This Week In #History … January 3 – 9th

#TalkNerdyToMeLover’s @UlaVovk

Jan 3rd

1840 1st deep sea sounding
1872 1st patent list issued by U.S. Patent Office
1876 1st free kindergarten in U.S. opens in Florence, Mass.
1890 1st U.S. college-level dairy school opens at University of Wisconsin
1922 1st living person identified on a U.S. coin (Thomas E Kirby) on the Alabama Centennial half-dollar
1924 British egyptologist Howard Carter finds sarcophagus of Tutankhamun
1925 Mussolini dissolves Italian parliament/becomes dictator
1957 1st electric watch introduced, Lancaster, PA
1977 Apple Computers incorporated
1987 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts 1st female artist Aretha Franklin
1988 Margaret Thatcher becomes longest-serving British Prime Minister this century

Happy birthday to Johann Abraham Sixt, Johann Christian Friedrich Schneider, Lucretia Coffin Mott, Douglas William Jerrold, Grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge, Clement Atlee, J. R. R. Tolkien, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, Pola Negri, Johannes Hin, Ray Milland, Anna May Wong, John Sturges, Maxene Andrews, Jaroslav Hasek, Mara Corday, Thelma Schoonmaker, Shima Iwashita, Christina von Saltza, Sergey Filipovich Protchenko, Beth Anderson, Ross Friedman, Mel Gibson, Jim Everett, Joseph Amor, Shannon Sturges, Michael Schumacher, Jason Marsden

Jan 4th

1519 1st Altenburger sermon (Luther and Karl von Miltitz)
1863 4 wheeled roller skates patented by James Plimpton of NY
1885 Dr. W W Grant of Iowa, performs 1st appendectomy (on Mary Gartside, 22)
1887 Thomas Stevens is 1st man to bicycle around the world
1954 Elvis Presley records a 10 minute demo in Nashville
1959 Luna 1, Mechta, becomes 1st craft to leave Earth’s gravity
1962 1st automated (unmanned) subway train (New York City)
1980 President Carter announces U.S. boycott of Moscow Olympics
1982 Golden Gate Bridge closed for 3rd time by fierce storm
1989 Vice President Bush is 1st since Vice President Van Buren to declare himself president

Happy birthday to Amadeus VI, Franciscus Aguilon, Isaac Newton, Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm, Wilhelm Beer, Louis Braille, Isaac Pitman, Edmund Rumpler, Alfred Edgar Coppard, Johanna Westerdijk, Sterling Holloway, Robert Parrish, Veikko Hakulinen, Iain Cuthbertson, Jon Appleton, Helmut Jahn, Brian Josephson, Jay Dee Maness, Peter Steele, Dave Foley, Julia Ormond, Deana Carter

Jan 5th

1804 Ohio legislature passes 1st laws restricting free blacks movement
1887 1st U.S. school of librarianship opens at Columbia University
1892 1st successful auroral photograph made
1912 1st National Hockey Association game (Victoria)
1931 1st woman to purchase a baseball team Lucille Thomas purchases Topeka franchise in the Western League
1959 “Bozo the Clown” live children’s show premieres on TV
1969 U.S.S.R. Venera 5 launched for 1st successful planet landing (Venus)
1982 Arkansas judge rules against obligatory teaching of creation
1993 Reggie Jackson elected to Hall of Fame

Happy birthday to Jacob Balthasar Schutz, Zebulon Montgomery Pike, DeWitt B Brace, Konrad Adenauer, Francesca Bertini, Laszlo Papp, Anton Ingolič, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Jane Wyman, Wilbert Harrison, Robert Duvall, Umberto Eco, Juan Carlos I, Dany Saval, Felix Arons, Diane Keaton, Thom Mooney, Suzy Amis, Clancy Brown, Vinnie Jones, Ricky Paull Goldin, Marilyn Manson, Jason Bates, John Drew Nichols, Bradley Cooper, January Jones, Garette Patrick Ratliff

Jan 6th

1639 Virginia is 1st colony to order surplus crops (tobacco) destroyed
1832 New England Anti-Slavery Society organizes (Boston)
1896 1st U.S. women’s 6-day bicycle race starts, Madison Square Garden
1898 1st telephone message from a submerged submarine, by Simon Lake
1930 1st diesel engine automobile trip (in a Packard sedan) completed
1942 1st around world flight, Pan Am “Pacific Clipper”
1964 Rolling Stones’ 1st tour as headline act (with Ronettes)
1987 Astronomers at University of California see 1st sight of birth of a galaxy
1998 Don Sutton selected to Baseball Hall of Fame

