Presidential election was held in the U.S.


1896 ~ Fanny Farmer published her first cookbook.


1927 ~ Transatlantic commercial telephone service began between New York and London.


Not too much going on "today" ...... see y'all tomorrow!! :)

(VERY catchy, DM! LOL)

1918 President Woodrow Wilson outlined his 14 points for peace after World War I.

January 8th
 

1959 ~ Charles de Gaulle becomes first President of the new Fifth Republic of France during a ceremony at the Elysée Palace. Retiring president, M. René Coty, welcomed the new president saying: "The first among Frenchmen is now the first in France."

January 8th
 

VERY quiet day today...... was it a holiday or something?!?!

1935 ~ Birthdate of ELVIS AARON PRESLEY (Wasn't he some kinda singer or something??)


1798 ~ The 11th Amendment to the Constitution, modifying the power of the Supreme Court, was ratified.


1812 ~ Last battle in the War of 1812 was fought.


1958 ~ Bobby Fischer won the United States Chess Championship for the first time at age 14.

1968
The Surveyor 7 space probe made a soft landing on the moon, marking the end of the American series of unmanned explorations of the lunar surface.

January 9th
 

Andorra ~ "Epiphany" .... I guess you have to be Andorran to understand WHY!!!


1788 ~ Connecticut became the 5th state in the United States.


1861 ~ Mississippi became the second state to secede from the Union.


1905 ~ The Russian Revolution of 1905 was sparked by troops firing on petitioners to Czar Nicholas in St. Petersburg.


1964 ~ Anti-American rioting broke out in the Panama Canal Zone.

January 10th
 

Benin ~ "Traditional Day" aka "National Voodoo Day" Just what it sounds like! (Involves a LOT of hard liquor and some unlucky goats!!)


1776 ~ Thomas Paine's Common Sense, which greatly influenced the authors of the Declaration of Independence, was published.


1863 ~ The first underground passenger railway, the Metropolitan, opened in London.


1920 ~ The League of Nations came into existence.


1967 ~ The first African-American senator elected by popular vote, Edward Brooke of Massachusetts, took his seat.


1984 ~ The U.S. and the Vatican reestablished diplomatic relations after a 117-year break.

On Jan. 11, 1935, aviator Amelia Earhart began a trip from Honolulu to Oakland, Calif., becoming the first woman to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean.

January 11th
 

Puerto Rico ~ "Hostos Day". Honouring freedom fighter Eugenio Maria deHostos y Bonilla. The first Argentinian train was also named after him.


1963 ~ The first discotheque, the Whiskey-A-Go-Go, opened in Los Angeles.


1964 ~ The first government report regarding the dangers of cigarette smoking was issued by the U.S. Surgeon General, Luther Terry.


1973 ~ Baseball's American League adopted the "designated hitter" rule which allowed another player to bat for the pitcher.


2002 ~ The first al-Qaeda prisoners arrive at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

January 12th
 

Turkmenistan ~ "Anniversary of the Battle of Geok-Tepe". 6,000 Russian troops overwhelmed 25,000 Turkomans in 1881.


1773 ~ The first public museum in the U.S. was established in Charleston, S.C.


1896 ~ H. L. Smith took the first X-ray photograph. It was a hand with a bullet in it.


1915 ~ The U.S. House of Representatives rejected a proposal to give women the right to vote.


1932 ~ Hattie W. Caraway, a democrat from Arkansas became the first woman to be elected to the U.S. Senate.


1964 ~ One month after Zanzibar became independent, the ruling Zanzibar Nationalist Party was overthrown in a violent coup.


1991 ~ A divided Congress gave President Bush the go-ahead on the Persian Gulf War.


1998 ~ Nineteen European countries signed an agreement banning human cloning.

We've come a long way, baby.

Coming home on the subway with some coworkers, I mentioned it was only 80 years ago that women were given the vote. Hard to believe, DM!