New England Clam Chowder Day
Granola Bar Day
Hugging Day *
Squirrel Appreciation Day *
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WORLD FESTIVALS AND NATIONAL HOLIDAYSBarbados – Errol Barrow Day *
Dominican Republic –
Lady of Altagracia Day
Serbia – Saint Maksin Feast Day
Trinidad & Tobago – Chaguaramas:
SOAKA Till Sunrise Music Festival
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On This Day in HISTORY1535 – Because of a second wave of broadsides which appear in Paris on January 13 in the Affaire des Placards (Affair of the Placards), more French Protestants burn at the stake in front of Notre Dame de Paris. Anti-Catholic broadsides had originally appeared in public places in Paris, Blois, Rouen, Tours and Orléans overnight in October 1534, including one posted on the bedchamber door of King Francis I at Amboise, ending the conciliatory policies of the King. Until then, Francis had been attempting to protect the Protestants from the more extreme measures of the Parlement de Paris
1610 – Elizabeth Fones Winthrop Feake Hallett is born, early Massachusetts Bay Colony settler; The Winthrop Woman by Anya Seton is an historical novel version of her life, and of her “scandalous” third marriage, without knowing for certain that her second husband was dead, after he abandoned the family and disappeared; also one of the few women of the time to own property in her own name; began life as a Puritan, died a Quaker
1714 – Anna Morandi Manzolini is born, Italian anatomist and sculptor, lecturer in anatomy at the University of Bologna, known for anatomical wax models
1774 – Abdul Hamid I becomes Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam, after spending most of his life in virtual imprisonment as protection to a potential heir to the throne. He received much of his education from his mother, who taught him history and calligraphy. Ill-prepared to rule, military losses during his reign were devastating, but his great piety, efforts to reform the government, and personal supervision of the fire brigade fighting the 1782 fire in Constantinople, made him admired by the people
1789 – The first American novel, The Power of Sympathy, or the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth, by William Hill Brown, is printed in Boston
1793 – After being found guilty of treason by the French National Convention, Louis XVI of France is executed by guillotine
1804 – Eliza R. Snow born, American Mormon poet and hymnist, plural wife of Brigham Young; General President of the Second Relief Society of the LDS in Utah, a women’s auxiliary for relief of the poor
1813 – John C. Frémont born, frequently insubordinate American soldier, adventurer and politician, first presidential candidate of the Republican Party, appointed Governor of Arizona by President Hayes (1878-1881)
1820 – Joseph Wolfe born, distinguished German pioneer in wildlife art and illustration
1840 – Sophia Jex-Blake born, English physician, teacher and feminist advocate for women’s education, first practicing female doctor in Scotland, founder of two medical schools for women
1846 – The first issue of the Daily News, edited by Charles Dickens, is published
1853 – Dr. Russell L. Hawes patents the envelope folding machine
1861 – Jefferson Davis resigns from the U.S. Senate to run for governor of Mississippi
1878 – Vhan Tekeyan born, Armenian poet-newspaper editor-social activist, “Prince of Armenian poetry’
1885 – Umberto Nobile born, Italian aviator and Arctic explorer; when his polar airship, the Italia crashed, an international rescue effort was launched in which Antarctic explorer, Roald Amundsen, and five others died when their search plane crashed
1893 – The Tati Concessions Land, formerly part of Matabeleland that was ceded by the Matabele King to Sir John Swinburne, is formally annexed to the Bechuanaland Protectorate, now Botswana
1895 – Cristóbal Balenciaga born, Spanish couturier and influential fashion icon
1905 – Christian Dior born, major French fashion designer, creator of the ‘New Look’ after the end of WWII
1908 – NYC’s Aldermen pass the Sullivan ordinance making it illegal for women to smoke or drink in public, but it’s vetoed 2 weeks later by Mayor George McClellan Jr
1911 – The first Monte Carlo Rally begins, with drivers converging on Monaco from 11 different starting points in Europe
1915 – Kiwanis International is founded in Detroit MI by Joseph C. Prance and Allen S. Browne – the name is derived from an Ojibwe word that Prance and Browne interpreted as meaning “We build” the original motto of the service group
1919 – The first engagement in the Irish War of Independence, the ‘Soloheadbeg ambush’ of a gelignite transport, during which two policemen are killed
