Post by MacBeth on Jan 29, 2009 6:50:50 GMT -5
In 1820, Britain's King George III died at Windsor Castle, ending a reign that had seen both the American and French revolutions.
In 1845, Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven" was first published, in the New York Evening Mirror.
In 1850, Henry Clay introduced in the US Senate a compromise bill on slavery that included the admission of California into the Union as a free state
In 1861, Kansas became the 34th state of the Union.
In 1900, the American League, consisting of eight baseball teams, was organized in Philadelphia
In 1919, the ratification of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, which launched Prohibition, was certified by Acting Secretary of State Frank L. Polk.
In 1929, The Seeing Eye, a New Jersey-based school which trains guide dogs to assist the blind, was incorporated by Dorothy Harrison Eustis and Morris Frank.
In 1936, the first members of baseball's Hall of Fame, including Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth, were named in Cooperstown, N.Y.
In 1963, the first members of pro football's Hall of Fame were named in Canton, Ohio.
In 1964, "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" debuted
In 1979, President Jimmy Carter formally welcomed Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping to the White House, following the establishment of diplomatic relations.
In 1998, a bomb rocked an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Ala., killing security guard Robert Sanderson and critically injuring Emily Lyons, a nurse. (The bomber, Eric Rudolph, was captured in May 2003 and is serving a life sentence.)
In 1999, the Senate delivered subpoenas for Monica Lewinsky and two of President Bill Clinton's advisers, summoning them for private, videotaped testimony in the impeachment trial. Attorney General Janet Reno rejected a special prosecutor investigation of former White House deputy chief of staff Harold Ickes.
In 2002, during his first State of the Union address, President George W. Bush warned of "an axis of evil" consisting of North Korea, Iran and Iraq
In 2008, John McCain won a breakthrough triumph in the Florida primary, easing past Mitt Romney for his first-ever triumph in a primary open only to Republicans. Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton claimed victory in a campaign-free Florida presidential primary in which all the candidates had signed pledges not to compete. (The national Democratic Party had stripped the state of its delegates as punishment for moving its primary ahead of Feb. 5.)
In 1845, Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven" was first published, in the New York Evening Mirror.
In 1850, Henry Clay introduced in the US Senate a compromise bill on slavery that included the admission of California into the Union as a free state
In 1861, Kansas became the 34th state of the Union.
In 1900, the American League, consisting of eight baseball teams, was organized in Philadelphia
In 1919, the ratification of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, which launched Prohibition, was certified by Acting Secretary of State Frank L. Polk.
In 1929, The Seeing Eye, a New Jersey-based school which trains guide dogs to assist the blind, was incorporated by Dorothy Harrison Eustis and Morris Frank.
In 1936, the first members of baseball's Hall of Fame, including Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth, were named in Cooperstown, N.Y.
In 1963, the first members of pro football's Hall of Fame were named in Canton, Ohio.
In 1964, "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" debuted
In 1979, President Jimmy Carter formally welcomed Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping to the White House, following the establishment of diplomatic relations.
In 1998, a bomb rocked an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Ala., killing security guard Robert Sanderson and critically injuring Emily Lyons, a nurse. (The bomber, Eric Rudolph, was captured in May 2003 and is serving a life sentence.)
In 1999, the Senate delivered subpoenas for Monica Lewinsky and two of President Bill Clinton's advisers, summoning them for private, videotaped testimony in the impeachment trial. Attorney General Janet Reno rejected a special prosecutor investigation of former White House deputy chief of staff Harold Ickes.
In 2002, during his first State of the Union address, President George W. Bush warned of "an axis of evil" consisting of North Korea, Iran and Iraq
In 2008, John McCain won a breakthrough triumph in the Florida primary, easing past Mitt Romney for his first-ever triumph in a primary open only to Republicans. Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton claimed victory in a campaign-free Florida presidential primary in which all the candidates had signed pledges not to compete. (The national Democratic Party had stripped the state of its delegates as punishment for moving its primary ahead of Feb. 5.)