History of January

During the month of January the following events have happened in our world's history.

January 01, 1643 - Isaac Newton baptized in St. John's Church in Colsterworth England
January 01, 1801 - Giuseppe Piazzi discoved 1st asteroid later named Ceres
January 01, 1801 - United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland established
January 01, 1804 - Haiti gains independence from France (National Day)
January 01, 1808 - Congress prohibits importation of slaves
January 01, 1848 - Britain takes Mosquito Coast from Nicaragua
January 01, 1863 - Emancipation Proclamation issued by Lincoln
January 01, 1892 - Brooklyn merges with NY to form present City of NY - Ellis Island became reception center for new immigrants
January 01, 1894 - Manchester Ship Canal in England opened to traffic
January 01, 1898 - Lightship replaces whistling buoy at mouth of SF Bay
January 01, 1899 - Cuba liberated from Spain by US (National Day)
January 01, 1901 - Commonwealth of Australia established
January 01, 1902 - 1st Rose Bowl game held in Pasadena California
January 01, 1912 - 1st running of SF's famed "Bay to Breakers" race (763 miles)
January 01, 1913 - Post office begins parcel post deliveries
January 01, 1934 - Alcatraz officially becomes a Federal Prison
January 01, 1934 - Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (US bank guarantees) effective
January 01, 1936 - 1st newspaper to microfilm its current issues NY Herald Tribune
January 01, 1946 - Emperor Hirohito of Japan announces he is not a god
January 01, 1948 - 1st newsreel in color Pasadena Ca
January 01, 1954 - Rose & Cotton Bowl are 1st sport colorcasts
January 01, 1956 - Sudan gains independence from Britain (National Day)
January 01, 1957 - International Geophysical Year begins; ends 6/30/1958
January 01, 1958 - European Economic Community (Common Market) starts operation
January 01, 1960 - Cameroon gains independence from France
January 01, 1962 - Beatles Decca audition
January 01, 1962 - Western Samoa gains independence from New Zealand
January 01, 1965 - International Cooperation Year
January 01, 1971 - Cigarette advertisements banned on TV
January 01, 1972 - International Book Year
January 01, 1973 - Britain Ireland & Denmark join Common Market
January 01, 1974 - World Population Year
January 01, 1975 - International Women's Year
January 01, 1978 - Pres. Ford signs 1st major revision of copyright law since 1909
January 01, 1979 - International Year of the Child
January 01, 1980 - Decade of Water & Sanitation
January 01, 1981 - International Year for Disabled
January 01, 1981 - Palau (Trust Territory of Pacific Is.) becomes self-governing
January 01, 1983 - World Communications Year
January 01, 1984 - AT & T broken up into 8 companies
January 01, 1984 - Brunei gains complete independence from Britain
January 01, 1985 - International Youth Year
January 01, 1986 - International Peace Year
January 01, 1986 - Spain & Portugal become 11th & 12th members of Common Market
January 01, 1987 - Internat'l Year of Shelter
January 01, 1988 - NY Carnegie Deli's owner Leo Steiner dies
January 01, 2304 - Mid- CALENDAR day
January 01, 4713 - B.C. Julian calendar begins at Greenwich mean noon
January 02, 1776 - 1st revolutionary flag displayed
January 02, 1788 - Georgia is 4th state to ratify US constitution
January 02, 1893 - World's Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago
January 02, 1917 - Royal Bank of Canada took over Quebec Bank
January 02, 1921 - D eYoung Museum in Golden Gate Park opens
January 02, 1933 - Bruins beat Rangers in NY 13-3
January 02, 1935 - Bruno Richard Hauptmann went on trial for kidnap-murder of Charles
January 02, 1936 - 1st electron tube described St Louis Mo
January 02, 1942 - 28 nations at war with Axis pledge no separate peace
January 02, 1942 - Japanese occupied Manila
January 02, 1955 - President Jose Antonio Remon of Panama assassinated
