Today in History: January 7, 2008

WAR!, TERRORISM, POLITICS, DISASTERS, ASSASSINATIONS, POPES, REVOLTS, SCIENCE, GOLD DIGGERS, PATENTS, PROGRESS, COOKBOOKS, BUSINESS, NATION BUILDING, CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTIONS, SPORTS, DISTRESS, COMICS, LABOR, CIVIL RIGHTS, TAXES, MUSIC, INFLATION, MAINSTREAM MEDIA, WOODSTOCK, RATIONING, EMPERORS, INFLATION, COUPS, LANDMARKS, DRAMA, BORN, DEATH



In 1953, President Truman announced in his State of the Union message that the United States had developed a hydrogen bomb.

WAR!

1558 Calais, last English possession in France, retaken by French under Francois, Duke of Guise.

1761 Battle at Panipat India Afghan army beats Mahratten

1861 Florida troops takeover Fort Marion at St Augustine

1862 Battle of Manassas Junction VA

1862 Romney Campaign-Stonewall Jackson march towards Romney WV

1911 1st airplane bombing experiments with explosives, San Francisco

1916 German troops conquer Fort Vaux at Verdun

1942 WWII siege of Bataan starts

1944 Air Force announces production of 1st US jet fighter, the Bell P-59

1945 Lord Haw-Haw reports total German victory at Ardennen

1979 Vietnamese forces capture Phnom Penh from Khmer Rouge

TERRORISM

1923 Baltimore Sun warns of Ku Klux Klan

1986 US President Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya

ASSASSINATIONS

1537 Alessandro de' Medici Italian monarch of Florence, assassinated

1962 Assassination attempt on Indonesian president Sukarno, fails

POLITICS

1618 Francis Bacon becomes English lord chancellor

1789, the first U.S. presidential election was held. Americans voted for electors who, a month later, chose George Washington to be the nation's first president.

1959 US recognizes Fidel Castro's Cuban government

1969 US Congress doubles presidential salary

1983 Reagan ends US arms embargo against Guatemala

1997 Newt Gingrich, narrowly re-elected speaker of the House

POPES

1566 Antonio Michaele Ghislieri is elected Pope Pius V

REVOLTS & RIOTS

1601 Robert, Earl of Essex leads revolt in London against Queen Elizabeth

1975 Led Zeppelin fans riot before Boston concert, causing $30,000 damage

1991 Soviet paratroopers sent to Baltic Republics

DISASTERS

1608 Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia

1654 Fire after heavy storm destroys 2/3 of De Rijp Netherlands, 1 dies

1892 Mine explosion kills 100, Krebs OK-blacks trying to help rescue white survivors, driven away with guns

1950 Mental health wing of Mercy Hospital burns, kills 41 (Davenport IA)

1972 Iberian Airlines crashes into 800' peak on island of Ibiza, 104 die

1989 British Midland Boeing 737 crashes on Motorway

1994 United Express commuter plane crashes in Ohio, killing 5

SCIENCE

1610 Galileo discovers 1st 3 Jupiter satellites, Io, Europa & Ganymede

1835 HMS Beagle anchors off Chonos Archipelago

1949 1st photo of genes taken at University of Southern California by Pease & Baker

1968 Surveyor 7 lands on the Moon

1985 Japanese space probe Sakigake launched to Halley's comet

GOLD DIGGERS

1630 Composer Pier Cavalli marries rich widow Maria Sosomeno

PATENTS

1714 Typewriter patented by Englishman Henry Mill (built years later)

1890 W B Purvis patents fountain pen

1913 William M Burton patents a process to "crack" petroleum

PROGRESS

1785 1st balloon flight across English Channel (Blanchard & Jeffries)

1822 1st printing in Hawaii

1830 Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co begins carrying revenue traffic - 1st US Railroad Station (Baltimore MD); Baltimore to Wheeling line.

1894 Motion picture experiment of comedian Fred Ott filmed sneezing

1914 1st steamboat passes through the Panamá Canal

1927 Commercial transatlantic telephone service inaugurated between New York & London

1992 AT&T releases video-telephone ($1499)

BUSINESS & FINANCE

1782 1st US commercial bank, Bank of North America, opens in Philadelphia

1784 1st US seed business established by David Landreth, Philadelphia

1817 2nd Bank of the United States opens

1965 France announces it will convert $150 million of its currency to gold

NATION BUILDING

1822 Liberia colonized by Americans

CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTIONS

1868 Arkansas constitutional convention meets in Little Rock

1868 Mississippi constitutional convention meets in Jackson

COOKBOOKS

1896 Fanny Farmer publishes her 1st cookbook

SPORTS

1899 Walter Camp publishes his 1st All-American football team in Collier's

1927 Harlem Globetrotters play 1st game (Hinckley IL)

1964 Dick Weber rolls highest bowling game in the air (Boeing 707)

1972 Los Angeles Lakers chalk up 33rd consecutive win (NBA record)

1992 Tom Seaver & Rollie Fingers elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame

DISTRESS

1904, the Marconi International Marine Communication Co. of London announced that the telegraphed letters "CQD" would serve as a maritime distress call (it was later replaced by "SOS").

