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Topic: Historical Events on this Day in History Posted: 06-Jan-2012 at 15:06 |
6 Jan.
1066 Harold Godwineson is crowned crowned King Harold II – King of England. 1367 Richard II, son of Edward the Black Prince is born. 1412 Joan of Arc, French Saint and national heroine is born. 1540 Henry VIII of England marries his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves. 1861 The Governor of Maryland, Thomas Hicks, announces his opposition to the states's possible secession from the Union. 1882 Sam Rayburn, U.S. congressman from Texas & Speaker of the House is born. 1904 Japanese railway authorities in Korea refuse to transport Russian troops. 1910 Union leaders ask President William H. Taft to investigate U.S. Steel's practices. 1912 New Mexico becomes the 47th U.S. state of the Union. 1918 Germany acknowledges Finland's independence. 1919 Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States, dies at the age of 60. 1921 The U.S. Navy orders the sale of 125 flying boats to encourage commercial aviation. 1937 The United States bans the shipment of arms to war-torn Spain. 1941 President Franklin D. Roosevelt asks Congress to support the Lend-lease Bill to help supply the Allies. 1945 Boeing B-29 bombers in the Pacific strike new blows on Tokyo and Nanking. 1946 Ho Chi Minh wins in the Vietnamese elections. 1958 Moscow announces a reduction in its armed forces by 300,000.
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Posted: 08-Jan-2012 at 02:24 |
8 Jan.
1587 Johannes Fabricus, astronomer who discovered sunspots is born. 1681 The Treaty of Radzin ends a five year war between the Turks and the allied countries of Russia and Poland. 1745 England, Austria, Saxony and the Netherlands form an alliance against Russia. 1815 Andrew Jackson defeats the British on the fields of Chalmette in the Battle of New Orleans. 1871 Prussian troops begin to bombard Paris during the Franco-Prussian War. 1892 A coal mine explosion kills 100 in McAlister, Oklahoma. 1900 The Boers attack the British in Ladysmith, South Africa, but are turned back. 1935 Elvis Presley, the King of Rock and Roll, is born in Mississippi. 1946 President Harry S. Truman vows to stand by the Yalta accord on self-determination for the Balkans. 1954 President Dwight Eisenhower proposes stripping convicted Communists of their U.S. citizenship.
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Posted: 09-Jan-2012 at 01:53 |
9 Jan 1719 | | Philip V of Spain declares war on France. | 1776 | | Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense, a scathing attack on King George III's reign over the colonies and a call for complete independence. | 1792 | | The Ottomans sign a treaty with the Russians ending a five year war. | 1793 | | Jean Pierre Blanchard makes the first balloon flight in North America. | 1861 | | Southern shellfire stops the Union supply ship Star of the West from entering Charleston Harbor on her way to Fort Sumter. | 1861 | | Mississippi secedes from the Union. | 1908 | | Count Zeppelin announces plans for his airship to carry 100 passengers. | 1909 | | A Polar exploration team lead by Ernest Shackleton reaches 88 degrees, 23 minutes south longitude, 162 degrees east latitude. They are 97 nautical miles short of the South Pole, but the weather is too severe to continue. | 1912 | | Colonel Theodore Roosevelt announces that he will run for president if asked. | 1915 | | Pancho Villa signs a treaty with the United States, halting border conflicts. |
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Posted: 10-Jan-2012 at 03:01 |
10 Jan. 1072 | | Robert Guiscard and his brother Roger take Palermo in Sicily. | 1645 | | The Archbishop of Canterbury, William Laud, is beheaded on Tower Hill, accused of acting as an enemy of the British Parliament. | 1724 | | King Philip V abdicates his throne in favor of his eldest son, Louis. | 1811 | | An uprising of over 400 slaves is put down in New Orleans. Sixty-six blacks are killed and their heads are strung up along the roads of the city. | 1847 | | General Stephen Kearny and Commodore Robert Stockton retake Los Angeles in the last California battle of the Mexican War. | 1861 | | Florida secedes from the Union. | 1863 | | London's Underground begins operations.
