DBKP Today in Weird History: March 1, 2008

WAR, TERRORISM, DISASTER, KIDNAPPED, POLITICS, CIVIL RIGHTS, PARKS, WRONG ASSESSMENTS, We SUPPORT THE TROOPS, EXECUTED, SCANDAL, MURDER, CALENDARS, BLOODBATH, CITIES, CUISINE, DEATH PENALTY, MYSTERY SHIP, UPSETS, STAMPS, GERONIMO, PANIC, NAZIS, LEVIATHAN, LABOR, JEWS, SPIES, UNREST, IRONIC, MAINSTREAM MEDIA, BLUELIGHT SPECIAL, MARRIAGE, CULTS, WATERGATE, CREDIT, GRAVE ROBBERS, CLIMATE CHANGE, BORN, BIRTHDAYS, DEATH

KIDNAPPED!

1932 Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., the 20-month-old son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh, was kidnapped from the family home near Hopewell, N.J. (Remains identified as those of the child were found the following May.)

WAR!

1896 Battle of Adua: 80,000 Ethiopians destroy 20,000 Italians.

2003 Iraq began complying with orders from U.N. weapons inspectors to destroy its Al Samoud II missiles. The United Arab Emirates called for Saddam Hussein to step down, the first Arab country to do so publicly. Turkey's parliament dealt a stunning blow to U.S. war planning by failing to approve a bill allowing in American combat troops to open a northern front against Iraq.

TERRORISM

1954 Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire from the gallery of the U.S. House of Representatives, wounding five congressmen.

1981 Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands began a hunger strike at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland; he died 65 days later.

2003 Suspected 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was captured by CIA and Pakistani agents.

DISASTER

1910 3 passenger trains buried at Steven's Pass in Cascade Range: 118 die; Worst snowslide in US history.

1962 American Airlines 707 plunges nose 1st into Jamaica Bay NY killing 95.

1965 Gas explosion kills 28 in apartment complex (La Salle Québec Canada).

1982 5 die as ski lift malfunctions a Lúz-Ardiden in Pyrenees.

2007 Tornadoes killed 20 people in the Midwest and Southeast, including eight students at Enterprise High School in Alabama.

CUISINE

1784 E Kidner opens 1st cooking school, in Great Britain.

IRONIC

1954 Ted Williams fractures collarbone in 1st game of spring training after flying 39 combat missions without injury in Korean War.

GRAVE ROBBERS

1978 Charlie Chaplin's coffin was stolen from a Swiss cemetery.

UPSETS

1866 Paraguayan canoes sink 2 Brazilian ironclads on Rio Parana.

GERONIMO!

1912 Albert Berry makes 1st parachute jump from an airplane.

MYSTERY SHIP

1854 SS City of Glasgow leaves Liverpool harbor & is never seen again.

WRONG ASSESSMENTS

1945 President Franklin D. Roosevelt returns from the Yalta conference and pronounces to Congress that it's a success.

CLIMATE CHANGE

1980 Snow falls in Florida.

CULTS

1970 Charles Manson's album "Lie" is released.

MAINSTREAM MEDIA

1957 Kokomo the Chimp becomes Today Show animal editor.

1968 NBC's unprecedented on-air announcement, Star Trek will return.

BLUELIGHT SPECIAL

1962 K-Mart opens.

UNREST

1954 Rebellion during visit of President Naguib in Khartoum Sudan, 30 die.

PANIC

1933 Bank holidays declared in 6 states, to prevent run on banks.

LEVIATHAN

1937 1st permanent automobile license plates issued (Connecticut).

1946 British Govt takes control of Bank of England, after 252 years.

1994 Senate rejects a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution.

1996 Plans approved allowing traffic cameras High Harrington & Shap England.

DEATH PENALTY

1847 Michigan becomes 1st English-speaking jurisdiction to abolish the death penalty (except for treason against the state).

WE SUPPORT THE TROOPS

2007 An independent commission concluded the National Guard and Reserves weren't getting enough money or equipment.

CREDIT

1977 Bank of America adopts the name VISA for their credit cards.

SPIES

1950 Klaus Fuchs sentenced to 14 years for atomic espionage (London).

MARRIAGE

1968 Singers Johnny Cash (36) & June Carter (38) wed.

CALENDARS

1 -BC- Start of revised Julian calendar in Rome.

WATERGATE

1974 Watergate grand jury indicts 7 Presidential aides.

EXECUTED

1947 J Boogaard Nazi collaborator in the Netherlands, executed.

POLITICS

1781 the Continental Congress declared the Articles of Confederation to be in force, following ratification by Maryland.

1790 President Washington signed a measure authorizing the first U.S. Census.

1803 Ohio becomes 17th state.

1845 President Tyler signs a resolution annexing the Republic of Texas.

1867 Nebraska became the 37th state.

1967 U.S. Representative Adam Clayton Powell of New York, accused of misconduct, was denied his seat in the 90th Congress. (The Supreme Court ruled in 1969 that Powell had to be seated.)

CITIES

1642 Georgeana (York) ME became the 1st incorporated American city.

LABOR

1937 US Steel raises workers' wages to $5 a day.

MURDER

1995 Vladislav Listyev Russian TV-journalist, murdered at 38.

NAZIS

1941 Himmler inspects Auschwitz concentration camp.

CIVIL RIGHTS

1780 Pennsylvania becomes 1st US state to abolish slavery (for new-borns only).

1864 Rebecca Lee Crumpler became the first black woman to receive an American medical degree, from the New England Female Medical College in Boston.

JEWS

1942 Suriname camp for NSB people opens to save Jews.

1943 Jewish old age home for disabled in Amsterdam raided.

1955 Israeli assault on Gaza, kills 48.

BLOODBATHS

1562 Blood bath at Vassy; General de Guise allows the murder of 1200 Huguenots.

1811 Egyptian king Muhammad Ali Pasha oversees ceremonial murder of 500.

PARKS

1872 President Grant signed a measure creating Yellowstone National Park.

STAMPS

1869 Postage stamps showing scenes are issued for 1st time.

SCANDAL

2007 The Army general in charge of Walter Reed Army Medical Center was relieved of command after disclosures about dilapidated buildings and inadequate treatment of wounded soldiers.