COMICS

1929 "Buck Rogers", 1st sci-fi comic strip, premieres

1929 "Tarzan", one of the 1st adventure comic strips, 1st appears

1934 "Flash Gordon" comic strip (by Alex Raymond) debuts

LABOR

1939 US worker's union leader Tom Mooney freed (jailed since 1916)

TAXES

1948 US President Truman raises taxes for Marshall-plan

MUSIC

1950 Hank Snow's 1st appearance on "Grand Ole Opry"

CIVIL RIGHTS

1955 Marian Anderson becomes 1st black singer to perform at the Met (New York City NY)

1996 16th United Negro College Fund raises $12,600,000

INFLATION

1963 1st class postage raised from 4¢ to 5¢

1968 1st class postage raised from 5¢ to 6¢

MAINSTREAM MEDIA

1967 "Newlywed Game" premieres on ABC TV

1968 "GE College Bowl" quiz show premieres on NBC TV

1982 "Fame" premieres on NBC TV

WOODSTOCK

1970 Farmers sue Max Yasgur for $35,000 in damages caused by "Woodstock"

RATIONING

1974 Dutch rations gasoline

EMPERORS

1989 Akhito becomes emperor of Japan

LANDMARKS

1990 Tower Of Pisa closed to the public after leaning too far

COUPS

1991 Haiti coup defeated

DRAMA

1994 US female Figure Skating championship won by Tonya Harding

BORN

1845 Louis III last king of Bavaria (1913-18)
1879 St Bernadette (Marie-Bernarde Soubirous) 1844, religious visionary
1903 Alan Napier Birmingham England, actor (Alfred-Batman)
1911 Butterfly [Thelma] McQueen Tampa FL, actress (Prissy-Gone With the Wind)
1912 Charles Addams cartoonist (New Yorker, Addams Family)
1916 Paul Keres USSR, chess grandmaster (1950)
1920 Lionel Alexander Bethune [Alastair] Pilkington engineer/Industrialist
1922 Vincent Gardenia Naples Italy, actor (All in the Family, LA Law)
1928 William Peter Blatty New York City NY, author (The Exorcist)
1929 Douglas Kiker NBC newsman (1970 Peabody Award)
1939 Maury Povich TV host (Current Affair, Maury)/Connie Chung's husband
1942 Paul Revere Boise ID, keyboardist (Paul Revere & Raiders-Fallin in Love, Good Thing)
1943 Jim Lefebvre Hawthorne CA, baseball manager (Seattle Mariners)
1945 Tony Conigliaro Massachusetts, baseball outfielder (Boston Red Sox)
1946 Jann S Wenner publisher (Rolling Stone)
1948 Kenny Loggins Everett WA, singer (Loggins & Messina-This is it, Footloose)
1949 John Christopher Parry rocker (Cure)
1949 Marshall Chapman Spartanburg SC, country singer
1950 Erin Gray Honolulu HI, actress (Silver Spoons, Buck Rogers)
1956 Trudie Styler England, wife of Sting/sponsor (Rainforest Concert)
1957 Kristen Meadows actress (Santa Barbara)
1957 Katie Couric [Katherine], Arlington VA, TV news host (Today)
1958 Donna Rice New Orleans La, model/Gary Hart's alleged lover
1959 Kathy Valentine rocker (Go-Go's-We Got the Beat)
1960 Tierre Turner Detroit MI, actor (Waverly Wonders, Cop & the Kid)
1960 David Marciano Newark NJ, actor (Detective Ray Vecchio-Due South)
1962 Hallie Todd actress (Check is in the Mail)
1964 Nicolas Cage actor (Moonstruck, Racing with the Moon)
1966 Carolyn Bessette Kennedy model/wife of John Kennedy Jr
1969 Doug E Doug actor (Cosby)
1974 Jennifer LeRoy Craig CO, playmate (Feb, 1993)
1977 Dustin Diamond San Jose CA, actor (Screech-Saved By Bell)
1996 Abbey Speakman England, born 19 days after her twin sister

