DBKP Today in Weird History: March 13, 2008

WAR, DISASTER, SCIENCE, RESIGNING, MURDER, TRAGEDY, ABORTION, JEWS, DEALS, ICONS, PATENTS, ATTEMPTS, ASSASSINATION, NAZIS, CLIMATE, INVENTIONS, TRIALS, POLITICALLY CORRECT, ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION, BORN, BIRTHDAYS, DEATH
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ICONS

1852 Uncle Sam cartoon figure made its debut in the New York Lantern weekly.

...and later

WAR!

2003 U.S. officials said President Bush might delay a vote on his troubled United Nations resolution or even drop it - and fight Iraq without the international body's backing.

DISASTER

1895 Spanish cruiser Reina Regente sinks off Gibraltar, 402 die.

1928 Hundreds of people died when the San Francisquito Valley in California was inundated with water after the St. Francis Dam burst just before midnight the evening of March 12.

1961 Landslide in USSR, kills 145.

1992 570 die in a Turkish earthquake.

1994 Oil tank/airship crash at Bosporus (huge fire/15+ killed).

ATTEMPTS

1915 Dodgers manager Wilbert Robinson tries to catch a baseball dropped from an airplane, but the pilot substituted a grapefruit.

PATENTS

1887 Chester Greenwood of Maine patents earmuffs.

DEALS

1677 Massachusetts gains title to Maine for $6,000.

CLIMATE

1888 Great Blizzard of 1888 rages.

1993 Blizzard of '93 hits north-east US.

INVENTIONS

1894 J L Johnstone of England invents horse racing starting gate.

ASSASSINATION

1981 Attempt on Pope John Paul II by Mehemet Ali Agca.

NAZIS

1933 Josef Göbbels becomes German minister of Information & Propaganda.

1938 Anschluß-Austria annexed by Nazi Germany.

TRIALS

1998 Sgt. Maj. Gene McKinney, once the Army's top enlisted man, was acquitted at his court-martial of pressuring military women for sex, but was convicted of trying to persuade his chief accuser to lie.

SCIENCE

1781 The planet Uranus was discovered by Sir William Herschel. He thought it was a comet.

1925 A law went into effect in Tennessee prohibiting the teaching of the theory of evolution.

JEWS

1656 Jews are denied the right to build a synagogue in New Amsterdam.

1951 Israel demands DM 6.2 billion compensation from Germany.

MURDER

1964 Bar manager Catherine "Kitty" Genovese, 28, was stabbed to death near her New York home; the case generated controversy over charges that Genovese's neighbors had failed to respond to her cries for help.

RESIGNING

1980 Ford Motor Co. Chairman Henry Ford II announced he was stepping down, the same day a jury in Winamac, Ind., found the company innocent of reckless homicide in the fiery deaths of three young women in a Ford Pinto.

2007 Attorney General Alberto Gonzales admitted mistakes in how the Justice Department handled the dismissal of eight federal prosecutors but said he wouldn't resign.

POLITICALLY CORRECT

1988 yielding to student protests, the board of trustees of Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., a liberal arts college for the hearing-impaired, chose I. King Jordan to become the school's first deaf president.

TRAGEDY

1996 a gunman burst into an elementary school in Dunblane, Scotland, and opened fire, killing 16 children and one teacher before killing himself.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION

2007 President Bush sought to soothe strained ties with Mexico by promising to prod Congress to overhaul tough U.S. immigration policies, but Mexican President Felipe Calderon criticized U.S. plans for a 700-mile border fence.

