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Today in history
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January 1st in History
404: Last gladiator competition in Rome
1622: Papal Chancery adopts January as beginning of the year
1660: Englishman Samuel Pepys begins his famous diary
1700: Russia replaces Byzantine with Julian calendar
1862: US income tax goes into effect (3% of incomes > $600,% of incomes > $10,000)
1863: Emancipation Proclamation (ending slavery) issued by Lincoln
1901: Australia declares independence from federation of UK colonies
1923: Union of Socialist Soviet Republics (USSR) established
1934: Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC US bank guarantor) goes into effect
1934: Alcatraz officially becomes a federal prison
1946: ENIAC, first computer, finished by Mauchly/Eckert
1948: General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) goes into effect
1958: European Community (later to become the European Union) is born
1973: Britain becomes a member of the European Economic Community
1981: Greece becomes the tenth member of the Europen Economic Community
1993: Czechoslovakia split into two separate states
January 1st birthdays
1729: Edmund Burke, British Author
1752: Betsy Ross, American flagmaker
1863: Baron Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern olympics
1864: Alfred Stiglitz, American photographer
1879: William Fox, Founder of 20th Century Fox film studios
1879: E.M Forester, English novelist
1895: J. Edgar Hoover, Former head of American F.B.I
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January 2nd in History
1635: Cardinal Richelieu creates the Academie Francaise
1839: The first ever photographs of the Moon are taken
1919: Anti-British uprising in Ireland
1938: Book publisher Simon and Schuster founded
1947: Mahatma Gandhi begins march for peace in East-Bengali
1968: The worlds first heart transplant is carried out
1995: Most distant galaxy yet discovered found by scientists using Keck telescope in Hawaii (estimated5 billion light years away)
January 2nd birthdays
1920: Issac Asimov, Biochemist and science fiction writer
1968: Cuba Gooding Jr, American actor
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January 3rd in History
1521: Martin Luther excommunicated by Roman Catholic Church
1918: US employment service opens as a unit of Department of Labor
1924: The sarcophagus of Tutankhamen is discovered by Howard Carter
1959: Alaska becomes the 49th United State, bought from Russia
1961: US breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba
1993: The Russian and American leaders sign the second START agreement in Moscow
January 3rd birthdays
1892: J.R Tolkien, English author
1909: Victor Borge, Danish comedian and musician
1956: Mel Gibson, Australian actor
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January 4th in History
1885: An appendix is successfuly removed for the first time in Iowa, USA
1923: Lenin's "Political Testament" calls for removal of Stalin
1948: Britain grants independence to Burma
1951: Chinese and North Korean troops capture Seoul, Korea
1958: Sputnik reenters atmosphere and burns up
1960: European Free Trade Association forms in Stockholm
1965: Lyndon Johnson makes "Great Society" State of the Union Address
1974: Nixon refuses to hand over tapes subpoenaed by Watergate Committee
1989: Two Libyan jets are shot down by US aircraft in the Mediterranen
January 4th birthdays
1643: Sir Isaac Newton, British scientist
1809: Louis Braille, creates the Braille system for the blind
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January 5th in History
1531: Pope Clemens VII forbids English king Henry VIII to re-marry. This event leads to the creation of the church of England
1836: Davy Crockett arrives in Texas, just in time for the Alamo
1895: French Captain Alfred Dreyfus, convicted of treason, publicly stripped of his rank in anti-semitic trial; later declared innocent
1972: NASA announced its plans for a new space vehicle, the shuttle
January 5th birthdays
1931: Robert Duvall, American film actor
1932: Umberto Eco, Italian author
1938: King Juan Carlos of Spain
1946: Dianne Keaton, American film actress
1969: Marilyn Manson, american entertainer.