DBKP Today in Weird History: March 20, 2008

WAR, TERRORISM, DISASTER, ESCAPES, BEATLES, WOW, CLINTONS, HANGED, RESCUED, MUPPETS, PATENTS, JEWS, MAINSTREAM MEDIA, CLUELESSLY IMPOTENT, GODLESS, DICTATORS, MURDER, BORN, BIRTHDAYS, DEATH

WAR!

1942 General MacArthur vows, "I shall return".

2003 A subdued Saddam Hussein appeared on state-run television after the initial U.S. air strike on Baghdad, accusing the United States of a "shameful crime" and urging his people to "draw your sword" against the invaders. American combat units rumbled across the desert into Iraq from the south and U.S. and British forces bombed limited targets in Baghdad. The start of war in Iraq triggered one of the heaviest days of anti-government protesting in years, leading to thousands of arrests across the United States and prompting pro-war counter-demonstrations.

TERRORISM

1993 IRA-bomb kills 3 year old in Warrington England.

1995 In Tokyo, 12 people were killed, more than 5,500 others sickened when packages containing the poisonous gas sarin were leaked on five separate subway trains by Aum Shinrikyo cult members.

DISASTER

1760 Great Fire of Boston destroys 349 buildings.

1972 19 mountain climbers killed on Japan's Mount Fuji during an avalanche.

1998 A tornado in rural northeast Georgia killed at least 13 people and injured 100.

WOW!

1988 8-year-old DeAndra Anrig found herself airborne when the string of her kite was snagged by an airplane flying over Shoreline Park in Mountain View, Calif. (DeAndra was lifted 10 feet off the ground and carried some 100 feet until she let go; she was not seriously hurt.)

MUPPETS

??? Big Bird muppet was born today on in an unknown year.(Sesame Street)

DICTATORS

1992 Manuel Noriega's (Panama) wife Felicidad arrested for stealing buttons from dresses.

PRO WRESTLING

1994 Wrestlemania X at Madison Square Garden New York, Bret "The Hitman" Hart pins Yokozuna to win WWF championship.

PATENTS

1885 John Matzeliger of Suriname patents shoe lacing machine.

MAINSTREAM MEDIA

1954 1st newspaper vending machine used (Columbia Pennsylvania).

MURDER

1996 Erik & Lyle Menendez found guilty of killing their parents.

ESCAPES

1815 Napoleon Bonaparte returned to Paris after escaping his exile on Elba, beginning his "Hundred Days" rule.

CLINTONS

1998 President Clinton's lawyer, appearing before a federal court in Little Rock, Ark., declared that Paula Jones' evidence of sexual harassment was "garbage" unworthy of a trial.

CLUELESSLY IMPOTENT

1980 US appeals to International Court on hostages in Iran.

JEWS

1939 7,000 Jews flee German occupied Memel Lithuania.

BEATLES

1969 John Lennon married Yoko Ono in Gibraltar.

HANGED

2007 Saddam Hussein's former deputy, Taha Yassin Ramadan, was hanged in Baghdad, the fourth man to be executed in the killings of 148 Shiites.

GODLESS

1984 Senate rejects amendment to permit spoken prayer in public schools.

RESCUED

2007 Rescuers found Michael Auberry, a 12-year-old Boy Scout, who was dehydrated and disoriented after four days in the wooded mountains of North Carolina.

BORN

1902 Edgar Buchanan Humansville MO, actor (Uncle Joe-Petticoat Junction).

1906 Ozzie Nelson Jersey City NJ, actor (Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet).

1908 American broadcasting pioneer Frank Stanton, the president of CBS for 26 years, was born in Muskegon, Mich.

BIRTHDAYS

Producer-director-comedian Carl Reiner is 86. Actor Hal Linden is 77. Singer Jerry Reed is 71. Former Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney is 69. Country singer Don Edwards is 69. TV producer Paul Junger Witt is 65. Country singer-musician Ranger Doug (Riders in the Sky) is 62. Hockey Hall-of-Famer Bobby Orr is 60. Blues singer-musician Marcia Ball is 59. Actor William Hurt is 58. Rock musician Carl Palmer (Emerson, Lake and Palmer) is 58. Rock musician Jimmie Vaughan is 57. Country musician Jimmy Seales (Shenandoah) is 54. Movie director Spike Lee is 51. Actress Theresa Russell is 51. Actress Vanessa Bell Calloway is 51. Actress Holly Hunter is 50. Rock musician Slim Jim Phantom (The Stray Cats) is 47. Actress-model Kathy Ireland is 45. Actor David Thewlis is 45. Rock musician Adrian Oxaal (James) is 43. Actress Liza Snyder is 40. Actor Michael Rapaport is 38. Actor Alexander Chaplin is 37. Rock singer Chester Bennington (Linkin Park) is 32. Actor Michael Genadry is 30. Actress Bianca Lawson is 29.

DEATH

1727 Sir Issac Newton English physicist/astronomer, dies in London at 84.

1991 Conor Clapton Eric Clapton's son, falls out of 53rd floor window at 4.

March 20, the 80th day of 2008. There are 286 days left in the year. Spring's arrival: 1:48 a.m. Eastern time.

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DBKP Today in Weird History: February 16, 2008

WAR, TERRORISM, DISASTER, PIRATES, SOCIETIES, TOMBS, DICTATORS, 911, RAMPAGE, DEMONSTRATIONS, DEMOCRATS, SPORTS, ELECTROCUTED, EXECUTED, SNEEZE, JEWS, CHECKS, WOMEN, CLUBS, DOORS, PATENTS, LEVIATHAN, NAZIS, MAINSTREAM MEDIA, DEATH PENALTY, SWIM, BEATLES, TRAFFIC, RADICALS, BLIMPS, BORN, BIRTHDAYS, DEATH


WAR!

1862 during the Civil War, some 14,000 Confederate soldiers surrendered at Fort Donelson, Tenn. (Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's victory earned him the nickname "Unconditional Surrender Grant.")