January 02, 1957 - SF & Los Angeles stock exchanges merge
January 02, 1959 - USSR launches Mechta 1st lunar probe & artificial in solar orbit
January 02, 1968 - Dr Christian Barnard performs 1st successful heart transplant
January 02, 1972 - Mariner 9 begins mapping Mars
January 02, 1979 - 30th Islander shut-out opponent - Glenn Resch 9-0 vs Vancouver
January 02, 1982 - Islanders start 23 undefeated home streak (21-0-2) 14 straight wins
January 02, 1983 - Ken Anderson of Cincinnati completes record 20 consecutive passes
January 02, 1985 - 90th hat trick in Islander history - Brent Sutter
January 02, 1986 - 191.66 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
January 03, 1521 - Martin Luther excommunicated by Roman Catholic Church
January 03, 1543 - Juan Cabrillo conqueror of Cen. America discoverer of Calif dies
January 03, 1641 - Jeremiah Horrocks English astronomical prodigy dies at 22
January 03, 1777 - Washington defeats British at Battle of Princeton NJ
January 03, 1852 - 1st Chinese arrive in Hawaii
January 03, 1870 - Brooklyn Bridge begun completed on May 24 1883
January 03, 1888 - 1st drinking straw is patented
January 03, 1900 - Perihelion Passage
January 03, 1912 - S Pacific RR offers to bring Liberty Bell to Exposition free
January 03, 1920 - NY Yankees purchase Babe Ruth from the Red Sox
January 03, 1921 - Turkey made peace with Armenia
January 03, 1929 - 27 year old William S Paley becomes president of CBS
January 03, 1941 - Canada & US acquire air bases in Newfoundland (99 yr lease)
January 03, 1943 - 1st missing persons telecast NYC
January 03, 1943 - Canadian Army troops arrive in North Africa
January 03, 1946 - William Joyce (Lord Haw Haw) hanged in Britain for treason
January 03, 1957 - 1st electric watch introduced Lancaster Pa
January 03, 1958 - Sir Edmund Hillary reached South Pole overland
January 03, 1959 - Alaska becomes 49th state
January 03, 1973 - George Steinbrenner III buys Yankees from CBS for $12 million
January 03, 1977 - Apple Computer incorporated
January 04, 1754 - Columbia University opened
January 04, 1784 - US treaty with Great Britain ratified
January 04, 1790 - Pres Washington delivers 1st "State of the Union"
January 04, 1883 - Ontario Rugby Football Union (forerunner of CFL) formed
January 04, 1896 - Utah becomes 45th state
January 04, 1948 - Burma gains independence from Britain (National Day)
January 04, 1959 - Luna 1 1st craft to leave Earth's gravity
January 04, 1962 - 1st unmanned subway train to run automatically - NYC
January 04, 1982 - Golden Gate Bridge closed for 3rd time by fierce storm
January 05, 1589 - Catherine de Medici Queen of France died
January 05, 1809 - Treaty of Dardanelles was concluded between Britain & France
January 05, 1822 - Central America proclaims annexation to Mexican Empire
January 05, 1850 - Calif Exchange opens
January 05, 1854 - Steamship SF wrecked
January 05, 1905 - C Perrine announces discovery of Jupiter's 7th satellite Elara
January 05, 1911 - SF has it's 1st air meet
January 05, 1914 - Henry Ford announced a minimum wage of $5 for an eight hour day
January 05, 1922 - Sir Ernest Shackleton Antarctic explorer died aboard his ship
January 05, 1925 - Nellie Taylor Ross became governor of Wyoming 1st woman gov in USA
January 05, 1926 - James Cox of Ford Motors announces 8 hr day & $5 daily minimum wage
January 05, 1933 - Work on Golden Gate Bridge begins on Marin County side
January 05, 1962 - Tony Sheridan & Beatles produce My Bonnie & The Saints
January 05, 1964 - Pope Paul VI visits Jordan & Israel
January 05, 1969 - USSR Venera 5 launched. 1st successful planet landing - Venus
January 05, 1972 - NASA announces development of Space Shuttle
January 05, 1975 - Salyut 4 with crew of 2 is launched for 30 days
January 05, 1985 - Bryan Trottier failed in 9th Islander penalty shot
January 05, 1987 - Surrogate Baby M case begins in Hackensack NJ
