Historical events from January 1 to 15

January 1st

‘New Year’s celebration’. It is commemorated on this date in the Gregorian calendar, established by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582.

January 2nd

1791: in ‘Peru’ the first issue of the ‘Mercurio newspaper’ is published.

1793 : ‘Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’ premieres his ‘Requiem KV 626’.

January 3rd

1496: ‘Leonardo da Vinci’ tests his ‘flying machine’ in Italy.

1899: ‘The New York Times’ uses the ‘word automobile’ for the first time.

January 4th

1643: ‘Birth of Isaac Newton,’ English physicist, philosopher, theologian, inventor, alchemist, and mathematician (d. 1727).

1904: the first “aeronautics laboratory” is created in “Spain”.

January 5th

1969: Soviet space probe Venera 5 is launched to Venus, eventually transmitting data from the planet’s atmosphere.

January 6th

The ‘Day of the Three Kings’ is celebrated in commemoration of the three visitors of the baby Jesus.

January 7th

1929: the adventure story ‘Tarzan’ is ‘created’.

1927: Inauguration of commercial telephone service between London and New York.

January the 8th

1867: ‘Birth of Emily Greene Balch’, American writer, Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1946 (d. 1961).

1642: ‘Galileo Galilei passed away’, Italian mathematician, physicist, astronomer, inventor and intellectual (b. 1564).

January 9th

1998: ‘PageRank’ is ‘patented’ in the United States, a family of algorithms that is the fundamental basis of ‘Google software’.

2007: ‘Steve Jobs’ announces the ‘launch of the iPhone’, during his talk at Macworld.

1954: In New York ‘IBM’ presents the ‘first integrated circuit calculator’ or ‘electronic brain’.

January 10th

1973: the Spanish filmmaker ‘Luis Buñuel’, is awarded in Hollywood with the Oscar for best foreign film for ‘The discreet charm of the bourgeoisie’.

January 11th

2001: American scientists present ‘first genetically modified primate’.

1569: England holds ‘first lottery’.

1838: ‘Samuel Morse’ makes the first public demonstration of the electric telegraph.

January 12th

1966: The series ‘Batman’ with Adam West and Burt Ward is broadcast for the first time.

January 13th

1537: ‘Sebastián de Belalcazar’ founds the city of ‘Popayan’ in Colombia.

January 14th

1990: the ‘pilot episode’ of the cartoon series, ‘The Simpsons’ is broadcast.

January 15th

1759: The ‘British Museum in London’ opens to the public.

1798: ‘Goya’ begins to paint the frescoes of the ‘Madrid church of San Antonio de la Florida’.

1913: ‘First wireless telephone transmission’ is made between ‘New York and Berlin’.

 

Article by:

Jackeline Gonzalez L.

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