Happy birthday to Richard II, Joan of Arc, Jacques Montgolfier, Jedediah Strong Smith, Ion Heliade-Radulescu, Heinrich Schliemann, Herman Grimm, Ban Johnson, Carl Sandburg, Tom Mix, Alan M Bateman, Stanley Smith, Eric Frank Russell, Nikolai Afanasyevich Kryuchkov, Joey Adams, Tom Brown, Alan Watts, Sylvia Syms, John Maynard Smith, Earl Kim, John DeLorean, E. L. Doctorow, Germaine Lefebvre, Doris Troy, Osvaldo Soriano, Bonnie Franklin, Grant Goodeve, Malcolm Young, Rowan Atkinson, John Singleton, Andrea Thompson, Mark O’Toole, Laura Berg, Danny Pintauro

Jan 7th
1610 Galileo discovers 1st 3 Jupiter satellites, Io, Europa and Ganymede
1714 Typewriter patented by Englishman Henry Mill (built years later)
1782 1st U.S. commercial bank, Bank of North America, opens in Philadelphia
1830 1st U.S. Railroad Station opens (Baltimore)
1929 1st telephone connection between Netherlands and East Indies
1933 1st edition of People and Fatherland published in Netherlands
1961 1st NFL Playoff Bowl (runner-up bowl)-Detroit beats Cleveland 17-16
1999 Senate begins to try President Clinton on lying under oath and obstruction of justice in the Lewisnky case
2009 Russian Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, endorses Russia’s decision to turn off gas supplies to Europe through Ukraine

Happy birthday to James Harrington, Millard Fillmore, Lucius C M Bakker, Charles Pierre Peguy, Rudolf Moser, Arnold Ridley, Alan Napier, Charles Addams, Shirley Ross, Francis De Wolff, Lionel Alexander Bethune [Alastair] Pilkington, Vincent Gardenia, William Peter Blatty, Kenneth Henry, Charles Lamont Jenkins, Valeri Nikolayevich Kubasov, Leona Williams, Mike McGear, Kenny Loggins, John Christopher Parry, David Caruso, Katie Couric, Nicolas Cage, Doug E. Doug, Dustin Diamond

Jan 8th

1833 Boston Academy of Music, 1st U.S. music school, established
1838 1st telegraph message sent using dots and dashes (NJ)
1925 1st all-female U.S. state supreme court appointed, Texas
1961 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Yvor Winters
1974 Loch Ness Monster photographed
1985 Japan launches Sakigake space probe to Halley’s Comet
1996 For 1st time in 25 years no one is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
2010 The parliament in Portugal approves a bill legalizing same-sex marriage

Happy birthday to Baltasar Gracian, Robert Schumann, Wilkie Collins, Henry James Byron, Fannie M Jackson, Gerard Leman, Emily Green Balch, Walter Bothe, Manuel Rojas Sepulveda, Jacob C van Marken, William Hartnell, Richard Cromwell, Peter Taylor, Larry Storch, Ron Moody, Doreen Wilber, Jean-Marie Straub, Roy Kinnear, Nolan Miller, Yvette Mimieux, Graham Chapman, Stephen Hawking, Robbie Kreiger, Terry Sylvester, David Bowie, Mel Pritchard, Paul Dresher, Maria Pitillo, R Kelly, Sean Paul, Amber Benson, Gaby Hoffman

Jan 9th
1493 1st sight of manatees by Christopher Columbus
1788 Connecticut becomes 5th state
1811 1st Women’s Golf Tournament held
1861 Mississippi becomes 2nd state to secede
1936 Semi-automatic rifles adopted by U.S. army
1951 Life After Tomorrow, 1st film to receive an “X” rating, premieres
1960 Building of Aswan dam in Egypt, begins
1972 Passenger ship Queen Elizabeth destroyed by fire
1979 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to WS Merwin
1987 Chinese/Vietnamese border fights, 1500 killed
2007 Apple Computer unveils the revolutionary iPhone

Happy birthday to Thomas Warton, Adolf von Schlagintweit, Anton Aškerc, Carrie Chapman Catt, Hans Bethge, Chic Young, Richard M. Nixon, Kenny [Klook] Clarke, Derek Allhusen, Anita Louise, Lee Van Cleef, Kenneth Kelley, Jimmy Page, Rio Reiser, Kimberly Beck Hilton, Phil Lewis, Dave Matthews, Kim Mathers, A. J. McLean