| 1870 | | John D. Rockefeller and his brother William establish the Standard Oil Company of Ohio. | 1899 | | Filipino leader Emilio Aguinaldo renounces the Treaty of Paris, which annexed the Philippines to the United States. |
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Posted: 11-Jan-2012 at 01:42 |
11 Jan. 49BC | | Julius Caesar leads his army across the Rubicon River, plunging Rome into civil war. | 1843 | | Francis Scott Key, author of "The Star-Spangled Banner," dies in Baltimore. | 1861 | | Alabama secedes from the Union. | 1862 | | Lincoln accepts Simon Cameron's resignation as Secretary of War. | 1887 | | At Fort Smith, Arkansas, hangman George Maledon dispatches four victims in a multiple hanging. | 1904 | | British troops massacre 1,000 dervishes in Somaliland. | 1916 | | Russian General Yudenich launches a WWI winter offensive and advances west. | 1923 | | The French enter the town of Essen in the Ruhr valley, to extract Germany's resources as war payment. | 1934 | | The German police raid the homes of dissident clergy in Berlin. | 1941 | | Adolf Hitler orders forces to be prepared to enter North Africa to assist the Italian effort, marking the establishment of the Afrika Korps. | 1940 | | Benjamin O. Davis, Sr., becomes the U.S. Army's first black general, his son would later become a general as well. | 1942 | | Japan invades the Dutch East Indies at Borneo. | 1943 | | The Soviet Red Army encircles Stalingrad. |
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Posted: 12-Jan-2012 at 12:41 |
12 Jan. 1872 | | Russian Grand Duke Alexis goes on a gala buffalo hunting expedition with Gen. Phil Sheridan and Lt. Col. George A. Custer. | 1879 | | The British-Zulu War begins. British troops invade Zululand from the southern African republic of Natal. | 1908 | | A wireless message is sent long-distance for the first time from the Eiffel Tower in Paris. | 1913 | | Kiel and Wilhelmshaven become submarine bases in Germany. | 1915 | | The U.S. Congress establishes Rocky Mountain National Park. | 1926 | | U.S. coal talks break down, leaving both sides bitter as the strike drags on into its fifth month. | 1927 | | U.S. Secretary of State Kellogg claims that Mexican rebel Plutarco Calles is aiding communist plot in Nicaragua. | 1932 | | Oliver W. Holmes retires from the Supreme Court at age 90. | 1938 | | Austria recognizes the Franco government in Spain. |
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Posted: 13-Jan-2012 at 02:44 |
13 Jan. 1397 | | John of Gaunt marries Katherine Rouet. | 1846 | | President James Polk dispatches General Zachary Taylor and 4,000 troops to the Texas Border as war with Mexico looms. | 1862 | | President Lincoln names Edwin M. Stanton Secretary of War. | 1900 | | To combat Czech nationalism, Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary decrees German the official language of the Imperial Army. | 1919 | | California votes to ratify the prohibition amendment. | 1923 | | Hitler denounces the Weimar Republic as 5,000 storm troopers demonstrate in Germany. | 1927 | | A woman takes a seat on the NY Stock Exchange breaking the all-male tradition. | 1931 | | The bridge connecting New York and New Jersey is named the George Washington Memorial Bridge. | 1937 | | The United States bars Americans from serving in the Civil War in Spain. | 1943 | | General Leclerc's Free French forces merge with the British under Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery in Libya. | 1944 | | Plants are destroyed and 64 U.S. aircraft are lost in an air attack in Germany. | 1945 | | The Red Army opens an offensive in South Poland, crashing 25 miles through the German lines. |
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Posted: 14-Jan-2012 at 01:05 |
14 Jan. 1236 | | Henry III marries Eleanor of Provence. | 1526 | | Francis of France, signs the Treaty of Madrid, giving up most of his claims in France and Italy. | 1797 | | Napoleon Bonaparte defeats Austrians at Rivoli in northern Italy. | 1858 | | Emperor Napoleon and Empress Eugenie escape unhurt after an Italian assassin throws a bomb at their carriage as they travel to the Paris Opera. | 1864 | | Confederate President Jefferson Davis writes to General Joseph E. Johnson, observing that troops may need to be sent to Alabama or Mississippi. | 1911 | | The USS Arkansas, the largest U.S. battleship, is launched from the yards of the New York Shipbuilding Company. | 1915 | | The French abandon five miles of trenches to the Germans near Soissons. | 1916 | | British authorities seize German attaché Franz von Papen's financial records confirming espionage activities in the U.S. | 1917 | | A Provisional Parliament is established in Poland. | 1920 | | Berlin is placed under martial law as 40,000 radicals rush the Reichstag; 42 are dead and 105 are wounded. | 1942 | | President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders all aliens in the U.S. to register with the government. | 1943 | | Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Charles DeGaulle meet at Casablanca to discuss the direction of the war. |
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Posted: 16-Jan-2012 at 02:10 |
