Once Upon A Time – Jan. 4 – 1865 – New York Stock Exchange Opens 1st Permanent Headquarters

1847 Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government.

1893 End of a three-day conference of hundreds of mission workers in Bombay (the largest assembled there until that time). The delegates issue an urgent appeal for more missionaries and medical workers to conduct evangelistic work in India where the need is enormous.

1865 New York Stock Exchange opens its 1st permanent headquarters at 10-12 Broad St, near Wall Street in New York City.

1947 Presbyterian clergyman Peter Marshall is elected chaplain of the United States Senate. He will die two years later and his wife will write his biography, A Man Called Peter, which will be made into a major motion picture.

1959 Luna 1 (Mechta) becomes 1st craft to leave Earth’s gravity.

1961 Longest recorded strike ends as the Danish barbers’ assistants end a 33-year strike.

1979 Anosisye Mwansombelo Jongo is elected bishop in Tanzania’s Moravian Church after years of leadership, often despite serious opposition. He had been the first black African elected by the Moravians as a superintendent in the province of Southern Tanzania.

2007 The 110th United States Congress convenes and elects Nancy Pelosi as the 1st female Speaker of the House.

HISTORICAL EVENTS TODAY

TODAY IN FILM & TV

1984 “Night Court” starring Harry Anderson, created by comedy writer Reinhold Weege, premieres on NBC TV; runs for 9 seasons.

TODAY IN MUSIC

1936 Billboard magazine publishes its 1st music hit parade.

TODAY IN SPORT

1920 1st Black baseball league, National Negro Baseball League, organizes.

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1863 4 wheeled roller skates patented by James Plimpton of NY.

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1903 Topsy the elephant is electrocuted by her owners at Luna Park, Coney Island and filmed by Edison Manufacturing movie company.