DBKP Today in Weird History: February 27, 2008

WAR, TERRORISM, DISASTER, POLITICS, UNREST, WOMEN, LIMITS, MIRACLES, NAZIS, INDIANS, UPSETS, ROYALS, FINANCE, SWEET, PATENTS, TIRED, STARS, GOLF, HAUNTED, DEATH PENALTY, MAINSTREAM MEDIA, KILLERS, BORN, BIRTHDAYS, DEATH


NAZIS

On Feb. 27, 1933, Germany's parliament building, the Reichstag, was gutted by fire. Chancellor Adolf Hitler, blaming the Communists, used the fire as justification for suspending civil liberties.

WAR!

1864 6th & last day of Battle at Dalton, Georgia (about 600 casualties).

1991 President George H.W. Bush declared that "Kuwait is liberated, Iraq's army is defeated," and announced that the allies would suspend combat operations at midnight, Eastern time.

2003 Iraq agreed in principle to destroy its Al Samoud II missiles, two days before a U.N. deadline.

TERRORISM

1962 South-Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem's palace bombed, 1st US killed.

1969 General Hafez al-Assad becomes head of Syria via military coup.

1980 Terrorists occupies Dominican embassy in Bogota.

1994 Maronite church near Beirut bombed, 10 killed.

1995 Car bomb explodes in Zakho, North-Iraq (54-80 killed).

2003 The Bush administration lowered the national terror alert from orange to yellow.

2007 A suicide bomber struck Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan during a visit by Vice President Dick Cheney, who was rushed to a bomb shelter. (Twenty-three people were killed; Cheney was unhurt.)

DISASTER

1803 Great fire in Bombay, India.

1932 Explosion in coal mine Boissevain, Virginia, USA (38 dead).

GOLF

1927 For 2nd Sunday in a row golfers in South Carolina arrested for violating Sabbath.

STARS

1908 Star #46 was added to US flag for Oklahoma.

MAINSTREAM MEDIA

1957 Premiere of only prime-time network TV show beginning with an "X" "Xavier Cugat Show" on NBC (until X-Files).

1974 "People" magazine begins sales.

HAUNTED

1939 English Spook house Borley Rectory destroyed in a fire.

SWEET

1879 Constantine Fahlberg discovers saccharin (artificial sweetener).

TIRED

1890 D Needham & P Kerrigan box 100 rounds (6 hours 39 minutes), San Francisco; match is draw.

PATENTS

1883 Oscar Hammerstein patents 1st cigar-rolling machine.

DEATH PENALTY

1987 NCAA cancels SMU's entire 1987 football schedule for gross violations of NCAA rules regarding athletic corruption.

KILLERS

1982 Wayne Williams found guilty of murdering 2 of 28 blacks in Atlanta GA.

1998 FBI arrests 10 most wanted suspected serial killer Tony Ray Amati.

POLITICS

1801 the District of Columbia was placed under the jurisdiction of Congress.

JEWS

1670 Jews are expelled from Austria by order of Leopold I.

1949 Chaim Weizmann becomes 1st Israeli President.

SPORTS

1901 NL Rules Committee decrees that all fouls are to count as strikes except after two strikes.

UNREST

1861 in Warsaw, Russian troops fired on a crowd protesting Russian rule over Poland; five marchers were killed.

WOMEN

1922 The Supreme Court, in Leser v. Garnett, unanimously upheld the 19th Amendment to the Constitution that guaranteed the right of women to vote.

LIMITS

1951 The 22nd Amendment to the Constitution, limiting a president to two terms of office, was ratified.

MIRACLES

1960 The U.S. Olympic hockey team defeated the Soviets, 3-2, at the Winter Games in Squaw Valley, Calif. (The U.S. team went on to win the gold medal.)

INDIANS

1973 Members of the American Indian Movement occupied the hamlet of Wounded Knee in South Dakota, the site of the 1890 massacre of Sioux men, women and children. (The occupation lasted until May.)

UPSETS

1979 Jane M. Byrne confounded Chicago's Democratic political machine as she upset Mayor Michael A. Bilandic to win their party's mayoral primary. (Byrne went on to win the election.)

ROYALS

1998 With the approval of Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's House of Lords agreed to end 1,000 years of male preference by giving a monarch's first-born daughter the same claim to the throne as any first-born son.

FINANCE

2007 The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 416.02 points, the worst drop since the 2001 terrorist attacks.

BORN

1807 poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine.

1920 Reg Simpson cricketer (prolific England opener 1948-55).

BIRTHDAYS

Actress Joanne Woodward is 78. Actress Elizabeth Taylor is 76. Consumer advocate Ralph Nader is 74. Actress Barbara Babcock is 71. Actor Howard Hesseman is 68. Actress Debra Monk is 59. Rock singer-musician Neal Schon (Journey) is 54. Rock musician Adrian Smith (Iron Maiden) is 51. Actor Timothy Spall is 51. Rock musician Paul Humphreys (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark) is 48. Country singer Johnny Van Zant (Van Zant) is 48. Rock musician Leon Mobley (Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals) is 47. Basketball Hall-of-Famer James Worthy is 47. Actor Adam Baldwin is 46. Actor Grant Show is 46. Rock musician Mike Cross (Sponge) is 43. Actor Donal Logue is 42. Rhythm-and-blues singer Chilli (TLC) is 37. Rock musician Jeremy Dean (Nine Days) is 36. Rhythm-and-blues singer Roderick Clark is 35. Country-rock musician Shonna Tucker (Drive-By Truckers) is 30. Chelsea Clinton is 28. Rhythm-and-blues singer Bobby Valentino is 28. Singer Josh Groban is 27. Actress Kate Mara is 25.