DEATH

1451 Amadeus VIII last anti-pope Felix V (1439-49), dies at 67
1536 Catherine of Aragon 1st wife of England's King Henry VIII, dies
1655 Innocentius X [Giambattista Pamfili], pope (1644-55), dies at 80
1695 Mary II Stuart queen of England, dies at 32
1890 Augusta Maria L Katharina wife of German emperor Wilhelm I, dies at 78
1943 Nikola Tesla Yugoslavian physicist (tesla motor), dies at 86
1944 J Verleun Dutch resistance fighter, executed
1980 Carl White rocker, dies
1982 Bert Oosterhuis Dutch motor racer (Paris-Dakar), dies in race crash
1988 Trevor Howard UK actor (Ryan's Daughter), dies of bronchitis at 71
1989 Hirohito Japan`s emperor (1922-89), dies of duodenal cancer at 87 after 62-year reign (1/2 Million line Tokyo streets)
1990 Bronislau "Bronko" Nagurski football hall of famer, dies at 81
1990 Horace Stoneham baseball owner (Giants), dies at 86
1990 Joseph Robbie lawyer/NFL owner (Miami Dolphins), dies at 73
1995 Harry Golombek chess Grandmaster, dies at 83
1995 Murray Newton Rothbard economist, dies of cardiac arrest at 69

January 7, the 7th day of the 2008. There are 359 days left in the year.

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Today in History: January 5, 2008

WAR!, TERRORISM, DISASTERS, POLITICS, JEWS, DUELS, POPES, LABOR, ENGINEERING, ASSASSINATIONS, STATES, AMERICAN ORIGINALS, CIVIL RIGHTS, PROGRESS, EXPLORERS, DICTATORS, SOCIETIES, NAZIS, WOMEN, RADIO, SKUNKS, MUSIC, CLIMATE, MAINSTREAM MEDIA, SERIAL KILLERS, EDUCATIONS, SCIENCE, INVESTIGATIONS, SPORTS, MURDERS, VANDALS, BORN, DEATH



1961 US breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba

WAR!

1781 British naval expedition led by Benedict Arnold burns Richmond VA.

1861 Alabama troops seize Forts Morgan & Gaines at Mobile Bay.

1861 250 Federal troops are sent from New York to Fort Sumter.

1916 Austria-Hungary offensive against Montenegro.

1940 Finnish offensive at Suomossalmi against Russia.

1941 British/Australian troops conquer Bardia Lybia.

1942 55 German tanks reach North-Africa.

1945 Surprise attack on Liese-Aktion-office on Marnix St, Amsterdam.

TERRORISM

1995 Yahya Ayyash PLO bomb maker, booby trapped cellular phone at 28.

DISASTERS

1554 Great fire in Eindhoven Netherlands.

1854 Steamship San Francisco wrecked-300 die.

1953 Passenger ships Willem Ruys & Orange collide in the Red Sea.

1975 14 die when British freighter "Lake Illawarra" rams pylon bridge between Derwent & Hobart, Tasmania & ship sinks.

1995 Lockheed C-140 Jetstar crashes at Isfahan Persia, 18 killed.

POLITICS

1949 President Harry S Truman labels his administration the "Fair Deal".

JEWS

1638 Petition in Recife Brazil leads to closing of their 2 synagogues.

1895 French Captain Alfred Dreyfus, convicted of treason, publicly stripped of his rank; later declared innocent.

1973 Mali & Niger break diplomatic relations with Israel.

DUELS

1825 Alexandre Dumas pare fights his 1st duel; his pants fall down.

POPES

1531 Pope Clemens VII forbids English king Henry VIII to re-marry.

1964 Pope Paul VI visits Jordan & Israel.

LABOR

1914 James Cox of Ford Motor Co announces wages will jump from $2.40/9-hour day to $5.00/8-hour day.

1970 23,000 Belgian mine workers strike.

ENGINEERING

1933 Work on Golden Gate Bridge begins, on Marin County side.

ASSASSINATIONS

1757 Failed assassination attempt on French king Louis XV by Damiens.

STATES

1776 Assembly of New Hampshire adopts its 1st state constitution.

1804 Ohio legislature passes 1st laws restricting free blacks movement.

1937 Only unicameral state legislature in US opens 1st session (Nebraska).

AMERICAN ORIGINALS

1836 Davy Crockett arrives in Texas, just in time for the Alamo.

EXPLORERS

1841 James Clark Ross (UK) is 1st to enter pack ice near Ross Ice Shelf.

DICTATORS

1930 Mao Tse-tung writes "A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire".

CIVIL RIGHTS

1943 William H Hastie, civilian aide to secretary of war, resigns to protest segregation in armed forces.

PROGRESS

1903 San Francisco-Hawaii telegraph cable opens for public use.

SOCIETIES

1905 National Association of Audubon Society incorporates.

1911 Portuguese expel Jesuits.

NAZIS

1919 National Socialist Party (Nazi) forms as German Farmers Party.

WOMEN

1925 Nellie Taylor Ross became Governor of Wyoming, 1st woman governor in USA.

1931 1st woman to purchase a baseball team Lucille Thomas purchases Topeka franchise in the Western League.

