Sunday, August 22, 2010

Important events of all days in january?

Please tell me where can I find a comprehensive list of inventions, events or happenings in January

Important events of all days in january?
January 1











•Paul Revere was born in Boston, 1735








•Flag maker Betsy Ross was born in Philadelphia, 1752








•Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, 1863


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•Ellis Island Immigrant Station in New York formally opened, 1892





January 2











•Georgia entered the Union (4th), 1788








•First Lady Helen Taft was born, 1861


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•United States %26amp; Canada reached free trade agreement, 1988





January 3





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•First Lady Grace Coolidge was born, 1879








•Alaska entered Union, 1959 (49th)








•United States planes shot down two Libyan fighters, 1989








•General Manuel Noreiga surrendered in Panama, 1990





January 4











•Utah entered the Union, 1896 (45th)








•United States Supreme Court ruled that citizens of Puerto Rico were not aliens,1904








•United States planes shot down two Libyan fighters, 1989





January 5











•Union %26amp; Confederate troops skirmish near Hancock, Maryland, 1862








•President Calvin Coolidge died, 1933





January 6











•New Mexico entered Union, 1912 (47th)








•President Theodore Roosevelt died, 1919





January 7











•Galileo Galilei sighted four of Jupiter's moons., 1610








•The first presidential election was held, 1789








•President Millard Fillmore was born, 1800








•First Lady Lou Hoover died, 1944





January 8











•United States forces led by General Andrew Jackson defeated the British in the Battle of New Orleans, ending the War of 1812, 1814








•First Lady Mary McElroy died, 1917








•Singer Elvis Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, 1935





January 9











•Connecticut entered Union, 1788 (5th)








•Mississippi seceded from the Union, 1861








•President Richard M. Nixon was born, 1913





January 10








•Thomas Paine's Common Sense was published, 1776








London's Metropolitan; World's first underground railway, opened to the public, 1863











•The League of Nations established 1920








•The Holocaust began, 1933





January 11











•Alexander Hamilton, the first Secretary of the Treasury was born, 1757








•Alabama seceded from the Union, 1861








•Major League Baseball (American League) adopted the designated-hitter rule, 1973





January 12











•Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I died, 1519








•The Alamo, a Franciscan Mission, was built, 1722








•The first public museum in United States (South Carolina) established, 1773





January 13











•Hood resigned as commander of the Army of Tennessee, 1865








•Hubert H. Humphrey, former vice president, died in Waverly, Minnesota at age 66, 1978








•Air Florida jet crashed in Washington, D.C., 1982








•The Beatles US album Yellow Submarine was released, 1969





January 14











•The first constitution of Connecticut "The Fundamental Orders" was adopted, 1639








•Congress ratified the Treaty of Paris formally, 1784








•Henry Ford introduced assembly line, 1914








•NBC's "Today" show premiered, 1952





January 15











•Queen Elizabeth I crowned, 1559








•First Lady Eliza Johnson died, 1876








•Martin Luther King, Jr., was born 1929








•First Super Bowl held, 1967





January 16











•United States Civil Service was established, 1883








•United States Prohibition began, 1920








•General Eisenhower took command of Allied Invasion Force in London, 1944








•"Hello Dolly!"" opened on Broadway, 1964





January 17











•Thomas Jefferson's daughter, Martha, gave birth to James Madison Randolph, the first child born in the White House, 1806








•President Rutherford B. Hayes died, 1893








•Brink's Inc. reported robbery of $2.8 million, 1950








•The Beatles UK album Yellow Submarine was released, 1969





January 18











•President John Tyler died, 1862








•White males, age 18-50 (later changed to 17-50), conscripted into Southern Army, 1864





January 19











•Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, 1809








•Georgia seceded from the Union, 1861








•First presidential news conference filmed for television with permission of President Eisenhower, 1955





January 20








•Pearl Harbor leased by the United States from Hawaii for naval station,1887








•Nazi officials held the "Wannsee Conference" 1942








•Iran released 52 American hostages, 1981








•Martin Luther King Day first observed, 1986








•The Beatles US album Meet The Beatles was released, 1964





January 21











•First atomic submarine, the Nautilus, was launched, 1954








•President James Carter pardoned Vietnam draft evaders, 1977





January 22











•President Lyndon B. Johnson died, 1973








•Vietnam peace agreement signed by United States, North and South Vietnam, and the Vietcong, 1973








•United States Supreme Court's Roe vs. Wade decision, 1973





January 23











•Georgetown University was established, 1789








•First State Bureau of Labor in United States organized in Massachusetts, 1870








•USS Pueblo seized by North Koreans, 1968





January 24





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•Caligula, Emperor of Rome, died, A.D. 41








•Gold was discovered in California,1848








•First United States Congressional Medal of Honor awarded, 1894








•First Boy Scout troop organized in England by Robert Baden-Powell, 1908





January 25











•Shay's Rebellion failed, 1787








•First Emmy Awards held, 1949








•Charles Manson convicted of the 1969 murder of Sharon Tate and others, 1971





January 26








•First Lady Julia Grant was born, 1826








•Michigan entered Union, 1837 (26th)








•First American expeditionary force to go to Europe during WWII went ashore in Northern Ireland, 1942








•Virginia readmitted to the Union, 1870





January 27











•Thomas Edison received a patent for his electric incandescent lamp, 1880








•Apollo Astronauts Grissom, White %26amp; Chaffee killed in aircraft accident, 1967








•End of Military Draft announced, 1973








•The Vietnam War ended, 1973





January 28











•Henry VIII died, 1547








•First telephone exchange opened, 1878








•Space Shuttle Challenger exploded, 1986





January 29











•President William McKinley born, 1843








•Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven was published, 1845








•Kansas entered the Union, 1861 (34th)








•Editor-essayist H.L. Mencken died in Baltimore, Maryland, 1956





January 30








•President Franklin D. Roosevelt born, 1882








•Adolf Hitler becomes the chancellor of Germany, 1933








•Mohandas Gandhi assassinated, 1948








•Vietnam War "TET Offensive," began, 1968





January 31











•13th Amendment to the United States Constitution, abolishing slavery was submitted, 1865








•General Robert E. Lee named general-in-chief of all Confederate armies, 1865








•During WWII, Pvt. Eddie Slovik was the only American soldier since the Civil War to be executed for desertion, 1945
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