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
Birthdays:
January 1, 1965 Famke Janssen, Dutch model January 1, 1958 Grandmaster Flash, [Joseph Saddler], New York City, musician January 1, 1940 Frank Langella, Bayonne, New Jersey, actor, Dracula January 1, 1933 Joe Orton, England, actor/dramatist, Prick Up Your Ears January 1, 192? Idi Amin Dada, president of Uganda January 1, 1923 Milton (Milt) Jackson, U.S., vibraphonist January 1, 1922 Ernest F. Hollings, American senator January 1, 1919 J. D. Salinger, American Novelist, Catcher in the Rye January 1, 1911 Hank Greenberg, first Jewish baseball superstar January 1, 1900 Xavier Cugat, born in Barcelona, Spain, bandleader January 1, 1895 J. Edgar Hoover, American Public Servant January 1, 1879 Edward M Forster, England, novelist, Howards End, Passage to India January 1, 1752 Elizabeth Griscom (Betsy Ross), flag maker January 1, 1864 Alfred Stieglitz, U.S. photographer/art dealer, Camera Work January 1, 1735 Paul Revere, silversmith/US patriot January 1, 1729 Edmund Burke, British author, Philosophy and Inquiry January 1, 1449 Lorenzo de'Medici, [The Magnificent] of Florence
Congrats!
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/ dave /