January 06, 1663 - Great earthquake in New England
January 06, 1753 - Epiphany
January 06, 1838 - Samuel Morse made 1st public demonstration of telegraph
January 06, 1884 - Gregor Mendel Augustine monk & heredity pioneer died
January 06, 1893 - Great Northern Railway connects Seattle with east coast
January 06, 1912 - New Mexico becomes 47th state
January 06, 1914 - Stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch founded
January 06, 1930 - 1st diesel engine automobile trip completed
January 06, 1936 - Barbara Hanley became Canada's 1st woman mayor (Webbwood Ontario)
January 06, 1941 - FDR names 4 freedoms (freedom of speech religion; from want fear)
January 06, 1942 - 1st around world flight by Pan Am "Pacific Clipper"
January 06, 1951 - Indianapolis beats Rochester 75-73 in NBA-record 6 overtimes
January 06, 1981 - 50th hat trick in Islander history - John Tonelli scored 5 goals
January 06, 1987 - 100th US Congress convenes
January 07, 1558 - Calais last English possession in France retaken by French
January 07, 1610 - Galileo discovers 1st 3 Jupiter satellites Io Europa & Ganymede
January 07, 1714 - Typewriter patented (built years later)
January 07, 1753 - Plough Monday
January 07, 1785 - 1st balloon flight across English Channel
January 07, 1789 - 1st natl presidental election - US
January 07, 1822 - 1st printing in Hawaii
January 07, 1822 - Liberia colonized by Americans
January 07, 1929 - Tarzan" one of the 1st adventure comic strips appears
January 07, 1963 - 1st class postage raised from 4› to 5›.
January 07, 1967 - Newlywed Game premiers
January 07, 1968 - 1st class postage raised from 5› to 6›
January 07, 1972 - LA Lakers chalk up 33rd consecutive win (NBA record)
January 07, 1982 - Islander's Bryan Trottier's 10th career hat trick
January 08, 1336 - Giotto Italian Renaissance painter dies (birth date unknown)
January 08, 1583 - Iotto Day
January 08, 1642 - Galileo Galilei dies at 78 in Arceti Italy
January 08, 1798 - 11th Amendment ratified Judicial powers construed
January 08, 1815 - Battle of New Orleans-War of 1812 ended 12/24/1814 but nobody knew
January 08, 1880 - Passing of Norton I Emperor of US Protector of Mexico
January 08, 1913 - Frank Chance becomes Yankee manager
January 08, 1932 - Ratification of present SF City Charter
January 08, 1935 - Spectrophotometer patented AC Hardy
January 08, 1952 - Antonia Maury discoverer of supergiant giant & dwarf stars dies
January 08, 1958 - Cuban revolutionary forces capture Havana
January 08, 1968 - US Surveyor 7 lands near crater Tycho on moon
January 08, 1973 - USSR launches Luna 21 for moon landing
January 08, 1980 - Islander Glenn Resch's 20th shut-out opponent - Canucks 3-0
January 09, 1788 - Conneticut becomes 5th state
January 09, 1793 - Jean Pierre Blanchard makes 1st balloon flight in North America
January 09, 1799 - 1st income tax imposed in England
January 09, 1839 - Daguerrotype process announced at French Academy of Science
January 09, 1839 - Thomas Henderson measures 1st stellar parallax Alpha Centauri
January 09, 1843 - Caroline Herschel "1st lady of astronomy " dies at 98 in Germany
January 09, 1847 - 1st SF paper 'California Star' published
January 09, 1848 - 1st commercial bank in SF established
January 09, 1854 - Astor Library opened in NY
January 09, 1861 - Mississippi becomes 2nd state to secede from US
January 09, 1903 - AL Baltimore baseball team bought to move to NY for $18 000
January 09, 1912 - US marines invade Honduras
January 09, 1915 - Exposition (now Civic) Auditorium dedicated
January 09, 1936 - Semi-automatic rifles adopted by US army
January 09, 1945 - As vowed MacArthur returned to Philippines
January 09, 1976 - Bryan Trottier failed in 4th Islander penalty shot
January 09, 1978 - Commonwealth of Northern Marianas established
January 09, 1982 - 5.9 earthquake in New England & Canada; 1st since 1855
January 09, 1987 - New Nicaraguan constitution takes effect
