DBKP Today in Weird History: February 11, 2008

WAR, TERRORISM, DISASTERS, PHILOSOPHERS, MOTORISTS, MURDER, SUICIDE, OOPS, BEHEADED, OCEANS, ENERGY, REBELS, WOMEN, POLITICS, ALMOST, CLIMATE, PROGRESS, COMICS, SPIES, MAINSTREAM MEDIA, JEWS, NAZIS, PRO WRESTLING, LOBSTERS, VISIONS, COMMIES, CLINTONS, FREE, BORN, BIRTHDAYS, DEATH



1812 Massachusetts Governor Gerry signs a redistricting bill favoring his party-the 1st "gerrymander.

WAR!

1943 General Eisenhower selected to command the allied armies in Europe.

2003 Addressing a historic rift within NATO, Secretary of State Colin Powell told a congressional hearing the future of the military alliance was at risk if it failed to confront the crisis with Iraq.

2007 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, marking the 28th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, vowed his country would not give up uranium enrichment.

TERRORISM

1979 Iran's premier Bakhtiar resigns, Ayatollah Khomeini seizes power.

1985 Jordan king Hussein & PLO leader Arafat sign accord.

2003 The al-Jazeera Arab satellite station broadcast what was believed to be a new audio statement from Osama bin Laden urging Iraqis to carry out suicide attacks on Americans.

DISASTERS

1907 Passenger ship Larchmont sinks by Block Island, 322 die.

WOMEN

1852 1st British public female toilet opens (Bedford Street London).

MOTORISTS

1899 George Morgan 1st English motorist to die in an motor accident, dies.

ALMOST

1905 James Blackstone, Seattle, bowls 299½-last pin breaks but stands.

LOBSTERS

1977 20.2-kg lobster caught off Nova Scotia (heaviest known crustacean).

COMMIES

1978 China lifts a ban on Aristotle, Shakespeare, & Dickens.

CLINTONS

1998 KVBC-FM (Las Vegas) offers Monica Lewinsky $5M for interview.

VISIONS

1858 A French girl, Bernadette Soubirous, claimed to have experienced the first of 18 visions of a lady dressed in white in a grotto near Lourdes. (The Catholic Church later accepted that the visions were of the Virgin Mary; Bernadette, who died in 1879 at age 35, was canonized in 1933.)

POLITICS

1861 US House unanimously passes resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any state.

1975 Margaret Thatcher defeats Edward Heath for Conservative leadership.

1998 Attorney General Janet Reno asked for an independent prosecutor to investigate whether Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt had misled Congress in connection with an Indian casino controversy. (The counsel, Carol Elder Bruce, found no wrongdoing on Babbitt's part.)

PRO WRESTLING

1938 Steve Casey beats Lou Thesz in Boston, to become wrestling champion.

1969 Dorey Funk Jr beats Gene Kiniski in Tampa, to become NWA champion.

CLIMATE

1932 73ºF highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in February. No media mention of "man-made climate change".

1983 4th largest snowfall in NYC history (18"(46 cm)).

FREE!

1929 The Lateran Treaty was signed, with Italy recognizing the independence and sovereignty of Vatican City.

1990 South African resistance leader, Nelson Mandela, was released from prison after more than 27 years.

OCEANS

1573 1st European, Francis Drake sees the Pacific (from Panamá).

PROGRESS

1935 1st US airplane flight with auto slung beneath the fuselage, New York.

PHILOSOPHERS

1650 René Descartes philosopher "I think therefore I am", stops thinking.

COMICS

1942 "Archie" comic book debuts.

REBELS

1766 Stamp Act declared unconstitutional in Virginia.

JEWS

1953 Russia breaks diplomatic relations with Israel.

1968 Israeli-Jordan border fight.

MAINSTREAM MEDIA

1960 Jack Paar walks off his TV show.

1979 43 million watch "Elvis!" on ABC.

NAZIS

1961 Trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.

SPIES

1953 President Eisenhower refuses clemency appeal for Rosenberg couple.

MURDER

1961 Patrice Lumumba 1st premier Congo, murdered at 34.

ENERGY

1808 Anthracite coal 1st burned as fuel, experimentally, Wilkes-Barre PA.

SUICIDE

1963 Sylvia Plath poet/novelist (Ariel), kills herself in London at 30.

OOPS!