ABORTION

2003 The Senate voted 64-33 to ban partial birth abortion.

BORN

1733 Joseph Priestly England, clergyman/scientist (discovered oxygen).

1770 Daniel Lambert England, giant (weighed 739 lbs (334 kg) at death).

1908 American billionaire, publisher and diplomat Walter Annenberg (TV Guide) was born in Milwaukee.

BIRTHDAYS

Jazz musician Roy Haynes is 83. Country singer Jan Howard is 78. Songwriter Mike Stoller is 75. Singer-songwriter Neil Sedaka is 69. Actor William H. Macy is 58. Actress Deborah Raffin is 55. Comedian Robin Duke is 54. Actress Glenne Headly is 53. Actress Dana Delany is 52. Rock musician Adam Clayton (U2) is 48. Jazz musician Terence Blanchard is 46. Actor Christopher Collet is 40. Actress Annabeth Gish is 37. Actress Tracy Wells is 37. Rapper Common is 36. Rapper Khujo (Goodie Mob, The Lumberjacks) is 36. Singer Glenn Lewis is 33. Actor Danny Masterson is 32. Actor Emile Hirsch is 23. Singers Nicole and Natalie Albino (Nina Sky) are 22.

DEATH

1901 Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd president of the United States, died in Indianapolis.

1938 Clarence S Darrow Scopes Monkey Trial attorney, dies in Chicago at 80.

Today is March 13, the 73rd day of the year. There are 293 days left in 2008.

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DBKP Today in Weird History: February 18, 2008

WAR, TERRORISM, DISASTER, REBELS, SCIENCE, TRIALS, CLINTONS, DEATH BY WINE, QUAKERS, BEHEADED, ENLIGHTENED, POLITICS, DRY, PATENTS, FLYING COWS, PROGRESS, CLASSIC, OCTOPUS, CLIMATE CHANGE, MARRIAGE, BORN, BIRTHDAYS, DEATH

CLASSIC

1885 Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" published.

WAR!

1865 Evacuation of Charleston SC; Sherman's troops burn the city.

2003 Declaring that America's security should not be dictated by protesters, President Bush said he would not be swayed from compelling Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to disarm.

TERRORISM

1969 PLO-attack El-Al plane in Zurich Switzerland.

2003 An arson attack on two South Korean subway trains in the city of Daegu claimed 198 lives. (The arsonist was sentenced to life in prison.)

2007 A pair of bombs on a train headed from India to Pakistan killed 68 people.

2007 Twin car bombs blew up in a mostly Shiite area of Baghdad, killed at least 62 people.

DISASTER

1828 More than 100 vessels destroyed in a storm, Gibraltar.

1947 24 die in a train crash in Gallitzin PA.

1965 27 copper miners die in avalanche, Granduc Mountain British Columbia.

2007 A military helicopter crashed in southeastern Afghanistan, killing eight U.S. service members; 14 survived with injuries.

DEATH BY WINE

1478 Duke of Clarence forced drowning in a wine barrel.

FLYING COWS

1930 First cow milked in an airplane. Olly the Cow flown & milked, milk sealed in paper containers & parachuted over St. Louis MO.

PROGRESS

1953 Premiere of 1st 3-D feature film-"Bwana Devil" (New York NY).

OCTOPUS

1973 54-kg octopus measuring 7 meter across captured in Hood Canal, Washington.

CLIMATE CHANGE

1979 Snow falls in the Sahara Desert.

MARRIAGE

1995 Pamela Anderson (Baywatch) & Tommy Lee (Motley Crüe) wed.

ENLIGHTENED

1787 Austrian emperor Jozef II bans children under 8 from labor.

PATENTS

1901 H Cecil Booth patented a dust removing suction cleaner.

DRY

1896 Cave of Winds at Niagara Falls goes almost dry for 1st time in 50 years.

BEHEADED

1587 Mary Stuart Queen of Scots (1560-87), beheaded at 44.

CLINTONS

1998 President Clinton's foreign policy team encountered jeers during a town meeting at The Ohio State University while trying to defend the administration's threat to bomb Iraq into compliance with U.N. weapons edicts.

QUAKERS

1688 Quakers conduct 1st formal protest of slavery in Germantown PA.

POLITICS

1841 1st continuous filibuster in US Senate began, lasting until March 11.

TRIALS

1970 the "Chicago Seven" defendants were found innocent of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic national convention; five were convicted of violating the Anti-Riot Act of 1968. (Those convictions were later reversed).