RADIO

1940 FCC hears 1st transmission of FM radio with clear, static-free signal.

SKUNKS

1945 Pepe LePew debuts in Warner Bros cartoon "Odor-able Kitty".

MUSIC

1956 Elvis Presley records "Heartbreak Hotel".

1959 Buddy Holly releases his last record "It Doesn't Matter".

CLIMATE

1709 Sudden extreme cold kills 1000s of Europeans.

1998 Ice storm knocks out electricity in Québec & Ontario.

MAINSTREAM MEDIA

1959 "Bozo the Clown" live children's show premieres on TV.

1970 Soap Opera "All My Children" premieres on ABC.

1976 "MacNeil-Lehrer Report" premieres on PBS.

1981 "Nightline" with Ted Koppel extended from 20 minutes to 30 minutes.

1989 2 French TV newsmen arrested for trying to plant fake bombs on 3 airlines at JFK airport in security test.

1993 Price is Right model Janice Pennington sues CBS for show accident.

SERIAL KILLERS

1981 British police arrest Peter Sutcliffe, a truck driver later convicted of "Yorkshire Ripper" murders of 13 women.

EDUCATION

1887 1st US school of librarianship opens at Columbia University.

1982 Arkansas judge rules against obligatory teaching of creation.

SCIENCE

1892 1st successful auroral photograph made.

1896 German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen's discovers x-rays.

1905 Charles Perrine announces discovery of Jupiter's 7th satellite, Elara.

1969 USSR Venera 5 launched for 1st successful planet landing (Venus).

1972 NASA announces development of space shuttle.

1975 Salyut 4 with crew of 2 is launched for 30 days.

1985 Discovery moves to launch pad for STS 51-C mission.

INVESTIGATIONS

1988 Austrian President Waldheim's war record investigated.

SPORTS

1912 1st National Hockey Assn game (Victoria).

1927 Judge Landis begins 3-day public hearing on charges that 4 games played between Chicago & Detroit in 1917 had been thrown to White Sox.

1934 Fenway Park catches fire for 2nd time (May 8th 1926 also).

1943 Teams agrees to start season later due to WWII.

1971 Harlem Globetrotters lose 100-99 to New Jersey Reds, ending 2,495-game win streak.

1989 Baseball signs $400M with ESPN, showing 175 games in 1990.

1993 Reggie Jackson elected to Hall of Fame.

1996 Miami Dolphin coach Don Shula announces his retirement.

VANDALS

1998 Vandals decapitate Copenhagen's Little Mermaid.

MURDER

1942 Yves Paringaux French chief of staff, murdered.

1970 Joseph A Yablonski candidate for United Mine Workers president, murdered.

1993 Nyamuisi Muvingi Zaire minister of Culture, murdered.

BORN

1779 Stephen Decatur US, naval hero (War of 1812)
1779 Zebulon Montgomery Pike explorer (Pike's Peak)
1787 John Burke Irish genealogist (Burke's Peerage)
1855 King Camp Gillette inventor (safety razor)
1874 Joseph Erlanger doctor (shock therapy-Nobel 1944)
1876 Konrad Adenauer Cologne Germany, chancellor of Germany (1949)
1906 Kathleen Kenyon 1st person to place date on remains of Jericho
1909 Stephen Cole Kleene mathematician (Regular Expressions)
1914 George Reeves [George Lescher Bessolo], actor (Superman)
1918 Jeanne Dixon Medford WI, psychic (Gift of Prophecy)
1923 Sam Phillips musician/record company founder (Sun)
1928 Walter Fritz Mondale (Senator-D-MN)/42nd Vice President (1977-81)
1928 Zulfikar Ali Khan Bhutto President/Premier (Pakistan)
1931 Robert Duvall San Diego CA, actor (Great Santini, Taxi Driver)
1932 Chuck Noll Cleveland OH, NFL coach (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1938 Jim Otto NFL center (Oakland Raiders)
1938 Juan Carlos I king of Spain (1975- )
1941 Grady Thomas US rock vocalist (Parliaments, Funkadelic, Maggot Brain)
1942 Charlie Rose Henderson NC, newscaster (CBS Night Watch)
1942 Cliff Potts Glendale CA, actor (Ted-Lou Grant)
1945 Sam Wyche NFL coach (Cincinnati Bengals)
1946 Diane Keaton Louisiana, actress (Annie Hall, Little Drummer Girl)
1947 Ted Lange Oakland CA, actor (Isaac-Love Boat, Mr T & Tina)
1949 Chris Stein Brooklyn NY, rock guitarist (Blondie-Heart of Glass, Call Me)
1950 Michael O'Donoghue writer/performer
1953 Pamela Sue Martin Westport CT, actress (Nancy Drew, Fallon-Dynasty)
1966 Renaldo Turnbull NFL defensive end (WVU, New Orleans Saints, Carolina Panthers)
1969 Marilyn Manson singer/musician
1975 Warrick Dunn running back (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)

