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 protests by Cuban Americans in Miami, home of Elians US relatives. After a legal battle, the government seiz...
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 Hessian's nearby Trenton. 1990...
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 1st, 1959. I don't ambition power, money, nothing. Only to serve my country. In Cuba, Fidel Castro and his guerrillas topple Fulgencio Batista from power, clearing the way for decades of Communist rule. 1863. During the Civil War, President A...
January 16th, 1991. Start of Operation Desert Storm as American-led coalition begins bombing targets in Iraq and Kuwait. It happens after Saddam Hussein fails to meet a U.N. deadline on withdrawing from Kuwait. President George H. Bush: Five months a...
January 15th, 1929Civil 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 liv...
January 14th 1963. George 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 Alabama, trying to block black students...
January 13rd, 1978Fellow doesnt have any tears, it doesnt have any heart. Former Vice President Hubert Humphrey, a liberal icon of the 50s and 60s dies of cancer in Waverly, Minnesota, at age 66. 1992. Japan apologizes for forcing tens of thousands o...
January 12th, 1991. Just days before UN deadline, congress authorizes President George W. Bush to use force to expel Iraq from Kuwait. The action taken by the United States congress today is a very important step, and, hopefully getting Saddam Hussei...
