The Calendar of History

[jimmalenko]

The format is simple - progress one day at a time throughout a calendar year with a significant moment in history that occurred on that day. The year is not important - merely the day and month (ie. January 1st). So I could post something that happened on January 1st, 2005, and the next person could post something on January 2nd, 1967, and so on ...

The day can be "significant" for any reason.



I'll start ...


1 January 1901 - The birth of Federation in Australia.

http://www.abc.net.au/federation/fedstory/fed/fd_overview.htm

After more than a decade of discussion, planning, campaigning, politicking and bickering, six of Great Britain's colonies in Australasia united as a nation when the Commonwealth of Australia was officially inaugurated on January 1, 1901.

This should be better than either of those A-Z threads since we have 366 opportunities to answer here

[lordsmurf]

2 January 1788 - Georgia votes to ratify the U.S. Constitution, becoming the fourth state in the modern United States


NOTE! Anything used here should be after 1750 !!!
Prior to 1750, calendars and history is not as "date specific" as some historians would like you to believe. There are a number of things that have been give arbitrary dates. While it can be off a few days in the 1600s-1700s, it starts to trail off by weeks, months and even years and decades the further you go back. By 1752, most "modern" civilized societies were using the moden Gregorian calendar, and adhere to a system we can recognize (like January being the first month, leap years, etc). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_Calendar

Even old Jesus himself, should you recognize this as a real event, was not born on December 25, 0001 .... it was more along the lines of March-April and about 6-4 BCE. December 25th is one of many famous, yet arbitrary, days.

[MackemX]

Alaska was the 49th state in the USA. It became a state on January 3, 1959

[jimmalenko]

4 January 1809 - The birth of Louis Braille.

http://www.afb.org/braillebug/louis_braille_bio.asp

Six dots. Six bumps. Six bumps in different patterns, like constellations, spreading out over the page. What are they? Numbers, letters, words. Who made this code? None other than Louis Braille, a French 12-year-old, who was also blind. And his work changed the world of reading and writing, forever.

[lordsmurf]

5 January 1998 - Sonny Bono (Representative-R-CA)/singer (Sonny & Cher), dies skiing at 62

One of many ******** (along with his butt-buddy Jack Valenti) directly responsible for a ton of the bullshit copyright laws now in effect. Ideally a central figure to creating the "forever minus a day" law. "Didn't eat the tree fast enough" is one of several post-mortem nicknames given to him for this very reason. The Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act was signed into law 10 months later.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Bono_Copyright_Term_Extension_Act
http://www.keytlaw.com/Copyrights/sonybono.htm

[offline]

6 January, 1540
English King Henry VIII marries his fourth wife, Anne of Cleaves. The others just gave head.

[drjtech]

On January 7, 1999, the impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton, formally charged with lying under oath and obstructing justice, begins in the Senate.

-drj

[e404pnf]

8 January 1935 - Birth of Elvis Presley

[Faustus]

Jan 9th 0001

Flaystus is born but he kicks so much ass that it causes the universe to create a mini singularity which swallows him up. He will not be born again for another 1974 years 7 months and 4 days.

[jimmalenko]

There's always got to be one clown ...




9 January 1935 - Birth of Bob Denver

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Denver

Born in New Rochelle, New York and raised in Brownwood, Texas, Denver graduated from Loyola University (predecessor to today's Loyola Marymount University) in Los Angeles, California and worked as a mailman and a high school teacher before landing the role of Maynard G. Krebs on The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis in 1959. His co-star Dwayne Hickman, who played Dobie Gillis, was also a Loyola graduate. After the show ended in 1963, Denver landed the role of Gilligan on Gilligan's Island, after which he appeared in other television shows including The Good Guys (1968–1970) and Dusty's Trail (1973) (a virtual copy of Gilligan's Island, set on a lost wagon train). He also starred in a children's program, Far Out Space Nuts (1975), which was essentially Gilligan in space. None of these shows matched the success of his earlier roles.

[Webster]

On January 10, 1861, delegates to the Florida Convention in Tallahassee voted to secede from the United States of America. The following month, Florida was one of seven Deep South states to form the Confederate States of America.


http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/jan10.html

[MackemX]

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http://pedia.newsfilter.co.uk/wikipedia/r/ro/rosenkowitz_sextuplets.html

The Rosenkowitz sextuplets were born in Cape Town, South Africa, on January 11, 1974. They are the first known set of sextuplets to survive their infancy. The sextuplets were three boys (David Peter, Grant Vincent, and Jason Solomon) and three girls (Emma Louise, Nicolette Anne, and Elizabeth Rebecca). Their total birthweight was 24lbs. 1oz., with the individual birthweights ranging from 2lbs. 6oz. to 4lbs. 6oz.

[AlecWest]

On January 12, 1965 at 10:58 a.m. PST, scientists conducted what they called a "controlled excursion," burning up a nuclear rocket in Nevada. It produced a radioactive cloud over Los Angeles.

Also, on January 12, 1896, Dr. Henry Louis Smith took the first x-ray photograph, Davidson, NC. It showed the location of a bullet in the hand of a corpse, using a 15 minute exposure. Smith obtained the hand of the corpse, and fired a bullet into it, for this experiment. Smith was a professor of physics and astronomy at Davidson College, Davidson, NC.

[Conquest10]

January 13, 1893 - US Marines land in Honolulu from the U.S.S. Boston to protect the king and stop the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution.

[AlecWest]

CBS network's eternal curmudgeon & reporter, Andy Rooney, was born on January 14, 1919. FWIW, when he was in the service in WWII he was a reporter for Stars & Stripes. And during his coverage of the war, he won a Bronze Star.

[lordsmurf]

15 January 1870 - Donkey 1st used as symbol of Democratic Party, in Harper's Weekly

[thevoelk]

January 16, 1919.

Prohibition takes effect as the 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution was approved by 2/3 of the states.

1991
The first Persian Gulf War begins.

[MackemX]

January 17th 1983: BBC wakes up to morning TV

I can remember watching this . Hard to imagine what TV was like back then in the days kids would play outside instead of online


http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/17/newsid_2530000/2530363.stm

[Heywould3]

January 18th various

1778: Captain Cook discovers what is now called the Hawiian Islands
1871: Germany has its first emperor, King Wilhelm of Prussia
1911: A plane lands on the deck of a ship for the first time, in the USA
1929: Stalin proposes to ban Trotsky from the Politburo
1943: Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto begin resistance of Nazis
1944: The seige of Lenningrad, in the USSR, by the Germans ends after over two years