1920 – Errol Barrow Day * – Errol Barrow born, Democratic Labour Party founder, first Prime Minister of Barbados (1966-1976); Premier of Barbados (1961-1966 Barbados became independent November 30, 1966)
1924 – Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin dies, and Joseph Stalin starts purging his rivals for the leadership of the Soviet Union
1925 –Eva Ibbotson born in Austria, British novelist, children’s and young adult author; her historical novel Journey to the River Sea won the Smarties Book Prize for ages 9-11; Ibbotson’s The Secret of Platform 13, may have been the inspiration for “Platform 9 ¾” in the Harry Potter books
1925 – Albania declares itself a republic
1927 – Charles Gounod’s Faust is the first opera broadcast on a national radio network
1930 – Mainza Chona born, Zambian politician, ambassador and Prime Minister (1973-1975 and 1977-1978)
1931 – Sir Isaac Isaacs becomes the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia
1938 – ‘Wolfman Jack’ born as Robert W. Smith; American disc jockey and radio host1941 – Sparked by German officer’s murder in Bucharest the day before, members of Romania’s far right ‘Iron Guard’ engage in a pogrom killing 125 Jews
1941 – Elaine Showalter born, American writer, literary critic and pioneer in feminist literary criticism in U.S. academia; Teaching Literature and Inventing Herself: Claiming a Feminist Intellectual Heritage
1941 – Britain’s communist newspaper, the Daily Worker, is banned because of its harsh criticism of the British Government and support of the Soviet-German alliance
1941 – Plácido Domingo born, Spanish tenor and conductor 1942 – Count Basie and His Orchestra record “One O’Clock Jump”1943 – Dame Rosemary Butler born, Welsh Labour Member of the National Assembly for Wales (1999-2016), Presiding Officer of the Welsh National Assembly (2011-2016)
1946 – Gretel Ehrlich born, American poet and essayist, noted for works on nature; Islands, The Universe, Home; The Solace of Open Spaces; This Cold Heaven; in 1991, she was struck by lighting and incapacitated for some time, but wrote about the experience in A Match to the Heart (1994)
1950 – Alger Hiss, accused of spying for the Soviets, is found guilty of perjury in a second trial – his first trial ended with a hung jury
1950 – Agnes van Ardenne born, Dutch politician and diplomat; Secretary General of the UNICEF National Committee of the Netherlands before entering politics; member of House of Representatives (1994-2002); Minister of Development Cooperation (2002-2007), focusing on bilateral development cooperation in Africa; went to Pakistan after the 2005 Kashmir earthquake to survey emergency aid operations; increased Netherlands’ support for children’s education in the world’s poorest countries
1954 – The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, is launched in Groton, Connecticut by First Lady Mamie Eisenhower
1957 – Chuck Berry records “School Days”
1960 – Little Joe 1B, a Mercury spacecraft, lifts off from Wallops Island VA with a female rhesus monkey on board named Miss Sam
1968 – The Battle of Khe Sanh begins in Vietnam
1970 – A Boeing 747 made its first commercial flight on Pan American’s New York to London route
1971 – Emley Moor transmitting station, the tallest free-standing structure in the United Kingdom, begins transmitting UHF broadcasts
1976 – Concorde commercial service begins on London-Bahrain and Paris-Rio routes
1976 – Emma Bunton, aka ‘Baby Spice’ of the British group the Spice Girls, is born
1977 – President Jimmy Carter pardons almost all Vietnam War draft evaders
1980 – Gold is valued at $850 an ounce
1981 –The DeLorean DMC-12 sports car goes into production in Northern Ireland
1986 – The first Hugging Day *
1987 – Aretha Franklin is the first woman inducted into the Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame
1997 – U.S. House of Representatives votes 395–28 to reprimand and fine Newt Gingrich for ethics violations, first Speaker of the House disciplined for ethics breaches
2001 – Squirrel Appreciation Day * is started by Christy Hargrove of Asheville NC
2002 – The General History of Virginia, New England and the Summer Isles, written by English Jamestown leader Captain John Smith, is auctioned for $48,800 in London
2004 – NASA’s Mars Rover Spirit (MER-A) ceases communication with mission control because of flash memory problems, fixed remotely from Earth on February 6
2010 –The U.S. Supreme Court, in a bitterly divided decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, vastly increases the power of big business to influence government decisions by allowing them to spend millions to directly sway elections for president and Congress
2013 – Myrlie Evers-Williams becomes the first woman and first layperson to deliver the invocation, at the second inauguration of Barak Obama as U.S. President
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