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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.
1970 ~ Birthday of Francesca Le, Porn Actress.
1973 ~ Alexander Solzhenitsyn published Gulag Archipelago.
1989 ~ Death of Hermann Oberth, German physicist.
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December 30th
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.
1973 ~ Birthday of Nacho Vidal, Spanish Porn Actor.
1981 ~ Birthday of Haley Paige, Porn Actress.
1993 ~ Israel and the Vatican established diplomatic relations.
2006 ~ Saddam Hussein hanged for crimes committed during his brutal reign.[/QUOTE]
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January 1st
1752 ~ Birthday of Betsy Ross, American seamstress.
1801 ~ Discovery of 1 Ceres, first known asteroid.
1879 ~ Birthday of E. M. Forster, English novelist.
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.
1995 ~ The World Trade Organization came into existence.
1997 ~ Kofi Annan was appointed Secretary General of the United Nations.
2002 ~ Euro banknotes and coins became legal tender.
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January 2nd
1727 ~ Birthday of James Wolfe, British general in French and Indian War.
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.
1974 ~ President Nixon signed a bill lowering the maximum U.S. speed limit to 55 MPH.
1994 ~ Death of Dixy Lee Ray, governor of Washington State & chaired the Atomic Energy Commission.
1996 ~ U.S. peacekeepers arrive in Bosnia.
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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.
1795 ~ Birthday of Josiah Wedgwood, British potter.
1861 ~ Delaware voted to not secede from the United States.
1892 ~ Birthday of J. R. R. Tolkien, South African-born Writer & Philologist.
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).
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January 4th
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.
1980 ~ Birthday of Bobbi Eden, Dutch Porn Actress.
2004 ~ The first of two NASA Mars Rovers, Spirit, landed successfully on Mars.
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January 5th
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.
1970 ~ Death of Max Born, German physicist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1954.
1972 ~ President Nixon funded the Space Shuttle program development .
1981 ~ Death of Harold C. Urey, American chemist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1934.
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.
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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.
1993 ~ Death of Rudolf Nureyev, Russian ballet dancer.
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.
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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.)
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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.
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1999 ~ Cosmologists announced that the expansion rate of the universe is increasing.
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Is that why there are spiral galaxies ... they're all doing wheelies? 
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Yes, and the Magellenic clouds are the smoke.
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And of course they've identified the doppler shift to the red zone ... and here I thought I'd just stayed up too late and my eyes were bloodshot.  |
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