Browsing: January

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on January 30th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On January 30, 1661, Oliver Cromwell, former Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, was removed from his grave and “executed” two years after his death! On January 30, 1703, 47 Japanese samurai avenged the forced suicide of their feudal lord. On January 30, 1835, for the first time in American History an assassination attempt was made on the…

A Brief History On January 30, 1925, Douglas Engelbart was born in Portland, Oregon.  Engineer, inventor, and computer pioneer, Engelbart would make our lives easier by inventing the computer mouse, patented in 1970. Digging Deeper Engelbart was educated at Oregon State University and the University of California at Berkely and went on to his life’s work of improving human–computer interaction, creating user friendly ways of using computers and the internet. Engelbart founded the Doug Engelbart Institute and received numerous honors and awards, including the National Medal of Technology, the U.S.’s highest technology award.  Incredibly, his employers at Tymshare and McDonnell…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on January 29th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On January 29, 1845, Edgar Allan Poe, the Baltimore writer of such classics as “The Telltale Heart,” “The Pit and the Pendulum,” and “The Goldbug,” published his famous poem, “The Raven,” certainly one of if not the most renowned poem in American literature, and ranks among the most famous of poems. On January 29, 1886, Karl Benz, a German engineer, became the…

A Brief History On January 29, 2002, US President George W. Bush coined a new phrase in his State of the Union Address to Congress, labeling Iraq, Iran, and North Korea as the “Axis of Evil.” Digging Deeper Bush accused these states of being “regimes that sponsor terror,” a highly charged topic in the US after the terror attacks of September 11, 2001.  Bush apparently liked the sound of his new designation and used the phrase often in his remaining years in office. The allusion in the phrase to “Axis” would harken back to the “Axis Powers” of World War…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on January 28th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On January 28, 1547, the 9-year-old son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour, Edward VI, became King of England. On January 28, 1887, Fort Keogh, Montana was the scene of what was probably the most bizarre snow storm in recorded history. On January 28, 1915, an Act of Congress created the United States Coast Guard out of the combination of The Revenue Cutter Service and the…