1942 German submarines attack Aruba oil refinery.

1945 American troops landed on the island of Corregidor in the Philippines during World War II.

TERRORISM

1992 Abbas Musawi leader of Hezbollah, assassinated.

2007 An Italian judge indicted 25 suspected CIA agents and a U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel in the alleged kidnapping of an Egyptian terror suspect. (The proceedings have been suspended pending a ruling on the Italian government's request to throw out the indictments.)

DISASTER

1994 6.5 earthquake strikes SE Sumatra, kills 200.

1996 11 people were killed in a fiery collision between an Amtrak passenger train and a Maryland commuter train in Silver Spring, Md.

1998 A China Airlines Airbus A300-600R trying to land in fog near Taipei, Taiwan, crashed, killing all 196 people on board and six people on the ground.

SNEEZE

600 Pope Gregory the Great decrees saying "God bless You" is the correct response to a sneeze.

WOMEN

1838 Kentucky passes law permitting women to attend school under conditions.

TRAFFIC

1980 Continuous traffic jam extends 176 km north of Lyons, France.

BLIMPS

1992 Former silver Goodyear blimps are now painted yellow & blue.

CLUBS

1905 1st US Esperanto club organizes in Boston.

NAZIS

1943 Sign on Munich facade "Out with Hitler! Long live freedom!" done by "White Rose" student group, caught on 2/18, beheaded on 2/22.

PATENTS

1932 1st patent issued for a tree, to James Markham for a peach tree.

1937 DuPont Corp patents nylon, developed by employee Wallace H Carothers.

PIRATES!

1804 Lt. Stephen Decatur led a successful raid into Tripoli Harbor to burn the U.S. Navy frigate Philadelphia, which had fallen into the hands of pirates.

DOORS

1909 1st subway car with side doors goes into service (New York NY).

BEATLES

1968 Beatles George Harrison & John Lennon & wives fly to India for transcendental meditation study with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

JEWS

1349 Jews are expelled from Burgsdorf Switzerland.

1917 1st synagogue in 425 years opens in Madrid.

SWIM

1963 1st round-trip swim of Strait of Messina, Italy (Mary Revell of US)

CHECKS

1659 1st known check (£400) (on display at Westminster Abbey).

LEVIATHAN

1938 US Federal Crop Insurance program authorized.

DEATH PENALTY

1956 Britain abolishes the death penalty.

RADICALS

1989 Jane Fonda & Tom Hayden separate after 16 years of marriage.

DEMONSTRATION

2003 More than 100,000 people demonstrated in the streets of San Francisco to protest a possible U.S. invasion of Iraq.

MAINSTREAM MEDIA

1948 1st newsreel telecast, "20th Century Fox-Movietone News" shown on NBC.

1950 Longest-running prime-time game show, "What's My Line" begins on CBS.

EXECUTED

1979 Nematullah Nassiri Iran General/head of Savak, executed.

DEMOCRATS

2007 The Democratic-controlled House issued a symbolic rejection of President Bush's decision to deploy more troops to Iraq, approving the nonbinding resolution by a vote of 246-182.

SOCIETIES

1868 The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks was organized in New York City.

TOMBS

1923 The burial chamber of King Tutankhamen's recently unearthed tomb was unsealed in Egypt by English archaeologist Howard Carter.

DICTATORS

1959 Fidel Castro became premier of Cuba after the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista.

ELECTROCUTED

1936 Tommy Ward South African cricket wicket keeper (23 Tests), electrocuted.

911

1968 the nation's first 911 emergency telephone system was inaugurated, in Haleyville, Ala.

RAMPAGE

1988, Seven people were shot to death during an office rampage in Sunnyvale, Calif., by a man who was obsessed with a co-worker. (The gunman, Richard Farley, is under sentence of death.)

SPORTS

2003 Michael Waltrip raced past leader Jimmie Johnson to win the rain-shortened Daytona 500 for the second time in three years.

BORN

1903 Edgar Bergen Chicago IL, ventriloquist (Charlie McCarthy).

1906 Vera Menchik Moscow, 1st official women's world chess champion (1927).

BIRTHDAYS

Singer Patty Andrews is 90. Kim Jong Il, the president of North Korea, is 66. Actor Jeremy Bulloch is 62. Actor Pete Postlethwaite is 62. Actor William Katt is 57. Actor LeVar Burton is 51. Actor-rapper Ice-T is 50. Actress Lisa Loring is 50. Tennis Hall of Fame player John McEnroe is 49. Rock musician Andy Taylor is 47. Rock musician Dave Lombardo (Slayer) is 43. Rock musician Taylor Hawkins (Foofighters) is 36. Singer Sam Salter is 30. Rapper Lupe Fiasco is 26. Actor Mike Weinberg is 15.

DEATH

1977 Janani Luwum, the Anglican archbishop of Uganda, and two other men were killed in what Ugandan authorities said was an automobile accident.

2003 Eleanor "Sis" Daley, the matriarch of Chicago's Daley political clan, died at age 95.

February 16, the 47th day of 2008. There are 319 days left in the year.

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DBKP Today in Weird History: January 22, 2008

JUDICIAL TYRANNY, WAR!, TERRORISM, DISASTERS, DICTATORS, NANNY STATE, KARMA, CHEESE, POPES, ROYALTY, OVERDOSE, OUT WITH A BANG, ZULUS, JEWS, SPIES, LE WIMPS, CLIMATE, LIP SYNCH, MAINSTREAM MEDIA, SOCIETIES, SPORTS, RIOTS, PROGRESS, SCIENCE, CARTOONS, BORN, BIRTHDAYS, DEATH



JUDICIAL TYRANNY

1973, the U.S. Supreme Court, in its Roe v. Wade decision, legalized abortions using a trimester approach.



2003 Opponents and supporters of abortion rights rallied on the 30th anniversary of the Supreme Court's "Roe versus Wade" ruling.

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WAR!

1862 Confederate government raises premium for volunteers from $10 to $20.

1917, President Woodrow Wilson pleaded for an end to war in Europe, calling for "peace without victory." (By April, however, America also was at war.)