BORN

1904 Glenn Miller bandleader (Glenn Miller Orchestra-In the Mood).

1911 Harry Golombek chess grandmaster.

1917 Dinah Shore Winchester TN, singer (See the USA in a Chevrolet).

BIRTHDAYS

Actor Robert Clary is 82. Singer Harry Belafonte is 81. Former U.S. Solicitor General Robert H. Bork is 81. Actor Robert Conrad is 73. Rock singer Mike D'Abo (Manfred Mann) is 64. Former Sen. John Breaux, D-La., is 64. Rock singer Roger Daltrey is 64. Actor Dirk Benedict is 63. Actor Alan Thicke is 61. Actor-director Ron Howard is 54. Actress Catherine Bach is 54. Country singer Janis Gill (AKA Janis Oliver Cummins) (Sweethearts of the Rodeo) is 54. Actor Tim Daly is 52. Singer-musician Jon Carroll is 51. Rock musician Bill Leen is 46. Actor Russell Wong is 45. Actor John David Cullum is 42. Actor George Eads is 41. Actor Javier Bardem is 39. Rock musician Ryan Peake (Nickelback) is 35. Actor Mark-Paul Gosselaar is 34. Actor Jensen Ackles is 30. TV host Donovan Patton is 30. Rock musician Sean Woolstenhulme is 27. Rhythm-and-blues singer Sammie is 21.

DEATH

1991 Edwin H Land inventor (Polaroid Camera), dies at 81.

March 1, the 61st day of 2008. There are 305 days left in the year.

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DBKP Today in Weird History: February 12, 2008

WAR, TERRORISM, DISASTERS, FREE, BEHEADED, WOMEN, RACE, CIVIL RIGHTS, ABDICATE, MEMORIALS, CLINTONS, COMICS, GUNMAN, STARTS, FIREBALL, MAINSTREAM MEDIA, VIETNAM, CLASH, BUSTED, RECORDS, THIEF, TABLOID, OJ, BORN, BIRTHDAY, DEATH



THIEF!

1994 Edvard Munch's painting "The Cry" stolen (in Oslo).

WAR!

1861 State troops seize US munitions in Napoleon AK.

1973 Operation Homecoming began as the first release of American prisoners of war from the Vietnam conflict took place.

TERRORISM

2003 The U.N. nuclear agency declared North Korea in violation of international treaties, sending the dispute to the Security Council.

2007 Car bombs shattered Baghdad's oldest and largest market, killing at least 78 people.

DISASTERS

1998 250-car Italy pile-up due to fog, 4 die & 50 hurt.

FIREBALL

1947 Daytime fireball & meteorite fall seen in eastern Siberia.

CLINTONS

1998 A federal judge threw out President Clinton's new line-item veto authority.

1999 The Senate acquitted President Clinton of perjury and obstruction of justice.

STARTS

1876 Al Spalding opens his sporting good shop.

BUSTED

1967 Keith Richards, Mick Jagger & Marianne Faithful busted for drugs.

OJ

1997 Fred Goldman says he will settle for a signed murder confession from O J Simpson in lieu of his $20.5 million judgment.

VIETNAM

1955 President Eisenhower sends 1st US advisors to South Vietnam.

PATENTS

1878 Frederick Thayer patents the catcher's mask (pat # 200,358).

RECORDS

1981 Pete Squires sets record for 1575 steps of Empire State Building, 10m.

TABLOID

1994 Model Anna Nicole Smith hospitalized for drug overdose.

CLASH

1960 Chinese army kills 12 Indian soldiers.

MAINSTREAM MEDIA

1924 President Calvin Coolidge makes 1st presidential radio speech.

JEWS

1941 Jewish Council for Amsterdam forms, under Ascher/Cohen; Occupation Police arrest "Jewish Foursome".

BEHEADED

1554 Lady Jane Grey, who'd claimed the throne of England for nine days, and her husband, Guildford Dudley, were beheaded after being condemned for high treason.

FREE

1818 Chile officially proclaimed its independence, more than seven years after initially renouncing Spanish rule.

MURDER

1976 Sal Mineo actor (Exodus, Rebel Without a Cause), stabbed at 37.

WOMEN

1870 women in the Utah Territory gained the right to vote. (However, that right was taken away in 1887).

RACE

1908 the first round-the-world automobile race began in New York. (It ended in Paris the following July with the drivers of the American car, a Thomas Flyer, declared the winners over teams from Germany and Italy.)

CIVIL RIGHTS

1909 the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was founded.

ABDICATE

1912 Pu Yi, the last emperor of China, abdicated, marking the end of the Qing Dynasty.

MEMORIALS

1915 the cornerstone for the Lincoln Memorial was laid in Washington, D.C., a year to the day after groundbreaking.

COMICS

1940 The radio play "The Adventures of Superman" debuted with Bud Collyer as the Man of Steel.

GUNMAN

2007 Teen gunman Sulejman Talovic shot nine people, killing five, at a Salt Lake City mall before he was shot and killed by police.

BORN

1809 Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was born in present-day Larue County, Ky.

1880 John Llewellyn Lewis union leader (United Mine Workers, 1920-60).

1904 Ted Mack Denver CO, TV host (Original Amateur Hour).

BIRTHDAYS

Movie director Franco Zeffirelli is 85. Actor Louis Zorich is 84. Baseball Hall-of-Fame sportscaster Joe Garagiola is 82. Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Penn.) is 78. Basketball Hall-of-Famer Bill Russell is 74. Actor Joe Don Baker is 72. Author Judy Blume is 70. Rock musician Ray Manzarek (The Doors) is 69. Country singer Moe Bandy is 64. Actress Maud Adams is 63. Actor Cliff DeYoung is 63. Actor Michael Ironside is 58. Rock musician Steve Hackett is 58. Rock singer Michael McDonald is 56. Actress Joanna Kerns is 55. Actor-former talk show host Arsenio Hall is 53. Actress Christine Elise is 43. Actor Josh Brolin is 40. Singer Chynna Phillips is 40. Rock musician Jim Creeggan (Barenaked Ladies) is 38. Rhythm-and-blues musician Keri Lewis is 37. Actor Jesse Spencer ("House, M.D.") is 29. Actress Sarah Lancaster is 28. Actress Christina Ricci is 28.

DEATH

1983 Eubie Blake ragtime-composer/pianist (Memories of You), dies at 100.

2003 Holiday Inn chain founder Kemmons Wilson died in Memphis, Tenn., at age 90.

February 12, the 43rd day of 2008. There are 323 days left in the year.

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DBKP's Today in Weird History: February 6, 2008

WAR, DISASTERS, CREEPY, WHISKERS, BOO, RECORDS, PAGE TWO, BANDITS, GAMES, HOBBIES, NANNY STATE, POLITICS, CIVIL RIGHTS, SMOKE NAZIS, PRO WRESTLING, GOLF, MAINSTREAM MEDIA, POPULATION, PIRATES, SPERM CONTROL, JEWS, GEEZERS, CLINTONS, BORN, BIRTHDAYS, DEATH


1911 Ronald Wilson Reagan, the 40th president of the United States, was born in Tampico, Ill.

WAR!

