A look back in History January

01/01/1959: Cuban revolution led by Fidel Castro ended.

03/1/1795: Josiah Wedgewood, English pottery designer and manufacturer, died.

04/01/1960: Albert Camus, French writer and philosopher, died.

05/01/1972: NASA announced the start of the space shuttle program.

07/01/1610: First three satellites of Jupiter discovered (Galileo).

08/01/1889: Herman Holleiith patented first data processing computer.

9/1/1793: First manned US balloon flight.

10/1/1920: League of Nations came into being.

13/01/1948: Mahatma Gandhi began his final fast.

13/01/1888: National Geographic Society founded.

13/01/1941: James Joyce, Irish novelist, died.

14/01/1742: Edmund Halley, English astronomer and mathematician, died.

15/01/1973: President Richard Nixon halted military offensives in Vietnam.

17/01//1946: UN Security Council first met.

18/01/1911: First landing of an airplane on a ship.

19/01/1903: First transatlantic radio broadcast.

20/01/1841: China ceded Hong Kong to Great Britain.

21/01/1924: Nikolai Lenin, leader of Russia’s 1917 Communist revolution, died.

22/01/1771: Falkland Islands ceded to Britain(by Spain.

23/01/1962: Kim Philby, Soviet spy, defected

24/01/1965: Sir Winston Churchill, British statesman, died.

26/01/1950: India became the Republic of India.

27/01/1880: Electric bulb patented by Thomas Edison.

28/01/1939: William Butler Yeats, Irish poet—dramatist, died.

30/-1/1933: Hitler became chancellor of Germany.

31/01/1939: Hewlett-Packard founded.