On this day:
Monday, Jan. 1: New Year's Day (1)
* Welcome to the Gregorian calendar, which was adopted in 1582:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=7
Tuesday, Jan. 2:
* A guide to White House declarations and commemorative days for the year:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=377944
Wednesday, Jan. 3:
* Alaska admitted as a state in 1959, including its glaciers:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=16944
Thursday, Jan. 4:
* Predictions of business and societal changes:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=106274
Friday, Jan. 5:
* Snoopy, the "Peanuts" cartoon dog, first walks on two legs in 1956. Snoopy is a beagle:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=268565
Saturday, Jan. 6: Epiphany (6)
* Samuel Morse demonstrates the telegraph in 1837. Other inventions and discoveries of the 19th century:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=576966
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Sunday, Jan. 7:
* Katie Couric, CBS news anchor, born in 1957. She's also a single mother:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=324332
Monday, Jan. 8:
* The birthday of Elvis Presley (1935) is also Rock 'n Roll Day. Elvis choice of guitar: a Martin:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=553526
Tuesday, Jan. 9:
* Dear Abby published for the first time in 1956. How the column stacks up with other advice sites in Google Page Rank:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=374268
Wednesday, Jan. 10:
* Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon in 49 B.C. and "the die is cast":
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=139018
Thursday, Jan. 11:
* Trial of Watergate burglars begins in 1973. It would eventually lead to the resignation of a president, with the process described here:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=782145
Friday, Jan. 12:
* The U.S. Congress authorizes military strikes against Iraq in 1991 due to the invasion of Kuwait the previous August:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=714509
Saturday, Jan. 13:
* Beginning of the Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War in 1969:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=337608
Sunday, Jan. 14:
* American Revolutionary War ends with Congress ratifying a peace treaty with England in 1784. A description of Gen. George Washington's leadership:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=97496
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Monday, Jan. 15: Martin Luther King Jr. Day -- U.S. (15)
* Anniversary of the Great Molasses Flood in Boston (1919) that killed 21 and injured 150:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=353499
Tuesday, Jan. 16:
* Prohibition begins in 1920, only to end in 1933. But absinthe is still banned in the U.S.:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=542915
Wednesday, Jan. 17:
* Ben Franklin - famous for his experiments with lightning - was born on this day in 1706. More about the impact of lightning:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=17949
Thursday, Jan. 18:
* Plans for the World Trade Center in New York City unveiled today in 1964. Engineering analyses of design factors in its eventual failure after the Sept. 11 attacks:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=191382
Friday, Jan. 19:
* Pres. Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino or 'Tokyo Rose' in 1977. On the legal issues of treason:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=413641
Saturday, Jan. 20:
* John Marshall appointed Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1801. Two years later, the principal of judicial review is established:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=23604
Sunday, Jan. 21:
* Vladimir Illyich Lenin dies in 1924, leading to the rise of Josef Stalin. Lenin's 7 years in power summarized:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=104416
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Monday, Jan. 22:
* Roe v. Wade case decided in 1973 by the U.S. Supreme Court. Though the case was about abortion rights, it is also
eved to be a precedent for rights to privacy:http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=568027
Tuesday, Jan. 23:
* The earthquake on this day in 1556 in Shaanxi Province, China is believed to be the deadliest in history, killing perhaps 830,000. How to track seismic events:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=198118
Wednesday, Jan. 24:
* On this day in 1921, the Eskimo Pie is granted U.S. Patent #1,404,539:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=292168
Thursday, Jan. 25:
* Mendelssohn's popular "Wedding March" played the first time at the wedding of Queen Victoria in 1858. The composer also helped popularize J.S. Bach:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=590270
Friday, Jan. 26: Australia Day (26)
* Population trends for Australiaand Tasmania:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=348143
Saturday, Jan. 27:
* Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart born in 1756. Biographies of the composer:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=444979
Sunday, Jan. 28:
* Jamaican musician King Tubby born in 1941 as Osbourne Ruddock:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=388671
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Monday, Jan. 29:
* Oprah Gail Winfrey born on this date in 1954. A biography of the talk show hostess:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=516179
Tuesday, Jan. 30:
* Oliver Cromwell is disinterred and "excecuted" in 1661, two years after his death. Background to the English Civil War and the Puritans:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=433326
Wednesday, Jan. 31:
* "Scotch" tape brought to market by 3M in 1930. Like Wintergreen Life Savers, it can cause triboluminescence:
http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=108877
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