MessageToEagle.com – On Jan 19, 1809, Edgar Allan Poe, American writer, was born in Boston. Poe was a writer, editor, literary critic, best known for his poetry and short
MessageToEagle.com – On January 18, 1778, Captain James Cook, the English explorer, became the first European to discover the Hawaiian Islands. British Captain James Cook arrived in the
MessageToEagle.com – On January 17, 1781, the Battle of Cowpens took place just north of the town of Cowpens, South Carolina. The American forces were led by Daniel Morgan,
MessageToEagle.com – On January 16, 1765, Charles Messier catalogued M41— a huge open cluster of stars in the constellation Canis Major. Visible to the naked eye, M41 is a
MessageToEagle.com – On January 15, 1929, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr was born in Atlanta, Georgia. King was twentieth-century America’s most compelling and effective civil rights leader. After
MessageToEagle.com – On January 14, 1784, the American Revolution ended, after almost a decade of bloodshed. The Congress of the United States ratified the Treaty of Paris, the official
MessageToEagle.com – On January 13, 1404, the Act Against Multipliers was signed into law. English alchemists were forbidden to use their knowledge to create precious metals. The law
MessageToEagle.com – On January 12, 1976, died Agatha Christie, known as the ‘Queen of Crime’. Agatha Christie was a detective mystery writer whose work sold over two billion
MessageToEagle.com – On January 11, 1935, Amelia Earhart became the first aviator to fly solo from Honolulu, Hawaii to Oakland, California. Earhart completed a 2,400-mile trip from Wheeler
MessageToEagle.com – On January 10, 1645, William Laud, the Archbishop of Canterbury, was executed at Tower Hill in London, England. Laud (1573 – 11645) was the Archbishop of
MessageToEagle.com – On January 9, 1950, Alec Jeffreys, a British geneticist, who developed techniques for DNA fingerprinting and DNA profiling was born. Jeffreys’s achievements are now used worldwide
MessageToEagle.com – On January 8, 378 AD, a warlord Siyaj K’ak’ conquered Waka (El Perú), now known as a pre-Columbian Maya archeological site occupied during periods about 500
MessageToEagle.com – On January 7th, 1610, four hundred years ago, Galileo Galilei, the Italian astronomer and mathematician made a discovery of the four Galilean moons: Ganymede, Callisto, Io
MessageToEagle.com – On January 6, 1852, died Louis Braille, creator of the Braille Alphabet For Blind People. Braille was a French teacher who devoted his life to developing
MessageToEagle.com – On January 5, 1892, the first successful photograph of aurora borealis – the “northern lights” – was made by the German physicist Martin Brendel (1862-1939). Although
MessageToEagle.com – On January 4, 871 AD, the Danes surprised the people of Wessex by arriving on horseback in a lightning raid that swiftly took the town of
MessageToEagle.com – On January 3, 1957, the world’s first electric watch was introduced in Lancaster, PA by the Hamilton Watch Company. Research already began in 1946, but it
MessageToEagle.com –On January 2, 1920, Isaac Asimov, a creator of science fiction was born. He grew up in New York, but it was during his two decades in
MessageToEagle.com – On January 1, 1801, Giuseppe Piazzi (1746-1846), a Catholic priest at the Academy of Palermo, Sicily discovered a faint, distant object, correctly believing it to lie
MessageToEagle.com – In the United States, New Year’s Eve is celebrated with parties, family-oriented activities, and other large public events. One of the most prominent celebrations in the
MessageToEagle.com – On December 30, 1924, America astronomer Edwin Hubble announced that there are other galaxies in the cosmos. Our home galaxy Milky Way is not alone; it
MessageToEagle.com – It is about one of the most famous murders of the Middle Ages. On December 29, 1170, four knights of King Henry II of England silently
MessageToEagle.com – On 28 Dec 1895, Auguste and Louis Lumière brothers presented their first film in Paris. The Lumière brothers, Auguste (1862 -1954) and Louis Jean (1864 – 1948) were
MessageToEagle.com – On December 27, 1571, Johannes Kepler, ‘Father of Modern Astronomy’ was born. His three fundamental statements about planetary motion represent his work, which he based on
MessageToEagle.com – On December 26, 1606, William Shakespeare performed his play ‘King Lear’ before the court of King James I at Whitehall. In 1605, an anonymous play was