1944, during World War II, Allied forces began landing at Anzio, Italy. Allies stopped on the beach.

1945 Burma highway reopens.

1945 Heavy US air raid on Okinawa.

1973 US, North & South Vietnam & Vietcong sign boundary accord.

TERRORISM

1957 Mad Bomber (George P Metesky) accused of 30 explosions, arrested.

1995 Palestinian bomb attack in Beit Lid Israel, 21-22 killed.

1998 Theodore Kaczynski pleaded guilty in Sacramento, Calif., to being the Unabomber in return for a sentence of life in prison without parole.

2007 A car bombing of a predominantly Shiite commercial area in Baghdad killed 88 people.

2007 Iran announced it had barred 38 nuclear inspectors on a United Nations list from entering the country in apparent retaliation for U.N. sanctions imposed the previous month.

DISASTERS

1817 English freighter Diana sinks off Malaysia.

1837 Earthquake in southern Syria kills thousands.

1873 Britain's SS Northfleet sinks at Dungeness England, 300 die.

1956 30 die in a train crash in Los Angeles.

1960 Coal mine of Johnburg caves-in, 417 die.

1994 5.5 earthquake strikes Sumatra.

DICTATORS

1951 Fidel Castro ejected from a Winter League game after beaning batter.

NANNY STATE

In 1908, Katie Mulcahey became the first woman to run afoul of New York City's just-passed ban on females smoking in public. (Declaring, "No man shall dictate to me," Mulcahey served a night in jail after being unable to pay a $5 fine.)

KARMA

1979 Ali Hassan Salameh [Abu Hassan], killed by car bomb; believed to have helped mastermind massacre of 1972 Munich Olympics athletes.

CHEESE

1964 World's largest cheese (15,723 kg) manufactured, Wisconsin.

POPES

1922, Pope Benedict XV died; he was succeeded by Pius XI.

1998 On the first full day of his visit to Cuba, Pope John Paul II celebrated Mass, preaching the message, "Be not afraid."

ROYALTY

1992 Princess Sarah Ferguson wears paper bag over her head on airline ride.

OVERDOSED

1969 Judy Garland singer/actress (Wizard of Oz), dies at 48 of an overdose.

OUT WITH A BANG

1987 R Budd Dwyer Pennsylvania State Treasurer, facing prison for conspiracy & perjury, shot himself to death at a televised news conference.

ZULUS

1879 Zulus attack British Army camp in Isandhlwana South Africa.

JEWS

1510 Jews are expelled from Colmar Germany.

1941 1st mass killing of Jews in Romania.

1957 Israeli forces withdraw from the Sinai Penisula.

LE WIMPS

2003 Countering blunt talk of war by the Bush administration, France and Germany defiantly stated they were committed to a peaceful solution to the Iraq crisis.

SPIES

1946 US President sets up CIA, Central Intelligence Agency.

CLIMATE

1982 75% of North America is covered by snow.

LIP SYNCH

1990 17th American Music Award Milli Vanilli.

MAINSTREAM MEDIA

1968, The fast-paced sketch comedy series "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" premiered on NBC-TV.

1972 "Emergency" with Robert Fuller premieres on NBC TV.

SOCIETIES

1814 1st Knights Templar grand encampment in US held, New York City NY.

1890 José Marti forms La Liga (Union of Cuban exiles) in New York City NY.

1895 National Association of Manufacturers organized in Cincinnati OH.

RIOTS

1905 (New Style calendar), thousands of demonstrating Russian workers were fired on by Imperial army troops in St. Petersburg on what became known as "Bloody Sunday."

PROGRESS

1673 Postal service between New York & Boston inaugurated.

SCIENCE

1939 Uranium atom 1st split, Columbia University.

SPORTS

1968 NBA announces it will expand to Milwaukee & Phoenix.

CARTOONS

2003 Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Bill Mauldin, who had immortalized World War II soldiers with his characters Willie and Joe, died in Newport Beach, Calif., at age 81.

BORN

1561 Francis Bacon England, statesman/essayist (Novum Organum).
1788 Lord [George Gordon Noel] Byron England, romantic poet (Don Juan).
1875 D[avid] W Griffith movie producer/director (Birth of a Nation).
1909 Ann Sothern [Harriette Lake], North Dakota, actress (Lady in a Cage, My Mother the Car)
1934 Bill Bixby San Francisco CA, actor (Incredible Hulk, My Favorite Martian)
1934 Graham Kerr chef (Galloping Gourmet)

BIRTHDAYS

Former Sen. Birch Bayh, D-Ind., is 80. Actress Piper Laurie is 76. Actor Seymour Cassel is 73. Author Joseph Wambaugh is 71. Actor John Hurt is 68. Singer Steve Perry is 59. Country singer-musician Teddy Gentry (Alabama) is 56. Movie director Jim Jarmusch is 55. Hockey Hall-of-Famer Mike Bossy is 51. Actress Linda Blair is 49. Actress Diane Lane is 43. Actor-rap DJ Jazzy Jeff is 43. Country singer Regina Nicks (Regina Regina) is 43. Rhythm-and-blues singer Marc Gay (Shai) is 39. Actor Gabriel Macht is 36. Actor Balthazar Getty is 33. Actor Christopher Kennedy Masterson is 28. Pop singer Willa Ford is 27. Rhythm-and-blues singer Kelton Kessee (IMX) is 27. Actress Beverley (cq) Mitchell is 27. Rock singer-musician Ben Moody is 27.

DEATH

1901, Britain's Queen Victoria died at age 81.
1973, former President Lyndon Johnson died at age 64.
1995, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy died at the Kennedy compound at Hyannis Port, Mass., at age 104.

January 22, the 22nd day of 2008. There are 344 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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Death by 1000 Papercuts Front Page.

