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.