DEATH

1939 Nadezjda K Krupskaya Russian revolutionary/wife of Lenin, dies at 70.

1985 J Pat O'Malley actor (My Favorite Martian, Maude), dies at 83.

2003 Children's television host Fred Rogers died in Pittsburgh at age 74.


February 27, the 58th day of 2008. There are 308 days left in the year.

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DBKP Today in Weird History: January 31, 2008

WAR!, TERRORISM, DISASTERS, BIRDS, WITCHES, TAPE, HAH!, REVOLT, MONKEYS, FINANCE, MUSIC, EXECUTIONS, MAINSTREAM MEDIA, SMOKING, JEWS, PROGRESS, NANNY STATE, INVENTIONS, DEPRESSION, SUICIDE, SCIENCE, POLITICS, BORN, BIRTHDAYS, DEATH


1958 the United States entered the Space Age with its first successful launch of a satellite into orbit, Explorer I.

WAR!

1861 State of Louisiana takes over US Mint at New Orleans.

1863 1st black Civil War regiment, SC Volunteers, mustered into US army

1865 Gen. Robert E. Lee was named General-in-Chief of all the Confederate armies.

1917 during World War I, Germany served notice it was beginning a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare.

1944 during World War II, U.S. forces began a successful invasion of Kwajalein Atoll and other parts of the Japanese-held Marshall Islands.

2003 President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair met at the White House; Bush said he would welcome a second U.N. resolution on Iraq but only if it led to the prompt disarming of Saddam Hussein. Pushing for a new resolution, Blair called confronting Iraq "a test of the international community."

TERRORISM

2007 Nine blinking electronic devices planted around Boston threw a scare into the city in what turned out to be a marketing campaign for a late-night cable cartoon.

DISASTERS

1906 Strongest instrumentally recorded earthquake, Colombia, 8.6 Richter.

1953 "Princess Victoria" capsized off Stanraer Scotland; 133 die.

1953 Hurricane-like winds flood Netherlands drowning nearly 2,000.

1988 Barge sinks near Anacortes WA, spills 70,000 gallons of oil.

2000 an Alaska Airlines jet plummeted into the Pacific Ocean, killing all 88 people aboard.

BIRDS

1871 Millions of birds fly over western San Francisco, darken the sky.

WITCHES

1675 Cornelia/Dina Olfaarts found not guilty of witchcraft.

TAPE

1928 Scotch tape 1st marketed by 3-M Company.

HAH!

1933 Hitler promises parliamentary democracy.

REVOLT

1696 Revolt of undertakers after funeral reforms (Amsterdam).

MONKEYS

1961 Ham is 1st primate in space (158 miles) aboard Mercury/Redstone 2.

FINANCE

1994 Dow Jones hits a record 3,978.36.

MUSIC

1955 RCA demonstrates 1st music synthesizer.

1976 "Love Rollercoaster" by Ohio Players hits #1.

EXECUTIONS

1606 Guy Fawkes, convicted of treason for his part in the "Gunpowder Plot" against the English Parliament and King James I, was executed.

1945 Private Eddie Slovik, 24, became the first U.S. soldier since the Civil War to be executed for desertion as he was shot by an American firing squad in France.

MAINSTREAM MEDIA

1958 "Jackpot Bowling" premieres on NBC with Leo Durocher as host.

SMOKING

1964 US report "Smoking & Health" connects smoking to lung cancer.

JEWS

1961 David Ben-Gurion resigns as premier of Israel.

1978 Israel turns 3 military outposts in West Bank into civilian settlements.

PROGRESS

1905 1st auto to exceed 100 mph (161 kph), A G MacDonald, Daytona Beach.

1948 Magnetic tape recorder developed by Wireway.

NANNY STATE

1970 Grateful Dead members busted on LSD charges.

2007 President Bush, visiting Wall Street, delivered his "State of the Economy" speech in which he took aim at lavish salaries and bonuses for corporate executives.

INVENTIONS

1851 Gail Borden announces invention of evaporated milk.

DEPRESSION

1934 President Franklin Roosevelt devalued the dollar in relation to gold.

SUICIDE

1954 Edwin H Armstrong US radio inventor (FM), commits suicide at 63.

SCIENCE

1958 James van Allen discovers radiation belt.

1971 astronauts Alan Shepard Jr., Edgar Mitchell and Stuart Roosa blasted off aboard Apollo 14 on a mission to the moon.

1998 Astronaut David Wolf returned to Earth aboard space shuttle Endeavour after four months on the Russian space station Mir.

POLITICS

2007 Delaware Sen. Joe Biden formally launched his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.

BORN

1734 Robert Morris merchant (signed Declaration of Independence).

1797 composer Franz Schubert was born in Vienna, Austria.

