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January 1st
404 ~ The last gladiatorial contest took place in Rome.
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.
2002 ~ Euro banknotes and coins became legal tender.
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01-02-2011, 01:36 PM
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January 2nd
1727 ~ Birthday of James Wolfe, British general in French and Indian War.
1808 ~ The U.S. Congress banned the importation of slaves.
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.
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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01-02-2011, 08:51 PM
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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.
1861 ~ Delaware voted to not secede from the United States.
1892 ~ Birthday of J. R. R. Tolkien, South African-born Writer & Philologist.
1945 ~ Birthday of Stephen Stills, American Singer, Songwriter, & Guitarist.
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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"1956 ~ Birthday of Mel Gibson, Australian Actor & Director."
Point of Order!
The bugger's American born, American passported and America's problem now.
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01-03-2011, 06:40 AM
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We are a fortunate nation.
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01-03-2011, 07:20 PM
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January 4th
1643 ~ Birthday of Isaac Newton, Scientist & Philosopher.
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.
2004 ~ The first of two NASA Mars Rovers, Spirit, landed successfully on Mars.
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01-04-2011, 08:09 PM
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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.
1968 ~ The "Prague Spring" began in Czechoslovakia when Alexander Dubček came to power.
1972 ~ President Nixon funded the Space Shuttle program development .
1981 ~ Death of Harold C. Urey, American chemist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1934. He played a significant role in the development of the atom bomb, but may be most prominent for his contribution to theories on the development of organic life from non-living matter.
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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01-05-2011, 07:30 PM
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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.
Feastdays & Holidays
Latin Christianity - Epiphany.
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01-06-2011, 10:08 PM
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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.)[/QUOTE]
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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.
1996 ~ Death of Francois Mitterrand, French president.
1999 ~ Cosmologists announced that the expansion rate of the universe is increasing.
2002 ~ President George W. Bush signed the No Child Left Behind Act into law.
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January 9th
1839 ~ The Daguerreotype photography process publicly demonstrated.
1861 ~ The "Star of the West" was fired upon as it attempted to deliver supplies to Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. This was the "Casus belli" of the American Civil War.
1861 ~ Mississippi became the second state to secede from the Union.
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.
1968 ~ The Surveyor 7 space probe made a soft landing on the moon,.
1993 ~ Death of Sir Paul Hasluck, 17th Governor-General of Australia.
2005 ~ Mahmoud Abbas won the election for a successor to Yasser Arafat.
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January 10th
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January 11th
1787 ~ William Herschel discovered the first two moons of Uranus, Titania & Oberon.
1801 ~ Death of Domenico Cimarosa, Italian Composer.
1843 ~ Death of Francis Scott Key, Lawyer.
1935 ~ Amelia Earhart began a trip from Honolulu to Oakland, Calif., becoming the first woman to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean.
1938 ~ Birthday of Arthur Scargill, Union Leader.
1962 ~ An avalanche in Peru killed some 4,000 people.
1964 ~ U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry issued the first government report saying smoking may be hazardous to one's health.
1973 ~ American League baseball teams voted to adopt the designated-hitter rule on a trial basis.
1980 ~ Nigel Short became the youngest chess player, at 14 years old, to be awarded the degree of International Master.
2008 ~ Death of Sir Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer, the first man to climb Mt. Everest .
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I always found the Amelia claim a little much, like claiming a Wichita to New York run as transcontinental.
It was a marvellous thing she did, but not the full deal.
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