This day in history.....

December 27th


1831: British naturalist Charles Darwin begins a five-year voyage to South America and the Pacific as naturalist on the HMS Beagle.


1932: The Radio City Music Hall opens in New York City.


1945: In the aftermath of World War II, foreign ministers from the former Allied nations of the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain agree to govern Korea jointly for five years.


1968: The first manned mission to the moon, Apollo 8, returns safely to Earth.
 
December 28th


1832: John C. Calhoun becomes the first U.S. vice president to resign from office, citing political differences with President Andrew Jackson and a desire to fill a vacant Senate seat in South Carolina.


1869: The North American labor union Knights of Labor hold the first Labor Day ceremony in American history.


1869: William Semple of Ohio patents chewing gum.

1895: Auguste and Louis Lumière demonstrate the cinématographe using their film Quitting Time at the Lumière Factory, probably the first real motion picture ever made.


1945: The U.S. Congress officially recognizes the pledge of allegiance and recommends its recitation in American classrooms.
 
December 31, 2205


1775: During the first phase of the American Revolution, Patriot forces under generals Benedict Arnold and Richard Montgomery are defeated by the British defenders of the city of Québec in Canada.


1808: French chemist Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac formulates a law of gases known as Gay-Lussac's Law.


1879: Thomas Edison first publicly demonstrates the electric light bulb.


1890: New York's Ellis Island opens to all immigrants to the United States.


1946: U.S. President Harry Truman officially announces the end of World War II.
 
January 3rd 2006


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1921: The U.S. Supreme Court upholds the prosecution of labor unions under the provision of the Sherman Antitrust Act.


1938: The March of Dimes is founded by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.


1946: William Joyce, broadcaster of Nazi propaganda to Great Britain during World War II, is hanged for treason in London, England.


1959: Alaska is admitted to the Union as the 49th state.

1961: President Dwight D. Eisenhower ends U.S. diplomatic relations with Cuba.
 
January 4th


1885: The first successful appendectomy is performed in Davenport, Iowa.


1896: Utah is admitted into the United States as the 45th state.


1932: The Indian government declares the Indian National Congress illegal and arrests nationalist leader Mohandas Gandhi.


1948: The British colony of Burma (Myanmar) becomes an independent sovereign nation, ending more than six decades of British rule.
 
January 6th


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.
Learn more about Roosevelt.

1942: Pan American Airlines completes the first around-the-world commercial flight.
 
1584 Last day of the Julian calendar in Bohemia & Holy Roman empire

1598 Boris Godunov seizes the Russian throne on death of Feodore I

1610 Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei, 46, discovered four satellites of Jupiter with the aid of the newly invented telescope. His discovery revolutionized astronomy, and led Galileo to adopt the Copernican (heliocentric) model of the solar system in place of the older, less adequate, Ptolemaic (earth-centered) view.

1714 Typewriter patented by Englishman Henry Mill (built years later)

1835 HMS Beagle anchors off Chonos Archipelago

1899 Walter Camp publishes his 1st All-American football team in Collier's

1949 1st photo of genes taken at University of Southern California by Pease & Baker

1968 Surveyor 7 lands on the Moon

1972 William Hubbs Rehnquist, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
 
January 9th


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.
 
January 11th


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.
 
January 12th


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.
 
January 13th


1854: Anthony Faas of Pennsylvania patents the accordion.


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


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.
 
January 14th



1784: The Treaty of Paris is ratified by Congress to officially end the Revolutionary War.


1954: Marilyn Monroe marries baseball star Joe Dimaggio.


1972: Redd Fox stars in the premiere of Sanford and Son on NBC.

1973: The Miami Dolphins become the first professional football team to go undefeated for the season. They go on to win Super Bowl VII.
 
January 15th


1559: Elizabeth I is crowned Queen of England.
Learn more about England.

1870: The democratic donkey, as drawn by Thomas Nast, makes its debut in Harper's Weekly.


1892: The 13 rules of basketball are published by Dr. James Naismith.


1922: Sinn Fein leader Michael Collins becomes the first prime minister of the Irish Free State (now the Republic of Ireland) and forms a provisional government.


1967: The Green Bay Packers win the first Super Bowl football game, led by Most Valuable Player (MVP) Bart Starr. GO PACKER'S :swing:
 
January 16th

1547: Ivan the Terrible is crowned tsar of Russia.


1804: French physicist Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac ascends to a height of 7,016 m (23,018 ft) in a hydrogen balloon, a record that lasted 50 years.


1883: Congress passes the Civil Service Act, sometimes referred to as the Pendleton Act. This legislation created the foundations of the American civil service system.


1919: Prohibition, the legal ban on the manufacture and sale of intoxicating drink, goes into effect.


1961: Mickey Mantle inks a contract for $75,000 a year, the highest in the American League.


1964: Carol Channing debuts in Hello Dolly, the Broadway show based on Thorton Wilder's play The Matchmaker.The Broadway play earned a Tony as Best Musical of the Year.
 
January 17th


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.
 
January 18th

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. :alienhuh:
 
January 19th


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.
 
January 20th


1920: The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is formed.


1937: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt becomes the first United States president to be sworn into office on January 20, as required by the 20th Amendment to the Constitution.


1961: President John F. Kennedy gives his memorable inaugural address that includes the words, "Ask not what your country can do for you.…"


1964: The album "Meet the Beatles" is released in the United States.


1981: American hostages are released from Iran after being held for 444 days.
 
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