It’s time for Music Jeopardy 37! This week’s theme is “It Happened in January.” Guess these clues about January music milestones!
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#History #USHistory #JanuaryHistory January 31, 1865, the United States House of Representatives passed the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, abolishing slavery and indentured servitude in the United States and it's territories with the excepption of punishment for crime after conviction.
#History #USHistory #JanuaryHistory January 30, 1835, the first presidential assassination attempt in American history unfolded when Richard Lawrence, an English-born American house painter and failed assassin, attempted to murder seventh president of the United States, Andrew Jackson.
#History #HawaiianHistory #JanuaryHistory January 29, 1891, after the death of her brother, King Kalākaua, Lili'uokalani became the first and only reigning Hawaiian queen and the last independent monarch of the Hawaiian Islands.
#History #SpaceHistory #JanuaryHistory January 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger explodes as it lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. All crewmembers died immediately, including Ellison Onizuka, Sharon McAuliffe, Greg Jarvis, Judith Resnik, Michael Smith, Francis Scobee, and Ronald McNair.
#History #NationalGeographic #JanuaryHistory January 27, 1888, the National Geographic Society is officially founded, dedicated to "the increase and diffusion of geographical knowledge." The society was formed two weeks prior on January 13, by thirty-three men in Washington, DC.
#History #BrazilianHistory #JanuaryHistory January 26, 1500, Spanish explorer and navigator Vicente Yáñez Pinzón reaches the Cabo de Santo Agostinho, on the southern coast of Pernambuco, the earliest documented European voyage to what is now Brazilian territory.
#History #AfricanHistory #JanuaryHistory January 25th, 1905, the Cullinan diamond, weighing 3,106 carats/1.37 pounds, is discovered in the Premier Mine in the British Transvaal Colony which is today part of South Africa. The Diamond is named after the chairman of the mining company, Thomas Cullinan.
#History #BeerHistory #JanuaryHistory January 24, 1935, the American Can Company, in a partnership with the Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company, delivered the first canned beer to drinkers in Richmond, Virginia. Two thousand cans of Krueger's Finest Beer and Cream Ale arrived in Old Dominion.
#History #ToyHistory #JanuaryHistory January 23, 1957, machines at the Wham-O toy company rolled out the very first batch of their aerodynamic plate disks, known today as Frisbees. The Frisbee's origins can be traced back to a man named William Frisbie in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
#History #OklahomaHistory #JanuaryHistory January 22, 1997, Lottie Williams, a resident of the state of Oklahoma, was struck by a six-inch piece of a delta II rocket carrying the Midcourse Space Experiment as it returned to earth from space. This makes her the only human to ever be hit by space junk
#History #AustralianHistory #JanuaryHistory January 21, 2018, the Illman family was visiting a beach near Wedge island off the west coast of Australia when they found an old-looking brown bootle that held a rolled-up, fragile piece of paper. The oldest message in a bottle ever discovered.
#History #IranianHistory #JanuaryHistory On January 20, 1981, Minutes after President Ronald Reagan's inauguration as fortieth president of the United States, all fifty-two U.S. captives held at the U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iran, were released, ending the 444-day Iran hostage crisis.
#History #WorldWarHistory #JanuaryHistory January 19, 1915, in the darkness of the night, two German Zeppelins--L3 and L4--bombed Great Yarmouth, Sheringham, King's Lynn, and Norfolk, England. This was the first strategic air offensive against Britain in the nation's history.
#History #VietnameseHistory #JanuaryHistory January 18, 1950, the People's Republic of China recognizes the communist government of North Vietnam, the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. The Soviet Union would follow suit on January 30 by establishing an embassy.
#History #AmericanHistory #JanuaryHistory January 17th, 1950, eleven men steal more than $2 million from the Brink's Armored Car depot in Boston, Massachusetts. shortly after 7:30 p.m. employees were closing for the day, returning sacks of undelivered cash and checks to the company safe.
#History #IndianHistory #JanuaryHistory January 16th, 1995: Winter avalanches sweep two buses off a narrow highway between Srinagar and Jammu in the Indian province of Kashmir. Kashmir has historically been a contested battleground between the Republic of India and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
#History #EnglishHistory #JanuaryHistory January 15th, 1556, Elizabeth I is crowned Queen of England two months after the death of her half sister, Queen Mary I of England. Elizabeth Tudor, the 25 year old daughter of Henry VIII and his 2nd wife Anne Boleyn, was crowned at Westminster Abbey, London.
