5 January - History and Importance of the Day

1896 - Wilhelm Roentgen's discovery of x-rays

1914
Henry Ford introduced minimum wage of $5 per day.
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0105.html#article
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/henry-ford-man-who-made-history-january-5th-1914-srivatsav-balan/

1919 - National Socialist Party (Nazi) formed as German Farmers Party
1925 – Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes the first female governor in the United States.
1930 - Mao Tse-tung wrote "A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire"
          http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_6.htm
1940 – FM radio is demonstrated to the Federal Communications Commission.



2005 – Eris, the largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System, is discovered by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz using images originally taken on October 21, 2003, at the Palomar Observatory.


Birthdays

1855 King C.Gillette - inventor - safety razor

1876
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/adenauer_konrad.shtml


http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/on-this-day/january-5/

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29 January - History and Importance of the Day

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1840 - First Governor of New Zealand and co-author of the Treaty of Waitangi Captain William Hobson arrives in the Bay of Islands, NZ
1896 - Emile Grubbe is the first doctor to use radiation treatment for breast cancer

1915 Display of bravery Germany's Erwin Rommel as Lieutnant in First World War.
        http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/german-lieutenant-erwin-rommel-leads-daring-mission-in-france

1924 - Ice cream cone rolling machine patented by Carl Taylor, Cleveland

1933 - German president Paul von Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler as chancellor
1968 - Nauru (formerly Pleasant Island) adopts constitution.  Constitution of Independent Nauru was adopted. Nauru became independent on 31 January 1968.
        http://www.un.int/nauru/politicalprofile.html

1971 - Test debut of Dennis Keith Lillee, v England at Adelaide


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2014 - Archaeologists discover the oldest Roman Temple (6th C BC) at Sant’Omobono
2014 - Scientists discover how to convert normal cells into stem cells in mice

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Birthdays

1843 William McKinley (1843) - US President,

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10 January - History and Importance of the Day

49 BC – Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signaling the start of civil war.
1645 – Archbishop William Laud is beheaded at the Tower of London.
1863 -  London underground tube system opened for public. 150th anniversary celebrated 10 January 2013
1870 – John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.
1912 - World's 1st flying boat's maiden flight, (Glenn Curtiss in NY)
1944 - 1st mobile electric power plant delivered, Philadelphia
1946 – The first General Assembly of the United Nations opens in London. Fifty-one nations are represented.
1951 - 1st jet passenger trip made
1972 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to the newly independent Bangladesh as president after spending over nine months in prison in Pakistan.




Birthdays - Nobel Prize Winners

1916 Sune K. Bergstrom
1936 Robert Woodrow Wilson








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1889 – The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is incorporated in Atlanta, Georgia.
1892 – James Naismith publishes the rules of basketball.
1943 – The world's largest office building, The Pentagon, is dedicated in Arlington, Virginia.

1988 - Dream Debut by a bowler. Narendra Hirwani took 8 wickets in both innings
http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/magazine/default_aty.html?date=01-15

2001 – Wikipedia, a free Wiki content encyclopedia, goes online.




Birthdays

1929 - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.




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9 January - History and Importance of the Day

1799 – British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger introduces an income tax of two shillings to the pound to raise funds for Great Britain's war effort in the Napoleonic Wars.
1839 – The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process.
1942 - US Joint Chiefs of Staff created
2002 - Michael Jackson receives the Artist of the Century award at the American music awards

Birthdays

1870 – Joseph Strauss, American engineer, co-designed the Golden Gate Bridge (d. 1938)

http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/on-this-day/january-9/

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8 January - History and Importance of the Day

1297 - Monaco gains independence.
1675 - 1st American commercial corporation chartered (NY Fishing Co)
1790 - 1st US President George Washington delivers 1st state of the union address
1835 - The United States national debt is 0 for the first and only time.
1884 - Chrome tanning process for leather patented by Augustus Schultz

1918 - Woodrow Wilson Speech to American Congress on 14 points as the War aims of USA in World War I, which will end the war and bring equitable peace in the world.
           http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/fourteenpoints.htm

1926 - Abdul-Aziz ibn Sa'ud becomes king of Hejaz; renames it Saudi Arabia
1935 - Spectrophotometer patented, AC Hardy


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22 - January - History and Importance of the Day

1517 – The Ottoman Empire under Selim I defeats the Mamluk Sultanate and captures present-day Egypt at the Battle of Ridaniya.
1849 – Second Anglo-Sikh War: The Siege of Multan ends after nine months when the last Sikh defenders of Multan, Punjab, surrender.