16 Jan.
1547 Ivan IV crowns himself the new Czar of Russia in Assumption Cathedral in Moscow. 1786 The Council of Virginia guarantees religious freedom. 1821 John C. Breckinridge, 14th U.S. Vice President, Confederate Secretary of War is born. 1847 John C. Fremont, the famed "Pathfinder" of Western exploration, is appointed governor of California. 1865 General William T. Sherman begins a march through the Carolinas. 1900 The U.S. Senate recognizes the Anglo-German Treaty of 1899 by which the UK renounced its rights to the Samoan Islands. 1909 One of Ernest Shackleton's polar exploration teams reaches the Magnetic South Pole. 1914 Maxim Gorky is authorized to return to Russia after an eight year exile for political dissidence. 1920 The League of Nations holds its first meeting in Paris. 1920 Allies lift the blockade on trade with Russia. 1939 Franklin D. Roosevelt asks for an extension of the Social Security Act to include more women and children. 1940 Hitler cancels an attack in the West due to bad weather and the capture of German attack plans in Belgium. 1942 Japan's advance into Burma begins. 1944 Eisenhower assumes supreme command of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe.
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Posted: 18-Jan-2012 at 09:33 |
18 Jan. 1486 | | Henry VII marries Elizabeth of York. | 1701 | | Frederick III, the elector of Brandenburg, becomes king of Prussia. | 1778 | | Captain James Cook discovers the Hawaiian Islands, naming them the 'Sandwich Islands' after the First Lord of the Admiralty, Lord Sandwich. | 1836 | | Jim Bowie arrives at the Alamo to assist its Texas defenders. | 1862 | | John Tyler, former president of the U.S., is buried at Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond. | 1902 | | The Isthmus Canal Commission in Washington shifts its support from Nicaragua to Panama as a favored canal site. | 1910 | | Aviator Eugene Ely performs his first successful take off and landing from a ship in San Francisco. | 1916 | | The Russians force the Turkish 3rd Army back to Erzurum. | 1942 | | General MacArthur repels the Japanese in Bataan. The United States took the lead in theFar East war criminal trials. | 1945 | | The German Army launches its second attempt to relieve the besieged city of Budapest from the advancing Red Army. | 1948 | | Ghandi breaks a 121-hour fast after halting Muslem-Hindu riots. |
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Posted: 20-Jan-2012 at 10:00 |
20 Jan. 1327 | | Edward II of England is deposed by his eldest son, Edward III. | 1616 | | The French explorer Samuel de Champlain arrives to winter in a Huron Indian village after being wounded in a battle with Iroquois in New France. | 1783 | | Britain signs a peace agreement with France and Spain, who allied against it in the American War of Independence. | 1908 | | The Sullivan Ordinance bars women from smoking in public facilities in the United States. | 1930 | | Charles Lindbergh arrives in New York, setting a cross country flying record of 14.75 hours. | 1935 | | Belgium arrests some Nazi agitators who urge for a return to the Reich. | 1941 | | Hitler meets with Mussolini and offers aid in Albania and Greece. | 1942 | | Nazi officials meet in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to decide the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question." | 1944 | | Allied forces in Italy begin unsuccessful operations to cross the Rapido River and seize Cassino. | 1945 | | Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated for his fourth term. | 1945 | | The Allies sign a truce with the Hungarians. | 1946 | | France's Charles DeGaulle hands in his resignation. | 1952 | | British troops occupy Ismalia, Egypt. |
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Posted: 21-Jan-2012 at 01:35 |
