 |
|
YEAR 2009
Thursday January 1
The sprinter jamaïcain Usain Bolt is selected Athlète of the year 2008
- - it preceded the American swimmer Michael Phelps
- - title given by the International association of the sporting press - journalists of 96 countries which gave voted to 1673 points against 1557 in favour of Bolt -
YEAR 2008
Tuesday January 1
Eruption of the Llaima volcano in Chile - - spitting of the matter on fire up to 300 meters above the crater
- - hundreds of people had to leave the town of Melipeuco - 700 kilometers in the south of Santiago -
- - 190 tourists who were in the National park of Colliguio were evacuated
Llaima - - altitude of 3,125 meters in the Chilean Andes
- - located in the national park of Conguillio
- - its last eruption went back to 1994
YEAR 2007
Monday January 1
Crash landing of a Boeing 737 on the island of Célèbes in Indonesia
- - 90 people died on the 102 passengers - including 6 team members -
- - the pilot had launched a distress call little before the crash landing
- - party of Surabaya - island of Java - bound for Manado - Célèbes island
Wednesday January 10, 2007
- - part of the plane - horizontal stabilizer of the tail - is found in water of the strait of Makassar - nearly 300 kilometers off the island of Sulawesi -
- - discovered by a fisherman
YEAR 2007
Monday January 1
Bulgaria and Romania make their input in the European Union
- - they become the 26e and 27e Member States
YEAR 2007
Monday January 1
Input according to the new secretary of the United Nations “Ban Ki-moon”
- - it replaces Kofi Annan (68 years) from which the mandate had begun in January 1, 1998
YEAR 2002
Tuesday January 1
Europe obtains a new currency (the EURO)
- - Countries of the euro area
- Germany
- Austria
- Belgium
- Spain
- Finland
- France
- Greece
- Ireland
- Italy
- Luxembourg
- Netherlands
- Portugal
Denmark, Sweden and the United Kingdom are members of the European Union but do not take part in the single currency.
YEAR 1992
January 1
Boutros Boutros-Ghali takes up duty as secretary-general of the United Nations
- - elected official in November of the previous year by the Safety advice
YEAR 1980
January 1
A case of arson makes 48 dead at the time of a midnight supper of the New Year's Day in a crammed room of 400 people, in Chapais in Abitibi in Quebec
YEAR 1975
January 1
John Mitchell, H.P. Haldeman, and John Erlichman, are recognized guilty of participation in a plot in order to make obstruction with justice in the scandal of Watergate
YEAR 1975
January 1
Beginning of the year international of the woman
YEAR 1972
January 1
Death of Maurice Knight at the 83 years age
- - singer of varieties and French film actor born on September 12, 1888 in Paris
- - nominated 2 times like better actor with the Oscars for the films “The Love Parade” and Big Pond'
- - it popularized the songs “Valentine” and “Y' has of the joy”
YEAR 1962
January 1
Death of William Harrison Faulkner
- American writer born on September 9, 1897 with New Albany (the Mississippi)
author of: - “Noise and fury” in 1927
- “Sanctuary” in 1931
- “Light of August” in 1932
- “Requiem for a nun” in 1951
- Nobel Prize of literature in 1949
YEAR 1960
January 1
Cameroun obtains its independence of France
YEAR 1959
January 1
The victory of the forces carried out by Fidel Castro is acquired in Cuba
- - whereas the dictator Fulgencio Batista flees in Dominican Republic
YEAR 1934
January 1
The island of Alcatraz to San Francisco becomes officially a federal prison
YEAR 1921
January 1
Birth of César Baldaccini
- - French scultor born in Marseilles
- - he is the designer of the statuettes given like rewards cinematographic, at the time of the ceremony of the “Césars” in France
- - deceased of a cancer on December 6, 1998 at the 77 years age
YEAR 1913
January 1
The American Post offices make their first delivery of mail
YEAR 1863
January 1
Birth of Pierre de Coubertin
- born in Paris
- renovating of the Olympic Games
- death on September 2, 1937
YEAR 1804
January 1
Haiti obtains its independence of France
YEAR 1772
January 1
Emission of the first accounts - travellers' cheques
- - a British invention
YEAR 1743
January 1
Taking possession, in the name of the king of France of the territories of the Canadian West by wire Vérendrye
YEAR 1635
January 1
Opening of the first elementary school in Quebec by the Jesuits
|
DYNAMIC CALENDAR
[Gregorian]
from December 20, 1582
at December 31, 2499
|
|
MySpace
Facebook
Twitter
Google
digg
del.icio.us
publie.ca
email
Live
email
