On This Day And In Previous Years (Brief Events In History)

[Captain WH Rollins]

3rd January 1777 - General George Washington's revolutionary army defeated British forces at Battle of Princeton, New Jersey

3rd January 1833 - Britain seized control of the Falkland Islands in South Atlantic

3rd January 1925 - Benito Mussolini dissolved the Italian parliament and proclaimed himself dictator of Italy

3rd January 1977 - Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs incorporated Apple Computer, Inc

Regards
Captain WH Rollins

 

[Captain WH Rollins]

4th January 1698 - most of the Palace of Whitehall in London, destroyed by fire

4th January 1762 - the Seven Years' War: Great Britain declared war on Spain and Naples

4th January 1847 - Samuel Colt sold his first revolver pistol to the United States government

4th January 1865 - New York Stock Exchange opened its first permanent headquarters at 10-12 Broad Street

4th January 1959 - Luna One became the first space craft to leave Earth's gravity

Regards
Captain WH Rollins

 

[Captain WH Rollins]

5th January 1846 - United States House of Representatives voted to stop sharing Oregon Territory with the UK

5th January 1875 - President Grant sends federal troops to Vicksburg, Mississippi

5th January 1918 - British premier Lloyd George demand for unified peace

5th January 1949 - US President Harry Truman labeled his administration the "Fair Deal"

Regards
Captain WH Rollins

 

[Captain WH Rollins]

6th January 1649 - the English Parliament voted to put Charles I on trial for treason and other "high crimes"

6th January 1912 - New Mexico became 47th state of the Union

6th January 1941 - US President Franklin Roosevelt made his "Four Freedoms" speech during his US State of Union address

6th January 1942 - Pan American Airlines became the first commercial airline to schedule a flight around the world

6th January 1987 - Astronomers at University of California first to see birth of a galaxy

Regards
Captain WH Rollins

 

[Captain WH Rollins]

7th January 1610 - Galileo Galilei discovered the first three moons of Jupiter

7th January 1714 - typewriter patented by Englishman Henry Mill

7th January 1785 - first balloon flight across English Channel by Jean Pierre Blanchard and John Jeffries

7th January 1927 - commercial transatlantic telephone service inaugurated between New York and London

7th January 1953 - US President Harry Truman announced American development of the hydrogen bomb

7th January 1954 - first public demonstration of a machine translation system, held at IBM's head office

Regards
Captain WH Rollins

 

[Captain WH Rollins]

8th January 1708 - Spanish armada headed by the San Jose, loaded with gold, sunk after British squadron attacked off the coast of Colombia

8th January 1790 - first US President George Washington delivered frist state of the union address

8th January 1863 - American Civil War: Second Battle of Springfield

8th January 1940 - Britain's first World War II rationing

Regards
Captain WH Rollins

 

[Captain WH Rollins]

9th January 1839 - Daguerreotype photo process announced at French Academy of Science

9th January 1894 - New England Telephone and Telegraph installed the first battery operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts

9th January 1909 - Ernest Shackleton as part of the British Nimrod Expedition reached a record farthest South latitude (88°23' south)

9th January 1969 - the first trial flight of Concorde supersonic jetliner, Bristol, England

Regards
Captain WH Rollins

 

[Captain WH Rollins]

10th Janiary 1776 - "Common Sense" Pamphlet by Thomas Paine published, advocating American independence

10th Janiary 1901 - oil discovered at Spindletop, Beaumont, marking the start of the Texas oil boom

10th Janiary 1917 - the Allied Governments respond to US President Woodrow Wilson's December 1916 note, giving their terms for ending the war

10th Janiary 1966 - India & Pakistan sign Tashkent Declaration peace accord

Regards
Captain WH Rollins

 

[Captain WH Rollins]

11th January 1838 - the first public demonstration of telegraph messages sent using dots and dashes by Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail

11th January 1943 - US and Britain relinquish extraterritorial rights in China

11th January 1964 - the first government report by US Surgeon General Luther Terry warns that smoking may be hazardous

Regards
Captain WH Rollins

 

[Captain WH Rollins]

12th January 1808 - the organizational meeting that led to the creation of the Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is held in Edinburgh

