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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2012

Today is Wednesday, Jan 25, the 25th day of 2012. There are 341 days left in the year. 1802 ― Napoleon elected President of the Italian (Cisalpine) 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 1955 ― Columbia University scientists develop an atomic clock accurate to within one second in 300 years 1981 ― Mao's widow Jiang Qing sentenced to death 1989 ― Michael Jordan scores his 10,000th NBA point in his fifth season 1985 ― ``We are the World" is recorded

Jan 24, 2012

SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 2012

Today is Saturday, January 21, the 21st day of 2012. There are 345 days left in the year. 1077 ― German King Heinrich IV petitions Pope Gregory VII for forgiveness 1793 ― Prussia and Russia sign partition treaty (Poland divided) 1799 ― Edward Jenner's smallpox vaccination is introduced 1908 ― New York City regulation makes it illegal for a woman to smoke in public 1966 ― Beatle George Harrison marries model Patti Boyd 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 1979 ― Neptune becomes outermost planet (Pluto moves closer) 1986 ― 100 participate in Nude Olympics race in Indiana

Jan 20, 2012

FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 2012

Today is Friday, January 20, the 20th day of 2012. There are 346 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 1921 ― Turkey declared in remnants of the Ottoman Empire 1934 ― Japan sends Henry Pu Yi as regent to emperor of Manchuria 1939 ― Hitler proclaims to German parliament to exterminate all European Jews 1945 ― FDR sworn-in for an unprecedented fourth-term as president 1989 ― Reagan becomes first president elected in a ``0" year, since 1840, to leave office alive 1980 ― President Jimmy Carter announces U.S. boycott of Olympics in Moscow 1998 ― Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducts Mamas & Papas, Eagles

Jan 19, 2012

THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 2012

Today is Thursday, January 19, the 19th day of 2012. There are 347 days left in the year. 1793 ― French King Louis XVI sentenced to death 1825 ― Ezra Daggett and nephew Thomas Kensett patent food storage in tin cans 1829 ― Johann von Goethe's ``Faust, Part 1" premieres 1840 ― Antarctica discovered, Charles Wilkes expedition (U.S. claim) 1853 ― Verdi's opera ``Il Trovatore" premieres in Rome 1903 ― New bicycle race ``Tour de France" announced 1920 ― U.S. Senate votes against membership in League of Nations 1937 ― Cy Young, Tris Speaker and Nap Lajoie elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 1977 ― World's largest crowd (12.7 million) for Indian religious festival 1983 ― Klaus Barbie, SS chief of Lyon in Nazi-France, arrested in Bolivia

Jan 18, 2012

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2012

Today is Wednesday, January 18, the 18th day of 2012. There are 348 days left in the year. 1535 ― Francisco Pizarro founds Lima, Peru 1644 ― Perplexed Pilgrims in Boston reported America's first UFO sighting 1778 ― Captain James Cook stumbles over Sandwich Islands (Hawaiian Islands) 1896 ― First demonstration of an x-ray machine in the U.S. (New York City) 1943 ― Soviets announce they broke the long Nazi siege of Leningrad 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 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, 2012

TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 2012

Today is Tuesday, January 17, the 17th day of 2012. There are 349 days left in the year. 1773 ― Captain James Cook becomes first to cross Antarctic Circle 1861 ― Flush toilet (with separate water tank and a pull chain) patented by Thomas Crapper) 1904 ― Anton Chekhov's ``The Cherry Orchard" opens at the Moscow Art Theater 1929 ― Popeye makes first appearance, in comic strip ``Thimble Theatre" 1945 ― Liberation of Warsaw by Soviet troops (end of Nazi occupation) 1946 ― United Nations Security Council holds its first meeting 1951 ― China refuses ceasefire in Korea 1987 ― President Reagan signs secret order permitting covert sale of arms to Iran 1990 ― Who, Simon & Garfunkel, Four Seasons, Four Tops, Hank Ballard, Platters & Kinks inducted into Cleveland's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 1998 ― President Clinton faces sexual harassment charges from Paula Jones

Jan 16, 2012

MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 2012

Today is Monday, January 16, the 16th day of 2012. There are 350 days left in the year. 1547 ― Ivan IV the Terrible (17) crowns himself first tsar of Russia 1581 ― English parliament passes laws against Catholicism 1832 ― Charles Darwin lands at San Tiago, Cape Verde 1925 ― Leon Trotsky dismissed as CEO of Russian Revolution Military Council 1939 ― Comic strip ``Superman" debuts 1956 ― Egyptian President Nasser pledges to reconquer Palestine 1963 ― Khrushchev claims to have a 100-megaton nuclear bomb 1964 ― ``Hello, Dolly!" starring Carol Channing, opens at St. James Theater, New York City, for 2,844 performances 1985 ― ``Playboy" announces end of stapling centerfolds 1991 ― Operation Desert Storm begins; U.S. and 27 allies attack Iraq for occupying Kuwait

Jan 15, 2012

SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 2012

Today is Saturday, January 14, the 14th day of 2012. There are 352 days left in the year. 1601 ― Church authorities burn Hebrew books in Rome 1690 ― Clarinet is invented in Nuremberg, Germany 1699 ― Massachusetts holds day of fasting for wrongly persecuting ``witches" 1794 ― Dr. Jessee Bennet of Edom, Va., performs first successful Cesarean section operation on his wife 1900 ― Giacomo Puccini's opera ``Tosca" premieres in Rome 1914 ― Henry Ford introduces assembly line, for T-Fords 1950 ― U.S. recalls all consular officials from China 1953 ― Yugoslavia elects Marshal Tito its first president 1954 ― Marilyn Monroe marries baseball star, New York Yankee, Joe DiMaggio 1979 ― President Carter proposes Martin Luther King's birthday be a holiday

Jan 13, 2012

FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 2012

Today is Friday, January 13, the 13th day of 2012. There are 353 days left in the year. 1559 ― Elizabeth I crowned queen of England in Westminster Abbey 1610 ― Galileo Galilei discovers Callisto, fourth satellite of Jupiter 1785 ― John Walter publishes first issue of London Times 1854 ― Anthony Foss patents the accordion 1882 ― Richard Wagner completes his opera ``Parsifal" 1898 ― Emile Zola publishes his open letter (J'accuse) in defense of Captain Alfred Dreyfus in Paris 1930 ― ``Mickey Mouse" comic strip first appears 1943 ― Hitler declares ``Total War" 1962 ― Wilt Chamberlain of Philadelphia Warriors scores NBA-record 73 points vs. Chicago 1982 ― Hank Aaron and Frank Robinson elected to Hall of Fame

Jan 12, 2012

THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2012

Today is Thursday, January 12, the 12th day of 2012. There are 354 days left in the year. 1755 ― Tsarina Elisabeth establishes first Russian University 1816 ― France decrees Bonaparte family excluded from the country forever 1836 ― HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reach Sydney, Australia 1906 ― First time Dow Jones closes above 100 (100.26) 1932 ― Philip Barry's ``Animal Kingdom" premieres in New York City 1948 ― Mohandas Mahatma Gandhi begins his final fast 1948 ― First supermarket in U.K. opens 1950 ― USSR reintroduces death penalty for treason, espionage and sabotage 1970 ― Boeing 747 makes its maiden voyage 1990 ― Romania bans Communist party (first Warsaw Pact member to do so)

Jan 11, 2012

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