1778 France recognizes US, signs treaty of aid in Paris; 1st US treaty. England declares war on France.

1862 Victory for General Ulysses S Grant in Tennessee, capturing Fort Henry, and ten days later Fort Donelson; Grant earns the nickname "Unconditional Surrender" Grant.

1899 A peace treaty between the United States and Spain was ratified by the U.S. Senate.

2003 Edging closer to war, President Bush declared "the game is over" for Saddam Hussein and urged skeptical allies to join in disarming Iraq.

DISASTERS

1911 Great fire destroys downtown Constantinople/Istanbul Turkey.

1951 "Broker Special" train crashes in Woodbridge NJ, killing 84

1958 7 soccer players of Manchester United die in an air crash at Munich.

1992 16 people were killed when a C-130 military transport plane crashed in Evansville, Ind.

1996 A Turkish-owned Boeing 757 jetliner crashed into the Atlantic Ocean shortly after takeoff from the Dominican Republic, killing 189 people, mostly German tourists.

CREEPY

2003 ABC's "20/20" aired a British documentary on Michael Jackson in which the singer revealed he sometimes let children sleep in his bed.

WHISKERS

1869 Harper's Weekly publishes 1st picture of Uncle Sam with chin whiskers.

BOO!

1956 French premier Guy Mollet pelted with tomatoes in Algiers.

PAGE TWO

1951 Radio commentator Paul Harvey arrested for trying to sneak into the Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago IL.

RECORDS

1990 Steve Briers of Wales recited the entire lyrics of Queen's album "A Night At The Opera" in 9 minutes & 58.44 seconds backwards!

BANDITS

1891 1st great train robbery by Dalton Gang (Southern Pacific #17).

GAMES

1935 Board game "Monopoly" goes on sale for the 1st time.

PRO WRESTLING

1977 Harley Race beats Terry Funk in Toronto, to become NWA wrestling champion.

HOBBIES

1948 1st radio-controlled airplane flown.

GOLF

1968 Former President Dwight Eisenhower shot a hole-in-one.

1971 1st time a golf ball is hit on the Moon (by Alan Shepard).

NANNY STATE

1953 US controls on wages & some consumer goods were lifted.

CIVIL RIGHTS

1956 University of Alabama refuses admission to Autherine Lucy (because he's black).

SMOKE NAZIS



1987 No-smoking rules take effect in federal buildings.

POLITICS

1788 Massachusetts became the sixth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.

1933 the 20th Amendment to the Constitution, the so-called "lame duck" amendment, was proclaimed in effect by Secretary of State Henry Stimson.

SPERM CONTROL

1997 Diane Blood, 32, in England, won right to use her dead husbands sperm.

MAINSTREAM MEDIA

1959 Fidel Castro is interviewed by Edward R Murrow.

POPULATION

1820 US population announced at 9,638,453 (1,771,656 blacks (18.4%)).

PIRATES!

1832 US ship destroys Sumatran village in retaliation for piracy.

JEWS

1902 Young Women's Hebrew Association organized in New York NY.

GEEZERS

1911 1st old-age home opened in Prescott AZ.

CLINTONS

1998 President Bill Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair redoubled their pledge to use military force against Iraq if necessary; during a joint news conference in which the subject of former White House intern Monica Lewinsky came up, Clinton said he would "never" resign. President Clinton signed a bill changing the name of Washington National Airport to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

BORN

1756 America's third vice president, Aaron Burr, was born in Newark, N.J.

1833 James Ewell Brown "JEB" Stuart Major General (Commander of Cavalry, Confederate Army).

1895 George Herman (Babe) Ruth Baltimore MD, baseball great (Yankees).

1912 Eva Braun mistress of Adolf Hitler.

BIRTHDAYS

Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor is 91. Actor Patrick Macnee is 86. Actor Rip Torn is 77. Actress Mamie Van Doren is 77. Actor Mike Farrell is 69. Former NBC News anchorman Tom Brokaw is 68. Singer Fabian is 65. Actress Gayle Hunnicutt is 65. Actor Michael Tucker is 64. Producer-director-writer Jim Sheridan is 59. Singer Natalie Cole is 58. Actor Jon Walmsley is 52. Actress Kathy Najimy is 51. Rock musician Simon Phillips (Toto) is 51. Actor-director Robert Townsend is 51. Actor Barry Miller is 50. Actress Megan Gallagher is 48. Rock singer Axl Rose (Guns N' Roses) is 46. Country singer Richie McDonald is 46. Singer Rick Astley is 42. Rock musician Tim Brown (Boo Radleys) is 39. Actor Brandon Hammond is 24.

DEATH

1804 Joseph Priestley England/US theologist/philosopher/chemist, dies at 70.

1952 Britain's King George VI died; he was succeeded by his daughter, Elizabeth II.

2007 Singer Frankie Laine died in San Diego at age 93.

February 6, the 37th day of 2008. There are 329 days left in the year. Today is Ash Wednesday.

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EXPLORERS

On Jan. 18, 1912, English explorer Robert F. Scott and his expedition reached the South Pole, only to discover that Roald Amundsen had beaten them to it. (Scott and his party perished during the return trip.)

WAR!

1862 Confederate Territory of Arizona is formed.

1919 the Paris Peace Conference, held to negotiate peace treaties ending World War I, opened in Versailles, France.

1943 During World War II, the Soviets announced they had broken through the long Nazi siege of Leningrad (it was another year before the siege was fully lifted).

2003 Top U.N. officials warned Iraq it was running out of time to cooperate and avoid war. Protesters nationwide and overseas demonstrated in opposition to possible war in Iraq.

DISASTERS

1915 Train crashes at Colima-Guadalajara Mexico, about 600 die.

1947 Small river steamer sank on Yangtze River, kills 400.

1988 Airliner crashes in SW China, killing all 108 on board.

EXPLORERS

1778, English navigator Capt. James Cook reached the Hawaiian Islands, which he dubbed the "Sandwich Islands."

UFOs

1644 Perplexed Pilgrims in Boston reported America's 1st UFO sighting.

KAISERS

1871 William I of Prussia was proclaimed German Emperor in Versailles, France.

EXHIBITIONS

1733 1st polar bear exhibited in America (Boston).

DRUGS

1990 Washington DC, Mayor Marion Barry arrested in drug enforcement sting.

JEWS

1943 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto begin resistance of Nazis.

RATIONING

1943 A wartime ban on the sale of pre-sliced bread in the U.S. — aimed at reducing bakeries' demand for metal replacement parts — went into effect.

