The main danger to stability is terror... Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon suffers a significant stroke and lapses into a coma. It happens just month after Sharon ends Israeli's 38-year occupation of the Gaza Strip and both his own hard-line Likud...
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 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 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 H.W. Bush to use force to expel Iraq form Kuwait. The action taken by the United States Congress today is a very important step in hopefully getting Saddam Hussein...
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 8th 1935. Well, since my baby left me, I found a new place to dwell. It's down at the end of lonely street at heartbreak hotel Elvis Presley, the King of rock-and-roll, whose fame inspired countless performers, is born in Tupelo, Mississippi....
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...
