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 10, 2008

ADVERTISING, WAR!, TERRORISM, DISASTERS, DIPLOMACY, REBELLION, POLITICS, SEIZURES, UNREST, ACCIDENTS, LAWSUITS, ORDERS, POPES, ANNULLED, POETS, SPORTS, PROGRESS, BUSINESS, MARRIAGE, WOMEN, EXILE, MOVIES, CARTOONS, JEWS, SCIENCE, MUSIC, RESIGNATION, MAINSTREAM MEDIA, CIVIL RIGHTS, DRUGS, MARTIAL LAW, TRIALS, BORN, DEATH



ADVERTISING

1984 Clara Peller 1st asks, "Where's the Beef?"

WAR!

1861 US forts & property seized by Mississippi.

1861 Florida becomes 3rd state to secede from US.

1861 Fort Jackson & Fort Philip are taken over by Los Angeles state troops.

1862 Battle of Big Sandy River KY (Middle Creek).

1862 Battle of Romney WV.

1863 General McClernand's Union troops surround Fort Hindman AR.

1900 Lord Roberts & Lord Kitchener reach Capetown.

1916 Russian offensive in Kaukasus.

1942 Japan invades North-Celebes, Dutch East Indies.

1943 1st US President to visit a foreign country in wartime-FDR leaves for Casablanca, Morocco.

1943 Russian offensive against German 6th/4th Armies near Stalingrad.

1944 British troops conquer Maungdaw, Burma.

1966 India & Pakistan sign peace accord.

TERRORISM

1969 Pirate Radio Station Free Derby begins operation by Northern Ireland.

DISASTERS

1883 Fire at uninsured Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee WI kills 71; General Tom Thumb of P T Barnum fame, escapes unhurt.

1947 Greek steamer "Himara" strikes a wartime mine in Saronic Gulf south of Athens with loss of 392 of 637 aboard.

1962 4,000 die in avalanche, Ranrahirca, Perú.

1962 Eruptions on Mount Huascaran in Peru destroy 7 villages & kill 3,500.

1973 Gas tank on Staten Island explodes, 40 die.

1984 Bulgarian Tupolev 134 crashes at Sofia airport in Bulgaria, 50 die.

DIPLOMACY

1920 League of Nations' 1st meeting, Treaty of Versailles in effect.

1951 UN headquarters opens in Manhattan NY.

1964 Panamá severs diplomatic relations with US.

1969 Sweden (1st Western country) recognizes North Vietnam.

1984 US establishes full diplomatic relations with Vatican after 117 years.

REBELLION

49-BC- Julius Cesar crosses the Rubicon, invades Italy.

1811 Louisiana slaves rebel in 2 parishes.

1863 January-uprising begins in Poland.

1981 El Salvador guerrilla group FMLN opens "general offensive".

POLITICS

1776 "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine, published.

1967 Lester Maddox inaugurated as Governor of Georgia.

SEIZURES

1923 Lithuania seizes & annexes country of Memel.

UNREST

1964 Battles between moslems & hindus in Calcutta.

ACCIDENTS

1993 - About 400 residents of Oakville, Man., were allowed to return home for the first time in three weeks. They had been forced from their homes after a train derailment spilled a load of toxic chemicals.

1997 Alvinio Misciano Italian tenor, killed in a fall from a window.

POPES

0236 St Fabian begins his reign as Catholic Pope.

0681 St Agatho ends his reign as Catholic Pope.

1890 Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Sapientiae Christianae.

ORDERS

1429 Order of the Golden Fleece established in Austria-Hungary & Spain.

1430 Order of the Guilder forms.

LAWSUITS

1997 Dow Corning provides $2.95 billion to settle breast implant suits.

ANNULLED

1810 French church annuls marriage of Napoleon I & Joséphine.

PROGRESS

1839 Tea from India 1st arrives in UK.

1840 Penny Post mail system started.

1863 The London Underground, the oldest subway system in the world, opened 145 years ago today, in 1863. The first trains using steam locomotives that burned coke and later coal began running from Paddington to Farringdon in the City of London.

