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Re: This Day in History

1999 : Panama Canal turned over to Panama

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January 1 1863:

A farmer named Daniel Freeman submits the first claim under the new Homestead Act for a property near Beatrice, Nebraska.
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45BC: New Year's Day

New Year's Day is celebrated on January 1 for the first time in 45 BC, when Roman dictator Julius Caesar establishes the Julian calendar.

On the advice of the astronomer Sosigenes, Caesar added 67 days to the year 46 BC in order to repair the damage done to the imperfect Roman calendar by the passage of time.

Celebration of New Year's Day in January fell out of practice during the Middle Ages, but after the adoption of the Gregorian - or modern - calendar in 1582, New Year's was again observed on the first day of January.

Since then, people around the world have gathered en masse in cities and towns to celebrate the arrival of the New Year.
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On Jan 2:

1942 - The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) convicts 33 members of a German spy ring headed by Fritz Joubert Duquesne in the largest espionage case in United States history -- the Duquesne Spy Ring
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1972 Mariner 9 begins mapping Mars
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1924 British Egyptologist Howard Carter finds sarcophagus of Tutankhamen
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January 3 1938:

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, an adult victim of polio, founds the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis,
which he later renamed the March of Dimes Foundation, on this day in 1938.
A predominantly childhood disease in the early 20th century, polio wreaked havoc among American children every summer.
The virus, which affects the central nervous system, flourished in contaminated food and water and was easily transmitted.
Those who survived the disease usually suffered from debilitating paralysis into their adult lives.
In 1921, at the relatively advanced age of 39, Roosevelt contracted polio and lost the use of his legs.
With the help of the media, his Secret Service and careful event planning,
Roosevelt managed to keep his disease out of the public eye,
yet his personal experience inspired in him an empathy with the handicapped and prompted him to the found the March of Dimes.

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January 4: 1999 : The euro debuts
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January 4 1847:

Samuel Colt rescues 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.

Before Colt began mass-producing his popular revolvers in 1847,
handguns had not played a significant role in the history of either the American West or the nation as a whole.
Expensive and inaccurate, short-barreled handguns were impractical for the majority of Americans,
though a handful of elite still insisted on using dueling pistols to solve disputes in highly formalized combat.
When choosing a practical weapon for self-defense and close-quarter fighting, most Americans preferred knives,
and western pioneers especially favored the deadly and versatile Bowie knife.

That began to change when Samuel Colt patented his percussion-repeating revolver in 1836.

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January 5 1933:


Construction begins on the Golden Gate Bridge,
as workers began excavating 3.25 million cubic feet of dirt for the structure’s huge anchorages.

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