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Of Special Interest
Holidays & Observances This Month
1 January
Happy New Year! from, where else (?), New York City!
4 January
Isaac Newton's Birthday
17 January
Benjamin Franklin's Birthday
21 January
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Birthday
28 January
Superbowl Sunday
This Month in History
1 January
- 1776 - General George Washington unveiled the Grand Union Flag, the first national flag in America after King George III of England called on American forces to surrender.
- 1863 - President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation formally freeing all slaves in the Confederate States.
- 1975 - John Ehrlichman, H.R. Haldeman and John Mitchell were found guilty of obstruction in the Watergate investigation.
4 January
- 1790 - United States President George Washington delivered the first State of the Union address.
- 1861 - The Confederate States of America were formed, consisting of South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi and Louisiana.
- 1951 - In the Korean War, the North Koreans and Chinese communists captured the Southern capital of Seoul.
17 January
- 1773 - The Resolution, under Captain James Cook, became the first ship to cross the Antarctic Circle.
- 1893 - Rutherford Hayes, the 19th United States president, died. He was the only president of the time to be elected by an electoral commission following a disputed ballot.
- 1991 - In the Gulf War, United States-led allied forces launched "Operation Desert Storm," an air and missile offensive against Iraqi positions and installations in Iraq and occupied Kuwait. .
21 January
- 1781 - In America, the Department of Foreign Affairs of the Continental Government appointed the first consular officer. Thomas Barclay took up his post as vice-consul in Paris at a salary of $1,000.
- 1908 - The Sullivan Ordinance, enacted in New York City today, made it illegal for women to smoke. Even though it was against the law, some women continued to smoke.
- 1997 - "Colonel" Tom Parker, the manager who helped guide Elvis Presley's rise from young hopeful to the king of rock 'n' roll, died.
28 January
- 1878 - The first daily, collegiate newspaper in the United States, "The Yale News" was published for the first time.
- 1902 - Steel industrialist Andrew Carnegie established the Carnegie Institution in Washington.
- 1982 - Italian anti-terrorist police rescued United States Brigadier General James Dozier from Red Brigades guerrillas who had kidnapped him 42 days earlier.
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Words to Remember "The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. Ignorance may deride it.
But, in the end, there it is."- Winston [Leonard Spencer] Churchill (1874 - 1965)
"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." ...Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910
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