1872 Zane Grey American West novelist (Riders of the Purple Sage, Spirit of the Border).

1903 Tallulah Bankhead Huntsville AL, actress (Lifeboat, Die Die Darling).

BIRTHDAYS

Actress Carol Channing is 87. Actress Jean Simmons is 79. Baseball Hall-of-Famer Ernie Banks is 77. Composer Philip Glass is 71. Actor Stuart Margolin is 68. Former U.S. Rep. Dick Gephardt, D-Mo., is 67. Blues singer-musician Charlie Musselwhite is 64. Baseball Hall-of-Famer Nolan Ryan is 61. Singer-musician KC (KC and the Sunshine Band) is 57. Rock singer Johnny Rotten is 52. Actress Kelly Lynch is 49. Actor Anthony LaPaglia is 49. Singer-musician Lloyd Cole is 47. Actor John Dye is 45. Rock musician Jeff Hanneman (Slayer) is 44. Rock musician Al Jaworski (Jesus Jones) is 42. Actress Minnie Driver is 38. Actress Portia de Rossi is 35. Actress Kerry Washington is 31. Singer Justin Timberlake is 27.

DEATH

1974 Samuel Goldwyn Polish/English/US film magnate (MGM), dies at 91.

2006 Coretta Scott King, the widow of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., died in Rosarito Beach, Mexico, at age 78.

2007 Best-selling author and columnist Molly Ivins died in Austin, Texas, at age 62.

January 31, the 31st day of 2008. There are 335 days left in the year.

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DBKP's Today in History: January 20, 2008

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



TERRORISM

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

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

WAR!

1783 Hostilities cease in Revolutionary War.

1944 RAF drops 2300 ton bombs on Berlin.

1991 US Patriot missiles begins shooting down Iraqi missiles.

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

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

DISASTERS

1982 7 miners killed in an explosion in Craynor KY.

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

LONGSHOTS

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

MUSIC

1964 "Meet The Beatles" album released in US

1965 The Byrds record "Mr Tambourine Man"

SURVIVORS

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

CHURCH

1788 Pioneer African Baptist church organizes in Savannah GA.

GIFTS

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

SUPREME COURT

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

DEALS

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

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

POLITICS

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

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

1969 Richard M Nixon inaugurated as President.

1981 Ronald Reagan inaugurated as President.

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

OOPS!

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

BOYCOTTS

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

SCIENCE

1997 Comet Hale-Bopp crosses Mars' orbit.

MEDIA

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

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

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

JEWS

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

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

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

FINANCE

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

SPORTS

1892 1st basketball game played (Massachusetts).

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

CLINTONS

1993 Bill Clinton inaugurated as 42nd President.

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

ASSASSINATIONS

1948 Mahatma Gandhi India's pacifist, assassinated.

HOLIDAYS

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

MURDER

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

TUNNELS

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

TARZAN

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

LAWSUITS

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

BORN

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

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

BIRTHDAYS

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

DEATH

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

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

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

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

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Today in History: January 15, 2008

WAR!, DISASTERS, QUEENS, ICE CREAM, FREEDOM, RECORDS, GEEZERS, EDUCATION, POLITICS, LANDMARKS, MURDERS, SPORTS, SERIAL KILLERS, SCANDAL, FINANCE, SUPREME COURT, EXECUTIONS, MAINSTREAM MEDIA, POPES, KINGS, RIOTS, PRO WRESTLING, BIRTHDAYS, DEATH and MORE


1870 Donkey 1st used as symbol of Democratic Party, in Harper's Weekly

WAR!

1865 Fort Fisher, NC falls to Union troops

1940 German U-Boot torpedoes Dutch trade ship Arendskerk (Eagle's Church)
1942 FDR asks commissioner to continue baseball during WWII
1942 Cubs, drop plans to install lights at Wrigley due to WWII
1943 Japanese driven off Guadalcanal
1944 European Advisory Commission decides to divide Germany
1944 General Eisenhower arrives in England
1944 Vught Concentration Camp puts 74 women in 1 cell, 10 die
1945 Red Army frees Crakow-Plaszow concentration camp
1949 Mao's Red army conquers Ten-tsin
1955 USSR ends state of war with German Federal Republic
1973, President Nixon announced the suspension of all U.S. offensive action in North Vietnam, citing progress in peace negotiations.

DISASTER

1919 2 million gallons of molasses "Tidal wave" Boston MA, drowning 21

1934 8.4 earthquake in India/Nepal, 10,700 die

1951 "Cloud of Death" rolls down Mount Lamington, New Guinea kills 3-5,000

1993 7.5 earthquake strikes northern Japan, 2 die

ICE CREAM

1935 300 Dutch ice cream salesmen protest against Italian competition

QUEENS

1559 England's Queen Elizabeth I was crowned in Westminster Abbey.

1994 Queen Elizabeth falls off her horse & breaks her left wrist

FREEDOM

1777 the people of New Connecticut declared their independence. (The tiny republic later became the state of Vermont.)

GEEZERS

1998 NASA announces John Glenn, 76, may fly in space again

EDUCATION

1844, the University of Notre Dame received its charter from the state of Indiana.

POLITICS

1942, Jawaharlal Nehru was named to succeed Mohandas K. Gandhi as head of India's Congress Party.

RECORDS

1983 Thom Syles keeps a life saver intact in his mouth for over 7 hours

LANDMARKS

1943, work was completed on the Pentagon, headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense.

