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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Today is Tuesday, February 1, the 32nd day of 2011. There are 333 days left in the year. 1587 ― English queen Elizabeth I signs Mary Stuart's death sentence 1788 ― First U.S. steamboat patent issued, by Georgia to Briggs & Longstreet 1884 ― First volume of the Oxford English Dictionary, A-Ant, published 1893 ― Thomas Edison completes world’s first movie studio (West Orange, N.J.) 1896 ― Giacomo Puccini's Opera ``La Boheme" premieres in Turin 1898 ― First auto insurance policy in U.S. issued, by Travelers Insurance Company 1902 ― China's empress Tzu-hsi forbids binding woman's feet 1951 ― U.N. condemns People's Republic of China as aggressor in Korea 1959 ― Swiss males vote against voting rights for women 1978 ― Director Roman Polanski skips bail and fled to France after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl

Jan 31, 2011

MONDAY, JANUARY 31, 2011

Today is Monday, January 31, the 31st day of 2011. There are 334 days left in the year. 1862 _ Telescope maker Alvin Clark discovers dwarf companion of Sirius 1871 _ Millions of birds fly over western San Francisco, darken the sky 1874 _ Jesse James gang robs train at Gads Hill MO 1901 _ Chekhov's ``Three Sisters" opens at the Moscow Art Theater 1906 _ Strongest instrumentally recorded earthquake, Colombia, 8.6 Richter 1915 _ First (German) poison gas attack, against Russians 1928 _ Scotch tape first marketed by 3-M Company 1934 _ FDR devalues the dollar in relation to gold at $35 per ounce 1943 _ General Friedrich von Paul surrenders to Russian troops at Stalingrad 1950 _ President Truman reveals that he ordered the Atomic Energy Commission to develop the hydrogen

Jan 30, 2011

SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 2011

Today is Friday, January 29, the 29th day of 2011. There are 336 days left in the year. 1834 ― President Jackson orders first use of U.S. troops to suppress a labor dispute 1845 ―Edgar Allen Poe's ``The Raven" first published (New York City, N.Y.) 1886 ― First successful gasoline-driven car patented, Karl Benz, Karlsruhe 1916 ― First bombings of Paris by German Zeppelins takes place 1936 ― First players elected to Baseball Hall of Fame-Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson & Walter Johnson 1953 ― First movie in Cinemascope (The Robe) premieres" 1979 ― Emerson, Lake & Palmer disband after 10 years together 1979 ― Chinese vice-premier Deng Xiaoping visits Washington, D.C. 1990 ― Exxon Valdez captain Joseph Hazelwood goes on trial due to oil spill 1996 ― 6,138th performance of ``Cats" is held in London, surpassing record of Broadway's longest-running musical, ``A Chorus Line"

Jan 28, 2011

FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 2011

Today is Friday, January 28, the 28th day of 2011. There are 337 days left in the year. 1099 ― First Crusaders begins siege of Hosn-el-Akrad Syria 1613 ― Galileo may have unknowingly viewed undiscovered planet Neptune 1689 ― English parliament ends king Charles II reign 1807 ― London's Pall Mall is first street lit by gaslight 1915 ― U.S. President Wilson refuses to prohibit immigration of illiterates 1918 ― Trotsky becomes leader of Reds 1935 ― Iceland becomes first country to legalize abortion 1956 ― Elvis Presley's first TV appearance (Dorsey Brothers Stage Show) 1996 ― ``Hello Dolly!" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City, N.Y., after 118 performances 1998 ― Michelangelo's ``Christ & the Woman of Samaria," sold for $7.4 million

Jan 27, 2011

THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 2011

Today is Thursday, January 27, the 27th day of 2011. There are 338 days left in the year. 1302 ― Dante becomes a Florentine political exile 1593 ― Vatican opens seven-year trial against scholar Giordano Bruno 1710 ― Czar Peter the Great sets first Russian state budget 1880 ― Thomas Edison patents electric incandescent lamp 1916 ― Communist party ``Spartacus Letters" first published in Berlin 1944 ― Leningrad liberated from Germany in 880 days with 600,000 killed 1945 ― Russia liberates Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps (Poland) 1973 ― U.S. and Vietnam sign ceasefire, ending longest U.S. war and military draft 1984 ― Michael Jackson is burned during filming for Pepsi commercial 1996 ― Germany celebrates its first Holocaust Remembrance Day

