Jan 8th, 2018, 4:50 am
January 7, 1901 - New York stock exchange trading exceeds two million shares for the first time in history.


Score - 7
Jan 8th, 2018, 4:50 am

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Jan 8th, 2018, 4:57 am
January 6, 1912
- Alfred Wegener, geophysicist and meteorologist, presents his controversial theory of continental drift in a lecture at a the Geological Association (Geologischen Vereinigung) at the Senckenberg-Museum, Frankfurt.

January 7, 1954
- Georgetown-IBM experiment, 1st public demonstration of a machine translation system, is held at IBM's head office in New York.

My history score: 4
Jan 8th, 2018, 4:57 am
Jan 12th, 2018, 2:08 pm
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Jan 12th, 2018, 2:08 pm
Jan 12th, 2018, 2:17 pm
January 8, 1815 Battle of New Orleans, 15 days after the Treaty of Ghen

January 9, 1349 Blamed for causing the Black Death, the Jews of Basel are burned in their homes, 700 die

January 10, 1847 US Navy-Marine Corps landing party occupies Los Angeles

January 11, 1919 Romania annexes Transylvania

January 12, 1813 US Frigate 'Chesapeake' captures the British 'Volunteer'


Set XXII
Score 6
Jan 12th, 2018, 2:17 pm

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Jan 12th, 2018, 2:18 pm
January 7 1789
First U.S. presidential election
January 8 1877
Crazy Horse fights last battle
January 9 1965
Bond movie features Aston Martin
January 10 2000
AOL-Time Warner formed
January 11 1908
Theodore Roosevelt makes Grand Canyon a national monument
January 12 1932
First elected female senator

Score 1
Jan 12th, 2018, 2:18 pm
Jan 12th, 2018, 2:23 pm
January 8, 1908 - A subway line opens linking the New York boroughs of Brooklyn and Manhattan.

January 9, 2007 - Steve Jobs, the CEO of Apple, unveils the first iPhone.

January 10,1920 - The Treaty of Versailles goes into effect.

January 11,1861 - Alabama secedes from the Union.

January 12,1932 - Oliver Wendell Holmes retires from the Supreme Court at age 90.


My score - 5
Jan 12th, 2018, 2:23 pm

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Jan 12th, 2018, 2:36 pm
January 8, 1900
The Boers attack the British in Ladysmith, South Africa, but are turned back.

January 9, 1793
Jean Pierre Blanchard makes the first balloon flight in North America.

January 10, 1645
The Archbishop of Canterbury, William Laud, is beheaded on Tower Hill, accused of acting as an enemy of the British Parliament.

January 11, 1980
Honda announces it will build the first Japanese-owned passenger-car assembly plant in the United States–in Ohio.

January 12, 1879
The British-Zulu War begins. British troops -- under Lieutenant General Frederic Augustus -- invade Zululand from the southern African republic of Natal.


My score - 6
Jan 12th, 2018, 2:36 pm
Jan 12th, 2018, 2:53 pm
January 7, 1911
America’s sweetheart Mary Pickford marries Owen Moore

January 8, 1946
Elvis Presley receives his first guitar

January 9, 1976
Stallone starts filming Rocky

January 10, 1843
Outlaw Frank James born in Missouri

January 11, 1973
American League adopts designated hitter rule

January 12, 1926
Original Amos ‘n’ Andy debuts on Chicago radio

Score (12) resetting to: 5
Jan 12th, 2018, 2:53 pm
Jan 12th, 2018, 3:35 pm
January 8, 1974
Loch Ness Monster photographed

January 9, 1960
Building of Aswan dam in Egypt, begins

January 10, 1966
India and Pakistan sign peace accord

January 11, 1960
Chad declares independence from France

January 12, 1948
1st Supermarket in U.K. opens

Set XXVIII
My history score: 5
Jan 12th, 2018, 3:35 pm
Jan 12th, 2018, 5:12 pm
January 8, 1598
Jews are expelled from Genoa, Italy.

January 9, 1493
1st sight of manatees by Christopher Columbus.

January 10, 49 BC
Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signaling the start of civil war.

January 11, 1922
Insulin first used on humans to treat diabetes, on Leonard Thompson, 14, of Canada.

January 12, 1953
9 "Jewish" physicians arrested for "terrorist activities" in Moscow.

Score: 6
Jan 12th, 2018, 5:12 pm
Jan 12th, 2018, 5:19 pm
Jan. 8, 1297
Monaco gains its independence.

Jan. 9, 1558
Geneva becomes independent from Berne canton, Switzerland.

Jan 10, 1861
Florida secedes from the Union (US Civil War).

Jan 11, 1935
Amelia Earhart flies from Honolulu to Oakland Ca (non-stop, of course).

Jan 12, 1950
USSR re-introduces death penalty for treason, espionage & sabotage.

Score: 9
Jan 12th, 2018, 5:19 pm
Jan 12th, 2018, 5:41 pm
January 8, 1656 Oldest surviving commercial newspaper begins (Haarlem, Netherlands)

January 9, 1768 Philip Astley stages the world's first modern circus in London

January 10, 1839 Tea from India 1st arrives in UK

January 11, 1569 1st recorded lottery in England is drawn in St Paul's Cathedral

January 12, 1896 1st X-ray photo in US (Dr Henry Smith, Davidson NC)


Complete a set and new set begins
Score:2
Jan 12th, 2018, 5:41 pm

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Jan 12th, 2018, 8:21 pm
January 8, 1908
A subway line opens linking the New York boroughs of Brooklyn and Manhattan.

January 9, 1861
Mississippi secedes from the Union.

January 10, 1918
In Washington, the House of Representatives passes legislation for women’s suffrage.

January 11, 1964
A collection of previously unexhibited paintings by Pablo Picasso are displayed for the first time in Toronto.

January 12, 1998
Nineteen European nations agree to prohibit human cloning.


Score: 6
Jan 12th, 2018, 8:21 pm
Jan 13th, 2018, 3:14 am
January 8, 1992
George H. W. Bush gets ill & vomits on Japanese prime minister's lap :o

January 9, 1947
"Street Scene" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 148 performances

January 10, 2001
A large piece of the chalk cliff at Beachy Head collapses into the sea.

January 11, 1952
Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Marianne Moore

January 12, 2001
Disney Channel series "Lizzie McGuire" premieres starring Hilary Duff

My history score: 7 + 2
Jan 13th, 2018, 3:14 am
Jan 13th, 2018, 8:10 am
Januari 7 1131 – Canute Lavard was murdered at Haraldsted, Denmark by his cousin, Magnus I of Sweden.

Januari 8 1806 – Cape Colony becomes a British colony.

Januari 9 1878 – Umberto I becomes King of Italy.

Januari 10 1941 – World War II: The Greek army captures Kleisoura.

Januari 11 1805 – The Michigan Territory is created.

Januari 12 1970 – Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian Civil War.

score 8
Jan 13th, 2018, 8:10 am