This Day in History…

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01 January

45 BC - the Julian calendar goes into effect. It remains the calendar for some countries as late as 1923 when Greece finally adopted the Gregorian calendar.

 

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02 January

1804 - Napoleon crowns himself Emperor of France during a ceremony at Notre Dame.

1823 - President James Monroe outlines the Monroe Doctrine in a speech to Congress, stating that the American continents are not available for European colonization.

1859 - For his raid in Harpers Ferry, John Brown is hanged in Charles Town, (now West) Virginia.

 

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03 January

1749 - New Hampshire Governor Benning Wentworth founds the town of Bennington (now Vermont) named after himself. This is the beginning of Vermont as a colony.

1777 - George Washington's army in another surprise attack defeats the British garrison at Princeton, New Jersey

1944 - Major Gregory Boyington's Corsair is shot down by Japanese Zero fighters. He is captured and spent the last twenty months of the war in prison camp. The ads in this link are annoying but the article is interesting:
https://vintageaviationnews.com/war...his day in aviation,the island of New Britain.

 

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1856 - Thomas Woodrow Wilson is born in Staunton, Virginia.

Boo.

 

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04 January

1896 - Utah is admitted as the 45th state after its leaders rewrote the constitution to ban polygamy. They had requested admittance into the Union several times but had been denied.

 

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05 January

1781 - General Benedict Arnold, and his British troops burn Richmond, Virginia.

 

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06 January

1907 - Maria Montessori opens a school for children of the working class families living in the Roman slums. The school incorporates the techniques she developed while working with mentally disabled children; these techniques come to be known as the Montessori Method.

 

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07 January

1607 - Part of Jamestown, Virginia, the first English colonial settlement in the Americas, burns for the first time. The church and most of the supplies are destroyed.

1610 - Galileo Galilei spies Jupiter's four moons through his telescope. This is the first time the moons have been seen by a human.

1718 - General Israel Putnam is born. He commanded the outnumbered Continental militia at the battle of Bunker Hill.

1782 - The Bank of North America opens. It is the first national and commercial bank in the United States. https://philadelphiaencyclopedia.or... Morris (1734-1806),opened on January 7, 1782.

 

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08 January

1790 - George Washington delivers the first State of the Union Address. You can read it here:
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/first-annual-address-congress-0

1815 - Battle of New Orleans: General Andrew Jackson's army - manned by volunteers of all classes, pirates, prisoners, Indians, and regulars - defeats the British army on the Plains of Chalmette.
American casualties: 250
British casualties: 2,000+, including General Edward Pakenham, commanding

1835 - General turned President Andrew Jackson hosts a dinner to celebrate the reduction of the National Debt to $0.00 for the first and only time in the history of the United States.

 

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09 January

1923 - Juan de la Cierva flies the autogyro, which he invented, for the first time. The autogyro was a predecessor of the helicoptor.