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• 1676 - Feodor III becomes Tsar of Russia.
• 1845 - The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe is published for the first time ( New York Evening Mirror ).
• 1850 - Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the United States Congress.
• 1856 - Queen Victoria institutes the Victoria CrossThe Victoria Cross (official post-nominal letters "VC") is the highest award for valour that can be awarded to members of the British and Commonwealth armed forces of any rank in any service and civilians under military command. Historical Background The.
• 18611861 is a common year starting on Tuesday. Events January January 1 Benito Juarez captures Mexico City January 2 Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia dies and is succeeded by Wilhelm I January 3 American Civil War: Delaware votes not to secede from the United - KansasKansas derived from the Siouan word Kansa meaning "People of the south wind", is a midwestern state in the United States. postal abbreviation for the state is KS and the state flower is the sunflower. The state motto is "Ad astra per aspera", Latin for "t is admitted as the 34th U.S. statestate is any one of the 50 states which have membership of the federation known as the United States of America (USA or U. The separate state governments and the U. federal government share sovereignty. The United States Constitution allocates power betwe.
• 18861886 is a common year starting on Friday (click on link to calendar) Events January 18 Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England. January 29 Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile. March - Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobileAn automobile usually called a car (an old word for carriage) or a truck is a wheeled vehicle that carries its own engine. Older terms include horseless carriage and motor car with "motor" referring to what is now usually called the engine. The act of ope.
• 1891 - Liliuokalani proclaimed Queen of Hawaii.
• 1900 - The American League is organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with 8 founding teams.
• 1916 - World War I: Paris is bombed by German zeppelins for the first time.
• 1929 - Seeing Eye Dog organization is formed.
• 1933 - President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany.
• 1936 - First inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame are announced .
• 1944 - Battleship Missouri is launched.
• 1944 - Battle of Cisterna in central Italy.
• 1963 - First inductees into the Football Hall of Fame are announced.
• 1964 - 1964 Winter Olympic Games open in Innsbruck, Austria.
• 1958 - Police capture Charles Starkweather in Wyoming.
• 1966 - The first of 608 performances of Sweet Charity opens at the Palace Theatre in New York City.
• 1990 - The trial of the former skipper of the Exxon Valdez, Joseph Hazelwood , begins in Anchorage, Alaska. He is accused of negligence that resulted in America's worst oil spill.
• 1995 - Super Bowl XXIX: The San Francisco 49ers defeat the San Diego Chargers 49-26 and become the first NFL team to win five Super Bowl titles.
• 1996 - President Jacques Chirac announces a "definitive end" to French nuclear testing.
• 1996 - La Fenice, the opera house of Venice, Italy, is destroyed by fire.
• 1996 - First release of Duke Nukem 3D
• 1998 - In Birmingham, Alabama a bomb explodes at an abortion clinic killing one and severely wounding another. Serial bomber Eric Robert Rudolph is suspected as the culprit.
• 2001 - Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament and demand that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals.
• 2004 - A whale explodes in in the town of Tainan, which is situated in Taiwan. A build-up of gas in the decomposing 56-foot long Sperm whale is what is claimed to have caused the explosion.