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NEW
YEAR'S DAY
1863 Lincoln
issues Emancipation Proclamation
1876 First modern
Mummers' Parade
1966
Strikers Shut Down NYC Subway System
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1923
The African-American town of Rosewood, Fla., was burned by a white
mob.
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1949,
the Supreme Court ruled that states held the right to outlaw the
closed shop.
Political and
social reformer Lucretia Coffin Mott was born in 1793
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"If
the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will
fall by the hands of the clergy."
Marquis de Lafayette |
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1914
Henry Ford introduced the $5-a-day minimum wage.
1949,
President Truman's State of the Union address recommended measures
including national health insurance, raising the minimum wage, strengthening
the position of organized labor, and guarantying the civil rights
of all Americans. |
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1993
Dizzy Gillespie, the last of the primary originators of Be-Bop jazz,
died in Englewood, New Jersey.
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1959
United States recognizes new Cuban government
1953 Truman
announces U.S. has developed a hydrogen bomb |
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"You
can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All
you're doing is recording it."
Art Buchwald |
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Clean
Off Your Desk Day 2006 |
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On
this day in 1980, labor lost one of its most powerful leaders, AFL-CIO
chief George Meany.
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
INSTITUTED:
1920.
1946
First meeting of the United Nations
1776
Thomas Paine's Common Sense,was published.
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1937
Violence Erupts At GM Plant. 12 days into a sit-down strike at the
GM factory in Flint, GM security forces and Flint Police moved to
evict the strikers. |
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Handwriting Day (US National)
In observance of John Hancock's Birthday, January 12, 1737.
1915 The U.S.
House of Representatives rejected a proposal to give women the right
to vote.
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"The
incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives
in the dark."
Jack Anderson |
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Benedict Arnold - Revolutionary
War Major General was born on January 14, 1741
1990 The Simpsons
premiered on television.
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1929
Martin Luther King Jr. born |
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Martin
Luther King Jr. Day
"All
labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should
be undertaken with painstaking excellence."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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1961 Eisenhower
warns of the "military-industrial complex"
Benjamin
Franklin born in 1706 |
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"Let
the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized
voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all
thoughtful citizens sustain them, for the future of Labor is the future
of America."
John L. Lewis |
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Edgar
Allen Poe born 1809 |
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The problems that exist in the world today cannot be
solved by the level of thinking that created them.
Albert Einstein |
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1973
The Supreme Court legalized some abortions in Roe v. Wade.
1997
The U.S. Senate confirmed Madeleine Albright as the first female
secretary of state.
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National Handwriting Day
John Hancock born 1737 |
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1890
United Mine Workers of America was founded. |
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1802
Congress passed an act calling for establishment of a library within
the US Capitol. |
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Samuel Gompers born 1850 |
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On this day in 1834, Andrew Jackson becomes the first
president to use federal troops to quell labor unrest.
Chinese New Year |
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
1882
1948 Gandhi Assassinated in New Delhi |
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Islamic New Year
1865 House passes the 13th Amendment.
The U.S. House of Representatives passes the 13th Amendment to
the Constitution, abolishing slavery in the United States. It read,
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude...shall exist within
the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." |
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