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Sunday, 1 January 2017
What is today history january 1
Today in History : January 1
| 1500 | The Portuguese explorer Pedro Alvares Cabral reaches the coast of Brazil and claims the region for Portugal. | |
| 1586 | Sir Francis Drake launches a surprise attack on the heavily fortified city of Santo Domingo in Hispanola. | |
| 1698 | The Abenaki Indians and Massachusetts colonists sign a treaty halting hostilities between the two. | |
| 1766 | The Old Pretender, son of James III, dies. | |
| 1788 | The Times, London’s oldest running newspaper, publishes its first edition. | |
| 1808 | A U.S. law banning the import of slaves comes into effect, but is widely ignored. | |
| 1824 | The Camp Street Theatre opens as the first English-language playhouse in New Orleans. | |
| 1830 | William Lloyd Garrison publishes the first edition of a journal entitled The Liberator, calling for the complete and immediate emancipation of all slaves in the United States. | |
| 1863 | Confederate General Braxton Bragg and Union General William Rosecrans readjust their troops as the Battle of Murfreesboro continues. | |
| 1863 | President Abraham Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing the slaves in the Confederacy. | |
| 1891 | Facilities opened on Ellis Island, New York, to cope with the vast flood of immigrants coming into the United States. | |
| 1907 | The Pure Food and Drug Act becomes law in the United States. | |
| 1915 | The German submarine U-24 sinks the British battleship Formidable in the English Channel. | |
| 1918 | The first gasoline pipeline begins operation. Along the 40 miles and three inches of pipe from Salt Creek to Casper, Wyoming. | |
| 1923 | Sadi Lecointe sets a new aviation speed record flying an average of 208 mph at Istres. | |
| 1937 | At a party at the Hormel Mansion in Minnesota, a guest wins $100 for naming a new canned meat–Spam. | |
| 1945 | In Operation Bodenplatte, German planes attack American forward air bases in Europe. This is the last major offensive of the Luftwaffe. | |
| 1959 | Fidel Castro seizes power in Cuba as General Fulgencio Batista flees. | |
| 1986 | As the United States builds its strength in the Mediterranean, Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi threatens to retaliate if attacked. | |
| Born on January 1 | ||
| 1735 | Paul Revere, U.S. patriot. | |
| 1752 | Betsy Ross, flag maker. | |
| 1879 | E.M. [Edward Morgan] Forster, English novelist (A Passage to India, A Room With a View). | |
| 1895 | J. Edgar Hoover, founding director of the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI). | |
| 1919 | J.D. [Jerome David] Salinger, U.S. novelist (The Catcher in the Rye, Franny and Zooey). | |
