DBKP Today in Weird History: February 29, 2008

WAR, DISASTER, REPORTS, QUICK-THINKING, MOVIES, VAVOOM, MUSIC, QUITTING, SCIENCE, RATINGS, POLITICS, KILLERS, UNUSUAL, BURNED, KINK, SPORTS, WHAT, RECORDS, BORN, BIRTHDAYS, DEATH

QUICK-THINKING

1504 Christopher Columbus, stranded in Jamaica during his fourth voyage to the West, used a correctly predicted lunar eclipse to frighten hostile natives into providing food for his crew.

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WAR!

1856 Hostilities in Russo-Turkish War cease.

1944 US troops land on Los Negros, Admirality Islands.

DISASTER

1960 Earthquake kills 1/3 of Agadir Morocco population (12,000) in 15 seconds.

1996 A Peruvian commercial jetliner crashed in the Andes, killing all 123 people on board.

UNUSUAL

1904 Adolph Blaine Charles David Earl Frederick Gerald Hubert Irvin John Kenneth Lloyd Martin Nero Oliver Paul Quincy Randolph Sherman Thomas Uncas Victor William Xerxes Yancy Zeus Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenberdorft Sr near Hamburg, Germany; had a Christian name for every letter in the alphabet, shortened it to Mr Wolfe Plus 585 Sr.

VAVOOM!

1960, the first Playboy Club, featuring waitresses clad in "bunny" outfits, opened in Chicago.

KINK

1784 Marquis de Sade transferred from Vincennes fortress to the Bastille.

RECORDS

1964 Frank Rugani sets badminton shuttlecock distance record, 24.3 meters.

WHAT?

1988 NYC Mayor Koch calls Reagan a "WIMP" in the war on drugs.

POLITICS

1956 Islamic Republic established in Pakistan.

2000 George W. Bush won Republican presidential primaries in Virginia, Washington state and North Dakota, defeating John McCain; Vice President Al Gore crushed fellow Democrat Bill Bradley in Washington state.

SPORTS

1964 North Carolina high school basketball teams play to 56-54 score in 13 overtime.

KILLERS

1996 Daniel Green was convicted in Lumberton, North Carolina, of murdering James R. Jordan, the father of basketball star Michael Jordan, during a 1993 roadside holdup. (Green and an accomplice, Larry Martin Demery, were sentenced to life in prison.)

2000 Six-year-old Kayla Rolland was fatally shot by a fellow first-grader at Buell Elementary School in Mount Morris Township, Michigan.

REPORTS

1968 President Lyndon B. Johnson's National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (also known as the Kerner Commission) warned that racism was causing America to move "toward two societies, one black, one white -- separate and unequal."

BURNED

1528 Patrick Hamilton Scottish protestant martyr, burned at stake.

MOVIES

1940 "Gone with the Wind" won eight Academy Awards, including best picture of 1939.

2000 "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" won a record-tying 11 Academy Awards, including best picture; Sean Penn took the best-actor prize for "Mystic River" and Charlize Theron won best actress for "Monster."

SCIENCE

1968 the discovery of the first "pulsar," a star which emits regular radio waves, was announced by Dr. Jocelyn Bell Burnell in Cambridge, England.

MUSIC

1968 at the Grammy Awards, the 5th Dimension's "Up, Up and Away" won record of the year for 1967, while album of the year honors went to The Beatles for "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band."

QUITTING

1984 Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau announced he was stepping down after more than 15 combined years in power.

2000 Facing rebellion, Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide resigned and left for exile in the Central African Republic.

RATINGS

1996 About 30 television and entertainment industry executives met with President Clinton at the White House, where they promised to devise a TV ratings system.

BORN

1908 The artist known as Balthus was born in Paris.

1936 Henri "Rocket" Richard NHL center (Montréal Canadiens).

1944 Dennis Farina Chicago IL, actor (Mike Torello-Crime Story).

BIRTHDAYS

Actress Michele Morgan is 88. Actor James Mitchell is 88. Actor Joss Ackland is 80. Actor Alex Rocco is 72. Former space shuttle astronaut Jack Lousma is 72. Actor Dennis Farina is 64. Actress Phyllis Frelich is 64. Actor Antonio Sabato Jr. is 36. Rapper Ja Rule is 32.

