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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, 2013

Today is Wednesday, January 2, the second day of 2013. There are 363 days left in the year.1776 ― Austria ends interrogation torture 1790 ― Mozart's opera ``Cosi fan tutti" premieres, Vienna 1882 ― Because of anti-monopoly laws, Standard Oil is organized as a trust 1942 ― Japanese troops occupy Manila, Philippines 1947 ― Mahatma Gandhi begins march for peace in East-Bengal 1958 ― Dmitri Shostakovich's 2nd Piano concert, premieres in N.Y.1959 ― Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista flees1965 ― Martin Luther King Jr. begins a drive to register black voters 1974 ― Worst fire in Argentine history destroys 1.2 million acres1995 ― Most distant galaxy yet discovered found by scientists using Keck telescope in Hawaii (estimated 15 billion light years away)

Jan 1, 2013

MONDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2012

Today is Monday, December 31, the last day of 2012. There are no days left in the year.1687 ― First Huguenots depart France to Cape of Good Hope 1762 ― Mozart family moves from Vienna to Salzburg 1879 ― Edison gives first public demonstration of his incandescent lamp 1907 ― G. Mahler conducts the Metropolitan Opera 1910 ― U.S. tobacco industry produced 9 billion cigarettes in 1910 1911 ― Marie Curie receives her second Nobel Prize 1945 ― Ratification of U.N. Charter completed 1978 ― Taiwan's final day of diplomatic relations with the U.S. 1984 ― U.S. leaves UNESCO 1999 ― Control of Panama Canal reverts to Panama

Dec 30, 2012

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2012

Today is Saturday, December 29, the 364th day of 2012. There are two days left in the year.1851 ― First Young Men's Christian Association chapter opened (Boston) 1862 ― Bowling ball invented 1885 ― Gottlieb Daimler patents first bike (Germany) 1891 ― Edison patents "transmission of signals electrically" (radio) 1920 ― Yugoslav government bans communist party1934 ― Japan renounces Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and London Treaty of 1930 1989 ― Vaclav Havel becomes President of Czechoslovakia 1989 ― Wayne Gretzky and Martina Navratilova are named athletes of the decade by the Associated Press 1997 ― Hong Kong begins slaughtering all its chickens to prevent bird flu 1997 ― Russia signs agreement to build a $3-billion nuclear power plant in China

Dec 28, 2012

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2012

Today is Friday, December 28, the 363rd day of 2012. There are three days left in the year.1065 ― Westminister Abbey opens in London 1732 ― First known ad for "Poor Richard's Almanack" (Pennsylvania Gazette) 1836 ― Spain recognizes independence of Mexico 1895 ― World's first movie theater opens in Paris 1950 ― Chinese troops cross 38th Parallel, into South Korea 1957 ― USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test1968 ― Beatles' "Beatles-The White Album" goes No. 1 and stays No. 1 for 9 weeks 1972 ― Kim Il-sung, becomes President of North Korea 1973 ― Alexander Solzhenitsyn publishes "Gulag Archipelago" 1991 ― Ted Turner is named Time Magazine Man of the Year 

Dec 27, 2012

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2012

Today is Thursday, December 27, the 362nd day of 2012. There are four days in the year.1825 ― First public railroad using steam locomotive completed in England 1831 ― Darwin begins his voyage to South America on board the HMS Beagle 1934 ― Shah of Persia declares Persia now Iran 1941 ― Japan bombs Manila even though it was declared an "open city"1942 ― First Japanese women camp (Ambarawa) goes into use 1945 ― International Monetary Fund established; World Bank founded1970 ― "Hello, Dolly!" closes at St. James Theater NYC after 2,844 performances 1972 ― New North Korean constitution comes into effect 1979 ― Soviet troops invade Afghanistan, President Hafizullah Amin overthrown1993 ― Dow-Jones hits record 3,792.93 