SCIENCE

1930 photographic evidence of Pluto (now designated a "dwarf planet") was discovered by Clyde W. Tombaugh at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz.

1977 the space shuttle Enterprise, sitting atop a Boeing 747, went on its maiden "flight" above the Mojave Desert.

REBELS

1861 Jefferson Davis was sworn in as the provisional president of the Confederate States of America in Montgomery, Ala.

BORN

1516 Mary I Tudor [Bloody Mary] Greenwich, (1553-58), 1st reigning queen of Great Britain.

1859 Sholem Aleichem [Solomon Rabinowitz], author (Fiddler on the Roof).

1890 Boris L Pasternak Russian poet/writer (Dr Zhivago).

1892 Wendell Wilkie Presidential candidate (R-1940)/author (One World).

1895 George "The Gipper" Gipp Notre Dame football star.

1920 Jack Palance [Walter Palanuik], Lattimer PA, actor (City Slickers).

BIRTHDAYS

Former Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown is 86. Actor George Kennedy is 83. Sen. John Warner, R-Va., is 81. Author Toni Morrison is 77. Movie director Milos Forman is 76. Singer Yoko Ono is 75. Singer/songwriter Bobby Hart is 69. Singer Irma Thomas is 67. Singer Herman Santiago (Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers) is 67. Singer Dennis DeYoung is 61. Actress Sinead Cusack is 60. Producer-director-writer John Hughes is 58. Actress Cybill Shepherd is 58. Singer Juice Newton is 56. Singer Randy Crawford is 56. Rock musician Robbie Bachman is 55. Rock musician Larry Rust (Iron Butterfly) is 55. Actor John Travolta is 54. Game show host Vanna White is 51. Actress Greta Scacchi is 48. Actor Matt Dillon is 44. Rapper Dr. Dre is 43. Actress Molly Ringwald is 40. Actress Sarah Brown is 33. Singer-musician Sean Watkins (Nickel Creek) is 31. Actor Tyrone Burton is 29. Actor Shane Lyons is 20.

DEATH

1546 Martin Luther, leader of the Protestant Reformation in Germany, died in Eisleben.

1564 artist Michelangelo died in Rome.

1967 American theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer died in Princeton, N.J., at age 62.

1990 Hulk fictional character in "Death of Incredible Hulk" on NBC, dies.

1998 Sportscaster Harry Caray died in Rancho Mirage, Calif., at age 83.

2001 NASCAR driver/"The Intimidator", dies in crash during Daytona 500 at 49.

2003 Country singer Johnny PayCheck died in Nashville, Tenn., at age 64.

February 18, the 49th day of 2008. There are 317 days left in the year. This is Presidents Day.

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DBKP Today in Weird History: February 13, 2008

WAR, TERRORISM, DISASTER, BEHEADED, IMPRISONED, TRIALS, JEWS, RIOT, OUTLAWS, PATENTS, TOMBS, INTRO, TOYS, GOLF, MAN-EATERS, FINANCE, SPORTS, EDUCATION, MAINSTREAM MEDIA, MUSIC, RIGGED, NUKES, BORN, BIRTHDAYS, DEATH


NUKES

1960 France exploded its first atomic bomb.

WAR!

1942 Hitler's Operation Seelöwe (invasion of England) cancelled.

1945 Allied planes bomb Dresden Germany; 135,000 die.

1945 USSR captures Budapest, after 49-day battle with Germany; 159,000 die.

1968 US sends 10,500 additional soldiers to Vietnam.

2007 With Democrats in control, House members debated Iraq in an emotional and historic faceoff over a war that Speaker Nancy Pelosi condemned as a commitment with "no end in sight."

TERRORISM

2003 A U.S. government plane carrying four Americans and a Colombian went down in rebel territory in southern Colombia; the executed bodies of an American and the Colombian were found in the wreckage.