1994 Antonio Martin Spanish cyclist, dies in cycling accident at 23.

BEHEADED

1554 Lady Jane Grey deposed Queen of England, beheaded after 9 day rule at 17.

BORN

1847 Thomas Alva Edison Milan OH, lit up your life (held 1200 patents).

1920 Farouk I Cairo, last King of Egypt (1936-52).

BIRTHDAYS

Actor Leslie Nielsen is 82. Actor Conrad Janis is 80. Actress Tina Louise is 74. Actor Burt Reynolds is 72. Songwriter Gerry Goffin is 69. Bandleader Sergio Mendes is 67. Rhythm-and-blues singer Otis Clay is 66. Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt is 57. Actor Philip Anglim is 56. Actress Catherine Hickland is 52. Rock musician David Uosikkinen (The Hooters) is 52. Actress Carey Lowell is 47. Singer Sheryl Crow is 46. Actress Jennifer Aniston is 39. Actor Damian Lewis is 37. Actress Marisa Petroro is 36. Singer D'Angelo is 34. Actor Brice Beckham is 32. Rock MC/vocalist Mike Shinoda (Linkin Park) is 31. Singer-actress Brandy is 29. Actor Matthew Lawrence is 28. Rhythm-and-blues singer Kelly Rowland is 27. Actress Q'orianka Kilcher is 18. Actor Taylor Lautner is 16.

DEATH

1976 Lee J Cobb actor (12 Angry Men, On the Waterfront), dies at 64.

February 11, the 42nd day of 2008. There are 324 days left in the year.

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DBKP's Today in Weird History: February 1, 2008

WAR, TERRORISM, DISASTERS, CLINTONS, OOPS, SHIPWRECK, MOUNTIES, EXPOSED, SERIAL KILLERS, PIRATES, FEDERAL PEN, PATENTS, PEDOPHILES, MUSIC, HOMOS, MAINSTREAM MEDIA, NGOs, UNIONS, HOLLYWOOD, JEWS, CIVIL RIGHTS, POLITICS, ASSASSINATION, LABOR, BORN, BIRTHDAYS, DEATH



WAR!

1968 during the Vietnam War, South Vietnam's police chief executed a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to the head in a scene captured by Associated Press photographer Eddie Adams and NBC News.

1861 Texas voted to secede from the Union.

1865 General Sherman's march through South Carolina begins.

1943 German occupiers make Vidkun Quisling Norwegian premier.

2007 The departing top U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. George Casey, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that improving security in Baghdad would take fewer than half as many extra troops as President Bush had chosen to commit.

TERRORISM

1979 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini received a tumultuous welcome in Tehran as he ended nearly 15 years of exile.

2007 President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad launched anniversary celebrations for Iran's Islamic Revolution with a defiant promise to push ahead with the country's controversial nuclear program.

DISASTERS

1814 Volcano Mayon on Luzon Philippines erupts killing 1,200.

1953 Flooding in Netherlands, kills 1,835.

1967 Severe brush fires in Tasmania destroy $11 million & 60 lives.

1970 Stalled commuter train rammed by express in Argentina, 139 die.

1977 Heavy blizzard in New England claims 100 lives.

1991 34 people were killed when a USAir jetliner crashed atop a commuter plane on a runway at Los Angeles International Airport.

1991 Afghanistan/Pakistan hit by earthquake, 1,200 die.

2003 At least 50 people were killed in a Zimbabwe train collision.

2003 The space shuttle Columbia broke up during re-entry, killing all seven of its crew members: Commander Rick Husband; pilot William McCool; Michael Anderson; Kalpana Chawla; David Brown; Laurel Clark; and Ilan Ramon, the first Israeli in space.

CLINTONS

1998 In a round of Sunday talk show appearances, Monica Lewinsky's attorney, William Ginsburg, predicted that the controversy over whether the former White House intern had had an affair with President Bill Clinton would "go away" and that the president would survive unscathed.

OOPS!

1966 Nicholas Piantanida sets balloon flight record & dies in descent.

SHIPWRECK

1709 British sailor Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being marooned on a desert island (Fernandez Island) for 5 years, his story is the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe".

MOUNTIES

1920 The Royal Canadian Mounted Police came into existence.

EXPOSED

1969 Jim Morrison arrested for exposing himself in concert.

SERIAL KILLERS

1974 Lynda Ann Healy 1st Bundy murder victim, abducted in Seattle.

PIRATES!

1662 Dutch garrison on Formosa surrenders for Chinese pirates.

FEDERAL PEN

1906 1st federal penitentiary building completed, Leavenworth KS.

PATENTS

1793 Patent granted Ralph Hodgson, New York, for oiled silk & linen.

PEDOPHILE

1978 Director Roman Polanski skips bail & fled to France after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl.

MUSIC

1949 RCA releases 1st single record ever (45 rpm).

HOMOS

1975 Otis Francis Tabler is 1st open homosexual to get security clearance to work for the Defense Department.

MAINSTREAM MEDIA

1953 "General Electric Theater" premieres on CBS TV; Reagan later hosts.

NGOs

1946 Norwegian statesman Trygve Lie was chosen to be the first secretary-general of the United Nations.

UNIONS

1958 The United Arab Republic, a union of Egypt and Syria, was established. (The union ended in 1961.)

HOLLYWOOD

1887 Harvey Wilcox of Kansas subdivides 120 acres he owned in Southern California & starts selling it off as a real estate development (Hollywood).

