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• 1492 - Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain.
• 1492 - The Jews were expelled from Spain by the Catholic Monarchs.
• 1645 - The Second Battle of Nördlingen, fought between the forces of France and the Holy Roman Empire.
• 1678 - Robert LaSalle builds the Griffon , the first known ship built in America.
• 1860 - Second Maori War begins in New Zealand.
• 19001900 is the common year starting on Monday. see link for calendar) For the film, see 1900 (film). Events January January 1 Nigeria becomes British protectorate January 2 John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China. January 2 Chicag - Firestone Tire & Rubber Company founded.
• 1914Events January 4 77 seal hunters freeze to death on ice near Labrador January 5 Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day's labor February 13 Copyright: In New York City the ASCAP (for American Society of Compos - First World War: GermanyThe Federal Republic of Germany ( German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland is one of the world's leading industrialized countries, located in the middle of the European Union. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark and the Baltic Sea, to the east declares war against France.
• 19161916 is a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar) Events January 1 -The first successful blood transfusion using blood that had been stored and cooled. Impressionist Monet paints Water Lilies'. January 8 Allied forces withdraw from - First World War: Battle of RomaniThe Battle of Romani took place near the Egyptian town of Romani which lies 23 miles east of the Suez Canal near the Mediterranean shore of the Sinai peninsula. On the night of August 3, 1916, the Turkish army, having advanced from southern Palestine, att is fought between forces of the British Empire and the Ottoman Empire.
• 1923 - Calvin Coolidge is inaugurated as the 30th President of the United States.
• 1940 - Second World War: Italy invades British Somaliland.
• 1946 - National Basketball Association was founded in the United States.
• 1948 - Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union.
• 1958 - Nuclear submarine USS Nautilus travels beneath the Arctic ice cap.
• 1960 - Niger gains independence from France.
• 1972 - U.S. Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty .
• 1973 - R&B singer Stevie Wonder releases the classic album Innervisions.
• 1975 - A privately chartered Boeing 707 impacts the mountainside near Agadir, Morocco killing 188.
• 1981 - In the United States, Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization walks off the job. All 13,000 members will eventually be fired by President Ronald Reagan.
• 1983 - New York Yankee outfielder Dave Winfield accidentally killed a seagull during a baseball game and was charged by police for his "act of cruelty to animals". His manager Billy Martin quipped, "It's the first time he's hit the cutoff man."
• 2000 - George W. Bush accepted the Republican presidential nomination at the party's convention in Philadelphia.