DISASTER

1994 Ship disaster near Ranong Thailand, kills 200.

MAN-EATERS

1970 Man-eating tiger is reported to have killed 48, 80 km from New Delhi.

TOMBS

1924 King Tut's tomb opened.

OUTLAWS

1866 Jesse James holds up his 1st bank, Liberty MO ($15,000).

RIOT

1837 Riot in New York over high price of flour.

GOLF

1971 Golfing Vice President Spiro Agnew hits 2 tee shots into the crowd, injuring 2.

TOYS

1959 Barbie doll goes on sale.

IMPRISONED

1777 Marquis de Sade arrested without charge, imprisoned in Vincennes fortress.

MAINSTREAM MEDIA

1981 Longest sentence published by New York Times-1286 words.

RIGGED

2002 The French judge was accused of throwing the pairs skating decision to the Russians at the Olympics.

MUSIC

1982 Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" is on the charts for 402nd week.

EDUCATION

1795 The University of North Carolina became the first U.S. state university to admit students with the arrival of Hinton James, who was the only student on campus for two weeks.

PATENTS

1895 Moving picture projector patented.

POLITICS

2007 Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney officially entered the 2008 presidential race in Michigan, the place of his birth.

FINANCE

1973 US dollar devalues 10%.

1985 Dow Jones closes at 1297.92 (record high) after topping 1300 earlier.

INTRO

1932 "Free Eats" introduces George "Spanky" McFarland to "Our Gang".

TRIALS

1633 Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before Inquisition for professing belief that earth revolves around the Sun.

1935 Bruno Hauptmann found guilty of kidnap & murder of Lindbergh's infant.

2003 Clara Harris, who'd run down her cheating husband with her Mercedes after catching him with his mistress, was convicted by a Houston jury of murder despite her claim that she'd hit him accidentally while in a heartsick daze. (Harris was sentenced to 20 years in prison.)

JEWS

1349 Jews are expelled from Burgsordf Switzerland.

1941 Nazi leaders attack Dutch Jewish Council.

1955 Israel acquires 4 of 7 Dead Sea scrolls.

SPORTS

1974 James "Cool Papa" Bell is named to baseball's Hall of Fame.

BEHEADED

1542 Catherine Howard queen of England/5th wife of Henry VIII, is beheaded.

BORN

1766 Thomas Malthus Rookery Surrey UK, economist/demographer/population expert (Law of Malthus).

1849 Lord Randolph Churchill England, politician, Winston's father.

1875 Kanouse quintuplets Watertown WI, 1st quintuplets in US, born to Edna Kanouse.

1919 Tennessee Ernie Ford Bristol TN, country singer/actor (pea picker).

BIRTHDAYS

Former test pilot Charles E. "Chuck" Yeager is 85. Actress Kim Novak is 75. Actor George Segal is 74. Actress Carol Lynley is 66. Singer-musician Peter Tork (The Monkees) is 66. Actress Stockard Channing is 64. Talk show host Jerry Springer is 64. Actor Bo Svenson is 64. Singer Peter Gabriel is 58. Actor David Naughton is 57. Rock musician Peter Hook is 52. Actor Matt Salinger is 48. Singer Henry Rollins is 47. Actor Neal McDonough is 42. Singer Freedom Williams is 42. Actress Kelly Hu is 40. Rock musician Todd Harrell (3 Doors Down) is 36. Singer Robbie Williams is 34. Rhythm-and-blues performer Natalie Stewart (Floetry) is 29. Actress Mena Suvari is 29.

DEATH

1980 David Janssen [Meyer], actor (Fugitive, Harry O), dies at 49.

1982 Zeng Jinlian Hunan China, grew to 8'1" (tallest woman), dies at 17.

2003 Walt W. Rostow, an adviser to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, died in Austin, Texas, at age 86.

February 13, the 44th day of the year. There are 322 days left in 2008.

