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On this day: January 1

Published On: Dec 31 2012 03:21:32 PM CST Updated On: Jan 01 2013 01:00:00 AM CST

Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation, Ellis Island opens, the Rose Bowl becomes the first college bowl game, Hank Williams dies, and the Y2K panic fizzles out, all on this day.

OTD January 1 - Travelers Cheques — 3 / 36

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1772: The first traveler's cheques, issued by the London Credit Exchange Company and useable in 90 European cities, go on sale in London, England.

OTD January 1 - Paul Revere

OTD January 1 - Betsy Ross

OTD January 1 - Travelers Cheques

OTD January 1 - Amazing Grace

OTD January 1 - slave trade

OTD January 1 - Emancipation Proclamation

OTD January 1 - Tournament of Roses Parade

OTD January 1 - Ellis Island

OTD January 1 - J Edgar Hoover

OTD January 1 - 1902 Rose Bowl

OTD January 1 - Hank Greenberg

OTD January 1 - Aspirin

OTD January 1 - Rocky Graziano

OTD January 1 - JD Salinger

OTD January 1 - bowl games

OTD January 1 - first Cotton Bowl

OTD January 1 - Frank Langella

OTD January 1 - United Nations Declaration

OTD January 1 - 1942 Rose Bowl

OTD January 1 - Hank Williams

OTD January 1 - Cuban Revolution

OTD January 1 - Johnny Cash

OTD January 1 - Margaret Sullavan

OTD January 1 - AFL Championship Game

OTD January 1 - cigarette warnings

OTD January 1 - Elin Nordegren

OTD January 1 - Bell System

OTD January 1 - VH-1

OTD January 1 - Czech Republic-Slovakia

OTD January 1 - Far Side

OTD January 1 - WTO

OTD January 1 - Townes Van Zandt

OTD January 1 - euro

OTD January 1 - Y2K

OTD January 1 - Ray Walston

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