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MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 2014

Today is Monday, January 27, the 27th day of 2014. There are 338 days left in the year.1302 ― Dante becomes a Florentine political exile 1880 ― Thomas Edison patents electric incandescent lamp 1916 ― Communist party “Spartacus Letters" first published in Berlin 1918 ― “Tarzan of the Apes," first Tarzan film, premieres at Broadway Theater 1924 ― Lenin placed in Mausoleum in Red Square1945 ― Russia liberates Auschwitz and Birkenau Concentration Camp (Poland) 1973 ― U.S. and Vietnam sign ceasefire, ending longest U.S. war and military draft 1983 ― World’s longest subaqueous tunnel (53.90 km) opens, Honshu-Hokkaido 1990 ― Dissolution of Polish Communist Party 1996 ― Germany celebrates its first Holocaust Remembrance Day

Jan 26, 2014

SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 2014

Today is Saturday, January 25, the 25th day of 2014. There are 340 days left in the year. 1533 ― England’s King Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn (approximate date) 1579 ― Treaty of Utrecht signed, marks beginning of Dutch Republic 1858 ― Mendelssohn’s “Wedding March" first played, at wedding of Queen Victoria’s daughter Princess Victoria, to crown prince of Prussia 1918 ― Russia declared a republic of Soviets 1919 ― Founding of League of Nations, first meeting one year later 1924 ― First Winter Olympic games open in Chamonix, France 1951 ― U.N. begins counter offensive in Korea 1964 ― Beatles first U.S. No. 1, “I Want to Hold your Hand” (Cashbox) 1974 ― South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard transplanted the first human heart without removal of the old one 1985 ― “We are the World” is recorded  

Jan 24, 2014

FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 2014

Today is Friday, January 24, the 24th day of 2014. There are 341 days left in the year. 1568 ― In the Netherlands, Duke of Alva declares William of Orange an outlaw 1679 ― King Charles II disbands English parliament 1722 ― Czar Peter the Great begins civil system 1913 ― Franz Kafka stops working on “Amerika”; it will never be finished 1924 ― Mussolini disallows non-fascists work union 1935 ― First canned beer, “Krueger Cream Ale,” is sold by Kruger Brewing Co. in Richmond, Va. 1943 ― Hitler orders Nazi troops at Stalingrad to fight to death 1984 ― Apple Computer Inc. unveils its Macintosh personal computer 1989 ― First reported case of AIDS transmitted by heterosexual oral sex1990 ― Japanese MUSES-A (Hiten) launched toward moon

Jan 23, 2014

THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 2014

Today is Thursday, January 23, the 23rd day of 2014. There are 342 days left in the year. 638 ― Start of Islamic calendar 1265 ― First English Parliament formally convened (some authorities) 1556 ― Most deadly earthquake kills 830,000 in Shansi Province, China 1962 ― Libya, Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia plan to form United Arab Maghreb 1968 ― Spy ship USS Pueblo and 83-man crew seized in East Sea by North Korea 1969 ― Cream releases their last album “Goodbye” 1973 ― President Nixon announces an accord has been reach to end the Vietnam War 1986 ― First induction of Rock ‘N’ Roll Hall of Fame (Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Domino, Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley) 1987 ― Japan first exceeds military spending cap of 1 percent of GNP ($23 billion) 1998 ― Pope John Paul II condemns U.S. embargo against Cuba 

Jan 22, 2014

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 2014

Today is Wednesday, January 22, the 22nd day of 2014. There are 343 days left in the year. 1771 ― Spain cedes the Falkland Islands to Britain 1905 ― “Bloody Sunday”; Russian demonstrators fired on by tsarist troops 1939 ― Uranium atom first split, Columbia University 1951 ― Fidel Castro ejected from a Winter League game after beaning batter 1953 ― Arthur Miller’s “Crucible” premieres in New York City 1970 ― First commercial Boeing 747 flight (Pan Am), New York to London in 6 hours 1980 ― Dissidents Andrei Sacharov and Jelena Bonner banished to Gorki1982 ― Up to 75 percent of North America is covered by snow 1992 ― Princess Sarah Ferguson wears paper bag over her head on airline ride 1994 ― 51st Golden Globes “Schindler's List,” Steven Spielberg