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DBKP Today in Weird History: January 28, 2008

SPACE, WAR, TERRORISM, DISASTERS, CLINTON, OUCH, AUTOGRAPHS, TRY TRY AGAIN, DOMINOES, PRO WRESTLING, EXECUTIONS, TRIALS, IMMIGRANTS, MAINSTREAM MEDIA, REBELS, ABORTION, SPORTS, COLLEGE, POLITICS, 90210, PROGRESS, CREATED, JEWS, ROYALS, BORN, BIRTHDAYS, DEATH



SPACE

1986, the space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff from the Kennedy Space Center, killing all seven of its crew members: flight commander Francis R. "Dick" Scobee; pilot Michael Smith; Ronald McNair; Ellison Onizuka; Judith Resnik; Gregory Jarvis; and schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe.

WAR!

1915 1st US ship lost in WWI, William P Frye (carrying wheat to UK).

1944 683 British bombers attack Berlin.

1945 During World War II, Allied supplies began reaching China over the newly reopened Burma Road.

1973 A cease-fire officially went into effect in the Vietnam War.

2003 President Bush, girding the nation for war, said in his State of the Union address that Saddam Hussein had shown "utter contempt" for the world community and had to be held to account.

2007 U.S.-backed Iraqi troops attacked insurgents allegedly plotting to kill pilgrims at a major Shiite Muslim religious festival; Iraqi officials estimated some 300 militants died in the daylong battle near Najaf. (A U.S. helicopter crashed during the fight, killing two American soldiers.)

TERRORISM

1982 US General Dozier freed from Red Brigade of Padua Italy.

DISASTERS

1393 Fire during Royal Ball at Paris, 4 die (Ball of the Ardents).

1978 Fire swept through the historic downtown Coates House hotel in Kansas City, Mo., killing 20 people.

1981 Olympic Glory tanker at Galveston Bay, Texas, spills 1 million gallons of oil in a ship collision.

1994 Helicopter crashes into office building in San Jose CA, 1 dead.

CLINTONS

1998 The day after denying he "had sexual relations with that woman, Monica Lewinsky", President Bill Clinton barnstormed in the nation's heartland, where he was warmly received; accompanying him was Vice President Al Gore, who urged Americans to "join me in supporting him and standing by his side." The day before, Clinton delivered both his denial of the Lewinsky affair and his State of the Union address.

OUCH!

1962 Johanne Relleke gets stung by bees 2,443 times in Rhodesia & survives.

AUTOGRAPHS

1978 Ted Nugent autographs a fan's arm with his knife.

TRY TRY AGAIN

1984 Mr Glynn Wolfe marries for non-bigamous record 26th time, Las Vegas NV.

DOMINOES

1984 Record 295,000 dominoes toppled, Fuerth, West Germany.

PRO WRESTLING

1987 Wrestler Jim Neidhart indicted for assaulting a flight attendant.

EXECUTIONS

1829 William Burke murderer/body snatcher, executed in Edinburgh.

TRIALS

1950 Preston Tucker, auto maker, found not guilty of mail fraud.

IMMIGRANTS

1915 US President Wilson refuses to prohibit immigration of illiterates.




MAINSTREAM MEDIA

1973 "Barnaby Jones" premieres on CBS TV.

1978 "Fantasy Island" starring Ricardo Montalban premieres on ABC TV.

REBELS

1810 Andrew Hofer Tyrolian rebel against French & Bavarians, shot dead.

ABORTION

1935 Iceland becomes 1st country to legalize abortion.

1988 Canada's Supreme court declares anti-abortion law unconstitutional.

SPORTS

1960 NFL announces Dallas Cowboys (1960) & Minnesota Vikings (1961) franchises.

COLLEGE

1878 The first daily college newspaper, Yale News (now Yale Daily News), began publication in New Haven, Conn.

POLITICS

1909 The United States ended direct control over Cuba.

90210

1914 Beverly Hills, California, is incorporated.

PROGRESS

1878 1st telephone exchange (New Haven CT).

1878 George W Coy hired as 1st full-time telephone operator.

CREATED

1915 The United States Coast Guard was created as President Woodrow Wilson signed into law a bill merging the Life-Saving Service and Revenue Cutter Service.

