Throughout history, there are some significant events that happened on the first day of the year. Here are 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
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
2002 - The Euro becomes the official currency for most of Europe
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!
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Wow, Rosalinda,
That's alot of history thank you for sharing, Happy New Year.
-David
Rosalinda,
That's quite a list. Must have taken you hours to complie it. :)
Steve
David - It's quite interesting how many things happened on the 1st day of the year, Happy New Year!
Steve - It took me few hours to compile them and I learned some interesting historical facts that I never knew before. Glad I did. Happy New Year!
Thanks for the history lesson, I just can't wait until next January to see what happens. :)
Don - All I can remember is too much snow.