Apple’s Steve Jobs introduces the first iPhone at the Macworld conference in San Francisco. The first Macworld Expo occurred in 1985 in San Francisco. The…
8 January 1962
A train crash in Harmelen, Netherlands killed 93 people. The Harmelen train disaster was the worst railway accident in the history of the Netherlands on…
7 January 1610
Galileo Galilei first observes the four Galilean moons: Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa. Probably the most significent contribution that Galileo Galilei made to science was…
6 January 1721
The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble publishes its findings. The South Sea Bubble of 1720 was one of the first but by…
5 January 1949
President Harry S. Truman announces his Fair Deal program. On January 05, 1949, President Harry S. Truman announces, in his State of the Union address,…
4 January 46 BC
Titus Labienus is defeated by Julius Caesar in the Battle of Ruspina. The Battle of Ruspina was fought on January 4, 46 BC in the…
3 January 1938
President Franklin D. Roosevelt establishes the March of Dimes. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, an adult victim of polio, founds the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, which…
2 January 1967
Ronald Reagan become the Governor of California. Ronald Reagan was the Governor of California for two terms, the first beginning in 1967 and the second…
1 January 1934
Alcatraz Island, in the San Francisco Bay, becomes a United States federal prison. The federal prison on Alcatraz Island in the chilly waters of California’s…
31 December 1857
Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa to be the capital of Canada. December 31, 1857 will always be one of the most important dates in Canadian history….