January 21st
Today in America's Present Past
1677 | First U.S. publication of a medical book (on Smallpox).
1743 | Inventor John Fitch was born.
1789 | Isaiah Thomas publishes the first novel in America (The Power of Sympathy).
1804 | Poet Eliza Roxcy Snow was born.
\1813 | First planting of coffee in Hawaii.
1830 | Civil Rights: In Portsmouth, Ohio, African Americans were forcefully deported.
1861 | Civil War: Democrat U.S. Senator Jefferson Davis resigns from the Senate as a prelude to succession.
1879 | John Blair Scribner died.
1881 | Memphis, Tennessee, opens the first sewage disposal system.
1908 | Civil Rights: NYC passes a ban on women smoking in public.
1915 | In Detroit, Michigan, the Kiwanis were founded.
1921 | America’s first mass shooter, Howard Unruh, was born.
1922 | Actor Aristotelis "Telly" Savalas was born.
1933 | Entrepreneur William Wrigley III was born.
1940 | Golfer Jack Nicklaus was born.
1950 | Communist Alger Hess convicted of perjury.
1953 | Entrepreneur Paul Allen was born.
1959 | Film mogul Cecil B. DeMille died.
1962 | Economist Tyler Cowen was born.
1977 | Vietnam War: Democrat President Jimmy Carter pardons Vietnam War Draft Dodgers.
1985 | Culinary author James Beard died.
2010 | SCOTUS: Supreme Court decides Citizens United v. FEC.
2017 | “Pussyhat” riots and looting erupted in Washington, D.C.
2023 | Stop Cop City protests in DeKalb County, Georgia.