LOTTERIES

1986 New York Lotto pays $30.5 million to one winner (#s are 19-20-27-34-41-46).

PROGRESS

1911 1st shipboard landing of a plane (Tanforan Park to USS Pennsylvania).




SERIAL KILLERS

In 1967, Albert DeSalvo, who claimed to be the "Boston Strangler," was convicted in Cambridge, Mass., of armed robbery, assault and sex offenses. (Sentenced to life, DeSalvo was killed in prison in 1973.)

CIVIL RIGHTS

1949 1st US Congressional standing committee headed by Negro (W Dawson).

1966 Robert C Weaver, confirmed as 1st black cabinet member (HUD).

RUNAWAY PROSECUTORS

1990 A jury in Los Angeles acquitted former preschool operators Raymond Buckey and his mother, Peggy McMartin Buckey, of 52 child molestation charges.

PRO WRESTLING

1971 Ivan Koloff beats Bruno Sammartino in NY, to become WWF champ.

MUSIC

1980 Pink Floyd's "The Wall" hits #1.

POPES

1998 Pope John Paul II named 22 new cardinals, including Archbishop Francis Eugene George of Chicago and James Francis Stafford, the former archbishop of Denver.

SPORTS

1951 NFL rules tackles, guards & centers ineligible for forward pass.

DEATH PENALTY

2007 Truck driver Tyrone Williams was spared the death penalty and sentenced in Houston to life in prison for his role in the deaths of 19 illegal immigrants crammed in a sweltering tractor-trailer.

FINANCE

1980 Gold reaches $1,000 an ounce.

1991 Eastern Airlines goes out of business after 62 years.

DIVORCE

1996 Lisa Marie Presley filed for divorce from Michael Jackson in NY.

BIRTHDAYS

Movie director John Boorman is 75. Singer-songwriter Bobby Goldsboro is 67. Comedian-singer-musician Brett Hudson is 55. Actor-director Kevin Costner is 53. Country singer Mark Collie is 52. Actress Jane Horrocks is 44. Comedian Dave Attell is 43. Actor Jesse L. Martin ("Law & Order") is 39. Rapper DJ Quik is 38. Rock singer Jonathan Davis (Korn) is 37. Singer Christian Burns (BBMak) is 35. Actor Derek Richardson is 32. Actor Jason Segel is 28. Actress Samantha Mumba is 25.

DEATH

1862 the 10th president of the United States, John Tyler, died in Richmond, Va., at age 71.

1936 author Rudyard Kipling died in Burwash, England.

1991 Nita Krebs actor (Munchkin-Wizard of Oz), dies of heart attack at 85

1996 Minnesota Fats [Rudolf Wanderone Jr], billiard hustler, dies at 82

1997 Paul Tsongas (Senator-D-MA), dies at 55

January 18, the 18th day of 2008. There are 348 days left in the year.

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Today in History: January 17, 2008

WAR!, TERRORISM, DISASTERS, CLINTONS, DIPLOMACY, ABDICATION, JEWS, SPORTS, SOLD, PATENTS, COMICS, CIVIL RIGHTS, MUSIC, PROGRESS, LINES, WITCHES, WHEW!, EXECUTIONS, DIVORCE, MAINSTREAM MEDIA, BUREAUCRACY, BIRTHDAYS, DEATH

On Jan. 17, 1945, Soviet and Polish forces liberated Warsaw during World War II. Shown above, US and Soviets meet at Elbe River.

WAR!

1943 Tin Can Drive Day

2003 On the 12th anniversary of the Gulf War, a defiant Saddam Hussein called on his people to rise up and defend the nation against a new U.S.-led attack.

TERRORISM

1979 Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi flees Iran. Iran completely in hands of the forces of the Islamic Republic.

DISASTERS

1718 Avalanche destroys every building in Leukerbad, Switzerland; kills 53

1994, a 6.7 magnitude earthquake struck Southern California, killing at least 72 people.

1995, more than 6,000 people were killed when an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 devastated the city of Kobe, Japan.

CLINTONS

1998 President Bill Clinton gave a deposition in Paula Jones' sexual harassment lawsuit against him; during the nearly six hours of sworn testimony, Clinton denied having had a sexual relationship with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

1998 President Clinton faces sexual harassment charges from Paula Jones.

DIPLOMACY

1946 United Nations Security Council holds its 1st meeting.

ABDICATION

1893, Hawaii's monarchy was overthrown as a group of businessmen and sugar planters forced Queen Liliuokalani to abdicate. Kingdom of Hawaii becomes a republic.

SPORTS

1997 NBA suspends Dennis Rodman indefinitely/$25,000 for kicking cameraman

SOLD

1917, the United States paid Denmark $25 million for the Virgin Islands.

PATENTS

1861 Flush toilet (with separate water tank and a pull chain) patented by Mr Thomas Crapper.

1905 Punchboards patented by Charles Brewer & C G Scannell, Chicago IL

JEWS

1945 Auschwitz concentration camp begins evacuation

1945, Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, credited with saving tens of thousands of Jews, arrested in Hungary and disappeared while in Soviet custody.

COMICS

1929 Popeye makes 1st appearance, in comic strip "Thimble Theatre".

CIVIL RIGHTS

1966 Martin Luther King Jr opens campaign in Chicago.



MUSIC

1969 Debut album of Led Zeppelin released in US.

PROGRESS

1955 Submarine USS Nautilus begins 1st nuclear-powered test voyage

LINES

1961, in his farewell address, President Dwight Eisenhower warned against the rise of "the military-industrial complex."

WITCHES

1775 9 old women burnt as witches for causing bad harvests, Kalisk, Poland

WHEW!

1966, a U.S. Air Force B-52 carrying four unarmed hydrogen bombs crashed on the Spanish coast. (Three of the bombs were quickly recovered, but the fourth wasn't recovered until April.)

EXECUTIONS

1977, convicted murderer Gary Gilmore, 36, was shot by a firing squad at Utah State Prison in the first U.S. execution in a decade.

DIVORCE

1997, a court in Ireland granted the first divorce in the Roman Catholic country's history.

MAINSTREAM MEDIA

1954 Jacques Cousteau's 1st network telecast airs on "Omnibus" (CBS)

BUREAUCRACY

2003 Tom Ridge sailed through Senate confirmation hearings on his way to becoming the nation's first Homeland Security Department chief.

