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THIS MONTH IN HISTORY JANUARY

THIS MONTH IN HISTORY JANUARY. January 1 st . Is celebrated as New Year’s Day in many countries. 01/01/1800.The Dutch East India company is dissolved. 01/01/1810. Lachlan Macquarie becomes Governor of N.S.W.

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THIS MONTH IN HISTORY JANUARY

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  1. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYJANUARY January 1st. Is celebrated as New Year’s Day in many countries. 01/01/1800.The Dutch East India company is dissolved. 01/01/1810. Lachlan Macquarie becomes Governor of N.S.W. 01/01/1863. U.S. President Abraham Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation.

  2. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYJANUARY 01/01/1901. Federation Day for Australia. Edmund Barton becomes our 1st. Prime Minister. 01/01/1962. Western Samoa (now Samoa) becomes independent.

  3. THIS MONTH IN HISTORY JANUARY 01/01/2012. Kim Jong-Un is declared the new supreme leader of North Korea. 01/01/2013. Christopher Martin Jenkins – the voice of BBC Cricket 1973 -1991 – dies. 02/01/1920. Isaac Asimov: American Science fiction writer is born.

  4. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYJANUARY 02/01/2013. Patti Page. One of the most popular singers of the 1950’s dies. 03/01/106BC. Cicero. Roman statesman is born. 03/01/1521. Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther from the Roman Catholic Church.

  5. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYJANUARY 03/01/1793. Father Damien a Belgium Missionary is born. 03/01/1956. Mel Gibson. Famous Australian actor and film producer is born. 03/01/1959. Alaska becomes the 49th. State of the U.S.A.

  6. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYJANUARY 03/01/2015. Phil Everly. Famous American singer & Guitarist & member of the Everly Brothers Band dies. 04/01/1785. Jakob Grimm. Co – author with his brother of Grimm’s Fairy Tales is born.

  7. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYJANUARY 04/01/1809. Louis Braille.(French inventor of the alphabet used by blind people) is born. 04/01/1948. Burma gains independence.

  8. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYJANUARY 05/01/1871. The 1st. International cricket match is held at the M.C.G. between Australia & England. 05/01/1876. Konrad Adenauer, the 1st. Chancellor of West Germany is born.

  9. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYJANUARY 05/01/1896. William Rontgen discovers X Rays. 05/01/1968. Alexander Dubcek comes to power in Czechoslovakia which begins “the Prague Spring.”

  10. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYJANUARY 05/01/2014 Famous Portuguese Footballer Eusebio dies. Widely regarded as one of the greatest Footballers of all time and known as the “Black Panther.”

  11. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYJANUARY 6TH. January. Is celebrated by Christians as the 12th. Day after Christmas. “The Epiphany”. 06/01/1412. Joan of Arc. French military figure & Roman Catholic Saint is born.

  12. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYJANUARY 06/01/1884. Gregor Mendel. Austrian geneticist dies. 06/01/1939. Murray Rose. Famous Australian swimmer is born. 06/01/1993. Rudolf Nureyev. Famous Russian Ballet dancer dies.

  13. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYJANUARY 07/01/1920. Sir Edmund Barton. Australia’s 1st. Prime Minister dies. 07/01/1931. Guy Menzies. Completes the 1st. non stop solo flight from Australia to New Zealand. 07/01/1988. Trevor Howard. Famous English actor dies.

  14. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYJANUARY 07/01/1989. Hirohito. The Emperor of Japan dies. 08/01/1885. John Curtin. Australia’s Prime Minister 1941 – 1945 is born. 08/01/1912. The African National Congress is founded.

  15. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYJANUARY 08/01/1918. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson announces his 14 Points. 08/01/1935. Elvis Pressley, Famous American singer is born.

  16. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYJANUARY 09/01/1913. Richard M Nixon. The 37th. President of the U.S.A. and the only President in History to resign in disgrace is born.

  17. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYJANUARY 09/01/1916. The last Allied forces are evacuated from Gallipoli handing the Ottoman Empire victory in the campaign. 10/01/1920. The Treaty of Versailles takes effect, officially ending W.W.1. & the League of Nations is born.

  18. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYJANUARY 10/01/1946. The 1st. Meeting of the U.N. General Assembly takes place in London. 10/01/1968. John Gorton becomes Prime Minister of Australia. 10/01/2016. David Bowie: English singer, songwriter, producer and actor dies.

  19. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYJANUARY 11/01/630 The prophet Muhammad conquers Mecca. 11/01/1757. Alexander Hamilton, U.S. Statesman and one of the founding fathers of the U.S. Constitution is born. 11/01/2008. Sir Edmund Hillary. The 1st. man to climb Mount Everest dies.

  20. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYJANUARY 13/01/1911. Sir Joh Bjelke Petersen. The longest serving Queensland Premier 1968 – 1987 is born. 13/01/2009. Nancy Bird Walton. Famous Australian aviator dies. 13/01/2012. The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia sinks off the coast of Italy killing 32 people.

  21. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYJANUARY 14/01/1875. Albert Schweitzer, Nobel Prize winner and Medical missionary is born.

  22. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYJANUARY 15/01/1559. Queen Elizabeth 1st. is crowned Queen of England. 15/01/1929. Dr. Martin Luther King. American civil rights activist is born. 15/01/2011. Nat Lofthouse. Famous English footballer dies. 16/01/1909. Sir Ernest Shackleton's exploration mission finds the Magnetic South Pole.

  23. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYJANUARY • 16/1/2017. Eugene Cernan - The last man to walk on the moon (Apollo 17) dies.