January 10, 1776 - Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" published
January 10, 1806 - Dutch in Capetown surrender to British
January 10, 1840 - Penny Post mail system is started
January 10, 1861 - Florida becomes 3rd state to secede from US
January 10, 1863 - 1st underground railway opens in London
January 10, 1911 - Honduras signs treaty turning over customs to US (not ratified)
January 10, 1920 - League of Nations established
January 10, 1932 - Mickey Mouse & Silly Symphony comics syndicated
January 10, 1944 - 1st mobile electric power plant delivered Phila
January 10, 1945 - Los Angeles Railway (with 5 streetcar lines) forced to close
January 10, 1946 - UN General Assembly meets for 1st time
January 10, 1946 - US Army establishes 1st radar contact with moon Belmar NJ
January 10, 1949 - 1st Jewish family show - The Goldberg's begin
January 10, 1951 - 1st jet passenger trip made
January 10, 1964 - That Was The Week That Was premiers
January 10, 1969 - USSR's Venera 6 launched for parachute landing on Venus
January 10, 1970 - Preview Center Opens
January 10, 1977 - 20th hat trick in Islander history - Bobby Nystrom
January 10, 1978 - Pedro Joaqu¡n Chamorro of La Prensa assassinated in Managua
January 10, 1978 - Soyuz 27 is launched
January 11, 1935 - 1st woman to fly solo across Pacific left Honolulu AE Putnam
January 11, 1642 - Isaac Newton is elected a member of Royal Society
January 11, 1787 - Titania & Oberon moons of Uranus discovered by William Herschel
January 11, 1805 - Michigan Territory organized
January 11, 1813 - 1st pineapples planted in Hawaii
January 11, 1861 - Alabama becomes 4th state to secede from US
January 11, 1861 - Mexico City captured by Juarez
January 11, 1892 - Hawaiian Historical Society founded
January 11, 1915 - Jacob Ruppert & Huston purchase Yankees for $460 000
January 11, 1923 - French & Belgian troops occupy Ruhr to collect reparations
January 11, 1935 - Amelia Earhart flies from Hawaii to California (non-stop of course)
January 11, 1963 - Beatles release Please Please Me & Ask Me Why
January 11, 1975 - Soyuz 17 is launched
January 11, 1978 - Gov. Askew dedicates the RCUC solar office building
January 11, 1983 - Billy Martin named Yankee manager for 3rd time
January 12, 1777 - Mission Santa Clara de Asis founded in Cal
January 12, 1820 - Royal Astronomical Society founded in England
January 12, 1836 - Battle of Wetumka Fla
January 12, 1945 - US Navy destroys 41 Jap ships in Battle of S China Sea
January 12, 1969 - AFC wins its 1st Super Bowl (III) (NY Jets 16 Balt Colts 7)
January 12, 1971 - All in the Family premiers
January 12, 1986 - 24th Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 7 is launched
January 13, 1610 - Galileo Galilei discovers Callisto 4th satellite of Jupiter
January 13, 1630 - Patent to Plymouth Colony issued
January 13, 1854 - Anthony Foss obtains patent for accordion
January 13, 1894 - Revolution in Sicily crushed by government troops
January 13, 1920 - NY Times Editorial says rockets can never fly
January 13, 1930 - Mickey Mouse comic strip first appears
January 13, 1939 - Yankee owner Jacob Ruppert dies
January 13, 1966 - 1st black in presidental cabinet (LBJ selects Robert C Weaver)
January 13, 1969 - Beatles release "Yellow Submarine" album
January 13, 1971 - Apollo 14 launched
January 13, 1978 - Yankee manager Joe McCarthy dies at 90
January 13, 1981 - Islander's Mike Bossy's 15th career hat trick - 4 goals
January 13, 1985 - Blackhawk Doug Wilson failed on 12th penalty shot against Islanders
January 13, 1985 - Carol Wayne dies at 42
January 14, 1742 - Edmund Halley genius eclipsed by Newton dies at 86
January 14, 1784 - Revolutionary War ends when Congress ratifies Treaty of Paris
January 14, 1847 - Conspiracy in New Mexico against US
January 14, 1914 - Henry Ford introduces assembly line for cars
January 14, 1936 - L.M. (Mario) Giannini elected president of Bank of America