BIRTHDAYS

Actress Betty White is 86. Singer-actress Eartha Kitt is 81. Actor James Earl Jones is 77. Talk show host Maury Povich is 69. Former heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali is 66. Rhythm-and-blues singer William Hart (The Delfonics) is 63. Rock musician Mick Taylor is 60. Rhythm-and-blues singer Sheila Hutchinson (The Emotions) is 55. Singer Steve Earle is 53. Singer Paul Young is 52. Actor-comedian Steve Harvey is 51. Singer Susanna Hoffs (The Bangles) is 49. Actor-comedian Jim Carrey is 46. Actor Joshua Malina is 42. Singer Shabba Ranks is 42. Actor Naveen Andrews is 39. Rapper Kid Rock is 37. Actor Freddy Rodriguez is 33. Actress Zooey Deschanel is 28. Singer Ray J is 27. Country singer Amanda Wilkinson is 26.

DEATH

1893 Rutherford B Hayes 19th US President (1877-81), dies in Fremont OH at 70.

1998 Emil Sitka actor (3 Stooges shorts), dies of stroke at 82.

2003 Actor Richard Crenna died in Los Angeles at age 76.

2003 Gertrude Janeway, the last known widow of a Union veteran from the Civil War, died in Blaine, Tenn., at age 93 (she had married John Janeway in 1927 when he was 81 and she was barely 18).

2007 Pulitzer Prize-winning satirist Art Buchwald died in Washington, D.C., at age 81.

January 17, the 17th day of 2008. There are 349 days left in the year.


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Today in History: January 16, 2008

NANNY STATE, WAR!, TERRORISM, DISASTERS, SELF IMMOLATION, DICTATORS, JEWS, CIVIL RIGHTS, AMBUSH, SPIES, BROADWAY, MAINSTREAM MEDIA, DISMISSED, USELESS, RAINBOW, DRUGS, GEEZERS, MUGGING, SPORTS, COMICS, RUNAWAY PROSECUTORS, POLITICS, BIRTHDAYS


NANNY STATE

1920 Prohibition began in the United States as the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution took effect, one year to the day after its ratification. (It was later repealed by the 21st Amendment.)

WAR!

1944 Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower took command of the Allied Expeditionary Forces in London.

1991 Operation Desert Storm begins - US & 27 allies attack Iraq for occupying Kuwait (air war begins January 17 at 2:38AM (local time) or January 16 at 6:38PM EST due to an 8 hour time difference, with an Apache helicopter attack)

TERRORISM

1981 Protestant gunmen shoot & wound Bernadette Devlin McAliskey & husband

1986 Police arrested 3 IRA-terrorists in Amsterdam

2007 Two car bombs exploded outside Al-Mustansiriya University in Baghdad, killing at least 70 people.

DISASTER

1219 Floods in Northern Netherlands after storm, 1,000s killed

1865 Drunken sailor attacks munitions at Fort Fisher NC, 40 die

1974 L A Landslide kills 9, Canyonville OR

1942 Actress Carole Lombard, 33, her mother and about 20 other people were killed when their plane crashed near Las Vegas while returning from a war-bond promotion tour.

SELF IMMOLATION

1969 Jan Palach protesting Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, self immolates at 20

DICTATORS

1547 Ivan IV of Russia (popularly known as "Ivan the Terrible") was crowned Czar.

CIVIL RIGHTS

1883 the U.S. Civil Service Commission was established.

1967 Lucius Amerson, becomes 1st southern (Alabama) black sheriff in 20th century

AMBUSH

1948 35 Haganah members are ambushed & killed in Gush Etzyon

JEWS

1950 Belgium, Luxembourg & Netherlands recognize Israel

1956 Egyptian President Nassar pledges to reconquer Palestine

2003 The space shuttle Columbia blasted off under extremely tight security; on board was Israel's first astronaut, Ilan Ramon. (The mission ended in tragedy on Feb. 1, when the shuttle broke up during its return descent, killing all seven crew members.)

SPIES

1961 Russian espionage ring detected in Great Britain

BROADWAY

1964 the musical "Hello, Dolly!" opened on Broadway, beginning a run of 2,844 performances.

MAINSTREAM MEDIA

1965 "Outer Limits" last airs on ABC-TV

1973 NBC presents 440th & final showing of "Bonanza"

1988 Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder was fired as a CBS Sports commentator, one day after telling a Washington, D.C., TV station that, during the era of slavery, blacks had been bred to produce stronger offspring.

DISMISSED

1925 Leon Trotsky dismissed as CEO of Russian Revolution Military Council

USELESS

1967 Alan S. Boyd was sworn in as the first U.S. secretary of transportation.

RAINBOW

1978 NASA named 35 candidates to fly on the space shuttle, including Sally K. Ride, who became America's first woman in space, and Guion S. Bluford Jr., who became America's first black astronaut in space.

DRUGS

1980 Paul McCartney jailed in Tokyo for 10 days on marijuana possession

GEEZERS

1998 NASA officially announced that John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth, would fly aboard the space shuttle later in the year.

NANNY STATE

1998 The tobacco industry reached a $15.3 billion settlement with the state of Texas.

MUGGINGS

1981 Boxer Leon Spinks is mugged, his assailants even take his gold teeth

COMICS

1939 Comic strip "Superman" debuts

SPORTS

1988 NFL St Louis Cardinals announce move to Phoenix

POLITICS

2007 Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) launched his bid for the White House.

RUNAWAY PROSECUTORS

2007 Jury selection began in the CIA leak trial of former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby.

BIRTHDAYS

Author William Kennedy is 80. Author-editor Norman Podhoretz is 78. Opera singer Marilyn Horne is 74. Auto racer A.J. Foyt is 73. Singer Barbara Lynn is 66. Country singer Ronnie Milsap is 65. Country singer Jim Stafford is 64. Talk show host Dr. Laura Schlessinger is 61. Movie director John Carpenter is 60. Actress-dancer-choreographer Debbie Allen is 58. Singer Sade (shah-DAY') is 49. Rock musician Paul Webb (Talk Talk) is 46. Rhythm-and-blues singer Maxine Jones (En Vogue) is 42. Actor David Chokachi is 40. Actor Richard T. Jones is 36. Actress Josie Davis is 35. Model Kate Moss is 34. Rock musician Nick Valensi (The Strokes) is 27. Actress Yvonne Zima is 19.

Jan. 16, the 16th day of 2008. There are 350 days left in the year.


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Today in History: January 13, 2008

WAR!, TERRORISM, DISASTERS, MAINSTREAM MEDIA, GEEZERS, DRUGS, QUEENS, SCIENCE, POLITICS, LAWSUITS, CYNICS, FLAGS, DEALS, PATENTS, CIVIL RIGHTS, LABOR, POLICE ACTIONS, SOCIETIES, UFOs, POLITICAL PARTIES, REVOLUTION!, JEWS, PROGRESS, EXPLORERS, BLACK GOLD, CARTOON, SUPREME COURT, DICTATORS, POPE, COUPS, MUSIC, WOMEN, CRIME, COMPUTERS, SUBWAYS, SERIAL KILLERS, DRAMA, MURDER, SPORTS FATALITY, BORN, DEATH

Another reporting coup by the New York Times

MAINSTREAM MEDIA

1920 New York Times editorial (falsely) reports rockets can never fly.

WAR!

