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		1 1892—Ellis Island Immigrant Station officially opens 1831—William Lloyd Garrison founds abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator 1863—The Emancipation Proclamation goes into effect.	2 1920—Russian-born science fiction writer Isaac Asimov born 1897—American writer Stephen Crane survives the sinking of The Commodore off the coast of Florida	3 1841—Herman Melville boards the New Bedford whaleship the Acushnet bound for the South Pacific —Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman statesman & author, is born (BCE) 1959—Alaska becomes 49th State	4 1965—Poet T.S. Eliot dies 1965—President Johnson outlines goals of his “Great Society” in State of the Union 1785—Jakob Grimm, German collector of fairy tales, is born	5 1949—Harry Truman promises a “Fair Deal” to Americans 1905—The National Audubon Society founded
6 1412—Saint Joan of Arc is born 1878—Carl Sandburg, American poet, historian, and folklorist, is born 1941—President Franklin Roosevelt delivers the Four Freedoms speech	7 1610—Galileo discovers first three Jupiter satellites 1830—Albert Bierstadt, landscape painter, is born 1891—Zora Neale Hurston, African-American novelist, is born	8 1935—American singer Elvis Presley born 1981—Chilean writer Isabel Allende begins “House of the Spirits” 1790—Washington delivers first State of the Union Address in New York City	9 1906—Paul Laurence Dunbar, African-American poet & novelist, dies 1913—Richard M. Nixon born 1324—Marco Polo, Venetian merchant and world traveller, dies	10 1941—FDR introduces Lend-Lease Program 1912—Bread & Roses Strike begins 1776—Thomas Paine’s pamphlet, “Common Sense,” published anonymously more	11 1757—American statesman Alexander Hamilton born in the West Indies	12 1876—Jack London, American author, journalist, and social activist, is born 1588—John Winthrop, founder of Massachusetts Bay Colony, born
13 1930—“Mickey Mouse” comic strip appears for the first time	14 1784—Revolutionary War ends; Congress ratifies the Treaty of Paris 1898—Charles L. Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, dies	15 1559—Elizabeth I crowned queen of England 1929—Martin Luther King Jr., activist & civil rights leader, is born 1933—Novelist Ernest Gaines born	16 1605—Book One of Don Quixote by Cervantes, is published 1919—18th Amendment becomes law	17 1961—President Eisenhower warns of danger of military industrial complex 1706—Ben Franklin born 1961—President Dwight Eisenhower gives his Farewell Address to the nation	18 1782—American statesman Daniel Webster born 1803—President Jefferson requests funding from Congress for Lewis & Clark expedition 1882—A.A. Milne, English writer of Winnie-the-Pooh series, is born; “Winnie-the-Pooh” Day	19 1809—Edgar Allan Poe, American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic, is born 1839—French painter Paul Cézanne born 1807—General Robert E. Lee born
20 1961—JFK inauguration 1869—Women’s rights advocate Elizabeth Cady Stanton becomes first woman to testify before Congress	21 1824—Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson, one of Robert E. Lee’s generals, born 1950—Alger Hiss convicted of perjury 2013—Martin Luther King Day (USA)	22 1788—Lord Byron, English Romantic poet, is born 1938—“Our Town,” Pulitzer winning play by Thornton Wilder, is performed for the first time 1973—Supreme Court, in Roe v. Wade, holds right to privacy includes abortion decision	23 1930—Poet Derek Walcott born 1594—First known performance of a Shakespeare play, Titus Andronicus	24 1862—Edith Wharton, American novelist, short story writer, and designer, is born 1993—Death of first African American Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall 1965—Death of Sir Winston Churchill British statesman	25 1882—Virginia Woolf, British writer, is born	26 1934—The Apollo Theatre opens in New York City 1950—India proclaims itself a republic
27 1838—Abraham Lincoln delivers Lyceum Address 1832—Lewis Carroll, English author, is born 1827—Nakahama Manjirō (中濱万次郎) the first Japanese national to emigrate to America, born	28 1912—American painter Jackson Pollock born 1962—A Wrinkle in Time is published 1916—Louis Brandeis nominated to Supreme Court more	29 1737—Thomas Paine is born 1963—Robert Frost, American poet, dies; epitaph reads: “I had a lover's quarrel with the world”	30 1882—Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd U.S. President, is born 1948—Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi assassinated	31 1919—Baseball player Jackie Robinson born 1865—The Houses passes constitutional amendment to abolish slavery

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