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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”. 1984 ~ The Apple Macintosh went on sale. Only 28 years and a day ago! 1998 ~ During his visit to Cuba, Pope John Paul II called for the release of political prisoners and political reforms and also condemned American isolation of the country. 2004 ~ Opportunity landed on Mars. |
January 26th
1885 ~ Troops loyal to the Mahdi conquered Khartoum.
1905 ~ The Cullinan Diamond was found near Pretoria, South Africa. 1905 ~ Birthday of Maria von Trapp, Singer. 1925 ~ Birthday of Paul Newman, Actor. 1961 ~ Birthday of Wayne Gretzky, Canadian hockey Player, Coach, Owner. 1972 ~ Death of Mahalia Jackson, Gospel Music singer. 1988 ~ The musical "Phantom of the Opera", by Andrew Lloyd Webber opened at Broadway's Majestic Theater. 1996 ~ First lady Hillary Clinton testified before a grand jury connected to the Whitewater probe. 1998 ~ U.S. President Clinton denied on television he had "sexual relations" with Monica Lewinsky. 2005 ~ Following her confirmation by the Senate, Condoleezza Rice was sworn in as U.S. Secretary of State. Feastdays & Holidays Australia~ Australia Day |
January 27th
1606 ~ The trial of Guy Fawkes and other Gunpowder Plot conspirators began.
1756 ~ Birthday of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer. 1832 ~ Birthday of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who wrote “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland” under the pen name Lewis Carroll. 1945 ~ The Red Army liberated the concentration camp at Auschwitz in southern Poland. 1967 ~ More than 60 nations signed a treaty banning the orbiting of nuclear weapons. 1967 ~ Astronauts Grissom, White and Chaffee were killed in a fire during a test of the Apollo 1 spacecraft. 1997 ~ It was revealed that French museums had retained nearly 2,000 pieces of art stolen by Nazis. 1998 ~ U.S. First Lady Hillary Clinton called the attacks against her husband part of a "vast right-wing conspiracy" on the “Today Show”. 2006 ~ Western Union discontinued its Telegram and Commercial Messaging services. 2009 ~ Death of John Updike, American Novelist. |
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. 1965 ~ The current design of the Flag of Canada was chosen by an act of Parliament. 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. Feastdays & Holidays Catholicism ~ Feast day of St. Thomas Aquinas. |
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". |
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 ~ Fourteen 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" was jailed for life. |
January 31st
1606 ~ Guy Fawkes was executed for his part in the Gunpowder Plot.
1797 ~ Birthday of Franz Schubert, Composer. 1865 ~ The U.S. House of Representatives passed a constitutional amendment to abolish slavery. 1919 ~ Birthday of Jackie Robinson, Baseball Player & Barrier Breaker. 1929 ~ The Soviet Union exiled Leon Trotsky. 1956 ~ Death of A. A. Milne, Author (Winnie the Pooh). 1958 ~ James Van Allen discovered the Van Allen radiation belt. 1961 ~ Ham became the first chimpanzee in space. 1996 ~ An explosives-filled truck rammed into the gates of the Central Bank in Colombo, Sri Lanka killing 91 and injuring 1,400. 2000 ~ Family doctor Harold Shipman was given 15 life sentences at Crown Court after being found guilty of multiple murders. |
February 1st
1851 ~ Death of Mary Shelley, English Author (Frankenstein).
1896 ~ Puccini’s opera La Bohème premiered in Turin. 1920 ~ The Royal Canadian Mounted Police was established. 1929 ~ Frenchman Charles Rigoulet became the first weightlifter to lift over 400 pounds (181 kg) in the "clean and jerk" method. 1960 ~ Four black college students began a sit-in protest against racial segregation at a lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C., where they'd been refused service. 1970 ~ Birthday of Jill Kelly, Porn actress. 1979 ~ Patty Hearst, whose prison sentence for bank robbery had been commuted by President Jimmy Carter, left a federal prison near San Francisco. 2003 ~ Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated over Texas upon reentry killing all seven astronauts. 2004 ~ Hundreds of people were killed and injured in a stampede duringthe Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia. 2004 ~ Super Bowl XXXVIII: One team defeated the other team, 32-29. During the half-time show Janet Jackson's right breast was bared. |
February 2nd
1870 ~ The Cardiff Giant - supposedly the petrified remains of a human discovered in Cardiff, N.Y. - was revealed to be nothing more than carved gypsum.
1887 ~ In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day was observed. 1905 ~ Birthday of Ayn Rand, Writer, Philosopher. 1943 ~ The German 6th Army surrendered at Stalingrad. 1969 ~ Death of Boris Karloff, English actor. 1970 ~ Death of Bertrand Russell, Mathematician & Philosopher. 1974 ~ Death of Imre Lakatos, Philosopher of Science. 1982 ~ Birthday of Brandy Talore, Porn actress. 1990 ~ At the opening of Parliament in Cape Town, President FW de Klerk announced the dismantling of apartheid in South Africa.. Feastdays & Holidays U.S. & Canada – Groundhog Day |
February 3rd
1809 ~ Birthday of Felix Mendelssohn, Composer.
