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 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 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 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...
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...
Jan.5th 2000, the US government decides six-year-old Elian Gonzalez should be returned to his father in Cuba. That move touches all of angry protestors by Cuban Americans in Miami, home of Elians US relatives. After a legal battle, the government sei...