Historical Events In January - 01

1896  On January - 01 wilhelm Röntgen announces his discovery of x-rays  

1897  On January - 01 brooklyn merges with New York to form present City of New York  

1898  On this day in history brooklyn, the Bronx, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island are consolidated into New York City.  

1898  On January - 01 lightship replaces whistling buoy at mouth of San Francisco Bay  

1899  Cuba liberated from Spain by US on this day in history.  

1900  British protectorates of Northern & Southern Nigeria established on January - 01.  

1900  Compulsory education in Netherlands goes into effect on this day in history.  

1901  Australia becomes a Commonwealth under British rule on January - 01.  

1901  Australia declares independence from federation of UK colonies on this day in history.  

1901  Ignatius Donnelly, US attorney/lt-governor (Minnesota), dies at 69 on this day in history.  

1902  On January - 01 nathan Stubblefield makes first public demonstration of radio, Pennsylvania  

1902  On January - 01 the first Rose Bowl game (Pasadena CA) (University of Michigan-49, Stanford-0)  

1904  Netherlands Indies colony begins opium production on January - 01.  

1905  9 hour work day for diamond miners on this day in history.  

1906  On this day in history dutch law makes driver's license mandatory  

1906  Joseph Miroslav Weber, composer, dies at 51 on January - 01.  

1907  President Theodore Roosevelt shakes a record 8,513 hands in 1 day on January - 01.  

1907  Cyrill Kistler, composer, dies at 58 on January - 01.  

1908  On this day in history the first time, a ball signifying new year dropped at Times Square  

1910  On this day in history simpson-Hayward (England) takes 6-43 on debut with underarm lobs  

1911  On this day in history belgian Mining law introduces 9½-hour work day  

1911  On January - 01 south Australia transfers Northern Territory to federal government  

1912  Sun Yat-sen forms Chinese Republic on January - 01.  

1913  On January - 01 post office begins parcel post deliveries  

1914  Klaas ter Laan becomes Netherlands' first socialist mayor (Zaandam) on January - 01.  

1914  On this day in history northern & Southern Nigeria united in British colony of Nigeria  

1914  On this day in history the first part of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway is opened for service between North Vancouver and Horseshoe Bay, 12 miles.  

1914  On January - 01 the first scheduled airline flight, St Petersburg-Tampa (Tony Jannus pilot)  

1915  DW Griffith shows "Clansman" at a sneak preview on this day in history.  

1915  On this day in history jews of Laibach Austria expelled  

1918  On this day in history last day of the Julian calendar in Finland  

1919  On this day in history belorussian SSR established  

1919  On this day in history william W Campbell, Canadian poet (Ian of the Orcades), dies at 60  

1920  Paul Adam, French writer (L'enfant d'Austerlitz), dies at 57 on January - 01.  

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0766  On January - 01 birth of ali al-Rida, Shia Imam (d. 818)  

1387  On January - 01 birth of charles, The Angry One, king of Navarra (1349-87)  

1431  On January - 01 birth of alexander VI [Rodrigo Borgia], Spanish/Italian pope (1492-1503)  

1449  On January - 01 birth of lorenzo de'Medici, [The Magnificent] of Florence  

1449  On this day in history birth of lorenzo de' Medici, Italian statesman (d. 1492)  

1467  Sigismund I, the old, king of Poland was born on January - 01.  

1481  Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss Protestant reformer was born on this day in history.  

1484  On this day in history birth of huldrych Zwingli, Swiss Protestant leader (d. 1531)  

0379  On this day in history basilius the Great, of Caesarea, saint (Moralia), dies  

0404  On January - 01 death of telemachus, Roman monk, murdered  

0898  On this day in history odo, earl of Paris/king of France (888-98), dies at about 39  

0962  Boudouin III, count of Flanders, dies on this day in history.  

1204  Death of King Haakon III of Norway (c. 1170) on January - 01.  

1387  On January - 01 karel de Boze, king of Navarra (1349-87), dies  

1502  Gregorius XIII, [Ugo Buoncampagni], Italy, pope (1572-85), dies on this day in history.  

1515  On this day in history louis XII, "the Justified" king of France (1498-1515), dies at 52