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SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 2010

Today is Saturday, January 16, the 16th day of 2010. There are 249 days left in the year. 1547 _ Ivan IV the Terrible, 17, crowns himself first tsar of Russia 1581 _ English parliament passes laws against Catholicism 1868 _ Refrigerator car patented by William Davis, a fish dealer in Detroit 1920 _ 18th Amendment, prohibition, becomes the law of the land ― one year after ratification; it is repealed in 1933 1920 _ First assembly of League of Nations (Paris) 1938 _ Benny Goodman refuses to play Carnegie Hall when black members of his band were barred from performing 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 1981 _ John Lennon's ``Woman" is released in U.K.

Jan 15, 2010

FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 2010

Today is Friday, January 15, the 15th day of 2009. There are 350 days left in the year. 1346 _ Emperor Louis IV of Bavaria gives his wife Margaretha, Holland/Zealand 1535 _ Henry VIII declares himself head of English Church 1861 _ Steam elevator patented by Elisha Otis 1895 _ Tchaikovsky's ballet ``Swan Lake" premieres, St. Petersburg 1915 _ Japan claims economic control of China 1942 _ FDR asks commissioner to continue baseball during WWII 1951 _ Supreme Court rule ``clear and present danger" of incitement to riot is not protected speech and can be a cause for arrest 1971 _ George Harrison releases ``My Sweet Lord" 1971 _ Aswan Dam official opens in Egypt 1973 _ President Nixon suspends all U.S. offensive action in North Vietnam

Jan 14, 2010

THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 2010

Today is Thursday, January 14, the 14th day of 2010. There are 351 days left in the year. 1690 _ Clarinet is invented, in Nuremberg, Germany 1794 _ Dr. Jessee Bennet of Edom, Va., performs first successful Cesarean section operation on his wife 1897 _ 6,960-meter (22,834-foot) Cerro Aconcagua (Argentina) first climbed 1900 _ Giacomo Puccini's opera ``Tosca" premieres in Rome 1954 _ Marilyn Monroe marries baseball star, New York Yankee, Joe DiMaggio 1964 _ Jacqueline Kennedy's first public appearance (TV) since assassination 1967 _ New York Times reports Army is conducting secret germ warfare experiments 1976 _ ``"The Bionic Woman" with Lindsay Wagner debuts on ABC (later NBC) 1979 _ President Carter proposes Martin Luther King's birthday be a holiday 1993 _ David Letterman announces his show is moving from NBC to CBS

Jan 13, 2010

TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 2010

Today is Tuesday, January 12, the 12th day of 2010. There are 353 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 1839 _ Anthracite coal first used to smelt iron, Mauch Chunk, Pa. 1933 _ U.S. Congress recognize independence of Philippines 1948 _ Mohandas Mahatma Gandhi begins his final fast 1961 _ U.N. genocide pact goes into effect 1966 _ LBJ says U.S. should stay in S. Vietnam until communist aggression ends 1970 _ Biafran War ends, Biafra surrenders to Nigeria 1976 _ U.N. Security Council votes 11-1 to seat Palestine Liberation Organization

Jan 11, 2010

MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 2010

Today is Monday, January 11, the 11th day of 2010. There are 354 days left in the year. 1569 _ First recorded lottery in England is drawn at St. Paul's Cathedral 1672 _ Isaac Newton is elected a member of Royal Society 1693 _ Mt. Etna erupts, Sicily 1946 _ Enver Hoxha declares People's Republic of Albania with himself dictator 1949 _ Snowfall first recorded in Los Angeles 1963 _ Beatles release ``Please Please Me" & ``Ask Me Why" 1972 _ East-Pakistan becomes independent state of Bangladesh 1977 _ France releases Abu Daoud, a Palestinian suspected of involvement in the massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics 1991 _ Ben Johnson first race after being stripped of his 1988 Olympic Gold medal for steroid use, he finished second 1998 _ U.S. female Figure Skating championship won by Michelle Kwan

