January 24th, 1848Northern California, James Marshall finds a gold nugget at Sutters Mill, a discovery that sparks the Gold Rush the following year. 1965In London, former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill who led his nation through the dark da...
January 23rd, 1973President Nixon announces an accord has been reached to end Americas military role in the Vietnam War. We today have concluded an agreement to end the war and bring peace with honor in Vietnam in Southeast Asia. More than 2 years la...
January 22nd, 1973In one of its most controversial rulings, the U.S. Supreme Court legalizes abortion in a landmark case of Roe versus Wade. Also that same year, Far in your time, we have the opportunity to move not only towards the rich society and...
January 21st, 1793In Pairs, the French Revolution turns bloody as King Louis the 16th condemned for treason is executed on the guillotine. 1924Vladimir Lenin, the Russian revolutionary who found the Soviet Union, the worlds first Communist Party dies...
January 20th,1981Iran releases 52 Americans taken hostage at the U.S. embassy in Tehran, after 444 days in captivity. It happens just minutes after Ronald Reagan is sworn in as president succeeding Jimmy Carter in the White House. 1961In Washington,...
January 19th, 1809Poet and author Edgar Allan Poe is born in Boston. Among his classic dark tales, The Raven and the Tell-Tale Heart. 1807Robert E. Lee, the Confederate General whose surrender spelt the end of the Civil War is born in Westmoreland Co...
January 18th, 1943During World War Two, the Soviets Union says it's broken the long Nazi siege of Leningrad. But another year passes before the sieges find lifted in the city now known as the St.Petersburg, Russia. 1912British explorer Robert F. Scot...
January 15th, 1929Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. is born in Atlanta. Kings non-violent campaign to illegal segregation of African-Americans in the South included the March on Washington. I have a dream. My four little children will one da...
January 14th 1963George Wallace is sworn in as Alabama's new governor, and vow segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever. Months later, Wallace stands in the schoolhouse door of the University of Alabama，trying to block black stude...
January 28th, 1986Space Shuttle Challenger explodes 73 seconds after takeoff from Cape Canaveral, Florida. All seven crew members on board the Challenger, among them school teacher Christa McAuliffe, are killed. President Ronald Regan tells a shocked...
