RUSH at Anchor. Circa Early 1950s. Courtesy of Joseph Koye (1930-1984)
RUSH at Anchor. Circa Early 1950s. Courtesy of Joseph Koye (1930-1984)
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NEW YEAR'S DAY! In the year 45 B.C., New Years Day was celebrated for the first time in history on January 1 as the new Julian calendar took effect.
On January 2, 1942, the United States Navy established a blimp contingent in New Jersey. On this day, the Navy Airship Patrol Group 1 and Air Ship Squadron 12 were established at Lakehurst, N.J. The U.S. Navy was the only military service in the world to use airships -- also known as blimps -- during the war. Naval Air Station, Lakehurst was established in 1921.
On January 3, 1959, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a special proclamation admitting the territory of Alaska into the Union as the 49th and largest state.
On January 4, 1847, Colt sold his first revolvers to the U.S. government. Samuel Colt rescued the future of his faltering gun company by winning a contract to provide the U.S. government with 1,000 of his .44 caliber revolvers.
On January 5, 1945, Japanese pilots received the first order to become Kamikaze, meaning "divine wind" in Japanese. The suicidal blitz of the Kamikazes revealed Japan's desperation in the final months of World War II.
Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States, died at Sagamore Hill, his estate overlooking New York's Long Island Sound on January 6, 1919. And, on January 6, 2000, after a bitterly contested election, Vice President Al Gore presided over a joint session of Congress that certified George W. Bush as the winner of the 2000 election.
On January 7, 1789, America's first presidential election was held. Voters cast ballots to choose state electors; only white men who owned property were allowed to vote. As expected, George Washington won the election and was sworn into office on April 30, 1789.
Two weeks after the War of 1812 officially ended with the signing of the Treaty of Ghent, U.S. General Andrew Jackson achieves the greatest American victory of the war at the Battle of New Orleans. On January 8, 1815, the British marched against New Orleans, hoping that by capturing the city they could separate Louisiana from the rest of the United States. Pirate Jean Lafitte, however, had warned the Americans of the attack, and the arriving British found militiamen under General Andrew Jackson strongly entrenched at the Rodriquez Canal.
On January 9, 1493, explorer Christopher Columbus, sailing near what is now known as the Dominican Republic, saw what he thought were three mermaids. He described them as "Not half as beautiful as they are painted." In reality, the mermaids were manatees!
In the town of Beaumont, Texas, a 100-foot drilling derrick named Spindletop produced a roaring gusher of black crude oil. The oil strike took place at 10:30 a.m. on January 10, 1901, coating the landscape for hundreds of feet around in sticky oil.
Along with fighting in the American Revolution and scribing a number of the Federalist Papers, today's birthday celebrant, Alexander Hamilton, was instrumental in shaping America's early fiscal course. In 1789, President George Washington installed Hamilton, born January 11, 1751, as the first Secretary of the Treasury.
The controversial comedy All in the Family debuted on January 12, 1971. The show, which was one of TV's top hits for much of its 21-year run, starred Carroll O'Connor as ultra-conservative Archie Bunker; Jean Stapleton as his wife, Edith; and Sally Struthers and Rob Reiner as the couple's liberal daughter and son-in-law.
Nearly 50 years after the famous gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Wyatt Earp died quietly in Los Angeles at the age of 80 on January 13, 1929. The Earp brothers had long been competing with the Clanton-McClaury ranching families for political and economic control of the Tombstone, Arizona region. On October 26, 1881, simmering tensions finally boiled over into violence, and Wyatt, his brothers Virgil and Morgan, and his close friend, Doc Holliday, killed three men from the Clanton and McLaury clans in a 30-second shoot-out near the O.K. Corral.
On January 14, 1784, at the Maryland State House in Annapolis, the Continental Congress ratified the Treaty of Paris. The document, negotiated in part by future President John Adams, contained terms for ending the Revolutionary War and established the United States as a sovereign nation. The treaty outlined America's fishing rights off the coast of Canada, defined territorial boundaries in North America formerly held by the British and forced an end to reprisals against British loyalists.
On January 15, 1967, the PACKERS faced the CHIEFS in the very first SUPER BOWL. At the Los Angeles Coliseum the Green Bay Packers beat the Kansass City Chiefs 35-10 in the first-ever world championship of American football.
Prohibition took effect on January 16, 1919. The 18th Ammendment to the Constitution, prohibiting the "manufacture, sale or transportation of intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes" achieved the necessary two-thirds majority of state ratification, and thus became the law of the land. The 21st Ammendment to the Constitution, was passed and ratified in 1933, repealing prohibition.
In his farewell address to the nation on January 17, 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned the American people to keep a careful eye on what he called the "military-industrial complex" that had developed in the post-World War II years. A fiscal conservative, Eisenhower had been concerned about the growing size and cost of the American defense establishment since he became president in 1953. In his last presidential address to the American people, he expressed those concerns in terms that frankly shocked some of his listeners.
On January 18, 1803, Thomas Jefferson requested funding from Congress to finance the Lewis and Clark expedition. Jefferson officially asked for $2,500 in funding from Congress, though some sources indicate the expedition ultimately cost closer to $50,000. Lewis was joined by his friend William Clark and 50 others on the journey, including an African-American slave and a female Indian guide named Sacagawea.
The Three Stooges film You Natzy Spy was released on January 19, 1940. Anticipating Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator by nine months, Moe (Moses Howard) played a Hitler-like dictator of a fictional country, "Moronica." The Three Stooges began as a vaudeville act in 1923. The stooges were brothers Moe and Shemp Howard. In 1928, Larry Fine joined the Stooges, and the three later appeared in Broadway revues and films. In 1932, Shemp left the act and was replaced by brother Curly. Curly quickly became famous for his catch-phrases "Nyuk nyuk nyuk" and "Woo woo woo."
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