Jan 26, 2011

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 2011

Today is Wednesday, January 26, the 26th day of 2011. There are 339 days left in the year. 1790 ― Mozart's opera ``Cosi Fan Tutte" premieres in Vienna 1838 ― Tennessee becomes first state to prohibit alcohol 1841 ― Hong Kong proclaimed a sovereign territory of Britain 1875 ― Electric dental drill is patented by George F. Green 1905 ― Han Yong-un [Bongwan, Manhae] (1879-1944) ordained a monk in Korea 1926 ― Television first demonstrated (John L Baird, London) 1939 ― Filming begins on ``Gone With the Wind" 1950 ― India becomes a republic ceasing to be a British dominion 1961 ― ``Are You Lonesome Tonight?" by Elvis Presley peaks to No. 1 1998 ― President Clinton says ``I want to say one thing to the American people, I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky"

Jan 25, 2011

TUESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2011

Today is Tuesday, January 25, the 25th day of 2011. There are 340 days left in the year. 1533 ― England's King Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn (approximate date) 1802 ― Napoleon elected President of the Italian (Cisalpine) Republic 1835 ― Vincenzo Bellini's opera ``I Puritani" premieres in Paris 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) 1969 ― U.S.-North Vietnamese peace talks begin in Paris 1970 ― Robert Altman's ``M*AS*H" premieres

Jan 24, 2011

MONDAY, JANUARY 24, 2011

Today is Monday, January 24, the 24th day of 2011. There are 341 days left in the year. 1679 ― King Charles II disbands English parliament 1722 ― Czar Peter the Great begins civil system 1839 ― Charles Darwin elected member of Royal Society 1899 ― Rubber heel patented by Humphrey O'Sullivan 1924 ― Mussolini disallows non-fascists work union 1924 ― Russian city of St. Petersburg renamed Leningrad 1943 ― Hitler orders Nazi troops at Stalingrad to fight to death 1943 ― Jewish patients, nurses, doctors incinerated at Auschwitz-Birkenau 1962 ― Jackie Robinson is first Black elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 1984 ― Apple Computer Inc. unveils its Macintosh personal computer

Jan 23, 2011

SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 2011

Today is Saturday, January 22, the 22nd day of 2011. There are 343 days left in the year. 1771 _ Spain cedes the Falkland Islands to Britain 1859 _ Brahms' first piano concerto (in D minor) premieres, Hanover 1905 _ ``Bloody Sunday"; Russian demonstrators fired on by tsarist troops 1938 _ ``Our Town", Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer-winner of small-town life in Grover's Corners NH, performed publicly for first time (New Jersey) 1939 _ Uranium atom first split, Columbia University 1946 _ U.S. president sets up CIA, Central Intelligence Agency 1951 _ Fidel Castro ejected from a Winter League game after beaning batter 1964 _ World's largest cheese (15,723 kg) manufactured, Wisconsin 1973 _ Roe vs. Wade U.S. Supreme Court legalizes some abortions 1997 _ Space Shuttle Atlantis returns to earth, successful

Jan 21, 2011

FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 2011

Today is Friday, January 21, the 21st day of 2011. There are 344 days left in the year. 1077 ― German King Heinrich IV petitions Pope Gregory VII for forgiveness 1799 ― Edward Jenner's smallpox vaccination is introduced 1903 ― ``Wizard of Oz" premieres in New York City, N.Y. 1908 ― New York City, N.Y., regulation makes it illegal for a woman to smoke in public 1919 ― Sinn Fein proclaims parliament of Free Ireland 1954 ― First gas turbine automobile exhibited (New York City, N.Y.) 1954 ― First atomic submarine, USS Nautilus, launched on Thames River, christened by First Lady Mamie Eisenhower 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

Jan 20, 2011

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