January 3: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?

(Page last edited 10/12/2017)

1. 1749 - Benning Wentworth issues the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the establishment of Vermont.
2. 1870 - Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge begins.
3. 1888 - The refracting telescope at the Lick Observatory, measuring 91 cm in diameter, is used for the first time. It was the largest telescope in the world at the time.
4. 1919 - At the Paris Peace Conference, Emir Faisal I of Iraq signs an agreement with Zionistleader Chaim Weizmann on the development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine and an Arab nation in a large part of the Middle East.
5. 1933 - Minnie D. Craig becomes the first female elected as Speaker of the North Dakota House of Representatives, the first female to hold a Speaker position anywhere in the United States.
6. 1938 - The March of Dimes is established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
7. 1947 - Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time.
8. 1957 - The Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch.
9. 1959 - Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state.
10. 2000 - The last original weekday Peanuts comic strip is published.
11. Famous Birthdays: Cicero (Roman politician and philosopher), J. R. R. Tolkien (English philologist and author), Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie (French geographer), Charles Piazzi Smyth (Italian astronomer), Donald J. Russell (American businessman)

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