1099 Crusaders set fire to Mara Syria.

1842 - On this day Dr.William Brydon, a surgeon in the British Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, became famous for being the sole survivor of an army of 16,500 when he reached the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad.

1847 - The Treaty of Cahuenga ends the Mexican-American War in California

1865 Federals attack Fort Fisher NC.

1915 W Churchill presents plan for assault on Dardanelles.

1942 German U-boats begin harassing shipping on US east coast.

1942 Allied Conference for war trials.

1942 Interallied war trial conference publishes St James Declaration.

1942 - The United States begins Japanese American internment.

1943 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in Casablanca.

1943 Hitler declares "Total War".

1943 Russian offensive at Don under General Golikov.

1943 US infantry captures Galloping Horse-ridge Guadalcanal.

1968 Beginning of Tet-offensive in Vietnam.

TERRORISM

1954 Military rule in Egypt; 318 Mohammedan Brotherhood arrested.

1987 W German police arrest Mohammed Ali Hamadi, suspect in 1985 hijacking.

DISASTERS

1830 Great fire in New Orleans thought to be set by rebel slaves.

1883 Fire in circus Ferroni in Berditschoft Poland kills 430.

1915 Earthquake in Avezzano Italy kills 30,000.

1953 Gas explosion in Belgium coal mine kills 14.

1982 Air Florida 737 took off in a snowstorm, crashes into the 14th St Bridge in
Washington, DC, & falls into the Potomac River, killing 78.

1982 A Washington DC Metro Rail train derailed, killing 3 people.

1985 Express train derails in Ethiopia, kills at least 428.

1991 42 killed in exhibition soccer match in Johannesburg South Africa.

DRUGS

1980 Head of narcotic brigade arrested for drug smuggling in Belgium.

GEEZERS

1985 99-year-old Otto Bucher scores a hole-in-one at Spanish golf course.

QUEENS

1559 Elizabeth I crowned queen of England in Westminster Abbey.

SCIENCE

1610 Galileo Galilei discovers Callisto, 4th satellite of Jupiter.

POLITICS

1630 Patent to Plymouth Colony issued.

1733 James Oglethorpe & 130 English colonists arrive at Charleston, SC.

1935 Plebiscite in Saar, indicates a desire (90.3%) to join Nazi Germany.

LAWSUITS

1979 YMCA files libel suit against Village People's YMCA song.

CYNICS

1695 Jonathan Swift ordained an Anglican priest in Ireland.

MAINSTREAM MEDIA

1785 John Walter publishes 1st issue of London Times.

FLAGS

1794 Congress changes US flag to 15 stars & 15 stripes.

DEALS

1849 Vancouver Island granted to Hudson's Bay Co.

PATENT

1854 Anthony Foss patents the accordion.

1863 Chenille manufacturing machine patented by William Canter, New York City NY.

1863 Thomas Crapper pioneers one-piece pedestal flushing toilet.

1942 Henry Ford patents a method of constructing plastic auto bodies.

CIVIL RIGHTS

1869 National convention of black leaders meets in Washington DC.

1966 1st black selected for Presidential cabinet (LBJ selects Robert C Weaver-HUD).

1990 1st elected US black governor inaugurated (Douglas Wilder-Virginia).

LABOR

1869 Colored National Labor Union, 1st Black labor convention.

1874 Battle between jobless & police in New York City NY, 100s injured.

1902 Textile workers strike in Enschede Netherlands till June 1.

1914 IWW-leader/songwriter Joe Hill arrested "Girl from Utah" East-Prussia.

1995 26 HNL teams unanimously ratify agreement to end NHL strike.

POLICE ACTIONS

1874 US troops land in Honolulu to protect the king.

1882 Richard Wagner completes his opera "Parsifal".

SOCIETIES

1888 National Geographic Society founded (Washington DC).

1929 Humanist Society established, Hollywood CA.

POLITICAL PARTIES

1893 British Independent Labor Party forms (Keir Hardie as its leader).

REVOLUTION!

1894 Revolution in Sicily crushed by government troops.

JEWS

1898 Emile Zola publishes his open letter (J'accuse) in defense of Captain Alfred Dreyfus in Paris.

1951 9 Jewish Kremlin physicians "exposed" as British/US agents; known as the Doctors' Plot.

PROGRESS

1906 1st radio set advertised (Telimco for $7.50 in Scientific American) claimed to receive signals up to one mile.

1908 French pilot Henry Farman is 1st European to fly roundtrip.

1928 The British War office abolishes the lance as a weapon of battle.

1928 - Ernst F. W. Alexanderson gave the first public demonstration of television.

1948 1st country music TV show, Midwestern Hayride, premieres on WLW Cincinnati OH.

1957 Wham-O Company produces the 1st Frisbee.

EXPLORERS

1911 Roald Amundsens anchors at Walvis Bay.

BLACK GOLD

1927 US & Mexico battle over oil interests.

CARTOON

1930 "Mickey Mouse" comic strip 1st appears.

SUPREME COURT

1988 Supreme Court rules (5-3) public school officials have broad powers to censor school newspapers, plays & other expressive activities.

DICTATORS

1953 Marshal Josip Tito chosen president of Yugoslavia.

POPES

1964 Karol Wojtyla becomes archbishop of Krakow.

COUP

1967 Coup in Togo.

1986 Bloody coup overthrows government of South Yemen.

UFOs

1979 On this evening a farmer in Viterbo, Italy spotted a large fiery red sphere descend and land in a nearby pasture. The sphere changed color to a bright orange, then it began to dim revealing a two-meter wide metallic sphere. A small man wearing a silvery white suit emerged from the object and walked around the object, frequently bending down as if he was picking things up. The witness ran away from the scene.

MUSIC

1969 Beatles release "Yellow Submarine" album.

1979 Charlie Daniels hosts the Volunteer Jam.

WOMEN

1972 Former umpire, now housewife Bernice Gera wins her suit against baseball, initiated on March 15, 1971 to be allowed to umpire.

1976 Sarah Caldwell is 1st woman to conduct at NY's Metropolitan Opera House as she led orchestra in a performance of "La Traviata".

1995 America3 becomes 1st all-female crew to win an America's Cup race.

CRIME

1987 7 top New York Mafia bosses sentenced to 100 years in prison each.

