JANUARY 24 817 St Paschal I begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Stephen IV
JANUARY 24 817 St Paschal I begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Stephen IV
JANUARY 24 1118 Giovanni Caetani elected Pope Gelasius II
JANUARY 24 1458 Matthias I Corvinus chosen King of Hungary
JANUARY 24 1534 Francois I signs classified treaty with evangelical German monarchy
JANUARY 24 1568 Abdij Church in Middelburg destroyed by fire
JANUARY 24 1568 In Netherlands, Duke of Alva declares William of Orange an outlaw
JANUARY 24 1613 Amsterdam merchant Hans Bontemantel baptized
JANUARY 24 1616 Dutch mariner Jacob Le Maire discovers Le Maire Strait, Tierra del Fuego
JANUARY 24 1634 Emperor Ferdinand II declares Albrecht von Wallenstein a traitor
JANUARY 24 1639 Connecticut colony organizes under Fundamental Orders
JANUARY 24 1644 Parliamentary army wins battle of Nantwich, Cheshire, English Civil War
JANUARY 24 1648 Lord Baltimore's representative Margaret Brent ejected from the Maryland Council after requesting right to vote
JANUARY 24 1652 Duke of Orleans joins Fronde rebels
JANUARY 24 1656 1st Jewish doctor in North American colonies, Jacob Lumbrozo, arrives in Maryland
JANUARY 24 1722 Edward Wigglesworth appointed 1st north American divinity professor (Harvard)
JANUARY 24 1742 German leaders elect Charles VII Albert Emperor
JANUARY 24 1764 Governor Winthrop's Telescope is destroyed in a Harvard fire
JANUARY 24 1776 Henry Knox arrives at Cambridge, Massachusetts, with the artillery that he has transported from Fort Ticonderoga
JANUARY 24 1847 1,500 New Mexican Indians & Mexicans defeated by US Colonel Price
JANUARY 24 1848 James Marshall finds gold in Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California
JANUARY 24 1857 University of Calcutta founded as the first full-fledged university in South Asia
JANUARY 24 1859 Political union of Moldavia and Wallachia; Alexandru Ioan Cuza is elected as ruler
JANUARY 24 1861 Federal troops from Ft Monroe are sent to Ft Pikens
JANUARY 24 1862 Romanian principality arises under King Alexander Cuza. Bucharest proclaimed its capital.
JANUARY 24 1874 Gen J van Swieten conquers Kraton Atjeh, after thousands die
JANUARY 24 1874 Mussorgsky's opera "Boris Godunov" premieres in St Petersburg
JANUARY 24 1875 Camille Saint-Saëns' "Danse Macabre" premieres
JANUARY 24 1878 Revolutionary Vera Zasulich shoots at Fyodor Trepov, Governor of Saint Petersburg
JANUARY 24 1892 Battle of Mengo, Uganda: French missionaries attack British missionaries
JANUARY 24 1899 Belgium government of Vandenpeereboom forms
JANUARY 24 1899 Rubber heel for boots or shoes patented by American Humphrey O'Sullivan
JANUARY 24 1900 Battle of Tugela-Spionkop, South Africa (Boers vs British army)
JANUARY 24 1900 Newcastle Badminton Club, world's oldest, forms in England
JANUARY 24 1901 1st games played in baseball's American League
JANUARY 24 1901 Emily Hobhouse views the British administrated concentration camp at Bloemfontein for women and children
JANUARY 24 1901 Denmark and the US sign a treaty under which Denmark will sell the Danish West Indies to the USA for $5 million, but the sale will be postponed until 1917
JANUARY 24 1914 Opera "Madeleine" premieres in NYC
JANUARY 24 1915 German-British sea battle at Dogger Bank & Helgoland
JANUARY 24 1916 The Military Service Bill, calling for conscription of men for war services, passes in the British House of Commons
JANUARY 24 1920 Australasian Championships Men's Tennis, Sydney: Englishman Algernon Kingscote beats Eric Pockley of Australia 6-4, 6-0, 6-3
JANUARY 24 1921 Paris Conference on reparations is held
