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January history 1 - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's novel Frankenstein The Modern Prometheus is first published (1818) 1 - Abraham Lincoln signs the Emaancipation Proclamation (1863) 4 - President George Washington delivers the first State of the Union address (1790) 6 - Joan of Arc is born (1412) 9 - Steve Jobs debuts the iPhone (2007) 15 - Elizabeth Tudor, daughter of Henry VIII and Ann Boleyn, crowned as Elizabeth I (1559) 21 USS Nautilus, the world's first nuclear powered submarine, launched in Groton, Connecticut (1954) 25 - An American Airlines Boeing 707 makes the first scheduled transcontinental U.S. flight from California to New York (1959) 27 - Soviet troops liberate the Nazi death camp Auschwitz (1945)

January holidays: 1-Frankenstein Day ~ 20 Cheese Lover's Day

January Birthdays 3 - J.R.R. Tolkein 14 - Andy Rooney 17 - Betty White 17 - Muhammad Ali 18 - Oliver Hardy 19 - Dolly Parton 19 - Edgar Allan Poe 24 - Neil Diamond 27 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 31 - Jackie Robinson