Author: tmnstaff

January 18 1733 The first polar bear was exhibited in America, in Boston. 1778 Captain James Cook became the first European to visit the Sandwich…

January 17 1706 Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston. 1806 James Madison Randolph, the grandson of Thomas Jefferson, became the first child born in the…

January 16 1547 Ivan the Terrible was crowned the first czar of Russia. 1883 The U.S. Civil Service Commission established. 1920 A year after it…

January 15 1559 Queen Elizabeth I was crowned in Westminster Abbey. 1759 The British Museum opened. 1777 The Republic of New Connecticut declared its independence.…

January 14 1639 The first constitution of Connecticut, Fundamental Orders, was adopted. 1784 The United States ratified a treaty with England ending the Revolutionary War.…

January 13 1898 French writer Emile Zola published his “J’Accuse” letter, accusing the French of a cover-up in the Alfred Dreyfus treason case. 1941 Novelist…

January 12 1773 The first public museum in the U.S. was established in Charleston, S.C. 1896 H. L. Smith took the first X-ray photograph. It…

January 11 1935 Amelia Earhart became the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California. 1964 The first government report regarding the dangers of…

January 10 1776 Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, which greatly influenced the authors of the Declaration of Independence, was published. 1863 The first underground passenger railway,…

January 09 1788 Connecticut became the 5th state in the United States. 1861 Mississippi became the second state to secede from the Union. 1905 The…