Today in History: January 9, 2008

WAR!, TERRORISM, DISASTERS, POLITICS, MAINSTREAM MEDIA, SCIENCE, JEWS, MANATEES, POPES, DICTATORS, PROGRESS, TAXES, WOMEN, REVOLTS, LGF?, CLIMATE, FINANCE, SPORTS, LABOR, ENGINEERING, ADVICE, RESIGNATIONS, EXPELLED, PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING, MUSIC, CIVIL RIGHTS, BAD TASTE, BEHEADINGS, DRUGS, SUPREME COURT, HOAX, ACCIDENTS, HEART ATTACKS, CHESS, STATUES, BORN, DEATH



MUSIC

1965 "Beatles' '65" album goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks

WAR!

1861 1st hostile act of Civil War; Star of the West fired on, Sumter SC

1861 Mississippi becomes 2nd state to secede

1863 -Jan 11th] Battle of Arkansas Post AR (Fort Hindman)

1923 – The United States withdrew the last of its First World War troops from Germany.

1936 Semi-automatic rifles adopted by US army

1940 2 German officers make emergency landing in Belgium

1941 Maiden flight by Canada's Avro Lancaster military plane

1942 US Joint Chiefs of Staff created

1943 Japanese government in Java limits sale & use of motorcars

1945 US soldiers led by General Douglas MacArthur invade Philippines

1987 Chinese/Vietnamese border fights, 1500 killed

1991 Baker & Aziz meet in Geneva; talks fail to defuse the gulf crisis

1995 Ecuador & Peru involve in boundary fight

TERRORISM

1957 Checheno-Ingush ASSR reformed in RSFSR

DISASTERS

1855 Clipper Guiding Star disappears in Atlantic, 480 dies

1857 7.9 earthquake shakes Fort Tejon CA

1927 Fire in Laurier Palace cinema in Montréal, 78 children died

1982 5.9 earthquake in New England & Canada; 1st since 1855

1953 Korean ferryboat "Chang Tyong-Ho" sank off Pusan killing 249

1959 Dam across Tera River collapses after heavy winter rains, 135 die

1972 Passenger ship Queen Elizabeth destroyed by fire

POLITICS

1788 Connecticut becomes 5th state

1983 British PM Margaret Thatcher visits the Falkland Islands

MAINSTREAM MEDIA

1847 1st San Francisco newspaper published (California Star)

1959 "Rawhide" with Clint Eastwood premieres on CBS TV

1984 "TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes" premieres on NBC TV (Whoops)

1989 "Pat Sajak Show" premieres on CBS

SCIENCE

1834 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin arrives in Port San Julian, Patagonia

1839 Daguerrotype photo process announced at French Academy of Science

1839 Thomas Henderson measures 1st stellar parallax (Alpha Centauri)

1968 Surveyor 7 space probe soft lands on the Moon

1973 Luna 21 launched, to Moon

1990 64th US manned space mission STS 32 (Columbia 10) launches into orbit

1998 Anatoly Solovyov & Pavel Vinogradov spacewalk record 3 hours 8 minutes

JEWS

1349 700 Jews of Basel Switzerland, burned alive in their houses

1941 6,000 Jews exterminated in pogrom in Bucharest Romania

MANATEES

1493 1st sight of manatees (by Christopher Columbus)

POPES

1522 Adriaan F Boeyens of Utrecht elected only Dutch/last non-Italian pope (Adrian VI) until Pope John Paul II.

DICTATORS

1570 Tsar Ivan the terrible kills 1000-2000 residents of Novgorod

1812 Swedish Pomerania (Germany) seized by Napoleon

1937 Mussolini bans marriages between Italians & Abyssinians

1963 Mao Tse-tung writes his poem "Reply to Comrade Kuo Mo-jo"

PROGRESS

1793 Jean Pierre Blanchard makes 1st balloon flight in North America (Philadelphia)

1894 "Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze" released in movie theaters

1923 Juan de la Cierva makes 1st autogiro (helicopter) flight, Spain

1969 Concorde jetliner's 1st test flight (Bristol England)

TAXES

1799 Income Tax introduced in UK

WOMEN

1811 1st Women's Golf Tournament held

FINANCE

1848 1st commercial bank in San Francisco established

REVOLTS

1848 People's uprising in Palermo Sicily

1879 Cheyenne prisoners led by Dull Knife revolt at Fort Robinson

1905 Bloody Sunday-demonstrators fired on by tsarist troops

1964 Anti-US rioting breaks out in the Panamá Canal Zone

LGF?

1866 Fisk University establishes

CLIMATE

1880 6' (1.8 meters) of snow falls in Seattle in 5 days

1954 -87ºF (-66ºC), Northice Station, Greenland (Greenland record)