JANUARY 24 1922 -54°F (-48°C), Danbury, Wisconsin (state record)
JANUARY 24 1922 Eskimo Pie patented by Christian K Nelson of Iowa (not an Eskimo)
JANUARY 24 1922 Lehman Caves National Monument established
JANUARY 24 1923 Aztec Ruins National Monument in New Mexico established
JANUARY 24 1930 J E Mills scores 117 on Test Cricket debut, NZ v England, Wellington
JANUARY 24 1930 Stewie Dempster scores New Zealand's 1st Test century
JANUARY 24 1933 Noel Coward's "Design for Living" premieres in NYC
JANUARY 24 1936 Benny Goodman & orchestra record "Stompin' at the Savoy" on Victor Records
JANUARY 24 1936 Albert Sarraut becomes Prime Minister of France
JANUARY 24 1939 30,000 killed by earthquake in Concepcion Chile
JANUARY 24 1943 Jewish patients, nurses and doctors incinerated at Auschwitz-Birkenau
JANUARY 24 1944 Allied troops occupy Nettuno Italy
JANUARY 24 1945 Scottish 52nd Lowland division occupies Heinsberg
JANUARY 24 1947 NFL adds 5th official (back judge) & allows sudden death in playoffs
JANUARY 24 1948 "Music in My Heart" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 124 performances
JANUARY 24 1951 Dutch government Drees-van Schaik resigns
JANUARY 24 1952 1st NFL team in Texas, Dallas Texans formerly NY Yanks
JANUARY 24 1952 Fire in main building of French Port Martin Antarctic base
JANUARY 24 1954 BPAA All-Star Tournament won by Don Carter
JANUARY 24 1955 Photography exhibition "The Family of Man" curated by Edward Steichen opens at MOMA, New York, "greatest photographic enterprise ever undertaken"
JANUARY 24 1956 96.5 cm precipitation at Kilauea Plantation, Hawaii (state record)
JANUARY 24 1956 An inquiry considers building homes in a war devastated area in London
JANUARY 24 1961 Lazard Brothers Ltd draw a check for $334,867,807.68
JANUARY 24 1962 28 refugees escape from East to West Germany
JANUARY 24 1962 Brian Epstein signs management contract with the Beatles
JANUARY 24 1962 Jackie Robinson is 1st African American elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame. Bob Feller is also elected.
JANUARY 24 1963 Buddy Rogers & Lou Thesz wrestle in Toronto, Rogers becomes WWF wrestling champ & Thesz becomes NWA champion
JANUARY 24 1964 CBS purchases 1964 & 1965 NFL TV rights for $28.2 million
JANUARY 24 1964 Eric de Noorman, a Dutch comic strip by Hans G. Kresse, ends
JANUARY 24 1964 24th Amendment to US Constitution goes into effect & states voting rights could not be denied due to failure to pay taxes
JANUARY 24 1966 WDIO TV channel 10 in Duluth, MN (ABC) begins broadcasting
JANUARY 24 1966 117 passengers are killed after an Air India Boeing-707 plane crashes into Mont Blanc, France
JANUARY 24 1968 Operation Coburg, an Australian and New Zealand military action during the Vietnam War, begins
JANUARY 24 1969 Queen Juliana of the Netherlands appointed honorary citizen of Addis Ababa
JANUARY 24 1969 Deputy Prime Minister Brian Faulkner resigns from the Northern Ireland cabinet in protest at the lack of 'strong government' on the part of PM Terence O'Neill
JANUARY 24 1969 Students protest the erection of steel gates around the London School of Economics
JANUARY 24 1970 3rd ABA All-Star Game: West 128 beats East 98 at Indiana
JANUARY 24 1970 Valeri Muratov skates world record 500m (38.99 sec)
JANUARY 24 1971 21st NFL Pro Bowl, LA Memorial Coliseum: NFC beats AFC, 27-6; MVPs: Fred Carr, Green Bay Packers, LB; Mel Renfro, Dallas Cowboys, CB
JANUARY 24 1972 WRIP (now WDSI) TV channel 61 in Chattanooga, TN (IND) 1st broadcast
JANUARY 24 1972 Japanese Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi is found hiding in a Guam jungle, where he had been since the end of World War II.