January 14, 1939 - All coml ferry service to East Bay ends
January 14, 1952 - Today show premiers
January 14, 1969 - Soyuz 4 is launched
January 15, 1535 - Henry VIII declares himself head of English Church
January 15, 1759 - British Museum opens
January 15, 1778 - Nootka Sound discovered by Capt. Cook
January 15, 1861 - Steam elevator patented by Elisha Otis
January 15, 1927 - Dunbarton Bridge 1st bridge in Bay Area opens
January 15, 1939 - Municipal Railway & Market St RR begin service to Transbay Terminal
January 15, 1943 - World's largest office building Pentagon completed
January 15, 1967 - Green Bay Packers beat KC Chiefs 35-10 in Super Bowl I (NBC & CBS)
January 15, 1968 - Soyuz 5 launched
January 15, 1973 - Pope Paul VI has an audience with Golda Meir at Vatican
January 15, 1974 - Happy Days premiers
January 15, 1975 - Space Mountain opens
January 15, 1981 - Hill Street Blues premiers
January 15, 1986 - Living Seas opens
January 16, 1777 - Vermont declares independence from NY
January 16, 1865 - SF Dramatic Chronicle started
January 16, 1870 - Virginia readmitted to US after Civil War
January 16, 1883 - Pendleton Act creates basis of federal civil service system
January 16, 1887 - Cliff House damaged when schooner "Parallel"'s powder cargo explodes
January 16, 1909 - David Mawson & Mackay reach south magnetic pole
January 16, 1920 - 18th Amendment prohibition went into effect; repealed in 1933
January 16, 1938 - William Pickering pioneer American stellar spectroscopist dies
January 16, 1956 - Egyptian President Nassar pledges to reconquer Palestine
January 16, 1969 - Soviet Soyuz 4 & Soyuz 5 perform 1st transfer of crew in space
January 16, 1973 - USSR's Lunakhod begins radio-controlled exploration of moon
January 16, 1977 - Cap's H Monahan scored on 2nd penalty shot against Islanders
January 16, 1978 - Soyuz 27 returns to Earth
January 16, 1979 - Iranian revolution overthrows shah
January 17, 0355 - Death of St Anthony of Egypt founder of Christian monasticism
January 17, 1746 - Battle of Falkirk Scotland
January 17, 1773 - Capt James Cook becomes 1st to cross Antarctic Circle (66ø 33' S)
January 17, 1852 - British recognize independence of Transvaal (in South Africa)
January 17, 1861 - Flush toilet is patented by Mr Thomas Crapper (Honest!)
January 17, 1871 - 1st Cable Car is patented by Andrew S Hallidie
January 17, 1893 - Kingdom of Hawaii becomes a republic
January 17, 1899 - US takes possession of Wake Island in Pacific
January 17, 1910 - Thomas Crapper inventor of flush toilet dies
January 17, 1943 - Tin Can Drive Day
January 17, 1945 - Liberation Day in Poland (end of Nazi occupation)
January 17, 1950 - Great Brink's robbery in Boston $28 million
January 17, 1957 - 9-county commission recommends creation of BART
January 17, 1963 - Joe Walker takes X-15 to altitude of 82 km
January 17, 1968 - Soyuz 4 & 5 completed 1st docking of 2 manned spacecraft
January 17, 1976 - Hermes rocket launched by ESA
January 17, 1977 - Gary Gilmore executed in Utah 1st since 1967
January 17, 1979 - Islanders didn't get a shot off in one period against the Rangers
January 18, 1644 - 1st UFO sighting in America by perplexed Pilgrims in Boston
January 18, 1778 - Capt James Cook stumbles over Hawaiian Islands
January 18, 1817 - San Mart¡n leads a revolutionary army over Andes
January 18, 1869 - Elegant Calif Theatre opens in SF
January 18, 1871 - German Empire proclaimed by Kaiser Wilhelm I
January 18, 1911 - 1st shipboard landing of a plane (Tanforan Park to USS Pennsylvania)
January 18, 1913 - Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches South Pole
January 18, 1919 - Versailles Peace Conference
January 18, 1949 - 1st US Congressional Standing Committee headed by Negro -W Dawson
January 18, 1956 - Tunisian Revolution Day (National Day)
January 18, 1969 - Soyuz 5 returns to Earth
January 18, 1973 - Islanders break 12 game losing streak 20 game road winless streak
