January 11th, 1964, For the first time, the U.S. government warns that smoking may be hazardous to your health. Surgeon General Luther Terry: It is the judgment of the Committee that cigarette smoking contributes substantially to mortality from certa...
January 10th, 1776. Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense, one of the most influential works of the American Revolution. The pamphlet urges freedom for Britains colonies in America just months before the Declaration of Independence. 1863. All aboard, b...
But as President, I must put the interests of America first. January 9th 1913. President Richard Nixon is born in Yorba Linda, California. Nixon oversaw Cold War detente with the Soviet Union and China while winding down the Vietnam War. But he becam...
January 7th, 1789. The United States holds its first presidential election more than a decade after the Declaration of Independence. Americans vote for electors, who a month later, choose George Washington to be the nations first president. 1999. In...
January 6th, 1412. According to Tradition, Joan of Arc, Frances national heroine and Catholic Saint is born in the village of Domrmy. 1838. Inventor Samuel Morse gives his first public demonstration of the telegraph, dots-dashes in all, in Morristown...
January 5th 2000, the US government decides six-year-old Elian Gonzalez should be returned to his father in Cuba. That move touches off angry protestors by Cuban Americans in Miami, home of Elians US relatives. After a legal battle, the government se...
January 3rd, 1777During the Revolutionary War, General George Washingtons army routs the British in the battle of Princeton, New Jersey. That follows Washington and his troops crossing the Delaware River and beating the Hessians nearby Trenton. 1990P...
January 2nd, 2006The huge white light and a few seconds later, its like somebody set off a powder keg, it shocked house, rattled the windows and everything. An explosion at the Sago Mine in West Virginia kills one miner and traps a dozen underground....
January 15th, 1929. Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. is born in Atlanta. King's non-violent campaign to end legal segregation of African-Americans in the south included the march on Washington. I have a dream, my 4 little children one day l...
January 14th 1963George Wallace is sworn in as Alabamas new governor and vows segregation now,segregation tomorrow,segregation forever.Months later, Wallace stands in the schoolhouse door at the University of Alabama, trying to block black students f...
