Kansas entered the Union as a free state on January 29, 1861. Continue reading.

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A bit of January 29th history…

661 - Rashidun Caliphate, then the largest empire in history, ends with the death of it’s leader, Ali; succeeded by Umayyad Caliphate

1595 - William Shakespeare’s play “Romeo and Juliet” is thought to have been 1st performed; officially published in early 1597

1845 - Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven” is published (pictured)

1850 - Senator Henry Clay drafts the Compromise of 1850 to diffuse tensions between slave states and free states over territories won during the Mexican - American War

1886 - Karl Benz patents the “Benz Patent-Motorwagon” in Germany, the world’s 1st automobile with a burning motor

1892 - Coca-Cola Company is incorporated

2002 - US President Bush in his state of the union address describes “regimes that sponsor terror” an “Axis of Evil”, which includes Iraq, Iran and North Korea 

On January 28, 1908, author and activist Julia Ward Howe, famous for her composition, "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," became the first woman elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Continue reading.

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1671 - British pirate Henry Morgan captures Panama City from the Spanish defenders

1807 - London’s Pall Mall is 1st street lit by gaslight

1887 - Work begins on Eiffel Tower in Paris

1958 - The Lego Company patents their design of Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today

1985 - Charity single “We Are the World” is recorded by supergroup USA for Africa

1986 - Space Shuttle Challenger explodes 73 seconds after liftoff from Cape Canaveral, with all 7 crew members killed including Christa McAuliffe who was to be the 1st teacher in space (pictured) 

John James Audubon, naturalist and artist famous for his drawings and paintings of North American birds, died at his home in New York City on January 27, 1851. Continue reading.

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A bit of January 27th history…

1820 - Russian Antarctic expedition led by von Bellingshausen and Lazarev discover the continent of Antarctica

1825 - US Congress approves Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for the forced relocation of the Eastern Indian tribes via the “Trail of Tears”

1888 - The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington DC for “the increase and diffusion of geographic knowledge”

1924 - Lenin placed in Mausoleum in Red Square, Moscow (pictured)

1926 - Physicist Erwin Schrodinger publishes his theory of wave mechanics and presents what becomes known as the Schrodinger Equation in quantum mechanics

1944 - Siege of Leningrad lifted by the Soviets after 880 days and more than 2 million Russians killed

1945 - Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz and Birkenau Concentration Camps 

2017 - US President Trump issues executive order banning travel to the US for 7 mostly Muslim countries and suspending admission for refugees 

Michigan entered the Union as the twenty-sixth state on January 26, 1837. Continue reading.

According to the terms of the capitulation protocol of January 26, 1654, Portugal decreed that Jewish and Dutch settlers had three months to leave Brazil. Continue reading.

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A bit of January 26th history…

1482 - “Pentateuch”, the Jewish Bible, is printed as a book in Italy

1500 - Vicente Pinzon becomes 1st European to set foot in Brazil

1564 - The Council of Trent issues it’s conclusions in the Tridentinum, establishing a distinction between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism

1905 - World’s largest diamond, 3,106 carat Cullinan, is found in South Africa

1926 - John Baird gives 1st public demonstration of television in his lab in London (pictured)

1950 - Constitution of independent India comes into effect 

On January 25, 1972, at the Concord Baptist Church of Christ in Brooklyn, New York, Shirley Chisholm announced her candidacy for President of the United States.  Continue reading.

On January 25, 1890, police cleared a path through a cheering crowd for reporter Nellie Bly as she stepped off a train in New York just 72 days, 6 hours, 11 minutes, and 14 seconds after setting sail east to prove she could circle the globe in less than 80 days.  Continue reading.

Ezekiel Cheever was a Latin schoolmaster active in the British American colonies for seventy years. Continue reading.

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A bit of January 25th history…

1565 - Battle of Talikota, India: Deccan sultanate destroy Vijayanagar’s army and the last Hindu Kingdom of Southern India (pictured)

1840 - American naval expedition under Charles Wilkes is 1st to identify Antarctica as a new continent

1877 - US Congress establishes Electoral Commission to determine the disputed election between Rutherford B Hayes and Samuel Tilden

1939 - 1st nuclear fission experiment (splitting of a uranium atom) in US, in basement of Pupin Hall, Columbia University

1979 - 1st documented case of a robot killing a human in the US

1994 - Accused of molesting a 13 year old boy, Michael Jackson settles a civil lawsuit out of court

2011 - Egyptian Revolution of 2011 begins with a series of street demonstrations, rallies, acts of civil disobedience, labor strikes, and violent clashes in Cairo, Alexandria, and other cities