This day in History - January 1

692 Historic Events for January 1
1833 Event British government demands Falkland islands
1833 Event Cura‡ao census: 2,602 whites, 6,531 free people and 5,894 slaves
1834 Event German Tolunie goes into effect
1838 Event 1st official horse race in South Australia-Adelaide
1838 Birth William Hugh Young, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1901
1840 Event 1st recorded bowling match in US, Knickerbocker Alleys, NYC
1842 Event 1st illustrated weekly magazine in US publishes 1st issue, NYC
1843 Birth Nikolay Nikolayevich Lodizhensky, composer
1844 Event 1st edition of New Rotterdam's Daily (3x per week)
1846 Event Yucatan declares independence from M‚xico
1846 Birth Nikola Pasic, Serbian nationalist/premier (1891..1926)
1847 Event Michigan is 1st state to abolish capital punishment
1847 Event Neth's Haarlem's Current newspaper starts publishing
1848 Event Britain takes Mosquito Coast from Nicaragua
1850 Death Raphael G Kiesewetter, Austria musicologist, dies at 76
1851 Event City of Glasgow steamer inaugurates Philadelphia-Liverpool line
1852 Event Netherlands begins issuing postage stamps
1852 Event 1st US public bath opens, in NYC
1852 Event National debt of Britain and Ireland is œ765,126,582
1853 Birth Hans Koessler, composer
1853 Event 1st practical fire engine (horse-drawn) in US enters service
1854 Event Lincoln University, a black college, chartered (Oxford, Penn)
1854 Birth James Frazer, Britain, anthropologist/author (The Golden Bough)
1858 Event Canada begins using decimal currency system
1860 Event Slavery ends of in Neth Indies