21 Jan. 1189 | | Philip Augustus, Henry II of England and Frederick Barbarossa assemble the troops for the Third Crusade. | 1648 | | In Maryland, the first woman lawyer in the colonies, Margaret Brent, is denied a vote in the Maryland Assembly. | 1785 | | Chippewa, Delaware, Ottawa and Wyandot Indians sign the treaty of Fort McIntosh, ceding present-day Ohio to the United States. | 1790 | | Joseph Guillotine proposes a new, more humane method of execution: a machine designed to cut off the condemned person's head as painlessly as possible. | 1793 | | The French King Louis XVI is guillotined for treason. | 1910 | | Japan rejects the American proposal to neutralize ownership of the Manchurian Railway. | 1919 | | The German Krupp plant begins producing guns under the U.S. armistice terms. | 1921 | | J.D. Rockefeller pledges $1 million for the relief of Europe's destitute. | 1930 | | An international arms control meeting opens in London. | 1933 | | The League of Nations rejects Japanese terms for settlement with China. | 1941 | | The United States lifts the ban on arms to the Soviet Union. | 1942 | | In North Africa, German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel launches a drive to push the British eastward. |
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23 Jan. 1913 | | The "Young Turks" revolt because they are angered by the concessions made at the London peace talks. | 1932 | | Franklin D. Roosevelt enters the presidential race. | 1948 | | The Soviets refuse UN entry into North Korea to administer elections. | 1949 | | The Communist Chinese forces begin their advance on Nanking. | 1950 | | Jerusalem becomes the official capital of Israel. | 1951 | | President Truman creates the Commission on Internal Security and Individual Rights, to monitor the anti-Communist campaign. | 1969 | | NASA unveils moon-landing craft. | 1973 | | President Richard Nixon claims that Vietnam peace has been reached in Paris and that thePOWs would be home in 60 days. | 1977 | | Alex Haley's Roots begins a record-breaking eight-night broadcast on ABC. | 1981 | | Under international pressure, opposition leader Kim Dae Jung's death sentence is commuted to life imprisonment in Seoul. | 1986 | | U.S. begins maneuvers off the Libyan coast. |
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24 Jan. 41 | | Shortly after declaring himself a god, Caligula is assassinated by two Praetorian tribunes. | 1458 | | Matthias Corvinus, the son of John Hunyadi, is elected king of Hungary. | 1639 | | Representatives from three Connecticut towns band together to write the Fundamental Orders, the first constitution in the New World. | 1722 | | Czar Peter the Great caps his reforms in Russia with the "Table of Rank" which decrees a commoner can climb on merit to the highest positions. | 1848 | | Gold is discovered by James Wilson Marshall at his partner Johann August Sutter's sawmill on the South Fork of the American River, near Coloma, California. | 1903 | | U.S. Secretary of State John Hay and British Ambassador Herbert create a joint commission to establish the Alaskan border. | 1911 | | U.S. Cavalry is sent to preserve the neutrality of the Rio Grande during the Mexican Civil War. | 1915 | | The German cruiser Blücher is sunk by a British squadron in the Battle of Dogger Bank. | 1927 | | British expeditionary force of 12,000 is sent to China to protect concessions at Shanghai. | 1931 | | The League of Nations rebukes Poland for the mistreatment of a German minority in Upper Silesia. |
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25 Jan 1533 | | Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn. | 1787 | | Small farmers in Springfield, Massachusetts led by Daniel Shays, revolt against tax laws. Federal troops break up the protesters of what becomes known as Shay's Rebellion. | 1846 | | The dreaded Corn Laws, which taxed imported oats, wheat and barley, are repealed by the British Parliament. | 1904 | | Two-hundred coal miners are trapped in their Pennsylvania mine after an explosion. | 1915 | | Alexander Graham Bell in New York and Thomas Watson in San Francisco make a record telephone transmission. | 1918 | | Austria and Germany reject U.S. peace proposals. | 1919 | | The League of Nations plan is adopted by the Allies. | 1929 | | Members of the New York Stock Exchange ask for an additional 275 seats. | 1930 | | New York police rout a Communist rally at the Town Hall. | 1943 | | The last German airfield in Stalingrad is captured by the Red Army. | 1949 | | Axis Sally, who broadcasted Nazi propaganda to U.S. troops in Europe, stands trial in the United States for war crimes. | 1951 | | The U.S. Eighth Army in Korea launches Operation Thunderbolt, a counter attack to push the Chinese Army north of the Han River. | 1955 | | Columbia University scientists develop an atomic clock that is accurate to within one second in 300 years. |
