TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 2021

On this day...

1804-Ohio legislature passes 1st laws restricting free blacks movement

1809-Treaty of Dardanelles concluded between Britain & France

1822-Central America proclaims annexation to Mexican Empire

1825-Alexandre Dumas pare fights his first duel; his pants fall down

1850-California Exchange opens

1887-First US school of librarianship opens at Columbia University

1903-San Francisco-Hawaii telegraph cable opens for public use

1905-National Association of Audubon Society incorporates

1909-Colombia recognizes Panama's independence

1911-Portuguese expel Jesuits

1933-Work on Golden Gate Bridge begins, on Marin County side

1961-US breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba

1969-Neville Williams' "Chronology of the Expanding World" completed

1972-President Nixon signs a bill for NASA to begin research on manned shuttle

1972-West-Pakistani sheik Mujib ur-Rahman freed

1993-Reggie Jackson elected to Hall of Fame

1998-Vandals decapitate Copenhagen's Little Mermaid

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