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January 7th................



January 7, 1789
First U.S. presidential election

On this day in 1789, America's first presidential election is held. Voters cast ballots to choose state electors; only white men who owned property were allowed to vote. As expected, George Washington won the election and was sworn into office on April 30, 1789.


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January 7, 1610

GAlileo Galilei observes the four largest moons of Jupiter for the first time. He named them and in turn the four are called the Galilean moons.

Jan 7th, 2005

Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston announced they were separating after four years of marriage.


HAH - had to throw a funny one in

~Slovakia adopts the euro, replacing the koruna, and becomes the 16th member of the Eruozone.

~The discovery of a bed of dinosaur fossils near Zhucheng in Shandong, China, believed to be the world's largest fossil site, is announced.
China claims discovery of 7,600 dinosaur bone fossils in Zhucheng is world's biggest | Science | guardian.co.uk

Thanks net! I like to hear it all.

Dish it up!!!!

Originally Posted by netsirk

Jan 7th, 2005

Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston announced they were separating after four years of marriage.


HAH - had to throw a funny one in

1949 - The announcement of the first photograph of genes was shown at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

1980 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter signed legislation that authorized $1.5 billion in loans for the bail out of Chrysler Corp. *sound familiar?*

I always like anything with a 27 in it!

1927 - The first transatlantic telephone call is made - from New York City to London.

If you go with people things though - one of my favorite authors - Zora Neal Hurston was born on this day in 1891

Originally Posted by backgammonbob

If you go with people things though - one of my favorite authors - Zora Neal Hurston was born on this day in 1891

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bears repeating ( wow - guess along the lines I have missed that section! great to know its there! NOW to find some more hours in the day to read more of that thread!!!!)

It's the birthday of Elvis Presley, born in Tupelo, Mississippi (1935). When he was 18, working as a truck driver, he wanted to give his mom a gift, so he stopped by the Memphis Recording Service, where you could record your own songs for a small fee. He had four dollars, and with that money he was able to record two songs: "My Happiness" and "That's When Your Heartaches Begin." The Memphis Recording Service was also the home of Sun Records, and Elvis caught the attention of owner Sam Phillips, who called the young truck driver back in to see if he had any real talent.

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It's the birthday of physicist Stephen Hawking, born in Oxford, England, in 1942. He was at Cambridge, working on his Ph.D., when he was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease. He spent a few months brooding over it, and then realized that he might as well be productive, since he was still alive and doing all right. So he focused his research on the mysterious astronomical objects known as black holes, and he developed new theories about how they function and what role they might have played in the origin of the universe. Stephen Hawking has spent his life pursuing a Theory of Everything. He said: "My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all." He wrote a book for non-science readers, called A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes (198. It has sold more than 10 million copies.