Jan 10, 2010

SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 2010

Today is Saturday, January 9, the ninth day of 2010. There are 356 days left in the year. 1493 _ First sight of manatees (by Christopher Columbus) 1793 _ Jean Pierre Blanchard makes first balloon flight in North America (Philadelphia) 1799 _ Income Tax introduced in U.K. 1834 _ HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin arrives in Port San Julian, Patagonia 1894 _ ``Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze" released in movie theaters 1905 _ Bloody Sunday _ demonstrators fired on by tsarist troops 1945 _ U.S. soldiers led by General Douglas MacArthur invade Philippines 1969 _ Concorde jetliner's first test flight (Bristol, England) 1987 _ Chinese/Vietnamese border fights, 1500 killed 1998 _ Decapitated head of Danish Little Mermaid is returned

Jan 8, 2010

FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 2010

Today is Friday, January 8, the eighth day of 2010. 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 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 1963 _ ``Mona Lisa", on loan, unveiled in America's National Gallery of Art 1964 _ President Lyndon B. Johnson declares ``War on Poverty" 1973 _ Secret peace talks between U.S. and North Vietnam resumed near Paris 1995 _ ``Guys & Dolls" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 1,143 performances 1996 _ For first time in 25 years no one is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame

Jan 7, 2010

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 2010

Today is Wednesday, January 6, the sixth day of 2010. There are 359 days left in the year. 1681 _ First recorded boxing match (Duke of Albemarle's butler vs. his butcher) 1832 _ New England Anti-Slavery Society organizes (Boston) 1838 _ Samuel Morse made first public demonstration of telegraph 1842 _ 4,500 British and Indian troops leave Kabul, massacred before India 1880 _ Record snow cover in Seattle ― 20cm 1922 _ Conference of Cannes concerning German retribution payments 1941 _ FDR's ``4 Freedoms" speech (speech, worship, from want and from fear) 1964 _ Rolling Stones' first tour as headline act (with Ronettes) 1967 _ Two homemade buses collided on a mountain road in Terpate, Philippines plunging off a cliff, killing 84, injuring 140 1976 _ China People's Republic performs nuclear test at Lop Nor People's Republic of China

Jan 5, 2010

TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 2010

Today is Tuesday, January 5, the fifth day of 2009. There are 360 days left in the year. 1531 _ Pope Clemens VII forbids English King Henry VIII to re-marry 1709 _ Sudden extreme cold kills thousands of Europeans 1895 _ French Captain Alfred Dreyfus, convicted of treason, publicly stripped of his rank; later declared innocent 1949 _ U.S. President Harry S. Truman labels his administration the ``Fair Deal" 1953 _ Samuel Beckett's ``En Attendant Godot" premieres in Paris 1956 _ Elvis Presley records ``Heartbreak Hotel" 1961 _ U.S. breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba 1971 _ U.S. heavyweight ``Sonny" Liston's (36) corpse found 1981 _ British police arrest Peter Sutcliffe, a truck driver later convicted of ``Yorkshire Ripper" murders of 13 women 1988 _ Austrian President Waldheim's war record investigated

Jan 4, 2010

MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 2010

Today is Monday, January 4, the fourth day of 2010. There are 361 days left in the year. 1493 _ Columbus left new world on return from first voyage 1893 _ U.S. President Harrison grants amnesty to Mormon polygamy 1907 _ George Bernard Shaw's ``Don Juan in Hell" premieres in London 1912 _ Smallest earth-moon distance this century, 356,375 km center-to-center 1948 _ Britain grants independence to Burma 1951 _ During Korean conflict, North Korean forces captured Seoul 1960 _ European Free Trade Association forms in Stockholm 1961 _ Longest recorded strike ends _ 33 years _ Danish barbers' assistants 1965 _ LBJ's ``Great Society" State of the Union Address 1974 _ Nixon refuses to hand over tapes subpoenaed by Watergate Committee

Jan 3, 2010

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