DEATH

1992 Johnny Mack British actor (Time Lord-Dr Who), dies at 70.

2000 Playwright Jerome Lawrence died in Malibu, California, at age 88.

February 29th, the 60th day of 2008. There are 306 days left in the year. This is Leap Day.

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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 17, 2008

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

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

WAR!

1943 Tin Can Drive Day

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

TERRORISM

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

DISASTERS

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

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

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

CLINTONS

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

1998 President Clinton faces sexual harassment charges from Paula Jones.

DIPLOMACY

1946 United Nations Security Council holds its 1st meeting.

ABDICATION

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

SPORTS

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

SOLD

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

PATENTS

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

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

JEWS

1945 Auschwitz concentration camp begins evacuation

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

COMICS

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

CIVIL RIGHTS

1966 Martin Luther King Jr opens campaign in Chicago.



MUSIC

1969 Debut album of Led Zeppelin released in US.

PROGRESS

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

LINES

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

WITCHES

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

WHEW!

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

EXECUTIONS

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

DIVORCE

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

MAINSTREAM MEDIA

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

BUREAUCRACY

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

BIRTHDAYS

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

DEATH

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

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

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

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

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

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


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Today in History: January 7, 2008

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



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

WAR!

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

1761 Battle at Panipat India Afghan army beats Mahratten

1861 Florida troops takeover Fort Marion at St Augustine

1862 Battle of Manassas Junction VA

1862 Romney Campaign-Stonewall Jackson march towards Romney WV

1911 1st airplane bombing experiments with explosives, San Francisco

1916 German troops conquer Fort Vaux at Verdun

1942 WWII siege of Bataan starts

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

1945 Lord Haw-Haw reports total German victory at Ardennen

1979 Vietnamese forces capture Phnom Penh from Khmer Rouge

TERRORISM

1923 Baltimore Sun warns of Ku Klux Klan

1986 US President Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya

ASSASSINATIONS

1537 Alessandro de' Medici Italian monarch of Florence, assassinated

1962 Assassination attempt on Indonesian president Sukarno, fails

POLITICS

1618 Francis Bacon becomes English lord chancellor

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

1959 US recognizes Fidel Castro's Cuban government

1969 US Congress doubles presidential salary

1983 Reagan ends US arms embargo against Guatemala

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

POPES

1566 Antonio Michaele Ghislieri is elected Pope Pius V

REVOLTS & RIOTS

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

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

1991 Soviet paratroopers sent to Baltic Republics

DISASTERS

1608 Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia

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

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

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

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

1989 British Midland Boeing 737 crashes on Motorway

1994 United Express commuter plane crashes in Ohio, killing 5

SCIENCE

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

1835 HMS Beagle anchors off Chonos Archipelago

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

1968 Surveyor 7 lands on the Moon

1985 Japanese space probe Sakigake launched to Halley's comet

GOLD DIGGERS

1630 Composer Pier Cavalli marries rich widow Maria Sosomeno

PATENTS

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

1890 W B Purvis patents fountain pen

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

PROGRESS

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

1822 1st printing in Hawaii

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

1894 Motion picture experiment of comedian Fred Ott filmed sneezing

1914 1st steamboat passes through the Panamá Canal

1927 Commercial transatlantic telephone service inaugurated between New York & London

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

BUSINESS & FINANCE

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

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

1817 2nd Bank of the United States opens

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

NATION BUILDING

1822 Liberia colonized by Americans

CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTIONS

1868 Arkansas constitutional convention meets in Little Rock

1868 Mississippi constitutional convention meets in Jackson

COOKBOOKS

1896 Fanny Farmer publishes her 1st cookbook

SPORTS

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

1927 Harlem Globetrotters play 1st game (Hinckley IL)

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

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

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

DISTRESS

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

COMICS

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

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

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

LABOR

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

TAXES

1948 US President Truman raises taxes for Marshall-plan

MUSIC

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

CIVIL RIGHTS

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

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

INFLATION

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

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

MAINSTREAM MEDIA

1967 "Newlywed Game" premieres on ABC TV

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

1982 "Fame" premieres on NBC TV

WOODSTOCK

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

RATIONING

1974 Dutch rations gasoline

EMPERORS

1989 Akhito becomes emperor of Japan

LANDMARKS

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

COUPS

1991 Haiti coup defeated

DRAMA

1994 US female Figure Skating championship won by Tonya Harding

BORN

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

DEATH

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

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

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Today in History: January 4, 2008