Jan 21, 2014

TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2014

Today is Tuesday, January 21, the 21st day of 2014. There are 344 days left in the year. 1077 ― German King Heinrich IV petitions Pope Gregory VII for forgiveness 1189 ― Philip II, Henry II and Richard Lion-Hearted initiate third Crusade 1799 ― Edward Jenner’s smallpox vaccination is introduced 1903 ― “Wizard of Oz” premieres in New York City 1919 ― Sinn Fein proclaims parliament of Free Ireland 1966 ― Beatle George Harrison marries model Patti Boyd 1976 ― Supersonic Concorde, first commercial flights, by Britain and France 1977 ― President Jimmy Carter pardons almost all Vietnam War draft evaders 1977 ― Italy legalizes abortion 1978 ― Bee Gees’ “Saturday Night Fever” album goes No. 1 for 24 weeks 

Jan 20, 2014

MONDAY, JANUARY 20, 2014

Today is Monday, January 20, the 20th day of 2014. There are 345 days left in the year. 820 ― Book of mother, published 1265 ― First English Parliament called into session by Earl of Leicester 1841 ― China cedes Hong Kong to the British 1925 ― USSR and Japan sign treaty of Peking, Seychelles back to USSR 1945 ― FDR sworn-in for an unprecedented fourth term as President 1970 ― Super Fight, computer mock championship between Ali and Marciano 1980 ― President Jimmy Carter announces U.S. boycott of Olympics in Moscow 1981 ― 52 Americans held hostage in Iran for 444 days freed 1995 ― 1994-95 NHL Season begin after a lengthy strike 1995 ― Russian ruble drops to 3,947 per dollar (record) 

Jan 19, 2014

SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 2014

Today is Saturday, January 18, the 18th day of 2014. There are 347 days left in the year. 1871 ― Second German Empire proclaimed by Kaiser Wilhelm I and Bismarck 1896 ― First demonstration of an x-ray machine in the U.S., New York City 1934 ― Eugene O'Neill's “Days Without End” premieres in NYC 1944 ― First Chinese naturalized U.S. citizen since repeal of exclusion acts 1951 ― First use of lie detector in Netherlands 1960 ― U.S. and Japan sign joint defense treaty 1962 ― U.S. begins spraying foliage in Vietnam to reveal Viet Cong guerrillas 1974 ― “The $6 Million Man” starring Lee Majors premieres on ABC TV 1989 ― Otis Redding, Dion, Rolling Stones, Temptations and Stevie Wonder inducted into Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 1993 ― Martin Luther King Jr. holiday observed in all 50 states for first time

Jan 17, 2014

FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 2014

Today is Friday, January 17, the 17th day of 2014. There are 348 days left in the year.1773 ― Captain James Cook becomes first to cross Antarctic Circle   1775 ― Nine old women burnt as witches for causing bad harvests, Kalisk, Poland 1861 ― Flush toilet (with separate water tank and a pull chain) patented by  Thomas Crapper (Honest!) 1871 ― First cable car patented, by Andrew S. Hallidie (begins service in 1873) 1929 ― Popeye makes first appearance, in comic strip “Thimble Theatre” 1945 ― Auschwitz concentration camp begins evacuation 1951 ― China refuses ceasefire in Korea 1969 ― Debut album of Led Zeppelin released in U.S. 1990 ― Who, Simon & Garfunkel, Four Seasons, Four Tops, Hank Ballard, Platters & Kinks inducted into Cleveland’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 1995 ― 7.2 earthquake destroys Kobe Japan (5,372 die)

Jan 16, 2014

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 2013

Today is Wednesday, August 7, the 219th day of 2013. There are 146 days left in the year.1498 ― Columbus arrives in Caribbean 1620 ― Kepler’s mother arrested for witchcraft 1934 ― U.S. Court of Appeals upheld lower court ruling striking down government’s attempt to ban controversial James Joyce novel “Ulysses” 1940 ― Largest amount paid for a stamp ($45,000 for one made in British Guiana in 1856) 1964 ― U.S. Congress approves Gulf of Tonkin resolution 1970 ― Four, including presiding judge, killed in courthouse shootout in San Rafael, Calif.1983 ― First World Track & Field Championships 1984 ― Japan beats U.S. for Olympic gold medal in baseball 1988 ― Writers guild end their six- month strike 1990 ― Saudi Arabia allows U.S. troops on their soil to stop an Iraqi invasion 

Aug 6, 2013

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