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Post by Tamrin on Jan 10, 2009 7:16:56 GMT 10
10 January0049 - BC- Julius Cesar crosses the Rubicon, invades Italy 1429 - Order of the Golden Fleece established in Austria-Hungary & Spain 1776 - "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine, published 1878 - US Senate proposes female suffrage 1883 - Birthday of Aleksei Tolstoi, Russian poet/writer (Pjotr Peroyj) 1966 - Julian Bond denied seat in Georgia legislature for opposing Vietnam War 1993 - Noorjahan Begum, "adulterous" wife in Bangladesh, stoned to death
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 11, 2009 6:34:25 GMT 10
11 January(Switzerland: Meitlisunntig Festival-Woman in Villmergen War, 1712) 1672 - Isaac Newton is elected a member of Royal Society 1813 - 1st pineapples planted in Hawaii 1885 - Birthday of Alice Paul ERA advocate/founder (National Woman's Party) 1922 - Insulin 1st used to treat diabetes (Leonard Thompson, 14, of Canada) 1923 - French & Belgian troops occupy Ruhr to collect reparations 1961 - Racial riot at University of Georgia 1994 - John Bradley raised US flag at Iwo Jima, dies at 70  Raising the flag on Iwo Jimaby Joe Rosenthal, The Associated Press(possibly the most reproduced photograph of all time)
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 12, 2009 5:24:25 GMT 10
12 January1729 - Birthday of Edmund Burke, British author (Philosophy & Inquiry) 1863 - Birthday of Vivekananda, Calcutta, Hindu religious leader/reformer 1879 - British Zulu War begins Lieutenant-General Chelmsford invades Zululand 1952 - University of Tennessee admits its 1st black student 1960 - Nevil Shute [Norway] English/Australian author (Town like Alice), dies at 60 1976 - Agatha Christie mystery writer (10 Little Indians), dies at 85 1997 - HAL becomes operational (2001: A Space Odyssey)
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 13, 2009 6:31:22 GMT 10
13 January1559 - Elizabeth I crowned queen of England in Westminster Abbey 1691 - George Fox, founder of Quakers, dies at 66 1874 - US troops land in Honolulu to protect the king 1898 - Emile Zola publishes his open letter (J'accuse) in defense of Captain Alfred Dreyfus in Paris 1929 - Wyatt Earp, US marshall (OK Corral), dies at 80 1966 - Birthday of Tabitha Stevens, fictional character (Bewitched) 1987 - 7 top New York Mafia bosses sentenced to 100 years in prison each
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 14, 2009 6:18:29 GMT 10
14 January1601 - Church authorities burn Hebrew books in Rome 1699 - Massachusetts holds day of fasting for wrongly persecuting "witches" 1875 - Birthday of Albert Schweitzer doctor/humanitarian/organist (Nobel 1952) 1878 - US Supreme court rules race separation on trains unconstitutional 1892 - Birthday of Martin Niemöller, clergyman (German Protestant); imprisoned by Hitler 1898 - Reverend Charles L Dodgson better known as Lewis Carroll, dies at 66 1963 - George C Wallace sworn in as Governor of Alabama, his address states "segregation now; segregation tomorrow; segregation forever!"
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 15, 2009 6:17:51 GMT 10
15 January(Japan: Adults Day/Seijin-No-Hi) 1535 - Henry VIII declares himself head of English Church 1873 - Birthday of Max Adler, Austria sociologist/socialist theorist 1919 - 2 million gallons of molasses "Tidal wave" Boston MA, drowning 21 1929 - Birthday of Rev. Dr Martin Luther King Jr., Atlanta GA, dreamer (Nobel 1964) 1934 - 8.4 earthquake in India/Nepal, 10,700 die 1951 - "Cloud of Death" rolls down Mount Lamington, New Guinea kills 3-5,000 1973 - President Nixon suspends all US offensive action in North Vietnam
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 16, 2009 6:09:35 GMT 10
16 January1581 - English parliament passes laws against Catholicism 1794 - Edward Gibbon historian (Decline & Fall), dies in London at 56 1909 - British explorer Ernest Shackleton finds magnetic south pole 1920 - 18th Amendment, prohibition, becomes the law of the land [U.S.] ... it is repealed in 1933 1961 - Russian espionage ring detected in Great Britain 1979 - Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi of Iran flees Iran for Egypt 1991 - Operation Desert Storm begins - US & 27 allies attack Iraq for occupying Kuwait
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 17, 2009 8:47:32 GMT 10
17 January1562 - Edict of St Germain recognizes the Huguenots in France 1706 - Birthday of Benjamin Franklin, Boston, kite flyer/statesman/wit/inventor 1775 - 9 old women burnt as witches for causing bad harvests, Kalisk, Poland 1893 - Queen Liliuokalani deposed, Kingdom of Hawaii becomes a republic 1942 - Birthday of Muhammad Ali [Cassius Clay], heavyweight champ boxer (1964-7 74-8) 1948 - Trial of 11 US Communist party members begins in New York City NY 1979 - Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi flees Iran
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 18, 2009 6:51:15 GMT 10
18 January1778 - Captain James Cook stumbles over Sandwich Islands (Hawaiian Islands) 1849 - Birthday of Sir Edmund Barton, 1st PM of Australia (1900-03) 1882 - Birthday of Sylvia Pankhurst, English feminist 1936 - Rudyard Kipling, author (Gunga Din, Nobel 1907), dies in Burwash England at 70 1943 - Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto begin resistance of Nazis 1993 - Martin Luther King Jr holiday observed in all 50 states for 1st time 1995 - Pope John Paul II begins visit to Australia
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 19, 2009 6:13:45 GMT 10
19 January(US: Martin Luther King Jr Day) (Southern US: Robert E Lee Day) 0570 - Birthday of Mohammed, Islamic prophet (Koran) 1736 - Birthday of James Watt, Scotland, inventor (steam engine) 1871 - 1st Negro lodge of US Masons approved, New Jersey1920 - US Senate votes against membership in League of Nations 1942 - Titus Brandsma (Carmelite priest), arrested by German occupiers for speaking out against Nazism as a "lie" and "pagan" 1966 - Indira Gandhi elected India's 3rd prime minister 1977 - World's largest crowd -12.7 million-for Indian religious festival
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