JEWS

1860 1st rabbi to open House of Representatives, Morris Raphall of New York NY.

1948 Palestine Post building in Jerusalem bombed.

CIVIL RIGHTS

1865 JS Rock, 1st black lawyer to practice in Supreme Court, admitted to bar.

1871 Jefferson Long of Georgia is 1st black to make an official speech in House of Representatives (opposing leniency to former Confederates).

1960 Four black college students began a sit-in protest at a lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C., where they had been refused service.

1965 Martin Luther King Jr & 700 demonstrators arrested in Selma AL.

POLITICS

1968 Richard M. Nixon announced his bid for the Republican presidential nomination.

ASSASSINATIONS

1908 Carlos I King of Portugal (1889-1908), assassinated by mob at 44.

LABOR

1867 Bricklayers start working 8-hour days.

BORN

1901 Clark Gable Cadiz OH, actor (Gone With the Wind).

BIRTHDAYS

Actor Stuart Whitman is 80. Singer Don Everly is 71. Actor Garrett Morris is 71. Singer Ray Sawyer (Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show) is 71. Actor Sherman Hemsley is 70. Bluegrass singer Del McCoury is 69. Jazz musician Joe Sample is 69. Comedian Terry Jones is 66. Actor-writer-producer Bill Mumy is 54. Rock musician Mike Campbell (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers) is 54. Rock singer Exene Cervenka is 52. Princess Stephanie of Monaco is 43. Country musician Dwayne Dupuy (Ricochet) is 43. Actress Sherilyn Fenn is 43. Lisa Marie Presley is 40. Comedian and actor Pauly Shore is 40. Actor Brian Krause is 39. Jazz musician Joshua Redman is 39. Rock musician Patrick Wilson (Weezer) is 39. Actor Michael C. Hall is 37. Rock musician Ron Welty is 37. Rapper Big Boi (Outkast) is 33. Country singer Julie Roberts is 29. Actor Jarrett Lennon is 26.

DEATH

1650 Rene Descartes philosopher "I think therefore I am", stops thinking.

1851 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley novelist (Frankenstein), dies at 53.

1966 Buster Keaton [Joseph Francis], US comic (General), dies at 69.

1988 Heather O'Rourke "Poltergeist" star dies of intestinal ailment at 12.

2003 Former Agriculture Secretary Richard Lyng died in Modesto, Calif., at age 84.

2007 Pulitzer Prize-winning opera composer Gian Carlo Menotti died in Monaco at age 95.

February 1, the 32nd day of 2008. There are 334 days left in the year.

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DBKP Today in Weird History: January 29, 2008

MOVIES, WAR, TERRORISM, DISASTERS, THE GIPPER, CREEPY, OOPS, INSPIRATION, POLITICS, EXECUTIONS, NANNY STATE, PATENTS, STARTS, SPORTS, EUTHANASIA, LABOR, MARRIAGE, DIVORCE, DIPLOMACY, SUICIDE, BUDGET, KILLERS, BORN, BIRTHDAYS, DEATH



MOVIES

1964 Stanley Kubrick's"Dr Strangelove" premieres.

WAR!

1863 Battle at Bear River WA US Army vs Indians.

1864 Battle of Moorefield WV (Rosser's Raid).

1900 Boers under Joubert beat English at Spionkop Natal, 2,000 killed.

1944 285 German bombers attack London.

TERRORISM

1998 A bomb rocked an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Ala., killing Robert Sanderson, an off-duty police officer working as a security guard, and critically injuring Emily Lyons, a nurse. (The bomber, Eric Rudolph, was captured in May 2003 and is serving a life sentence.)

2007 A Palestinian suicide bomber killed three Israelis at a bakery in Eilat in the first such attack inside Israel in nine months.

2007 Deeply distrustful of Iran, President Bush said "we will respond firmly" if Tehran escalated its military actions in Iraq and threatened American forces or Iraqi citizens.

DISASTERS

1966 Snow storm in north east US kills 165.

1996 Fire destroyed Venice, Italy's La Fenice opera house.

1998 Thick Fog causes highway carnage in Belgium & Netherlands, 6 die.

2003 A dust explosion at the West Pharmaceutical Services plant in Kinston, N.C., killed six people and injured dozens more.

THE GIPPER

1984 President Reagan formally announces he will seek a 2nd term.

CREEPY

1845 Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven" was first published, in the New York Evening Mirror.

