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January 18th
1535 ~ Lima, Peru founded by Francisco Pizarro.
1779 ~ Birthday of Peter Roget, Lexicographer.
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.Among the performers were Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, and Artie Shaw.
1944 ~ Birthday of Paul Keating, twenty-fourth Prime Minister of Australia.
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 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.
1967 ~ The first pulsar was discovered.
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.
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.
1911 ~ The first Monte Carlo Rally.
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.
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 to be one of the better commercials ever made]).
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. This is the parent institution of Georgetown Medical where my BIL was readmitted today.
1832 ~ Birthday of Edouard Manet, Impressionist artist.
1849 ~ Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman in America to receive a medical degree, from the Medical Institution of Geneva, N.Y.
1857 ~ Birthday of Andrija Mohorovičić, Croatian seismologist.
1862 ~ Birthday of David Hilbert, Mathematician.
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.
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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January 25th
1627 ~ Birthday of Robert Boyle, Chemist.
1759 ~ Birthday of Robert Burns, Poet.
1882 ~ Birthday of Virginia Woolf, Writer.
1890 ~ Nellie Bly completed her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
1919 ~ The League of Nations was founded.
1947 ~ Death of Al Capone, Gangster.
1971 ~ General Idi Amin becomes Ugandan President Idi Amin after a coup.
1977 ~ Rene Levesque told a Wall Street audience at the Economic Club of New York that “separation is inevitable”.
2004 ~ Opportunity landed on Mars.
2011 ~ The Arab Spring arrives in Egypt, with street demonstrations, marches, rallies, acts of civil disobedience, riots, labour strikes, and violent clashes in Cairo, and Alexandria.
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January 28th
1521 ~ The Diet of Worms began.
1547 ~ Death of Henry VIII, King of England.
1596 ~ Death of Sir Francis Drake, Explorer & Soldier.
1822 ~ Birthday of Alexander Mackenzie, Prime Minister of Canada.
1887 ~ Birthday of Artur Rubinstein, Polish Pianist.
1935 ~ Iceland became the first country to legalize abortion.
1939 ~ Death of William Butler Yeats, awarded the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature.
1986 ~ Space Shuttle Challenger exploded just after takeoff killing all seven astronauts onboard.
2004 ~ Lord Hutton published his report into the death of Dr. David Kelly.
2011 ~ Hundreds of thousands of protesters participated in the "Friday of Anger" demonstrations against the Mubarak regime.
Feastdays & Holidays
Catholicism ~ Feast day of St. Thomas Aquinas.
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January 29th
1845 ~ Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven" was first published, in the New York Evening Mirror.
1856 ~ Queen Victoria instituted the Victoria Cross.
1880 ~ Birthday of W.C. Fields, Actor.
1933 ~ Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg.
1936 ~ The first members of baseball's Hall of Fame, including Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth, were named in Cooperstown, N.Y.
1956 ~ Death of H. L. Mencken, Journalist.
1962 ~ Death of Fritz Kreisler, Austrian violinist.
1963 ~ Death of Robert Frost, Poet.
1996 ~ France ended nuclear testing.
2002 ~ In his State of the Union Address, President Bush coined the term "Axis of Evil".
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January 30th
1649 ~ King Charles I of England was beheaded.
1862 ~ The first Union ironclad warship, the USS Monitor was launched.
1933 ~ The first episode of the ''Lone Ranger'' radio program was broadcast on station WXYZ in Detroit.
1937 ~ Birthday of Boris Spassky, World Chess Champion.
1948 ~ Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated.
1968 ~ Viet Cong guerillas and North Vietnamese soldiers launched the Tet offensive.
1969 ~ Last public performance by The Beatles.
1972 ~ Thirteen Roman Catholic civil rights marchers were shot to death by British soldiers in Northern Ireland on what became known as "Bloody Sunday”.
1991 ~ The first major ground battle of the Gulf War was fought at the frontier port of Al Khafji in Saudi Arabia.
2003 ~ Richard Reid, the "Shoe bomber" jailed for life.
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