February 3, 2012 1917 – US ended diplomatic relations with Germany 1950 – Klaus Fuchs, a German-born British scientist who helped develop the atomic bomb, is arrested for passing atomic bomb information to the USSR 1953 – French oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau published his most famous and lasting work, The Silent World 1959 – “The day [...]

January 30, 2012 1649 – King Charles I executed for treason 1920 – Japan’s Mazda founded 1933 – The Lone Ranger debuts on Detroit radio 1948 – Gandhi assassinated 2000 – Plane crashes off Ivory Coast 2012 – Use of US drones in Iraq provokes outrage in country Share and Enjoy:

January 26, 2012 1837 – Michigan became the 26th state 1838 – Tennessee passes nation’s first prohibition law 1918 – Ukraine declares its independence 1972 – North Vietnam rejects U.S. peace proposal. 1979 – “The Dukes of Hazzard” premieres 2012 – Apple accused of ignoring labor abuses that can kill Share and Enjoy:

January 20, 2012 1841 – China ceded Hong Kong to Britain 1942 – The Wannsee Conference between Nazi officials decides on a ‘final solution’ to the ‘Jewish problem’; the Holocaust ensues 1961 – JFK inaugurated, becoming the youngest and the first Catholic U.S. president; gives his infamous, “Ask not what your country can do for [...]

January 18, 2012 1486 – Henry VII of England married Elizabeth of York, uniting the warring houses of Lancaster and York 1778 – English explorer Captain James Cook became the first European to discover the Hawaiian Islands 1800 – The Bank of France was created 1919 – The World War I peace conference opened in [...]

January 11, 2012 1569 – England’s first official lottery 1935 – Amelia Earhart flew from Hawaii to California 1942 – Japan declared war on the Netherlands 2008 – Sir Edmund Hillary, the first person to conquer Mount Everest, died at age 88 2010 – Miep Gies, who helped hide Anne Frank and her family from [...]

January 10, 2012 1861 – Florida seceded from the Union 1863 – London’s first underground railway opened 1946 – The United Nations first met in London 1971 – “Masterpiece Theatre” premiered on PBS 2003 – North Korea withdrew from a global treaty barring it from making nuclear weapons 2008 – World’s cheapest car, Tata Motors’ [...]

January 6, 2012 1412 – According to tradition, Joan of Arc was born in Domremy, France 1540 – King Henry VIII of England marries Anne of Cleves, wife number four 1838 – Samuel Morse’s telegraph system was demonstrated for the first time at the Speedwell Iron Works in Morristown, New Jersey 1994 – Figure skater [...]

January 4, 2011 871 – Battle of Reading; King Aethelred I of Wessex failed to repel an invading Danish army. 1785 – Author and philologist, Jacob Grimm, was born. 1974 – President Richard Nixon refused to hand over tape recordings and documents subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee. 1996 – GM announced its electric car. [...]

1521 – Martin Luther, a key figure in the Protestant Reformation, was excommunicated by Pope Leo X 1924 – King Tut’s sarcophagus was uncovered 1961 – U.S. severed diplomatic relations with Cuba 1987 – The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted its first woman – Aretha Franklin 2004 – NASA’s Mars rover, Spirit, touched [...]