WAR!, REAGAN, JEWS, CIVIL RIGHTS, POLITICS, EDUCATION, FAST, INVENTIONS, ENDANGERED SPECIES, DICTATORS, MEDICINE, AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, LABOR, PHILOSOPHY, MUSIC, SPORTS, WATERGATE, CLIMATE, BOYCOTTS, SERIAL KILLERS, MAINSTREAM MEDIA, DISASTERS, PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING, SCIENCE, BORN, DEATH



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 2, 2008

WAR!, SPORTS, TERRORISM, TORTURE, POLITICS, ABOLITION, CENSURE, SCIENCE, ENGINEERING, DISASTER, MASSACRES, ALLIGATORS, CIVIL RIGHTS, TRIALS, MUSIC, RIOTS, MAINSTREAM MEDIA, NANNY STATE, OVERDOSE, CAMELOT, CLIMATE CHANGE, JEWS, POPULATION, PROFESSIONAL WRESTING, BORN, DEATH, FINANCE



1839 1st photo of the Moon (French photographer Louis Daguerre).

WAR!

1492 Spain recaptures Granada from the Moors (Granada Day).

1570 Tsar Ivan the Terrible march to Novgorod begins.

1602 Spanish forces in Ireland surrender to the English at Kinsdale.

1757 British troops occupy Calcutta India.

1776 1st revolutionary flag displayed.

1861 SC seizes inactive Fort Johnson in Charleston Harbor.

1863 Battle of Murfreesboro (Stone's River) ends.

1896 Battle at Doornkop, South Africa (Boers beat Dr Jamesons troops).

1905 Japanese troops capture Port Arthur.

1942 German troops in Bardia surrender.

1942 Japanese troops occupy Manila Philippines.

1944 1st use of helicopters during warfare (British Atlantic patrol).

1945 Allied air raid on Neurenberg.

TERRORISM

1923 Ku Klux Klan surprise attack on black residential area Rosewood FL, 8 killed. (compensation awarded in 1995).

1923 Sam Carter black resident of Rosewood FL, lynched by KKK.

1932 Young gang shoot dead 6 police in Springfield Missouri.

SPORTS

1989 Notre Dame beats West Virginia for college football championship.

TORTURE

1776 Austria ends interrogation torture.

POLITICS

1788 Georgia is 4th state to ratify US constitution.

ABOLITION

1800 Free black community of Philadelphia PA petitions Congress to abolish slavery.

1831 Liberator, abolitionist newspaper, begins publishing in Boston.

CENSURE

1811 US Senator Thomas Pickering is 1st senator censured (revealed confidential documents communicated by the President of the US).

SCIENCE

1905 Elara, a satellite of Jupiter, discovered by Perrine.

1936 1st electron tube to enable night vision described, St Louis MO.

1972 Mariner 9 begins mapping Mars.

1995 Most distant galaxy yet discovered found by scientists using Keck telescope in Hawaii (estimated 15 billion light years away).

ENGINEERING

1842 1st US wire suspension bridge for general traffic opens in Pennsylvania.

DISASTER

1879 British battleship Thunder explodes in Gulf of Ismid, 9 die.

1971 A barrier collapses at Ibrox Park football ground at end of a soccer match in Glasgow Scotland, killing 66.

1995 Bus crashes in Luzon Philippines, 29 killed.

1974 Worst fire in Argentine history destroys 1.2 million acres.

1988 Ashland Oil storage tank spills 3.8 million gallons, Pennsylvania.

MASSACRES

1885 General Wolseley receives last distress signal of General Gordon in Khartoum.

ALLIGATORS

1890 Record 19'2" alligator shot in Louisiana by E A McIlhenny.

CIVIL RIGHTS

1903 President T Roosevelt shuts down post office in Indianola MI, for refusing to accept its appointed postmistress because she was black.

