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2001 - The US dollar becomes legal tender in El Salvador, together with the colon ($1 = 8.75 colons).

2002- Euro bills and coins begin to circulate in the 12 countries of the European monetary union.

News:

1788 - Quakers in Pennsylvania emancipate their slaves.

1907: Pres Theodore Roosevelt shakes a record 8,513 hands in 1 day.

1908 - 1st time, ball signifying new year dropped at Times Square.

1913 - Post office begins parcel post deliveries.

1923 - Union of Socialist Soviet Republics established.

1928 - 1st US air-conditioned office building opens, San Antonio.

1934 - Alcatraz officially becomes a federal prison.

1942 - US & 25 other countries sign a united declaration against the Axis.

1945 -  France joins the UN.

1946 - Emperor Hirohito of Japan announces he is not a god.

1959 - Chad becomes autonomous republic in French Community.

1960 - Johnny Cash plays 1st of many free concerts behind bars.

1966 - All US cigarette packs have to carry "Caution Cigarette smoking may be hazardous to your health."

1968 - Netherlands gets color TV.

1968 - Evel Knievel fails in his attempt to jump C‘sar's Palace Fountain.

1971 - Cigarette advertisements banned on TV.

1976 - Liberty Bell moves to new home behind Independence Hall.

1978 -  Pres Ford signs 1st major revision of copyright law since 1909.

1987 -  60 bodies recovered in Dupont Plaza Hotel fire in Puerto Rico.

Source: http://www.ThisDayThatYear.com

1990 - David Dinkins was sworn in as New York City's first Black mayor.

1993 - Czechoslovakia peacefully splits into Czech Republic (Bohemia) and Slovakia.

1995 - Austria, Finland and Sweden act to join European Union.

1999 - In California, a law went into effect that defined "invasion of privacy as trespassing with the intent to capture audio or video images of a celebrity or crime victim engaging in a personal of family activity.

2000 - Y2K world disaster does not occur.

Source:
http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/all42day/history/h4dec/h4jan01.html

Publications:

1916 - 1st issue of "Journal of Negro History" published.

1935 - Associated Press inaugurates Wirephoto.

1936 - 1st newspaper to microfilm its current issues, NY Herald Tribune.

1948 - 1st color newsreel filmed in Pasadena, California.

Source: http://www.ThisDayThatYear.com

Religion:

1712 - Birth of Peter Bohler, the Moravian missionary who, at age 25, influenced the religious spirit of John Wesley. Bohler taught the founder of Methodism the joys of personal conversion and self surrendering faith, and Wesley later incorporated these spiritual emphases within Methodist theology.

Source: http://www.scopesys.com/today

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Additional information supplied by the author. Contact via E-mail: William D. Blake. (pilgrimwb@aol.com)