January 18, 1980 - Barbara Britton dies
January 18, 1984 - 80th Islander & 3rd dual hat trick (Carroll & Bossy) 9-1 win
January 18, 1985 - US renounces jurisdiction of World Court despite previous agreement
January 18, 1986 - 24th Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 7 returns to Earth
January 19, 1747 - Johann Bode founder of "Bode's Law " dies
January 19, 1770 - Battle of Golden Hill (Lower Manhattan)
January 19, 1839 - Aden conquered by East India Company
January 19, 1861 - Georgia becomes 5th state to secede from US
January 19, 1903 - 1st regular transatlantic radio broadcast between US & England
January 19, 1921 - Costa Rica Guatemala Honduras & El Salvador sign Pact of Union
January 19, 1955 - Millionaire TV program premiers
January 20, 1265 - 1st English Parliament called into session by Earl of Leicester
January 20, 1783 - End of Revolutionary War
January 20, 1866 - Prim's Insurrection in Spain ends
January 20, 1872 - Calif Stock Exchange Board organized
January 20, 1887 - Pearl Harbor obtained by US from Hawaii for use as a naval base
January 20, 1892 - 1st basketball game played
January 20, 1929 - 1st feature talking motion picture taken outdoors "In Old Arizona"
January 20, 1937 - Inauguration day every 4th year
January 20, 1953 - 1st live coast-to-coast inauguration address
January 20, 1964 - Meet The Beatles" album released in US
January 20, 1981 - Iran hostages are freed after 444 days
January 20, 1981 - Islander Glenn Resch's 25th & last shut-out opponent - Flames 5-0
January 20, 1981 - US embassy hostages freed in Tehran
January 21, 1793 - King Louis XVI beheaded by French revolutionaries
January 21, 1813 - Pineapple introduced to Hawaii
January 21, 1892 - John Couch Adams English co-discoverer of Neptune dies
January 21, 1954 - 1st atomic sub USS Nautilus launched
January 21, 1954 - 1st gas turbine automobile exhibited - NYC
January 21, 1962 - Snow falls in SF
January 21, 1967 - Ann Sheridan dies at 51
January 21, 1979 - Neptune becomes outermost planet (Pluto moves closer)
January 21, 1982 - Islanders start NHL record 15 game win streak (15-0-0)
January 22, 1813 - Americans capture Frenchtown Canada
January 22, 1840 - New Zealand settled by British
January 22, 1850 - Alta California becomes a daily paper 1st such in Calif
January 22, 1905 - Bloody Sunday; Russian demonstrators fired on by tsarist troops
January 22, 1939 - Aquatic Park dedicated
January 22, 1943 - Battle of Anzio Allies stopped on the beach
January 22, 1947 - 1st coml TV station west of Mississippi opens Hollywood Ca
January 22, 1949 - Chinatown telephone exchange closed
January 22, 1968 - Apollo 5 launched to moon Unmanned lunar module tests made
January 22, 1973 - Supreme Court approves abortions
January 22, 1975 - Lansat 2 an Earth Resources Technology Satellite is launched
January 22, 1981 - 40th Islander shut-out opponent - 3-0 vs Red Wings-Billy Smith 15th
January 23, 1579 - Union of Utrecht signed forming protestant Dutch Republic
January 23, 1793 - 2nd partition of Poland between Prussia & Russia
January 23, 1856 - Steamer Pacific lost
January 23, 1909 - 1st radio rescue at sea
January 23, 1944 - Red Wings beat Rangers 15-0
January 23, 1953 - Dallas Texans become Baltimore Colts (now Indianapolis Colts)
January 23, 1960 - Piccard & Walsh in bathyscaph reach 10 900 m in Mariana Trench
January 23, 1964 - 24th Amendment ratified Barred poll tax in federal elections
January 23, 1977 - Miniseries Roots premiers
January 23, 1983 - A-Team with Mr T premiers
January 24, 1556 - Most deadly earthquake kills 830 000 in Shensi Province China
January 24, 1639 - Connecticut colony organized under Fundamental Orders
January 24, 1764 - Gov Winthrop Telescope is destroyed in a Harvard fire
January 24, 1848 - James Marshall finds gold in Sutter's Mill in Coloma Calif
January 24, 1861 - Arsenal at Augusta Ga seized by Confederacy
