This
week In History: Week 1!
December
29th:1891 -
Thomas Edison patents "transmission of signals electrically", which
was a type of radio /electromagnetic induction system. (More information about
radio patents: http://www.patent-invent.com/radio_patents.html)
December
30th:1865
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On this day poet, author and journalist Rudyard Kipling, was born in Bombay. (Born
Joseph Rudyard Kipling.) His notable works include The Jungle Book and my
favourite poem by him; My Boy Jack, whom he wrote about his own son, after he
was killed in WW1. Kipling also won A Nobel Prize in Literature.
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| Rudyard Kipling and Jack Kipling |
December
31st:1911
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The Chemist Marie Curie receives her 2nd Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Her first
Nobel Prize was for Physics in 1903. This Nobel Prize was for the discovery of the elements radium and polonium. She
was the first person to win or share two Nobel Prizes.
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| Marie Curie |
January
1st:1907
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President Theodore Roosevelt shakes a record 8,513 hands in 1 day. Teddy invited all citizens who were sober, washed, and
free of bodily advertising to go to the White House and wish him a Happy New
Year. They lined up ready to meet him and he shakes 8,513 hands
(averaging 50 grips a minute) in under 3 hours.
January
2nd: 1959 – Cuban Dictator Fulgencio Batista
flees to the Dominican Republic. Fidel Castro proclaims a new Government for
Cuba.
January
3rd:1521
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Martin Luther, a German Friar, known for his movements of Lutheranism and
Protestantism was excommunicated by Pope Leo X from the Roman Catholic Church.
January
4th:1958
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Sir Edmund Hillary reaches the South Pole as part of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, for which he led
the New Zealand section. His party was the first to reach the Pole overland
since Amundsen in 1911 and Scott in 1912. They were also the first ever to do
so using motor vehicles.
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| Hillary and His Men at the South Pole on their vehicles! That's it for this week! See you next time For THIS WEEK IN HISTORY! |
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