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| 100 years anniversary | ||||
| 01 Jan 1924 | Francisco Macías Nguema, Equatorial Guinean politician, 1st President of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea (d. 1979) | |||
| 01 Jan 1924 | Charlie Munger, American businessman and philanthropist | |||
| 01 Jan 1924 | WW2 | Centurion was decommissioned from service. | ||
| 01 Jan 1924 |
Ink paste In 1924, the first U.S.patent for ink paste was issued to Frank Buckley Cooney of Minneapolis, Minn. (No. 1,479,533). Paste ink was designed to be rendered fluid for use by the addition of water, so that “a very satisfactory writing fluid is provided free of suspended matter and other imperfections.” Thus ink could be packaged in a collapsible lead vending tube in highly concentrated form. This also had the benefit of reducing shipping costs. Four fluid ounces of paste would produce one gallon of ink after dilution, free from the suspended matter associated with concentrated ink in the form of powders or tablets. It was manufactured as Cooney's Ink Paste, from 10 Feb 1923, by the Standard Ink Co in the same city. |
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| 75 years anniversary | ||||
| 01 Jan 1949 | Nikolai Tikhonovich Moskalenko: Russia -- Cosmonaut | |||
| 01 Jan 1949 | Peter Dormer: Arts writer | |||
| 01 Jan 1949 | KPRC TV channel 2 in Houston, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting | |||
| 01 Jan 1949 | KTTV TV channel 11 in Los Angeles, CA (MET) begins broadcasting | |||
| 01 Jan 1949 | Tokelau (Union) Islands declared part of New Zealand | |||
| 01 Jan 1949 | Tokelau becomes part of New Zealand. | |||
| 01 Jan 1949 | United Nations cease-fire takes effect in Kashmir from one minute before midnight. War between India and Pakistan stops accordingly. | |||
| 01 Jan 1949 | Olivia Goldsmith, American author (d. 2004) | |||
| 01 Jan 1949 | Max Azria, Tunisian-French fashion designer | |||
| 01 Jan 1949 | Borys Tarasyuk, Ukrainian politician | |||
| 50 years anniversary | ||||
| 01 Jan 1974 | Johnie Church: NFL defensive end (Seattle Seahawks) | |||
| 01 Jan 1974 | Lee MacPhail takes over as AL President, succeeding Joe Cronin | |||
| 01 Jan 1974 | NBC radio begins on the hour news 24 hours a day (following CBS lead) | |||
| 01 Jan 1974 | World Population Year begins | |||
| 01 Jan 1974 | Christian Paradis, Canadian lawyer and politician, 9th Canadian Minister of Industry | |||
| 25 years anniversary | ||||
| 01 Jan 1999 | The Euro currency is introduced in 11 countries - members of the European Union (with the exception of the United Kingdom, Denmark, Greece and Sweden). | |||
| 20 years anniversary | ||||
| 01 Jan 2004 | In a vote of confidence, General Pervez Musharraf wins 658 out of 1,170 votes in the Electoral College of Pakistan, and according to Article 41(8) of the Constitution of Pakistan, is "deemed to be elected" to the office of President until October 2007. | |||
01 Jan 2004
Scotland |
Scotland (paleontology) A 428 million-year-old fossil Pneumodesmus found in Scotland is identified as the world's oldest known creature to have lived on land. |
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01 Jan 2004
JILA |
JILA (physics) A team from the JILA laboratory in Boulder, Colorado announce the creation of a fermionic condensate, the first such condensate made from atoms rather than molecules. |
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| 15 years anniversary | ||||
| 01 Jan 2009 | Slovakia joins the Eurozone. | |||
| 01 Jan 2009 | Sixty-six people die in a nightclub fire in Bangkok, Thailand. | |||
| 01 Jan 2009 | Sheikh Ahmed Salim Swedan Kenyan terrorist (b. 1960) | |||
| 01 Jan 2009 | Nizar Rayan, Palestinian Hamas leader (b. 1962) | |||
| 01 Jan 2009 | Claiborne Pell, American captain and politician (b. 1918) | |||
| 01 Jan 2009 | Aarne Arvonen, Finnish super-centenarian (b. 1897) | |||
| 01 Jan 2009 | According to official UK sales figures Duffy's debut album Rockferry came top of the year-end chart, with 1.685 million copies sold. Take That had the second biggest seller with The Circus, Kings of Leon, Only By The Night was third, Spirit by Leona Lewis was fourth and Coldplay had the fifth biggest seller with Viva La Vida. X Factor winner Alexandra Burke had the UK's top-selling single after her version of Hallelujah sold 888,000 copies in the last two weeks of the year. | |||
| 10 years anniversary | ||||
| 01 Jan 2014 | Latvia becomes the 18th member of the Eurozone. | |||
| 01 Jan 2014 | William Mgimwa, Tanzanian banker and politician, 13th Tanzanian Minister of Finance (b. 1950) | |||
| 01 Jan 2014 | Pete DeCoursey, American journalist (b. 1961) | |||
| 01 Jan 2014 | Michael Glennon, Australian priest (b. 1944) | |||
| 01 Jan 2014 | Juanita Moore, American actress (b. 1914) | |||
| 01 Jan 2014 | Higashifushimi Kunihide, Japanese monk and educator (b. 1910) | |||
| 01 Jan 2014 |
Incandescent light bulbs In 2014, in the U.S., the manufacture and importing of the common 40-watt and 60-watt general service incandescent lamps was ended under the deadline specified in the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. It required better energy efficiency, so that they would be replaced by compact fluorecent, halogen or LED lamps producing more lumens of light per watt of consumption. A modern 43-watt lamp produces the brightness of an old style 60-watt incandescent lamp. Its higher initial purchase price will be more than be paid for in electricity cost savings over a much longer lifetime. Some incandescent types remain exempted, such as appliance, rough service, three-way, candelabra, showcase and other specialty types. The 100-watt incandescent lamp was phased out in 2012, and 75-watt in 2013. |
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