MURDERS

1947 The mutilated remains of Elizabeth Short, the 22-year-old aspiring actress now known as the "Black Dahlia," were found in a vacant Los Angeles lot.

SPORTS

1934 Babe Ruth signs a 1934 contract for $35,000 ($17,000 cut)

1967 The Green Bay Packers of the National Football League defeated the Kansas City Chiefs of the American Football League 35-10 in the first AFL-NFL World Championship Game, retroactively known as Super Bowl I.

SERIAL KILLERS

1978 Two students at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Lisa Levy and Margaret Bowman, were murdered in their sorority house. (Ted Bundy was later convicted of the crime, and executed.)

SCANDAL

1992 Cleaning woman finds intimate photos of Sarah Ferguson with US man

1998 Henry Cisneros' ex-mistress, Linda Medlar Jones, pleaded to misleading federal authorities investigating the former U.S. housing secretary's payment of alleged hush money to her. (Jones served nearly 18 months in prison; she was later pardoned by President Clinton.) Labor Secretary Alexis Herman denied allegations that she had sold her influence in the White House. (Herman was cleared in 2000 by Independent Counsel Ralph I. Lancaster.)

FINANCE

2003 White House budget director Mitchell Daniels predicted federal deficits would balloon to the $200- to $300 billion range over the next two years.

SUPREME COURT

1951 Supreme Court rule "clear & present danger" of incitement to riot is not protected speech & can be a cause for arrest

2003 Mickey Mouse and The Walt Disney Co. scored a big victory as the Supreme Court upheld longer copyright protections for cartoon characters, songs, books and other creations worth billions of dollars.

EXECUTIONS

2008 The Iraqi government hanged two of Saddam Hussein's henchmen, including a half-brother (Barzan Ibrahim) who was accidentally decapitated by the noose.

MAINSTREAM MEDIA

1973 Gene Shalit joins the Today Show panel

1974 "Happy Days" begins an 11 year run on ABC

1977 Coneheads debut on "Saturday Night Live"

1981 "Hill Street Blues" premieres on NBC-TV

1988 Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder makes remarks about black athletes

1993 Soap opera "Santa Barbara" final show on NBC TV

POPES

708 Sisinnius begins his reign as Catholic Pope (dies 20 days later)

KINGS

1535 Henry VIII declares himself head of English Church

RIOTS

1754 Riot at burial of doelist Daniel Raap in Amsterdam

FASHION

1797 1st top hat worn (John Etherington of London)

PROGRESS

1831 1st US-built locomotive to pull a passenger train makes 1st run; Mr & Mrs Pierson of Charleston SC make 1st US railroad honeymoon trip

1863 1st US newspaper printed on wood-pulp paper, Boston Morning Journal

1936 1st all-glass windowless structure in US completed, Toledo, Ohio

SCIENCE

1833 HMS Beagle anchors at Goeree Tierra del Fuego

PATENTS

1861 Steam elevator patented by Elisha Otis

1907 3-element vacuum tube patented by Dr Lee de Forest

INVENTIONS

1907 Gold dental inlays 1st described by William Taggart, who invented them

JEWS

1943 1st transport of Jews from Amsterdam to concentration camp Vught

1973 Pope Paul VI has an audience with Golda Meir at Vatican

1988 Arab uprising in Israel begins

RATIONING

1945 Every Amsterdammer gets 3 kg sugar beets

CIVIL RIGHTS

1950 4,000 attend National Emergency Civil Rights Conference in Washington DC

MUSIC

1961 Supremes signed with Motown Records

1965 Rock group The Who releases 1st album "I Can't Explain"

LABOR

1964 Teamsters negotiate 1st national labor contract

WATERGATE

1973 4 Watergate burglars plead guilty in federal court

1974 Expert panel reports 18½-m gap in Watergate tape, 5 separate erasures

ASSASSINATION

1976 Sara Jane Moore sentenced to life for attempting to shoot President Ford

PRO WRESTLING

1989 Big John Studd wins WWF's 1st Royal Rumble

BIRTHDAYS

Actress Margaret O'Brien is 71. Singer Don Van Vliet (aka "Captain Beefheart") is 67. Actress Andrea Martin is 61. Actor-director Mario Van Peebles is 51. Actor James Nesbitt is 43. Singer Lisa Lisa (Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam) is 41. Actor Chad Lowe is 40. Actress Regina King is 37. Actor Eddie Cahill is 30. Rapper/reggaeton artist Pitbull is 27.

DEATH

1998 Amos "Junior" Wells blues harpist, dies at 63

January 15, the 15th day of 2008. There are 351 days remaining in the year.


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Today in History: January 12, 2008

WAR!, TERRORISM, DISASTERS, JEWS, CONGRESS, PROGRESS, DECREES, UNION, EXPELLED, FAUX COMPUTER, MARRIAGE, MEDICINE, REBELLION, SPORTS, FINANCE, WOMEN, PATENTS, VICTORY!, SCIENCE, MAINSTREAM MEDIA, SUPERMARKETS, DEATH PENALTY, CIVIL RIGHTS, DIPLOMACY, SERIAL KILLERS. CLIMATE, BANS, PLOTS, EXPELLED, RODENTS, MUSIC, BORN, DEATH, RESIGNATION


1995 Murder trial against OJ Simpson, begins in Los Angeles

WAR!

