A Little January History Lesson - part one

January:  moments that changed our lives

 1st       Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, 1863
             The Julian calendar takes effect for the first time, 0045 BC 
             The Internet's Domain Name System is created, 1985 
             The Euro currency is introduced, 1999
 2nd      United States & Canada reached free trade agreement, 1988
 3rd      General Manuel Noreiga surrendered in Panama, 1990
 4th       United States Supreme Court ruled that citizens of Puerto Rico
                  were not aliens,1904
             The 110th United States Congress convenes, electing Nancy Pelosi
                   as the first female Speaker of the House in U.S. history, 2007
 5th       German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen's discovers x-rays, 1896
 6th       Maria Montessori opens her first (Montessori) school (Rome), 1907
             Gibson patents the Flying V Guitar, 1958  
 7th       Galileo Galilei sighted four of Jupiter's moons., 1610
 8th       Singer Elvis Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, 1935
 9th       The first Women's Golf Tournament held, 1811
             Juan de la Cierva makes first autogiro (helicopter) flight,
                  Spain, 1923
10th      London's Metropolitan; World's first underground railway,
                   opened to the public, 1863
            The League of Nations established 1920
            The Holocaust began, 1933
11th      The first pineapples planted in Hawaii, 1813
12th      Popular Mechanics magazine hit the newsstands for the
                    first time, 1902
             The first recorded lottery in England is drawn at St Paul's
                 Cathedral, 1569
13th      James Oglethorpe & 130 English colonists arrive at Charleston,
                    SC, 1733
14th      Henry Ford introduced assembly line, 1914
             Thomas Crapper pioneers one-piece pedestal flushing toilet, 1863