OOPS

1994 Ulrike Maier Olympic skier, breaks neck during world cup skiing at 26.

INSPIRATION

1979 Brenda Spencer kills 2, inspires Boomtown Rats "I Don't Like Mondays".

POLITICS

1850 Henry Clay introduced in the Senate compromise proposals on slavery.

1861 Kansas became the 34th state of the Union.

EXECUTED

1997 Eric Schneider murderer of 2 teachers, executed in MO at 35.

NANNY STATE

1919 Secretary of state proclaims the 18th amendment (prohibition).

PATENTS

1886 1st successful gasoline-driven car patented, Karl Benz, Karlsruhe.

1924 Ice cream cone rolling machine patented by Carl Taylor, Cleveland.

STARTS

1920 Walt Disney starts 1st job as an artist; $40 week with Kansas City Slide Co.

SPORTS

1936 The first members of baseball's Hall of Fame, including Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth, were named in Cooperstown, N.Y.

1963 The first members of pro football's Hall of Fame were named in Canton, Ohio.

1989 Cleveland's Chris Dudley misses 5 free throws during 1 foul attempt.

EUTHANASIA

2007 Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro was euthanized because of medical complications eight months after his gruesome breakdown at the Preakness.

LABOR

1834 President Jackson orders 1st use of US troops to suppress a labor dispute.

1912 Martial law declared in textile strike in Lawrence MA.

MARRIAGE

1958 50 years ago, actors Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward were married in Las Vegas.

DIVORCE

1951 Liz Taylor's 1st divorce (Conrad Hilton Jr).

DIPLOMACY

1979 President Carter formally welcomed Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping to the White House, following the establishment of diplomatic relations.

SUICIDE

1977 Freddie Prinze comedian/actor (Chico & the Man), shoots himself at 22.

BUDGETS

2003 The Congressional Budget Office predicted the current year's federal deficit would soar to $199 billion even without President Bush's new tax cut plan or war against Iraq.

KILLERS

1958 Murderer, Charles Starkweather, captured by police in Wyoming.

BORN

1737 Thomas Paine political essayist (Common Sense, Age of Reason).

1843 The 25th president of the United States, William McKinley, was born in Niles, Ohio.

1860 Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Tagarov Russia, playwright (Cherry Orchard).

1878 Barney Oldfield Ohio, daredevil.

1880 W C Fields [William Claude Dukenfield] Philadelphia PA, "on the whole, he'd rather be in Philadelphia"/actor (My Little Chickadee, Bank Dick).

1912 Professor Irwin Corey Brooklyn NY, comedian (Car Wash, Doc).

1913 Victor Mature Louisville KY, actor (One Million BC, The Robe, Samson & Delilah).

BIRTHDAYS

Actor John Forsythe is 90. Actor Noel Harrison is 74. Author Germaine Greer is 69. Actress Katharine Ross is 68. Actor Tom Selleck is 63. Rhythm-and-blues singer Bettye LaVette is 62. Actor Marc Singer is 60. Actress Ann Jillian is 58. Rock musician Tommy Ramone (Ramones) is 56. Rock musician Louie Perez (Los Lobos) is 55. Talk show host Oprah Winfrey is 54. Country singer Irlene Mandrell is 52. Actress Diane Delano is 51. Actress Judy Norton Taylor ("The Waltons") is 50. Rock musician Johnny Spampinato (NRBQ) is 49. Olympic gold-medal diver Greg Louganis is 48. Rock musician David Baynton-Power (James) is 47. Rock musician Eddie Jackson (Queensryche) is 47. Actor Nicholas Turturro is 46. Rock singer-musician Roddy Frame (Aztec Camera) is 44. Actor-director Edward Burns is 40. Actress Heather Graham is 38. Actor Sharif Atkins is 33. Actress Sara Gilbert is 33. Actor Andrew Keegan is 29. Actor Jason James Richter is 28. Blues musician Jonny Lang is 27.

DEATH

1820 Britain's King George III died at Windsor Castle, ending a reign that had seen both the American and French revolutions.

1888 Edward Lear poet/author, dies at 75.

1956 H[enry] L[ouis] Mencken US essayist/critic/satirist (Smart Set), dies in Baltimore MD at 75.

1963 poet Robert Frost died in Boston at age 88.

1980 Jimmy Durante New York City NY, singer/comedian (Ink-a-dink-a-doo, Palooka, The Jimmy Durante Show), dies at 86.

January 29, the 29th day of 2008. There are 337 days left in the year.

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DBKP Today in Weird History: January 27, 2008

WAR, DISASTERS, CLINTONS, OOPS, PATENTS, TARZAN, SPORTS, PROGRESS, TRIALS, JEWS, SPIES, MAINSTREAM MEDIA, ATOMIC BOMB, DIPLOMACY, HOME, SORORITY, MARCH, DEMOCRATS, BORN, BIRTHDAY, DEATH



1967 Astronauts Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee died in a flash fire during a test aboard their Apollo spacecraft at Cape Kennedy, Fla.

WAR!

