Crossroads

January 1st 1877

England’s Queen Victoria proclaimed empress of India.

January 2nd 1757

British troops occupy Calcutta India

January 3rd 1987

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts 1st female artist Aretha Franklin

January 4th 1887

Thomas Stevens is 1st man to bicycle around the world (SF-SF)

January 5th 1896

German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen’s discovers x-rays

January 6th 1996

Record $65.2 million British lottery won by 3 people (2-3-4-13-42-44)

January 7th 1714

Typewriter patented by Englishman Henry Mill (built years later)

January 8th 1965

Star of India returned to American Museum of Natural History

January 9th 1998

Anatoly Solovyov and Pavel Vinogradov spacewalk record 3 hours 8 minutes

January 10th 1839

Tea from India 1st arrives in UK

January 11th 1879

Zulu war against British colonial rule in South Africa begins

January 12th 2010

A 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti, devastating its capital city, Port-au-Prince, an estimated 150,000 were killed and buried later in mass graves

January 13th 1980

Head of narcotic brigade arrested for drug smuggling in Belgium

January 14th 1980

Shakuntala Devi, mentally multiplies 2 13-digit s in 28 secs

January 15th 1943

World’s largest office building, Pentagon completed

January 16th 1547

Ivan IV the Terrible (17) crowns himself 1st tsar of Moscow

January 17th 1991

Operation Desert Storm begins - U.S. led allies vs Iraq

January 18th 1996

Lisa Marie Presley filed for divorce from Michael Jackson in New York

January 19th 1967

Herr Karl Tausch writes shortest will “Vse Zene” (All to wife)

January 20th 2009

Barack Obama is inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States

January 21st 1979

Neptune becomes outermost planet (Pluto moves closer)

January 22nd 1939

Uranium atom split for the 1st time at Columbia University

January 23rd 1991

World’s largest oil spill, caused by embattled Iraqi forces in Kuwait

January 24th 1908

General Baden-Powell starts Boy-Scouts

January 25th 1905

World’s largest diamond, Cullinan - 3106 carats, found in South Africa

January 26th 1972

Stewardess Vesna Vulovic survives 10,160m fall without parachute

January 27th 1984

Michael Jackson is burned during filming for Pepsi commercial

January 28th 1998

Michelangelo’s ‘Christ and the Woman of Samaria’ sold for $7.4 million

January 29th 1920

Walt Disney starts 1st job as an artist; $40 week with Kansas City Slide Co.

January 30th 1933

Adolph Hitler named German Chancellor, forms government with Von Papen

January 31st 1950

US President Truman approves building of hydrogen bomb