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January 11735: Paul Revere is born
January 2
1968: First successful heart transplant
January 3
1959: Alaska statehood
January 4
1896: Utah statehood
January 5
1933: Construction begins on Golden Gate Bridge
January 6
1412: Joan of Arc is born
January 7
1789: First U.S. presidential election
1800: Millard Filmore is born
January 8
1815: Battle of New Orleans
January 9
1913: Richard Nixon is born
January 10
1769: Michel Ney, the most famous general in Napoleon's army, is born
1945: First UN meeting
January 11
1755: Alexander Hamilton is born
January 12
1893: Hermann Goering is born
January 13
1930: Mickey Mouse debuts
January 14
1741: Benedict Arnold is born
January 15
1588: Elizabeth I becomes queen
January 16
1533: Ivan the Terrible is crowned
January 17
1706: Benjamin Franklin is born
1893: Rutherford B. Hayes dies
January 18
1728: James Cook is born
1882: A. A. Milne is born
1919: Versailles conference opens
January 19
1807: Robert E. Lee is born
January 20
1981: Iran hostage crisis ends
January 21
1824: Stonewall Jackson is born
1977: Jimmy Carter pardons draft dodgers
January 22
1909: U Thant is born
1973: Lyndon Johnson dies
1973: Supreme Court legalizes abortion in Roe v. Wade decision
January 23
1737: John Hancock is born
January 24
1712: Frederick the Great is born
January 25
1915: Telephone invented
January 26
1788: Australia is founded as a penal colony
January 27
1888: National Geographic Society founded
January 28
1547: Henry VIII dies
January 29
1861: Kansas statehood
January 30
1933: Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany
1948: Mohandas Gandhi dies
January 31
1865: 13th Amendment passed
1917: Germany resumes unrestricted submarine warfare
1950: Truman announces that America will work on H-bomb
