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Tuesday, January 1, 2013

This was 1st day of the year and 364 days remained in the year.

Hebrew calendar — 19 Tevet 5773
Chinese calendar — the 20th day of the 11th month of 4710 (Ren Chen)
Islamic calendar — (note)

January 1 Birthdays

Paul Revere
1735–1818, American patriot

Lorenzo de' Medici
merchant prince (1449)

Huldreich Zwingli
Protestant reformer (1484)

Anthony Wayne
general (1745)

Betsy Ross
seamstress (1752)

Pierre de Coubertin
father of the Modern Olympic Games (1863)

Alfred Stieglitz
photographer (1864)

J. Edgar Hoover
director of FBI (1895)

J. D. Salinger
writer (1919)

January 2013

S	M	T	W	T	F	S
		1	2	3	4	5
6	7	8	9	10	11	12
13	14	15	16	17	18	19
20	21	22	23	24	25	26
27	28	29	30	31

January 1 in History

1863

Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.

1908

The ball signifying the New Year was dropped for the first time at Times Square in New York City.

1914

The world's first airline, St. Petersburg Tampa Airboat Line, starts operation in St. Petersburg, Florida.

1959

Fidel Castro and his revolutionaries took over Cuba and toppled Fulgencio Batista's regime.

1975

John Mitchell, H. R. Haldeman, and John Ehrlichman were convicted of obstruction of justice in the Watergate affair.

1993

Czechoslovakia peacefully split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

1994

The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) went into effect.

2002

Euro coins and notes went into circulation in twelve European nations.

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Note: Dates in the Islamic calendar are provided for planning purposes only, and calculated with the hdate Islamic calendar program for moonrise in Boston, Masschusetts. Depending on your location and other factors, this result may differ from actual religious observances by one day. Please consult your local religious authority for any religious determinations of hejiric date.