1901 - Queen Victoria of England died after reigning for nearly 64 years.
           Edward VII  became King.
           http://www.history.co.uk/this-day-in-history/January-22.html

1905 - A big march in Russia. 500 people killed starting months of unrest- 1905 revolution.
          http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-russian-revolution-begins

1924 - Ramsay MacDonald became Britain's first Labour Prime Minister.

1970 – The Boeing 747, the world's first "jumbo jet", enters commercial service for launch customer Pan American Airways with its maiden voyage from John F. Kennedy International Airport to London Heathrow Airport.

1997 - The U.S. Senate confirmed Madeleine Albright as the first female secretary of state of USA.


2006 – Evo Morales is inaugurated as President of Bolivia, becoming the country's first indigenous president.



2013
All Global Stories
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2013/jan/22/all



Birthdays

1561 Sir Francis Bacon
1788 Lord George Byron

1908 – Lev Landau, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
1909 – U Thant, Burmese diplomat, 3rd United Nations Secretary General (d. 1974)
1936 – Alan J. Heeger, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

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21 - January - History and Importance of the Day

World Hug Day
 http://worldpeace.org.au/readcyber.asp

2013 Martin Luther King Jr. Day in US. 3rd Monday of the month
        http://globaldimension.org.uk/calendar/event/4371
     
763 – The Battle of Bakhamra between Alids and Abbasids near Kufa ends in a decisive Abbasid victory.

1077 - German King Heinrich IV petitions Pope Gregory VII for forgiveness

1525 – The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is founded when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptize each other in the home of Manz's mother in Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union.

1774 – Abdul Hamid I became Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam.

1793 King Louis XVI of France was executed on the Guillotine

1846 - The first issue of the "Daily News," edited by Charles Dickens, was published.

1899 – Opel manufactures its first automobile. (When did Henry Ford made the first automobile?)

1924 - Lenin died - Lenin was the first leader of Communist Russia and USSR
           http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/vladimir-ilyich-lenin-dies

1925 – Albania declares itself a republic.

1954 – The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, is launched in Groton.

1976 – Commercial service of Concorde begins with the London-Bahrain and Paris-Rio routes.

2013 Public Inauguration of President Obama as President of USA for the Second Term

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All Global Headlines of the Day
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23 January - History and Importance of the Day

638 Start of Islamic Calendar

1368 – In a coronation ceremony, Zhu Yuanzhang ascends to the throne of China as the Hongwu Emperor, initiating Ming Dynasty rule over China that would last for three centuries.


1556 - Deadliest earthquake in China
           http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/deadliest-earthquake-in-history-rocks-china

1849 – Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her M.D. by the Geneva Medical College of Geneva, New York, becoming the United States' first female doctor.
1899 – The Malolos Constitution is inaugurated, establishing the First Philippine Republic. Emilio Aguinaldo is sworn in as President of the First Philippine Republic.

1993 Graham Gooch scored his 100th first class 100 at Cuttack, India.

1997 – Madeleine Albright becomes the first woman to serve as United States Secretary of State.

Birthdays

1897 – Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian freedom movement leader and founder of Azad Hind Fauz (d. 1945)
1926 – Bal Thackeray, Indian politician (d. 2012)

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1783 – The Kingdom of Great Britain signs a peace treaty with France and Spain, officially ending hostilities in the American Revolutionary War (also known as the American War of Independence).
1841 – Hong Kong Island is occupied by the British.
1920 – The American Civil Liberties Union is founded.
1921 – The first Constitution of Turkey is adopted, making fundamental changes in the source and exercise of sovereignty by consecrating the principle of national sovereignty.


1961 Inauguration of John F. Kennedy as President of USA
http://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/BqXIEM9F4024ntFl7SVAjA.aspx
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Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren administers the oath of office to President Kennedy.  In his speech President Kennedy urges American citizens to participate in public service and "ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country."





1981 – Ronald Reagan's presidency was inaugurated. At age 69, he was the oldest man ever to be inaugurated as U.S. President.
1991 – Sudan's government imposes Islamic law nationwide, worsening the civil war between the country's Muslim north and Christian south.


Birthdays

1931 – David Lee, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

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19 - January - History and Importance of the Day

1795 – The Batavian Republic is proclaimed in the Netherlands bringing to an end the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands.
1883 – The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey.




