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1974 - January. January 5 - Dungeons & Dragons officially released. January 6 - In response to the energy crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States. January 30 - G. Gordon Liddy found guilty of Watergate charges 1974 - February. February 1 - Fire in Joelman Bank Building in Sao Paulo, Brazil - 177 dead, 293 injured February 1 - The Joelma Fire kills 188 in São Paulo. February ...

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A device adopted from the Romans by the old chronologers to aid them in finding the day of the week corresponding to any given date, and indirectly to facilitate the adjustment of the "Proprium de Tempore" to the "Proprium Sanctorum" when constructing the ecclesiastical calendar for any year. The Church, on account of its complicated system of movable and immovable feasts (see Christian calendar), has from an early period taken upon itself as a special charge to regulate the measurement of time. To secure uniformity in the observance of feas ...

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1907 - January. January 6 - Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome (Casa dei Bambini in San Lorenzo). January 14 - An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than 1,000. January 23 - Charles Curtis from Kansas, becomes the first Native American US Senator. 1907 - February. February 22 - Scouting is founded by Robert Baden-Powel ...

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1861 - January. January 1 - Benito Juárez captures Mexico City January 2 - Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia dies and is succeeded by Wilhelm I January 3 - American Civil War: Delaware votes not to secede from the United States January 9 - Mississippi becomes the second state to secede from the Union, preceding the American Civil War. January 10 - American Civil War: Florida secedes from the United States January 11 - American Civil War: Alabama secedes from the U ...

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1963 - January. January 1 - CSIRO scientist Dr Gilbert Bogle and Mrs Margaret Chandler are found dead, believed to have been poisoned, in bushland near the Lane Cove River, Sydney. Known as the Bogle-Chandler case. January 11 - The Whisky A Go-Go night club in Los Angeles, the first disco in the USA, is opened. January 14 - George Wallace becomes governor of Alabama. January 22 - Elysée treaty between France and Germany January 28 - Black student Harvey Gantt enters Clem ...

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1850 - January - April. January 4 - Frederick York Powell, English historian and scholar (died 1904) January 6 - Eduard Bernstein, German social democratic theoretician and politician (died 1932) January 6 - Xaver Scharwenka, Polish-German composer (died 1924) January 10 - John Wellborn Root, U.S. architect (died 1891) January 11 - Philipp von Ferrary, Italian stamp collector (died 1917) January 14 - Pierre Loti, French sailor and writer (died 1923) Janu ...

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1895 - January. January 5 - Dreyfus Affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island. 1895 - February. February 11 - The lowest ever UK temperature of -27.2°C (measured as -17°F) was recorded at Braemar in Aberdeenshire. This record was equalled in 1982. February 14 - First showing of Oscar Wilde's last play The Importance of Being Earnest (St. Ja ...

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1839 - Undated. Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Mahmud II (1808-1839) to Abd-ul-Mejid (1839-1861) In the United States, the first state law permitting women to own property is passed in Jackson, Mississippi. The first parallax measurement of the distance to Alpha Centauri is published by Thomas Henderson. Excavation on Copan begins Half of the Limburg province of Belgium was added to the Netherlands, since 1839 there is a Belgian Limburg and Dutch Limburg.See also:

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1878 - January - April. January - Cleopatra's Needle arrives in London January 9 - Humbert I becomes King of Italy January 5 - Battle of Shipka Pass IV January 17 - Battle of Plovdiv January 23 - Disraeli orders British fleet to Dardanelles January 28 - The Yale News becomes the first daily, college newspaper in the United States. January 31 - Turkey agrees to armistice at Adrianople February 2 - Greece declares war on Turkey. Fe ...

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1889 - January-April. January 8 - Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his electric tabulating machine January 22 - Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, DC. January 30 - Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera commit a double suicide (or a murder suicide) in Mayerling hunting lodge February 11 - Meiji Constitution of Japan adopted; 1st Diet convenes in 1890 February 22 - President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota ...

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1974 - January. January 5 - Dungeons & Dragons officially released. January 6 - In response to the energy crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States.. January 27 - Brisbane Qld Australia was flooded. January 30 - G. Gordon Liddy found guilty of Watergate charges 1974 - February. February 1 - Fire in Joelman Bank Building in Sao Paulo, Brazil - 177 dead, 293 injured, 11 die later of their ...

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1833 - Month/day of birth unknown. Francis Anstie, British physician and medical researcher (d. 1874) ...

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1826 - Exact month/day of birth unknown. William Daniel, American temperance movement leader (d. 1897) ...

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1791 - Unknown dates. First American ship reaches Japan Slave rebellion in Haiti has begun Brandenburg Gate in Berlin finished 1791 - Ongoing events. French Revolution (1789-1799) ...

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1793 - Unknown dates. British admiralty begins to supply citrus juice to Navy ships to prevent scurvy. Claude Chappe presents his semaphore in France - 15 stations built within a year. In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania more than 4000 die from yellow fever Roman Catholicism banned in France. First Coalition against France formed. Holy Roman Empire declares war on France. First year of regular production for the United States Mint. Construction begins ...

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1799 - Ongoing events. French Revolution (1789-1799) French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802)-Second Coalition/Egyptian Campaign Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815)-Second Coalition/Egyptian Campaign ...

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1985 - January. January 1 - The first British mobile phone call is made (by Ernie Wise to Vodafone). January 3 - Finnish government announces that a Soviet cruise missile has fallen into Inarinjärvi lake in Finnish Lapland January 17 - British Telecom announces it is going to phase out its famous red telephone boxes. January 21 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan is sworn in for a second term in office. January 23 - A debate in the British House of Lords is televised for the f ...

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1901 - January-March. January 1 - World celebrates what is regarded as the start of the new century. (Zero-ists' argument that new century should be celebrated in 1900 rejected worldwide). January 1 - The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia. Edmund Barton becomes first Prime Minister. January 1 - Nigeria becomes a British protectorate January 7 - Alferd Packer is releas ...

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1946 - January. January 2 - Unable to resume his rule over Albania after World War II, King Zog abdicated but retained his claim to the throne. January 4 - Theodore Schurch becomes the last person to be executed for offences committed under the Treachery Act of 1940 January 7 - Allied recognize Austrian republic with 1937 borders - the country is divided into four occupation zones January 10 - First meeting of the United Nations January 10 - Project Diana bounces Radar wa ...

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2013 - January. January 20 - The President of the United States of America (elected November 6, 2012) will be inaugurated. 2013 - May. 10th - Annular solar eclipse 2013 - June. The Tour de France will be competed for the 100th time. Despite the first running being in 1903, a total of ten races were cancelled during World Wars I and II, so when the race celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2003, it was actually only ...

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1985 - January. January 1 - The first British mobile phone call is made (by Ernie Wise to Vodafone). January 3 - Finnish government announces that a Soviet cruise missile has fallen into Inarinjärvi lake in Finnish Lapland January 17 - British Telecom announces it is going to phase out its famous red telephone boxes. January 21 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan is sworn in for a second term in office. January 23 - A debate in the British House of Lords is telev ...

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1991 - January. January 2 - Sharon Pratt Dixon is sworn in as mayor of Washington, DC becoming the first black woman to lead a city of that size and importance. January 4 - The United Nations Security Council votes unanimously to condemn Israel's treatment of Palestinians. January 10 - SA State Govt forced to bail out State Bank. January 11 - The Soviets storm Vilnius to stop Lithuanian independence. January 12 - Gulf War: The U.S. Congress passes a resolution authorizing ...

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