COMPUTER

1989 "Friday the 13th" virus strikes hundreds of IBM computers in Britain.

SUBWAYS

1989 Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz begins 1-year jail sentence.

SERIAL KILLERS

1992 US serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer pleads guilty but insane.

DRAMA

1994 Tonya Harding's bodyguard, Shawn Eric Eckardt & Derrick Brian Smith arrested & charged with conspiracy in attack of skater Nancy Kerrigan.

LEFTIST HERESY

1938 - Church of England accepts theory of evolution.

MURDER

1986 Abdel Fattah Ismail President of South-Yemen (1969-80), murdered.

SPORTS FATALITY

1968 Bill Masterson (Minnesota Northstars) checked into the boards & killed.

BORN

1628 Charles Perrault France, lawyer/writer (Mother Goose)
1808 Salmon P Chase (Senator-R) cabinet member, 6th chief justice (1864-73)
1832 Horatio Alger, Jr., American minister and author (d. 1899)
1882 Alois Hitler's common-law wife, Franziska 'Fanni' Matzelberger, gives birth to Adolf Hitler's older half-brother, Alois Jr.
1884 Sophie Tucker [Kalish], Russia, singer/last of red hot mammas
1885 Alfred Fuller CEO (Fuller Brush Man)
1893 Clarke Ashton Smith US, sci-fi author (Lost Worlds, Genius Loci)
1909 Danny Barker jazz guitarist
1918 Lester Sill pioneer music publisher/record producer
1919 Robert Stack Los Angeles CA, actor (Eliot Ness-Untouchables, Airplane, Unsolved Mysteries)
1931 Charles Nelson Reilly New York City NY, actor (Match Game, Ghost & Mrs Muir)
1933 Ron[ald Joseph] Goulart US, sci-fi author (Deadwalk, Plunder, Cheap Thrills)
1933 Tom B Gola NBA Hall-of-Famer
1934 Rip Taylor comedian (Gong Show, $1.98 Beauty Show)
1938 Billy Gray Los Angeles CA, actor (Bud-Father Knows Best)
1943 Richard Moll California, actor (Night Court, House, Dungeonmaster, Survivor)
1948 T Bone' Burnett rocker
1949 Brandon Tartikoff TV exec (NBC)
1949 Rakesh Sharma India, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-11)
1955 Jay McInerney author (Bright Lights, Big City)
1961 Julia Louis-Dreyfus New York City NY, comedienne (SNL, Seinfeld, Day by Day, Soul Man, Troll)
1966 Patrick Dempsey Lewiston ME, actor (Mike-Fast Times, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Can't Buy Me Love, Face The Music)
1966 Tabitha Stevens fictional character (Bewitched)
1970 Keith Mitchell Palm Springs CA, actor (Jeffrey-Waltons, Gun Shy)
1971 Elmer Dessens Hermosillo Mexico, pitcher (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1972 Byron "Bam" Morris NFL running back (Baltimore Ravens, Pittsburgh Steelers)

DEATH

1599 Edmund Spenser poet (Faerie Queene), dies at about 46
1625 Pieter Bruegel "the Older" (Bloemenbruegel), Flemish painter, dies
1691 George Fox founder of Quakers, dies at 66
1864 Stephen Foster composer (My Old Kentucky Home), dies in a New York hospital at 37
1929 Wyatt Earp US marshall (OK Corral), dies at 80
1941 James Joyce novelist (Ulysses), dies in Zürich Switzerland, at 58
1962 Ernie Kovacs comedian, dies in a car crash in West Los Angeles, at 42
1978 Hubert Humphrey (Senator-D-MN, Vice President), dies at 66 in Waverly MN
1978 Joseph V McCarthy baseball manager (New York Yankees), dies at 96
1979 Donny Hathaway Chicago IL, rocker (Ghetto), commits suicide at 33
1982 Marcel Camus French director (Orfeu Negro), dies at 69
1983 Doodles Weaver comedian (Spike Jones & City Slickers), dies at 71
1985 Carol Wayne Johnny Carson's teatime movie hostess, dies at 42
1995 Ruby Starr vocalist (Grey Ghost), dies of brain tumor at 44

January 13, the 13th day of 2008. There are 353 days left in the year.


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Death by 1000 Papercuts Front Page.

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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Death by 1000 Papercuts Front Page.

Today in History: January 6, 2008

Drama, WAR!, SCANDAL, POLITICS, JEWS, CITIES, MARRIAGE, SMOKE NAZIS, DISASTER, SPORTS, CIVIL RIGHTS, INVENTIONS, PATENTS, POPES, CLIMATE, PROGRESS, EDUCATION, FINANCE, DICTATORS, WOMEN, SCIENCE, MUSIC, POETS, MAINSTREAM MEDIA, LABOR, CROWNS, LOTTERIES, BORN, DEATH


DRAMA

1994 Ice skater Nancy Kerrigan is attacked by Tonya Harding's bodyguard.

WAR!

1496 Moorish fortress Alhambra, near Grenada, surrenders to the Christi.

1842 4,500 British & Indian troops leave Kabul, massacred before India.

1861 Florida troops seize Federal arsenal at Apalachicola.

1900 Boers attack at Ladysmith, about 1,000 killed or injured.

1967, U.S. Marines and South Vietnamese troops launched Operation Deckhouse Five, an offensive in the Mekong River delta.

SCANDAL

1987, the U.S. Senate voted 88-4 to establish a panel to hold hearings on the Iran-Contra affair.

POLITICS

1896 Cecil Rhodes resigns as premier of Cape colony.

1912 New Mexico becomes 47th state.

1941 FDR's "4 Freedoms" speech (speech, worship, from want & from fear).

1980 Indira Gandhi's Congress Party wins elections in India.

1987 100th US Congress convenes.

JEWS

1497 Jews are expelled from Graz (Syria).

CITIES

1535 City of Lima Peru founded by Francisco Pizarro.

MARRIAGE

1540 King Henry VIII of England married his 4th wife, Anne of Cleves.

1759 George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Curtis.

1945 Future President George Bush marries Barbara Pierce in Rye NY.

SMOKE NAZIS

1639 Virginia is 1st colony to order surplus crops (tobacco) destroyed.

DISASTER

1663 Great earthquake in New England.

1839 2 day storm off Irish & English coast immortalized as "The Big Wind".

1967 2 homemade buses collided on a mountain road in Terpate, Philippines plunging off a cliff, killing 84, injuring 140.

SPORTS

1681 1st recorded boxing match (Duke of Albemarle's butler vs his butcher).

