January 9
1776 In Philadelphia, Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense, a pamphlet that set the American colonies afire with a longing for independence.
1788 Connecticut becomes the fifth state to ratify the Constitution.
January 10
1753 Poor Richard predicts "wind and falling weather, then very cold" for the second week of January. Other Franklin proverbs from Poor Richard's Almanac.... "Little strokes fell great oaks," "Laziness travels so slowly that Poverty soon overtakes him," and "Well done is better than well said."
1861 Florida secedes from the Union.
January 11
1785 Congress relocates from Trenton, New Jersey, to New York City, the nation's new temporary capital.
1861 Alabama secedes from the Union.
January 12
1773 The first public museum in America is established in Charleston, South Carolina.
1906 The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 100 for the first time.
January 13
1910 In an early radio demonstration, opera star Enrico Caruso is broadcast live from the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
1990 Douglas Wilder of Virginia is sworn in as the nation's first elected black governor.
January 14
1784 The Continental Congress ratifies the Treaty of Paris, officially ending the Revolutionary War.
1914 Henry Ford introduces a moving assembly line for cars, reducing production time from more than 12 hours to about 90 minutes.
January 15
1892 The rules of basketball are first published in Springfield, Massachusetts.
1929 Martin Luther King, Jr., is born in Atlanta, Georgia.
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