Birthdays

1798 – Auguste Comte, French philosopher (d. 1857)
1813 – Henry Bessemer, English engineer and businessman (d. 1898)

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13 - January - History and Importance of the Day

1893 – The Independent Labour Party of the United Kingdom holds its first meeting.
1915 – An earthquake in Avezzano, Italy kills 29,800.
1942 – Henry Ford patents a plastic automobile, which is 30% lighter than a regular car.
1942 – World War II: First use of an aircraft ejection seat by a German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter.
1966 – Robert C. Weaver becomes the first African American Cabinet member when he is appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
1988 – Lee Teng-hui becomes the first native Taiwanese President of the Republic of China.
1990 – Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office in Richmond, Virginia.


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12 - January - History and Importance of the Day

1528 - Gustav I of Sweden "father of the nation" crowned King of Sweden. Rules 37 years
1755 - Tsarina Elisabeth establishes 1st Russian University
1866 – The Royal Aeronautical Society is formed in London.
1960 - Sobers & Worrell complete 399 stand for 4th wkt v England
1964 - Bapu Nadkarni bowled 21 consecutive maidens. 32 overs - 27 maidens - 5 runs. This is against England.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/magazine/default_aty.html?date=01-12


Birthdays

1729 – Edmund Burke, Irish politician and philosopher (d. 1797)
1863 – Swami Vivekananda, Indian philosopher (d. 1902)
1917 – Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Indian guru (d. 2008)







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11 - January - History and Importance of the Day

1759 – In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the first American life insurance company is incorporated.
1922 – First use of insulin to treat diabetes in a human patient.
1927 – Louis B. Mayer, head of film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), announces the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, at a banquet in Los Angeles, California.
1959 - Hanif Mohammed scored 499
http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/149388.html
1964 – Surgeon General of the United States Dr. Luther Terry, M.D., publishes the landmark report Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the United States saying that smoking may be hazardous to health, sparking national and worldwide anti-smoking efforts.
1972 – East Pakistan renames itself Bangladesh.
1981 - Palau adopts constitution




Birthdays

 1815 – John A. Macdonald, Canadian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1891)

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31 January - History and Importance of the Day

Nauru - Independence Day
            http://mb.com.ph/node/349792/national-day-of-nauru-today#.UQdpNh1kynI



1862 - Astronomer Alvan Graham Clark makes first observation of Sirius B (first known white dwarf star) in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts while testing his new telescope
1863 - 1st black Civil War regiment, SC Volunteers, mustered into US army
1871 - Millions of birds fly over western San Francisco, darkening the sky
1905 - 1st automobile to exceed 100 mph (161 kph), A G MacDonald, Daytona Beach
1934 - FDR devalus dollar in relation to gold at $35 per ounce
1943 - Gen Friedrich von Paul surrenders to Russian troops at Stalingrad
1946 - Yugoslavia adopts new constitution, becomes a federal republic
1948 - Magnetic tape recorder developed by Wireway
1950 USA President Truman announced Hydrogen bomb development program.
         http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/truman-announces-development-of-h-bomb
1958 - James van Allen discovers radiation belt
1958 - US launches their 1st artificial satellite, Explorer 1
1968 - Nauru (formerly Pleasant Island) declares independence from Australia



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30 January - History and Importance of the Day

World Leprosy Day (is celebrated on 4th Sunday of January)
http://www.leprosy.org/world-leprosy-day




1487 - Bell chimes invented
1649 King Charles I was beheaded
        http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/king-charles-i-executed-for-treason
1790 - Lifeboat 1st tested at sea, by Mr Greathead, the inventor
1862 - USS Monitor, the US Navy's 1st ironclad warship launched
1883 - England team presented with ashes of a bail after Sydney Test
1894 - Pneumatic hammer patented by Charles King of Detroit
1922 - World Law Day, 1st celebrated
1927 - Left wins national election in Thuringen
1948 - Mahatma Gandhi assassinated by Nathuram Godse
1961 - Lance Gibbs (West Indies) takes hat-trick (Mackay, Grout, Misson) at Adelaide
1979 - Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) adopts a new constitution
1989 - Five Pharaoh sculptures from 1470 BC found at temple of Luxor
1994 - Kapil Dev equals Richard Hadlee's world record of 431 Test wkts

       

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28 January - History and Importance of the Day

