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TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 2009

Today is Tuesday, January 13, the 13th day of 2009. There are 352 days left in the year. 1610 _ Galileo Galilei discovers Callisto, fourth satellite of Jupiter 1785 _ John Walter publishes first issue of London Times 1882 _ Richard Wagner completes his opera ``Parsifal" 1883 _ Henrik Ibsen's ``En Folkefiende" premieres in Oslo 1893 _ British Independent Labor Party forms (Keir Hardie as its leader) 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" 1968 _ Beginning of Tet-offensive in Vietnam 1969 _ Beatles release ``Yellow Submarine" album

Jan 12, 2009

MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 2009

Today is Monday, January 12, the 12th day of 2009. 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 1879 _ British Zulu War begins Lieutenant-General Chelmsford invades Zululand 1906 _ First time Dow Jones closes above 100 (100.26) 1949 _ Dutch court affirms death sentence against SS chief Hanns Rauter 1950 _ USSR re-introduces death penalty for treason, espionage and sabotage 1966 _ LBJ says U.S. should stay in S. Vietnam until communist aggression ends 1970 _ Biafran War ends, Biafra surrenders to Nigeria 1974 _ Libya and Tunisia announces they are merging as ``Islamic Arab Republic" 1994 _ Steve Carlton (Phillies) elected to Baseball Hall of Fame

Jan 11, 2009

SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 2009

Today is Saturday, January 10, the 10th day of 2009. There are 355 days left in the year. 0049 B.C. _ Julius Cesar crosses the Rubicon, invades Italy 1430 _ Order of the Guilder forms 1514 _ Complutensian New Testament in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek & Latin finished 1776 _ ``Common Sense" by Thomas Paine, published 1810 _ French church annuls marriage of Napoleon I & Josephine 1833 _ Felix Mendelssohn's ``Die erste Walpurgisnacht" premieres in Berlin 1839 _ Tea from India first arrives in U.K. 1845 _ Poets Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning begin corresponding 1946 _ U.N. General Assembly convenes for first time (London) 1991 _ Japan ends routine fingerprinting of all adult ethnic Koreans

Jan 9, 2009

FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 2009

Today is Friday, January 9, the ninth day of 2009. There are 356 days left in the year. 1558 _ Geneva becomes independent from Berne canton, Switzerland 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 ``Chang Pyong-Ho" sank off Busan killing 249 1969 _ Concorde jetliner's first test flight (Bristol England) 1970 _ Constitution of Singapore enacted 1980 _ 63 beheaded in Mecca, Saudi Arabia 1983 _ British P.M. Margaret Thatcher visits the Falkland Islands 1987 _ Chinese-Vietnamese border fights, 1500 killed 1998 _ Decapitated head of Danish Little Mermaid is returned

Jan 8, 2009

THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 2009

Today is Thursday, January 8, the eighth day of 2009. There are 357 days left in the year. 1838 _ First telegraph message sent using dots and dashes, New Jersey 1918 _ President Wilson outlines his 14-points for peace after WWI 1925 _ First all-female U.S. state supreme court appointed, Texas 1926 _ Abdul-Aziz ibn Sa'ud becomes king of Hejaz; renames it Saudi Arabia 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

Jan 7, 2009

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 2009

Today is Wednesday, January 7, the seventh day of 2009. There are 298 days left in the year. 1584 _ Last day of the Julian calendar in Bohemia and Holy Roman empire 1610 _ Galileo discovers first three of Jupiter's satellites, Io, Europa & Ganymede 1618 _ Francis Bacon becomes English lord chancellor 1714 _ Typewriter patented by Englishman Henry Mill (built years later) 1929 _ ``Tarzan", one of the first adventure comic strips, first appears 1948 _ U.S. President Truman raises taxes for Marshall-plan 1953 _ President Truman announces development of the hydrogen bomb 1975 _ Led Zeppelin fans riot before Boston concert, causing $30,000 damage 1989 _ Akihito becomes emperor of Japan 1990 _ Tower of Pisa closed to the public after leaning too far

Jan 6, 2009

TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 2009

Today is Tuesday, January 6, the sixth day of 2009. There are 299 days left in the year. 1535 _ City of Lima Peru founded by Francisco Pizarro 1540 _ King Henry VIII of England married his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves 1681 _ First recorded boxing match (Duke of Albemarle's butler vs. his butcher) 1907 _ Maria Montessori opens her first (Montessori) school (Rome) 1941 _ FDR's ``4 Freedoms" speech (speech, worship, from want & from fear) 1942 _ First around world flight (Pan Am ``Pacific Clipper") 1950 _ Britain recognizes Communist government of China 1958 _ Gibson patents the Flying V Guitar 1964 _ Rolling Stones' first tour as headline act (with Ronettes) 1974 _ England begins 3-day work week during mine strike

Jan 5, 2009

MONDAY, JANUARY 5, 2009

Today is Monday, January 5, the fifth of 2009. There are 360 days left in the year. 1709 _ Sudden extreme cold kills thousands of Europeans 1836 _ David Crockett arrives in Texas, just in time for the Alamo 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" 1949 _ President Harry S. Truman labels his administration the ``Fair Deal" 1956 _ Elvis Presley records ``Heartbreak Hotel" 1961 _ U.S. breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba 1972 _ NASA announces development of space shuttle 1988 _ Austrian President Waldheim's war record investigated 1998 _ Vandals decapitate Copenhagen's Little Mermaid

Jan 4, 2009

SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 2009

Today is Saturday, January 3, the third day of 2009. 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 1852 _ First Chinese arrive in Hawaii 1868 _ Meiji Restoration returns authority to Japan's emperors 1910 _ British miners strike for 8-hour working day 1925 _ Mussolini dissolves Italian parliament/becomes dictator 1959 _ Alaska admitted as 49th U.S. state 1961 _ U.S. breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba 1970 _ Marxist government takes over in Congo 1988 _ Margaret Thatcher becomes longest-serving British P.M. this century

Jan 2, 2009

FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 2009

Today is Friday, January 2, the second day of 2009. There are 363 days left in the year. 1492 _ Spain recaptures Granada from the Moors (Granada Day) 1570 _ Tsar Ivan the Terrible march to Novgorod begins 1776 _ Austria ends interrogation torture 1919 _ Anti-British uprising in Ireland 1929 _ U.S. and Canada agree to preserve Niagara Falls 1942 _ Japanese troops occupy Manila, Philippines 1947 _ Mahatma Gandhi begins march for peace in East-Bengali 1960 _ Senator John F. Kennedy, announces his candidacy for president 1965 _ Martin Luther King Jr. begins a drive to register black voters 1995 _ Most distant galaxy yet discovered found by scientists using Keck telescope in Hawaii (estimated 15 billion light years away)

Jan 1, 2009

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