SPORTS

1903 Baseball's National & American Leagues make peace

1903 Frank Farrell & Bill Devery purchase AL Baltimore franchise for $18,000 & move it to New York City NY (Yankees)

1942 Joe Louis KOs Buddy Baer in 1 for heavyweight boxing title

1952 Marines give notice that they will recall Ted Williams to active duty

1953 Bevo Francis, Rio Grande College, scores 116 points in basketball game

1954 Bert Olmstead, Montréal Canadiens, ties NHL record of 8 points in game

1961 Twins agree on $500,000 payment to AA for Minneapolis/St Paul territory

1962 NFL prohibits grabbing of face masks

1967 The NFL New Orleans franchise takes the name "Saints"

1990 Boston Celtics worst-ever (6 points in 2nd vs New Jersey Nets) & lose 87-78

1991 Baseball officially bans Pete Rose from being elected to Hall of Fame

1991 Dean Smith of North Carolina is 6th to win 700 career coaching basketball games

1998 Hockey News selects Wayne Gretzky best NHL player ever

LABOR

1922 Rotterdam metal strike ends

1933 Amsterdam confectionery worker go on strike against wage reduction

1975 600 employees of Royal Canadian Mint go on strike

ENGINEERING

1960 Building of Aswan dam in Egypt, begins

ADVICE

1956 Abigail Van Buren's "Dear Abby" column 1st appears in newspapers

RESIGNATIONS

1957 British premier Anthony Eden resigns

EXPELLED

1957 Dutch Newspaper Society expels communist daily paper "Truth"

PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

1959 Pat O'Connor beats Dick Hutton in St Louis MO, to become NWA champ

1962 Mister M (Dr X) beats Verne Gagne in Minnesota, to become NWA champ

CIVIL RIGHTS

1967 Georgia legislature seats Representative Julian Bond

1994 14th United Negro College Fund raises $11,000,000

HOAX

1972 Billionaire Howard Hughes said Clifford Irving's biography is a fake

ACCIDENTS

1995 Worker accidentally cuts electrical wires at Newark Airport

HEART ATTACKS

1997 Heart attacks sends Frank Sinatra back to hospital

CHESS

1998 Anatoly Karpov defeats Viswanathan Anand to retain chess title

STATUES

1998 Decapitated head of Danish Little Mermaid is returned

MUSIC

1976 Ringo releases "Oh My My" in UK

1976 CW McCall CB song "Convoy" hit #1 on the country music charts

BAD TASTE

1979 K-Mart pulls Steve Martin's "Let's Get Small" for being in "bad taste"

BEHEADINGS

1980 63 beheaded in Mecca, Saudi Arabia

DRUGS

1984 Braves pitcher Pascual Perez is arrested for cocaine possession

SUPREME COURT

1979 Supreme Court strikes down (6-3) PA law requiring doctors performing an abortion to try to preserve lives of potentially viable fetuses

1990 Supreme Court strikes down Dallas' ordinance imposing strict zoning on sexually oriented businesses

BORN - The Historic, The Famous, The Near-Famous, The Intriguing

1870 Joseph B Strauss civil engineer/builder (Golden Gate Bridge)
1879 John Broadus Watson behaviorist psychologist
19-- Melissa Morgan actress (Brittany-Young & Restless)
1901 Chic Young cartoonist (Blondie)
1908 Simone de Beauvoir France, author (Mandarins, 2nd Sex)
1913 Richard Milhouse Nixon Yorba Linda CA, (R) 37th President (1969-74)
1913 Lavad "Dr Hepcat" Durst vocal/piano
1914 Kenny (Klook) Clarke Pittsburgh PA, jazz/drummer, composer (Epistrop)
1914 Gypsy Rose Lee [Rose Hovick], Seattle, burlesque actress (Gypsy)
1915 Anita Louise New York City NY, actress (My Friend Flicka)
1915 Fernando Lamas Buenos Aires Argentina, actor ("You look marvelous")
1915 Les Paul guitarist/inventor (Les Paul Guitar)
1925 Lee Van Cleef New Jersey, actor (For a Few Dollars More, Escape from New York)
1928 Judith Krantz New York New York, author (Scruples, I'll Take Manhattan, Princess Daisy, Dazzle)
1931 Algi[rda]s [Jonas] Budrys Prussia, sci-fi author (Man of Earth)
1934 Bart Starr NFL quarterback/coach (Green Bay)
1935 Bob Denver New Rochelle NY, actor (Dobie Gillis, Gilligan's Island)
1935 Dick Enberg Mt Clemens MI, sportscaster (Where's Huddles)
1935 Kenneth "Buddy" Scott blues guitarist/Singer
1937 K Schlesinger writer
1941 Joan Baez Staten Island, folk singer/human rights advocate
1941 Susannah York London, actress (A Man for All Seasons, Tom Jones)
1943 Kenneth Kelley US singer (Manhattans, One Life to Live)
1944 Jimmy Page London England, rock guitarist (Led Zeppelin-Stairway to Heaven)
1945 Frank J Biondi Jr president (HBO)
195- Margaret Klenck actress (One Life to Live, As The World Turns)
1950 David Johansen [Buster Poindexter], NY, singer (Hot! Hot! Hot!)
1951 Crystal Gayle Kentucky, country singer (Don't it make my brown eyes blue)
1956 Kimberly Beck Hilton Glendale CA, actress (Kim-Peyton Place)
1965 [Tyrone] Muggsy Bogues NBA guard (Charlotte Hornets, San Francisco Warriors, Washington Bullets)
1967 Dave Matthews singer/musician (Dave Matthews Band)
1967 Dave Mcllwain Seaforth, NHL center (Pittsburgh Penguins)
1972 Kristie Hicks Bardstown KY, Miss Kentucky-America (1995)

DEATH - The Historic, The Famous, The Near-Famous, The Intriguing

1324 Marco Polo Italian explorer, dies
1677 Aernout "Aert" van der Neer cartoonist/landscape painter, dies at 73
1878 Victor Emmanuel II king of Sardinia (1849-61)/Italy (1861-78), dies at 57
1939 Johann Strauss Austrian conductor/Royal ball director, dies at 72
1977 Hal Sawyer TV host (Sawyer Views Hollywood), dies at 62
1979 Sara Carter vocalist/guitarist (Carter Family), dies at 80
1987 Arthur Lake actor (Dagwood-Blondie), dies at 81
1994 Silas Hogan blues singer/guitarist, dies at 82
1995 Peter Cook English comic/actor (Peter n' Dud, Bedazzled), dies at 57
1997 Jesse [Marc Weidenfeld] White actor (Maytag repairman, Bedtime for Bonzo), dies at 77

January 9, the 9th day of 2008. There are 357 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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EXPLORERS

1493 Columbus left new world on return from 1st voyage.

WAR!

871 Battle at Reading Ethelred of Wessex beats Danish invasion army.

1780 Snowstorm hit Washington's army at Morristown New Jersey.

1861 US Fort Morgan, Mobile, seized by Alabama.

1862 Battle of Fort Hindman, AR (Arkansas Post).

1862 Battle of Helena, AR.

1862 Romney Campaign-Stonewall Jackson occupies Bath.

1915 Trans-Caucausus Russian defeat Turkish troops.

1945 Germans execute resistance fighters in Amsterdam.

1945 US jeep-aircraft carrier Ommaney Bay sinks after kamikaze attack.

1951 During Korean conflict, North Korean forces captured Seoul.

REAGAN

1989 US F-14s shoot down 2 Libyan jet fighters over Mediterranean.

JEWS

1570 Spanish viceroy Alva banishes Zutphen City's only physician, Joost Sweiter, "because he is a Jew".

1915 1st elected Jewish Governor, Moses Alexander, takes office in Idaho.