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26 Jan. 1699 | | The Treaty of Karlowitz ends the war between Austria and the Turks. | 1720 | | Guilio Alberoni is ordered out of Spain after his abortive attempt to restore his country's empire. | 1788 | | A fleet of ships carrying convicts from England lands at Sydney Cove in Australia. The day is since known as Australia's national day. | 1861 | | Louisiana secedes from the Union. | 1863 | | President Lincoln names General Joseph Hooker to replace Burnside as commander of the Army of the Potomac. | 1875 | | Pinkerton agents, hunting Jesse James, kill his 18-year-old half-brother and seriously injure his mother with a bomb. | 1885 | | General "Chinese" Gordon is killed on the palace steps in Khartoum by Sudanese Mahdists in Africa. | 1924 | | Petrograd is renamed Leningrad. | 1934 | | Germany signs a 10-year non-aggression pact with Poland, breaking the French alliance system. | 1942 | | American Expeditionary Force lands in Northern Ireland. |
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27 Jan. 1695 | | Mustafa II becomes the Ottoman sultan in Istanbul on the death of Amhed II. | 1825 | | Congress approves Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the "Trail of Tears." | 1862 | | President Abraham Lincoln issues General War Order No. 1, setting in motion the Union armies. | 1900 | | Foreign diplomats in Peking fear revolt and demand that the Imperial Government discipline the Boxer Rebels. | 1905 | | Russian General Kuropatkin takes the offensive in Manchuria. The Japanese under General Oyama suffer heavy casualties. | 1916 | | President Woodrow Wilson opens preparedness program. | 1918 | | Communists attempt to seize power in Finland. | 1924 | | Lenin's body is laid in a marble tomb on Red Square near the Kremlin. | 1935 | | A League of Nations majority favors depriving Japan of mandates. | 1939 | | President Franklin D. Roosevelt approves the sale of U.S. war planes to France. | 1941 | | The United States and Great Britain begin high-level military talks in Washington. |
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28 Jan. 28 | | The Roman Emperor Nerva names Trajan, an army general, as his successor. | 1547 | | Henry VIII of England dies and is succeeded by his nine-year-old son Edward VI. | 1757 | | Ahmed Shah, the first King of Afghanistan, occupies Delhi and annexes the Punjab. | 1792 | | Rebellious slaves in Santo Domingo launch an attack on the city of Cap. | 1871 | | Surrounded by Prussian troops and suffering from famine, the French army in Paris surrenders. During the siege, balloons were used to keep contact with the outside world. | 1915 | | The U.S. Coast Guard is founded to fight contraband trade and aid distressed vessels at sea. | 1915 | | The German navy attacks the U.S. freighter William P. Frye, loaded with wheat for Britain. | 1921 | | Albert Einstein startles Berlin by suggesting the possibility of measuring the universe. | 1932 | | The Japanese attack Shanghai, China, and declare martial law. | 1936 | | A fellow prison inmate slashes infamous kidnapper, Richard Loeb, to death. | 1941 | | French General Charles DeGaulle's Free French forces sack south Libya oasis. | 1945 | | Chiang Kai-shek renames the Ledo-Burma Road the Stilwell Road, in honor of General Joseph Stilwell. | 1955 | | The U.S. Congress passes a bill allowing mobilization of troops if China should attack Taiwan. | 1964 | | The Soviets down a U.S. jet over East Germany killing three. | 1970 | | Israeli fighter jets attack the suburbs of Cairo. | 1986 | | The space shuttle Challenger explodes just after liftoff. |
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