1077 - German King Henry IV is absolved by Holy Roman Emperor Pope Gregory VII after his penitent Walk to Canossa.
1547 – Nine-year-old Edward VI becomes King of England. He is the first Protestant ruler of England.
1624 - Sir Thomas Warner founds the first British colony in the Caribbean, on Saint Kitts.
1807 - London's Pall Mall is 1st street lit by gaslight
1855 - The first locomotive runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean on the Panama Railway.
1878 - 1st telephone exchange (New Haven, CT)
1915 - US Pres Wilson refuses to prohibit immigration of illiterates
1933 - The name Pakistan is coined by Choudhary Rehmat Ali Khan and is accepted by the Indian Muslims who then thereby adopted it further for the Pakistan Movement seeking independence.
1956 - Elvis Presley's 1st appearance on National TV (Dorsey Bros Stage Show)
1958 - The Lego company patented their design of Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today.
1986 - 25th Space Shuttle (51L)-Challenger 10 explodes 73 sec after liftoff
            http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/challenger-explodes
1991 - Dictator Siad Barre flees Somalia ending 22 year rule
2011 - Hundreds of thousands of protesters fill the Egyptian's streets against the Mubarak regime in demonstrations referred to as the "Friday of Anger"



Birthdays

1865 – Lala Lajpat Rai, Indian author and politician (d. 1928)
1922 – Robert W. Holley, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1993)




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27 January - History and Importance of the Day

International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/events/27-january-international-day-of-commemoration-in-memory-of-the-victims-of-the-holocaust/

27 January 2013 is World Leprosy Day also. Four Sunday of January
http://www.leprosy.org/world-leprosy-day

98 – Trajan succeeded his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor; under his rule the Roman Empire would reach its maximum extent.
1785 – The University of Georgia is founded, the first public university in the United States.


1926 John Logie Baird gave demonstration of first TV system in London
        http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/baird-demonstrates-tv

1974 – The Brisbane River breaches its banks causing the largest flood to affect the city of Brisbane in the 20th century.








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26 January - History and Importance of the Day

Australia Day
Republic Day - India

International Customs Day
http://www.wcoomd.org/en/about-us/international-customs-day/icd-2013.aspx


66 - 5th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet

1500 Pinzon discovered Brazil
        http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/pinzon-discovers-brazil?catId=6

1700 - The magnitude 9 Cascadia Earthquake took place off the west coast of the North America, as evidenced by Japanese records.


1788 Australia Day - Captain Arthur Phillip landed in Australia with 11 ships. Captain Arthur Phillip and British colonists hoisted the English flag at Sydney Cove, New South Wales. Now the day is celebrated as Australia Day

        http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/australia-day
        http://www.australiaday.org.au/australia-day/history.aspx
        http://australiaday.vic.gov.au/student-resources/factsheets/celebrating-on-26-january.html

1875 - Electric dental drill is patented by George F Green
1886 - Karl Benz patents 1st auto with burning motor
1905 - World's largest diamond, the 3,106-carat Cullinan, is found in South Africa
1929 - Indian National Congress proclaims goal for India's independence
1950 - India becomes a republic,
1967 - Chicago Blizzard strikes with a record 23 inches of snow fall causing 800 buses and 50,000 automobiles to be abandoned
1972 - Air stewardess Vesna Vulovic survives 10,160m fall without parachute
1980 - Mary Decker became 1st woman to run a mile in under 4½ minutes
2001 - An earthquake hits Gujarat, India, causing more than 20,000 deaths.
2004 - President Hamid Karzai signs the new constitution of Afghanistan.



Birthdays

1918 – Nicolae Ceauşescu, Romanian politician, 1st President of Romania (d. 1989)

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1565 - Battle at Talikota India: the Deccan sultans in combinations destroyed Vijayanagar's army and destroyed their capital Hampi Vijayanagar. This Hindu kingdom formed by driving out Muslim from South India flourished further for many more years. Marathas defeated Vijayanar Nayaks subsequently in Tanjore and established their rule. A large part of South India was under the Hindu rule under Vijaya Nagar Empire and its constituent rules of various areas.
1799 - 1st US patent for a seeding machine, Eliakim Spooner, Vermont
1881 - Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
1914 - An Indian mass meeting in Durban unanimously endorse the agreement between General J.C. Smuts and Mahatma Gandhi regarding voluntary registration, poll tax, recognition of Indian marriages and other matters
1915 - Transcontinental telephone service inaugurated (New York to San Francisco)
1924 - 1st Winter Olympic games open in Chamonix, France
1945 - Grand Rapids, Michigan becomes 1st US city to fluoridate its water
1979 - 1st documented case of a robot killing a human in US

1981 China Mao's Widow Jiang Qing was sentenced to death. But it was later converted to life imprisonment. She died in 1991 due to apparent suicide.
         http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/maos-widow-sentenced-to-death


2011 Day of Wrath Demonstrations in Egypt that lead to the change of regime
         http://muftah.org/a-historical-appraisal-of-egypts-january-25-day-of-wrath-incentives-characteristics-implications-by-nancy-elshami/

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