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• 1608 - John Smith elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia
• 1776 - Nathan Hale volunteers to spy
• 1813 - The U.S. defeats the British Fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812.
• 1823 - Simón Bolívar named President of Peru
• 1846 - Elias Howe gets a patent for the sewingSewing is an ancient craft involving the stitching of cloth, animal skins, furs, or other materials, using needle and thread. Its use is nearly universal among human populations and dates back to Paleolithic times (30,000 BC). Sewing predates the weaving machine
• 1898Events January 1 New York City annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York. The city is geographically divided into five boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx, and Staten Island. January 13 Emile Zola's J'accus - Queen Elizabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Liccheri .
• 19131913 is a common year starting on Wednesday. click on link for calendar) Events January-March January 30 House of Lords rejects Irish Home Rule Bill February 1 New York City's Grand Central Station opens as the world's largest train station. February 3 Th - First paved coast-to-coast highwayA highway is a major road within a city, or linking several cities together. It includes roads known as interstate highway, freeway, motorway and autobahn, where a full description varies by country. Generally, a highway is a road which has multiple lanes opened in the U.S.
• 1919Events January January 1 Edsel Ford succeeds his father as head of the Ford Motor Company January 5 Spartacist uprising Socialist demonstrations in Berlin turn into attempted communist revolution with Spartacist League in the forefront January 9 Spartacus - AustriaAustria is a landlocked country in Central Europe, a federation of nine states. Austria is bordered by Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the and the Allies sign the Treaty of Saint-GermainThe Treaty of Saint-Germain was signed on 10 September 1919 by the victorious Allies of World War I on the one hand and by the new republic of Austria on the other. Like the Treaty of Versailles with Germany, it contained the Covenant of the League of Nat recognizing the independence of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.
• 1927 - France wins the first Davis Cup
• 1932 - The New York Subway's third competing subway system, the municipally-owned "IND", is opened.
• 1939 - The submarine HMS Oxley is sunk by mistake by the submarine HMS Trition off the coast of Norway and becomes the first loss of the Royal Navy in the Second World War.
• 1939 - Canada declares war on Nazi Germany.
• 1943 - German forces began their occupation of Rome during World War II.
• 1945 - Vidkun Quisling sentenced to death for collaboration with Nazi Germany.
• 1951 - United Kingdom began an economic boycott of Iran.
• 1960 - Mickey Mantle hits what is thought to be the Major League's longest home run, sending the ball an estimated 643 feet.
• 1967 - The people of Gibraltar vote to remain a British dependency rather than becoming part of Spain
• 1972 - United States loses first international basketball game in disputed match versus the Soviet Union at Munich, Germany
• 1974 - Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal
• 1976 - A British Airways Trident and a Yugoslav DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia killing 176
• 1977 - France's last execution is performed by guillotine.
• 1990 - The Basilica of Our Lady of Peace of Yamoussoukro, the largest church in Africa and perhaps the world, is consecrated by Pope John Paul II.
• 1990 - Will Smith makes his television debut in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
• 2001 - Major Charles Ingram allegedly cheats to win the £1,000,000 prize on the British Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
• 2002 - Switzerland, known for its neutrality, finally joins the United Nations.
• 2002 - The U.S. Homeland Security Advisory System is set to Orange, or High Condition, for the first time.
• 2003 - Anna Lindh, the foreign minister of Sweden is stabbed fatally, and dies of her wounds on September 11