1911 1st photo in US taken from an airplane, San Diego.

1912 World's 1st flying boat's maiden flight, (Glenn Curtiss in NY).

1944 1st mobile electric power plant delivered, Philadelphia.

1945 Los Angeles Railway (with 5 streetcar lines) forced to close.

1946 UN General Assembly convenes for 1st time (London).

1951 1st jet passenger trip made.

POETS

1845 Poets Elizabeth Barrett & Robert Browning begin corresponding.

SPORTS

1957 Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick rules Bing Crosby can keep token stock in the Detroit Tigers, even though he owns part of Pittsburgh Pirates.

1996 Jimmy Johnson announced as new coach of Miami Dolphins.

MARRIAGE

1948 - Future country superstar Loretta Lynn married Oliver (Mooney) Lynn. She was not quite 14 years old.

BUSINESS & FINANCE

1870 John D Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.

1901 Oil discovered at Spindletop claim near Beaumont, Texas.

1920 Silver reaches record $1.37 an ounce.

WOMEN

1878 US Senate proposes female suffrage.

1925 Miriam (Ma) Ferguson sworn in as Texas Governor, nation's 2nd woman governor.

EXILE

1928 Soviet Union orders exile of Leon Trotsky.

CARTOONS

1932 "Mickey Mouse" & "Silly Symphony" comics syndicated.

1932 "Pete the Tramp" cartoon strip by C D Russell debuts.

MOVIES

1935 Actress Mary Pickford marries actor Douglas Fairbanks.

JEWS

1941 Seyss-Inquart begins registration of Jews.

1947 British stop ships Independence & In-Gathering from landing in Israel.

1949 1st Jewish family show "The Goldbergs" premieres on CBS.

1979 1st brother Billy Carter makes allegedly anti-Semitic remarks.

1996 Israel frees hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.

SCIENCE

1946 US Army establishes 1st radar contact with Moon, Belmar NJ.

1969 USSR's Venera 6 launched for parachute landing on Venus.

1978 Soyuz 27 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station.

MUSIC

1949 RCA introduces 45 RPM record.

1956 Elvis records "Heartbreak Hotel".

1958 Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire" reaches #1 on the country and r&b charts, #2 on the pop chart.

RESIGNATION

1957 Anthony Eden resigns & Harold Macmillan becomes PM Britain.

MAINSTREAM MEDIA

1964 US version of "That Was The Week That Was" premieres.

1967 PBS (the National Educational TV) begins as a 70 station network.

1980 Last broadcast of "Rockford Files" on NBC.

1995 "Late Late Show" with Tom Snyder premieres on CBS at 12 30 AM.

1997 4,000th episode of "Entertainment Tonight".

CIVIL RIGHTS

1967 Edward Brooke, takes (Senator-R-MA) seat as 1st popular elected black.

1991 Japan ends routine fingerprinting of all adult ethnic Koreans.

1998 18th United Negro College Fund raises (re-broadcasted Jan 17th).

