Today in History
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| 1357 Flemish earl Louis & Luxembourg Duke Wenceslaus sign peace treaty | ||
| 1493 Columbus left new world on return from 1st voyage | ||
| 1567 Franciscus Aguilon, physicist/mathematician/jesuit/architect was born | ||
| 1579 Willem Teellinck, Dutch theologist/vicar was born | ||
| 1581 James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh (gave age to Earth based on bible) was born | ||
| 1642 King Charles I with 400 soldiers attacks the English parliament | ||
| 1643 Isaac Newton, scientist (Whatever goes up) was born | ||
| 1710 Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Italian composer (Il Prigioniero Superbo) was born | ||
| 1717 Netherlands, England & France sign Triple Alliance | ||
| 1754 Columbia University founded, as Kings College (NYC) | ||
| 1762 England declares war on Spain & Naples | ||
| 1780 Snowstorm hit Washington's army at Morristown, NJ | ||
| 1785 Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm, Germany, librarian (fairy tale collector) was born | ||
| 1790 U.S. President George Washington delivered the first State of the Union address. | ||
| 1807 Baltasar Saldoni, composer was born | ||
| 1813 Alexander Freiherr von Bach, Austria attorney/premier (1852-59) was born | ||
| 1813 Isaac Pitman, Britain, inventor (stenographic shorthand) was born | ||
| 1813 Louis L Bonaparte, English/French linguist/senator was born | ||
| 1832 Insurrection of Trinidad negroes | ||
| 1843 Gaetano Donizetti's opera "Don Pasquale," premieres in Paris | ||
| 1843 Royal Academy (Technical Hague court) Delft opens | ||
| 1861 Pres Buchanan appoints a fast on account of threatened succession | ||
| 1861 The Confederate States of America were formed, consisting of South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi and Louisiana. | ||
| 1862 Romney Campaign-Stonewall Jackson occupies Bath | ||
| 1863 The four-wheeled roller skate was patented by James Plimpton of New York. | ||
| 1872 Edmund Rumpler, Austria, auto/airplane builder was born | ||
| 1883 Johanna Westerdijk, botanist/Neth 1st female prof (Utrecht, 1917-52) was born | ||
| 1884 Last sighting of an eastern cougar (Ontario) | ||
| 1885 The first appendectomy in the United States was performed in Davenport Iowa, by Dr. William Grant. | ||
| 1887 Thomas Stevens is 1st man to bicycle around the world | ||
| 1893 US pres Cleveland grants amnesty to Mormon polygamy | ||
| 1894 France ratifies Duple Alliance with Russia | ||
| 1896 Following Mormon abandonment of polygamy, Utah admitted as 45th state | ||
| 1896 Utah became the 45th state to be admitted to the United States. | ||
| 1906 South Africa beat England by one wicket, their 1st Test win | ||
| 1915 Trans-Caucausus Russian defeat Turkish troops | ||
| 1923 Lenin's "Political Testament" calls for removal of Stalin | ||
| 1925 French psychologist Emil Cou‚ brings his self-esteem therapy to US | ||
| 1926 Theodorus Pangalos resigns as Greek dictator | ||
| 1932 British East Indies Viceroy Willingdon arrests Gandhi & Nehru | ||
| 1932 State of siege proclaimed in Honduras | ||
| 1936 Billboard magazine publishes its 1st music hit parade | ||
| 1939 Hermann Goering appoints Reinhard Heydrich head of Jewish Emigration | ||
| 1942 Premier Churchill & General Marshall fly to Florida | ||
| 1943 Thomas Mann completes his tetralogy, "Joseph & His Brothers" | ||
| 1945 Germans execute resistance fighters in Amsterdam | ||
| 1945 US jeep-aircraft carrier Ommaney Bay sinks after kamikaze attack | ||
| 1948 After more than 100 years of British rule, Burma -- now Myanmar -- was granted independence. Since then, the country has been controlled primarily by military regimes. | ||
| 1950 Albert Camus, writer and philosopher, died. | ||
| 1951 Chinese and North Korean troops captured Seoul, South Korea. | ||
| 1957 Dodgers buy 44 passenger twin-engine airplane for $775,000 | ||
| 1958 Sputnik 1 reenters atmosphere & burns up | ||
| 1959 Luna 1 (Mechta) becomes 1st craft to leave Earth's gravity | ||
| 1960 European Free Trade Association forms in Stockholm | ||
| 1962 The first unmanned subway train ran in New York City. | ||
| 1963 Soviet Luna (4) reaches Earth orbit but fails to reach Moon | ||
| 1968 Duck hunter accidentally shoots endangered whooping crane in Texas | ||
| 1969 France begins arms embargo against Israel | ||
| 1970 NYC transit fare rises from 20› to 30›, new larger tokens used | ||
| 1971 Congressional Black Caucus organizes | ||
| 1971 Philadelphia's Veteran Stadium dedicated | ||
| 1971 Dr. Melvin H. Evans became the first elected governor of the Virgin Islands. | ||
| 1975 Ice thickness measured at 4776 m, Wilkes Land, Antarctica | ||
| 1981 British police arrest Peter Sutcliffe, the "Yorkshire Ripper" | ||
| 1987 16 die in a train crash in Chase Md | ||
| 1989 US F-14s shoot down 2 Libyan jet fighters over Mediterranean | ||
| 1991 AT&T workers in Newark accidentally snap a cable | ||
| 1991 Fu Mingxia, 12, of China wins World Swimming Championships gold medal | ||
| 1991 Iraq agrees to send Aziz to Geneva to meet Baker on Jan 9th | ||
| 1991 Jan Krzystof Bielecki becomes premier of Poland | ||
| 1995 Newt Gingrich (R) becomes speaker of the House | ||
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