Our company was established on January 1st 2006. Our goal is to supply quality merchandise and artwork based on items of historical significance. We are also looking to have some fun by providing collectors & hobbyists with interesting and unique items.
Please feel free to contact us with suggestions or ideas to improve on our product offering.
January 1st in History
404: Last gladiator competition in Rome
1622: Papal Chancery adopts January as beginning of the year
1862: US income tax goes into effect (3% of incomes > $600,% of incomes > $10,000)
1863: Emancipation Proclamation (ending slavery) issued by Lincoln
1901: Australia declares independence from federation of UK colonies
1923: Union of Socialist Soviet Republics (USSR) established
1934: Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC US bank guarantor) goes into effect
1934: Alcatraz officially becomes a federal prison
1946: ENIAC, first computer, finished by Mauchly/Eckert
1948: General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) goes into effect
1958: European Community (later to become the European Union) is born
1973: Britain becomes a member of the European Economic Community
1981: Greece becomes the tenth member of the European Economic Community.
1993: Czechoslovakia split into two separate states.
2006: Specialty Museum Gifts, LLC established.