Dec 26, 2012

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 2012

Today is Wednesday, December 26, the 361st day of 2012. There are five days left in the year.1492 ― First Spanish settlement in New World founded, by Columbus 1831 ― Vincenzo Bellini's opera "Norma" premieres in Milan 1877 ― Socialist Labor Party of North America holds 1st national convention 1933 ― U.S. forswears armed intervention in the Western Hemisphere 1941 ― Winston Churchill becomes first British P.M. to address a joint meeting of Congress, warning that the Axis would "stop at nothing" 1944 ― Tennessee Williams' play "Glass Menagerie" premieres in Chicago 1963 ― Beatles release "I Want To Hold Your Hand"/"I Saw Her Standing There" 1968 ― Led Zeppelin's concert debut in Boston as opener for Vanilla Fudge 1973 ― "The Exorcist", starring Linda Blair and rated X, premieres 1982 ― TIME's Man of the Year is a computer

Dec 25, 2012

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 2012

Today is Tuesday, December 25, the 360th day of 2012. There are six days left in the year.1 ― First Christmas, according to calendar-maker Dionysus Exiguus 800 ― Pope Leo III crowns Charles the Great (Charlemagne), Roman emperor 1066 ― William the Conqueror, crowned king of England 1922 ― Lenin dictates his “Political testament” 1926 ― Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan (1926-1989) 1942 ― Russian artillery/tank battle on German armies at Stalingrad 1971 ― Worst hotel fire in history kills 163 at Daeyeongak Hotel in Seoul 1989 ― Japanese scientist achieves -271.8 degrees Celsius, coldest temp ever recorded 1990 ― “Godfather III” premieres 1997 ― For first time, U.S. movie box office receipts pass $6 billion 

Dec 24, 2012

MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2012

Today is Monday, December 24, the 359th day of 2012. There are seven days left in the year.1476 ― 400 Burgundy soldiers freeze to death during siege of Nancy 1818 ― "Silent Night" composed by Franz Joseph Gruber; sung for first time the next day 1865 ― Several Confederate veterans form the Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski, Tenn. 1870 ― Giusseppi Verdi's "Aida" premieres at Cairo Opera, one year after the opening of the Suez Canal, for which it was commissioned 1893 ― Henry Ford completes his first useful gas motor 1920 ― Enrico Caruso gives his last public performance (New York, N.Y.) 1943 ― FDR appoints General Eisenhower supreme commander of Allied forces 1948 ― First U.S. house completely sun-heated is occupied (Dover, Mass.)1968 ― Apollo 8 astronauts' Christmas reading (Book of Genesis) while orbiting Moon 1991 ― Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Soviet Union

Dec 23, 2012

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2012

Today is Saturday, December 22, the 257th day of 2012. There are nine days left in the year.1783 ― Washington resigns his military commission as U.S. Army's commander-in-chief 1882 ― First string of Christmas tree lights created by Thomas Edison 1894 ― French officer Alfred Dreyfus court-martialed for treason, triggers worldwide charges of anti-Semitism (Dreyfus later vindicated) 1941 ― Japan's invasion leader lands on Luzon, Philippines 1941 ― Tito establishes first Proletarian Brigade in Yugoslavia 1963 ― Official 30-day mourning period for President John F. Kennedy ends 1965 ― Director David Lean's "Dr Zhivago" premieres 1984 ― Madonna's "Like a Virgin" single goes No.1 for six weeks 1990 ― Lech Walesa sworn in as Poland's first popularly-elected president 1992 ― Libyan MIG-23UB attacks Boeing 727 at Souk al-Sabt, 158 die

Dec 21, 2012

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2012

Today is Friday, December 21, the 356th day of 2012. There are 10 days left in the year.1620 ― 103 Mayflower pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock 1898 ― Scientists Pierre & Marie Curie discover radium 1910 ― Explosion in coal mine in Hulton England, 344 mine workers dies 1913 ― First crossword puzzle (with 32 clues) printed in New York World 1925 ― Eisenstein's movie Potemkin premieres in Moscow 1958 ― Charles De Gaulle wins seven-year term as first President of 5th Republic of France 1976 ― U.N. General Assembly passes a resolution declaring 1979 as ``Year of Child” 1989 ― Romania's dictator Nicolae Ceausescu's final speech (he is executed 12/25) 1991 ― Soviet Union formally dissolves 11 of 12 republics sign treaty forming Commonwealth of Independent States 1991 ― U.S. actress Jane Fonda marries CNN President Ted Turner 

Dec 20, 2012

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