12th January 1820 - Astronomical Society of London (now the Royal Astronomical Society) founded in England

12th January 1895 - The National Trust founded in Britain

Regards
Captain WH Rollins

 

[Captain WH Rollins]

13th January 1785 - John Walter published first issue of "The Times" of London

13th January 1938 - The Church of England accepted the theory of evolution

13th January 1943 - Adolf Hitler declared "Total War" against the Allies

Regards
Captain WH Rollins

 

[Captain WH Rollins]

14th January 1526 - Charles V and Francis I sign the Treaty of Madrid, forcing Francis to give up claims to Burgundy, Italy and Flanders

14th January 1784 - US Revolutionary War ends - US Congress of the Confederation ratifying the Treaty of Paris

14th January 1794 - Dr Jessee Bennet of Edom, Virginia, performed first successful Cesarean section operation in the US on his wife

14th January 1954 - The Hudson Motor Car Company merged with Nash-Kelvinator Corporation forming the American Motors Corporation

Regards
Captain WH Rollins

 

[Captain WH Rollins]

15th January 1535 - Henry VIII declared himself head of the Church in England

15th January 1559 - Elizabeth I crowned Queen of England in Westminster Abbey

15th January 1780 - American Continental Congress establishes court of appeals

Regards
Captain WH Rollins

 

[Captain WH Rollins]

16th January 1793 - King Louis XVI sentenced to death by the National Convention during the French Revolution

16th January 1957 - 3 B-52s leave California for first non-stop round world flights

16th January 1920 - first assembly of the League of Nations is held in Paris

Regards
Captain WH Rollins

 

[Captain WH Rollins]

17th January 1773 - Captain James Cook became the first to cross Antarctic Circle

17th January 1912 - Captain Robert Scott's expedition arrived at the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen

17th January 1961 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivered a televised farewell address to the nation three days before leaving office, in which he warned against the accumulation of power by the "military industrial complex"

Regards
Captain WH Rollins

 

[Captain WH Rollins]

18th January 1788 - first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from England to Australia arrived at Botany Bay to set up a penal colony

18th January 1903 - the first transatlantic radio transmission to originate in the United States is sent by a transmitter in Massachusetts

18th January 1941 - World War II: A counter-offensive is launched by the British against the Italians in East Africa

Regards
Captain WH Rollins

 

[Captain WH Rollins]

19th January 1883 - the first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, began service at Roselle, New Jersey

19th January 1903 - the first regular transatlantic radio broadcast took place between US and England

19th January 1960 - US President Eisenhower and Premier Kishi signed US Japanese Security pact

Regards
Captain WH Rollins

 

[Captain WH Rollins]

20th January 1778 - the first American military court martial trial began in Cambridge, Massachusetts

20th January 1945 - Franklin D. Roosevelt sworn in for an unprecedented fourth term as US President

20th January 1953 - the first US telecast transmitted to Canada from Buffalo, New York

20th January 1981 - Ronald Reagan inaugurated as the 40th US President

20th January 2009 - Barack Obama, inaugurated as the 44th US President, became the first African-American president

Regards
Captain WH Rollins

 

[Captain WH Rollins]

21st January 1542 - English Parliament passed bill of attainder against Queen Katherine Howard

21st January 1793 - Louis XVI of France executed by guillotine in Paris, following his conviction for high treason

21st January 1853 - envelope folding machine patented by Russell Hawes in Worcester, Massachusetts

21st January 1944 - 649 British bombers attacked Magdeburg

21st January 1976 - Supersonic Concorde has its first commercial flights

Regards
Captain WH Rollins

 

[Captain WH Rollins]

22nd January 1689 - Prince William of Orange (future King William III of Britain), summoned Convention Parliament to discuss ruling jointly with his wife

22nd January 1771 - Spain ceded Falkland Islands to Britain

22nd January 1879 - Battle of Rorke's Drift - British garrison of 150 soldiers held off 3,000-4,000 Zulu warriors. Eleven VC's and a number of other decorations were awarded

22nd January 1941 - British and Australian troops captured Tobruk from the Italians

Regards
Captain WH Rollins