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1695 – Window Tax imposed in England.
“This large house on Norton Street, Uppingham, has several blocked up windows. It looks old enough to have been subject to the tax which was first imposed in 1681 and abolished in 1825.” Photo by Kate Jewell CC BY-SA 2.0
1879 – Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time, in Menlo Park, New Jersey.
Edison bulb used in Menlo Park electric lamp demo, Christmas week, 1879. Unlike today’s bulbs, the early ones were created by artisans, of hand-blown glass. Photo: Sergio Caltagirone.
1911 – Marie Curie receives her second Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for her work with radioactivity.
Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only woman to win the award in two different fields (Physics, 1903; Chemistry, 1911).
1924 – Italian Fascist Mussolini orders the suppression of opposition newspapers.
Adolf Hitler (right) and Benito Mussolini.
1995 – Final Calvin and Hobbes strip
© 1995 Bill Waterson. All rights reserved.
1999 – Yeltsin resigns; Putin's era begins
Former President Boris Yeltsin, left, smiles as he talks to the then Russian acting President and Premier Vladimir Putin, at the Kremlin, Russia, on Dec. 31, 1999. In a surprise address to the nation, President Boris Yeltsin announces his resignation and makes Putin, the prime minister he appointed four months earlier, the acting president. (Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)
2004 – Taipei 101 opens
A landmark building in Taiwan, the Taipei 101 tower has 101 stories and reaches a height of 1,667 feet (508 meters).
2019 – Chinese authorities report cases of an unexplained pneumonia in Wuhan, the first public signal of what would become the COVID-19 pandemic.
Wuhan Central Hospital. PBS.
“This large house on Norton Street, Uppingham, has several blocked up windows. It looks old enough to have been subject to the tax which was first imposed in 1681 and abolished in 1825.” Photo by Kate Jewell CC BY-SA 2.0
1879 – Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time, in Menlo Park, New Jersey.
Edison bulb used in Menlo Park electric lamp demo, Christmas week, 1879. Unlike today’s bulbs, the early ones were created by artisans, of hand-blown glass. Photo: Sergio Caltagirone.
1911 – Marie Curie receives her second Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for her work with radioactivity.
Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only woman to win the award in two different fields (Physics, 1903; Chemistry, 1911).
1924 – Italian Fascist Mussolini orders the suppression of opposition newspapers.
Adolf Hitler (right) and Benito Mussolini.
1995 – Final Calvin and Hobbes strip
© 1995 Bill Waterson. All rights reserved.
1999 – Yeltsin resigns; Putin's era begins
Former President Boris Yeltsin, left, smiles as he talks to the then Russian acting President and Premier Vladimir Putin, at the Kremlin, Russia, on Dec. 31, 1999. In a surprise address to the nation, President Boris Yeltsin announces his resignation and makes Putin, the prime minister he appointed four months earlier, the acting president. (Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)
2004 – Taipei 101 opens
A landmark building in Taiwan, the Taipei 101 tower has 101 stories and reaches a height of 1,667 feet (508 meters).
2019 – Chinese authorities report cases of an unexplained pneumonia in Wuhan, the first public signal of what would become the COVID-19 pandemic.
Wuhan Central Hospital. PBS.