January 1st facts
While investigating facts about January 1st, I found out little known, but curios details like:
The Hollywood sign was modified to read 'Hollyweed' after some pranksters added $50 of fabric to it. On January the 1st, 1976
Thousands of afghans share January 1st as their birthday because they don't know when their real birthday is.
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 50 of the best facts about January 1st I managed to collect.
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German citizens, born before January 1st 1928, need a visa to visit Israel, which will be issued for free if one was not a Nazi party member or involved in crimes committed during that time
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If you can prove you had an ancestor that was Luxembourgish as of 1st of January 1900, you can get citizenship without ever having set foot in the country.
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In 1910, the Diamond Match Company patented the 1st nonpoisonous match in the U.S., which used a safe chemical called sesquisulfide of phophorous. United States President Taft publicly asked Diamond Match to release their patent for the good of mankind. They did on January 28, 1911
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In Korea babies are considered 1 year old from birth and everyone ages on New Years Day. This means that in Korea a baby born on December 31st is already two years old by January 1st.
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The 2038 Problem, a computer science problem theorized to be worse than Y2K. 2038 day will occur on January 19th at 3:14:07 UTC, when the number of seconds since the clock started (January 1st 1971), passes the maximum integer in 32 bits (2^31).
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The Zawadi are the gifts that are given on January 1st - the last day of Kwanzaa. Gifts given on this day should encourage self-determination, growth, success, and achievement for the person receiving the gifts.
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Shirley Chisholm died on January 1st, 2005, at the age of 80.
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On September 22nd, 1862 President Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. It gave the Southern states an opportunity to end their rebellion by January 1st, 1863.
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In 1964, William Hill issued a bet of 1000:1 odds to David Threlfall who wagered that a man will set foot on the surface of the moon before the 1st of January 1970.
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The Longplayer, a computer composed music piece that started on January 1st, 2000 and is designed to play until December 31st of 2999 where it will restart.
The Southern states did not end their rebellion by the date given - January 1st, 1863 - and President Abraham Lincoln officially issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
That, between 1993 and 2002, the day when the most suicides in the UK occurred was 1st January 2000. The only day when there were no suicides at all was 16th March 2001. - source
NASA spacecraft 'Deep Impact' is lost in space, as NASA lost communication with it due to a similar problem to the Y2K bug. It was lost exactly 2^32 seconds after January 1st, 2000 - the most likely reason being that the time tracker onboard had overflowed.
The original hand-written and signed Emancipation Proclamation that President Abraham Lincoln issued on January 1st, 1863, was destroyed in a fire in 1871. There are early drafts and copies still in existence.
The Italian town of Calcata paraded around what was to believed to be Jesus' foreskin every year on January 1st, in honor of the Feast of Circumcision. The practice ended when the jewel encrusted box it was in was stolen from the priest' home.
When using radiocarbon dating, "the present" is defined as January 1st 1950 because nuclear weapons testing after this date altered the levels of carbon isotopes in the atmosphere, making dating post-1950 unreliable.
On January 1st, 1961 Fidel Castro's Government launched the Cuban Literacy Campaign. By December 22nd of that year, 707,212 adults were taught to read and write, raising the national literacy rate from an estimated 60-75% up to 96% one of the highest in the world
A guy has been to Disneyland everyday since the 1st of January 2012
The majority of computers do not measure time in hours or days but instead use "Unix Time" which is the exact number of seconds that have passed since January 1st 1970. The current Unix time is 1467042820.
Every racehorse celebrates its birthday on January 1st (in the Northern Hemisphere, Aug 1st here in the South), to make it easier to check if a horse is elligible for a race