1943 Some 50 bombers struck Wilhelmshaven in the first all-American air raid against Germany during World War II.

1944 The Soviet Union announced the complete end of the deadly German siege of Leningrad, which had lasted for more than two years.

1945 Soviet troops liberated the Nazi concentration camps Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland.

2003 The Bush administration dismissed Iraq's response to U.N. disarmament demands as inadequate. Meanwhile, chief U.N. inspector Hans Blix charged that Iraq had never genuinely accepted U.N. resolutions demanding its disarmament and warned that "cooperation on substance" was necessary for a peaceful solution.

DISASTERS

1891 Mine explosion kills 109 at Mount Pleasant PA.

1902 5 workers killed on explosion during IRT subway construction (New York City NY).

1993 DC-3 crashes in Kinshasa, killing 12.

1998 Crane crashes into Roosevelt Is (New York City NY) Tram, injuring 10.

CLINTONS

1992 Presidential candidate Bill Clinton (D) & Genifer Flowers accuse each other of lying over her assertion they had a 12-year affair.

1998 Shaken by scandal over his relationship with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky, President Bill Clinton sought to reassert his leadership in his State of the Union address, urging Congress to "save Social Security first" before cutting taxes or increasing spending. Earlier in the day, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, on NBC's "Today" show, charged the allegations against her husband were the work of a "vast right-wing conspiracy."

OOPS

1984 Michael Jackson is burned during filming for Pepsi commercial.

PATENT

In 1880, Thomas Edison received a patent for his electric incandescent lamp.

TARZAN

1918 "Tarzan of the Apes", 1st Tarzan film, premieres at Broadway Theater.

SPORTS

1927 Harlem Globetrotters play their 1st game.

1967 New Orleans Saints sign their 1st player (Paige Cothren-kicker).

PROGRESS

1948 1st locomotive to carry 1,000,000 pounds (450,000 kg) operates.

1948 1st tape recorder sold.

TRIAL

1992 Mike Tyson goes on trial for rape (he is found guilty).

SPIES

1969 14 spies hung in Baghdad.

JEWS

1969 9 Jews publicly executed in Damascus Syria.

MAINSTREAM MEDIA

1976 "Laverne & Shirley" spin-off from "Happy Days" premieres on ABC TV.

ATOMIC BOMB

1951 An era of atomic testing in the Nevada desert began as an Air Force plane dropped a 1-kiloton bomb on Frenchman Flat.

DIPLOMACY

1967 More than 60 nations signed a treaty banning the orbiting of nuclear weapons.

1973 The Vietnam peace accords were signed in Paris.

HOME

1981 President Ronald Reagan greeted the 52 former American hostages released by Iran at the White House.

SORORITY

1870 1st sorority (Kappa Alpha Theta) (DePauw University in Greencastle IN).

DEMOCRATS

2007 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi led a congressional delegation to Pakistan, where she met with President General Pervez Musharraf.

MARCH

Tens of thousands of anti-war demonstrators marched in Washington, D.C., calling for the U.S. to get out of Iraq.

BORN

1756 composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria.

1836 Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Austrian writer (masochism).

1850 Samuel Gompers Dutch/US, 1st president-American Federation of Labor.

1859 Kaiser Wilhelm II Potsdam, German emperor (1888-1918).

1872 Learned Hand Albany NY, Chief judge (US Court of Appeals).

1919 David Seville [Ross Bagdasarian], Fresno CA, (Alvin & Chipmunks).

1921 Donna Reed Denison IA, actress (From Here to Eternity, Wonderful Life).

BIRTHDAY

Singer Bobby "Blue" Bland is 78. Actor James Cromwell is 68. Actor John Witherspoon is 66. Rock musician Nick Mason (Pink Floyd) is 63. Rhythm-and-blues singer Nedra Talley (The Ronettes) is 62. Ballet star Mikhail Baryshnikov is 60. John Roberts, chief justice of the United States, is 53. Country singer Cheryl White is 53. Country singer-musician Richard Young (The Kentucky Headhunters) is 53. Actress Mimi Rogers is 52. Rock musician Janick Gers (Iron Maiden) is 51. Rock singer Margo Timmins (Cowboy Junkies) is 47. Rock musician Gillian Gilbert is 47. Actress Bridget Fonda is 44. Actor Alan Cumming is 43. Country singer Tracy Lawrence is 40. Rock singer Mike Patton is 40. Rapper Tricky is 40. Rock musician Michael Kulas (James) is 39. Actor Josh Randall is 36. Country singer Kevin Denney is 32.

DEATH

1851 John James Audubon conservationist (Audubon Society), dies at 65.

1901 Opera composer Giuseppe Verdi died in Milan, Italy, at age 87.

1993 Andre "the Giant" Roussimoff WWF wrestler, dies of heart attack at 49.


January 27, the 27th day of 2008. There are 339 days left in the year.

