Category: today

January 22 1901 Queen Victoria of England died after reigning for 63 years (the 4th longest among longest-reigning monarchs and the longest for queens). 1905…

January 21 1793 King Louis XVI was guillotined for treason. 1915 The first Kiwanis Club was founded in Detroit. 1924 Vladimir Ilyich Lenin died in…

January 20 1801 John Marshall was appointed Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1841 As a result of the First Opium War, Hong Kong…

January 19 1915 The electric neon sign was patented in the United States by George Claude of Paris, France. 1953 Lucy Ricardo gave birth to…

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.…