January 24, 1899 - Rubber heel patented by Humphrey O'Sullivan
January 24, 1935 - Beer 1st sold in cans Richmond Va
January 24, 1965 - Sir Winston Churchill died in England
January 24, 1981 - Islanders scored 5 power play goals against Nordiques
January 24, 1982 - SF 49'ers win their 1st Super Bowl 26-21
January 24, 1985 - 15th Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 3 is launched
January 24, 1986 - Voyager 2 makes 1st fly-by of Uranus (81 593 km) finds new moons
January 25, 1875 - Anti-slavery society formed in NY
January 25, 1915 - Alexander Bell in NY calls Thomas Watson in SF
January 25, 1925 - Largest diamond Cullinan (3106 carets) found in South Africa
January 25, 1945 - Topping Webb & MacPhail purchase Yanks for $28 million
January 25, 1949 - 1st Emmy Awards
January 25, 1949 - 1st Israeli election
January 25, 1959 - 1st transcontinental commercial jet flight (LA to NY for $301)
January 25, 1961 - 1st live nationally televised Presidential news conference (JFK)
January 25, 1961 - Walt Disney's "101 Dalmations" is released
January 25, 1964 - Echo 2 US communications satellite launched
January 25, 1975 - 10th hat trick in Islander history - Denis Potvin's 1st
January 26, 1697 - Isaac Newton receives Jean Bernoulli's 6 month time limit - solves problem before going to bed that same night
January 26, 1788 - 1st settlement established by English in Australia (Sydney)
January 26, 1837 - Mich admitted as 26th US state
January 26, 1841 - Hong Kong was proclaimed a sovereign territory of Britain
January 26, 1861 - La becomes 6th state to secede from US
January 26, 1871 - American income tax repealed
January 26, 1885 - Gen Gordon & troops slain by Sudanese in Khartoum
January 26, 1905 - World's largest diamond found Cullinan diamond
January 26, 1946 - Indian Republic Day
January 26, 1950 - India becomes a republic ceaseing to be a British dominion
January 26, 1954 - Ground breaking begins on Disneyland
January 26, 1961 - 1st woman `personal physician to President' - JG Travell
January 26, 1976 - Israel opens "Good Fence" to Lebanon
January 26, 1979 - Nelson Rockefeller former VP & 4 time governor of NY died
January 26, 1980 - Islanders & Whalers had a penality free game
January 26, 1982 - Islanders score 4 goals within 1:38 5 within 2:37 vs Penguins
January 26, 1984 - Nordiques' Michel Goulet scored on 9th penalty shot against Islanders
January 26, 1986 - Chicago Bears defeat Patriots 46-10 in Super Bowl 20
January 27, 1736 - Abdication of Stanislas King of Poland
January 27, 1880 - Thomas Edison granted patent for an electric incandescent lamp
January 27, 1888 - National Geographic Society founded in Washington DC
January 27, 1894 - Midwinter Fair opens in Golden Gate Park
January 27, 1915 - US Marines occupy Haiti
January 27, 1926 - 1st public TV demonstration
January 27, 1948 - 1st locomotive to carry 1 000 000 pounds operated
January 27, 1948 - 1st Tape Recorder is sold
January 27, 1964 - Introducing the Beatles" album released in US
January 27, 1964 - Sen Margaret Chase Smith of Maine tried for Republican Pres bid
January 27, 1965 - Groundbreaking for 'Dragon Gateway' at Grant Avenue
January 27, 1967 - Apollo 1 fire kills astronauts Grissom White & Chaffee
January 27, 1967 - Treaty banning military use of nuclear weapons in space is signed
January 27, 1971 - Montgomery St Station last link in BART 'holed thru'
January 27, 1973 - US & Vietnam sign cease-fire ending longest US war & milt draft
January 27, 1977 - Pres Carter pardons most Vietnam War draft evaders (10 000)
January 27, 1979 - Islanders ends 23 undefeated games at home streak (15-0-8)
January 27, 1985 - Fifteenth Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 3 returns to Earth
January 28, 1613 - Galileo may have unknowingly viewed undiscovered planet Neptune
January 28, 1687 - Johannes Hevelius dies
January 28, 1807 - London's Pall Mall is 1st st lit by gaslight
