January 3, 2020
January by the Decades
By Eloise Graham
What headline will appear in January 2020? Here are some past January decade events.
- 1340 King Edward III of England is declared King of France
- 1440 Ivan the Great (Tsar of Russia)is born
- 1610 Galileo first observes the four largest moons of Jupiter
- 1660 Samuel Pepys began his famous diary in which he chronicled life in London
- 1690 The clarinet is invented
- 1790 President George Washington delivered the first State of the Union address
- 1800 Millard Fillmore (13th US President) was born
- 1820 Anne Bronte (Author) is born
- 1870 The first use of a donkey to symbolize the Democratic Party in America appeared in a cartoon in Harper’s Weekly, criticizing former secretary of war Edwin Stanton with the caption, “A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion.”
- 1880 Thomas Edison files a patent for the light bulb
- 1890 The first Tournament of Roses is held in Pasadena, California
- 1890 Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days
- 1920 The Boston Red Sox sell Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees in what is later known as the Bambino Curse
- 1920 The League of Nations officially came into existence with the goal of resolving international disputes, reducing armaments, and preventing future wars.
- 1920 Prohibition takes effect stopping the sale and consumption of alcohol when the 18th Amendment went into effect
- 1930 The Mickey Mouse comic strip starts
- 1940 Jack Nicklaus (Golfer) is born
- 1950 The Great Brinks Robbery occurred
- 1950 India Formally becomes a republic
- 1960 Payola Scandal comes to light
- 1970 The Boeing 747 makes its first commercial passenger trip to London
- 1990 The first McDonald’s opens in Moscow, Russia.
- 1990 – Manuel Noriega, the deposed leader of Panama, surrendered to American authorities on charges of drug trafficking
- 1990 – Douglas Wilder of Virginia became the first African American governor in the U.S. as he took the oath of office in Richmond.
- 2010 – The worlds tallest building Burj Khalifa 2,716ft high with 160 floors opens in Dubai
- 2010 Haiti hit by massive magnitude 7.0 earthquake with a death toll of over 200,000
- 2010 Toyota recalls 2.3 million cars in U.S.
Filed Under: History
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