Today in History

January 1
    1892: Ellis Island    		January 2
    1893: Haiti
    1933: Nicaragua    		January 3
    1793: Lucretia Mott    		January 4
    1948: Burma/Myanmar
    January 5
    1949: Harry S. Truman    		January 6
    1945: George H.W. Bush
    1993: Dizzy Gillespie    		January 7
    1891: Zora Neale Hurston
    1955: Marian Anderson    		January 8
    1815 Battle of New Orleans
    January 9
    1788: Connecticut
    1866: Fisk University    		January 10
    1861: Florida    		January 11
    1755: Alexander Hamilton
    1885: Alice Paul    		January 12
    1777: Missions of Old California
    January 13
    1833: Nullification Crisis
    1884: Sophie Tucker    		January 14
    1784: Treaty of Paris    		January 15
    1929: Martin Luther King, Jr.    		January 16
    1896: Basketball
    January 17
    1706: Benjamin Franklin
    1879: Cable Cars    		January 18
    1919: Paris Peace Conference    		January 19
    1809: Edgar Allan Poe    		January 20
    1937: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    January 21
    1824: Stonewall Jackson    		January 22
    1912: Florida Keys    		January 23
    737: John Hancock
    1849: Elizabeth Blackwell
    1964: 24th Amendment    		January 24
    1848: Gold Discovered in California
    January 25
    1890: Nellie Bly Circles the Globe    		January 26
    1837: Michigan    		January 27
    1851: John James Audubon    		January 28
    1908: Julia Ward Howe
    January 29
    1861: Kansas    		January 30
    1815: Thomas Jefferson’s Library    		January 31
    1848: John C. Frémont

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