1939 Hermann Goering appoints Reinhard Heydrich head of Jewish Emigration.

1969 France begins arms embargo against Israel.

CIVIL RIGHTS

1944 Ralph Bunche appointed 1st Negro official in US State Department.

POLITICS

1642 King Charles I with 400 soldiers attacks the English parliament.

1896 Following Mormon abandonment of polygamy, Utah admitted as 45th state.

1932 British East Indies Viceroy Willingdon arrests Gandhi & Nehru.

1965 LBJ's "Great Society" State of the Union Address.

1971 Ohio agrees to pay $675,000 to relatives of Kent State victims.

1971 Congressional Black Caucus organizes.

1975 Ford Executive Order on CIA Activities within the US (No 11828).

1989 Vice President Bush is 1st since Vice President Van Buren to declare himself President.

1995 Newt Gingrich (R) becomes speaker of the House.

EDUCATION

1754 Columbia University founded, as Kings College (New York City NY).

FAST

1861 President Buchanan appoints a fast on account of threatened succession.

INVENTIONS

1863 4 wheeled roller skates patented by James Plimpton of NY.

ENDANGERED SPECIES

1884 Last sighting of an eastern cougar (Ontario).

1968 Duck hunter accidentally shoots endangered whooping crane in Texas.

DICTATORS

1923 Lenin's "Political Testament" calls for removal of Stalin.

MEDICINE

1885 Dr W W Grant of Iowa, performs 1st appendectomy (on Mary Gartside, 22).

AMNESTY

1893 US President Harrison grants amnesty to Mormon polygamy.

IMMIGRATION

1904 Supreme Court rules Puerto Ricans cannot be denied admission to US.

LABOR

1920 Amsterdam actors decide to strike for retirement benefits.

1961 Longest recorded strike ends-33 years-Danish barbers' assistants.

PHILOSOPHY

1925 French psychologist Emil Coué brings his self-esteem therapy to US "Every day in every way I am getting better & better".

MUSIC

1936 Billboard magazine publishes its 1st music hit parade.

1954 Elvis Presley records a 10 minute demo in Nashville.

1968 Leo Fender sells Fender Guitars for $13 million.

1970 Beatles last recording session at EMI studios.

SPORTS

1920 1st Black baseball league, National Negro Baseball League, organizes.

1942 Rogers Hornsby is 14th player selected to the Hall of Fame.

1957 Dodgers buy 44 passenger twin-engine airplane for $775,000.

1986 NCAA basketball's David Robinson blocks a record 14 shots.

WATERGATE

1974 Nixon refuses to hand over tapes subpoenaed by Watergate Committee.

CLIMATE

1975 Ice thickness measured at 4776 m, Wilkes Land, Antarctica.

1982 Golden Gate Bridge closed for 3rd time by fierce storm.

BOYCOTTS

1980 President Carter announces US boycott of Moscow Olympics

SERIAL KILLERS

1981 British police arrest Peter Sutcliffe, the "Yorkshire Ripper".

MAINSTREAM MEDIA

1970 Walter Cronkite ends hosting weekly documentary.

1982 Chris Wallace becomes co-anchor of the Today Show.

1982 Bryant Gumbel became co-host of NBC's "Today Show".

1984 "Night Court" starring Harry Anderson premieres on NBC TV.

DISASTERS

1987 16 die in a train crash in Chase MD.

PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

1992 8th largest wrestling crowd (60,000-Tokyo Dome).

SCIENCE

1958 Sputnik 1 reenters atmosphere & burns up.

1959 Luna 1 (Mechta) becomes 1st craft to leave Earth's gravity.

1963 Soviet Luna (4) reaches Earth orbit but fails to reach Moon.

1989 Comet Tempel 1 at perihelion.

BORN

1785 Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm Germany, librarian (fairy tale collector)
1813 Sir Isaac Pitman inventor (shorthand)
1883 Max F Eastman US, critic/essayist (Masses)
1890 Alfred G Jodl German Wehrmacht General/Chief of Staff
1908 Angela Maria "Geli" Raubal Austrian nude model/Hitler's lover
1914 Jane Wyman St Joseph MO, 1st Mrs Ron Reagan, (Magnificent Obsession)
1914 Mohammed Sahir shah (Afghanistan)
1920 William Egan Colby CIA director (Nixon)
1930 Don Shula winningest NFL coach (Miami Dolphins)
1935 Floyd Patterson heavyweight champ (1956-59, 1960-62) (Olympics-gold-1952)
1937 Dyan Cannon Tacoma WA, Mrs Cary Grant, actress (Heaven Can Wait)
1941 Maureen Reagan 1st daughter (Ronald Reagan)
1946 Bernard Sumner rocker (New Order-Round & Round)
1956 Ann Magnuson Charleston WV, actress (Anything But Love, Hunger)
1957 Patty Loveless [Ramey], Pikeville KY, singer (Blue Side of Town)
1966 Deana Carter country singer (Strawberry Wine)
1973 Todd Sauerbrun NFL punter/kicker (WVU, Chicago Bears)

DEATH

41 Caligula murdered
1761 Stephen Hales English vicar/inventor (ventilator), dies at 83
1877 Cornelius Vanderbilt US robber baron, dies at 82
1913 Alfred von Schlieffen Prussian General-field marshal, dies at 79
1946 Barney Oldfield daredevil, dies at 67
1960 Albert Camus French author (Stranger), dies in an automobile accident at 46
1961 Barry Fitzgerald actor (Going My Way), dies at 72
1965 T S Eliot poet (Washed Country), dies in London at 76
1986 Phil Lynott rocker (Thin Lizzy), dies of overdose at 34
1992 William Walker stuntman/actor (Our Man Flint), dies at 74
1997 Harry B Helmsley owner (Empire State Building), dies at 87

January 4, the 4th day of the year. There are 362 days left.

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Today in History: January 3, 2008

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In 1988, Margaret Thatcher becomes longest-serving British PM this century.