1965 Martin Luther King Jr begins a drive to register black voters.

1984 Wilson Goode, sworn-in as Philadelphia's 1st black mayor.

TRIALS

1935 Bruno R Hauptmann trial begins for kidnap-murder of Lindbergh baby.

1979 Sid Vicious' trial for murder of girlfriend Nancy Spingen begins.

MUSIC

1900 E Verlinger begins manufacturing 7" single-sided records (Montréal).

1978 Rhino Records releases their 1st album "Wildmania".

RIOTS and REBELLIONS

1919 Anti-British uprising in Ireland.

1981 Sylvester Clarke knocks out spectator with brick, West Indies vs Pakistan.

1984 Riot in Tunis kills over 100.

1994 Battles between army & rebellious Indians in South Mexico, kill 57.

MAINSTREAM MEDIA

1921 1st religious service radio broadcast in US, KDKA-Pittsburgh.

1949 KDKA TV channel 2 in Pittsburgh, PA (CBS) begins broadcasting.

NANNY STATE

1934 1st state liquor stores open, in Pennsylvania.

1974 55 MPH speed limit imposed by Richard Nixon.

OVERDOSE

1998 Autopsy of Chris Farley shows he overdosed of opiates & cocaine.

CAMELOT

1960 Senator John F Kennedy, announces his candidacy for President.

CLIMATE CHANGE

1961 Hawaii's, then all time low temperature, 14ºF recorded atop Haleakale.

JEWS

1966 1st Jewish child born in Spain since 1492 expulsion.

POPULATION

1970 US population is 205,052,174; Black population 22,600,000 (11.1%).

FINANCE

1986 191.66 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange.

1990 Dow Jones hits record 2,800 (2,810.15).


PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

1990 Sting joins wrestlings 4 Horsemen (Flair, Arn Anderson, Ole Anderson).

BORN

1727 James Wolfe commanded British Army (captured Québec)
1861 Helen Herron Taft 1st lady (1909-13)
1863 Lucia Zarate became lightest known adult human (2.1 kg at 17)
1920 Isaac Asimov Russia, scientist/writer (I Robot, Foundation Trilogy)
1928 Dan Rostenkowski (Representative-D-IL, -94), House Ways & Means Committee chair
1932 Dabney Coleman Austin Texas, (That Girl, Mary Hartman, Buffalo Bill)
1936 Roger Miller Fort Worth TX, country singer (King of the Road, Dang Me)
1938 John Considine actor (Reginald Love-Another World)
1939 Jim Bakker televangelist (PTL Club)/philanderer (Jessica Hahn)
1952 Ricky Van Shelton Grit VA, country singer (Wild-Eyed Dream)
1964 Pernell Whitaker boxer (Olympics-gold)
1968 Cuba Gooding Jr actor (Jerry McGuire, As Good As It Gets, Boyz N the Hood, A Few Good Men)
1969 Christy Turlington San Francisco CA, model (Calvin Klein Eternity)

DEATH

1904 James Longstreet Confederate General, dies at 82
1963 Dick Powell actor/director (Dick Powell Theater), dies at 58
1974 Tex Ritter country singer (5 Star Jubilee), dies at 67
1977 Erroll Garner jazz pianist (Misty), dies at 53
1990 Alan Hale Jr actor (Skipper Jonas Grumby-Gilligan's Island), dies of cancer at 71
1994 Caesar Romero actor (Joker-Batman), dies at 86

January 2, 2008, the 2nd day of the year. There are 364 days left in the year.

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Today In History: January 1, 2008

WAR!, TERRORISM, DISASTER, LABOR, SMOKE NAZIS, CIVIL RIGHTS, MAINSTREAM MEDIA, WATERGATE, PRISONS, POPULATION, SPORTS, NANNY STATE, TAXES, MUSIC, COMICS, COMPUTERS, MONEY, VITAMINS, DAREDEVILS, BORN, DEATH



1922 Vancouver BC starts driving on the right side of road

WAR!

1944 General Clark replaces General Patton as commander of 7th Army.

1950 Ho Chi Minh begins offensive against French troops in Indo-China.

1951 Massive Chinese/North Korean assault on UN-lines.

1959 Castro leads Cuba to victory as Fulgencio Batista flees to Dominican Republic.

DISASTER

1926 Rhine flood strikes Cologne.

1978 Air India B747 explodes near Bombay killing 213.

1987 60 bodies recovered in Dupont Plaza Hotel fire in Puerto Rico.

