SANDY KOZEL

The first General Assembly of the United Nations, comprising
51 nations, convened at Westminster Central Hall in London,
England. This historic gathering marked the UN’s formal
beginning after World War II,

One week later, the U.N. Security Council met for the first time
and established its rules of procedure. Then, on January 24,
the General Assembly adopted its first resolution, a measure
calling for the peaceful uses of atomic energy, the elimination
of atomic and other weapons of mass destruction.

On January 9, 2007, Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the
iPhone—a touchscreen mobile phone with an iPod, camera
and Web-browsing capabilities, among other features—at
the Macworld convention in San Francisco.

The iPhone helped turned Apple, which Jobs (1955-2011) co-
founded with his friend Stephen Wozniak in California in 1976,
into one of the planet’s most valuable corporations.

Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994)

Richard Milhous Nixon, 37th president of the United States, 
was born on January 9, 1913 in California.

The son of Quaker parents, Nixon grew up in the southern
California city of Yorba Linda.

Nixon then joined the Navy and served during World War II
as a lieutenant commander in the Pacific theater. After the
war, he gravitated toward Republican politics, joining the
post-war anti-communist crusade.

On January 8, 1790, President George Washington delivered
the first State of the Union address to the assembled Congress
in New York City.

Washington began by congratulating North Carolina’s recent
decision to join the federal republic.

North Carolina had rejected the Constitution in July 1788
because it lacked a bill of rights. Under the terms of the
Constitution, the new government acceded to power after
only 11 of the 13 states accepted the document.

By the time North Carolina ratified in November 1789, the
first Congress had met, written the Bill of Rights and
dispatched them for review by the states.