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DBKP Today in Weird History: January 23, 2008

WAR!, TERRORISM, DISASTERS, BRA BURNING, MAGHREBS, BOOTLEGGERS, HOUSE ARREST, OOPS!, LOOK OUT, PRO WRESTLING, SOLD, SHORTHAND, COWS, CREEPY, OIL SPILLS, HEART ATTACK, SPIES, PURGES, CLINTONS, AMENDMENTS, POLITICS, CIVIL RIGHTS, JEWS, MUSEUMS, CALENDARS, CATHOLICS, MAINSTREAM MEDIA, EXECUTIONS, SOCIETIES, ASSASSINATION, SPORTS, PROTESTS, BORN, BIRTHDAYS, DEATH



BRA BURNING

1970 Dolle Mina burns her bra in Amsterdam.

WAR!

1865 General Robert E Lee named Commander-in-Chief of Confederate Armies.

1943 British 8th army marches into Tripoli.

1943 Japanese Mount Austen on Guadalcanal captured.

1973 President Nixon announces an accord has been reach to end the Vietnam War.

2007 In his State of the Union address, President Bush implored Congress to give his plan to send more U.S. troops to Iraq a chance to work.

TERRORISM

1957 Willie Edwards US black, murdered by KKK at 25.

1998 A judge in Fairfax, Va., sentenced Aimal Khan Kasi to death for an assault rifle attack outside CIA headquarters in 1993 that killed two men and wounded three other people. (Kasi was executed in November 2002.)

2002 Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was abducted in Karachi, Pakistan, by a group demanding the return of prisoners from the Afghan campaign; he was later slain.

2003 The government of Kuwait said a Kuwaiti had confessed to the shootings of two U.S. defense workers in Kuwait (one worker was killed; the other was wounded).

DISASTERS

1556 Most deadly earthquake kills 830,000 in Shansi Province, China.

1812 7.8 earthquake shakes New Madrid, Missouri.

1973 Jordan Air crash at Kano, Nigeria kills 176 Moslem pilgrims.

1982 World Airways DC-10 skids at Boston Logan Airport killing 2.

1993 Indian Airlines B737 crashes art Aurangabad, 61 die.

MAGHREBS

1962 Libya, Morocco, Algeria & Tunisia plan to form United Arab Maghreb.

BOOTLEGGERS

1972 Bootlegger sells wood alcohol to wedding party-100 die-New Delhi.

HOUSE ARREST

1972 Entire population of Istanbul under 24 hour house arrest.

OOPS!

1997 Laura "Dinky" Patterson dies during bungee jump at Super Bowl rehearsal at 43.

LOOK OUT

1983 Russian radioactive satellite falls into Indian Ocean.




PRO WRESTLING

1984 Hulk Hogan defeats Iron Sheik to become WWF champ.

SOLD

1647 Scottish Presbyterians sell captured Charles I to English parliament.

SHORTHAND

1894 G W Bunbury of Dublin sets shorthand record of 250 wpm for 10 minutes.

COWS

1982 Urbe Blanca (cow) produces record 110 kg of milk, Cuba (approximate date).

CREEPY

1993 New York Newsday reports Oregon's Senator Bob Packwood sexually harassed 23 women.

OIL SPILLS

1991 World's largest oil spill, caused by embattled Iraqi forces in Kuwait.

HEART ATTACK

1943 Alexander Woollcott critic, dies of a heart attack on radio, at 56.

SPIES

1946 Rear Admiral Sidney W Souers, USNR, becomes 1st director of CIA.

1968 Spy ship USS Pueblo & 83-man crew seized in Sea of Japan by N Korea.

1962 British spy Kim Philby defects to USSR.

PURGES

1937 Karl Radek & 16 others go on trial in Stalin's great purge.

CLINTONS

1998 Fighting scandal allegations involving Monica Lewinsky, President Bill Clinton assured his Cabinet during a meeting that he was innocent and urged them to concentrate on their jobs.

AMENDMENTS

1933 20th amendment changes date of Presidential Inaugurations to 1/20.

1964 24th Amendment ratified, barring poll tax in federal elections.

POLITICS

1845 Congress decided all national elections would be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.

CIVIL RIGHTS

1907 Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes 1st Native American US senator.

JEWS

1492 "Pentateuch" (Jewish holy book) 1st printed

1936 Utah Senator William H. King urges the US to open its doors as a haven for Jews fleeing Germany.

1942: Hungarian Fascists at Sovi Sad in occupied Yugoslavia drive 550 Jews and 292 Serbs to the river and onto the ice. After firing on the ice to break it up, they shoot all those who manage to stay afloat. A total of 2,550 Serbs and 700 Jews are killed by the Hungarians at Novi Sad. (Atlas)

1950 Israeli Knesset resolves that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.

1989 Challenge to "who is a Jew" law filed in Israeli Supreme Court.

MUSEUMS

1981 1st Richard Nixon museum opens (San Clemente CA).

