Saturday, January 01, 2022

History for January 1

History for January 1 - On-This-Day.com
J. Edgar Hoover (U.S.) 1895
  • 0404 - The last gladiator competition was held in Rome.
  • 1808 - The U.S. prohibited import of slaves from Africa.
  • 1863 - U.S. President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared that all slaves in the rebel states were free.
  • 1959 - Fidel Castro overthrew the government of Fulgencio Batista, and seized power in Cuba.
  • 1975 - The magazine "Popular Electronics" announced the invention of a person computer called Altair. MITS, using an Intel microprocessor, developed the computer.
  • 1994 - The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) went into effect.
  • 1995 - The World Trade Organization came into existence. The group of 125 nations monitors global trade.
  • 1999 - The euro became currency for 11 Member States of the European Union. Coins and notes were not available until January 1, 2002.

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