This Day in "History"

[Dinesh jain]

January 8

1815
The Battle of New Orleans, the last battle in the
War of 1812, was fought.

1918
Woodrow Wilson outlined his Fourteen Points
peace program.

1958
Bobby Fischer won the United States Chess
Championship for the first time at age 14.

1959
Charles de Gaulle became the first president of
France's Fifth Republic.

1964
President Lyndon Johnson announced his War on
Poverty.

1982
The AT&T Bell System telephone monopoly
agreed to divest itself of 22 Bell System
companies and split itself into seven "Baby
Bells."

1998
The mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center
bombing, Ramzi Yousef, was sentenced to life in
prison.

2011
Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords is
among 17 shot by a gunman at a meeting
outside a grocery store. Six people are fatally
wounded, including United States District Court
Judge John Roll, and a young girl. Police identify
the gunman as Jared Lee Loughner.

 

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Born on January 8

John Carroll
churchman (1735)

Edmond Charles Genêt
diplomat (1763)

Nicholas Biddle
financier (1786)

Wilkie Collins
author (1824)

Emily Greene Balch
economist and sociologist (1867)

William Piper
airplane manufacturer (1881)

Carl Rogers
psychologist (1902)

Jose Ferrer
actor (1912)

Elvis Presley
singer, actor (1935)

David Bowie
musician, actor (1947)

January 8 Birthdays: Stephen William Hawking | Infoplease.com

 

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ThisDayInHISTORY Apple unveiled iPhone and
changed the world of smartphones forever.

 

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January 9

1788
Connecticut became the 5th state in the United
States.

1861
Mississippi became the second state to secede
from the Union.

1905
The Russian Revolution of 1905 was sparked by
troops firing on petitioners to Czar Nicholas in St.
Petersburg.

1964
Anti-American rioting broke out in the Panama
Canal Zone .

1968
Surveyor 7, the last of America's unmanned lunar
probes , landed on the Moon .

 

[Dinesh jain]

Born on January 9

Carrie Chapman Catt
suffragist (1859)

Hayyim Nahman Bialik
poet, publisher (1873)

John B. Watson
psychologist (1878)

Karel Capek
author (1890)

Simone de Beauvoir
author (1908)

Har Gobind Khorana
biochemist (1922)

Bob Denver
actor (1935)

Joan Baez
folk singer and political activist (1941)

Jimmy Page
musician (1944)

Imelda Staunton
actor (1956)

Kate Middleton
Duchess of Cambridge (1982)

 

[Dinesh jain]

January 10

1776
Thomas Paine's Common Sense , which greatly
influenced the authors of the Declaration of
Independence , was published.

1863
The first underground passenger railway, the
Metropolitan, opened in London.

1920
The League of Nations came into existence.

1946
The first General Assembly of the United Nations
convened in London.

1967
The first African-American senator elected by
popular vote, Edward Brooke of Massachusetts,
took his seat.

1984
The U.S. and the Vatican reestablished
diplomatic relations after a 117-year break.

2003
North Korea announced that it was withdrawing
from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

 

[Dinesh jain]

January 11

1935
Amelia Earhart became the first person to fly
solo from Hawaii to California .

1964
The first government report regarding the
dangers of cigarette smoking was issued by the
U.S. Surgeon General, Luther Terry.

1973
Baseball's American League adopted the
"designated hitter" rule which allowed another
player to bat for the pitcher.

2002
The first al-Qaeda prisoners arrive at
Guantanamo Bay , Cuba.

2003
Outgoing Illinois governor George Ryan cleared
the state's death row by commuting the
sentences of 167 inmates.

2011
The Arab Spring movement begins in Tunisia
when demonstrators take to the streets to
protest chronic unemployment and police
brutality.

 

[Dinesh jain]

January 10
John Root
architect (1850)

Robinson Jeffers
poet (1887)

Dame Barbara Hepworth
sculptor (1903)

Donald Knuth
mathematician and computer scientist (1938)

Rod Stewart
singer (1945)

Donald Fagen
pop musician (1948)

Shawn Colvin
folk singer (1956)

 

[Dinesh jain]

January 11

Alexander Hamilton
statesman (1755)

Ezra Cornell
financier (1807)

Sir John Macdonald
statesman (1815)

Alice Paul
activist (1885)

Alan Paton
novelist (1903)

Jean Chrétien
politician (1934)

Mary J. Blige
singer, songwriter (1971)

 

[Dinesh jain]

January 12

1773
The first public museum in the U.S. was
established in Charleston, S.C.

1896
H. L. Smith took the first X-ray photograph. It
was a hand with a bullet in it.

1915
The U.S. House of Representatives rejected a
proposal to give women the right to vote .

1932
Hattie W. Caraway , a democrat from Arkansas
became the first woman to be elected to the
U.S. Senate.

1964
One month after Zanzibar became independent,
the ruling Zanzibar Nationalist Party was
overthrown in a violent coup.

1991
A divided Congress gave President Bush the go-
ahead on the Persian Gulf War .

1998
Nineteen European countries signed an
agreement banning human cloning.

2010
Haiti is dealt a catastrophic blow when a
magnitude 7.0 earthquake strikes 10 miles
southwest of Port-au-Prince, the country's
capital. It is the region's worst earthquake in 200
years. The number of fatalities were between
46,000 and 85,000 people.