1809 British take Cayenne (French Guiana) from the French (until 1814)

1836 Battle of Wetumka

1861 FL state troops demand surrender of Fort Pickens

1863 President Davis delivers his "State of the Confederacy" address

1865 Union fleet bombs Fort Fisher NC

1879 British Zulu War begins Lieutenant-General Chelmsford invades Zululand

1942 National War Labor Board created

1942 British troops reconquer Sollum

1942 Dutch troops on Tarakan surrender

1944 Churchill & de Gaulle begin a 2-day wartime conference in Marrakesh

1944 Failed resistance raid on distribution office of Borgerstraat Amsterdam

1945 German forces in Belgium retreat in Battle of the Bulge

1945 US Task Force 38 destroys 41 Japanese ships in Battle of South China Sea

1970 Biafran War ends, Biafra surrenders to Nigeria

1991 US Congress gives George Bush authority to wage war against Iraq

1996 Russian troops arrived in Bosnia (joint operation with US)

TERRORISM

1971 Fed grand jury indicts Reverand Philip Berrigan & 5 others, including a nun & 2 priests, on charges of plotting to kidnap Henry Kissinger

1977 Anti-French demonstrations takes place in Israel after Paris released Abu Daoud, responsible 1972 Munich massacre of Israeli athletes

JEWS

1493 Last day for all Jews to leave Sicily

1953 9 "Jewish" physicians arrested for "terrorist activities" in Moscow

CONGRESS

1933 US Congress recognize independence Philippines

DISASTERS

1552 Dutch west coast hit by heavy storm, 100s killed

1807 Gunpowder-ship explodes in Leiden Netherlands, 150 die

1903 Rhodes Opera House burns in Boyertown PA, killing 170

1950 Swedish tanker rams British submarine Truculent in Thames, 64 die

1954 Austria's worst avalanche-kills 200; 9hours later 2nd one-kills 115

1989 6 claim to survive in rubble, 35 days after Armenian quake (hoax)

1995 Major earthquake kills 5,092 in Kobe Japan

PROGRESS

1812 1st cargo arrives in New Orleans by steam, from Natchez

1839 Anthracite coal 1st used to smelt iron, Mauch Chunk PA

1929 Seatrain (RR cars on ships) service begins, New Orleans-Havana

1970 Boeing 747 makes its maiden voyage

DECREES

1816 France decrees Bonaparte family excluded from the country forever

UNION

1974 Libya & Tunisia announces they are merging as "Islamic Arab Republic"

EXPELLED

1989 Idi Amin expelled from Zaire

FAUX COMPUTERS

1997 HAL becomes operational (2001: A Space Odyssey); this date was given as January 12, 1992 on screen, but 1997 is the date used in both the novel and screenplay

SCIENCE

1820 Royal Astronomical Society founded in England

1836 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reach Sydney Australia

1986 24th space shuttle (61-C) mission-Columbia 7-launched

MEDICINE

1896 1st X-ray photo in US (Dr Henry Smith, Davidson NC)

REBELLION

1904 Southwest-Africa uprising under Samuel Maherero against German garrison

1933 Uprising of Guardia Civil in Spain, 25 dies

1964 Revolution overthrows Sultan of Zanzibar, 1 month after independence

SPORTS

1906 Football rules committee legalizes the forward pass

1921 Kenesaw Mountain Landis becomes 1st commissioner of baseball

1958 NCAA adds 2 point conversion to football scoring

1960 Syracuse National Dolph Schayes is 1st NBA'er to score 15,000 points

1966 Red Auerbach wins his 1,000th game as coach of NBA Boston Celtics

1969 Super Bowl III New York Jets beat Baltimore Colts, 16-7 in Miami; Super Bowl MVP Joe Namath, New York Jets, Quarterback

1975 Super Bowl IX Pittsburgh Steelers beat Minnesota Vikings, 16-6 in New Orleans; Super Bowl MVP Franco Harris, Pittsburgh, Running Back

1988 Willie Stargell (Pittsburgh Pirate), elected to Baseball Hall of Fame

1993 Doctors announce Pittsburgh Penguin Mario Limeux has Hodgkin's disease

FINANCE

1906 1st time Dow Jones closes above 100 (100.26)

1975 Chrysler Corp offers 1st car rebates

WOMEN

1915 House of Representatives rejects proposal to give women the right to vote

PATENTS

1937 Plow for laying submarine cable patented

FASTS

1948 Mohandas Mahatma Gandhi begins his final fast

VICTORY!

