Design of the day
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Welcome to the design of the day lens. using Wikipedia and other sites and i choosing to highlight a person or event that happened on each date of the year!! each date will also have items that are related loosely to that special event available for purchase at zazzle
January 1
New Years Day!!!
January 2
Luna 1 is launched by USSR....These great images of the Columbia shuttle are great to celebrate space exploration!
January 3
Alaska is admitted as the 49th state.
January 4
Spirit , a NASA rover lands on Mars.
January 5
George Washington and his wife Marta are married, 1759
January 6
Samuel Morse first tests his telegraph
January 7
1797 Italy first uses their modern flag
January 8
No child left behind signed
January 9
1793 - Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first person to fly in a balloon in the United States.
January 10
The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
January 11
Grand Canyon National Monument is created
January 12
2010 Hatian Earthquake
January 13
Liberation day in Togo
January 14
1973 - Elvis Presley's concert Aloha from Hawaii is broadcast live via satellite, and sets a record as the most watched broadcast by an individual entertainer in television history.
January 15
1986 - The Living Seas opens at EPCOT Center in Walt Disney World, Florida.
January 16
1938 - The Benny Goodman Orchestra performed the first jazz concert at Carnegie Hall.
January 17
Louis Comfort Tiffany, American artist and designer dies
January 18
1886 - Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England.
January 19
1983 - The Apple Lisa, the first commercial personal computer from Apple Inc. to have a graphical user interface and a computer mouse, is announced.
January 20
1885 - L.A. Thompson patents the roller coaster.
January 21
1925 - Albania declares itself a republic.
January 22
1968 - Apollo 5 lifts off carrying the first Lunar module into space.
Jauary 23
1986 - The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts its first members: Little Richard, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, the Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley.
January 24
Feast of Our Lady of Peace (Roman Catholic Church), and its related observances:
* Feria de Alasitas (La Paz)
* Feria de Alasitas (La Paz)
January 25
1533 - Henry VIII of England secretly marries his second wife Anne Boleyn.
1858 - The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn becomes a popular wedding recessional after it is played on this day at the marriage of Queen Victoria's daughter, Victoria, and Friedrich of Prussia.
1858 - The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn becomes a popular wedding recessional after it is played on this day at the marriage of Queen Victoria's daughter, Victoria, and Friedrich of Prussia.
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January 26
1500 - Vicente Yanez Pinzon becomes the first European to set foot on Brazil.
January 27
1888 - The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C..
January 28
1934 - The first ski tow in the United States begins operation in Vermont.
January 29th
1845 - "The Raven" is published in the New York Evening Mirror, the first publication with the name of the author, Edgar Allan Poe
January 30
1933 - Adolf Hitler is sworn in as Chancellor of Germany.
January 31
1865 - American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, abolishing slavery, submitting it to the states for ratification.
February 1
1958 - Egypt and Syria merge to form the United Arab Republic, which lasted until 1961.
February 2
1876 - The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs of Major League Baseball is formed.
February 3
1690 - The colony of Massachusetts issues the first paper money in America.
February 4
2002 - Cancer Research UK, the world's largest independent cancer research charity, is founded.
February 5
1976 - The 1976 swine flu outbreak begins at Fort Dix, NJ.
February 6
1951 - The Broker, a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train derails near Woodbridge Township, New Jersey. The accident kills 85 people and injures over 500 more. The wreck is one of the worst rail disasters in American history.
February 7
1984 - Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B Mission - Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk using the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU).
February 8
1855 - The Devil's Footprints mysteriously appear in southern Devon.
February 9
1900 - The Davis Cup competition is established.
February 10
1863 - The fire extinguisher is patented.
February 11
1752 - Pennsylvania Hospital, the first hospital in the United States, is opened by Benjamin Franklin.
February 12
1816 - The Teatro di San Carlo, the oldest working opera house in Europe, is destroyed by fire.
February 13
1955 - Israel obtains 4 of the 7 Dead Sea scrolls.
February 14
1778 - The United States Flag is formally recognized by a foreign naval vessel for the first time, when French Admiral Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte rendered a nine gun salute to USS Ranger, commanded by John Paul Jones.
February 15
1946 - ENIAC, the first electronic general-purpose computer, is formally dedicated at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
February 16
1957 - The "Toddlers' Truce", a controversial television close down between 6.00 pm and 7.00 pm is abolished in the United Kingdom.
February 17
1904 - Madama Butterfly receives its première at La Scala in Milan.
February 18
1930 - Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly in a fixed-wing aircraft and also the first cow to be milked in an aircraft.
February 19
1884 - More than sixty tornadoes strike the Southern United States, one of the largest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history.
February 20
1998 - American figure skater Tara Lipinski becomes the youngest gold-medalist at the Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
February 21
1958 - The Peace symbol, commissioned by Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, is designed and completed by Gerald Holtom.
February 22
1980 - Miracle on Ice: In Lake Placid, New York, the United States hockey team defeats the Soviet Union hockey team 4-3.
February 23
1954 - The first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine begins in Pittsburgh.
February 24
2011 - Final Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery (OV-103).
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