JANUARY 24 1973 Warren Spahn is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
JANUARY 24 1974 10th British Commonwealth Games open in Christchurch, New Zealand
JANUARY 24 1975 "Hot l Baltimore" situation comedy premieres on ABC TV
JANUARY 24 1975 Fastest Earth-bound object, 7200 kph, in vacuum centrifuge, England
JANUARY 24 1976 Cleveland Cavaliers biggest margin victory-43 pts (beat Milwaukee 132-89)
JANUARY 24 1977 Massacre of Atocha in Madrid: Five labor lawyers murdered by fascists in Madrid during the Spanish transition to democracy
JANUARY 24 1978 31st NHL All-Star Game, Buffalo Municipal Auditorium: Wales Conference beats Campbell Conference, 3-2 (OT); MVP: Billy Smith, NY Islanders, G
JANUARY 24 1978 Carter Executive Order on Intelligence (# 12036)
JANUARY 24 1979 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
JANUARY 24 1981 Islanders scored 5 power play goals against Nordiques
JANUARY 24 1981 Kim Hughes scores 213 v India at Adelaide
JANUARY 24 1986 South Yemen Premier Haydar Bakr al-Attas becomes interim-president
JANUARY 24 1986 Voyager 2 makes 1st fly-by of Uranus (81,593 km), finds new moons
JANUARY 24 1986 Leon Brittan, Trade and Industry Secretary under Thatcher is 2nd cabinet minister to resign after 'Westland affair'
JANUARY 24 1988 1st WWF Royal Rumble - Jim Duggan wins
JANUARY 24 1988 9th ACE Cable Awards: Discovery Channel wins the Golden CableACE for "Russia: Live From the Inside"
JANUARY 24 1988 Australia beat New Zealand 2-0 to win cricket's World Series Cup
JANUARY 24 1988 Cerebral Palsy telethon raises $21 million
JANUARY 24 1988 NBC premiere of fact based "The Murder of Mary Phagan"
JANUARY 24 1988 Australian Open Men's Tennis: Mats Wilander wins 3rd Australian title; beats home town favourite Pat Cash 6-3, 6-7, 3-6, 6-1, 8-6
JANUARY 24 1988 4th Sundance Film Festival: "Heat and Sunlight" wins Grand Jury Prize Dramatic
JANUARY 24 1989 1st reported case of AIDS transmitted by heterosexual oral sex
JANUARY 24 1990 Japanese MUSES-A (Hiten) launched towards moon
JANUARY 24 1990 14th Commonwealth Games open in Auckland, New Zealand
JANUARY 24 1990 LAs' Pat Riley becomes the 13th and fastest coach to reach the 500-victory plateau as the Lakers down the Indiana Pacers, 120-111; Riley (500-184) surpasses Don Nelson (500-317) to reach milestone
JANUARY 24 1991 "Les Miserables" opens at Theatre St Denis, Montreal
JANUARY 24 1993 14th annual star-athon $24,000,000
JANUARY 24 1993 Polish ferry boat John Heweliusz sinks, 52 killed
JANUARY 24 1993 Soyuz TM-16 launches
JANUARY 24 1993 US men's Figure Skating championship won by Scott Davis
JANUARY 24 1993 Turkish journalist and writer U?ur Mumcu is assassinated by a car bomb in Ankara.
JANUARY 24 1994 Dow Jones closes above 3,900 for 1st time (3,914.48)
JANUARY 24 1999 David Duval eagles the 18th hole for a final round 59 to win the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic at PGA West to become only the 3rd player to fire a sub-60 round on the PGA Tour
JANUARY 24 2010 AFC Championship, Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis: Indianapolis Colts beat New York Jets, 30-17
JANUARY 24 2010 NFC Championship, Louisiana Superdome, New Orleans: New Orleans Saints beat Minnesota Vikings 31-28 (OT)
JANUARY 24 2011 At least 35 died and 180 injured in a bombing at Moscow's Domodedovo airport.
JANUARY 24 2013 17 people are killed and 34 are injured in a bus crash in Taperas, Bolivia
JANUARY 24 2013 A Japanese Coast guard ship engages a Taiwanese activist ship in the Senkaku Islands dispute
JANUARY 24 2013 Russian police kill 13 rebels in Vedeno District, Chechnya
JANUARY 24 2016 TV drama "The X-Files" returns after 13 years, reuniting lead actors David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson and produced again by Chris Carter
JANUARY 24 2016 AFC Championship, Mile High Stadium, Denver: Denver Broncos beat New England Patriots, 20-18
JANUARY 24 2016 NFC Championship, Bank of America Stadium, Charlotte, NC: Carolina Panthers beat Arizona Cardinals, 49-15 #this_day_in_history http://bit.ly/this-day-in-history-January
Thứ Tư, 30 tháng 1, 2019
This Day In History JANUARY 24
Thứ Năm, 17 tháng 1, 2019
Boston thieves pull off historic Brink's robbery
On this day in 1950, 11 men steal more than $2 million from the Brink's Armored Car depot in Boston, Massachusetts. It was the perfect crime–almost–as the culprits weren’t caught until January 1956, just days before the statute of limitations for the theft expired.