WAR!

1746 Bonnie Prince Charlies army leaves Glasgow.

1777 Washington defeats British at Battle of Princeton, New Jersey.

1861 Delaware legislature rejects proposal to join Confederacy.

1861 US Fort Pulaski & Fort Jackson, Savannah, seized by Georgia.

1862 Romney Campaign - Stonewall Jackson moves north from Winchester.

1921 Turkey makes peace with Armenia.

1941 Canada & US acquire air bases in Newfoundland (99 year lease).

1941 Italian counter offensive in Albania.

1943 Canadian Army troops arrive in North Africa.

1945 Allies land on west coast of Burma, conquer Akyab.

1945 US aircraft carriers attack Okinawa.

SAINTS

1431 Joan of Arc handed over to the bishop.

DISASTERS

1994 Tupolev-154M crashes at Irkutsk, Siberia 122 killed.

EXCOMMUNICATIONS

1521 Martin Luther excommunicated by Roman Catholic Church.

1962 Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro.

TAXES

1750 Tax revolt in Haarlem Netherlands.

MAINSTREAM MEDIA

1929 27 year old William S Paley becomes CBS president.

1947 1st opening session of Congress to be televised.

1952 "Dragnet" with Jack Webb premieres on NBC TV.

1967 "Tonight Show" is shortened from 105 to 90 minutes.

1997 Bryant Gumbel co-hosted his final "Today" show on NBC-TV.

REVOLTS

1994 100s killed in Venezuela in prison revolt.

ISRAEL

1985 Israel government confirms resettlement of 10,000 Ethiopian Jews.

1988 Israel orders 9 Palestinian "instigators" deported from W Beirut.

1991 Israel reopens consulate in USSR after 23 years.

POLITICS

1959 Alaska admitted as 49th US state.

DICTATORS

1925 Mussolini dissolves Italian parliament/becomes dictator.

UTOPIA

1825 Scottish factory owner Robert Owen buys 30,000 acres in Indiana as site for New Harmony utopian community.

BEGINNINGS

1847 California town of Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco.

1852 1st Chinese arrive in Hawaii.

ENGINEERING

1870 Brooklyn Bridge construction begins; completed May 24, 1883.

PATENTS

1871 Oleomargarine patented by Henry Bradley, Binghamton NY.

1872 1st patent list issued by US Patent Office.

1888 1st wax drinking straw patented, by Marvin C Stone in Washington DC.

EDUCATION

1876 1st free kindergarten in US opens in Florence MA.

1890 1st US college-level dairy school opens at University of Wisconsin.

LABOR

1910 British miners strike for 8 hour working day.

CHARITY

1938 March of Dimes established to fight polio.

MISSING PERSONS

1943 1st missing persons telecast (New York City NY).

GERMS

1945 Cato-Meridian School, NY, installs germicidal lamps in every room.

CIVIL RIGHTS

1939 Gene Cox becomes 1st girl page in US House of Representatives.

1947 William Dawson becomes 1st black to head congressional committee.

1966 Floyd B McKissick, named national director of CORE.

INVENTIONS

1957 1st electric watch introduced, Lancaster PA.

EXPLORERS

1924 British Egyptologist Howard Carter finds sarcophagus of Tutankhamun.

1958 Edmund Hillary reaches South Pole overland.

GOLD

1974 Gold hits record $121.25 an ounce in London.

1980 Gold hits record $634 an ounce.

TELEVANGELISTS

1989 Jim & Tammy Bakker return to TV (Oy Vey!).

SPORTS

1920 New York Yankees purchase Babe Ruth from Red Sox for $125,000.

1962 Ground is broken for the Houston Astrodome.

1973 George Steinbrenner III buys Yankees from CBS for $12 million.

1991 Los Angeles King Wayne Gretzky scores his 700th goal against New York Islanders.

COMPUTERS

1977 Apple Computer incorporated.

ROCK AND ROLL

1967 Carl Wilson of the Beach Boys is indicted for draft evasion.

1969 John Lennon's "2 Virgins" album declared pornographic in New Jersey.

1987 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducts 1st female artist Aretha Franklin.

SURRENDER

1990 Panamá's leader General Manuel Noriega surrenders to US authorities.

TRADEMARKS

1994 35-foot-tall Chief Wahoo, trademark of Indians on top of Stadium since 1962, is taken down, to be moved to Jacob's Field.

COUNTRY MUSIC

1998 Grandpa Jones suffers a stroke.

BORN

1624 William Tucker 1st Black child born in America
1883 Clement Richard Attlee (L) British PM (1945-51)
1892 John Ronald Reuel Tolkien South Africa, philologist/writer (Lord of Rings)
1909 Victor Borge [Borge Rosenbaum], Copenhagen Denmark, pianist/comedian
1916 Betty Furness New York City NY, actress/consumer activist (Studio 1)
1918 Maxene Andrews Minnesota, singer (Andrew Sisters-Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy)
1926 George Martin record producer (The Beatles)
1929 Sergio Leone Italian, director (Fist Full of Dollars)
1930 Robert Loggia Staten Island, actor (Officer & a Gentleman, THE Cat)
1939 Bobby Hull NHL forward (Chicago Blackhawk 1957-72)
1945 Victoria Principal Fukuoka Japan, actress (Earthquake, Pamela-Dallas)
1945 Stephen Stills Dallas TX, singer/songwriter/guitarist (Crosby Stills & Nash)
1946 John Paul Jones rocker (Led Zeppelin-Stairway to Heaven)
1956 Mel Gibson Peekskill NY, actor (Mad Max, Mrs Soffel, Lethal Weapon)
1964 Cheryl Miller Riverside CA, basketball player (Olympics-gold-1984)
1967 Helena Bonham Carter London England, actress (Getting it Right)

DEATH

1795 Josiah Wedgwood British, ceramic craftsman/woodworker, dies at 64
1946 William Joyce (Lord Haw Haw), hanged in Britain for treason
1967 Jack Ruby assassin who killed assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, dies at 55
1976 Mal Evans Beatles' roadie, dies
1979 Conrad Hilton US founder (Hilton Hotels), dies at 91
1988 William Cagney actor (Torrid Zone), dies of a heart attack at 82
1990 Ken Hill actor (Cobra, Protocol), dies

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In 1991, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) last day of existence.