1943 Frankfurters replaced by Victory Sausages (mix of meat & soy meal)

SUPERMARKETS

1948 1st Supermarket in UK opens

MAINSTREAM MEDIA

1949 "Arthur Godfrey & His Friends" premieres on CBS TV

1965 "Hullabaloo" premieres on NBC-TV

1968 Nighttime version of "Hollywood Squares" premieres on NBC TV

1971 "All in the Family" premieres on CBS featuring 1st toilet flush on TV

1981 "Dynasty", a prime time soap opera inspired by Dallas, starring Joan Collins, premieres on ABC-TV

DEATH PENALTY

1949 Dutch court affirms death sentence against SS chief Hanns Rauter

1928 Ruth Snyder 1st woman to die in electric chair

1950 USSR re-introduces death penalty for treason, espionage & sabotage

CIVIL RIGHTS

1952 University of Tennessee admits its 1st black student

1957 Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC) founded

1971 Congressional Black Caucus organizes



MARRIAGE

1993 MTV hostess Martha Quinn marries longtime boyfriend Jordan Tarlow

DIPLOMACY

1961 UN genocide pact goes into effect

1976 UN Security Council votes 11-1 to seat Palestine Liberation Organization

MUSIC

1963 "Go Away Little Girl" by Steve Lawrence peaks at #1

1974 "Joker" by Steve Miller Band peaks at #1

SERIAL KILLERS

1979 Los Angeles's Hillside Strangler, Kenneth Bianchi, arrested in Bellingham

CLIMATE

1979 Record blizzard struck midwest killing over 100

RESIGNATION

1987 Britain's Prince Edward resigns from his Royal Marines training

BANS

1990 Romania bans Communist party (1st Warsaw Pact member to do so)

PLOTS

1994 Malcolm X's daughter arrested for plotting Louis Farrakhan's murder

POPES

1995 Pope John Paul II begins visit to Southeast Asia

RODENTS

1965 Porcupine in Washington DC zoo, dies at 27; oldest known rodent

BORN

1580 Jean Baptiste van Helmont Belgian chemist, (found boiling point temperature)
1588 John Winthrop 1st Governor (Massachusetts Bay Colony)
1588 Jose Ribera [Lo Spagnoletto] Spanish painter
1599 Adrian van Utrecht Flemish painter
1729 Edmund Burke British author (Philosophy & Inquiry)
1737 John Hancock patriot (1st to sign Declaration of Independence)
1852 Joseph J C Joffre French field marshal (Indo-China, Marne)
1863 Vivekananda Calcutta, Hindu religious leader/reformer
1876 Jack London writer/socialist (Call of the Wild)
1893 Hermann Goering Reichsmarshall/propoganda minister (Nazi Germany)
1902 Ibn Abdul-Aziz Saud Kuwait, king (Saudi Arabia)
1906 Henny Youngman England, comedian (Take my wife please...)
1906 Tex Ritter Texas, country singer (5 Star Jubilee, The Wayward Wind)
1916 A P(ieter) W Botha Orange Free State, President of South Africa
1917 Walter Hendl West New York NJ, conductor
1920 James Farmer Marshall TX, civil rights leader
1921 John Henry Davis Jr Smithtown NY, light-super-heavyweight (Olympics-gold-1948, 52)
1921 Leo Smit Philadelphia PA, pianist/composer
1926 Ray Price country singer (For The Good Times)
1930 Glenn Yarborough singer (Limeliters-Honey & Wine, Jubilee)
1935 "The Amazing" Kreskin Montclair NJ, mentalist/telepath
1943 Ray Manzarek rock pianist (Doors-Light my Fire, People are Strange)
1944 Vlastimil Hort Czechoslovakian/German chess player
1947 Tom Dempsey NFL record-holder (longest field goal, 63 yards)
1951 Kirstie Alley Wichita KS, actress (Star Trek II, Cheers-Rebecca)
1951 Rush Hudson Limbaugh III Cape Girardeau MO, conservative radio & television host
1951 Bill Madlock 4X NL batting champ (Chicago Cubs)
1951 Chris Bell Memphis TN, rock guitarist (Big Star)
1952 Ricky Van Shelton Danville VA, country musician (Somebody Lied, From a Jack to a King, Rockin' Years)
1954 Howard Stern Roosevelt NY, "Radio's Bad Boy" (WKRK, WYSP, WJFK)
1960 Dominique Wilkins NBA forward (Atlanta Hawks)
1968 Heather Mills Aldershot England, model/writer (Out on a Limb)
1996 Sarah Morales Mexico, Siamese twin (survived)
1996 Sarahi Morales Mexico, Siamese twin (died on Jan 27, 1996)

DEATH

1517 Vasco Núñez de Balboa Spanish conquistador/admiral, beheaded at 41
1829 Friedrich von Schlegel German cultural philosopher/poet, dies at 56
1962 Ernie Kovacs comedian (Ernie Kovacs Show), killed in auto crash at 42
1976 Agatha Christie mystery writer (10 Little Indians), dies at 85
1978 Nancy Spungen stabbed to death by boyfriend Sid Vicious
1981 Beulah Bondi Chicago IL, actress (It's a Wonderful Life), dies at 89

January 12, the 12th day of the year. There are 354 days left in the year.

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Today in History: January 8, 2008

THE KING, WAR!, TERRORISM, DISASTER, NANNY STATE, DIPLOMACY, LABOR, DIVORCE, JEWS, CRIME, BUSINESS, FINANCE, SCIENCE, POLITICS, SENSATIONS, WHALES, REVOLTS, EDUCATION, PROGRESS, STATUES, CIVIL RIGHTS, PATENTS, POPES, WOMEN, RATIONING, DEATH PENALTY, COMEBACKS, MUSIC, SPORTS, CULTURE, FLOWERS, MAINSTREAM MEDIA, MONSTERS, WATERGATE, CLIMATE, BORN, DEATH

THE KING

1993 Elvis Presley Commemorative Postage Stamp goes on sale.

WAR

1746 Bonnie Prince Charlie's troops occupy Stirling.

1815 Battle of New Orleans-War of 1812 ended 12/24/1814 but nobody knew.

1973 Secret peace talks between US & North Vietnam resumed near Paris.

1979 Vietnamese troops overtook Khmer Rouge & occupy Phnom Penh.

TERRORISM

1926 Abdul-Aziz ibn Sa'ud becomes king of Hejaz; renames it Saudi Arabia.

1986 President Reagan freezes Libyan assets in the US.

1998 Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski asks to act as his own lawyer.

