January 5
Today in America's Present Past
1781 | War of Independence: British burned Richmond, Virginia.
1779 | Navel hero Stephen Decatur was born.
1779 | Explorer Zebulon Pike was born.
1796 | Founder Samuel Huntington died.
1808 | Explorer William Clark wed Julia Hancock.
1836 | Davy Crockett arrived in Texas to aid its Revolution.
1846 | Congress: Voted to end sharing the Oregon Territory with Great Britain.
1846 | Artist Alfred Thomas Agate died.
1855 | Entrepreneur King Gillette was born.
1859 | The North Star, America’s first steamboat to sail from the East to the West coast via Panama set sail.
1859 | Entrepreneur DeWitt Bristol was born.
1874 | Physiologist Joseph Erlanger was born.
1875 | POTUS: Republican President Grant dispatched federal troops to Louisiana to quell unrest.
1882 | Journalist Herbert Bayard Swope was born.
1905 | The National Association of Audubon Society was formed.
1914 | Entrepreneur Henry Ford announced a $5-day wage.
1914 | Actor George Reeves was born.
1925 | Wyoming’s Nellie Tayloe Ross was sworn in becoming the nation’s first female Governor.
1926 | Poet Willam DeWitt Snodgrass was born.
1930 | Outlaws Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow met.
1930 | Astronaut Edward Galveen Givens was born.
1931 | Lucille Thomas became the first female baseball team owner.
1931 | Actor Robert Duvall was born.
1933 | POTUS: President Calvin Coolidge died.
1933 | Construction on the Golden Gate Bridge began.
1939 | Aviator Amelia Earhart (declared) dead (18 months after disappearing).
1943 | Inventor George Washington Carver died.
1946 | Actress Diane Keaton was born.
1957 | POTUS: Republican President Eisenhower requested Congress authorize troops to be dispatched to the Middle East.
1959 | TV: “Bozo the Clown” debuted.
1972 | POTUS: Republican Nixon authorized NASA to build a manned space shuttle.
1998 | Entertainer and Congressman Sonny Bono died.