DRUGS

1990 NCAA approves random drug testing for college football players.

MARTIAL LAW

1990 China lifts martial law (imposed after Tiananmen Square massacre).

1991 US Congress begins debate on Persian Gulf crisis.

TRIALS

1994 Trial of Lorena Bobbitt who cut off her husband's penis, begins.

FREE TRADE

1994 Uzbekistan & Kazakhstan agrees to abolish trade tariffs.

BORN

1738 Ethan Allen Revolutionary War fighter (led the Green Mountain Boys)
1769 Michel Ney French marshal (Waterloo)
1834 John Acton English historian/MP
1864 George Washington Carver agricultural scientist (estimate date - actual birthdate unknown)
1883 Francis X Bushman Norfolk VA, silent film actor (Ben Hur, Spy's Defeat)
1904 Ray Bolger Dorchester MA, actor/dancer (Wizard of Oz)
1908 Bernard Lee London England, actor (M in James Bond movies)
1926 June Haver Mrs Fred MacMurray/actress (Dolly Sisters)
1927 Lee Philips Brooklyn NY, actor (Ellery Queen)
1928 Wallace Berry composer
1930 Byron "Wild Child" Gipson blues singer
1930 Roy E Disney CEO (Disney)
1938 Francis W "Frank" Mahovlich NHL Hall of Famer (Montréal Canadiens)
1938 Willie "Stretch" McCovey 1st baseman (San Francisco Giant #44)
1939 Bill Toomey Philadelphia PA, decathlon champ (Olympics-gold-1968)
1939 Sal Mineo New York City NY, actor (Exodus, Rebel Without a Cause)
1940 Harry Gant NASCAR driver
1943 Jim Croce Philadelphia PA, singer/songwriter (Time in a Bottle, Bad Bad Leroy Brown)
1945 Frank Sinatra Jr Jersey City NJ, singer/bandleader (Golddiggers)
1945 Rod Stewart London England, singer (Maggie Mae, Da Ya Think I'm Sexy)
1946 Bob Lang rock bassist (Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders)
1948 Cyril Neville US singer/percussionist (Neville Bros-Yellow Moon)
1948 Donald Fagen Passaic NJ, rock vocalist/keyboardist (Steely Dan-Peg)
1948 William Sanderson Memphis TN, actor (Larry-Newhart, Deuce-Babylon 5, Blade Runner)
1949 Teresa Graves Houston TX, actress (Laugh-in, Get Christie Love)
1949 Walter S Browne US chess champion (1974-78, 1980-84)
1949 George Foreman Marshall TX, world heavyweight boxing champ (1973-74, 95)
1951 Kathleen Bradley Youngstown Oh, model (Price is Right)
1953 Bobby Rahal Indy-car racer (over 15 wins)
1953 Pat Benatar [Andrezejewski], Brooklyn NY, singer (Hit Me With Your Best Shot, Hell Is for Children)
1958 Shawn Colvin singer/guitarist
1959 Chandra Cheesborough Jacksonville FL, 4X100 runner (Olympics-gold-84)
1959 Don Letts rocker (Big Audio Dynamite)
1959 Kirk & Curtwood musician (Meat Puppets)
1968 Lyle Menendez NY, accused of killing his parents (Menendez Brothers)
1969 Doug E Doug rapper/comedian (Operation Dumbo Drop, Jungle Fever)
1979 Chris H E Smith [Daddy Mack], Atlanta, rapper (Kris Kross-Warm it Up)

DEATH

1824 Victor Emanuel I king of Sardinia (1802-21), dies at 64
1862 Samuel Colt inventor (6 shot revolver), dies at 47
1917 Buffalo Bill Cody army scout & Indian fighter, dies
1951 Harry Sinclair Lewis US writer (Nobel 1930), dies at 65
1957 Gabriela Mistral Chilean poet (Nobel Prize 1945), dies at 67
1961 Dashiell Hammett author (Maltese Falcon, Thin Man), dies from throat cancer at 66
1971 Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel French fashion designer, dies at 87
1976 Howlin' Wolf singer/guitarist, dies following brain surgery at 65
1978 John D Rockefeller III US billionaire/philanthropist, dies at 71
1980 George Meany labor leader, dies at 85
1981 Richard Boone actor (Paladin-Have Gun Will Travel), dies at 63
1982 Paul Lynde comedian/actor (Uncle Arthur-Bewitched, Bye Bye Birdie, Bewitched), dies at 55
1994 Charles "Chub" Feeney baseball president (National League), dies at 72
1996 Arthur Sydney Martin spycatcher, dies at 81

January 10, the 10th day of 2008. There are 356 days left in the year.

compiled by Mondoreb
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