LABOR

1911 Belgian Mining law introduces 9�-hour work day.

1966 12 day transit worker strike shuts down New York City NY subway.

SMOKE NAZIS

1966 All US cigarette packs have to carry "Caution Cigarette smoking may be hazardous to your health".

1971 Cigarette advertisements banned on TV.

1993 Cigarette advertisements are banned in New York City NY's MTA.

1998 All California bars, clubs & card rooms must be smoke-free

2008 Colorado bans smoking in casinos. Anti-smoking advocates argue that any tents or enclosures to make it more comfortable to smoke outdoors are illegal also.

TERRORISM

1965 Palestinian al-Fatah organization forms.

1980 Mob storms Russian embassy in Teheran.

CIVIL RIGHTS

1916 1st issue of "Journal of Negro History" published.

1990 David Dinkins sworn in as 1st black mayor of New York City NY.

MAINSTREAM MEDIA

1935 Associated Press inaugurates Wirephoto.

1936 1st newspaper to microfilm its current issues, New York Herald Tribune.

1974 NBC radio begins on the hour news 24 hours a day (following CBS lead).

1976 NBC replaces the peacock logo.

WATERGATE

1975 Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell & Mardian convicted of Watergate crime.

PRISONS

1934 Alcatraz officially becomes a federal prison.

POPULATION

1960 US census at 179,245,000.

1998 US Census Bureau estimates population at 268,921,733.

NANNY STATE

1985 US's 1st manadatory seat belt law goes into effect (NY).

SPORTS

1916 1st football game in Rose Bowl (Washington State-Brown).

1929 Roy Riegels runs 60 yards the wrong way with Rose Bowl fumble recovery.

1935 1st Sugar Bowl & 1st Orange Bowl.

1942 Rose Bowl played in North Carolina due to Japanese threat-Oregon 20, Duke 16.

1944 Army defeats Navy 10-7 in football "Arab Bowl", Oran, North Africa.

1954 Rose & Cotton Bowl are 1st sport colorcasts.

1969 Jack Kent Cooke, owner of NHL's Los Angeles Kings, fines each player $100 for "NOT" arguing with the referee.

POPE

1982 Pope John Paul II prays for an end to martial law in Poland.

TAXES

1862 1st US income tax (3% of incomes > $600, 5% of incomes > $10,000).

1941 Netherlands begins taxing wages.

MUSIC

1956 Elvis Presley records Heartbreak Hotel for RCA in Nashville.

1960 Johnny Cash plays 1st of many free concerts behind bars.

1962 Beatles' Decca audition is unsuccessful.

1966 Simon & Garfunkel's "Sounds of Silence" reaches #1.

1985 VH-1 made its broadcasting debut.

COMICS

1995 Last "Far Side" by cartoonist Gary Larson (started 1980)

COMPUTERS

1946 ENIAC, US 1st computer finished by Mauchly/Eckert.

MONEY

1961 Largest check issued, National Bank of Chicago to Sears ($960.242 billion).

FIRSTS

1914 1st scheduled airline flight, St Petersburg-Tampa (Tony Jannus pilot).

1928 1st US air-conditioned office building opens, San Antonio.

1944 1st feature-length foreign movie, African Journey, shown on TV, New York City NY.

