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01-09-2008, 01:39 PM
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January 9th
1793 ~ Jean-Pierre Blanchard became the first person to fly in a balloon in the U.S.
1839 ~ The Daguerreotype photography process publicly demonstrated.
1861 ~ The "Star of the West" was fired upon as it attempted to deliver supplies to Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. This was the "Casus belli" of the American Civil War.
1861 ~ Mississippi became the second state to secede from the Union.
1903 ~ Hallam Tennyson, son of the poet Alfred Tennyson, became the second Governor-General of Australia.
1913 ~ Birthday of Richard Nixon, U.S. President.
1941 ~ Birthday of Joan Baez, Singer & Activist.
1951 ~ United Nations headquarters officially opened.
1968 ~ The Surveyor 7 space probe made a soft landing on the moon,.
2005 ~ Mahmoud Abbas won the election for a successor to Yasser Arafat.
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01-10-2008, 12:40 PM
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01-10-2008, 04:29 PM
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01-10-2008, 06:14 PM
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Pretty cool. Thank you!
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01-11-2008, 06:27 AM
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Sad how much of that is living memory for many of us. I saw sputnik1 as a small child.
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January 12th
1665 ~ Death of Pierre de Fermat, Mathematician.
1893 ~ Birthday of Hermann Göring, Nazi official.
1915 ~ The U.S. House of Representatives defeated a proposal to give women the right to vote.
1969 ~ On a day that will be long remembered in infamy, Joe Namath and the New York Jets defeated the Baltimore Colts 16-7 in Super Bowl III, and became the first team from the American Football League to win American Football's championship.
1976 ~ Death of Agatha Christie, Mystery Writer.
1991 ~ U.S. Congress authorized the use of military force to drive Iraq out of Kuwait.
1992 ~ In the film ”2001: A Space Odyssey”, the computer HAL 9000 was activated on this date.
2003 ~ Death of Maurice Gibb, Bee Gee.
2003 ~ Death of Leopoldo Galtieri, Dictator of Argentina.
2006 ~ A stampede broke out during the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, killing 363 people.
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01-13-2008, 07:14 AM
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January 14th
83 BC ~ Birthday of Marcus Antonius (Marc Anthony), Roman politician.
1784 ~ The Continental Congress ratified the Treaty of Paris, formally ending the American War of Independence.
1857 ~ Birthday of Albert Schweitzer, Christian Missionary & winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 1952.
1898 ~ Death of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson - who wrote ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' under the pen name Lewis Carroll, Writer & Mathematician.
1943 ~ President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill opened a wartime conference in Casablanca.
1954 ~ Baseball player Joe Dimaggio and actress Marilyn Monroe were married at San Francisco City Hall.
1957 ~ Death of Humphrey Bogart, Actor.
1978 ~ Death of Kurt Gödel, Mathematician.
1993 ~ Whitewater prosecutors questioned first lady Hillary Clinton at the White House about the gathering of FBI background files on past Republican political appointees.
2005 ~ The Huygens probe landed on Saturn's moon Titan.
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01-15-2008, 01:16 PM
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January 15th
1892 ~ James Naismith published the rules for basketball.
1908 ~ Birthday of Edward Teller, Physicist.
1918 ~ Birth of Gamal Abdal Nasser, President of Egypt.
1929 ~ Birthday of Martin Luther King Jr., Civil Rights leader, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 1964.
1951 ~ The "Bitch of Buchenwald", Ilse Koch, was sentenced to life imprisonment.
1953 ~ East German authorities began a purge of senior Jewish officials.
1967 ~ The first Super Bowl was played.
1973 ~ President Nixon announced the suspension of all U.S. offensive action in North Vietnam, citing progress in peace negotiations.
1983 ~ Death of Meyer Lansky, mobster.
1996 ~ Death of Minnesota Fats, American Billiards player.
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01-15-2008, 03:59 PM
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A particular mix of the great and the ghastly.
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01-18-2008, 11:52 AM
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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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