LOOKING BACK AND FORWARD
Here are some significant dates and historical anniversaries coming in 2023
NOTABLE ANNIVERSARIES 100 years ago:
Jan. 1–7 – The Rosewood massacre, a racially motivated massacre of Black people and the destruction of their town, takes place in Rosewood, Florida.
March 2 – The first issue of Time magazine is published.
April 4 – Warner Bros. Film Studio is formally incorporated in the U.S., as Warner Brothers Pictures Inc. by Jack L. Warner, Harry Warner, Sam Warner and Albert Warner.
April 6 – Louis Armstrong makes his first recording, “Chimes Blues,” with King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band.
April 18 – The first Yankee Stadium opens its doors in the Bronx, New York City.
July 13 – The Hollywood Sign is inaugurated in California, originally reading Hollywoodland.
Aug. 2 – Vice President Calvin Coolidge becomes the 30th president of the United States, upon the death of President Warren G. Harding.
Oct. 16 – Roy and Walt Disney found The Walt Disney Co.
1948 (75 years ago)
Jan. 5 – Warner Brothers shows the first color newsreel (Tournament of Roses Parade and the Rose Bowl Game).
Jan. 12 – Mahatma Gandhi begins his fast-unto-death in Delhi to stop communal violence during the Partition of India.
Jan. 30 – Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi: Indian pacifist and leader is shot by Nathuram Godse in New Delhi.
Feb. 21 – The U.S. stock car racing organization NASCAR is founded by Bill France Sr. with other drivers.
March 8 – McCollum v. Board of Education: The United States Supreme Court rules that religious instruction in public schools violates the U.S. Constitution.
March 17 – The Hells Angels motorcycle gang is founded in California.
April 3 – U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the Marshall Plan, which authorizes $5 billion in aid for 16 countries.
April 7– The World Health Organization is established by the United Nations.
May 14 – The Israeli Declaration of Independence is made.
May 26 – The U.S. Congress passes Public Law 557, which permanently establishes the Civil Air Patrol as the auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force.
June 11 – The first monkey astronaut, Albert I, is launched into space from White Sands, New Mexico.
June 18: – Columbia Records introduces its long playing 33+1⁄3 rpm phonograph format.
July 26 – U.S. President Truman signs Executive Order 9981, ending racial segregation in the United States Armed Forces.
No. 1 song
1923 - Artist: Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra
Song: "Parade of the Wooden Soldiers"
1948 - Artist: Pee Wee Hunt
Song: "Twelfth Street Rag"
1973 - Artist: Tony Orlando and Dawn
Song: “Tie a Yellow Ribbon 'Round the Ole Oak Tree"
1998 - Artist: Celine Dion
Song: “My Heart Will Go On,”
2013 - Artist: Macklemore and Ryan Lewis featuring Wanz
Song: “Thrift Shop”
1998 (25 years ago)
Jan. 17 – The Drudge Report breaks the story about U.S. President Bill Clinton's alleged affair with Monica Lewinsky, which will lead to the House of Representatives' impeachment of him.
March 5 – NASA announces that the Clementine probe orbiting the Moon has found enough water in polar craters to support a human colony and rocket fueling station.
March 23 – The 70th Academy Awards ceremony, hosted for the 6th time by Billy Crystal, is held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California. “Titanic” wins 11 Oscars including best picture.
July 5 – Japan launches a probe to Mars, joining the United States and Russia as an outer space-exploring nation.
Aug. 7: 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings: the bombings of the U.S. Embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya, kill 224 people and injure over 4,500; they are linked to terrorist Osama bin Laden, an exile of Saudi Arabia.
Sept. 4 – Google Inc. is founded in Menlo Park, California, by Stanford University Ph. D candidates Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
Oct. 6 – Matthew Shepard, a gay University of Wyoming student, is beaten and left for dead outside of Laramie, Wyoming. The subsequent media coverage, followed by his death on Oct. 12, opens a larger conversation on homophobia in the United States.
Nov. 24 – A declassified report by Swiss International Olympic Committee official Marc Hodler reveals that bribes had been used to bring the 2002 Winter Olympics to Salt Lake City during the bidding process in 1995.
Dec. 4 – The Space Shuttle Endeavour launches the first American component to the International Space Station.
Dec. 19 – The U.S. House of Representatives forwards articles of impeachment against President Clinton to the Senate, making him the second president to be impeached in the nation's history.
2013
Jan. 20 – Barack Obama is sworn in for a second term as president of the United States.
Feb. 25 – Park Geun-hye becomes the first woman to become the president of South Korea
April 15 – Two Chechnya-born Islamist brothers (1 of whom was a U.S. citizen) detonate 2 bombs at the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts, killing 3 and injuring 264 others.
June 6 – Former CIA employee Edward Snowden discloses operations engaged in by a U.S. government mass surveillance program to news publications and flees the country, later being granted temporary asylum in Russia.
Dec. 14 – Chinese uncrewed spacecraft Chang'e 3, carrying the Yutu rover, becomes the first spacecraft to "soft"-land on the Moon since 1976 and the third ever robotic rover to do so.