Daily Calendar for January 1st, 2018
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The Old Farmer's Almanac daily calendar gives you quick reference for the significant events on any day throughout the year.
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According to Scottish custom, the first Monday of the new year was the time to give children and servants a small gift, or handsel. Literally something given into the hands of someone else, the gift itself was less important than the good luck it signified. The handsel was popular as a new year's gift from the 14th to 19th centuries, but it also had a broader application to mark any new situation. It continues today in the form of a housewarming gift to someone moving into a new home.
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1892: The U.S. government opened an immigrant processing station at Ellis Island, New York
Born 1895: J. Edgar Hoover (director of U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation)
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1972: Kurt Waldheim inaugurated as Secretary General of the United Nations
1977: Episcopal Church of the U.S. ordained its first woman priest
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