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January 12th
1665 ~ Death of Pierre de Fermat, Mathematician.
1893 ~ Birthday of Hermann Göring, Nazi official.
1915 ~ The U.S. House of Representatives defeated a proposal to give women the right to vote.
1969 ~ On a day that will be long remembered in infamy, Joe Namath and the New York Jets defeated the Baltimore Colts 16-7 in Super Bowl III, and became the first team from the American Football League to win American Football's championship.
1976 ~ Death of Agatha Christie, Mystery Writer.
1991 ~ U.S. Congress authorized the use of military force to drive Iraq out of Kuwait.
1992 ~ In the film ”2001: A Space Odyssey”, the computer HAL 9000 was activated on this date.
2003 ~ Death of Maurice Gibb, Bee Gee.
2003 ~ Death of Leopoldo Galtieri, Dictator of Argentina.
2010 ~ At least 230,000 people died when an earthquake destroyed most of the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince.
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01-13-2011, 07:46 PM
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January 14th
83 BC ~ Birthday of Marcus Antonius (Marc Anthony), Roman politician.
1784 ~ The Continental Congress ratified the Treaty of Paris, formally ending the American War of Independence.
1857 ~ Birthday of Albert Schweitzer, Christian Missionary & winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 1952.
1898 ~ Death of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson - who wrote ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' under the pen name Lewis Carroll, Writer & Mathematician.
1943 ~ President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill opened a wartime conference in Casablanca.
1954 ~ Baseball player Joe Dimaggio and actress Marilyn Monroe were married at San Francisco City Hall.
1957 ~ Death of Humphrey Bogart, Actor.
1978 ~ Death of Kurt Gödel, Mathematician.
1993 ~ Whitewater prosecutors questioned first lady Hillary Clinton at the White House about the gathering of FBI background files on past Republican political appointees.
2005 ~ The Huygens probe landed on Saturn's moon Titan.
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01-14-2011, 07:50 PM
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January 15th
1908 ~ Birthday of Edward Teller, Physicist.
1918 ~ Birth of Gamal Abdal Nasser, President of Egypt.
1929 ~ Birthday of Martin Luther King Jr., Civil Rights leader, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 1964.
1953 ~ East German authorities began a purge of senior Jewish officials.
1967 ~ The first Super Bowl was played.
1972 ~ Birthday of Kobe Tai, Porn actress.
1973 ~ President Nixon announced the suspension of all U.S. offensive action in North Vietnam, citing progress in peace negotiations.
1996 ~ Death of Minnesota Fats, American Billiards player.
2001 ~ Wikipedia, a free encyclopedia, formally put online.
2009 ~ US Airways Flight 1549 makes an emergency landing in the Hudson River shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia Airport in New York City. All passengers and crew members survive.
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January 18th
1535 ~ Lima, Peru founded by Francisco Pizarro.
1882 ~ Birthday of A. A. Milne, Author.
1892 ~ Birthday of Oliver Hardy, Comedian & Actor.
1936 ~ Death of Rudyard Kipling, Writer & Poet
1944 ~ The New York Met hosted its first jazz concert.vAmong the performers were Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, and Artie Shaw.
1944 ~ Birthday of Paul Keating, twenty-fourth Prime Minister of Australia.
1954 ~ Death of Sydney Greenstreet, English actor.
1967 ~ The “Boston Strangler” was convicted in Cambridge, Mass., of armed robbery, assault and sex offenses.
1990 ~ Washington, DC, Mayor Marion Barry was arrested for drug possession.
1991 ~ Iraq attacked Tel Aviv and Haifa with Scud missiles.
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January 19th
1807 ~ Birthday of Robert E. Lee, General, Army of Northern Virginia, CSA.
1809 ~ Birthday of Edgar Allan Poe, Poet & short story Author.
1839 ~ Birthday of Paul Cézanne, Painter.
1853 ~ Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il Trovatore premiered.
1937 ~ Howard Hughes set a transcontinental air record by flying from Los Angeles to Newark, N.J., in just under 7 ½ hours.
1966 ~ Indira Gandhi was elected prime minister of India.
1977 ~ President Gerald Ford pardoned Tokyo Rose.
1983 ~ The Apple Lisa, the first commercial personal computer to have a graphical user interface and a computer mouse, was announced.
1983 ~ Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie was arrested in Bolivia.
2008 ~ Death of Suzanne Pleshette, Actress.
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January 20th
1907 ~ Death of Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian Chemist and inventor of the Periodic table.
1920 ~ Birthday of Federico Fellini, Italian film director.
1930 ~ Birthday of Buzz Aldrin, Astronaut.
1942 ~ Nazi officials arrived at a ''final solution'' to Europe's Jewry, during a conference at Lake Wannsee in Berlin.
1961 ~ John F. Kennedy sworn in as U.S. President.
1981 ~ The American hostages held by Iran were released following Ronald Reagan’s inauguration.
1984 ~ Death of Johnny Weissmuller, Olympic swimming gold medalist & Actor (Tarzan).
1986 ~ Britain and France announced plans to build the Channel Tunnel.
1987 ~ Terry Waite was kidnapped in Lebanon.
1993 ~ Death of Audrey Hepburn, actress.
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January 21st
1793 ~ King Louis XVI of France, condemned for treason, was executed on the guillotine.
1924 ~ Death of Vladimir Lenin, first leader of the U.S.S.R.
1941 ~ Birthday of Plácido Domingo, tenor Opera Singer.
1950 ~ Death of George Orwell, Writer.
1950 ~ A federal jury in New York City found former State Department official Alger Hiss guilty of perjury.
1954 ~ The USS Nautilus, the world’s first nuclear powered submarine, was launched.
1959 ~ Death of Cecil B. DeMille, Movie Director.
1968 ~ Start of the Battle of Khe Sanh.
1998 ~ Pope John Paul II began his first visit to Cuba.
2003 ~ The U.S. Census Bureau announced that Hispanics had surpassed blacks as America's largest minority group.
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January 22nd
1788 ~ Birthday of Lord Byron, Poet.
1840 ~ British colonists reached New Zealand.
1879 ~ Zulu troops defeated British troops at the Battle of Isandlwana.
1909 ~ Birthday of U Thant, 3rd UN Secretary General.
1953 ~ "The Crucible", a drama by Arthur Miller, opened on Broadway.
1970 ~ The Boeing 747 went on its first regularly scheduled commercial flight, from New York to London.
1973 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court, in the Roe vs. Wade decision, legalized abortions, using a trimester approach.
1973 ~ Death of Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th U.S. President.
1984 ~ The Apple Macintosh was introduced with the famous television commercial "1984" (requires QuickTime and patience [but is generally considered among the better commercials in history]).
1992 ~ Dr. Roberta Bondar becomes the first Canadian woman astronaut.
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January 23rd
1789 ~ Georgetown College, founded by Archbishop John Carroll, became the first Catholic, Jesuit college in the U.S.
1849 ~ Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman in America to receive a medical degree, from the Medical Institution of Geneva, N.Y.
1862 ~ Birthday of David Hilbert, Mathematician.
1879 ~ The Battle of Rorke's Drift, immortalized in the film "Zulu".
1968 ~ North Korea seized the USS Pueblo, charging it had intruded into the communist nation's territorial waters on a spying mission. The crew was held for 11 months.
1973 ~ President Nixon appeared on national television to announce "peace with honor" in Vietnam.
1977 ~ Death of Toots Shor, New York restaurateur.
1989 ~ Death of Salvador Dalí, Artist.
2002 ~ Daniel Pearl was kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan.
2004 ~ Death of Bob Keeshan, TV's “Captain Kangaroo”.
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