1998 World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Ahmed Yousef sentenced to life.

DISASTER

1894 Columbus World's fair in Chicago destroyed by fire.

1962 Dutch express train crashes into slow commuter train, 91 die (Netherlands).

1979 512 die as oil tanker Bantry Bay blows up.

1989 Boeing 737-400 crashes in England, 46 die.

NANNY STATE

1918 Mississippi becomes 1st state to ratify 18th amendment (prohibition).

1964 President Lyndon B Johnson declares "War on Poverty".

1982 Justice Department withdraws antitrust suit against IBM, pending since 1969.

DIPLOMACY

1992 US President George Bush gets ill & vomits on Japanese prime minister's lap during Japanese tour.

LABOR

1923 Typography strike in Amsterdam.

DIVORCE

1998 Roseanne files for divorce from 3rd husband Ben Thomas.

JEWS

1598 Jews are expelled from Genoa Italy.

1978 Israel's Cabinet votes to `strengthen' settlements in occupied Sinai.

CRIME

1716 Dutch gang leader "Sjako" arrested.

BUSINESS & FINANCE

1675 1st American commercial corporation chartered (New York Fishing Co).

1870 US mint at Carson City NV begins issuing coins.

1974 Gold hits record $126.50 an ounce in London.

1974 Silver hits record $3.40 an ounce in New York.

1987 Dow Jones closes above 2,000 for 1st time (2,002.25).

1988 Dow Jones down 140.58 points.

SCIENCE

1760 Comet C/1760 A1 (Great comet) approaches within 0.0682 astronomical units (AUs) of Earth.

1973 USSR launches Luna 21 for Moon landing.

POLITICS

1790 George Washington delivers 1st "State of the Union" address.

1798 11th Amendment ratified, judicial powers construed.

1806 Cape colony becomes English colony.

1830 Dutch King Willem I fires him displeasing parliament members.

1947 General George Marshall becomes Secretary of State.

1959 Charles de Gaulle inaugurated as President of France's 5th Republic.

SENSATIONS

1800 Wild Boy of Aveyron discovered in southern France.

WHALES

1806 Lewis & Clark find skeleton of 105' blue whale in Oregon.

1971 29 pilot whales beach themselves & die at San Clemente Island CA.

REVOLTS

1811 Louisiana slave revolt by Charles Deslondes at German Coast.

1838 Rebellion at Amherstburg, Ontario breaks out.

1848 Austrian soldiers kill 10 students, Pavia.

1958 Cuban revolutionary forces capture Havana.

EDUCATION

1833 Boston Academy of Music, 1st US music school, established.

PROGRESS

1838 1st telegraph message sent using dots & dashes, New Jersey.

1856 Dr John A Veatch discovers borax, Tuscan Springs CA.

1929 1st telephone connection between Netherlands & West-Indies.

1982 Johnny Cash Parkway opens in Hendersonville Tennessee.

1988 Hewlett-Packard introduces the HP-28S Advanced Scientific Calculator.

STATUES

1853 1st US bronze equestrian statue (of Andrew Jackson) unveiled, Washington.

CIVIL RIGHTS

1867 Legislation gives suffrage to DC blacks, despite President Johnson's veto.

1995 15th United Negro College Fund raises $12,200,000.

PATENTS

1884 Chrome tanning process for leather patented by Augustus Schultz.

1889 Dr Herman Hollerith receives 1st US patent for a tabulating machine (1st Computer).

1935 Spectrophotometer patented, AC Hardy.

POPES

1904 Pope Pius X banned low cut dresses in the presence of churchmen.

WOMEN

1925 1st all-female US state supreme court appointed, Texas.

1980 NCAA decides to sponsor women's championships in 5 sports.

RATIONING

1940 Britain's 1st WWII rationing (bacon, butter & sugar

DEATH PENALTY

1948 Queen Wilhelmina signs death sentence against Ans van Dijk for treaso

COMEBACKS

1951 Thought extinct since 1615, a Cahow is rediscovered in Bermuda.

MUSIC

1954 Elvis Presley pays $4 to a Memphis studio & records his 1st two songs, "Casual Love" & "I'll Never Stand in Your Way".

1956 Elvis Presley's "Don't Be Cruel/Hound Dog" single goes to #1 & stays #1 for a record 11 weeks (for a single).

1966 Beatles' "Rubber Soul" album goes #1 & stays #1 for 6 weeks.

1966 Beatles' "We Can Work It Out" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 3 weeks.

SPORTS

1955 Georgia Tech ends Kentucky's 130-game home basketball win streak.

1962 Golfer Jack Nicklaus, 21, 1st pro appearance, he came in 50th.

1972 NCAA announces freshman can play on teams starting in fall.

1984 NCAA announces that basketball tournament will have 64 teams.

1993 Chicago Bull Michael Jordan scores his 20,000th career point.

1996 For 1st time in 25 years no one is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame.

CULTURE

1963 "Mona Lisa", on loan, unveiled in America's National Gallery of Art.