  24. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYJANUARY 17/01/1706. Benjamin Franklin, American Inventor and Statesman who signed the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution is born. 17/01/1899. Al Capone, famous U.S. Ganster is born.

  25. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYJANUARY 17/01/1942. Muhammad Ali, famous American Boxer is born. 17/01/1991. The Persian Gulf War begins. 17/01/1995. Japan is struck by an Earthquake killing 5,500.

  26. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYJANUARY 18/01/1778. Captain James Cook becomes the 1st. European to discover the Hawaiian Islands which he names the Sandwich Islands. 18/01/1788. The 1st members of the First Fleet arrive at Botany Bay N.S.W. 18/01/1849. Edmund Barton. Australia’s 1st. Prime Minister is born

  27. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYJANUARY 18/01/1871. Wilhelm 1st. of Germany is proclaimed as the 1st. German Emperor in a period of history that the Germans refer to as the 2nd. Reich. 18/01/1912. British explorer Sir Robert Scott’s expedition reaches the South Pole.

  28. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYJANUARY 18/01/1919. The Versailles Peace Conference opens at the end of W.W.1. 18/01/1936. Rudyard Kipling. British Nobel Prize winning author dies. 18/01/1944. Former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating is born.

  29. THIS MONTH IN HISTORY JANUARY 19/01/1736. James Watt who invented the steam engine is born. 19/01/1807. Robert E Lee, commander of the Confederate Army in the U.S. Civil War is born.

  30. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYJANUARY 19/01/1809. Edgar Allan Poe. American author is born. 19/01/1839. Paul Cezanne. Famous French painter is born.

  31. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYJANUARY Since 1986, January 20th. has been celebrated In the U.S.A. as Dr. Martin Luther King Day. On January 20th. every 4 years, since 1937, the American President is sworn into office. 20/01/1841. Hong Kong is ceded to the United Kingdom. China reclaims Hong Kong on the 01/07/1997.

  32. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYJANUARY 20/1/2017. Donald Trump is inaugurated as the 45th. President of the U.S.A.

  33. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYJANUARY 21/01/1924. Vladimir Lenin. Soviet dictator dies. 21/01/1931. Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the 1st. Australian born Governor General. 21/01/1950. George Orwell. Famous British author dies.

  34. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYJANUARY 21/01/1959. Cecil B. de Mille. Famous American film producer dies. 22/01/1788. Lord Byron. Famous English poet is born.

  35. THIS MONTH IN HISTORY.JANUARY 23/01/1832. Eduard Manet. Famous French painter is born. 23/01/1950. Jerusalem is announced as the capital of Israel. 24/01/1965. Sir Winston Churchill. British Statesman & War time Prime Minister dies.

  36. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYJANUARY 25/01/1759. Robert Burns. Famous Scottish poet is born. 25/01/1919. The League of Nations is founded. 25/01/1947. Al Capone. American organised crime figure of the 1920’s & 1930’s dies of a heart attack.

  37. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYJANUARY 25/01/2012. The 1st. wave of protests against Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak begin, which lead to a series of protests against a number of Middle Eastern Governments. These protests are referred to as the Arab Spring.

  38. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYJANUARY 26/01/1788. Sydney is founded and this day is celebrated as Australia Day. 26/01/1880. General Douglas Macarthur, famous U.S. General of W.W.2. & the Korean War is born.

  39. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYJANUARY 26/01/1905. The world’s largest diamond – the Cullinan diamond is found in South Africa weighing 0.62 Kilograms. 26/01/1950. India becomes a Republic.

  40. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYJANUARY 26/01/1963. Jose Mourinho. The current coach of Manchester United is born. 26/01/1966. Harold Holt becomes Prime Minister of Australia.

  41. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYJANUARY 27/01/1756. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Famous Austrian composer is born. 27/01/1832. Lewis Carroll. Famous English author of “Alice in Wonderland” is born.

  42. THIS WEEK IN HISTORY.JANUARY 28/01/1547. King Henry 8th. of England dies. 28/01/1596. Sir Francis Drake, the 1st. Englishman to sail around the World dies.

  43. THIS WEEK IN HISTORY.JANUARY 28/01/1986. The U.S. space shuttle Challenger explodes after launch killing all 7 crew members on board including teacher – Christa McAuliffe.

  44. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYJANUARY 29/01/1856. Queen Victoria institutes the Victoria Cross for valour “in face of the enemy” to members of the armed forces of the Commonwealth countries. 29/01/1939. Germaine Greer. Australian feminist is born.

  45. THIS WEEK IN HISTORYJANUARY 29/01/2015. Australian Author of the novel: The Thorn Birds: Colleen McCullough dies. 29/01/2015. Famous Australian Golfer: Kel Nagel dies.

  46. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYJANUARY 30/01/1649. King Charles 1st. of England is executed. 30/01/1771. George Bass. Explorer of Australia’s coastline is born.

  47. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYJANUARY 30/01/1882. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the longest serving President in U.S. History is born. 30/01/1933. Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany.

  48. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYJANUARY 30/01/1948. Mohandas K. Gandhi. The spiritual and political leader of India is assassinated. 31/01/1606. The Gunpowder Plot takes place: Guy Fawkes is executed for plotting against Parliament & King James 1st. of England.

  49. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYJANUARY 31/01/1762. Governor Lachlan Macquarie, Governor of N.S.W. 1810 -1821 is born. 31/01/1881. Anna Pavlova. Russian Ballet dancer is born. 31/01/1968. Nauru becomes independent.

  50. QUOTE OF THE MONTH: “ And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.” President John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s inauguration address: 20th. January 1961.

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