Throughout history, there are some significant events that happened on the first day of the year. Here are a few of them:
1583 – 1st day of the Gregorian calendar in Holland and Flanders
1622 – Papal Chancery adopts Jan. 1 as beginning of the year
1673 – Regular mail delivery begins between New York and Boston
1772 – First traveller’s check issued (London)
1776 – General George Washington hoists the Continental Union Flag
1788 – Quakers in Pennsylvania emancipate their slaves
1797 – Albany replaces New York City as capital of NY
1808 – Congress prohibits importation of slaves
1818 – Official reopening of the White House
1847 – Michigan becomes the first state to abolish capital punishment
1852 – First U.S. public bath opens in New York City
1862 – First U.S. income tax goes into effect
1863 – Emancipation Proclamation ending slavery issued by President Lincoln
1880 – Building of Panama Canal begins
1892 – Ellis Island becomes reception center for new immigrants
1907 – Theodore Roosevelt shakes a record 8513 hands in one day
1908 – First time ball signifying new year dropped at Times Square
1913 – Post Office begins parcel post deliveries
1914 – First scheduled airline flight, from St. Petersburg to Tampa, Florida
1934 – Alcatraz officially becomes a federal prison
1942 – United Nations established
1946 – Hidden Japanese soldiers in Corregidor surrendered to the American Troops after reading from a local newspaper that the war was over.
1960 – Johnny Cash plays first of many free concerts from behind prison bars
1968 – Evil Knievel fails in his attempt to jump the Caesar’s Palace fountain
1971 – Cigarette advertising banned on radio and television
1975 – Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell, and Mardian convicted of Washington Watergate crimes
1977 – First woman (Jacqueline Means) is formally ordained as Episcopal priest
1985 – U.S. first mandatory seat belt law goes into effect (New York)
1990 – David Dinkins is sworn in as the first black mayor of New York City
1995 – Last “Far Side” by cartoonist Gary Larson
2000 – Panama Canal handed over to Panama by the United States.
2002 – The Euro becomes the official currency for most of Europe
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!
Stop and Smell the Roses
Rosalinda
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Thanks GP. Have a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year!!!
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