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MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 2013

Today is Monday, January 14, the 14th day of 2013. There are 351 days left in the year.1236 ― English king Henry III marries Eleonora of Provence 1690 ― Clarinet is invented, in Nuremberg, Germany 1699 ― Massachusetts holds day of fasting for wrongly persecuting ``witches” 1897 ― 6,960-meter (22,834-feet) Cerro Aconcagua (Argentina) first climbed 1900 ― Giacomo Puccini's opera ``Tosca” premieres in Rome 1914 ― Henry Ford introduces assembly line, for T-Fords 1953 ― Yugoslavia elects its first president (Marshal Tito) 1954 ― Marilyn Monroe marries baseball star, New York Yankee, Joe DiMaggio 1979 ― President Carter proposes Martin Luther King's birthday be a holiday 1989 ― 1,000 Muslims burn Rushdie’s' ``Satanic Verses” in Bradford, England

Jan 13, 2013

SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 2013

Today is Saturday, January 12, the 12th day of 2013. There are 353 days left in the year.1906 ― First time Dow Jones closes above 100 (100.26) 1948 ― Mohandas Mahatma Gandhi begins his final fast 1961 ― U.N. genocide pact goes into effect 1970 ― Biafran War ends, Biafra surrenders to Nigeria 1970 ― Boeing 747 makes its maiden voyage 1976 ― U.N. Security Council votes 11-1 to seat Palestine Liberation Organization 1990 ― Romania bans Communist party (first Warsaw Pact member to do so) 1991 ― U.S. Congress gives George Bush authority to wage war against Iraq 1995 ― Major earthquake kills 5,092 in Kobe, Japan 1995 ― Murder trial against OJ Simpson, begins in Los Angeles 

Jan 11, 2013

FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 2013

Today is Friday, January 11, the 11th day of 2013. There are 354 days left in the year.1569 ― First recorded lottery in England is drawn at St. Paul's Cathedral 1879 ― Zulu war against British colonial rule in South Africa begins 1892 ― Paul Gauguin marries a 13-year-old Tahitian girl 1922 ― Insulin first used to treat diabetes (Leonard Thompson, 14, of Canada) 1942 ― Japan conquers Kuala Lumpur, Malaya 1949 ― Snowfall first recorded in Los Angeles 1963 ― First discotheque opens, The Whiskey-a-go-go in Los Angeles, Calif. 1964 ― U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry reports that smoking may be hazardous 1972 ― East Pakistan becomes independent state of Bangladesh 1973 ― Trial of the Watergate burglars begins in Washington, D.C.  

Jan 10, 2013

THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 2013

Today is Thursday, January 10, the 10th day of 2013. There are 355 days left in the year.49 B.C. ― Julius Cesar crosses the Rubicon, invades Italy 1776 ―  ``Common Sense" by Thomas Paine, published 1810 ― French church annuls marriage of Napoleon I & Josephine 1839 ― Tea from India first arrives in U.K. 1863 ― First underground railway opens in London 1928 ― Soviet Union orders exile of Leon Trotsky 1946 ― U.N. General Assembly convenes for first time (London) 1990 ― China lifts martial law (imposed after Tiananmen Square massacre) 1991 ― Japan ends routine fingerprinting of all adult ethnic Koreans 1994 ― Trial of Lorena Bobbitt who cut off her husband's penis, begins 

Jan 9, 2013

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 2013

Today is Wednesday, January 9, the ninth day of 2013. There are 356 days left in the year.1349 ― 700 Jews of Basel, Switzerland, burned alive in their houses 1570 ― Tsar Ivan the terrible kills 1,000-2,000 residents of Novgorod 1945 ― U.S. soldiers led by General Douglas MacArthur invade Philippines 1953 ― Korean ferryboat ``Changkyeong-Ho” sank off Pusan killing 249 1956 ― Abigail Van Buren's "Dear Abby" column  first appears in newspapers 1965 ― ``Beatles' '65” album goes No. 1 and stays No. 1 for nine weeks 1977 ― ``Porgy & Bess” closes at Uris Theater New York City, N.Y., after 122 performances 1998 ― Anatoly Solovyov and Pavel Vinogradov spacewalk record three hours and eight minutes1998 ― Decapitated head of Danish Little Mermaid is returned 1998 ― Hockey News selects Wayne Gretzky best NHL player ever

