This day in history.....

[Inkara1]

Wrong. It freed not one Confederate slave as it was effective only in the United States, not the Confederate States of America, a completely separate and sovereign nation which was invaded two years earlier and her troops surrendered two years later in the saddest single event in the history of the North American continent.

I bust myths; it's what I do.

That needs a re-phrasing. The document said slaves in the Confederate states were freed, but since the Confederacy was a separate nation at the time, the proclamation had no effect there. There were slave states that were still in the Union, but the Emancipation Proclamation did not free any slaves in Union states. The way you said it, it sounded like slaves within the Union were freed.

If Lincoln hadn't been shot, maybe he should have gone into a career in marketing after his presidency.

 

[Mare]

1-6-08


1535: The Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro founds Los Reyes de Lima (Lima) on the desert Pacific coast of South America.


1898: In Maryland's Patapsco River, the first telephone calls from a submerged submarine to shore are placed.


1912: New Mexico is admitted into the United States as the 47th state.


1941: Franklin Roosevelt makes his Four Freedoms speech.


1942: Pan American Airlines completes the first around-the-world commercial flight.

 

[TexasRaceLady]

1540 England's King Henry VIII married his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves. The marriage lasted about six months. (She was the lucky one)

1759 George Washington and Martha Dandridge Custis were married.

1838 Samuel Morse first publicly demonstrated his telegraph, in Morristown, N.J.

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

1945 Future president George H.W. Bush married Barbara Pierce in Rye, N.Y.

1993 Ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev died at age 54.
1993 Jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie died at age 75.

 

[Mare]

January 7th


1610: Italian astronomer Galileo observes three satellites orbiting Jupiter.


1785: French aeronaut Jean Pierre Blanchard and American physician John Jeffries of Boston are the first to successfully cross the English Channel in a gas balloon.


1913: The process to obtain gasoline from crude oil is patented.


1927: Commercial phone service across the Atlantic begins.


1953: U.S. president Harry Truman announces the development of the hydrogen bomb.

1955: American singer Marian Anderson is the first African American to perform at the Metropolitan Opera House.

 

[Mare]

1-08-08


1815: The Battle of New Orleans is fought.


1867: African-American men in Washington, D.C., gain the right to vote as the U.S. Congress overrides President Andrew Johnson's veto.


1889: American inventor Herman Hollerith patents his electric counting machine.


1916: The Allies retreat from Gallipoli.


1918: Following the end of World War I, U.S. president Woodrow Wilson proposes 14 points for peace.

 

[Mare]

1-9-08


1788: Connecticut becomes the fifth state.


1839: French painter L. J. M. Daguerre announces to the French Academy of Arts and Science the first practical photographic process.


1929: The Seeing Eye started in Nashville, Tennessee, to train guide dogs for the blind.


1951: The United Nations headquarters open.


1969: Joe Namath "guarantees" the Super Bowl III win for the New York Jets over the Baltimore Colts, 16-7.

 

[Mare]

1-10-08


1776: English political writer Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense. It denounces monarchy and proclaims that “the cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind.”


1861: Florida Convention delegates in Tallahassee vote to secede from the United States.


1917: William "Buffalo Bill" Cody, American army scout and showman, dies at age 70.


1920: The League of Nations is established in fear of the possibility of the "war to end all wars." The United States is absent.


1946: The first meeting of the General Assembly of the United Nations convenes in London, England.


1949: RCA announces the seven-inch, 45 rpm record.


1960: Marty Robbins holds the record for the longest playing number-one song in history, "El Paso," at five minutes, 19 seconds.

 

[Mare]

1-11-08


1861: Alabama secedes from the Union.


1913: The Hudson Motor Car Company introduces the first fully enclosed hardtop automobile.


1935: Amelia Earhart makes the first solo flight from Hawaii to California.


1964: United States Surgeon General Luther Terry issues the first report that cigarette smoking may be dangerous.


1984: Michael Jackson is nominated for 12 Grammy Awards, winning an unprecedented 8 for his album Thriller.

 

[Mare]

1-12-08


1932: Hattie W. Caraway becomes the first woman elected to United States Senate.


1971: The long-running comedy All in the Family premieres on CBS.


1976: Dame Agatha Christie, prolific writer of mystery stories, dies in Wallingford, England, at age 85.


1997: HAL, the computer in Stanley Kubrick's movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, informs the crew that he was built on this day.


1998: Carlos Santana is the first Hispanic inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

 

[Mare]

1-13-08


1854: Anthony Faas of Pennsylvania patents the accordion.


1930: The comic strip "Mickey Mouse" debuts in American newspapers.


1966: Robert C. Weaver becomes the first African American Cabinet member by appointment of Lyndon B. Johnson.


1986: The Wall Street Journal prints a photograph on the cover for the very first time in its history.


1990: Virgina elects L. Douglas Wilder, making him the first African American governor in the United States.

 

[Mare]

1-17-08


1893: The Hawaiian monarch Queen Liliuokalani abdicates the throne as pressure from white sugar planters and businessmen intensifies.


