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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…

January 07 1896 Fanny Farmer published her first cookbook. 1927 Transatlantic commercial telephone service began between New York and London. 1953 Harry Truman announced that…

January 06 1540 King Henry VIII of England married his 4th wife, Anne of Cleves. 1759 George Washington married Martha Custis. 1838 Samuel Morse gave…

January 05 1896 A German newspaper reported German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen’s discovery of X-rays. 1914 Henry Ford introduced the $5-a-day minimum wage. 1925 Nellie Tayloe…