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January 1 1901 |
The Commonwealth of Australia was proclaimed
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January 2 1908 |
The Royal Canadian Mint opened on Sussex Drive in Ottawa
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January 3 1892 |
Birth of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
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January 4 1809 |
Louis Braille, inventor of a reading system for the blind, was born in Coupvray, France
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January 5 1970 |
Soap Opera "All My Children" premieres on ABC
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January 6 1838 |
Samuel Morse first publicly demonstrated his telegraph, in Morristown, N.J.
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January 7 1610 |
Astronomer Galileo Galilei sighted four of Jupiter's moons
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January 8 1942 |
Birth of Stephen Hawking English physicist (Black Holes & Baby Universes)
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January 9 1613 |
Explorer and cartographer Samuel de Champlain published his Voyages, describing his adventures from 1604 to 1612
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January 10 1971 |
"Masterpiece Theatre" premiered on PBS with host Alistair Cooke introducing a drama series, "The First Churchills."
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January 11 1815 |
Birth of Sir John A. Macdonald, the first prime minister of Canada
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January 12 1971 |
"All in the Family" premiered on CBS television
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January 13 1888 |
National Geographic Society founded
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January 14 1742 |
English astronomer Edmond Halley, who observed the comet that now bears his name, died at age 85
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January 15 1559 |
England's Queen Elizabeth I was crowned in Westminster Abbey
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January 16 1874 |
Birth of Canadian poet, Robert Service
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January 17 1773 |
Captain James Cook becomes 1st to cross Antarctic Circle
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January 18 1912
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English explorer Robert F. Scott and his expedition reached the South Pole, only to discover that Roald Amundsen had beaten them to it
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January 19 1955 |
"Scrabble" debuts on board game market
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January 20 1841 |
The island of Hong Kong was ceded to Great Britain
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January 21 1903 |
Harry Houdini escapes police station Halvemaansteeg in Amsterdam
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January 22 1901 |
Britain's Queen Victoria died at age 82
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January 23 1897 |
Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of the Abbey Grange"
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January 24 1908 |
The first Boy Scout troop was organized in England by Robert Baden-Powell
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January 25 1947 |
American gangster Al Capone died in Miami Beach, Fla., at age 48
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January 26 1939 |
Filming begins on "Gone With the Wind"
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January 26 2019 |
Celebrate Australia Day
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January 27 1756 |
Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria |
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January 28 1986 |
The space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff from Cape Canaveral, killing all seven crew members
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January 29 1845 |
Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven" was first published, in the New York Evening Mirror
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January 30 1972 |
Thirteen Roman Catholic civil rights marchers were shot to death by British soldiers in Northern Ireland on what became known as "Bloody Sunday."
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January 31 1872 |
Birth of Zane Grey American West novelist
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