Portal:United States/Anniversaries/January/January 1
Today is New Year's Day.
- 1863 – The Emancipation Proclamation takes effect in Confederate territory.
- 1892 – Ellis Island opens to begin processing immigrants into the United States.
- 1898 – New York City annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York. The four initial boroughs, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and The Bronx, are joined on January 25 by Staten Island to create the modern city of five boroughs.
- 1934 – Alcatraz Island (pictured) becomes a United States federal prison.
- 1983 – The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) officially changes to using the Internet Protocol, creating the Internet.
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Events
- 1781 - 1,500 soldiers of the 6th Pennsylvania Regiment under General Anthony Wayne's command rebel against the Continental Army's winter camp in Morristown, New Jersey as part of the Pennsylvania (Continentals; Regiment) Mutiny of 1781.
- 1808 - The importation of slaves into the United States is banned.
- 1863 - American Civil War: The Emancipation Proclamation takes effect in Confederate territory.
- 1892 - Ellis Island opens to begin processing immigrants into the United States.
- 1898 - New York City annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York. The four initial boroughs, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and The Bronx, are joined on January 25 by Staten Island to create the modern city of five boroughs.
- 1902 - The first American college football bowl game, the Rose Bowl between Michigan and Stanford, is held in Pasadena.
- 1908 - For the first time, a ball is dropped in New York City's Times Square to signify the start of the New Year at midnight.
- 1932 - The United States Post Office Department issues a set of 12 stamps commemorating the 200th anniversary of George Washington's birth.
- 1934 - Alcatraz Island becomes a United States federal prison.
- 1947 - The American and British occupation zones in Germany, after the World War II, merge to form the Bizone, that later became the Federal Republic of Germany.
- 1954 - NBC makes the first coast-to-coast NTSC color broadcast when it telecast the Tournament of Roses Parade, with public demonstrations given across the United States on prototype color receivers.
- 1962 - United States Navy SEALs established.
- 1966 - A twelve-day New York City transit strike begins.
- 1971 - Cigarette advertisements are banned on American television.
- 1984 - The original American Telephone & Telegraph Company is divested of its 22 Bell System companies as a result of the settlement of the 1974 United States Department of Justice antitrust suit against AT&T.
- 1988 - The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America comes into existence, creating the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States.
- 1994 - The North American Free Trade Agreement comes into effect.
- 1990 - David Dinkins is sworn in as New York City's first black mayor.