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Photo gallery of Pitt v.s. Notre Dame game highlights during the Big East opener.

News:

1757: British troops occupy Calcutta, India.

1776 - 1st revolutionary flag displayed.

1788 - Georgia is 4th state to ratify US constitution.

1800 - Free black community of Phila petitions Congress to abolish slave.

1811 - U.S. Senator Thomas Pickering is 1st senator censured (revealed confidential documents communicated by the president of the U.S.)

1870 - Construction of Brooklyn Bridge begins.

1903 - President Theodore Roosevelt shuts down post office in Indianola Miss, for  refusing to accept its appointed postmistress because she was black.

1919 - Lithuania gains independence.

1921 - 1st religious service radio broadcast in U.S., KDKA-Pittsburgh.

1923 - Ku Klux Klan surprise attack on black residential area Rosewood, Fl.

1929 - U.S. & Canada agree to preserve Niagara Falls.

1936 - 1st electron tube to enable night vision described, St Louis, Mo.

1942 - Japanese troops occupy Manila, Philippines.

1942 - 28 nations, at war with Axis, pledge no separate peace.

1944 - 1st use of helicopters during warfare (British Atlantic patrol)

1945 - Allied air raid on Neurenberg.

1945 - George Bush, Sr, former president of U.S & Barbara Pierce wed [or January 6].

1947- Mahatma Gandhi begins march for peace in East-Bengali.

1960 - Senator John F Kennedy, announces his candidacy for president.

1965 -  Martin Luther King Jr begins a drive to register black voters

1966 - 1st Jewish child born in Spain since 1492 expulsion.

1984 - Wilson Goode, sworn-in as Philadelphia's 1st black mayor.

Source: http://www.ThisDayThatYear.com

1984 - VHS defeats Beta as videotape standard

1991 - Soviet interior ministry troops seize key buildings in Latvia and Lithuania. This puts in doubt whether Mikhail Gorbachev's perestroika is being sabotaged by Soviet hardliners.

1998 - Microsoft buys Hotmail.

2000 - Contrary to the Y2K hoax, the world did not end yesterday, ballistic missiles did not self-launch, planes did not fall out of the sky, electricity did not fail, water still came out of the faucets.

2001 - Taiwanese ships make the first legal crossing to mainland China since 1949.

Source:
http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/all42day/history/h4dec/h4jan02.html

Publications:

1831 - Liberator, abolitionist newspaper, begins publishing in Boston.

1839 - 1st photo of the Moon by French photographer Louis Daguerre.

1893 - 1st US commemoratives & 1st US stamp to picture a woman issued.

Source: http://www.ThisDayThatYear.com

Religion:

1744 - Colonial missionary to the American Indians David Brainerd wrote in his journal: 'We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God.'

1921 - The first religious program heard over the radio was broadcast from Calvary Episcopal Church of Pittsburgh over local radio station KDKA. (The first licensed radio station in the U.S., KDKA had been on the air only two months.)

1968 - Swiss Reformed theologian Karl Barth wrote in a letter: 'In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians.'

1971 - A team of Israeli scholars announced the discovery in Jerusalem of a 2,000-year-old skeleton of a crucified male. Found in a cave-tomb, it was the first direct physical evidence of the well-documented Roman method of execution.

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)