January

One of the most successful — and simplest — toy brands in history received a major boost on January 28, 1958: founder Ole Kirk Christiansen received a patent for a…

On January 28, 1985, the United Support of Artists for Africa went on to record “We Are The World”, one of the best-selling charity singles of the world in support…

On January 29, 1737, the radical anti-slavery thinker, pamphleteer, and visionary, Thomas Paine was born at Thetford in Norfolk, England. He was born into a Quaker family to a poor…

More than a decade after opening an “Iron Foundry and Machine Shop,” Karl Benz made the breakthrough he had been hoping for: a four-stroke engine powered by gasoline. After attaching…

Less than two years after upending the English at Orleans and leading the French to a string of victories, the young warrior Joan of Arc — aged just 19, according…

Apple Inc, the largest publicly traded company of the world by market capitalization, with over 72,800 full-time employees and a value of about $415 billion (March 2013) was incorporated as…

On January 30, 1649, Stuart King Charles I was convicted of high treason and executed following the Second Civil War of England. The trial and execution of Charles I became…

Mahatma Gandhi, walking through the garden of Birla House in New Delhi with his arms around two of his granddaughters, felt as if the evening of January 30, 1948 would…

Fifteen months after calling off the highly effective U-boat attacks against merchant ships nearing the British Isles, German Kaiser Wilhelm II agreed to allow unrestricted submarine warfare on January 31,…

On January 31, 1950, responding to an escalating Cold War and an imminent need for the possession of thermonuclear weapons, President Harry S Truman announced his decision to approve work…