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In January 1790 President Washington, in his first annual message to Congress stated that, " Uniformity in the currency, weights, and measures of the United States is an object of great importance, and will, I am persuaded, be duly attended to ", and ordered Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson to prepare a plan for Establishing Uniformity in the Coinage, Weights, and Measures of the United States, afterwards referred to as the Jefferson report.
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# On 6 January 1788, to Elisabeth of Württemberg ( 21 April 1767 – 18 February 1790 ), who died bearing a short-lived daughter, Ludovika Elisabeth of Austria ( 1790 – 1791 ).
* January 28 – An act of the U. S. Congress designates the United States Coast Guard, begun in 1790, as a military branch.
* January 9 – Thomas Warton, English poet ( d. 1790 )
* January 18 – John Tyler, 10th President of the United States ( b. 1790 )
George Washington's handwritten notes for the first State of the Union Address, January 8, 1790.: File: Washington-State of the Union. djvu | Full 7 pages.
George Washington delivered the first regular annual message before a joint session of Congress on January 8, 1790 in New York City, then the provisional U. S. capital.
The first performance of Mozart's setting took place at the Burgtheater in Vienna on January 26, 1790.
* January 7 – Israel Putnam, American Revolutionary War general ( d. 1790 )
* January 23 – John Landen, English mathematician ( d. 1790 )
* January 17 – Benjamin Franklin, American ( d. 1790 )
* January 27 – Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim, German historian and theologian ( d. 1790 )
Israel Putnam ( January 7, 1718 – May 29, 1790 ) was an American army general and Freemason who fought with distinction at the Battle of Bunker Hill ( 1775 ) during the American Revolutionary War ( 1775 – 1783 ).
* First Report on the Public Credit: Communicated to the House of Representatives, January 14, 1790.
Bounty Day is celebrated on 23 January by Pitcairn Islanders in commemoration of the 1790 burning of the Bounty, and on 8 June as the national holiday on Norfolk Island to commemorate the 1856 arrival of settlers from Pitcairn Island.
On January 9, 1790, Juan de Ugalde, governor of Coahuila and commandant of the Provincias Internas, led 600 men to a decisive victory over the Apaches near the site of modern Utopia at a place known then as Arroyo de la Soledad.
On 16 January 1790 he bought the rank of lieutenant and later that year he raised his own company of men.
In January 1790, Dolley Payne had married John Todd, a Quaker lawyer in Philadelphia.
* William Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington, later 6th Duke of Devonshire ( William George Spencer Cavendish ; called " Hart "; 21 May 1790 – 18 January 1858 ), never married.
On 30 January 1790, he formally withdrew almost all his reforms in Hungary, and he died on 20 February 1790.
The Harecastle Tunnel finally opened in 1777 and coal was finally transported from the Midlands to the Thames at Oxford in January 1790, some 18 years after Brindley's death.
John Adams ( 4 December 1767 – 5 March 1829 ) was the last survivor of the Bounty mutineers who settled on Pitcairn Island in January 1790, the year after the mutiny.
The final section into central Oxford was ceremonially opened on 1 January 1790.
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One of the initial questions put to President Kennedy at his first news conference last January was about his attitude toward a meeting with Premier Khrushchev.
Following public demonstrations against Ter-Petrosyan's policies on Nagorno-Karabakh, the President resigned in January 1998 and was replaced by Prime Minister Robert Kocharyan, who was elected President in March 1998.
It was signed into law on July 26, 1990, by President George H. W. Bush, and later amended with changes effective January 1, 2009.
On 4 January 2008, Dr. Gail Dinter-Gottlieb decided to step down as President and Vice Chancellor of the University before her term expired.
Clinton was inaugurated as the 42nd President of the United States on January 20, 1993.
President Bill Clinton ( center ), first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton ( right ) and their daughter Chelsea Clinton ( left ) wave to watchers at a parade down Pennsylvania Avenue on Inauguration Day, January 20, 1997.
Clinton with former President George H. W. Bush in January 2005
After Hurricane Katrina, Clinton joined with fellow former President George H. W. Bush to establish the Bush-Clinton Tsunami Fund in January 2005, and the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund in October of that year.
In January 2009, that entity was upgraded to the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument by President George W. Bush.
Philippe Kahn and the Borland board came to a disagreement on how to focus the company, and Philippe Kahn resigned as Chairman, CEO and President of Borland, a position he had held for 12 years, in January 1995.
Nielsen remained with the company until January 2009, when he accepted the position of Chief Operating Officer at VMware ; CFO Erik Prusch then took over as Acting President and CEO.
On January 8, 1982, just before the case was to be heard by the U. S. Supreme Court, President Ronald Reagan authorized his Treasury and Justice Departments to ask that the BJU case be dropped and that the previous court decisions be vacated.
The same message was conveyed to US President Johnson's emissary Chester Bowles in January 1968.
In January 1962, General Edward Lansdale described plans to overthrow the Cuban Government in a top-secret report ( partially declassified 1989 ), addressed to President Kennedy and officials involved with Operation Mongoose.
Chiang resigned as President on January 21, 1949, as KMT forces suffered bitter losses and defections to the Communists.
On January 4, 2005, President Chirac urged changes that would provide greater consumer protection.
** Emilio Aguinaldo, the last President of the Supreme Government Council 23 March 1897-16 December 1897 and chairman of the Revolutionary Government from 23 June to 1 November 1897, was dictator from 12 June 1898-23 January.
Premier Frank Hsieh, DPP election organizer and former mayor of Kaohsiung twice tendered a verbal resignation immediately following the election, but his resignation was not accepted by President Chen until January 17, 2006 after the DPP chairmanship election had concluded.
* 1911 – Sun Yat-sen becomes the provisional President of the Republic of China ; he formally takes office on January 1, 1912.
The Ecuadorean Congress then met in an emergency session in Guayaquil on the same day, January 22, and ratified Noboa as President of the Republic in constitutional succession to Mahuad.
In 15 January 2007, the social-democrat Rafael Correa succeeded Palacio as President of Ecuador, with the promise of summoning a Constituent Assembly, and bringing focus on poverty.
On January 9, 2000, the administration of President Jamil Mahuad announced its intention to adopt the U. S. dollar as the official currency of Ecuador to address the ongoing economic crisis.
Iranian president Ahmadinejad also attended the inauguration of President Correa in January 2007.
The President of the European Parliament ( Parliament's speaker ) is currently Martin Schulz ( S & D ), elected in January 2012.
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