January is...
Crime Stoppers Month
National Birth Defects Prevention Month
National Mentoring Month
National Radon Month
National Volunteer Blood Donor Month
School Board Recognition Month

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- New Year’s Day

- Paul Revere, silversmith and patriot known for "The British are coming!" was born. (1735)

- Betsy Ross was born. (1752) Did she sew the first American flag?

- Internal Revenue Service was established by an Act of Congress. (1862)

- The Emancipation Proclamation, President Lincoln's declaration freeing slaves, became effective. (1863)

- Ellis Island, gateway to immigration to America , opened. (1892)

- Commonwealth of Australia formed. (1901)

- All U.S. cigarette packages began carrying the health warning: “Caution: Cigarette smoking may be hazardous to your health.” (1966)

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2

- Georgia became the fourth state. (1788)

- Isaac Asimov, science fiction author, was born. (1920)

- DeYoung Museum in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park opened. (1921)

- U. S. Marines withdrew from Nicaragua . (1933)

- Cigarette ads were banned from television. (1971)

- Monarch butterfly winter home was discovered by Kenneth Brugger in the mountains of Mexico . (1975)

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3

- Lucretia Coffin Mott, political and social reformer, was born. (1793)

- J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings author, was born. (1892)

- March of Dimes was established to raise money to fight disease in infants. (1938)

- Alaska became the 49th and largest state. (1959)

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4

- Isaac Newton, mathematician and physicist, was born. (1643)

- Jakob Grimm, fairy tale author, was born. (1785)

- Louis Braille, developer of a system of writing for the blind, was born. (1809)

- Utah became the 45th state. (1896)

- Communist forces prepared to take Seoul. (1951)

- The Euro, Europe's common currency, debuted. (1999)

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5

- Zebulon Montgomery Pike was born. (1779) What mountain was named after him, and what song did a view from that mountain inspire?

- George Washington Carver, scientist and inventor, died. (1943)

- The term Hamburger steak first appeared in a newspaper from Walla Walla, Washington. (1889)

- First X-ray was demonstrated by German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen. (1896)

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6

- Epiphany, 12 days after Christmas

- Joan of Arc was born. (1412)

- Telegraph was first demonstrated by Samuel Morse. (1838)

- Carl Sandburg, author and celebrated American, was born. (1878)

- New Mexico became the 47th state. (1912)

- Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States , died. (1919)

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7

- Galileo, Italian mathematician, discovered four moons of Jupiter. (1610)

- "Dog of the Yard" was purchased for $3 by the United States Mint as a watchdog. (1793)

- Millard Fillmore, 13th U.S. president, was born. (1800)

- Zora Neale Hurston, novelist, folklorist, dramatist, and anthropologist, was born. (1891)

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8

- George Washington delivered the first State of the Union address. (1790)

- In the Battle of New Orleans of the War of 1812, U. S. forces defeated the British. (1815)

- Earth's rotation was proven. (1851)

- Singer Elvis Presley was born. (1935)

- Stephen Hawking, British physicist and author of A Brief History of Time, was born. (1942)

- General Charles de Gaulle was proclaimed first president of the new Fifth Republic in France . (1959)

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9

- Connecticut became the fifth state. (1788)

- Carrie Chapman Catt, women's rights leader, was born. (1859)

- The ship Star of West was fired on in first hostile act of American Civil War at Sumter, SC. (1861)

- Edward Bannister, artist known for his landscape and marine paintings, died. (1901)

- Richard Nixon, 37th president of the United States , born. (1913)

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10

- Muharram  (Islamic New Year) (2008)

- Save the Eagles Day

- Ethan Allen, Revolutionary War hero and the leader of the famous Green Mountain Boys, was born. (1738)

- Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish scientist who developed the foundation for the modern scheme of taxonomy, died. (1778)

- A bill to create a Woman's Suffrage Amendment was approved by the U.S. House of Representatives. (1918)

- League of Nations formally came into being. (1920)

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11

- Diabetes drug insulin was used for the first time. (1922)

- Amelia Earhart flew from Hawaii to California. (1935)

- Watergate burglary trial began in 1973. This trial resulted in the impeachment of President Nixon in 1974.

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12

- Chemist Jean Baptiste van Helmont, first to realize that there are gases other than air and who claimed to have coined the word gas, was born. (1579)

- Mother Goose author Charles Perrault was born. (1628)

- John Hancock was born. (1737)

- Jack London, American author, was born. (1876)

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13

- The accordion was patented by Anthony Faas. (1854)

- Stephen Foster, American composer, died. (1861)

- National Geographic Society was founded. (1888)

- Fort Knox Bullion Depository received its first shipment of gold bullion. (1937)

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14

- Treaty of Paris was ratified, officially establishing the United States as an independent and sovereign nation. (1784)

- Albert Schweitzer, philosopher, musician, physician, humanitarian, and Nobel Peace Prize winner, was born. (1875)

- Hugh Lofting, author of Dr. Doolittle, was born. (1886)

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15

- Elizabeth I was crowned queen of England . (1559)

- Democratic donkey had its first appearance as a symbol of the Democratic Party in Harper's Weekly. (1870)

- Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights leader, was born. (1929)

- First Super Bowl football game occurred. The Green Bay Packers played the Kansas City Chiefs. (1967)

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16

- Prohibition, the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, took effect. (1919)

- Dian Fossey, zoologist and gorilla expert, was born. (1932)

- Persian Gulf War ( Operation Desert Storm) began. (1991)

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17

- Benjamin Franklin, American inventor, statesman, printer, scientist and writer, was born. (1706)

- Anne Brontë, novelist and youngest of the three literary Bronte sisters, was born. (1820)

- Muhammed Ali, boxer, was born (as Cassius Clay). (1942)

- First nuclear submarine voyage occurred. (1955)

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18

- Quinine was used for the first time to treat malaria. (1538)

- Captain James Cook became the first European to anchor in the Hawaiian Islands. (1778)

- Peter Roget, author of Roget's Thesaurus, was born. (1779)

- A.A. (Alan Alexander) Milne, author of Winnie the Pooh, was born. (1882)

- Robert Scott's doomed expedition reached the South Pole. (1912)

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19

- Popcorn Day

- James Watt, Scottish inventor of the condensing steam engine, was born. (1736)

- Edgar Allan Poe, writer, was born. (1809)

- Paul Cezanne, French Post-impressionist painter, was born. (1839)

- Tour de France bicycle race announced. (1903)

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20

- Healthy Weight Week January 20 - 26, 2008

- Roller coasting structure patent was issued to La Marcus Thompson. (1885)

- Joy Adamson, zoologist and author of several books about lions, was born. (1910)

- Franklin Delano Roosevelt was inaugurated to fourth term as president. (1945)

- John Fitzgerald Kennedy was inaugurated as the 35th president of the United States . (1961)

- Maya Angelou read her poem “On the Pulse of Morning” at Bill Clinton’s first presidential inauguration. (1993)

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21

- Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2008

- King Louis XVI of France was executed. (1793)

- Stonewall (Thomas) Jackson, Civil War officer, was born. (1824)

- Opera tenor, Placido Domingo, was born. (1941)

- Animal Farm author, George Orwell, died in London at age 46. (1950)

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22

- Queen Victoria of England died, ending 60 years of rule. (1901)

- New Zealand was reached by British colonists. (1840)

- Bloody Sunday in St. Petersburg, beginning the 1905 Russian revolution. (1905)

- The Apple Macintosh, consumer computer was introduced via a Super Bowl commercial. (1984)

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23

- National Pie Day -- A day to make, eat, and celebrate your favorite pie.

- Edouard Manet, French Impressionist artist, was born. (1832)

- Elizabeth Blackwell, first female doctor, received her medical degree. (1849)

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24

- Gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill, marking the start of the California Gold Rush. (1848)

- Boy Scouts movement began in England . (1908)

- Microwave oven was patented. (1950)

- Sir Winston Churchill, the British leader during World War II, died in London at age 90. (1965)

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25

- Robert Burns, Scottish poet, was born. (1759)

- First transcontinental telephone service was inaugurated by Alexander Bell. (1915)

- First Winter Olympics occurred. The site was Chamonix in the French Alps. (1924)

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26

- Brazil was reached by Vicente Yáñez Pinzón, a Spanish explorer. (1500)

- Edward Jenner, inventor of the smallpox vaccine, died. (1823)

- Michigan became the 26th state. (1837)

- The phrase "Speak softly and carry a big stick" was first recorded. Later, it became a trademark description of Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy. (1900)

- Republic of India was formed, making it the most populous democracy in the world. (1950)

- Play-Doh was patented. (1965)

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27

- Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born. (1756)

- Charles Dodgson, a.k.a. Lewis Carroll, author of Alice in Wonderland, was born. (1832)

- Television was demonstrated to the public for the first time in London. (1926)

- Harlem Globetrotters played their first basketball game. (1927)

- Vietnam War ended. (1973)

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28

- Tokugawa Ieshige, Japanese shogun, was born. (1712)

- United States Coast Guard was created by the U.S. Congress. (1915)

- Honey bee was named the Arkansas state insect. (1973)

- Challenger disaster caused the loss of the entire crew, including the first teacher astronaut. (1986)

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29

- Kansas became the 34th state. (1861)

- Liliuokalani, Hawaii's last monarch was proclaimed queen of Hawaii. (1891)

- Robert Frost, American poet from New England, died. (1963)

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30

- USS Monitor, the first American ironclad warship, was launched. (1862)

- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd U.S. president, was born. (1882)

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, political and spiritual leader of the Indian independence movement, was assassinated. (1948)

- Tet Offensive begins when Viet Cong forces launch a series of surprise attacks in South Vietnam . (1968)

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31

- Zane Grey, American Western writer, born. (1872)

- World War I entered by the United States . (1917)

- Jackie Robinson, first African American in major league baseball, was born. (1919)

- The Green Hornet radio show debuts. (1936)

- Private Eddie Slovik was executed, the first American soldier since the Civil War to be executed for desertion. (1945)

- Apollo 14, the third mission in which humans walked on the lunar surface, was launched. (1971)

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