Jan 8, 2013

TUESDAY, JANUARY 8, 2013

Today is Tuesday, January 8, the eighth day of 2013. There are 357 days left in the year.1656 ― Oldest surviving commercial newspaper begins (Haarlem, Netherlands) 1790 ― George Washington delivers first State of the Union address 1867 ― Legislation gives suffrage to D.C. blacks, despite President Johnson's veto 1956 ― Elvis Presley's ``Don't Be Cruel/Hound Dog" single goes to No. 1 and stays No. 1 for a record 11 weeks (for a single)1958 ― Cuban revolutionary forces capture Havana 1959 ― Charles de Gaulle inaugurated as President of France's 5th Republic 1964 ― President Lyndon B. Johnson declares ``War on Poverty" 1973 ― Secret peace talks between U.S. and North Vietnam resumed near Paris 1996 ― For first time in 25 years, no one is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 1998 ― World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Ahmed Yousef sentenced to life

Jan 7, 2013

MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 2013

Today is Monday, January 7, the seventh day of 2013. There are 358 days left in the year.1610 ― Galileo discovers first three Jupiter satellites, Io, Europa and Ganymede 1618 ― Francis Bacon becomes English lord chancellor 1789 ― First national (Presidential) election in U.S. 1890 ― W. B. Purvis patents fountain pen 1911 ― First airplane bombing experiments with explosives, San Francisco 1923 ― Baltimore Sun warns of Ku Klux Klan 1953 ― President Truman announces development of the hydrogen bomb 1975 ― Led Zeppelin fans riot before Boston concert, causing $30,000 damage 1979 ― Vietnamese forces capture Phnom Penh from Khmer Rouge 1989 ― Akihito becomes emperor of Japan 

Jan 6, 2013

SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 2013

Today is Saturday, January 5, the fifth day of 2013. There are 360 days left in the year.1709 ― Sudden extreme cold kills thousands of Europeans 1825 ― Alexandre Dumas pare fights his first duel; his pants fall down 1895 ― French Captain Alfred Dreyfus, convicted of treason, publicly stripped of his rank; later declared innocent 1930 ― Mao Tse-tung writes ``A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire" 1956 ― Elvis Presley records ``Heartbreak Hotel" 1961 ― U.S. breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba 1971 ― U.S. heavyweight Sonny Liston's (36) corpse found 1976 ― Cambodia is renamed ``Democratic Kampuchea"1988 ― Austrian President Waldheim's war record investigated 1998 ― Vandals decapitate Copenhagen's Little Mermaid 

Jan 4, 2013

FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 2013

Today is Friday, January 4, the fourth day of 2013. There are 361 days left in the year.1863 ― Four- wheeled roller skates patented by James Plimpton of N.Y. 1887 ― Thomas Stevens is first man to bicycle around the world (San Francisco-San Francisco); 21,700km 1907 ― George Bernard Shaw's ``Don Juan in Hell" premieres in London 1936 ― Billboard magazine publishes its first music hit parade 1943 ― Thomas Mann completes his tetralogy, ``Joseph & His Brothers" 1951 ― During Korean War, North Korean forces captured Seoul 1957 ― ``Blondie" situation comedy premieres on NBC TV (later on CBS) 1965 ― LBJ's `Great Society" State of the Union Address 1968 ― Leo Fender sells Fender Guitars for $13 million 1980 ― President Carter announces U.S. boycott of Moscow Olympics

Jan 3, 2013

THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 2013

Today is Thursday, January 3, the third day of 2013. There are 362 days left in the year.1431 ― Joan of Arc handed over to the bishop 1521 ― Martin Luther excommunicated by Roman Catholic Church 1833 ― Britain seizes control of Falkland Islands in South Atlantic 1868 ― Meiji Restoration returns authority to Japan's emperors 1888 ― First wax drinking straw patented, by Marvin C. Stone in Washington, D.C. 1925 ― Mussolini dissolves Italian parliament/becomes dictator 1977 ― Apple Computer incorporated 1987 ― Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducts first female artist Aretha Franklin 1988 ― Margaret Thatcher becomes longest-serving British P.M. this century performances 1998 ― Grandpa Jones suffers a stroke

Jan 2, 2013

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