The robbery’s mastermind was Anthony “Fats” Pino, a career criminal who recruited a group of 10 other men to stake out the depot for 18 months to figure out when it held the most money. Pino’s men then managed to steal plans for the depot’s alarm system, returning them before anyone noticed they were gone.
Wearing navy blue coats and chauffeur’s caps–similar to the Brink's employee uniforms–with rubber Halloween masks, the thieves entered the depot with copied keys, surprising and tying up several employees inside the company’s counting room. Filling 14 canvas bags with cash, coins, checks and money orders–for a total weight of more than half a ton–the men were out and in their getaway car in about 30 minutes. Their haul? More than $2.7 million–the largest robbery in U.S. history up until that time.
No one was hurt in the robbery, and the thieves left virtually no clues, aside from the rope used to tie the employees and one of the chauffeur’s caps. The gang promised to stay out of trouble and not touch the money for six years in order for the statute of limitations to run out. They might have made it, but for the fact that one man, Joseph “Specs” O’Keefe, left his share with another member in order to serve a prison sentence for another burglary. While in jail, O’Keefe wrote bitterly to his cohorts demanding money and hinting he might talk. The group sent a hit man to kill O’Keefe, but he was caught before completing his task. The wounded O’Keefe made a deal with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to testify against his fellow robbers.
Eight of the Brink's robbers were caught, convicted and given life sentences. Two more died before they could go to trial. Only a small part of the money was ever recovered; the rest is fabled to be hidden in the hills north of Grand Rapids, Minnesota. In 1978, the famous robbery was immortalized on film in The Brink's Job, starring Peter Falk.
Thứ Hai, 7 tháng 1, 2019
Emperor Hirohito dies 1989
Made regent in 1921, Hirohito was enthroned as emperor in 1928, two years after the death of his father, Emperor Taisho. During his first two decades as emperor, Hirohito presided over one of the most turbulent eras in his nation’s history. From rapid military expansion beginning in 1931 to the crushing defeat of Japan in 1945, Hirohito stood above the Japanese people as an absolute monarch whose powers were sharply limited in practice. After U.S. atomic bombs destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it was he who argued for his country’s surrender, explaining to the Japanese people in his first-ever radio address that the “unendurable must be endured.” Under U.S. occupation and postwar reconstruction, Hirohito was formally stripped of his powers and forced to renounce his alleged divinity, but he remained his country’s official figurehead until his death in 1989. He was succeeded as emperor by his only son, Akihito.
Chủ Nhật, 6 tháng 1, 2019
First U.S. presidential election
On this day in 1789, America’s first presidential election is held. Voters cast ballots to choose state electors; only white men who owned property were allowed to vote. As expected, George Washington won the election and was sworn into office on April 30, 1789.
As it did in 1789, the United States still uses the Electoral College system, established by the U.S. Constitution, which today gives all American citizens over the age of 18 the right to vote for electors, who in turn vote for the president. The president and vice president are the only elected federal officials chosen by the Electoral College instead of by direct popular vote.
Today political parties usually nominate their slate of electors at their state conventions or by a vote of the party’s central state committee, with party loyalists often being picked for the job. Members of the U.S. Congress, though, can’t be electors. Each state is allowed to choose as many electors as it has senators and representatives in Congress. The District of Columbia has 3 electors. During a presidential election year, on Election Day (the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November), the electors from the party that gets the most popular votes are elected in a winner-take-all-system, with the exception of Maine and Nebraska, which allocate electors proportionally. In order to win the presidency, a candidate needs a majority of 270 electoral votes out of a possible 538.
On the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December of a presidential election year, each state’s electors meet, usually in their state capitol, and simultaneously cast their ballots nationwide. This is largely ceremonial: Because electors nearly always vote with their party, presidential elections are essentially decided on Election Day. Although electors aren’t constitutionally mandated to vote for the winner of the popular vote in their state, it is demanded by tradition and required by law in 26 states and the District of Columbia (in some states, violating this rule is punishable by $1,000 fine). Historically, over 99 percent of all electors have cast their ballots in line with the voters. On January 6, as a formality, the electoral votes are counted before Congress and on January 20, the commander in chief is sworn into office.