VITAMINS

1996 After 27 years, Betty Rubble debuts as a Flintstone vitamin.

SCIENCE

1957 International Geophysical Year begins; ends 6/30/1958 (18-month year).

DAREDEVILS

1968 Evel Knievel fails in his attempt to jump Caesar's Palace Fountain

BORN

1449 Lorenzo de' Medici [The Magnificent] of Florence
1729 Edmund Burke British author/famous Whig (Philosophy & Inquiry, Reflections on the Revolution)
1735 Paul Revere silversmith/US patriot (British are coming)
1745 "Mad" Anthony Wayne General
1854 Sir James Frazer Britain, anthropologist/author (The Golden Bough)
1863 Pierre de Coubertin France, baron (revived Olympic games)
1867 Charles Edward Montague English author/critic (Fiery Particles)
1879 E[dward] M Forster London England, novelist (Howard's End, Passage to India)
1895 J Edgar Hoover Washington DC, Director of US Fedreal Bureau of Investigation
1900 Xavier Cugat [Francisco de As�s Javier Cugat Mingall de Brue y Deulofeo] Tirona Catalonia Spain, bandleader (married Abbe Lane, Charo)
1909 Barry Goldwater (Senator-R-AZ, 1953-65, 69- )/Presidential candidate (R) 1964)
1911 Hammerin' Hank Greenberg Hall-of-Fame 1st baseman (Detroit Tiger)
1912 Kim Philby British spy/Soviet mole
1912 Victor Reuther Wheeling WV, labor leader
1919 J[erome] D[avid] Salinger New York City, NY, novelist (Catcher in the Rye)
1938 Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard Queen of Netherlands (1980- )
1943 Don Novello [Father Guido Sarducci], Ashtabula OH, comedian (SNL)
1958 Grandmaster Flash [Joseph Saddler], New York City, NY, rocker (Message)
1967 Derrick Thomas NFL linebacker (Kansas City Chiefs)
1986 Alexa Ray Joel daughter of Billy Joel & Christie Brinkley

DEATH

1557 Jacques Cartier French explorer (Canada), dies at 65
1782 Johann Christian Bach German composer/Mozart's tutor, dies at 46
1787 Arthur Middleton US farmer (signed Declaration of Independence), dies at 44
1953 Hank Williams country singer (Cold Cold Heart), dies at 29
1972 Maurice A Chevalier French actor (Can Can, Gigi), dies at 83

January 1, 2008, the first day of the year. New Years Day, there are 365 days left in the Year.

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Metal, Rap, & Patriotism Video:STUCK MOJO FIRES UP PASSION WITH "I'M AMERICAN"

VIDEO "I'M AMERICAN" here
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by Mondoreb

When you're attacked by CAIR, you know your music fires up some passion.
Stuck Mojo has been the pre-eminent band in the anti-Jihadi genre. In fact, they may have invented that category. If they didn't, they certainly are the kings with such videos as "Open Season" and "I'm American.

Stuck Mojo excites love and fury, not only with their music, but with their viewpoint. The blog, Passionate America, posted a video remix of "Open Season" and was attacked by CAIR. From the original post:

On January 5th I posted a remixed video, Stuck Mojo, Open Season - CAIR remix with For The Cause Of Allah intro (video). Who could have guessed CAIR (or as I like to call them Counsel of Anti-Americanism and Islamic Retaliations) would scream ISLAMOPHOBIA and attack Stuck Mojo?

This was covered by, among others, Little Green Footballs. At any rate, about three months ago, Mojo re-surfaced on YouTube with the above video and reaction was split down the middle: it received 321 comments, 160 of them favoring the video.

We favor the Mojo men ourselves and though the video's been out a few months,( diggs only had one story I could find in their search about it, that one being the YouTube release)it's certainly relevant today.

Enjoy the video. Enjoy it for the message if you're on the Right. Enjoy it for the best metal-rap combination since Zac De Le Roca and Rage Against the Machine was shilling for trendy liberal causes if you're on the Left.

UPDATED MATERIAL by RidesAPaleHorse

I'm American
Music: Ward
Lyrics: Nelson, Ward

I'm an American related to all colors of brethren, Priests and Pastors and Prophets and Reverends, Divided we fall united we stand together man, In this cultural melting pot there's nothing better than, This land of the free and the home of the brave, Populated by ancestors of immigrants and slaves who met early graves So we could see brighter days and we could proudly praise and raise the stars and stripes as Americans

Hate me
Blame me
You can't shame me
Come and stand with me
I'm American

I'm an American born in these states united, Where racial discrimination keeps us so divided, But we've got free speech so I won't be quiet, We got a lot of problems here man I won't deny it, But ain't another place that I'd rather be, Than in this land of great opportunity, Where we can be anything that we wanna be, So until the day I D-I-E, I stand tall as an American

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Video: Let's All Waterboard!

Just a little something to get the Sunday started.

The producers of this video probably didn't think that they'd have any rightwing admirers, but it is catchy and you can kinda dance to it.



Everybody dance now!

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