1964 Charlie Finlay announces he wants to move Kansas City A's to Louisville.

1976 Ted Turner purchases Atlanta Braves for reported $12 million.

1980 Philadelphia Flyers set NHL record of 35 straight games without a defeat.

1995 Atlanta Hawks' Lenny Wilkens becomes NBA's winningest coach (939).

1998 Barry Switzer resigns as Dallas Cowboy coach.

1998 Don Sutton selected to Baseball Hall of Fame.

CIVIL RIGHTS

1773 Massachusetts slaves petition legislature for freedom.

1832 New England Anti-Slavery Society organizes (Boston).

INVENTIONS

1838 Samuel Morse made 1st public demonstration of telegraph.

PATENTS

1857 Patent for reducing zinc ore granted to Samuel Wetherill, Pennsylvania.

POPES

1873 Pope Pius IX encyclical "On the Church in Armenia".

1928 Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Mortalium animos (against oecumene).

1946 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Quemadmodum.

CLIMATE

1880 Record snow cover in Seattle-120cm.

PROGRESS

1893 Great Northern Railway connects Seattle with east coast.

1898 1st telephone message from a submerged submarine, by Simon Lake.

1930 1st diesel engine automobile trip (in a Packard sedan) completed.

1942 1st around world flight (Pan Am "Pacific Clipper").

EDUCATION

1907 Maria Montessori opens her 1st (Montessori) school (Rome).

FINANCE

1914 Stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch founded.

1994 Dow-Jones hits record 3803.88.

DICTATORS

1929 Alexander I establishes a royal dictatorship in Yugoslavia.

WOMEN

1936 Barbara Hanley became Canada's 1st woman mayor (Webbwood, Ontario).

1938 Bronze memorial statue of Henry Hudson erected in the Bronx.

SCIENCE

1968 Surveyor 7 (last of series) launched by US for soft-landing on Moon.

1987 Astronomers at University of California see 1st sight of birth of a galaxy.

1993 Jean Mueller discovers comet Mueller/1993a.

MUSIC

1957 Elvis Presley makes his 7th & final appearance on Ed Sullivan Show.

1958 Gibson patents the Flying V Guitar.

1964 Rolling Stones' 1st tour as headline act (with Ronettes).

1968 Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour" album goes #1 & stays #1 for 8 weeks.

1977 EMI records drop punk rock group Sex Pistols.

1993 Bill Wyman announces he will leave Rolling Stones.

POETS

1958 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to ee cummings.

MAINSTREAM MEDIA

1963 "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom" with Marlin Perkins begins on NBC.

1967 "Milton Berle Show" last airs on ABC-TV.

1973 "Schoolhouse Rock" premieres on ABC-TV with Multiplication Rock.

1974 "CBS Mystery Theater" premieres on radio.

1975 "Wheel Of Fortune" debuts on NBC-TV.

MEDICINE

1968 Dr N E Shumway performs 1st US adult cardiac transplant operation.

1971 Berkeley chemists announces 1st synthetic growth hormones.

LABOR

1974 England begins 3 day work week during mine strike.

1986 Impala Platinum fires 20,000 black mine workers in Johannesburg.

CROWNS

1978 US hand over St Stephan crown to Hungary.

LOTTERIES

1990 New York Lotto pays $35 million to one winner (#s are 18-25-26-32-42-44).

1996 Record $65.2 million British lottery won by 3 people (2-3-4-13-42-44).

BORN

1412 Joan of Arc Domremy, martyr
1745 Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier Annonay France, aeronaut (1st pioneer balloonist/brother of Joseph-Michel/co-inventor of calorimeter, hydraulic ram, and process for producing vellum)
1822 Heinrich Schliemann German polyglot/archeologist (Troje)
1854 Sherlock Holmes Mycroft, fictional detective (via Arthur Conan Doyle)
1864 Ban Johnson Norwalk CT, baseball founder (American League)
1878 Carl Sandburg US, poet/biographer of Lincoln (The People, Yes)
1880 Tom Mix Mix Run PA, silent screen cowboy actor (Dick Turpin)
1882 Samuel Rayburn Tennessee, (Representative-D-TX), speaker of the House (1940-57)
1883 Khalil Gibran Lebanon, mystic poet (The Prophet, Broken Wings)
1913 Loretta Young Salt Lake City UT, actress (Farmer's Daughter, Stranger)
1914 Danny Thomas Deerfield MI, comedian (Danny Thomas Show)
1920 Early Wynn Hartford AL, baseball Hall of famer (pitcher)
1920 Reverand Sun Myung Moon evangelist (Unification Church-Moonies)
1921 Lou Harris pollster (Lou Harris Poll)
1924 Earl Scruggs NC, bluegrass musician (Flatt & Scruggs-Ballad of Jed Clampett, Rocky Top)
1925 John Z DeLorean former automaker (DeLorean)
1930 Vic Tayback Brooklyn NY, actor (Mel-Alice, Khan, Portrait of a Stripper)
1931 E[dgar] L[aurence] Doctorow New York City NY, novelist (World's Fair)
1937 Lou Holtz US, football coach (New Jersey Jets)
1944 Bonnie Franklin Santa Monica CA, TV actress (Ann-1 Day at a Time)
1946 Roger Keith (Syd) Barrett Cambridge England, lead guitarist (Pink Floyd-The Piper at the Gates of Dawn)
1949 Robert Englund Glendale CA, actor (V, Nightmare on Elm Street)
1957 Nancy Lopez Knight Torrance CA, pro golfer (1988 Mazda, 1981 Dinah Shore)
1961 Howie Long former NFL tackle/actor/broadcaster (Broken Arrow)
1975 James Farrior linebacker (New York Jets, Pittsburgh Steelers)
1989 Baby lion-tailed macaques at Woodland Park Zoo (Seattle)

DEATH

1884 Gregor Mendel Augustine monk/heredity pioneer, dies at 61
1919 Theodore Roosevelt 26th President (1901-09), dies at his home in Oyster Bay NY at 60
1988 Brent Collins soap actor (Another World), dies of heart attack at 46
1993 John B "Dizzy" Gillespe blues trumpeter, dies of cancer at 75
1993 Rudolph Nureyev Russian ballet dancer (Kirov), dies of AIDS at 54
1994 Morty the Moose (Northern Exposure), dies at 6
1994 Tip O'Neill speaker of the house, dies of cancer
1994 Virginia Kelley Clinton Mother of President Clinton, dies at 70
1997 Vince Williams actor (Hamp-Guiding Light), dies of cancer at 39

January 6, the 6th day of 2008. There are 360 days left in the year. This is the 12th day of Christmas, also known as the Epiphany (12th Night of Christmas), (England) 3 Kings/Adoration of Magi.

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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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