January 1st in History
January 1st in History
- 404: Last gladiator competition in Rome
- 1622: Papal Chancery adopts January as beginning of the year
- 1660: Englishman Samuel Pepys begins his famous diary
- 1700: Russia replaces Byzantine with Julian calendar
- 1862: US income tax goes into effect (3% of incomes > $600,% of incomes > $10,000)
- 1863: Emancipation Proclamation (ending slavery) issued by Lincoln
- 1901: Australia declares independence from federation of UK colonies
- 1923: Union of Socialist Soviet Republics (USSR) established
- 1934: Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC US bank guarantor) goes into effect
- 1934: Alcatraz officially becomes a federal prison
- 1946: ENIAC, first computer, finished by Mauchly/Eckert
- 1948: General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) goes into effect
- 1958: European Community (later to become the European Union) is born
- 1973: Britain becomes a member of the European Economic Community
- 1981: Greece becomes the tenth member of the Europen Economic Community
- 1993: Czechoslovakia split into two separate states
January 1st birthdays
- 1729: Edmund Burke, British Author
- 1752: Betsy Ross, American flagmaker
- 1863: Baron Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern olympics
- 1864: Alfred Stiglitz, American photographer
- 1879: William Fox, Founder of 20th Century Fox film studios
- 1879: E.M Forester, English novelist
- 1895: J. Edgar Hoover, Former head of American F.B.I