JEWS

1916 Louis D. Brandeis was nominated by President Woodrow Wilson to the Supreme Court; Brandeis became the court's first Jewish member.

2003 Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Likud party and other hawkish parties won a resounding victory in Israel's parliamentary elections.

ROYALS

2007 Britain's Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, met with New York schoolchildren as they visited Harlem during their whirlwind American weekend.

BORN

1722 Johann Ernst Bach composer.

1825 George Edward Pickett Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1875.

1853 Cuban revolutionary Jose Marti was born in Havana.

1910 John Banner Vienna Austria, actor (Sergeant Hans Schultz-Hogan's Heroes).

1912 Jackson Pollock Cody WY, abstract artist (Lavender Mist).

BIRTHDAYS

Musician-composer Acker Bilk is 79. Actor Nicholas Pryor is 73. Actor Alan Alda is 72. Actress Susan Howard is 66. Actress Marthe Keller is 63. Actress-singer Barbi Benton is 58. Actress Harley Jane Kozak is 51. Movie director Frank Darabont is 49. Rock musician Dave Sharp is 49. Rock singer Sam Phillips is 46. Rock musician Dan Spitz (Anthrax) is 45. Country musician Greg Cook (Ricochet) is 43. Singer Sarah McLachlan is 40. Rapper Rakim is 40. DJ Muggs (Cypress Hill) is 40. Actress Kathryn Morris ("Cold Case") is 39. Rhythm-and-blues singer Anthony Hamilton is 37. Rock musician Brandon Bush (Train) is 35. Singer Joey Fatone Jr. ('N Sync) is 31. Actress Rosamund Pike is 29. Singer Nick Carter (Backstreet Boys) is 28. Actor Elijah Wood is 27.

DEATH

814 Charlemagne German emperor/Roman Emperor (800-814), dies at 71.

1547 England's King Henry the VIII died; he was succeeded by his 9-year-old son, Edward the VI.

1980 Jimmy Durante New York City NY, comedian (Jimmy Durante Show), dies at 86.

2003 John Philip Thompson, who expanded his family's business into the nationwide 7-Eleven chain, died at age 77.

2007 The Rev. Robert Drinan, a priest who'd represented Massachusetts in the U.S. House during the 1970s, died in Washington, D.C., at age 86.

January 28, the 28th day of 2008. There are 338 days left in the year.

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DBKP Today in Weird History: January 27, 2008

WAR, DISASTERS, CLINTONS, OOPS, PATENTS, TARZAN, SPORTS, PROGRESS, TRIALS, JEWS, SPIES, MAINSTREAM MEDIA, ATOMIC BOMB, DIPLOMACY, HOME, SORORITY, MARCH, DEMOCRATS, BORN, BIRTHDAY, DEATH



1967 Astronauts Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee died in a flash fire during a test aboard their Apollo spacecraft at Cape Kennedy, Fla.

WAR!

1943 Some 50 bombers struck Wilhelmshaven in the first all-American air raid against Germany during World War II.

1944 The Soviet Union announced the complete end of the deadly German siege of Leningrad, which had lasted for more than two years.

1945 Soviet troops liberated the Nazi concentration camps Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland.

2003 The Bush administration dismissed Iraq's response to U.N. disarmament demands as inadequate. Meanwhile, chief U.N. inspector Hans Blix charged that Iraq had never genuinely accepted U.N. resolutions demanding its disarmament and warned that "cooperation on substance" was necessary for a peaceful solution.

DISASTERS

1891 Mine explosion kills 109 at Mount Pleasant PA.

1902 5 workers killed on explosion during IRT subway construction (New York City NY).

1993 DC-3 crashes in Kinshasa, killing 12.

1998 Crane crashes into Roosevelt Is (New York City NY) Tram, injuring 10.

CLINTONS

1992 Presidential candidate Bill Clinton (D) & Genifer Flowers accuse each other of lying over her assertion they had a 12-year affair.