DEATH

1066 King Edward the Confessor of England, dies
1589 Catherine de' Medici Queen mother of France, dies at 69
1796 Samuel Huntington US judge (signed Declaration of Independence), dies at 64
1922 Sir Ernest Shackleton Antarctic explorer (Endurance), dies aboard his ship at 47
1933 Calvin Coolidge 30th President (1923-29), dies in Northampton MA at 60
1943 George Washington Carver famous black American agricultural scientist dies at 81
1971 Sonny Liston World Champ heavyweight boxer (1962-64), found dead at 36
1975 Don Wilson Astro pitcher dies at 29 of carbon monoxide poisoning
1988 "Pistol Pete" Mavarich NBAer (Atlanta), dies of a heart attack at 40
1994 Thomas P "Tip" O'Neill (D-MA)/Speaker of House (1977-86), dies at 81
1998 Sonny Bono (Representative-R-CA)/singer (Sonny & Cher), dies skiing at 62

January 5, the 5th day of 2008. There are 361 days left in the year.

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Today in History: December 16, 2007

Politics, War!, Terrorism, Civil Rights, Culture, Disasters, Assassinations, Birthdays

On December 16, 1773, the Boston Tea Party took place.


WAR!


In 1944, The Battle of the Bulge during World War II began in Belgium.

In 1864, in the afternoon, Union troops led by General George H. Thomas devastated Confederate forces at Nashville, Tennessee. The battle had begun the day before when Thomas initiated an attack after waiting some two weeks for troop reinforcements and favorable weather.

In 1998, President Bill Clinton ordered a sustained series of airstrikes against Iraq by American and British forces in response to Saddam Hussein's continued defiance of UN weapons inspectors.


TERRORISM


In 1950, President Truman proclaimed a national state of emergency in order to fight "Communist imperialism."

In 2004, Britain's highest court ruled that it could not detain foreign suspects indefinitely without trial.


ASSASSINATIONS


In 1916, Grigori Rasputin assassinated by a group of noble Russian conspirators.

In 1985, reputed organized-crime chief Paul Castellano was shot to death outside a New York City restaurant.


DISASTERS


In 1920, one of the deadliest earthquakes in history hit the Gansu province in China. The 8.6 quake killed 200,000 people.

In 1960, a United Air Lines DC-8 and a TWA Super Constellation collided over New York City, killing 134 people.


CIVIL RIGHTS


In 1991, the U.N. General Assembly rescinded its 1975 resolution equating Zionism with racism by a 111-25 vote.

In 2000, Colin Powell was selected to become the first African-American secretary of state.


CULTURE


In 1770, composer Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany.

In 1899, playwright Noel Coward was born in London.


BIRTHDAYS


71 Morris Dees,Civil rights attorney; 70 Joyce Bulifant, Actress; 69 Liv Ullmann, Actress; 66 Lesley Stahl, Broadcast journalist ("60 Minutes"); 65 Don Carcieri, Governor of Rhode Island; 64 Steven Bochco, TV producer ("NYPD Blue," "Hill Street Blues"); 63 Jim Gibbons, Governor of Nevada; 61 Benny Andersson, Singer (ABBA); 60 Ben Cross, Actor; 58 Billy Gibbons, Rock musician (ZZ Top); 56 Bill Bateman, Rock musician (The Blasters); 48 Alison LaPlaca, Actress; 46 Sam Robards, Actor; 46 Jon Tenney, Actor("The Closer"); 44 Benjamin Bratt, Actor; 44 Jeff Carson, Country singer, songwriter; 36 Michael McCary, R&B singer (Boyz II Men); 25 Chris Scruggs,
Country musician; 20 Hallee Hirsh, Actress ("JAG")

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memory: December 16
NY Times: December 16




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