1870 ~ The 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. 1874 ~ Birthday of Gertrude Stein, Writer. 1894 ~ Birthday of Norman Rockwell, Illustrator. 1907 ~ Birthday of James Michener, American author. 1917 ~ The U.S. broke off diplomatic relations with Germany after Germany announced a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare. 1959 ~ Rock 'n' Roll stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper died in a plane crash. Don McLean immortalized the tragedy in “American Pie”. 1966 ~ The Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft made the first controlled landing on the Moon. 1967 ~ Ronald Ryan, the last man to be executed in Australia, was hanged in Pentridge Prison, Melbourne. 1974 ~ Birthday of Julie Meadows, former Porn actress. |
February 4th
1861 ~ In Montgomery, Alabama the Confederate States of America was formed by delegates from six break-away United States.
1902 ~ Birthday of Charles Lindbergh, U.S. aviator. 1913 ~ Birthday of Rosa Parks, U.S. civil rights activist. 1928 ~ Death of Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate. 1974 ~ The Symbionese Liberation Army kidnapped Patty Hearst in Berkeley, California. 1987 ~ Death of Liberace, "Mr. Showmanship". 1997 ~ O. J. Simpson was found to be civilly liable for the deaths of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. 1998 ~ A magnitude 6.1 earthquake hit northeast Afghanistan, killing an estimated 5,000 people. 2004 ~ The online social network Facebook was founded 2006 ~ Death of Betty Friedan, American feminist. |
February 5th
1878 ~ Birthday of André-Gustave Citroën, automobile pioneer.
1897 ~ The Indiana House of Representatives passed a measure redefining the area of a circle and the value of π. The bill died in the state Senate. 1917 ~ The U.S. Congress passed, over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, a law severely curtailing the immigration of Asians. 1919 ~ Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith created United Artists. 1924 ~ The Royal Greenwich Observatory began to broadcast hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the "BBC pips". 1934 ~ Birthday of Hank Aaron, Athlete. 1937 ~ President Roosevelt proposed increasing the number of Supreme Court justices; critics charged Roosevelt was attempting to "pack" the court. 1958 ~ A hydrogen bomb was lost by the U.S. Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered. 1962 ~ French President Charles De Gaulle called for Algerian independence. 1982 ~ Laker Airways collapsed owing £270 million to banks and other creditors. |
February 6th
1840 ~ Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, founding document of New Zealand.
1895 ~ Birthday of Babe Ruth, Athlete. 1913 ~ Birthday of Mary Leakey, Anthropologist. 1952 ~ The UK’s King George VI died; he was succeeded by his daughter, Elizabeth II. 1959 ~ Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments filed the first patent for an integrated circuit. 1971 ~ Alan Shepard became the first man to hit a golf ball on the Moon. 1983 ~ Former Gestapo commandant Klaus Barbie extradited to France from Bolivia to stand trial for war crimes. 1993 ~ Death of Arthur Ashe, Athlete. 2002 ~ Death of Max Perutz, Austrian molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (Doctoral students James Watson & Francis Crick ). 2004 ~ An explosion in a Moscow subway car during rush hour killed 41 people in a terrorist attack blamed on Chechen separatists. |
February 7th
1812 ~ Birthday of Charles Dickens, Novelist.
1834 ~ Birthday of Dmitri Mendeleev, chemist and inventor of the Periodic table of the chemical elements. 1883 ~ Birthday of Eubie Blake, Musician, Composer. 1905 ~ The Great Baltimore Fire destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in 30 hours. 1935 ~ The board game Monopoly is invented. 1964 ~ The Beatles arrived in New York for their first American tour, touching off rock 'n' roll's “British invasion”. 1979 ~ Death of Dr. Josef Mengele, accused Nazi war criminal. 1984 ~ Bruce McCandless and Robert Stewart went on the first untethered spacewalk. 1990 ~ The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union agreed to let other political parties compete for control of the country, thereby giving up its monopoly on power. 1992 ~ With the signing of the Maastricht Treaty, the European Union was formed. |
February 8th
1828 ~ Birthday of Jules Verne, Author.
1855 ~ The Devil's Footprints mysteriously appeared in southern Devon. 1910 ~ The Boy Scouts of America was incorporated by William D. Boyce. 1925 ~ Birthday of Jack Lemmon, Actor. 1932 ~ Birthday of John Williams, Composer & Conductor. 1952 ~ Princess Elizabeth proclaimed herself Queen. 1957 ~ Death of John von Neumann, Mathematician. 1993 ~ General Motors sued NBC, alleging that the program "Dateline NBC" had rigged two crashes to show that GM pickups were prone to fires. NBC settled the lawsuit the following day. 1996 ~ President Clinton signed the Communications Decency Act at the Library of Congress. 1998 ~ Death of Enoch Powell, British politician. |
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