CALENDARS

638 Start of Islamic calendar.

CATHOLICS

1789 Georgetown, 1st US Catholic college, founded.

MAINSTREAM MEDIA

1965 "The King Family Show" (musical variety) premieres on ABC TV.

1975 "Barney Miller" premieres on ABC TV.

1977 Miniseries "Roots" premieres on ABC.

1983 "A-Team" with Mr T premieres on NBC.

1991 "Seinfeld" debuts on NBC-TV.

EXECUTIONS

1997 Randy Greenawalt convicted killer, executed by injection at 47.

SOCIETIES

1793 Humane Society of Philadelphia (first aid society) organized.

ASSASSINATION

1913 Nazim Pasha Turkey's PM assassinated.

SPORTS

1950 AP picks "Miracle Braves" of 1914 as greatest sports upset.

1953 NFL Dallas Texans become Baltimore Colts (now Indianapolis Colts).

SUPREME COURT

1961 Supreme Court rules cities & states have right to censor films.

PROTESTS

1932 El Salvador army kills 4,000 protesting farmers.

BORN

1891 Antonio Gramsci Italian philosopher/marxist theorist.

1898 Randolph Scott actor (Last of the Mohicans, Western Union).

1899 Humphrey Bogart actor (Casablanca, Caine Mutiny, African Queen).

1919 Ernie Kovacs Trenton NJ, comedian (Ernie Kovacs' Show).

1944 Rutger Hauer Dutch actor (Blade Runner, Ladyhawke, Osterman Weekend).

BIRTHDAYS

Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg, D-N.J., is 84. Actress Jeanne Moreau is 80. Actress Chita Rivera is 75. Actor-director Lou Antonio is 74. Actor Gil Gerard is 65. Actor Rutger Hauer is 64. Rhythm-and-blues singer Jerry Lawson (The Persuasions) is 64. Sen. Thomas R. Carper, D-Del., is 61. Singer Anita Pointer is 60. Actor Richard Dean Anderson is 58. Rock musician Bill Cunningham is 58. Rock musician Danny Federici (Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band) is 58. Rock singer Robin Zander (Cheap Trick) is 55. Princess Caroline of Monaco is 51. Singer Anita Baker is 50. Reggae musician Earl Falconer (UB40) is 49. Actress Gail O'Grady is 45. Actress Mariska Hargitay is 44. Rhythm-and-blues singer Marc Nelson is 37. Actress Tiffani Thiessen is 34.

DEATH

1806 William Pitt the Younger, PM Great Britain (1783-1806), dies at 46.

1977 Bernard "Toots" Shor barkeeper, dies at 73.

1989 Salvador Dalí Spanish Surrealist painter, dies in Spain at 84.

2005 former "Tonight Show" host Johnny Carson died in Malibu, Calif., at age 79.

2003 Actress Nell Carter died in Beverly Hills, Calif., at age 54.

2007 E. Howard Hunt, who helped organize the Watergate break-in, leading to the downfall of Richard Nixon's presidency, died in Miami at age 88.

January 23, the 23rd day of 2008. There are 343 days left in the year.

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DBKP's Today in History: January 20, 2008

TERRORISM, WAR!, DISASTERS, LONGSHOTS, MUSIC, SURVIVORS, CHURCH, GIFTS, SUPREME COURT, DEALS, POLITICS, OOPS!, BOYCOTTS, SCIENCE, MEDIA, JEWS, FINANCE, SPORTS, CLINTONS, ASSASSINATIONS, HOLIDAYS, MURDER, TARZAN, TUNNELS, LAWSUITS, BORN, BIRTHDAYS, DEATH



TERRORISM

1981 Iran released 52 Americans it had held hostage for 444 days, minutes after the presidency had passed from Jimmy Carter to Ronald Reagan.

1987 Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite taken hostage in Beirut, Lebanon.

WAR!

1783 Hostilities cease in Revolutionary War.

1944 RAF drops 2300 ton bombs on Berlin.

1991 US Patriot missiles begins shooting down Iraqi missiles.

2003 Secretary of State Colin Powell, faced with stiff resistance and calls to go slow, bluntly told the Security Council that the U.N. "must not shrink" from its responsibility to disarm Saddam Hussein's Iraq.

2007 Twenty-five U.S. troops were killed in Iraq, including 12 in a helicopter crash in Baghdad and five in a sophisticated sneak attack in Karbala.

DISASTERS

1982 7 miners killed in an explosion in Craynor KY.

1985 Cold front strikes US, at least 40 die (-27ºF (-33ºC) in Chicago).

LONGSHOTS

2007 Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback began a long-shot bid for the Republican presidential nomination (he withdrew last October).

