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Daily Run Down: 01/01/2012 Historical Edition

Here is this week’s, and the first of 2012′s, Daily Run Down Historical Edition.

In 45BC, The Julian Calendar takes effect.
In 42BC, The Roman Senate deifies Julius Caesar.
In 1515, King Louis XII of France dies.
In 1515, King Francis I succeeds to the French Throne.
In 1600, Scotland begins its numbered year on January 1st, instead of March 25th.
In 1651, Charles II is crowned King of Scotland.
In 1735, American patriot, Paul Revere is born.
In 1752, Betsy Ross, American seamstress, is born.
In 1772, The first traveler’s cheques go on sale in London.
In 1788, The first issue of the Times of London is published.
In 1800, The Dutch East India Company is dissolved.
In 1845, The Cobble Hill Tunnel in Brooklyn, New York is finished.
In 1878, Danish Scientist and engineer, Agner Krarup Erlang, is born.
In 1892, Ellis Island opens and begins processing immigrants.
In 1892, Chicago Mayor Roswell B. Mason dies.
In 1895, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover is born.
In 1902, The first College football bowl game, The Rose Bowl, is held in Pasadena, California.
In 1912, The Republic of China is established.
In 1912, British Spy, and defector, Kim Philby is born.
In 1919, American Novelist J.D. Salinger is born.
In 1934, Alcatraz Island becomes a United States federal prison.
In 1939, Hewlett-Packard is founded.
In 1948, The British Railway Network is nationalized creating British Railway.
In 1953, Singer Hank Williams dies.
In 1954, NBC makes the first color coast-to-coast broadcast.
In 1957, American Businessman Mark Hurd was born.
In 1970, Unix Epoch time begins.
In 1983, The ARPANET officially changes to using the Internet Protocol.
In 1985, The Internet’s Domain Name System (DNS) is created.
In 1994, Actor Caesar Romero dies.
In 1996, Arthur Rudolph, key player in the creation of the V-2 Rocket, dies.
In 1999, The Euro is introduced to 11 countries.
In 2000, The “Y2K” problem fizzled.

Look for more current news tomorrow and another Historical Daily Run Down next week.

Daily Run Down 01/30/2011

Here is today’s Daily Run Down.

Current News:

The Ex-President of Blackwater has denied use of ‘excessive’ force.
An Android 2.3 Bug exposes vulernabilities with MicroSD.
The Golden Gatew Bridge will be moving to an all-electric toll method.
BlackBerry service has been restored in Egypt.
There is a tardis mug for Dr. Who Fans.
The next Playstation Update may add ‘online saving’ for Playstation Plus members.
Comcast has completed it’s merger of NBC.
Amazon may be rolling out a Netflix like streaming model for Amazon Prime Members.
Zipcar has added the Toyota Prius PHEV.
An Open-Source alternative to Microsoft’s Exchange is gaining ground.

Historical News:

In 1649, King Charles I of England is beheaded.
In 1790, the First boat specializing as a lifeboat is tested on the River Tyne.
In 1730, Tsar Peter II of Russia dies.
In 1836, Betsy Ross, the creator of the American Flag, dies.
In 1847, Yerba Buena California is renamed San Francisco.
In 1862, the First Ironclad warship, the USS Monitor, is launched.
In 1882, Franklin D. Roosevelt, future American President, is born.
In 1911, the Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy.
In 1920, Carwood Lipton, an American WWII Veteran who was part of Easy Company, is born.
In 1932, Adolf Hitler is sworn in as the Chancellor of Germany.
In 1941, Former Vice President Dick Cheney is born.
In 1948, Orville Wright, Aviation Pioneer, dies.
In 1969, The Beatles’ performed their last Public Concert.
In 1972, British Paratroopers kill 14 unarmed civil rights marchers, resulting in ‘Bloody Sunday’.
In 2006, Coretta Scott King, Wife of Martin Luther King, Jr., dies.

Look for more stories tomorrow. If an important story has been missed please leave it in the comments.

Daily Run Down 05/27/2010

Here is today’s Daily Run Down.

NBC and Time Warner will not be converting their video to work with the iPad.
Google has officially acquired AdMob.
Johnson & Johnson knew of Motrin issue back in 2008.
The key to humans having larger brains has been discovered.
Shark Attacks are most likely on Sundays in 6ft of water.
The company that had Army Helmets recalled has stopped all manufacturing of helmets.