Critics of the Electoral College argue that the winner-take-all system makes it possible for a candidate to be elected president even if he gets fewer popular votes than his opponent. This happened in the elections of 1876, 1888 and 2000. However, supporters contend that if the Electoral College were done away with, heavily populated states such as California and Texas might decide every election and issues important to voters in smaller states would be ignored.
Thứ Sáu, 4 tháng 1, 2019
This day in history The euro debuts
On this day in 1999, for the first time since Charlemagne’s reign in the ninth century, Europe is united
with a common currency when the “euro” debuts as a financial unit in corporate and investment markets.
Eleven European Union (EU) nations (Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy,
Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain), representing some 290 million people, launched the
currency in the hopes of increasing European integration and economic growth. Closing at a robust 1.17
U.S. dollars on its first day, the euro promised to give the dollar a run for its money in the new
global economy. Euro cash, decorated with architectural images, symbols of European unity and member-
state motifs, went into circulation on January 1, 2002, replacing the Austrian schilling, Belgian franc,
Finnish markka, French franc, German mark, Italian lira, Irish punt, Luxembourg franc, Netherlands
guilder, Portugal escudo and Spanish peseta. A number of territories and non-EU nations including Monaco
and Vatican City also adopted the euro.
Conversion to the euro wasn’t without controversy. Despite the practical benefits of a common currency
that would make it easier to do business and travel throughout Europe, there were concerns that the
changeover process would be costly and chaotic, encourage counterfeiting, lead to inflation and cause
individual nations to loose control over their economic policies. Great Britain, Sweden and Demark opted
not to use the euro. Greece, after initially being excluded for failing to meet all the required
conditions, adopted the euro in January 2001, becoming the 12th member of the so-called eurozone.
The euro was established by the 1992 Maastricht Treaty on European Union, which spelled out specific
economic requirements, including high degree of price stability and low inflation, which countries must
meet before they can begin using the new money. The euro consists of 8 coins and 7 paper bills. The
Frankfurt-based European Central Bank (ECB) manages the euro and sets interest rates and other monetary
policies. In 2004, 10 more countries joined the EU—-Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia,
Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia. Several of these countries plan to start using the euro
in 2007, with the rest to follow in coming years.
Thứ Năm, 3 tháng 1, 2019
Martin Luther excommunicated-On January 3, 1521
Martin Luther, the chief catalyst of Protestantism, was a professor of biblical interpretation at the University of Wittenberg in Germany when he drew up his 95 theses condemning the Catholic Church for its corrupt practice of selling indulgences, or the forgiveness of sins. He followed up the revolutionary work with equally controversial and groundbreaking theological works, and his fiery words set off religious reformers all across Europe.
In January 1521, Pope Leo X excommunicated Luther. Three months later, Luther was called to defend his beliefs before Holy Roman Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Worms, where he was famously defiant. For his refusal to recant his writings, the emperor declared him an outlaw and a heretic. Luther was protected by powerful German princes, however, and by his death in 1546, the course of Western civilization had been significantly altered.
Russian fleet surrenders at Port Arthur 1905
During the Russo-Japanese War, Port Arthur, the Russian naval base in China, falls to Japanese naval forces under Admiral Heihachiro Togo. It was the first in a series of defeats that by June turned the tide of the imperial conflict irrevocably against Russia.
In February 1904, following a Russian rejection of a Japanese plan to divide Manchuria and Korea into spheres of influence, Japan launched a surprise naval attack on Port Arthur, decimating the Russian fleet. In the subsequent fighting, Japan won a series of decisive victories over the Russians, who underestimated the military potential of its non-Western opponent.
In January 1905, the strategic naval base of Port Arthur fell to the Japanese; in March, Russian troops were defeated at Shenyang, China, by Japanese Field Marshal Iwao Oyama; and in May, the Russian Baltic fleet under Admiral Zinovi Rozhdestvenski was destroyed by Admiral Togo’s fleet near the Tsushima Islands. These three crucial defeats convinced Russia that further resistance against Japan’s imperial designs on East Asia was hopeless, and in August 1905 President Theodore Roosevelt mediated a peace treaty at Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Japan emerged from the conflict as the first modern non-Western world power and set its sights on greater imperial expansion. For Russia, however, the disastrous performance in the war was one of the immediate causes of the Russian Revolution of 1905.