WAR!

In 406, 80,000 Vandels attack the Rhine at Mainz.

In 1775, Battle of Québec; Americans unable to take British stronghold.

In 1862, Union ironclad ship "Monitor" sinks off Cape Hatteras NC.

In 1946, President Truman officially proclaims end of WWII.

DISASTER

In 1986 Dupont Plaza Hotel fire in San Juan, Puerto Rico kills 97

ECONOMICS

In 1600, British East India Company chartered.

In 1776, Rhode Island establishes wage & price controls to curb inflation: Limit is 70¢ a day for carpenters, 42¢ for tailors.

In 1896, 25th auto built in US.

In 1961, Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than $12 billion.

In 1974, Gold legal in US, Franklin Mint strikes Panamá's Gold 100 balboa coin.

In 1991, Dow Jones closes at record high 3168.83.

SMOKING



In 1910, US tobacco industry produced 9 billion cigarettes in 1910.
In 1930, US tobacco industry produced 123 billion cigarettes in 1930.

POLITICS

In 1857, Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa as new capital of Canada.

In 1862, President Lincoln signs act admitting West Virginia to the Union.

In 1897, Brooklyn's last day as a city, it incorporates into NYC (1/1/1898).

In 1945. Ratification of UN Charter completed.

In 1984, US leaves UNESCO.

In 1978, Taiwan's final day of diplomatic relations with the US.

In 1999, Control of Panamá Canal reverts to Panamá.

DICTATORS

In 1958, Cuban dictator Batista flees from advancing rebels led by Fidel Castro.

IMMIGRATION

In 1890, Ellis Island (New York NY) opens as a US immigration depot.

COMPUTERS

In 1997, Intel cuts price of Pentium II-233 MHz from $401 to $268.

In 1997, Microsoft buys Hotmail E-mail service.

SCIENCE

In 1879, Edison gives 1st public demonstration of his incandescent lamp.

In 1911, Marie Curie receives her 2nd Nobel Prize.

In 1923, 1st transatlantic radio broadcast of a voice, Pittsburgh-Manchester.

In 1924, Edwin Hubble announces existence of distant galactic systems.

In 1958, International Geophyscial Year (IGY) ends.

In 1968, 1st supersonic airliner flown (Russian Tupolev TU-144).

SERIAL KILLERS

In 1977, Ted Bundy escapes from jail in Colorado.

CULTURE

In 1907, for the 1st time a ball drops at Times Square to signal the new year.

1921 Last San Francisco firehorses retired.

In 1923, BBC begins using Big Ben chime ID.

In 1935, Charles Darrow patents Monopoly.

In 1990, The Sci-Fi Channel on cable TV begins transmitting.

In 1995, Cartoonist Bill Watterson ends his "Calvin & Hobbes" comic strip.

2nd AMENDMENT

In 1984, NYC subway gunman Bernhard Goetz surrenders to police in New Hampshire.

MAINSTREAM MEDIA

In 1981, CNN Headline News debuts.

COUP

In 1961, failed coup by Syrian group in Lebanon.

NANNY STATE

1938 Dr R N Harger's "drunkometer", 1st breath test, introduced in Indiana

ROCK AND ROLL

In 1963, Jerry Garcia & Bob Weir played music together for the 1st time.

In 1966, Monkee's "I'm a Believer" hits #1 & stays there for 7 weeks.

DEMOGRAPHY

1997 More Swedes died than were born in 1997, 1st time since 1809

BORN

1880 George C Marshall Uniontown PA, authored Marshall Plan (Nobel 1953)
1892 Jason Robards Sr Hillsdale MI, actor (Acapulco)
1908 Simon Wiesenthal Polish/Austrian nazi hunter (Wiesenthal Center)
1921 Rocky Graziano New York NY, boxer (Middleweight champion)/actor (Miami Undercover)
1942 Andy Summers Blackpool England, rock guitarist (Police-Roxanne)
1943 Ben Kingsley Scarborough England, actor (Gandhi, Betrayal, Maurice)
1943 John Denver [Henry John Deutschendorf Jr] Roswell NM, singer/songwriter/actor (Rocky Mountain High, Thank God I'm a Country Boy, Oh God!)
1946 Patti Smith Chicago IL, singer (Radio Ethiopia)
1947 Burton Cummings rock guitarist (Guess Who-These Eyes)
1947 Tim Matheson California, actor (Animal House, Fletch, Up the Creek)
1948 Donna Summer Boston MA, singer (Love to Love You Baby, On the Radio)
1959 Val [Edward] Kilmer actor (The Saint, Top Gun, The Doors)
1959 Bebe Neuwirth Princeton NJ, actress (Lilith-Cheers, Damn Yankees)
1970 Bryon Russell NBA forward (Utah Jazz)

DEATH

0192 Lucius Aurelius Commodus Emperor of Rome (180-192), murdered at 31
1384 John Wycliffe English religious reformer/bible translator, dies
1862 Joshua Woodrow Sill US Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 31
1972 Roberto Clemente Pittsburgh Pirate slugger, dies in a plane crash at 38
1980 Marshall McLuhan Canadian cultural philosopher, dies at 69
1985 Rick Nelson singer/actor (Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet), dies at 45
1990 George Allen US football coach (Los Angeles Rams, Washington Redskins), dies
1995 Calvin/Hobbes (comic strip), dies
1996 61 law enforcement officers killed by felons in US this year
1997 76 law enforcement officers killed by felons in US this year

HOLIDAYS

Austria : Imperial Ball
Benin : Feed Yourself Day
Congo : National Day
Japan : Omisoka Day/Grand Purification
Scotland : Hogmanay Day
World : New Year's Eve/Watch Night

December 31, 2007, the last day of the year. There are no days left in the year.

compiled by Mondoreb
Sources:
* Today in History
* Today in History





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