History for January 1 - On-This-Day.com
Lorenzo de' Medici 1449 - Italian politician, diplomat, known as Lorenzo the Magnificent (Lorenzo il Magnifico), heir to Medici banking empire, Paul Revere 1735, Betsy Ross (Elizabeth Griscom) 1752
George Washington Carver 1860, J. Edgar Hoover (U.S.) 1895, Barry Goldwater 1909
1959 - Fidel Castro overthrew the government of Fulgencio Batista, and seized power in Cuba.
1984 - AT&T was broken up into 22 Bell System companies under terms of an antitrust agreement with the U.S. Federal government.
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