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Post by Tamrin on Jan 20, 2009 5:42:29 GMT 10
20 January( U.S. Presidential inauguration) 1569 - Miles Coverdale, English bible translator Great bible, dies at 80 1807 - Napoleon convenes the great Sanhedrin, Paris 1820 - Birthday of Anne Jemima Clough, England, promoted higher education for women 1891 - David Kalakahua, emperor of Hawaii, dies 1910 - Birthday of Joy Adamson, naturalist/author (Born Free) 1939 - Hitler proclaims to German parliament to exterminate all European Jews 1948 - Mahatma Gandhi, India's pacifist, assassinated
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 21, 2009 6:03:06 GMT 10
21 January1189 - Philip II, Henry II & Richard Lion-Hearted initiate 3rd Crusade 1793 - Louis XVI French king (1774-93), beheaded by revolutionaries at 38 1840 - Birthday of Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake, pioneer English woman physician 1903 - "Wizard of Oz" [play] premieres in New York City NY 1908 - New York City NY regulation makes it illegal for a woman to smoke in public 1924 - Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin, Russian leader, dies of a stroke at 54 1954 - 1st atomic submarine, USS Nautilus, launched on Thames River...
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 22, 2009 6:07:37 GMT 10
22 January 1561 - Birthday of Francis Bacon, England, statesman/essayist (Novum Organum) 1814 - 1st Knights Templar grand encampment in US held, New York City NY1858 - Birthday of Betrice Potter Webb, England, economist [labour historian, with her husband, Sidney] 1881 - Ancient Egyptian obelisk "Cleopatra's Needle" erected in Central Park 1901 - Victoria [Alexandrine], Britain's Queen (1837-1901), dies at 81 1941 - British/Australian troops capture Tobruk from Italians 1953 - Arthur Miller's "Crucible" premieres in New York City NY
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Post by maximus on Jan 23, 2009 1:44:34 GMT 10
1561 - Birthday of Francis Bacon, England, statesman/essayist (Novum Organum)
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 23, 2009 6:00:00 GMT 10
23 January 1647 - Scottish Presbyterians sell captured Charles I to English parliament 1849 - Mrs Elizabeth Blackwell becomes 1st woman physician in US 1875 - Charles Kingsley, English vicar/writer (Westward Ho! [Hypatia]), dies at 55 1883 - Gustave Doré French illustrator, dies at 51 1907 - Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes 1st Native American US senator 1962 - British spy Kim Philby defects to USSR 1989 - Salvador Dalí, Spanish Surrealist painter, dies in Spain at 84  Melencolia
Gustave Doré
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 24, 2009 8:17:41 GMT 10
24 January0041 - Caligula [G C Germanicus], Roman emperor (37-41), assassinated at 28 1679 - King Charles II disbands English parliament 1712 - Birthday of Frederick II (the Great), king of Prussia (1740-86) 1839 - Charles Darwin elected member of Royal Society 1941 - British troops march into Abyssinia 1943 - Jewish patients/nurses/doctors incinerated at Auschwitz-Birkenau 1965 - Winston Churchill, PM of Britain (C) (1940-45, 51-55), dies at 90
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 25, 2009 8:58:00 GMT 10
25 January1627 - Birthday of Robert Boyle, Ireland, physicist/chemist/author (experiments with color) 1759 - Birthday of Robert Burns, Alloway Scotland, poet (Auld Lang Syne)1851 - Sojourner Truth addresses 1st Black Women's Rights Convention (Akron) 1890 - Nellie Bly beats Phileas Fogg's time around world by 8 days (72 days) 1918 - Russia declared a republic of Soviets 1947 - Al Capone, Chicago gangster, dies of syphilis at 48 1981 - 52 Americans held hostage by Iran for 444 days arrived back in US
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 26, 2009 6:35:51 GMT 10
26 January (Australia Day) (Chinese New Year) 1788 - Captain Arthur Phillip forms English colony at Sydney, Botany Bay N.S.W. as a penal colony 1841 - Hong Kong proclaimed a sovereign territory of Britain 1871 - US income tax repealed 1885 - Charles George Gordon British Governor-General, executed, ... Khartoum at 51 1887 - Battle of Dogali Abyssinian Emperor John IV defeats Italians 1950 - India becomes a republic ceasing to be a British dominion 1988 - Australia's 200th anniversary-parade of tall ships in Sydney Harbor
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 27, 2009 5:10:01 GMT 10
27 January1556 - Willem of Orange becomes knight of Guilder Flies 1593 - Vatican opens 7 year trial against scholar Giordano Bruno 1832 - Birthday of Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], author (Alice in Wonderland) 1880 - Thomas Edison patents electric incandescent lamp 1888 - National Geographic Society organizes (Washington DC) 1973 - US & Vietnam sign cease-fire, ending longest US war & military draft 1986 - L Ron Hubbard, novelist/founder (Church of Scientology), dies at 74
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 28, 2009 5:18:00 GMT 10
28 January0814 - Charlemagne, German emperor/Roman Emperor (800-814), dies at 71 1547 - Henry VIII, King of England (1509-47), dies at 55 1561 - By Edict of Orleans persecution of French Huguenots is suspended 1858 - John Brown organized raid on Arsenal at Harper's Ferry 1903 - Birthday of Dame Kathleen Lonsdale, crystallographer (1st woman in Royal Society) 1909 - Birthday of Lionel KP "Buster" Crabb, British diver (WWII-George Medal) 1986 - 25th Space Shuttle (51L)-Challenger 10 explodes 73 seconds after liftoff
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