This Day in "History"

[Dinesh jain]

Born on January 3

Cicero
orator (106 B.C.)

Anne Ayres
nun (1816)

Father Damien
missionary (1840)

J.R.R. Tolkien
author (1892)

ZaSu Pitts
actor (1894)

Victor Borge
pianist, comedian (1909)

Sergio Leone
filmmaker (1929)

Mel Gibson
actor, director, producer (1956)

Michael Schumacher
auto racer (1969)

Danica McKellar
actor (1975)
http://www.infoplease.com/birthday?month=jan&day=3

 

[Dinesh jain]

January 4

1885
Dr. William W. Grant of Davenport, Iowa,
performed what is thought to be the first
appendectomy.

1896
Utah was admitted as 45th state in the United
States.

1904
In Gonzales v. Williams, the U.S. Supreme Court
decided that citizens of Puerto Rico are not
aliens and can enter the U.S. freely.

1948
Burma (Myanmar) gained independence from
Great Britain.

1951
During the Korean War, North Korean and
Communist Chinese forces captured the city of
Seoul .

1965
President Johnson outlined his "Great Society" in
his State of the Union address.

1999
Former wrestler Jesse Ventura was sworn in as
Minnesota's governor.

1999
The U.S. Mint began distributing the 50 State
Quarters .

2007
California Democrat Nancy Pelosi becomes the
first woman U.S. Speaker of the House of
Representatives .

This Day in History: January 4 | Infoplease.com

 

[Dinesh jain]

Born on January 4

Sir Isaac Newton
mathematician, scientist (1643 (N.S.))

Benjamin Rush
physician, signer of the Declaration of
Independence (1746 (N.S.))

Louis Braille
inventor of Braille system (1809)

Sir Isaac Pitman
inventor of phonographic shorthand (1813)

Tom Thumb
entertainer (1838)

Jane Wyman
actress, producer (1914)

Floyd Patterson
boxer (1935)

January 4 Birthdays: Jakob Grimm | Infoplease.com

 

[Dinesh jain]

January 5

1896
A German newspaper reported German physicist
Wilhelm Roentgen's discovery of X-rays .

1914
Henry Ford introduced the $5-a-day minimum
wage.

1925
Nellie Tayloe Ross became the first woman
governor of a state (Wyoming) .

1972
President Nixon ordered the development of the
space shuttle .

2000
INS Commissioner Doris Meissner ruled that 6-
year-old Elian Gonzalez must be returned to
Cuba .


This Day in History: January 5 | Infoplease.com

 

[Dinesh jain]

Born on January 5

Shah Jahan
Indian Mughal Emperor (1592)

Zebulon Pike
explorer (1779)

Constantin Stanislavsky
actor, producer, teacher (1863)

Konrad Adenauer
West German chancellor (1876)

George Reeves
actor (1914)

Robert Duvall
actor (1931)

Umberto Eco
novelist, essayist, and scholar (1932)

Hayao Miyazaki
filmmaker, animator (1941)

Diane Keaton
actress, director (1946)

Bradley Cooper
actor (1975)
January 5 Birthdays: Alvin Ailey | Infoplease.com

 

[Dinesh jain]

ThisDayInHISTORY 1929 Mother Teresa reached
Kolkata. Can you tell us which country was she
born in?

 

[Dinesh jain]

January 6

1540
King Henry VIII of England married his 4th wife,
Anne of Cleves .

1759
George Washington married Martha Custis.

1838
Samuel Morse gave the first public
demonstration of the telegraph.

1912
New Mexico became the 47th state in the United
States.

1919
Former president Theodore Roosevelt died in
Oyster Bay, N.Y.

1987
University of California astronomers first
witnessed the birth of a galaxy that contained 1
billion stars.

1994
Figure skater Nancy Kerrigan clubbed on leg by
men including husband of rival skater Tonya
Harding .

 

[Dinesh jain]

January 6

Heinrich Schliemann
archaeologist (1822)

Tom Mix
actor (1880)

Khalil Gibran
poet and novelist (1883)

Abram Nicholas Pritzker
entrepreneur (1896)

Loretta Young
actor (1913)

Danny Thomas
actor, singer, dancer (1914)

E L Doctorow
novelist (1931)

Rowan Atkinson
actor (1955)

Nancy Lopez
golfer (1957)

 

[Dinesh jain]

January 7

1896
Fanny Farmer published her first cookbook.

1927
Transatlantic commercial telephone service
began between New York and London .

1953
Harry Truman announced that the U.S. had
developed the hydrogen bomb .

1955
Marian Anderson made her Metropolitan Opera
debut.

1979
Vietnamese forces captured the Cambodian
capital of Phnom Penh , overthrowing Pol Pot's
Khmer Rouge government.

1989
Japan's Emperor Hirohito died.

1999
The impeachment trial of President William
Clinton began in the Senate.

 

[Dinesh jain]

Born on January 7

St. Bernadette
saint (1844)

Francis Poulenc
composer and pianist (1899)

Zora Neale Hurston
author (1901)

Charles Addams
cartoonist (1912)

David Caruso
actor (1956)

Katie Couric
journalist (1957)

Nicolas Cage
actor (1964)