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AncientPages.com - On January 15, 1929, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr was born in Atlanta, Georgia. King was twentieth-century America’s most compelling civil rights leader. After entering Morehouse College

AncientPages.com - On January 13, 1404, the Act Against Multipliers was signed into law. English alchemists were forbidden to use their knowledge to create precious metals. The British parliament

AncientPages.com - On January 11, 1935, Amelia Earhart became the first aviator to fly solo from Honolulu, Hawaii, to Oakland, California. Earhart completed a 2,400-mile trip from Wheeler

AncientPages.com - On January 10, 1645, William Laud, the Archbishop of Canterbury, was executed at Tower Hill in London, England. Laud (1573–1645) was the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1633,

AncientPages.com - On 9 January 681,  the Twelfth Council of Toledo was initiated by the new King Erwig, a king of the Visigoths in Hispania (680–687). One of its

AncientPages.com - On January 8, 378 AD,  a warlord Siyaj K'ak', conquered Waka (El Perú), now known as a pre-Columbian Maya archaeological site occupied from about 500 BC

AncientPages.com - On January 6, 1852, died Louis Braille, creator of the Braille Alphabet For Blind People. Braille was a French teacher who devoted his life to developing and

AncientPages.com - On 5 January 1896, an Austrian newspaper reported a discovery of a new type of radiation known today as X-rays. Wilhelm Roentgen, a German professor of physics,

AncientPages.com - On January 4,  871 AD, the Danes surprised the people of Wessex by arriving on horseback in a lightning raid that swiftly took the town of Reading.

AncientPages.com - On January 2, 1920, Isaac Asimov, a science fiction creator, was born. He grew up in New York, but during his two decades in Boston, he achieved

AncientPages.com - The Battle of Englefield occurred around 31 December 870, marking a significant conflict where the West Saxons successfully defeated a Danish Viking army near Reading in

AncientPages.com - On 28 Dec 1895, Auguste and Louis Lumière brothers presented their first film in Paris. The Lumière brothers, Auguste (1862 -1954) and Louis Jean (1864 -

AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in British Columbia, Canada have discovered evidence that as early as 1,800 BC, ancestors of the Katzie First Nation in B.C.’s Lower Mainland were engineering

AncientPages.com - On December 26, 1606, William Shakespeare performed his play 'King Lear' before the court of King James I at Whitehall Palace. Shakespeare's friend and noted fellow actor,