1ST JANUARY- HISTORICAL EVENTS HAPPENED ON JANUARY 1ST AND GREAT PEOPLE BORN ON THIS DAY

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TODAY’S HISTORY

1758

The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature establish the "starting point" for standardized species names across the animal kingdom, based on the binomial nomenclature by Carolus Linnaeus 10th edition of Systema Naturae

1781

On this day in 1781, 1,500 soldiers from the Pennsylvania Line–all 11 regiments under General Anthony Wayne’s command–insist that their three-year enlistments are expired, kill three officers in a drunken rage and abandon the Continental Army’s winter camp at Morristown, New Jersey.

1863

Emancipation Proclamation issued by Abraham Lincoln to free slaves in US confederate states.

1863

On this day in, President Abraham Lincoln signs the final Emancipation Proclamation, which ends slavery in the rebelling states. A preliminary proclamation was issued in September 1862, following the Union victory at the Battle of Antietam in Maryland. The act signaled an important shift in the Union’s Civil War.

1896

German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen announces his discovery of x-rays.

1922

Poet T.S. Eliot dies in London at age 76. Eliot’s The Waste Land, published in 1922, is considered the single most influential work of poetry of the twentieth century.

1942

On this day, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill issue a declaration, signed by representatives of 26 countries, called the “United Nations.”

1958

European Economic Community (Common Market) starts operation

1967

Operation Sam Houston begins as a continuation of border surveillance operations in Pleiku and Kontum Provinces in the Central Highlands by units from the U.S. 4th and 25th Infantry Divisions.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS

1655

Christian Thomasius, German jurist (d. 1728)

1684

Arnold Drakenborch, Dutch classical scholar (d. 1748)

1709

Johann H H Butz, German/Dutch organ builder

1711

Franz Freiherr von der Trenck, Austrian soldier (d. 1749)

1714

Kristijonas Donelaitis, Lutheran pastor, Lithuanian poet (The Seas)

1734

John F E Acton, cruel premier of Naples

1819

Arthur Hugh Clough, poet, friend of Matthew Arnold

1819

George Foster Shepley, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), (d. 1878)

1827

William Lewis "Old Tige" Cabell, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)

1831

William Joseph Westbrook, composer

1833

Robert Lawson, New Zealand architect (d. 1902)

1838

William Hugh Young, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1901)

1846

Nikola Pasic, Serbian nationalist/premier (1891..1926)

1853

Hans Koessler, composer

1854

James Frazer, Britain, anthropologist/author (The Golden Bough)

1894

Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian mathematician (d. 1974)

1909

Stepan Bandera, Ukrainian nationalist leader (d. 1959)