January 2
Today in America's Present Past
1752 | Poet Philip Freneau was born.
1788 | Statehood: Georgia joined the Union.
1791 | Indian Wars: Big Bottom massacre.
1800 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania’s free African American population, petitions the U.S. Congress for abolition.
1811 | Congress: Massachusetts Senator Timothy Pickering was the first member censured.
1831 | Author and library activist Justin Winsor was born.
1832 | The first U.S. Curling Club formed.
1835 | Entrepreneur and Union General Charles Russell Lowell, Jr. was born.
1842 | The first public suspension bridge opened in Pennsylvania.
1854 | Alice Mary Robinson, the second woman elected to Congress, was born.
1857 | Suffragist Martha Carey Thomas was born.
1861 | Civil War: South Carolina sized Federal Court Johnson.
1890 | POTUS: Republican President Harrison appointed Alice Sanger as the first female White House staffer.
1894 | Poet Robert Nathan was born.
1903 | POTUS: Republican President Roosevelt shut down a post office in Mississippi for refusing his African American appointee.
1906 | Engineer Willis Carrier received the first patent for an air conditioner.
1915 | Historian John Hope Franklin was born.
1920 | POTUS: Democrat Wilson’s Attorney General Palmer authorized raids against suspected Communists and Socialists.
1923 | Civil Rights: Ku Klux Klan massacred eight in Rosewood, Florida.
1928 | Photographer Ansel Adams wed Virginia Best.
1935 | Lindbergh’s kidnapping case against Bruno Hauptmann started.
1938 | Publisher Simon and Schuster was created.
1939 | Cleric Jim Bakker was born.
1941 | WWII: U.S. announces its Liberty Ships program.
1942 | WWII: The 28 Allied nations pledge to make no separate peace with Axis countries.
1947 | Zoologist Jack Hanna was born.
1965 | Civil Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr. started a voter registration drive.
1968 | Actor Cuba Gooding, Jr. was born.
1971 | Chemist Lloyd Hall died.
1974 | Republican President Nixon signed a law establishing the 55mph speed limit.
1975 | Actor Dax Shepard was born.
1988 | POTUS: Republican President Reagan signed the Canada-U.S. Trade Agreement.
1990 | Actor Alan Hale died.
1996 | POTUS: Democrat President Clinton deployed U.S. troops in Bosnia.
2007 | Historian Elizabeth Fox-Genovese died.
2007 | Entrepreneur Garry Betty died.
2012 | Entrepreneur William Carey died.
2013 | Actor Ned Wertimer died.