1962: Chubby Checker tops the charts with "The Twist."


1977: Gary Gilmore is the first person executed by firing squad in Utah when the ban on the capital punishment is lifted.


1991: Iraq launches seven SCUD missiles into Israel and Saudi Arabia after coalition forces began massive air strikes.


1999: United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan recommends that the UN pull its peacekeeping forces out of Angola as civil war resumes.

 

[Mare]

1-18-08


1486: King Henry VII of England marries Elizabeth of York, the daughter of Edward IV, hoping to unite Yorkist and Lancastrian claims to the throne in his Tudor dynasty.


1778: Captain James Cook discovers the "Sandwich Islands," which are later renamed the Hawaiian Islands.


1896: The X-ray machine is first exhibited in New York city. The X in the name is used because of the initial mystery of what type of ray it is.


1912: Captain Robert Scott reaches the South Pole in a quest to be the first person to do so. Unfortunately, a month earlier, Roald Amundsen had already achieved that goal.


1996: Michael Jackson's marriage to Lisa Marie Presley ends in divorce after two years.

 

[Mare]

1-19-08


1840: United States explorer Charles Wilkes claims part of Antarctica for the United States.


1937: On this day in 1937, Howard Hughes flew from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey, in 7 hours and 28 minutes, setting a new transcontinental flight speed record.


1949: Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians signs a contract worth $30,000, making him the highest paid pitcher in the big leagues to date.


1953: Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball) gives birth to little Ricky. More viewers tuned in to watch that blessed event than the following day's inauguration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower.


1966: Indira Gandhi, daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, becomes prime minister of India.

 

[Mare]

1-25-08


1787: Daniel Shays leads rebels to storm the arsenal in Springfield, Massachusetts, but they are defeated by government soldiers.


1890: Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world trip in record time, beating Jules Verne's fictional character Phileas Fogg's record of 80 days.


1947: Notorious Italian American gangster Al Capone dies in Miami.


1998: Pope John Paul II completes his visit to Cuba.


1999: An earthquake in western Colombia kills nearly 1,000 people.

 

[Mare]

1-26-08


1861: Louisiana secedes from the Union.


1905: The world's largest diamond is found near Pretoria, South Africa.


1950: India formally becomes a republic, three years after gaining independence from Great Britain.


1956: Buddy Holly has his first recording session at Decca Studios in Nashville, Tennessee.

 

[Mare]

1-28-08


1866: Scottish explorer David Livingstone embarks on his final expedition in Africa to establish the true source of the Nile. All outside contact with him is lost after he reaches Lake Tanganyika.


1908: Julia Ward Howe, author and reformer, is the first woman elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, in part for writing the famous poem "The Battle Hymn of the Republic."


1916: Louis D. Brandeis is nominated to the United States Supreme Court, becoming the first Jew to attain this position.


1968: Aretha Franklin tops the charts with her hit "Chain of Fools." She goes on to earn a string of awards including lifetime achievement awards from the Grammys and from the Kennedy Center of the Arts.

1986: The space shuttle Challenger explodes 73 seconds after liftoff at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

 

[Mare]

1-30-08


1649: A week after having been found guilty for treason, King Charles I is beheaded.


1797: Congress refuses to accept the first recorded petitions from African Americans.

1933: Adolf Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany by President Hindenburg.


1948: Indian leader Mohandas Gandhi is assassinated by Nathuram Godse.


1957: The United Nations (UN) General Assembly calls on South Africa to reconsider its apartheid policies.

 

[Mare]

1-31-08


1606: Guy Fawkes is executed by hanging, having been found guilty of treason for conspiring in the Gunpowder Plot to blow up Parliament.


1865: Congress approves the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution, abolishing slavery.


1958: The United States Army launches Explorer 1 into Earth's orbit. The first U.S. satellite, it is used to study cosmic rays.


1962: Willie Mays, known as the "Say Hey Kid," signs a contract reportedly worth $90,000, a record to date.


1990: McDonald's opens its first fast-food restaurant in Moscow, Russia, serving more than 30,000 customers in one day.

 

[Mare]

2-2-08


1848: The treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed between the United States and Mexico.

1876: The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs is formed.


1942: German forces surrender following the successful Russian siege of Stalingrad.


1990: South African president F.W. de Klerk ends a 30-year ban on the African National Congress (ANC).

 

[Mare]

2-4-08


1789: The Electoral College unanimously votes George Washington to be the first president of the United States.


1945: The Yalta Conference convenes with Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin to establish the formulation of Allied military strategy in World War II.


1987: Flamboyant pianist Wladziu Valentino Liberace, famous for his four-minute version of Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata," dies in Palm Springs, California.

1991: The National Baseball Hall of Fame induction committee votes unanimously to bar Pete Rose from the Hall of Fame.


1997: J.C. Watts is the first African American to give the Republican response to a presidential State of the Union Address.


2008: First day of enjoying the victory! YAHHHHH! GIANTS!