Show January 1969 j There is snow on the windowpane windowpane windowpane window- window pane Framing my room And the trees are heavy With frosty bloom Anne Lawler i Beginning with the New Years Year's holiday and bowl football games and including including including ing this year Inauguration Day on the January is usually the coldest month of the year but a month also containing many significant significant significant cant historical anniversaries for Americans ON THE TilE 3rd in 1777 Washington won the battle of Princeton which had the effect of maintaining American American American Amer Amer- ican possession of New Jersey Millard Fillmore U U. S. S President was born on the in 1800 at Locke N N. N Y He is now regarded as a great President once refused an honorary degree from Oxford saying he had no attainments attainments attainments at at- which would justify it THE TILE ANNIVERSARY of General General General Gen Gen- eral Andrew Jacksons Jackson's victory over the British at New Orleans Orleans Orleans Or Or- leans in 1815 is a state holiday holiday holiday holi holi- day in Louisiana on the Alexander Hamiltons Hamilton's birthday birthday birthday birth birth- day anniversary occurs on the he was born in the West Indies in 1757 but made his name in New York where he died in a duel with Aaron Burr in 1804 Burr feeling insulted in insulted insulted in- in challenged Hamilton who did not believe in duels Hamilton fired into the air and Burr shot and killed one of the brilliant figures of the American Revolution VERMONT WAS declared an independent state on the in 1777 Benjamin Franklin one of the great fig figures res in American history was born in Boston on the in 1706 I I j Daniel Webster an immortal I orator was born at Franklin Frank Franklin Frank Frank- lin N. N H. H on the in 1782 Two great fe Confederate r te generals generals gen gen- and leaders Robert E ELee ET Ei EiLee Lee and General TJ Stone wall Jackson were born on the and respectively Lee at the family estate Stratford in Westmoreland I County Va in 1807 and Jackson Jackson Jack Jack- son at Clarksburg West Virginia Vir Vir- ginia in 1824 EDGAR ALLEN Poe one of or orthe the greatest early American literary figures was born on the in 1809 in Boston The is Michigan Day commemorating Michigan's Michigan admission to the Union as a state in 1837 The is Kansas Day Kansas having been adm admitted on that day in 1861 as a free state The is also the birthday anI anniversary anniversary an an- I of Thomas Paine I who was born in England in 1737 AND THE TilE is the birthday birthday birth birth- day anniversary of Franklin D. D Roosevelt |