January 28, 1821 - Bellingshausen discovers Alexander Island off Antarctica
January 28, 1860 - Britain formally returns Mosquito Coast to Nicaragua
January 28, 1871 - Paris surrenders to Germans
January 28, 1878 - 1st telephone exchange New Haven Connecticut George W Coy hired as 1st full-time telephone operator
January 28, 1878 - Yale Daily News published - 1st college daily newspaper
January 28, 1909 - US milt forces leave Cuba for 2nd time
January 28, 1915 - US Coast Guard established
January 28, 1932 - 1st US state unemployment insurance act enacted - Wisconsin
January 28, 1938 - 1st Ski Tow starts running (in Vermont)
January 28, 1953 - J Fred Muggs (the chimp) joins Today show
January 28, 1956 - Elvis Presley's 1st TV appearance (Dorsey Bros Stage Show)
January 28, 1958 - Construction began on 1st private thorium-uranium nuclear reactor
January 28, 1960 - 1st photograph bounced off moon Washington DC
January 28, 1978 - Ranger's Don Murdoch failed on 4th penalty shot against Islanders
January 28, 1986 - 25th Space Shuttle - Challenger 10 explodes 73 sec after liftoff
January 29, 1788 - Australia Day
January 29, 1861 - Kansas becomes 34th state
January 29, 1900 - American (baseball) League formed with 8 teams
January 29, 1904 - 1st athletic letters given: to Univ of Chicago football team
January 29, 1919 - Prohibition goes into effect (18th amendment)
January 29, 1920 - Walt Disney starts 1st job as an artist $40 week with KC Slide Co
January 29, 1922 - Union of Costa Rica Guatemala Honduras & El Salvador dissolved
January 29, 1936 - 1st players elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
January 29, 1955 - William Cox buys Yankee Stadium
January 29, 1958 - Charles Starkweather captured by police in Wyoming
January 29, 1959 - Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" is released
January 29, 1984 - 41-B (STS-11) Challenger launched
January 29, 1986 - 193.8 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
January 30, 1487 - Bell chimes invented
January 30, 1649 - King Charles I of Great Britain executed by Parliament
January 30, 1774 - Capt Cook reaches 71ø 10' S 1820 km from S pole (record)
January 30, 1847 - Yerba Buena renamed SF
January 30, 1854 - 1st election in Washington Territory; 1 682 votes cast
January 30, 1862 - US Navy's 1st ironclad warship "Monitor" launched
January 30, 1889 - John Herschel uses camera obscura to photograph 48-inch telescope
January 30, 1894 - US flag fired on in Rio; prompt satisfaction exacted by Adm Benham
January 30, 1917 - 1st jazz record in US cut
January 30, 1922 - World Law Day
January 30, 1933 - Adolf Hitler named German Chancellor
January 30, 1948 - Mahatma Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi
January 30, 1958 - 1st 2-way moving sidewalk in service Dallas Texas
January 30, 1969 - US/Canada ISIS 1 launched to study ionosphere
January 31, 1849 - Corn Laws abolished in Britain
January 31, 1851 - SF Orphan's Asylum 1st in Calif founded
January 31, 1862 - Telescope maker Alvin Clark discovers dwarf companion of Sirius
January 31, 1871 - Birds fly over SF in such large numbers they actually darken sky
January 31, 1911 - Congress names SF as Panama Canal opening celebration site
January 31, 1945 - Eddie Slovik 1st American executed for desertion since Civil War
January 31, 1950 - Pres Truman authorized production of H-Bomb
January 31, 1958 - 1st US satellite launched Explorer I from Cape Canaveral
January 31, 1958 - James van Allen discovers radiation belt
January 31, 1958 - US launches 1st artificial satellite Explorer 1
January 31, 1961 - Ham is 1st primate in space (158 miles) aboard Mercury/Redstone 2
January 31, 1966 - Luna 9 launched for moon
January 31, 1968 - Nauru gains independence from Australia
January 31, 1968 - Record high barometric pressure (1083.8 mb 32") at Agata USSR
January 31, 1971 - Apollo 14 launched 1st landing in lunar highlands