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1863 - The
Emancipation Proclamation, freeing
slaves in rebellious states, was issued by U.S. President
Abraham Lincoln. 1959 - Fidel Castro came to power in Cuba. 2002 - The euro entered circulation in the European Union. NEW YEAR'S DAY |
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1788 -
Georgia became a state. 1905 - The Russo-Japanese War ended. |
| 3 |
1521 - Martin Luther, German leader of the
Protestant Reformation, was excommunicated by the Roman Catholic
Church. 1959 - Alaska became a state. |
| 4 |
1896 -
Utah became a state. 1948 - Myanmar (Burma) became independent. 2007 - Nancy Pelosi (Democrat, California) became the first female Speaker of the House. |
| 5 | 1914 - Henry Ford started the $5-per-day wage. |
| 6 |
1540 - Anne of Cleves and England's King Henry
VIII were married. 1759 - Martha Custis and George Washington were married. 1912 - New Mexico became a state. |
| 7 | 1989 - Japan's Emperor Hirohito died. |
| 8 | 1964 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announced his War on Poverty. |
| 9 | 1788 - Connecticut became a state. |
| 10 | 1776 - Thomas Paine's Common Sense was published. |
| 11 | 1964 - The U.S. Surgeon General issued the first government report on the dangers of smoking. |
| 12 | 1998 - The cloning of humans was banned in 19 European nations. |
| 13 | 1941 - Irish writer James Joyce (Finnegan's Wake; Ulysses) died in Zurich, Switzerland. |
| 14 | 2008 - Bobby Jindal of Louisiana became the first Indian-American governor in the United States. |
| 15 |
1559 - Coronation of England's Queen
Elizabeth
I. 1759 - The British Museum opened. 1967 - The first Super Bowl was held. In it, the Green Bay Packers beat the Kansas City Chiefs, 35 to 10. |
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1547 - Coronation of Russia's Ivan the
Terrible. 1883 - The United States Civil Service Commission was established. |
| 17 |
1893 - Queen Liliuokalani of
Hawaii was forced
to abdicate. 1991 - Operation Desert Storm was launched, following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. |
| 18 | 1778 - Captain James Cook reached the Sandwich Islands (now known as Hawaii). |
| 19 | 1953 - Baby Ricky was born on the popular television program I Love Lucy. |
| 20 |
1841 - The British gained control of
Hong Kong. 1942 - The Wannsee Conference established Nazi Germany's "Final Solution" for eradicating Jews. |
| 21 | 1793 - France's King Louis XVI died on the guillotine in Paris, France. |
| 22 | 1905 - Bloody Sunday occurred in St. Petersburg, Russia. |
| 23 |
1556 - The world's deadliest recorded
earthquake struck Shansi, China, killing over 800,000 people. 1789 - Georgetown University was established. 1964 - The 24th Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified. |
| 24 |
41 C.E. - Emperor Caligula of
ancient Rome was
assassinated. 1848 - Gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill in California, sparking the California gold rush. |
| 25 |
1890 - The United Mine Workers of America was
founded. 1924 - The first ever Winter Olympics opened in Chamonix, France. |
| 26 |
1788 - The first group of settlers reached
Sydney,
Australia, from Europe. 1837 - Michigan became a state. |
| 27 |
1880 - A patent was granted for
Thomas Alva
Edison's incandescent lightbulb. 1945 - The Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated by Russian forces (World War II). |
| 28 | 1915 - Congress established the United States Coast Guard. |
| 29 |
1845 - The Raven, by Edgar Allan Poe,
was published. 1861 - Kansas became a state. |
| 30 |
1649 - England's King
Charles I was beheaded. 1948 - Mohandas Gandhi, the leading figure of India's independence movement, was assassinated. |
| 31 | 1606 - Guy Fawkes was executed in England. |
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