This Day in History......

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Jan. 11, 1908
On January 11, 1908, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt declares the massive Grand Canyon in northwestern Arizona a national monument.

 

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Jan. 12, 1926


On this day in 1926, the two-man comedy series “Sam ‘n’ Henry” debuts on Chicago’s WGN radio station. Two years later, after changing its name to “Amos ‘n’ Andy,” the show became one of the most popular radio programs in American history.

 

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Jan. 13,
On this day in 1128, Pope Honorius II grants a papal sanction to the military order known as the Knights Templar, declaring it to be an army of God.

 

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Jan. 14, 1875

The theologian, musician, philosopher and Nobel Prize-winning physician Albert Schweitzer is born on this day in 1875 in Upper-Alsace, Germany (now Haut-Rhin, France).

 

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Jan. 15, 1967
On this day in 1967, at the Los Angeles Coliseum, the Green Bay Packers beat the Kansas City Chiefs in the first-ever world championship game of American football.

 

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Jan. 15, 1967
On this day in 1967, at the Los Angeles Coliseum, the Green Bay Packers beat the Kansas City Chiefs in the first-ever world championship game of American football.

And on Sunday , Belichick will squash them in their own back yard !!

 

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Great Molasses Flood - Wikipedia

 

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Jan. 16, 1938
1938 1st jazz concert held at Carnegie Hall (Benny Goodman)

 

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Jan. 17,
1946 United Nations Security Council holds its 1st meeting.

 

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Jan. 18,
1980 Pink Floyd's album "The Wall" hits #1.

 

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Jan 19,


On this day in 1809, poet, author and literary critic Edgar Allan Poe is born in Boston, Massachusetts.

 

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Jan. 20,

2009 Barack Obama, inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States of America, becomes the United States' first African-American president.

 

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Jan. 21, 1977


Jimmy Carter grants an unconditional pardon to hundreds of thousands of men who evaded the draft during the Vietnam War.

 

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Today marks the 25th anniversary of the day the New England Patriots changed forever. Since Robert Kraft bought the team, the Pats have become the most dominant team in the NFL. ❤

 

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1987 Pennsylvania politician R. Budd Dwyer shoots and kills himself at a press conference on live national television, leading to debates on boundaries in journalism.

 

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Jan. 24
1940 "The Grapes of Wrath", directed by John Ford and based on John Steinbeck's novel of the same name, starring Henry Fonda and Jane Darwell, is released.

 

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Jan. 25,
1554 Founding of the city of São Paulo in Brazil.

 

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Jan. 26, 1788 (Australia Day)

On January 26, 1788, Captain Arthur Phillip guides a fleet of 11 British ships carrying convicts to the colony of New South Wales, effectively founding Australia. After overcoming a period of hardship, the fledgling colony began to celebrate the anniversary of this date with great fanfare.

 

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Jan. 27,
1888 The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C. for "the increase and diffusion of geographic knowledge"

 

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Jan 27,
1825 U.S. Congress approves Indian Territory (in what is present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the "Trail of Tears"