Today in History
Listings for Monday, January 2, 2023.
Birthdays:
- 1904 Sally Rand
- 1920 Isaac Asimov, scientist-writer, The Laws of Robotics
- 1920 Isaac Asimov
- 1936 Roger Miller
- 1939 Jim Bakker
- 1961 Gabrielle Carteris
- 1966 Tia Carrere
- 1968 Cuba Gooding, Jr.
- 1969 Christy Turlington
Events:
- Betsy Ross Day
- Earth at perihelion
- Quadrantid meteor shower, radiant in Bo”tes
- 1776 first American revolutionary flag displayed.
- 1788 Georgia is 4th state to ratify US constitution
- 1893 World's Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago
- 1921 DeYoung Museum in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park opens.
- 1936 first electron tube described, St Louis, Missouri
- 1959 USSR launches Mechta, 1st lunar probe & artificial in solar orbit
- 1968 Dr Christian Barnard performs 1st successful heart transplant
- 1972 Mariner 9 begins mapping Mars
That's all for today.