FLOWERS

1965 Senator Everett Dirksen introduces a bill to make marigold the national flower (didn't pass).

MAINSTREAM MEDIA

1656 Oldest surviving commercial newspaper begins (Haarlem, Netherlands).

1966 Who & the Kinks perform on the last "Shindig" TV show on ABC.

1968 Jacques Cousteau's 1st undersea special on US network TV.

1979 Today Show gets a new theme song.

1993 NBC offers "Tonight Show" to David Letterman.

MONSTERS

1974 Loch Ness Monster photographed.

WATERGATE

1975 Judge Sirica orders release of Watergate's John W Dean III, Herbert W Kalmbach & Jeb Stuart Magruder from prison.

CLIMATE

1996 Blizzard buries eastern US causing at least 50 deaths.

BORN

1814 Thomas Green Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1821 James Longstreet Confederate General (1st Corps, ANV)
1823 Alfred Russel Wallace British zoologist/co-discoverer (evolution)
1836 Fannie M Jackson pioneer & educator, 1st US Black woman college grad
1862 Frank Nelson Doubleday publisher/founder (Doubleday & Co)
1886 Noble Drew Ali [Timothy Drew], North Carolina, prophet (Moorish Science Temple)
1902 Georgy M Malenkov Stalin's successor as head of CPSU, PM (1953-55)
1904 Peter Arno New York City NY, cartoonist (New Yorker)
1923 Larry Storch New York City NY, comedian (F Troop, Larry Storch Show)
1926 Soupy Sales [Milton Hines], North Carolina, comedian (Soupy Sales Show)
1928 Sander Vanocur Cleveland OH, news anchor (NBC Weekend News)
1931 Bill Graham Germany, rock promoter (Fillmore)
1933 Charles Osgood New York City NY, news anchor (CBS Weekend News)
1935 Elvis Aaron Presley Tupelo MS, rocker (Blue Suede Shoes, Hounddog)
1935 Jesse Garon Presley stillborn twin brother of Elvis
1937 Bob Eubanks Flint MI, TV host (Newlywed Game)
1937 Shirley Bassey Cardiff Wales, singer (Goldfinger, Moonraker)
1939 Yvette Mimieux Hollywood CA, actress (Time Machine, Where the Boys Are)
1940 Cristy Lane US, country/gospel singer
1940 Little Anthony [Gourdine] rocker (& Imperials)
1941 Graham Chapman England, comedian (Monty Python's Flying Circus)
1942 Stephen Hawking English physicist (Black Holes & Baby Universes)
1946 Kathleen Noone actress (All My Children, Party of 5, Knots Landing)
1946 Robbie Kreiger Los Angeles CA, guitarist (Doors-Come on Baby Light My Fire)
1947 Igor Ivanov Leningrad, Canadian chess champion (1981-84, 1985- )
1947 Terry Sylvester rocker (Hollies-The Air that I Breathe)
1947 David Bowie [Jones], London, singer/actor (Major Tom, Ziggy Stardust)
1948 Paul King rocker (Blue Oyster Cult)
1952 Laurie Walters San Francisco CA, actress (Joannie-Eight is Enough)
1953 Bruce Sutter pitcher (Cubs, Cards, Braves)
1955 Mike Reno Vancouver BC Canada, rock vocalist (Loverboy-Get Lucky, Heaven in Your Eyes)
1969 R Kelly singer (I Wish I Could Fly)
1971 Brenda Lee Armstrong Albert Lea MN, Miss Minnesota-America (1990)
1978 Petra Minarova Miss Czech Republic-Universe (1997)
1979 Sequoyah chimpanzee (son of Washoe)
1982 Gaby Hoffman actress (Field of Dreams, Uncle Buck, Now & Then)

DEATH

1324 Marco Polo Venetian explorer/Governor of Nanking, dies
1642 Galileo Galilei Italian physicist/astronomer, dies at 78 in Arceti Italy
1880 [Joshua] Norton I Emperor of US/Protector of México, dies at 60
1934 Alexandre Stavisky French swindler, dies
1941 Lord Robert Baden-Powell founder of the Boy Scout movement, dies at 83
1975 John Dierkes actor (Red Badge of Courage), dies at 69
1976 Chou En-lai China's PM (1949-76), dies of cancer in Beijing at 78
1982 Reta Shaw actress (Ghost & Mrs Muir), dies of emphysema at 69
1991 Steve Clark guitarist (Def Leppard-Hysteria), dies at 30
1992 Menachim Begin Israeli PM, dies at 78 of a heart attack
1994 Harvey Haddix pitcher (12 perfect inning game), dies at 68
1994 Lady Caithness wife of British undersecretary, commits suicide
1994 Pat Buttram actor (Haney-Green Acres), dies of kidney failure at 78
1996 Francois Mitterrand President of France (1981-95), dies of cancer at 79
1997 Ronald William Eastman cinematographer, dies at 60
1998 Walter Diemer inventor (bubble gum 1928), dies of heart failure at 93

January 8, the 8th day of 2008. There are 358 days left in the year.

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