1998 Shaken by scandal over his relationship with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky, President Bill Clinton sought to reassert his leadership in his State of the Union address, urging Congress to "save Social Security first" before cutting taxes or increasing spending. Earlier in the day, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, on NBC's "Today" show, charged the allegations against her husband were the work of a "vast right-wing conspiracy."

OOPS

1984 Michael Jackson is burned during filming for Pepsi commercial.

PATENT

In 1880, Thomas Edison received a patent for his electric incandescent lamp.

TARZAN

1918 "Tarzan of the Apes", 1st Tarzan film, premieres at Broadway Theater.

SPORTS

1927 Harlem Globetrotters play their 1st game.

1967 New Orleans Saints sign their 1st player (Paige Cothren-kicker).

PROGRESS

1948 1st locomotive to carry 1,000,000 pounds (450,000 kg) operates.

1948 1st tape recorder sold.

TRIAL

1992 Mike Tyson goes on trial for rape (he is found guilty).

SPIES

1969 14 spies hung in Baghdad.

JEWS

1969 9 Jews publicly executed in Damascus Syria.

MAINSTREAM MEDIA

1976 "Laverne & Shirley" spin-off from "Happy Days" premieres on ABC TV.

ATOMIC BOMB

1951 An era of atomic testing in the Nevada desert began as an Air Force plane dropped a 1-kiloton bomb on Frenchman Flat.

DIPLOMACY

1967 More than 60 nations signed a treaty banning the orbiting of nuclear weapons.

1973 The Vietnam peace accords were signed in Paris.

HOME

1981 President Ronald Reagan greeted the 52 former American hostages released by Iran at the White House.

SORORITY

1870 1st sorority (Kappa Alpha Theta) (DePauw University in Greencastle IN).

DEMOCRATS

2007 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi led a congressional delegation to Pakistan, where she met with President General Pervez Musharraf.

MARCH

Tens of thousands of anti-war demonstrators marched in Washington, D.C., calling for the U.S. to get out of Iraq.

BORN

1756 composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria.

1836 Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Austrian writer (masochism).

1850 Samuel Gompers Dutch/US, 1st president-American Federation of Labor.

1859 Kaiser Wilhelm II Potsdam, German emperor (1888-1918).

1872 Learned Hand Albany NY, Chief judge (US Court of Appeals).

1919 David Seville [Ross Bagdasarian], Fresno CA, (Alvin & Chipmunks).

1921 Donna Reed Denison IA, actress (From Here to Eternity, Wonderful Life).

BIRTHDAY

Singer Bobby "Blue" Bland is 78. Actor James Cromwell is 68. Actor John Witherspoon is 66. Rock musician Nick Mason (Pink Floyd) is 63. Rhythm-and-blues singer Nedra Talley (The Ronettes) is 62. Ballet star Mikhail Baryshnikov is 60. John Roberts, chief justice of the United States, is 53. Country singer Cheryl White is 53. Country singer-musician Richard Young (The Kentucky Headhunters) is 53. Actress Mimi Rogers is 52. Rock musician Janick Gers (Iron Maiden) is 51. Rock singer Margo Timmins (Cowboy Junkies) is 47. Rock musician Gillian Gilbert is 47. Actress Bridget Fonda is 44. Actor Alan Cumming is 43. Country singer Tracy Lawrence is 40. Rock singer Mike Patton is 40. Rapper Tricky is 40. Rock musician Michael Kulas (James) is 39. Actor Josh Randall is 36. Country singer Kevin Denney is 32.

DEATH

1851 John James Audubon conservationist (Audubon Society), dies at 65.

1901 Opera composer Giuseppe Verdi died in Milan, Italy, at age 87.

1993 Andre "the Giant" Roussimoff WWF wrestler, dies of heart attack at 49.


January 27, the 27th day of 2008. There are 339 days left in the year.

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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.

compiled by Mondoreb
[image: astrosurf]
Source: Today in History





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