This day in History - January 1

692 Historic Events for January 1
1932 Event Rasse und Siedlungshauptamt publishes Himmler's wedding laws
1933 Birth Anders Bo Leif Linde, composer
1933 Birth James A Abrahamson, USAF/astronaut
1933 Birth Joe Orton, England, actor/dramatist (Prick Up Your Ears)
1934 Death Jakob Wassermann, writer, dies at 60
1934 Event Alcatraz officially becomes a federal prison
1934 Event Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (US bank guarantor) effective
1934 Event International Telecommunication Union established
1935 Birth Valentin Nikolaevich N Benderov, Russia, cosmonaut
1935 Birth Harold Martina, Netherland Antilles, pianist/conductor
1935 Event Eastern Airlines hires Eddie Rickenbacker as GM
1935 Event Associated Press inaugurates Wirephoto
1935 Event Pres Mustapha Kemal Pasha names himself "Ataturk: Father of Turkey"
1935 Event 1st Sugar Bowl and 1st Orange Bowl
1936 Event 1st newspaper to microfilm its current issues, NY Herald Tribune
1936 Birth Eve Queler, NYC, conductor
1936 Birth Willye B White, US jumper (Olympics-silver-1956)
1937 Event Count Claus von Stauffenberg promoted to captain
1937 Event US Army Air Corps physiological research laboratory completed, Ohio
1937 Event Anastasio Somoza becomes president of Nicaragua
1938 Birth Bill Emerson, (Rep-R-MO, 1981- )
1938 Birth Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard, Queen of Netherlands (1980- )
1940 Birth Frank Langella, Bayonne NJ, actor (Dracula, Diary of a Mad Housewife)
1940 Birth Jack Kiefer, Columbia PA, PGA golfer (1994 Ralphs Senior Classic)
1940 Birth Laszlo Sary, composer