MUSIC

1964 "Meet The Beatles" album released in US

1965 The Byrds record "Mr Tambourine Man"

SURVIVORS

1989 Reagan becomes 1st President elected in a "0" year, since 1840, to leave office alive.

CHURCH

1788 Pioneer African Baptist church organizes in Savannah GA.

GIFTS

1949 J Edgar Hoover gives Shirley Temple a tear gas fountain pen.

SUPREME COURT

1801 Secretary of State John Marshall was nominated by President Adams to be chief justice of the United States (he was sworn in on Feb. 4, 1801).

DEALS

1841 the island of Hong Kong was ceded by China to Great Britain. (It returned to Chinese control in July 1997.)

1887 the U.S. Senate approved an agreement to lease Pearl Harbor in Hawaii as a naval base.

POLITICS

1937 President Franklin Roosevelt became the first chief executive to be inaugurated on Jan. 20 instead of March 4.

1945 President Roosevelt was sworn into office for an unprecedented fourth term.

1969 Richard M Nixon inaugurated as President.

1981 Ronald Reagan inaugurated as President.

1989 Bush inaugurated as 41st President & Quayle becomes 44th Vice President.

OOPS!

1862 General Felix Zollicoffer killed after mistakenly riding into union lines.

BOYCOTTS

1980 President Jimmy Carter announces US boycott of Olympics in Moscow.

SCIENCE

1997 Comet Hale-Bopp crosses Mars' orbit.

MEDIA

1929 1st feature talking motion picture taken outdoors, "In Old Arizona".

1930 1st radio broadcast of "Lone Ranger" (WXYZ-Detroit).

1965 The Beatles appear on Shindig (ABC-TV).

JEWS

1939 Hitler proclaims to German parliament to exterminate all European Jews.

1942 Nazi officials held the notorious Wannsee conference, during which they arrived at their "final solution" that called for exterminating Jews.

1965 Generalissimo Francisco Franco meets with Jewish representatives to discuss legitimizing Jewish communities in Spain.

FINANCE

1995 Russian ruble drops to 3,947 per dollar (record).

SPORTS

1892 1st basketball game played (Massachusetts).

1980 Super Bowl XIV Pittsburgh Steelers beat Los Angeles Rams, 31-19 in Pasadena; Super Bowl MVP Terry Bradshaw, Pittsburgh, Quarterback.

CLINTONS

1993 Bill Clinton inaugurated as 42nd President.

2007 Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., launched her campaign for the White House, saying in a videotaped messsage on her Web site: "I'm in, and I'm in to win."

ASSASSINATIONS

1948 Mahatma Gandhi India's pacifist, assassinated.

HOLIDAYS

1986, the United States observed the first federal holiday in honor of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

MURDER

1959 Carl Switzer actor (Alfalfa-Our Gang), shot to death at 31.

TUNNELS

1986 Britain and France announced plans to build the Channel Tunnel.

TARZAN

1984 Peter John [Johnny] Weissmuller actor (Tarzan, Jungle Jim), dies after a series of strokes in Acapulco at 79

LAWSUITS

1998 A jury was selected in Amarillo, Texas, to hear a multi-million-dollar lawsuit filed by Texas cattlemen against talk show host Oprah Winfrey over comments made on her program concerning beef safety. (Winfrey won the case.)

BORN

1889 Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter Mooringsport LA, blues 12 string guitarist (Rock Island Line).

1920 DeForest Kelley Atlanta GA, actor (Dr McCoy-Star Trek).

BIRTHDAYS

Country singer Slim Whitman is 84. Actress Patricia Neal is 82. Comedian Arte Johnson is 79. Former astronaut Buzz Aldrin is 78. Actress Dorothy Provine is 71. Singer Eric Stewart is 63. Movie director David Lynch is 62. Actor Daniel Benzali is 58. Rock musician Paul Stanley (KISS) is 56. Rock musician Ian Hill (Judas Priest) is 56. Comedian Bill Maher is 52. Actor Lorenzo Lamas is 50. Actor James Denton ("Desperate Housewives") is 45. Rock musician Greg K. (The Offspring) is 43. Country singer John Michael Montgomery is 43. Actor Rainn Wilson ("The Office) is 42. Actress Stacey Dash is 41. TV personality Melissa Rivers is 40. Singer Xavier is 40. Singer Edwin McCain is 38. Actor Skeet Ulrich is 38. Rap musician ?uestlove (The Roots) is 37. Rock musician Rob Bourdon (Linkin Park) is 29. Actor Evan Peters is 21.

DEATH

1936 Britain's King George V died; he was succeeded by Edward VIII.

2003 Caricaturist Al Hirschfeld died in New York at age 99.

2003 Pollster Burns W. "Bud" Roper died on Cape Cod, Mass., at age 77.

January 20, the 20th day of 2008. There are 346 days left in the year.

compiled by Mondoreb
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Sources:
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