JANUARY, 2007 -- 365 days of Google Answers
"What's past is prologue ..." Tempest, Act 2, Scene 1 by William Shakespeare
Though Google discontinued the Google Answers service on Dec. 30, 2006 there are almost 69,000 well-researched Answers for you to read, including some original research, such as this answer on the historical understanding of stall-spin recovery in airplanes.
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On this day:
Monday, Jan. 1: New Year's Day (1) * Welcome to the Gregorian calendar, which was adopted in 1582: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=7
Tuesday, Jan. 2: * A guide to White House declarations and commemorative days for the year: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=377944
Wednesday, Jan. 3: * Alaska admitted as a state in 1959, including its glaciers: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=16944
Thursday, Jan. 4: * Predictions of business and societal changes: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=106274
Friday, Jan. 5: * Snoopy, the "Peanuts" cartoon dog, first walks on two legs in 1956. Snoopy is a beagle: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=268565
Saturday, Jan. 6: Epiphany (6) * Samuel Morse demonstrates the telegraph in 1837. Other inventions and discoveries of the 19th century: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=576966
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Sunday, Jan. 7: * Katie Couric, CBS news anchor, born in 1957. She's also a single mother: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=324332
Monday, Jan. 8: * The birthday of Elvis Presley (1935) is also Rock 'n Roll Day. Elvis choice of guitar: a Martin: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=553526
Tuesday, Jan. 9: * Dear Abby published for the first time in 1956. How the column stacks up with other advice sites in Google Page Rank: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=374268
Wednesday, Jan. 10: * Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon in 49 B.C. and "the die is cast": http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=139018
Thursday, Jan. 11: * Trial of Watergate burglars begins in 1973. It would eventually lead to the resignation of a president, with the process described here: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=782145
Friday, Jan. 12: * The U.S. Congress authorizes military strikes against Iraq in 1991 due to the invasion of Kuwait the previous August: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=714509
Saturday, Jan. 13: * Beginning of the Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War in 1969: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=337608
Sunday, Jan. 14: * American Revolutionary War ends with Congress ratifying a peace treaty with England in 1784. A description of Gen. George Washington's leadership: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=97496
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Monday, Jan. 15: Martin Luther King Jr. Day -- U.S. (15) * Anniversary of the Great Molasses Flood in Boston (1919) that killed 21 and injured 150: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=353499
Tuesday, Jan. 16: * Prohibition begins in 1920, only to end in 1933. But absinthe is still banned in the U.S.: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=542915
Wednesday, Jan. 17: * Ben Franklin - famous for his experiments with lightning - was born on this day in 1706. More about the impact of lightning:
Thursday, Jan. 18: * Plans for the World Trade Center in New York City unveiled today in 1964. Engineering analyses of design factors in its eventual failure after the Sept. 11 attacks: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=191382
Friday, Jan. 19: * Pres. Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino or 'Tokyo Rose' in 1977. On the legal issues of treason: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=413641
Saturday, Jan. 20: * John Marshall appointed Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1801. Two years later, the principal of judicial review is established: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=23604
Sunday, Jan. 21: * Vladimir Illyich Lenin dies in 1924, leading to the rise of Josef Stalin. Lenin's 7 years in power summarized: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=104416
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Monday, Jan. 22: * Roe v. Wade case decided in 1973 by the U.S. Supreme Court. Though the case was about abortion rights, it is also eved to be a precedent for rights to privacy:http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=568027
Tuesday, Jan. 23: * The earthquake on this day in 1556 in Shaanxi Province, China is believed to be the deadliest in history, killing perhaps 830,000. How to track seismic events: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=198118
Wednesday, Jan. 24: * On this day in 1921, the Eskimo Pie is granted U.S. Patent #1,404,539: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=292168
Thursday, Jan. 25: * Mendelssohn's popular "Wedding March" played the first time at the wedding of Queen Victoria in 1858. The composer also helped popularize J.S. Bach: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=590270
Friday, Jan. 26: Australia Day (26) * Population trends for Australiaand Tasmania: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=348143
Saturday, Jan. 27: * Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart born in 1756. Biographies of the composer: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=444979
Sunday, Jan. 28: * Jamaican musician King Tubby born in 1941 as Osbourne Ruddock: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=388671
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Monday, Jan. 29: * Oprah Gail Winfrey born on this date in 1954. A biography of the talk show hostess: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=516179
Tuesday, Jan. 30: * Oliver Cromwell is disinterred and "excecuted" in 1661, two years after his death. Background to the English Civil War and the Puritans: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=433326
Wednesday, Jan. 31: * "Scotch" tape brought to market by 3M in 1930. Like Wintergreen Life Savers, it can cause triboluminescence: http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=108877
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